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Here is the next video, a chording device Barry calls "borrowing". It is taking a sixth diminished chord and borrowing notes from the diminished above or below in the sixth diminished chord/scale and substituting those notes into the chord. We can then resolve them or not. A great way to make chords move more. You hear bebop era piano and guitar players do this all the time.
https://youtu.be/hmBjAod3t18
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My latest Barry Harris video is playing chords for Miles' piece Tune Up.
https://youtu.be/45i9IsegpH4
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I've been digging Hayes' thread Tiny Moore Tuesday. Tiny had a lot of Bebop in his playing, you could tell he was paying attention to what was happening at that time. Serious Jazz players should learn a number of his solos, you'll be glad you did.
This and the next 2 videos in the Barry Harris for Jazz Mandolin series looks at the common western swing song Right or Wrong. This video is a chord melody.
https://youtu.be/neUjCyFaeqE
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Next two videos will be soloing and comping using Barry's ideas.
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I've been digging Hayes' thread Tiny Moore Tuesday. Tiny had a lot of Bebop in his playing, you could tell he was paying attention to what was happening at that time. Serious Jazz players should learn a number of his solos, you'll be glad you did.
This and the next 2 videos in the Barry Harris for Jazz Mandolin series looks at the common western swing song Right or Wrong. This video is a chord melody.
https://youtu.be/neUjCyFaeqE
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Next two videos will be soloing and comping using Barry's ideas.
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Thanks for the kind words Pete! You're totally right - Tiny was hip to what was going on in the world of bop. This is an awesome chord melody, can't wait to see the next couple of videos!
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Soloing ideas for Right or Wrong using Barry Harris' ideas.
https://youtu.be/0JpL06iVuCM
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Here are comping ideas for Right or Wrong. I wrote these as quarter, half and whole notes to make reading easier, so use your own jazz timing ideas with these voicings.
https://youtu.be/21ARwiz0_Bg
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Have fun, and a very merry Bob Wills holiday season!
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This short video teaches a phrase I hear quite a bit in bebop era improvised solos. I call it "flat seven". Have fun!
https://youtu.be/6mzUcloM-1M
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Video #44 teaches a similar phrase I hear against major chords (major sixth and major seventh). I call this phrase "six".
https://youtu.be/uOZ3-HfuMHA
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I got to have standards with that beautiful melody or something swinging, bluesed jazz, soulful, funkified etc. Never cared for fusion and bebop was too much on the outside for my likes or abilities. Now that Tiny Moore and Jethro Burns is right down my likes alley...
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CB - I hear a number of bebop quotes in Tiny's playing form the 50's on. You can tell he was listening to the players of his time. I used to jam with him some at Weiser in the old days. At times he played with a LOT of bebop language, depending on what tunes were being played (and I was a HUGE idiot for not having my tape recorder going).
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Barry's method of teaching eighth note triplets
https://youtu.be/zDFqkSw-G7g
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Barry's method of teaching sixteenth note triplets
https://youtu.be/yOXocY_jWsI
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Lines from Wynton Kelly and Red Garland, 2 giants of bebop improvising.
https://youtu.be/oP-0N5VT_7Y
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Some tonic minor phrases Barry taught in one of his workshops
https://youtu.be/zLcIhiwIQ64
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Here is the first of two videos about how Barry saw the musical world and where sounds came from.
https://youtu.be/4x0lEUO3m8U
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The second of two videos on how Barry looked at the musical universe and where the sounds came from.
https://youtu.be/WH_7akiUlY0
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A Look at what Barry considers the first chord movements, follows up from the two previous videos.:mandosmiley:
https://youtu.be/XNs-H61FcYA
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Chord scale outlines, a good first step in finding what you can play in solos.
https://youtu.be/EfzBmhnTivA
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Some Barry Harris ideas to apply to Perdido
https://youtu.be/VjVpUmVHDOQ
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More major extra half step rules
https://youtu.be/VjVpUmVHDOQ
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Hi Pete, I just discovered this thread (late to the party, I know) and was wondering what your thoughts are on absorbing your work here.
I have studied jazz guitar in the past and worked on lines using the bebop scale (flat and nat 7). I even did a little work with harmonising the Barry Harris 8 note scale which created a pattern of 6th and diminished chord inversions. It's a bit foggy now. Never applied it to mandolin though.
Do you recommend just starting at the 1st post and going sequentially or is there another way that makes sense after all these years of working on this yourself?
Thanks for sharing your efforts.
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Hi Dean,
There is no "right way" to absorb Barry's system. It helps to start with the "basics", which is what I teach in the first say 10 videos. Then find sounds you like and practicing getting that sound into your improvisation.
There are a lot of videos of Barry's style taught on YouTube these days. These 2 videos, fairly long, are a GREAT example what studying Barry's system can do for your improvising.
https://youtu.be/cU387hqXIFA
https://youtu.be/qkIsTxlOttY
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In response to Dean's question, my latest Barry Harris video is "What to Learn First"
https://youtu.be/BL_4dNTtYUQ
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Just an FYI: this thread was moved into the Theory section at Pete's request.