Lady Bird

His second workshop video comes to Lady Bird after the chromatic major and chromatic dominant scales: developing a solo on the Lady Bird changes, the ‘Lady Bird turnback’, the tune itself and a scale outline of it.

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A former student recalls that Barry taught the 1-2-3-5 figure, a triad with an added second, on the Lady Bird turnaround. Chris Parks describes the same: in C the turnaround is C major, E♭7, A♭ major, D♭7, and Barry would play 1-2-3-5 on each chord, sometimes putting the turnaround into a blues scale outline.

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A student at his 2017 London workshops reports Barry pointing out that when Bud Powell played Lady Bird he soloed on the changes of Half Nelson. Barry then applied scales to Half Nelson and had the class build a long bebop line from that outline.

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In a class clip, following a player’s solo, he says the player switched to Lady Bird, then corrects himself to Half Nelson. He points out the player going from B minor to E, then to B♭ minor and A♭ major, and says nobody plays like that; the captions also have someone saying it just comes out, with no plan. Who the player is is not clear.

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