The first thing I learned from Barry Harris
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- I've learned so much by studying Barry Harris' teachings. This concept of "6th on the 5th" was the first that I really took to heart. I hope it's useful for you.
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00:00 - Demonstrating 6th on the 5th
00:24 - Introduction
01:20 - Explaining 6th on the 5th
02:03 - Major 7th Chords
04:00 - Minor 7th Chords
05:15 - Half-Diminished Chords
05:55 - Dominant 7th Chords
06:35 - Altered Dominants
07:23 - Observations
08:43 - Step by Step Instructions
11:49 - Demonstrating on a Tune
15:28 - Like & Subscribe!
‼️‼️‼️QUESTIONS: Most of the common questions coming up from this video have been answered in this follow up Q&A video:
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So, to state this another way, on a one chord play a one chord. On a 4 chord, play a one chord. On a minor chord, play it's relative major. On a half diminished, play a 2 chord. On a five chord, play a 2 chord. And on an altered dominant, just play a minor 6maj7 a half step sharp of your root. Is that correct?
This is so well articulated. My eyes and ears are crackling
@@MrVesperatu Close. The half diminished works like the minor -- up a minor 3rd. You just play a minor6 instead of major.
Am = C6
Am7b5 = Cm6
I had spent two years in the music program at CCNY. Then moved to the Jazz performance program at NYU. Someone brought me to Barry's class. I got SO MUCH out of that one night at Barrys, that I dropped out of NYU the next day.
I was working on a harmony book for guitar with Barry. I asked him where this whole thing came from.
He told me "You're not going to believe this, Steve. I dreamt it"
It really becomes obvious if you hang with it a while
Agreed! Thanks for sharing.
Why don't you have any videos!
maybe it wasn't 50+ years ago, but if you can't make it online now on your own, you're not gonna make it big with a music degree. i don't understand what the purpose of getting one is with the resources that are online and available to everyone now--videos like this are a prime example.
@@Farvadudethere’s a lot that you learn in an academic environment that may not seem directly related to exactly what you want to do but certainly will connect the dots sooner or later. Stuff like this is great as a supplement but isn’t necessarily a replacement
@@Farvadudegood luck finding an actually structured guide for free tho online. It's hard to get the right order of things, and not get a ton of redundant info you already know, over and over again. University programs are structured thoughtfully(usually...) to make sure you're getting the next information that's relevant to what you already know, and makes sure you have prerequisite knowledge for more advanced things.
As a bass player, the whole thought process of “on a C7, play the 6” is so mind blowing. Usually I’m not thinking of how the notes are all gonna sound together, but rather what notes I can play in that chord.
it's just a C13... Barry harris actually prefers C(b13) because of the diminished flavor and parallel with minor/ diminished scales.
You ought not in my opinion. As mentioned if a C13 was intended or heard in the melody, its up to the individual and setting I suppose. Substituting the 6th for the 7th is not the point for sure. The 7th is funky, bluesy and a strong flavor
Yeah I'm a sax player and actually DID make this mistake many many years ago. There's a scene in the Charlie Parker move "Bird"where he's struggling with some music and says" I can't make it fit...!! ".
I was getting some very interesting looks there for a while until I realised that these things are only guidelines not rules....
So does the bassist play C7 or Gm6?
Omg playing the 6 over the tritone minor is awesome. This is so cracked. Who would have ever figured that out ? Wow there’s so much to learn.
Yes! So useful
Guitarist here. Only five mins in and this is already amazing. You have a gift for explaining stuff in a pleasing and clear way. This stuff is blowing my mind. I think I've heard Barry mention Charlie Christian a few times. I think he had a lot of respect for Charlie because he knew about the kind of stuff you are explaining in this vid!
Thanks so much!
I’m not quite sure how I went decades and was unaware of the brilliance of Barry Harris’ method. The past couple of years, I’ve delved deep, watched videos from the master himself, and have, as a guitar player, checked out some great guitar resources online on Barry’s method. Your video is one of the best, clear, concise videos for anyone to start using this beautiful method. Thank you!
As another guitarist, I concur! Very clear.
Ronny Ben Hur wrote a book based on Barry Harris's concepts applied to guitar called Talk Jazz Guitar that I bought. It was NOT well-edited by the publisher, but nevertheless provided some valuable material.
Sometimes half the job of a good instructor is being an editor. After all, music books don't get the same editing attention as do medical journals, flight manuals, etc. I'm ok with that, I reckon.😉
Agree. Decades! And the joy of Barry’s simple ideas makes sense of things I heard but couldn’t quite pinpoint. As a guitar player there are some incredible videos to learn from but I love this idea of the 6th on the 5th. Right away it opened up melodic voice leading ideas. Same shapes new sounds. Thank you.
@@guitarmusic524 I bought this book, and I’m immensely enjoying it:
Alan Kingstone
The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar
6:24 was when I realized this is the chord in Zelda’s Great Fairy theme, just arpeggiating & inverting up. Ocarina of Time’s version even begins on the same key of G. Thank you for teaching me what I’ve wanted to learn for years in this single video
"Everytime we say goodbye" I cry a little ! Great melody .
Such a well worked resource! Thank you for sharing
Top marks for calm clarity. Appreciated.
Awesome! Thanks a lot for sharing this knowledge!
Great stuff Josh! I'm going to try this out
Wow - thorough, clearly stated, well produced. And your playing sounds great! Thanks for posting and for helping to keep this art & Barry's teaching alive. Best to you.
Mind blown! Very well explained and presented. Thanks, man!
I love this video! So clear and encouraging! Thanks for keeping Barry Harris teachings alive!
Thanks Josh! Long time guitarist here. You have a gift for keeping the “simple” simple! Most often these kinds of break downs end up more complicated than when it started! I’ve seen other guitarists explain what they’ve learned from Barry Harris - but using the piano to explain this was much more useful to me-but that’s just me, no fault of their own. Looking forward to working this into my playing. 👍🙏
Thank you JDT! I’m a student here as much as a teacher. I learn a lot myself by breaking these down to discuss.
I appreciate your comment.
As a guitarist first and pianist second I agree totally. Theory has always been a little easier for me to grapple with on the keys and then once mastered I can lift that experience to the guitar much easier. At least for me, theory is easier on piano except for the few tricks we have as Ana advantage on guitar such as the ease of sequencing and transposing (most of the time).
Long time guitarist here too. I could not agree more.
wonderful stuff… truly well explained!
What a lovely video-- thank you so much for this, absolutely invaluable information here
loved the step by step soooo good
Love your candor about practice. More videos explaining potentially unintuitive concepts need that.
this is a great lesson. really useful content, not too much too absorb in one go, really clear explanation. will subscribe. thank you!
You present this material with great clarity. It is very useful.
Cool formula explaining what we’re so often used to hearing in the genre of music 🙏🏽🤗💥👍🏽
Wow man. So succinct. Really appreciate your approach to breaking down these concepts.
Wonderful explanation. Thank you.
Thank you for breaking this down, you made this approachable! 🙏🏿
I love Barry Harris’ ideas. The more you can do on this the better. I know where this video is going with the setup you gave. Can’t wait for you to get into the dim chords. Great video!
Definitely going to rock this exercise for a while, looks like a great intro to the Barry theory stuff I always wanted to get into.
Great video!
You explained this so beautifully! I’m eating this up real good!
Fantastic! Barry is the man. He made me see the diminished scale as a vehicle and this is yet another great tid-bit I will keep forever. Thanks!
Nice clear take on things! Helpful unpacking the Harris language in a way that is further translatable/relatable to what we already know. Cheers, Daniel
Clear, simple, not too must talk, perfect ! 👍
What an outstanding lesson! This has definitely earned my subscription. Thank you! Acquiring the music sheets was totally hassle free as well...
That's fantastic stuff. Simple but brilliant.
Chords pay the bills! Thank you for this 🙏
Very very interesting. Never thought about it that way. I was doing it all the time without thinking but couldn't tell you what i was doing, now i can. thanks for the explanation 😊👍
stunning video thank you
Wow this video is mindblowing!!! Thank you for the perfect explanation.
Awesome, dude. I can't wait to try this out.
Explained very well...Thank you!
Beautiful playing, lesson and explaining.
This video contains enough information for an entire course on its own. I love it THANKYOU
So jam packed! I'm going to enjoy unpacking this, pausing the video a LOT
So clear and helpful thank you!
Excellent breakdown !
11:40 yeah I pretty much learned the core of Jazz harmony with "Autumn Leaves". It contains so much information to draw inspiration from.
Thanks for this video! Barry was truly a master of his craft.
I played a triad chord just like that when I was playimg keyboard more frequently and really had a dope melody going with it. It's become one of the first songs I play when I sit down at a piano.
Thank you a lot Josh. Your explanation is brilliant and really useful.
Great content Josh! Will try those chords! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for this! You explained it very well. Kind regards from Uruguay. Long live Barry! I'm transcribing his amazing solo in Moose the Mooche.
That was well presented. Sounded good too. Thanks.
What a magical trick! What a gift. Thank you 🙏🏼
Never could imagine something so simply explained could lead so quickly to such a truly satisfying rabbit hole. Awesome!
Awesome stuff dude🎉🎉🎉🎉THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR 🎉🎉🎉🎉😂
Thank you for a fascinating video! I am going to have to re-watch and take notes, so I can try out these ideas!
I love how Barry communicated.. I'm not a trained musician but can understand his thru the lingo.. thank you for sharing!
Thank you for outlining this and explaining it in a way that is approachable. I've been really struggling to approach my instrument lately, and this inspires me to sit down and get back to the shed. Social media has a way of making us compare, which in my mind, makes me not want to try at all. All really discouraging. Anyways, thanks for giving me a reason to keep trying.
Beautiful! Recently fell in love with 6th chords again, so this video came just in time. Also might be fun to subsitute in several steps (like take a IVMaj7, substitute, then interpret the resulting 6th chord as Maj7 and substitute it again) and this way come up with some unusual reharmonisations. Another cool substitution that I found recently was substituting a dom7 chord with a sharp min6 chord, which keeps the characteristic tritone. Anyway, cool channel, I subscribed :)
Thank you. Great video. I’ll have to watch it twice.
Very clear rules. Thank you.
Great concept and lesson. Thanks man!
This is amazing. You explain it so well. Long live Barry Harris’ legacy.
Thanks Thomas
i've heard this before, but never explained so well. thank you great job!
Thank you Billy!
Love your lesson! Very useful!
I'm a hobbyist bass player and this is really awesome. I started practicing again recently (studied music theory back in junior college but I'm pretty rusty).
This is such a fun way to open up my ears and add a little color to the woodshed.
I've been thinking along similar lines regarding Am7 is a tonal anagram of C6, this just blew my mind and gave me a whole lot more to ponder. Thank you.
Yes, at the end of the day this is a voicings video, but the real gold is in how we think of these chords and how we approach them, not so much about the notes themselves
Excellent. Thank you!
hey man, i really appreciate how careful you are about presenting this as a bite sized chunk of info as opposed to understanding this from the diminished system he proposes. also the fact you try to make people aware of the perception difference its very sensitive to the nature of his work. Good stuff my man!
Mind blowing info!! This is very valuable information, even for a bass player. Thank you for sharing!
ESPECIALLY for bass players :-)
Very cool, beautifully explained & presented Josh....Thank you...Nice Musical wishes, Simon
Thank you so much.. really nice explanation...
This was Excellent!!! I've always known that sound instinctively such a breakthrough to see it this way, and your teaching was pure, direct, practical, just wonderful. Thank you!
Thanks Nathanael - you made my day!
Great job guy. Clear, concise, insightful. Barry's guidance is a game changer for most.
Thanks David
I'm new to jazz. Thank you Barry Harris and thank you Josh.
This is so clear and well laid out. Thank you 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Most concise explanation I've seen, thank you. I think there's a lot to be said for getting this down and then working back through the full explanation, imho.
Thanks Gerry. With as much as there is on UA-cam about Barry’s teaching, this concept has been missing. That’s surprising to me given what a huge impact it had on my playing.
Thanks for watching.
Nicely explained. BH would be proud
Thanks for putting these together. My piano teacher is/was one of Barry's long-time students and this gives me a way to repeatedly review and re-attempt to absorb his theories.
This such a great tutorial. Thank you!
This was awesome, thank you!
Really interesting concept explained very clearly, thanks Josh! I like that you gave an example and worked through it. I'm new to Jazz so that really helped me as sometimes these concepts can be hard to grasp when not explained thoroughly.
What you said in the beginning about small things that you can practice in isolation, which then build over time to give the player their own sophisticated sound really resonated with me. I LOVE stuff like that so please keep doing more of these videos. Very happy to be a new subscriber :)
Happy Christmas to you!!
Col - Happy Christmas to you as well. If there's ever a small thing you'd like to know more about, I would love for you to contact me to suggest it.
Very instructive. Thank you.
Nice work explaining this by charting out the 7th to 6th conversions. Very helpful. Thanks so much for posting!
Thanks for you time and professional teaching style .
Fascinating!!!! I've never heard anyone say or do this before!!!
Top notch explanation!
Great video man. Learned a lot. Thank you!~
Very nice lesson.Jazz is like the kitchen it has its recipes..
Very helpful. Thanks!
This is a deceptively elegant and important lesson. For me, this is the first time -- after watching scores and scores of other 'learn-jazz' videos -- where the WHY to learn chord conversion becomes absolutely necessary. Others have mentioned the importance of chord conversions, but you, Josh, have made it clear why it's both necessary and not as difficult (in the long run) as I first thought. Maybe it's just me, and other people/students understood the importance of chord conversions after watching only one or two videos from different jazz artists; but I again thank you for a wonderful lesson. Happy New Year, to you, as well.
I’m a guitar player and stumbled upon this video. This is a great concept; thank you.
The journey has taking me to your UA-cam channel. Great tutorial 😎
This is very well done. I have learnt so much. I’ll incorporate this in my playing. Thanks
Awesome. There’s a whole playlist of other Barry concepts here on the channel. Glad to have you here.
Nicely explained.
I took your voicings of "Every time" over on guitar if you don't mind: it's absolutely gorgeous! GREAT lesson. Thank you!
Great content!
excellent lesson. thanks.
After your detailing out the rules i decided to have a look at a Cm7/11 (a favourite chord), and applying the m7 rule gives a Eb6/9 (also favourite) :-)
Thanks for a great explanation!
Just excellent...!! it seems to me that the piano lends itself for a more visual and practical way which is great. I bought a 200 pages note book and taken extensive notes of all of this (very concise BTW) and now its time to transfer all this to the guitar. Thanks immensely..
Thank you so much. Just returned to piano practice 12 yrs of health/parenting recovery etc.
I'm sure my tutor (jazz degree)
Gareth Williams touched on some of this, but I lost alot of memory....you are so good at explaining....thank you so much x
Excellent, now we begin the fun task, transposition to guitar. Great Job, Josh, Thank You 👏 🙏
Definitely check out my friend Chris Parks’s channel, Things I Learned From Barry Harris here on YT.
Alan Kingston’s book for guitar is great too.