Howard Rees Jazz Workshops
Inside Barry’s World is a series of short video lessons on Barry Harris’s harmony and line building. They are taught by Howard Rees, a pianist and jazz educator who was Barry’s student, friend and collaborator for more than 40 years.
25 videos in order. The coloured numbers are the ideas of Barry’s method each one covers.A second opinion, not Barry
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Jazz School Online: overview
Howard Rees introduces the Jazz School Online, lessons in harmony and improvisation passing on Barry Harris’s teaching.
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Generating chord movement with scales
Uses Barry’s sixth-diminished scale to create chord movements, with contrary motion and analysing lead sheet chords.
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Drop 2 voicings and how to move them
How to form and use drop 2 voicings, a fundamental concept for all chording instruments.
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Getting started with sixth-diminished scales
What sixth-diminished scales are, built from two different chords, and how they create harmonic movement.
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What makes Barry’s method unique?
What sets Barry’s harmonic method apart: principles, horizontal movement rather than stacked chords, freedom to explore.
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Inside Barry’s World: introduction
Howard Rees introduces Inside Barry’s World, a playlist of short lessons on Barry Harris’s harmony and line building.
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Applying the sixth-diminished scale
Practical ways to play the sixth-diminished scale: single notes, contrary motion, filling in chords and inversions.
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Sixth chord moves for a II-V-I-VI progression
Applies sixth-diminished movements to a II-V-I-VI in C, thinking of a sixth chord for each chord of the progression.
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Using the extra note rules for improvisation
Introduces Barry’s extra note rules for improvising with dominant scales.
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Using dominant scales for improvisation
How to use dominant scales in jazz improvisation.
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Getting started with scales for improvisation
An introduction to jazz improvisation using major scales.
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Moving sixth chords into each other
The two sixth chords for any major chord, on the tonic and on the fifth, and how to move between them.
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How to apply the extra note rules to build lines
Applications of the extra note rules that give lines different rhythmic starts, beginning with running up the chord.
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Using diminished notes as surrounds
Creates chord movements by surrounding notes of a sixth chord with notes of its related diminished chord.
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How to harmonise with diminished notes
Enhancing a sixth chord with notes from its two related diminished chords, in major and minor 7th voicings.
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Scale phrases for an F major blues
Creating scale phrases on an F major blues, starting from Barry’s chord/scale outline of the tune.
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Extra note rules: applications for line building
Extra note rule applications: rolling up the chord and back down, and phrases that start on the beat or with triplets.
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Extra note rules: yet more applications
More extra note rule applications: relative minor phrases, interval jumps and triads on the scale.
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Diminished inversions as dominant 7th voicings
Using a diminished chord, its inversions and family members in place of a dominant 7th, resolving to major or minor.
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Major-minor-minor/6: the walkdown
The walkdown, major to minor to minor/6, which modulates to the major chord a third above, as in How High the Moon.
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Harmonising melodies with sixth-diminished scales
Harmonising the opening bars of How High the Moon using sixth-diminished scales.
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Harmonising “Once in a While”
Options for harmonising the first three bars of Once in a While with sixth-diminished scales.
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Harmonising “On Green Dolphin Street”
Harmonic moves in bars 5 to 12 of On Green Dolphin Street, matching melody notes to scale degrees.
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Using the tritone’s minor scale
Playing Barry’s tritone’s minor over a dominant: the Db minor 6th-diminished scale over C7, with runs and a phrase.
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Introduction to scales for chording
Combining related sixth scales to outline chord movements, e.g. Am7-D7 as C6-Am6 and Am7b5-D7 as Cm-Ebm6.
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