Man, you are the most generous musician on the planet. Your love for the man and his music methodology really bleeds through everything you teach. Thanx ever so much, man. I rediscovered my love for playing jazz because of you. 🙏🏻👊🏻Thanx
What helped me with rhythm at first was phrasing musical lines as though im singing them or speaking them. When you speak you know what you want to say in your head before it comes out. It all happens in a split sec but it comes out perfectly in tune and rhythm. Thinking of "saying" a melody helped me alot with rhythm and voice leading.
For this stuff I feel like it might be helpful if you had a loop pedal or click track or drum loop going on. Maybe that's just how my brain works. I dunno.
Yes! Keep up with the focus on rhythm! Might be cool to look at these rhythmic concepts in Barry's own lines. His playing in those Tokyo sessions... wow! All of it is gold, but that album is something rare and sweet. By the way, I love these lines that go against the old trope of "chord tones on strong beats." Adam and Peter over at Open Studio spoke back to a question I asked about strong and weak beats and I realized how much I was limiting myself. Rhythm is a color just like notes. I mean, the part of the beat you play colors the note that you play in a different sound. Playing a chord tone on a "weak beat" sounds hip and more forward leaning--if you know what you are doing (like yourself). Keep diving into the rhythmic aspect of BH--still untapped and often explained wrong by others. Did you check out that gem I found in the DVDs of Workshop Vol. 1? People have to stop sleeping on the rhythmic aspect of jazz because it's the glue that holds it all together.
This is so brilliant! Thank you! I think that's one of the many wonderful things about Barry and his teaching; the theory is ever only a means to an end. And once you've got that down, the point is to forget about it and be free, because all that knowledge and practice is internalised. Cheers!
So inspiring, brother. These things you're sharing are helping me in my playing in a major way.
Man, you are the most generous musician on the planet. Your love for the man and his music methodology really bleeds through everything you teach. Thanx ever so much, man.
I rediscovered my love for playing jazz because of you. 🙏🏻👊🏻Thanx
Chris you're a wealth of information with Barry's method and the perfect demonstration of it.
Appreciate your dedication and generosity, Chris.
What helped me with rhythm at first was phrasing musical lines as though im singing them or speaking them. When you speak you know what you want to say in your head before it comes out. It all happens in a split sec but it comes out perfectly in tune and rhythm. Thinking of "saying" a melody helped me alot with rhythm and voice leading.
I never thought about the rules of the half step when you start on the "and". Thanks alot!
nice Collings, brother
RIP Barry
Awesome!
Agree - I’m going to miss the immediate examples but I will miss his stories even more.
Rhythm rules the world
Great
Apply your concepts/licks to a backing track or at least a Metronome.to give it a context.
For this stuff I feel like it might be helpful if you had a loop pedal or click track or drum loop going on. Maybe that's just how my brain works. I dunno.
Thank you Barry. Thank you Chris. I want to share my gratitude man for those lessons so much. Putting it together!
So appreciative of all this teaching. To say thanks feels like an understatement for all that you’re doing, but I will say so anyway. Thank you!
❤🎉
Yes! Keep up with the focus on rhythm! Might be cool to look at these rhythmic concepts in Barry's own lines. His playing in those Tokyo sessions... wow! All of it is gold, but that album is something rare and sweet. By the way, I love these lines that go against the old trope of "chord tones on strong beats." Adam and Peter over at Open Studio spoke back to a question I asked about strong and weak beats and I realized how much I was limiting myself. Rhythm is a color just like notes. I mean, the part of the beat you play colors the note that you play in a different sound. Playing a chord tone on a "weak beat" sounds hip and more forward leaning--if you know what you are doing (like yourself). Keep diving into the rhythmic aspect of BH--still untapped and often explained wrong by others. Did you check out that gem I found in the DVDs of Workshop Vol. 1? People have to stop sleeping on the rhythmic aspect of jazz because it's the glue that holds it all together.
This is so brilliant! Thank you! I think that's one of the many wonderful things about Barry and his teaching; the theory is ever only a means to an end. And once you've got that down, the point is to forget about it and be free, because all that knowledge and practice is internalised. Cheers!
Always very interesting !! thank you Chris !
Keep it up brother!
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