This is a fantastic “in a nutshell” video that gets to the point and shows you how valuable the Barry Harris method is and different examples of how to incorporate the various chord scales. Great stuff… thank you! 🙏🏻
The leading tones right out of the 6dim scale seem to work everywhere. Picking substitutes in a chord progression is a little harder. Some the voicings are just hard, but they sound great as triads and double-stops too. I'll keep trying this 'til it smooths out. Thanks!
Wow, that's an amazing lesson! Thanks for the incredibly informative info! I've known some of that stuff for years, but I don't really get a chance to use it much. I'll have to really go at a snail's pace and work on those chord scales with the diminished. I mostly play Blues style music that I work on my own originals and try recording when I get a chance. I'd be able to use a lot of those in small chunks for areas in the blues for sure! It definitely made me subscribe to so thanks for that!
Thanks for subscribing! Yeah, this concept can seem really dense when you first encounter it, but once you start to realize you can use it over large swaths of chords it becomes pretty intuitive. Especially so once you know about the main substitutions. Happy practicing!
Excellent video indeed, the first clear, concise and PRACTICAL that I see on the topic. Can I ask how did you learn the Barry Harris concepts ? Indeed there are no official books or methods. Everything is scattered and partial. Cheers for bringing clarity. If you have more in depths material about this I’m interested.
Very instructive on a lot of levels but especially with regards to the structural overlays with regard to scale positions and the movement adjustments in the borrowing concepts. This fills in some much needed gaps in my understanding. Thank you for an excellent video:) It would be lovely to see the other voicing and convolutions between voicings.
Oh man, chords are some of the best uses for his scale! So many options for movement in comping and chord solos. Check out some of my Improvise like a pro series and see how you can use the concept chord-melody arrangements!
Hi! I really enjoyed this video! Thank you 😊! Here is my question…. I took the Maj6 chord and it’s diminished 1/2 step below to create the maj6 diminished scale…. Then harmonized it!!! I got the inversions of the tonic…. But why are you saying you get the inversions of its tonic and it’s dominant? Aren’t you getting the inversions of its tonic and it’s diminished chord 1/2 step below? I know this can be subbed as a dominant I guess but just want to clarify… let me know 😊
Yeah the diminished is functioning as the dominant in this case. So you get maj6 and dom7b9 and then all the inversions thereafter. Same goes for the relative minor. Hope that helps!
If you were playing the Cmaj6 diminished scale over a 251 in C major, would you only use the D minor 6 diminished over the 2, a Gdom diminished over the 5 and the maj6 over the 1, or would you used the C maj6 diminished for the whole 251? Thanks, this video is great.
You could do it that way or you could play maj6 diminished over the whole thing since the scale contains its dominant and the ii chord is just a suspension of the dominant. Thanks!
You're the greatest jazz teacher out there man, sooner or later i'm going to get some classes with you. Just a question, can i use A6 dimished voicings over Dm7 as well?
So... I will come back and steal your ideas, one at a time, tho.. I sing the Great american songbook for seniors and i can find a song to try there chord runs, I am trying to improve my comping, i run em opposite melody, I absorbed the chord substitution secondary dominant, but i was stalled til now. Thanks
Thanks for the feedback. I wonder if my DAW setup was giving me trouble or something got changed when I rendered. I'll try to make sure the videos have a better tone and more consistent.
My pleasure. It can be super impenetrable st first but the concept is really useful. Lots of cool sing note ideas from him too! Thanks for stopping by and comment. There's more barry stuff in my improvise like a pro series so go check that out!
I was secretly hoping you would do a video about this! Your style and pace of teaching are excellent in my opinion!! I especially love the examples, since that is something that was hard to discern from any book or video out there I came across so far. I would love more videos about this concept if you find the time. As a Blues and Fingestyle Blues player, I am mainly looking to spice up my rhythm playing and add something different and this video really helps bridge that gap for me.
Man I'm really glad you got so much out of this one. Like I said it's a super deep well so this definitely won't be the last video I do on the concept. Thanks for watching!
Haha, I'm only surprised anyone hasn't said something yet 😂 Thanks again, this material is so in depth! It's like if I can just get through to the other side, I might be able to go back and explore things with more meaning, but the tunnel seems to have no end.
@LostSoulAscension haha I've gotten Hugh Jackman before but never RDJ. It's deep stuff but the key is to just take it in your own time and use what you can 🙏
Barry Harris is obviously a titan but why does jazz have to be how he says it should be? "Barry says we need to be movement players." What happened to the individuality in jazz? Do we all have to be Barry disciples? His concepts, though amazing and insanely well thought-out to be sure, are just not really for me. I'm not a fan of the sound and the incessant 6 chords get a little irritating. I don't agree with his view that the maj7 sounds unresolved so just stick to 6 chords kind of idea. Though these sounds aren't really for me, nice video and I can definitely appreciate the concepts.
i would appreciate it if you had a video of applying this method to a jazz standard, describing in detail when and where you’ve applied it. as it’s currently presented, there’s a lot of working backwards to figure out what you’re doing over the 2-5-1 examples and the example of playing over Blue Bossa, and i feel like a more in-depth explanation would help illustrate the concept better.
Check out my series improvise like a pro! In episode three on Have You Met Miss Jones I do pretty much what you're asking after. Let me know if you still have questions after watching through that. Cheers!
This video was very helpful in outlining some of the applications of the 6th diminished scale voicings. I appreciated your clear explanations and the examples, including Blue Boring...er, Bossa, which is definitely NOT boring the way you played it! Thanks for sharing this information.
hahaha! Blue Boring! I love it! Glad you found the video helpful. My goal was definitely to provide you guys with more of an "application focused" approach to learning this concept. Glad it came through!
Excellent clear video, very helpful! Your channel should have way more views and subs... I've just subbed so I guess you're moving in the right direction :) thank you for the video.
You're super welcome! Thanks for watching! Barry's harmonic system is really extraordinary. Very intuitive once you get your hands around some of the moves as well. Happy practicing!
Great suggestion. I'll do a video with some movement ideas soon. Will be talking about some 6 diminished stuff on Sunday during the 1k livestream so be sure to tune in if you have questions!
@raquel-cruz-jazz thank you! All the tones actually come from my DAW. I'm using the latest version of amplitube with their maz18 amp model. Getting good clean tones from an amp sim is annoyingly difficult these days but I'm quite fond of this one. On gigs I use a quilter 101 head into a separate 212 cab. For practice I've got a little yamaha THR amp that does the job nicely.
@jamesweatherly1204 it also has to resolve correctly. That could be where things went awry. Make sure you resolve into either one of the notes of c6 or a chord tone of Fmaj7, which btw overlap a ton.
Great stuff. Tks. Clear and straight ahead lesson.
@@25dbz-ot9br you're welcome! Thanks for watching!
This is a fantastic “in a nutshell” video that gets to the point and shows you how valuable the Barry Harris method is and different examples of how to incorporate the various chord scales. Great stuff… thank you! 🙏🏻
You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful!
The leading tones right out of the 6dim scale seem to work everywhere. Picking substitutes in a chord progression is a little harder. Some the voicings are just hard, but they sound great as triads and double-stops too. I'll keep trying this 'til it smooths out. Thanks!
You're welcome! It's a wonderful system with lots of legs. Happy practicing!
Wow, that's an amazing lesson! Thanks for the incredibly informative info! I've known some of that stuff for years, but I don't really get a chance to use it much. I'll have to really go at a snail's pace and work on those chord scales with the diminished. I mostly play Blues style music that I work on my own originals and try recording when I get a chance. I'd be able to use a lot of those in small chunks for areas in the blues for sure! It definitely made me subscribe to so thanks for that!
Thanks for subscribing! Yeah, this concept can seem really dense when you first encounter it, but once you start to realize you can use it over large swaths of chords it becomes pretty intuitive. Especially so once you know about the main substitutions. Happy practicing!
Thank you man this is super nice. Give us more!THank YOU!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Hello fellow Barry people!
Hi there! Would you, please, tell me in which video you cover the other two chords? (Dom7 Diminished and Dom 7b5Dim)
I haven't done those yet actually! I'm planning on doing them when I return from vacation in a few weeks. Stay tuned!
@@dsg_studio All right! Enjoy your holidays, mate! Looking forward to it!
Excellent video indeed, the first clear, concise and PRACTICAL that I see on the topic. Can I ask how did you learn the Barry Harris concepts ? Indeed there are no official books or methods. Everything is scattered and partial. Cheers for bringing clarity. If you have more in depths material about this I’m interested.
I learned his by watching his masterclass videos and then experimented with the concepts. Glad you found thus helpful!
I want a Jazz box guitar but guitar center only sells rock guitars 😂. Does anyone know what guitars have a more this 60’s like Gibson profile ?
Very instructive on a lot of levels but especially with regards to the structural overlays with regard to scale positions and the movement adjustments in the borrowing concepts. This fills in some much needed gaps in my understanding. Thank you for an excellent video:)
It would be lovely to see the other voicing and convolutions between voicings.
I'll have to put together another video on this stuff using some different movements. Glad I could offer some clarity.
thank you very much! i use barry's dim scale but not with chords. This made me think twice.
Oh man, chords are some of the best uses for his scale! So many options for movement in comping and chord solos. Check out some of my Improvise like a pro series and see how you can use the concept chord-melody arrangements!
Hi! I really enjoyed this video! Thank you 😊! Here is my question…. I took the Maj6 chord and it’s diminished 1/2 step below to create the maj6 diminished scale…. Then harmonized it!!! I got the inversions of the tonic…. But why are you saying you get the inversions of its tonic and it’s dominant? Aren’t you getting the inversions of its tonic and it’s diminished chord 1/2 step below? I know this can be subbed as a dominant I guess but just want to clarify… let me know 😊
Yeah the diminished is functioning as the dominant in this case. So you get maj6 and dom7b9 and then all the inversions thereafter. Same goes for the relative minor. Hope that helps!
If you were playing the Cmaj6 diminished scale over a 251 in C major, would you only use the D minor 6 diminished over the 2, a Gdom diminished over the 5 and the maj6 over the 1, or would you used the C maj6 diminished for the whole 251?
Thanks, this video is great.
You could do it that way or you could play maj6 diminished over the whole thing since the scale contains its dominant and the ii chord is just a suspension of the dominant. Thanks!
You're the greatest jazz teacher out there man, sooner or later i'm going to get some classes with you. Just a question, can i use A6 dimished voicings over Dm7 as well?
@DEDSREIS that's so kind of you to say! I'm here whenever you're ready haha.
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So... I will come back and steal your ideas, one at a time, tho.. I sing the Great american songbook for seniors and i can find a song to try there chord runs, I am trying to improve my comping, i run em opposite melody, I absorbed the chord substitution secondary dominant, but i was stalled til now. Thanks
You're welcome!
Fantastic material and well presented. I have to say though that for some reason (?), the sound of that guitar on this video is pretty awful (IMO).
Thanks for the feedback. I wonder if my DAW setup was giving me trouble or something got changed when I rendered. I'll try to make sure the videos have a better tone and more consistent.
Hey man, I know all the chord shapes and basic idea behind this method but it’s great to have help on how to actually use it, thanks
@ralphthomson2680 you're welcome! Glad you found this helpful.
Thanks for this! I’m just getting into the Barry Harris approach and I really appreciate the clarity and tasteful examples here!
My pleasure. It can be super impenetrable st first but the concept is really useful. Lots of cool sing note ideas from him too! Thanks for stopping by and comment. There's more barry stuff in my improvise like a pro series so go check that out!
Sinceramente "magnifico"
Wow, instant Pasquale sound!
Thanks for watching!
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Awesome, do more Barry Harris...Thanks
Will do! You want more comping solutions or single note stuff?
@@dsg_studio Comping is lacking on youtube...maybe you have some instruction on Joe Pass like chord phrases
@@kidpoker007 definitely! Great suggestion. I'll add it to the list.
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I was secretly hoping you would do a video about this! Your style and pace of teaching are excellent in my opinion!! I especially love the examples, since that is something that was hard to discern from any book or video out there I came across so far. I would love more videos about this concept if you find the time. As a Blues and Fingestyle Blues player, I am mainly looking to spice up my rhythm playing and add something different and this video really helps bridge that gap for me.
Man I'm really glad you got so much out of this one. Like I said it's a super deep well so this definitely won't be the last video I do on the concept. Thanks for watching!
Amazing sounds from minute 7:35, that's where things begin to get really interesting.
Ever since Robert Downey Jr. stopped doing Marvel movies, he's had the time to master Jazz. Great stuff Robert, thanks!
Lmao 🤣 🤣 this comment made my day. Thank you!
Haha, I'm only surprised anyone hasn't said something yet 😂 Thanks again, this material is so in depth! It's like if I can just get through to the other side, I might be able to go back and explore things with more meaning, but the tunnel seems to have no end.
@LostSoulAscension haha I've gotten Hugh Jackman before but never RDJ. It's deep stuff but the key is to just take it in your own time and use what you can 🙏
Dude I'm trying to learn Jazz not laugh my ass off now I can't look at this guy
Silly comment, it’s clearly Daniel Radcliffe, renowned jazz educator and wizarding school alumnus
Man, this is gold. I just wanna say thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
The movements sound so beautiful, thanks for putting this together 🥲
Welcome, as always!
Great lesson, thanks.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Barry Harris is obviously a titan but why does jazz have to be how he says it should be? "Barry says we need to be movement players." What happened to the individuality in jazz? Do we all have to be Barry disciples? His concepts, though amazing and insanely well thought-out to be sure, are just not really for me. I'm not a fan of the sound and the incessant 6 chords get a little irritating. I don't agree with his view that the maj7 sounds unresolved so just stick to 6 chords kind of idea. Though these sounds aren't really for me, nice video and I can definitely appreciate the concepts.
Thanks for commenting. Ultimately it's up to you to do you. These concepts are just a vehicle for expression. What you do with them is up to you.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, mate. I'm taking my first steps in studying jazz and your videos have helped me a lot!
My pleasure! Glad you're finding the material helpful!
i would appreciate it if you had a video of applying this method to a jazz standard, describing in detail when and where you’ve applied it. as it’s currently presented, there’s a lot of working backwards to figure out what you’re doing over the 2-5-1 examples and the example of playing over Blue Bossa, and i feel like a more in-depth explanation would help illustrate the concept better.
Check out my series improvise like a pro! In episode three on Have You Met Miss Jones I do pretty much what you're asking after. Let me know if you still have questions after watching through that. Cheers!
This video was very helpful in outlining some of the applications of the 6th diminished scale voicings. I appreciated your clear explanations and the examples, including Blue Boring...er, Bossa, which is definitely NOT boring the way you played it! Thanks for sharing this information.
hahaha! Blue Boring! I love it! Glad you found the video helpful. My goal was definitely to provide you guys with more of an "application focused" approach to learning this concept. Glad it came through!
Excellent clear video, very helpful! Your channel should have way more views and subs... I've just subbed so I guess you're moving in the right direction :) thank you for the video.
My pleasure! Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for subscribing!
This lesson opened my eyes to this Amazing concept, executed beautifully! Thank you ! Love this ❤❤❤
You're super welcome! Thanks for watching! Barry's harmonic system is really extraordinary. Very intuitive once you get your hands around some of the moves as well. Happy practicing!
Bru! What an explanation
Very informative! Can you explain in more depth how to use it over a 2 5 1. How you would use it!
Great suggestion. I'll do a video with some movement ideas soon. Will be talking about some 6 diminished stuff on Sunday during the 1k livestream so be sure to tune in if you have questions!
You MAke all what i know of theory feel like nothing ,
i d like to know more about this
Haha I know how that feels. It's so deep. I'll be posting more about this stuff in future so stay tuned!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
You're welcome. Check back Sunday for a lesson on using the minor 6 diminished to play lines on the minor blues!
Excellent video! Thanks
You're welcome!
You should have more subscribers!!!!
Thanks, man. Getting there. Slowly but surely.
Wow …this is very informative
Glad you think so. Thanks for watching!
Wow! Very nice! Inspiring video for sure!
Thanks for watching!
Great instruction! Much credit to you!
Thanks for your kind comment! Glad you found the video helpful!
Thanks excellent ❤
You're welcome! Thank YOU for watching!
Sehr schöner Überblick mit Diagrammen , vielen Dank ,
My pleasure! Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for the subscribe!
this is such an amazing lesson. thank you
You're welcome! Glad I could help!
@@dsg_studio Your tone is absolutely amazing. May I ask what amp you are using?
@raquel-cruz-jazz thank you! All the tones actually come from my DAW. I'm using the latest version of amplitube with their maz18 amp model. Getting good clean tones from an amp sim is annoyingly difficult these days but I'm quite fond of this one. On gigs I use a quilter 101 head into a separate 212 cab. For practice I've got a little yamaha THR amp that does the job nicely.
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Thanks for watching!
I tried playing the notes from the chords of the C6 diminished over an F major 7th but it didn't sound too good.
@jamesweatherly1204 it also has to resolve correctly. That could be where things went awry. Make sure you resolve into either one of the notes of c6 or a chord tone of Fmaj7, which btw overlap a ton.
This is great information and we'll presented. Thank you. Liked and subscribed. And count me in for more chord forms.
Glad you found it helpful and thanks for your input!
Nice vid
Thank you!