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Buy The Barry Harris approach to improvised lines & harmony: An introduction Issue 1.0 by Bicket, Fiona (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Nov 12, 2012 That program is structured around the ideas of bebop pianist Barry Harris. The 'Harris Method' is structured more explicitly around bop practice and focuses on creating smooth chromatic melodies through the use of certain 'rules' (for example, descending from the tonic, 3rd, 5th or 7th of a major scale add one half-step between the 6th and 5th. Issue 1.0 - The Barry Harris approach to Improvised Lines & Harmony: An Introduction Dr. Barry Harris Profile Dr. Barry Harris is an Internationally renowned jazz pianist, composer and teacher. Harris is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern University.

Hi Alan,. Just received a copy of your book. I have been fascinated by this method. He and Barry have been very successful with the diminished approach. Pianist Barry Harris’ method which outlines a more summarized, yet in-depth, approach to jazz harmony. Method adapted for guitar by Alan Kingstone. Thread: Kingstone/Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar I know there is a dedicated Barry Harris thread, but most of it is focussed on single line improvisation. Alan’s book doesn’t really seem focussed on that (although maybe .

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The “mover” on the other hand, understands harmonuc chords come from scales and thereby learns to approach chording in a more fluid fashion. In particular, I was amazed that the majority of bebop could be contained within just three chords: Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go.

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The book doesn’t present a new harmony, but a new way of seeing jazz harmony beyond the confusion of “well it doesn’t have any notes in the key of C or in the chord G7, but we’ll call it a G7 in the key of C anyway because it sort of functions that way. It is a very practical and organized way of looking at chord movement applied to the areas of accompaniment, arranging and composition. There’s a problem loading this menu right now.

Get to Know Us. When was the last time you listened to the symphony, for instance, and said oh yeah, Am7b5 – D7.

Suddenly the musical ceiling gets raised and points us back to the purpose behind this book. I think of it as a choice you have when planning a trip.

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I gave this a well-deserved five stars, and I think you should order it now. He is truly a master and as you well know he was the first cat to teach jazz in a methof way. Prices subject to change without notice.

This is NOT just another jazz guitar book, of which you probably already own dozens, most rehashing the same topics. Wish Lists Sign In. This doesn’t make you sound like anyone in particular, it just helps you to gutiar a vast amount of musical possibilities in a fun and accessible way, and, in this case, that can’t be overstated.

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Ahrris 7th, Major 6th and Minor 6th. It’s not that the classical folks don’t play chords, they just know something about getting from one to the next in an unobvious manner.

He and Barry have been very successful with the diminished approach.

The Drop 2 Book. You could board a jet plane at point A, zone out for a while in the generic looking cabin, step off at point B to take in a meal and a concert, and then fly on another generic jet where you zone out nethod another 2 hours before reaching point C for some more site seeing. Either one becomes a “hitter” or, one becomes a “mover”.

What I mean is that a theory works for a while, but as our knowledge progresses, that same theory becomes bogged down with more and more addendum and exceptions to keep it in agreement baxry known reality. Three-Note Voicings and Beyond. They probably don’t realize that I come to school mehhod, too. The worldwide leader in jazz improvisation educational materials for over 50 years!

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Factoring in “borrowing” from neighbor chords while harmonizing, all sorts of exotic chords can result. As well, kingsotne realizes that the interesting spots in music, whether you are comping, harmonizing a melody or writing an arrangement, are the places in between the chord symbols.

In fact, I prefer to think — movement-to-movement — as opposed to chord to chord.

Lastly you’ll learn that any dominant chord has a parent diminished chord and that the 3 parent diminished chords each forms 4 dominant chords by lowering one note and that any of these 4 dominants can be substituted over any of the 4 related dominant roots to form various “alt” forms.

This is where Barry Harris comes in. Studying the concepts put forth in this book will not teach you a set of hip sounding voicings. None of the notes one plays are in the key of C or even in the chord G7, but we still try to force it into our little universe that says everything is a ii, a V or a I of the key we are in. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers.

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What you will find herein are the structural components, as mapped out and developed by jazz giant Barry Harris, that will guide and aid you on your own personal road to discovery. You won’t come out sounding like everyone else – and that’s the good news! I am still on the first page of the workouts but I already have a very different perception and skill that is popping out.

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I’ve only worked through this a little bit along with the similar Roni Ben Hur DVD “Chordability” and for me this really fills in some gaps. I expected a lot from this one and after practicing it a bit, I didn’t find it that innovative and usable Great work and may I bug you with a question or two along the way.

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For more information on this and related topics, check out An Approach to Jazz Piano.
LinesThe major bebop scale has been in common knowledge for decades. I have outlined the tonic/dominant (IMa6 iiDim) polarity in an earlier blog (March, 2012). So check that out and you’ll see a few examples of some ideas for expanding upon that idea. OK, then comes Barry Harris (a well known jazz piano/educator) who instructs us with some mysterious sounding, but not necessarily rocket-science, ideas for the bebop scale. The scale: in C major: C D E F G G# A B C.
For starters, most jazz players these days will study the scale-tone sevenths of at least four or five different scale types, so most are familiar with playing scale-tone sevenths for example, in major scales in a step-wise root motion as in C major:
CMa7 Dmi7 Emi7 FMa7 G7 Ami7 Bmi7(b5) CMa7 and learning the modes that are often associated with those chords.
I chanced upon a youtube video of Barry Harris working with (astonished) students and he did a similar thing except he played them over the bebop major scale. While paying strict attention to voice leading, each of the four voices, leads to the next note in the scale, creating a very interesting take on the bebop scale. This approach has a very similar effect to the C6 Ddim toggling-polarity application mentioned earlier, yet they sounded different and interesting. Scale-tone sevenths here start out as normal but quickly run into that added note G# (#5 or b6) so the chord qualities start to change quickly from that of the scale-tone sevenths in the pure major scale. I’ve outlined a few ideas from what I heard in B.H’s you-tube video, but basically here is the main theme:

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Notice there are eight scale-tone sevenths chords as opposed to seven in a major scale. Also notice that there are two mi7(b5) chords in the bebop major scale.
Barry Harris played them as triads over a bass note which are outlined below:
CMa7 Dmi7(b5) Emi11 FdimMa7 G9sus4 G#/AbdimMa7 AmiMa7 Bmi7(b5)

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The triads (numerator) over the bass notes can be inverted giving a greater range.

How are these used? They can be used much the same way as the C6/Ddim method. There is the same polarity evident with BH’s approach i.e. tonic dominant toggling. The exception to this would be the V7sus4 or F/G in our example. It’s not a tonic chord but it is an unresolved dominant so it can function also as an unresolved tonic in a way. Once this is looked at the next step (perhaps) could be to learn the associated modes of the major bebop scale. They will be the same as in a major scale except for the added #5/b6. BH quotes the bridge to My Funny Valentine as an example where this might be used—it sounds fantastic! But why is it so hard to learn in all keys and in all forms?
For more information on this and related topics, check out An Approach to Jazz Piano.