Barry HarrisThe method

Tunes he taught

Scrapple from the Apple

Scrapple from the Apple appears in Barry’s teaching only briefly: his second workshop video sets an excerpt of Parker’s tune among its improvisation lessons, and a 77-second Hague clip shows him playing it with a class, with almost no usable captions.

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Barry plays it
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What he teaches through it

The improvisation chapter of his second workshop video (2005) includes an excerpt of Charlie Parker’s Scrapple from the Apple, placed after sections on going from IV to I and on feeling the shape of the melody, and before phrase building on rhythm changes. The published contents do not say what he does with it.

Barry Harris (on video); Howard Rees (producer, The Barry Harris Workshop Video Part 2: product page and 156-page workbook table of contents ¶8Barry Harris (on video); Howard Rees (producer, The Barry Harris Workshop Video Part 2: product page and 156-page workbook table of contents ¶16

A short clip from his Hague workshop is titled Playing Scrapple from the Apple, but its captions are almost empty; the only clear words remind a player to play E♭.

Scrapple from the Apple0:000:45

In class

Every moment he works on it, with the ideas of the method it shows.

Scrapple from the Apple

The Hague, 1989–98

  1. 0:00

    Hague clip: playing Scrapple from the Apple with the class; captions garbled.

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  2. 0:45

    Reminds a player to play E♭.

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