Things I’ve Learned From Barry Harris
Things I’ve Learned From Barry Harris (TILF) is a jazz guitar video series by Chris Parks, who started studying with Barry Harris in 1993, working through Barry’s scales, half-step rules, scales of chords and movements on guitar. This part also includes four tune performances on guitar.
Watch and learn from these on one page, with steps and transcripts
173 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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‘Round Midnight (Monk) on a Fender Custom Shop Strat
Monk’s ‘Round Midnight played on a Fender Custom Shop Strat with a Tone King Imperial MkII.
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Ruby, My Dear (Monk) on a Fender Custom Shop guitar
Monk’s Ruby, My Dear played on a Fender Custom Shop guitar with a Tone King Imperial MkII.
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My Ideal: jazz guitar chord melody
My Ideal played as a jazz guitar chord melody.
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Stella by Starlight on jazz guitar
Stella by Starlight played on jazz guitar (G&L guitar, Fender Princeton amp).
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Episode 1: scales on the blues
The scales a blues needs: the rhythm and first eight bars, the final bars, then playing the whole blues.
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Episode 2: scales for I Got Rhythm
The scales for each A section and the bridge of rhythm changes, then a play-along with a metronome.
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Episode 3: the 5-4-3-2
Introduces the 5-4-3-2, applies it to Rhythm, practises it through all keys and improvises with it.
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Episode 4: Barry’s chromatic scale and other things
Barry’s chromatic scale, plus other things the title does not name.
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Episode 5: half-step rules on F7
The half-step rules on F7 and how to practise them; also the bebop scale, eighth-note triplets, arpeggios, blues.
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Episode 6: Barry’s four scales of chords
In G: adds a note to the scale for the G6 diminished, then plays it as chords, single notes, thirds and triads.
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Episode 7: movements for the first four bars of the blues
Movements for the first four bars of a blues: tritone, I to IV minor, six diminished, relative minor, fourths.
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Episode 8: scales for Cherokee
The scales to use on Cherokee.
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Episode 9: scales for Donna Lee
Scales for the A and B sections of Donna Lee, how to practise them, and the chord movements in the tune.
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Episode 10: playing with the family of dominants
What the family of dominants is, how to play with its dominants, and why.
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Episode 11: the bridge of Cherokee and tricky spots
Works through the bridge of Cherokee and other tricky spots.
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Episode 12: minor sixth diminished chords on guitar
Minor six chord positions for D, G and B-flat minor, how to move them, and using them on standards.
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Episode 13: minor sixth diminished in drop 3 and drop 2-4 voicings
Minor six chords on D, G and B-flat in drop 3 and drop 2-and-4 voicings, then applied to a progression.
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Episode 14: scales for How High the Moon
Scales for How High the Moon, running G major into a C7 scale, and comping with the scale of chords.
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Episode 15: G6 and C6 diminished scales of chords
The G6 and C6 diminished scales of chords played on guitar.
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Episode 16: comping for How High the Moon
Comping for How High the Moon on guitar.
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Episode 17: borrowing notes
Borrowing notes on an E-flat 6 chord, applying them, and resolving the borrowed diminished notes.
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Episode 18: scales and soloing for A Night in Tunisia
Scales for the first eight bars and bridge of A Night in Tunisia, then soloing ideas including the diminished scale.
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Episode 19: comping for A Night in Tunisia
Comping for A Night in Tunisia on guitar.
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Episode 20: the first four bars of I Got Rhythm
The first four bars of I Got Rhythm: phrases, minor 7 and arpeggio exercises, inverting F major.
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Episode 21: soloing with the diminished
Soloing with the diminished on guitar.
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Episode 22: soloing on dominants
Soloing over dominant chords with scales, pivoting, running and the chromatic scale.
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Episode 23: All the Things You Are
All the Things You Are Barry’s way: drop 2 voicings, chord transitions, E-flat 7 substitutions, borrowing.
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Episode 24: practising triplets
Eighth- and sixteenth-note triplets on Perdido with the dominant scale rules, and triplets on the second and third.
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Episode 25: major scale half-step rules
The half-step rules for the major scale, starting from the tonic, and target notes.
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Episode 26: an idea from the chords in the major scale
An exercise with the chords in the major scale, then changing the scale and putting the idea into a tune.
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Episode 27: chord ideas in C major
A C major scale exercise with chord ideas, other ways to practise it, minor-chord variations and application.
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Episode 28: minor sixth diminished chord ideas
Chord ideas from the minor sixth diminished scale: an exercise, its variations and use in a musical context.
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Episode 29: half-step rules for harmonic minor
The half-step rules applied to the harmonic minor scale, plus other half steps.
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Episode 30: comping ideas with sixth diminished
Comping with sixth diminished and constant notes, on All the Things You Are; guitar versus piano voicings.
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Episode 31: a Charlie Parker idea
A Charlie Parker idea: its triplet, chord variations and practice tips.
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Episode 32: Charlie Parker idea no. 2
A second Charlie Parker idea.
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Episode 33: Charlie Parker idea no. 3
A third Charlie Parker phrase: analysing it, applying it, and rhythmic variations on it.
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Episode 34: movement from major to relative minor
Practising the movement from major to relative minor in E-flat and creating improvised lines over it.
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Episode 35: movement from major to the sixth dominant; creating lines
Practising the move from major to the sixth dominant and building lines on it, with rhythmic variations.
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Episode 36: I major to IV minor; creating lines
Creating lines on I major to IV minor, with Yardbird Suite, chromatic scales and longer phrases.
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Episode 37: 5-4-3-2 in minor and more line ideas
The minor rules for five, four, three and two, how to practise them and how to improvise with them.
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Episode 38: creating lines on the minor II-V
Soloing lines on a minor II-V with arpeggios and the tritone.
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Episode 39: lines from the E minor sixth diminished scale
The E minor 6th diminished scale in thirds, triads, chords and triplet patterns, and making lines from it.
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Episode 40: lines on a III minor, flat-III minor, II minor turnaround
Creating lines on a turnaround of III minor, flat-III minor and II minor.
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Episode 41: movement from I to the flat-III diminished
Playing the movement from I to the flat-III diminished and creating lines on it with arpeggios and chromatics.
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Episode 42: using pivots to create lines on I Got Rhythm
Explains what Barry calls pivoting and uses it to create lines on I Got Rhythm.
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Episode 43: creating lines from Bud Powell ideas
Creating lines using Bud Powell ideas.
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Episode 44: the whole-tone scale
The whole-tone scale: practice variations, contrary motion, patterns and its use in jazz tunes.
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Episode 45: practising the G minor sixth diminished scale
Practising the G minor sixth diminished scale across all six strings of the guitar.
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Episode 46: infinite ways to play I-VI-II-V with the scale of chords
Using Barry’s scale of chords to find many ways to play a I-VI-II-V in G (G, E minor, A minor, D7).
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Episode 47: infinite ways to play minor I-VI-II-V, scale of chords
Using the scale of chords for a minor I-VI-II-V: chords, scales, contrary motion and variations.
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Episode 48: blues with Barry’s chromatic scale and pivots
Playing the blues with its scales, Barry’s chromatic scale and pivots.
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Episode 49: the most famous blues turnaround explained
A famous blues turnaround in root position and inversions, where it comes from, and as single-note lines.
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Episode 50: half-step rules on the I Got Rhythm bridge
Taking a phrase on a dominant chord through the rhythm changes bridge in E-flat, with the half-step rules.
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Episode 51: what is the name of this chord?
Why naming a chord on sight is backwards for Barry; the importance of his scale of chords and where chords come from.
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Episode 52: a very important arpeggio
What Barry means by an arpeggio, and one of the three important arpeggios of D7, used in phrases.
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Episode 53: yet another very important arpeggio
Another very important arpeggio.
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Episode 54: there is no such thing as a bebop scale
Argues, as the title says, that there is no such thing as a bebop scale.
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Episode 55: a chord melody from Barry’s scale of chords
Arranging Alone Together as a chord melody with Barry’s scale of chords and borrowed notes.
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Episode 56: reversing the rules
Takes Barry’s half-step rules and reverses them, applying them to triads and to ascending and descending lines.
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Episode 57: don’t think ii-V, just think V
Thinking of just the V, the dominant, instead of the ii-V.
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Episode 58: the middle of a blues, bars 5 to 8
Bars 5 to 8 of a blues: first their scales, then the different ways to play them.
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Episode 59: the family of dominants on All the Things You Are
Where Barry’s family of dominants comes from and how to play with it on All the Things You Are.
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Episode 60: creating lines from scales (D7)
Creating lines on the D7 scale from the things you practise on it.
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Episode 61: creating lines from scales, part 2 (D7)
More D7 lines: chords up and down the scale, triplets, half steps and chromatic rules combined.
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Episode 62: don’t ever do this
A short lesson on something you should never do.
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Episode 63: creating major lines from scales (G major)
G major lines from 5-4-3-2, pivots, half-step rules, arpeggios, surrounding notes and chromatics.
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Episode 64: creating lines from V to I
Connecting D7 lines to G major lines so a phrase moves from the V chord to the I chord.
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Episode 65: creating minor lines
Minor lines from Barry’s minor 6th diminished scale, his four scales and his chromatic scale.
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Episode 66: making lines with the tritone’s minor
Lines from what Barry calls the tritone’s minor, leading into G major; opens with a Patreon announcement.
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Episode 67: lines on All the Things You Are with minor arpeggios
Minor arpeggios applied to the All the Things You Are changes, including tritone substitutes.
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Episode 68: creating lines with drop 2 on rhythm changes
Using drop 2 chords to create lines over rhythm changes.
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Episode 69: Autumn Leaves with Barry’s four scales of chords
Barry’s four scales of chords applied to Autumn Leaves, in parallel and contrary motion.
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Episode 70: triads
Triads in G6 diminished, voice-led by the lower, top and middle note, with minor chords and intros.
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Episode 71: blues comping with all four scales of chords
Comping on the blues with minor 6th, dominant 7th and 7th flat 5 chords and their movements.
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Episode 72: the half step below
What Barry calls the half step below, applied to scales, the sixth diminished and borrowed chords.
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Episode 73: eighth-note triplets in Autumn Leaves and Donna Lee
Eighth-note triplets on an F7 example and in Autumn Leaves and Donna Lee.
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Episode 74: sixteenth-note triplets
Sixteenth-note triplets: rhythm exercises, applying them to scales, and creative variations.
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Episode 75: transcribing with a purpose
Taking apart a classic phrase, making variations and practising it from each scale degree.
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Episode 76: starting a solo from any note
Breaking habits by starting improvised lines from every degree of the scale.
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Episode 77: the tritone
A lesson on the tritone.
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Episode 78: a six-note scale idea
Building a six-note scale from a Barry Harris concept, with pattern variations and applications.
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Episode 79: Barry’s scales of chords on a ii-V
Using Barry’s scales of chords over a ii-V in the key of C.
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Episode 80: don’t learn target notes; Barry’s chromatic scale
Not learning target notes, to avoid mental limits, and Barry’s chromatic scale as a way to musical freedom.
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Episode 81: don’t think C9
A lesson on not thinking of a chord as C9.
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Episode 82: A minor 7 is beautiful
Exploring the A minor 7 chord, moving it in oblique and contrary motion.
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Episode 83: Barry’s half-step rules continued
Half-step rules from the tonic, second and third, going up a third, fourth or fifth, and in triad and chord phrases.
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Episode 84: A minor arpeggio ideas
A minor arpeggio ideas with the D7 arpeggio, practised from the root, with variations.
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Episode 85: the minor blues
The scale outline for a 12-bar C minor blues, with Barry’s minor scale in thirds and in chords.
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Episode 86: A minor 7b5 is beautiful
Exploring the A minor 7b5 chord and transposing it, with a section on Thomas Echols.
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Episode 87: feeling the ‘and’ (Donna Lee)
Shifting scale exercises and phrases onto the upbeat to feel the ‘and’, using Donna Lee.
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Episode 88: IV minor (Just Friends)
The IV minor in Just Friends: dominant connections, chord scale exercises, lines and arpeggios.
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Episode 89: every note is a target note (follow-up)
A follow-up to episode 80: reaching any note with surrounding notes, half steps and added notes.
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Episode 90: don’t alter your dominant
A lesson on not altering your dominant chord.
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Episode 91: don’t be bored of the blues
Blues variations: bass-line movements, alternative harmonies, simpler changes, relative-minor approaches.
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Episode 92: where to use Barry’s minor 6th diminished scale
The G minor 6th diminished scale, runs built from it, and using it over minor and dominant chords.
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Episode 93: the diminished explained
Barry’s creation theory behind the diminished, the octatonic scale and chromatics between two notes.
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Episode 94: Barry’s beautiful rhythm exercise
One of Barry’s rhythm exercises.
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Episode 95: small things
Looking at the small things; opens with thanks to Open Studio for a workshop.
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Episode 96: Barry’s chromatic scale, part 2
More of Barry’s chromatic scale: starting on a beat, skipping the first half step, and descending.
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Episode 97: we don’t know D7
Knowing the D7 scale: rhythmic variations, chromatic approach notes, pivot arpeggios, diminished chords.
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Episode 98: C minor 6th diminished (with Thomas Echols)
Chord ‘floors’ on the C minor 6th diminished scale: thirds, triads, contrary motion, beyond drop 2.
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Episode 99: a new “bebop” scale
A new ‘bebop’ scale built Barry’s way, the rhythmic placeholder idea, and three phases of learning.
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Episode 100: scales on the blues revisited
Revisiting Barry’s scale outline for the blues, in C and in F, then soloing with it.
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Episode 101: do you know rhythm changes?
The scale outline for rhythm changes.
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Episode 102: a beautiful movement we never play
A beautiful movement that rarely gets played.
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Episode 103: finding your own voice (Darn That Dream)
Finding your own voice through creative chord melodies on Darn That Dream.
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Episode 104: Giant Steps scales
Working out the scales Barry would use for Giant Steps, drawing on a video of him discussing it.
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Episode 105: pivots are pretty (minor 6th diminished)
Pivoting on Barry’s minor 6th diminished scale in A minor, with minor thirds.
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Episode 106: there’s more to it than 6th diminished
Barry’s four scales of chords: major 6th, minor 6th, dominant 7th and 7th flat 5, and applying them.
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Episode 107: Barry is still teaching us beautiful triplets
Triplet ideas from Barry’s teaching.
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Episode 108: using Barry’s scales of chords
Using Barry’s scales of chords on D minor 7, G minor 7 and D minor 6.
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Episode 109: being free when soloing
Rhythmic freedom in solos: placing phrases on the beat and off the beat.
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Episode 110: pivots with a twist
Varying pivots: playing them off the beat and pivoting from the seventh.
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Episode 111: drop 2s are more than you think
Drop 2 chords on the C minor 6th diminished scale: their intervals, thirds and contrary motion.
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Episode 112: don’t think altered, think family
Thinking family instead of altered dominants: what an altered dominant is, and the sharp nine.
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Episode 113: what can I do from the 2nd?
What you can do starting from the second.
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Episode 114: what can I do from the 3rd?
The major 6th diminished scale, an ‘elevator’ system, motion and borrowing used to harmonise a melody.
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Episode 115: stealing a Bud Powell phrase
A short Bud Powell phrase from the bridge of Anthropology, taken apart and practised from every degree.
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Episode 116: let’s practise together
Practising Barry’s ideas together: descending scales with half steps, triads and chords up.
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Episode 117: the secret to soloing
Shares what the title calls the secret to soloing.
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Episode 118: Barry’s limitless half-step rules
Customising Barry’s half-step rules: new starting notes, three half steps and reversing the rules.
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Episode 119: the minor 6th diminished scale in drop 2 voicings
The minor six diminished scale and its drop 2 voicings, then an application to the major six scale.
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Episode 120: Barry’s chromatic scale
Barry’s chromatic scale over a scale outline, with triad variations, chord-tone exercises and self-tests.
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Episode 121: why do we all play this? Comping in drop 2 inversions
Comping with drop 2 chord variations and inversions, alternative changes, and challenging habits.
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Episode 122: scales in thirds, more than an exercise
Scale exercises in thirds with phrasing variations, applied to songs and to connecting chords and movement.
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Episode 123: do you know your minor 6th diminished scale?
The minor 6th diminished scale as a chord scale of drop 2 chords, practised in contrary motion.
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Episode 124: movement you’ve never played on a blues
Movement on the blues and variations of the changes, with example lines and how to use them in solos.
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Episode 125: a Charlie Parker phrase
Builds a Charlie Parker phrase with thirds, transposes it, and varies it with triplets and rhythm.
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Episode 126: master-level phrasing from a 1979 recording with Barry
An idea Barry plays on a 1979 Benny Carter live recording, worked through pivots and surrounding notes.
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Episode 127: the Barry Harris scale no one plays
A little-played Barry Harris scale: its structure, played in thirds and triads, and how to apply it.
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Episode 128: playing with the family through dominant triads
Barry’s creation theory and playing with the family, via dominant triads, their inversions and minor six chords.
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Episode 129: triad, chord or arpeggio?
What an arpeggio is, using C major, a three-chord movement and arpeggio variations in phrases.
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Episode 130: you’re going to have fun with this
A lesson the title promises will be fun; its one named section is ‘Dominance’.
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Episode 131: practising with a friend, diminished chord runs
Diminished chord runs in three-octave patterns and inversions, applied to all the dominants.
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Episode 132: new ways to look at the pivot
Fresh ways to look at what Barry calls a pivot, worked out on a D7 scale.
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Episode 133: do you know your half-step rules?
Barry’s basic descending half-step rules, adding lower half steps, and starting on the beat.
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Episode 134: the half step below on the minor 6th diminished scale
A half-step-below idea on C minor 6th diminished, in single notes, thirds, triads and voicings.
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Episode 135: think small, not big: F6 to B diminished
The F6 to B diminished movement in every inversion, used in lines, transposed and as shell voicings.
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Episode 136: drop 2 with a pretty twist
Drop 2 on the minor six diminished scale and a two-note exercise, applied to a ii-V-i and to standards.
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Episode 137: three very important arpeggios
The arpeggios on the root, fifth and flat seventh, used in lines and with tritone substitution.
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Episode 138: chord melodies with the Eb6 diminished scale
Harmonising melodies with drop 2 chords from the E-flat 6 diminished scale, plus an alternative scale approach.
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Episode 139: a new way to play a minor blues
A minor blues framework practised in drop 2 voicings with harmonic systems, and the benefits of disciplined practice.
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Episode 140: reasons to practise major 6th chords
Why moving from one sixth chord to another (G6 to C6) matters, in drop 2 inversions across string sets.
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Episode 141: what is ‘short’?
The ‘short’ movement: the guitar voicings it needs, piano versus guitar, and using it in songs and on dominants.
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Episode 142: what is ‘long’?
The ‘long’ concept on C minor 6 and major six, building chord chains, compared and combined with ‘short’.
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Episode 143: don’t play chord tones on the beat
Playing on the upbeat instead, with exercises, Bud Powell-style pivots and rhythmic freedom.
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Episode 144: stealing from Bud Powell
Takes a Bud Powell phrase and works it from every degree of the scale to make something new.
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Episode 145: Barry’s beautiful borrowing
Borrowing notes in the minor 6th diminished scale, expanded and applied to chords and voicings.
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Episode 146: Barry’s most beautiful move? Modulating by diminished
Modulating to new keys with the B-flat diminished scale, in a tune, with dominants and in all 12 keys.
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Episode 147: we don’t know triads
Practising basic triads, adding notes to them, and varying them melodically and rhythmically in solos.
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Episode 148: the Barry Harris scale we never talk about
A rarely discussed Barry scale in chords and thirds, guitar voicings, parallel chords and a Chopin phrase.
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Episode 149: a Sonny Rollins surround idea
Surrounds and a Sonny Rollins phrase, varied in rhythm and melody, from scale degrees, on triads and in other keys.
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Episode 150: David’s way to practise chord scales
A practice technique from David for chord scales, adding chromatic approach notes, then borrowing.
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Episode 151: what almost everyone gets wrong about Barry Harris
What the title says most people get wrong about Barry, touching on the scales, a G7 and altered sounds.
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Episode 152: the difference between a chord and an arpeggio
Defines Barry’s ‘chord’ and ‘arpeggio’, how his chords are built, and five-note chords in licks.
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Episode 153: Barry’s secret to playing through changes
Moving through changes on a blues scale outline by notes in common, surrounding notes and the tritone.
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Episode 154: what you’re getting wrong about Barry Harris
Barry’s harmonic approach versus soloing with small pieces, analysing phrases and applying them with taste.
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Episode 155: Skool community launch and minor 6th diminished borrowing
Announces the Skool community, then borrows notes in the minor sixth diminished scale to make chords.
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Episode 156: Barry’s secret to soloing, puzzle pieces
Soloing with ‘puzzle pieces’: what they are and how to apply and combine them when improvising.
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Episode 157: the most important puzzle piece: space
Space as the key puzzle piece: the habit of overplaying, exercises for rhythmic space, rhythm as a foundation.
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Episode 158: six must-know ii-V movements
Six ii-Vs with minimal movement, moving two or three notes between the chords.
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Episode 159: must-know minor ii-V movements
A minor ii-V in drop 2 voicings, made to move with borrowing and inner voices, then embellished.
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Episode 160: the first four bars of the blues
How many ways, and how many different changes, there are to play the first four bars of the blues.
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Episode 161: pivots, pivots and more pivots
How Barry’s pivot works, where to place it rhythmically, and how to build it into phrases and sequences.
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Episode 162: improvising from a Bud Powell phrase
Expands a Bud Powell phrase with chromatic adjustments and variations to improvise and find a voice.
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Episode 163: scale outlines, the first step to improvising
Barry’s scale outlines: mapping a tune such as Cherokee with scales, and the core three scales.
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Episode 164: first step to Barry’s scales of chords
Barry’s scales of chords seen through major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, m7b5 and diminished chords.
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Episode 165: surrounds or enclosures? The minor-third surround
Barry’s surround (often called an enclosure) as a minor-third surround, with chromatic triplet variations.
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Episode 166: what is a puzzle piece?
Defines puzzle pieces and shows how to apply them in solos with rhythmic variety.
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Episode 167: no more comping 4’s
Opens with a Skool pricing announcement, then, as the title puts it, moves away from comping 4’s.
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Episode 168: do you know G minor 6th diminished?
The G minor 6th diminished scale in drop 2 chords with the elevator system, thirds and fretboard navigation.
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Episode 169: the three scales you need for Barry’s scale outlines
The three essential scales behind Barry’s scale outlines, how to master them and how to apply them.
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