Barry Harris Scale Rules - Major (simple version)
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2019
- In this lesson taken from a live webinar for Jazz Skills members, I explain the rules I learned from Barry Harris. We will just focus on one set of rules for descending major scales. This lesson is just to help you to understand the simple rules. Once practiced until fluent, they can be incorporated into improvisation practice.
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“When it ‘suggests’ itself to you, then you know it”. Another teaching gem! Thanks Shan.
I have found that if we practice each skill enough (without expecting results) it does happen without forcing it. Glad you found something helpful there. 🙂
Was just recommended your channel - I...I could cry, this is astounding. Thank you so so much.
Welcome, Evan. I am honoured to have you. Thank you for being here. Shan
your advice to us, just learn the sounds in each key, to integrate it into your heads is the main thing now. " People like me tend to want to implement etc before I know the sounds. Thanks for reinforcing the learning method of one step at a time.
Thanks for your comment. I think we easily forget the importance of learning the sounds and try and do it in our heads. I'm glad this helped you and I wish you well with your playing.
i am excited to join. how do i get into your additional videos.
Hi Gloria. Thank you for your kind comment. You can get instant access at www.JazzSkills.com I'll be looking out for you :)
How about Barry Harris books. Which are the best. Are they useful for learning.
Hello great video. Did you play the major scale in swing 8th notes at beginning of the video? I only want to be sure, I am struggling getting the swing feel. Thanks
Hi thanks for your message. Yes at 35sec they were swung 8ths. If you go to Jazz Skills and send me a message, I will send you some practice I created for my students regarding swung 8ths.
@@JazzSkills thanks
No problem. I hope the other resources I sent will help you. Shan
The notes on descending from the seventh are shown as: B5 A5 G5 F5 E5 D5 C5 B4 A4 A♭4 G4. Should there not be a flat 6 between A5 and G5 as there is between A4 and G4?
Good question. Actually, for me the rules kick in when we cross an octave line (cross a C in this case). You'll find that when you do that, the chord notes remain on the beat. Hope this helps! 🙂
@@JazzSkills Thanks for your answer. The chord built on the seventh scale degree from the Barry Harris C6° scale of chords is ordinarily a diminished seventh chord (in either direction). But, there's more here than I'd first discovered. Thanks again.
@@ugajin7348 You're welcome. Also, note that chord movements are different to using this scale with an extra note (which could have been any other note that sounds good). Think of a CMaj7. If you descend the Maj scale from B, all the chord notes remain on the beat (no extra note required). However, if you descend from C, you need the extra note so that by the time you get to G, you're getting chord notes back on the beat. That's why, for me, the crossing of the octave line is where the extra note kicks in. Hope that helps.
Are ther any Barry Harris piano practice or method books out there?
Was he ever published?
There are some that are not written by him. I can't really comment on them.
Hi, thanks for the video. The only thing, I don't understand why if you start from sixth the rule is no half steps, in this manner you have all tensions on downbeats! From the seventh you haven't add any half step in the first octave of the scale, and it works, so is possible that the rules for sixth and seventh are inverted?
Thanks again!
Hi Raffaele, good question. For me, the scale rules are very helpful once we cross the octave line. For example, descend from the 6th (A) and go past the root (C) and now the "important notes" are back on the beat. Hope this helps, Shan
@@JazzSkills I have the same confusion about descending from the 7th. It seems you could include the Ab in the beginning octave and land on the 7th on beat 1. But in hte example you skip the first Ab and extend the phrase to beat 2 and land on the 5th. Is there a reason to not land on the 7th? Do the descending rules work best if you land on 1,3,or 5 but not 7?
Just wanted to point out that Isaac Raz in his video on this topic explains why one should "wait" for the first usage of a half step when starting from 6 or 7 until the "bottom" of the run is reached, and not already on the first possible occasion.
Furthermore, Bill Graham's video indeed presents the rule for 6 and 7 inverted: use one or three half steps when starting from 6, and no or two half steps when starting from 7.