However, all of these ideas, concepts, examples work great with the drop 2 as well. We will be using closed position voicings, meaning that the notes of the chord are inside a single octave. The chords we will be working with during this masterclass are Major 6th chords and Minor 6th chords. Major/Minor 6th Chords: Closed Position & Drop 2 These voicings mainly derive from the major6 or minor6 Bepop scale are a major scale or a melodic minor scale with added chromatic note between the 5th and the 6th note. If this is a new area of study for you, be sure to check out the related lesson below on "Block Chords" & "Drop 2 Voicings"įind more discussion on Barry Harry voicings in the community area: The Major & Minor Bebob Scales As I know Alan personally, I won't pretend to an objective review, but I will say that any jazz guitarist interested in bebop harmony, especially as taught and practiced by Barry Harris, will find this to be an informative, highly useful, and generally quite gentle introduction to the business of thinking of the music as movement based on harmonized 8-note scales of progressions as interlocking sequences of 6th voicings and of dominants as, well, dominant.In this 5 minute masterclass, we’re going explore a concept known as the "Barry Harris Voicings". Paul C View profile More options Sep 12 2006, 9:17 pm I haven't seen this mentioned here before, so I thought some of you might like to hear about a new book/cd combination by my fellow Torontonian and Barry Harris/Howard Rees student, Alan Kingstone. Here is a review of the book in question from a while back. BTW Howard Rees did several good articles on some of the harmonic stuff from a pianistic point of view for Keyboard mag years ago I think they are still available here. I certainly didn't mean to suggest it was not applicable to our instrument. Rick, the fingering issues I spoke of refer to the maj and min 6th diminished as chord scales and borrowing notes in the voicings which are impossible to do in all closed voicings on guitar and though the guitar friendly drop 2 and 3 voicings are much more facile when one tries to borrow more than one voice at a time or start to take complex voicings through the scales, as always certain compromises will have to be made compared to piano. > Yes it ALL 'fits' on the guitar just fine. Musically Yours, Rick Stone Website: Recordings: Videos: Myspace: EPK: dwabeslim, 18:31 น.
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There are major and minor 6th versions of this scale and it can be used to create harmony as well ans melodic lines (I wrote some articles on this for Just Jazz Guitar about 10 years ago, you can download them from my website). Barry also teaches some very cool harmonic concepts which revolve around what he calls the Sixth/Diminished scale. Ronny Ben-Hur actually wrote a book called 'Talk Jazz' that works you through all the 'rules' with fingerings for guitar, although you probably ultimately come up with your own. It's something that you practice, not something that you 'think' about when you're playing.) Yes it ALL 'fits' on the guitar just fine. Be prepared to commit.įritz box hack programm. I worked through all of this stuff when I studied with Barry (for about 5 years in the 80s, and then a couple more years to review in the early 90s).Īnd YES, if you're interested in playing authentic bebop phrasing (or really pretty much any jazz style) then understanding this stuff is pretty much the key (and by 'understanding' I mean being able to play it upside-down, inside-out and backwards effortlessly). If you get into it,prepare to to be challenged to 'go deep' ie: serious long term commitment to intense practice and study. Any text that covers any portion of the Barry Harris method will I'm sure be of great value to the serious player. It's application to guitar presents some fingering and adaptation issues but there is much to learn and explore. There is also a harmonic or chordal component to Barry's concept that is much less known. He also inspired those of us who were on the staff at that time.Īlthough the 'Passing tone' scale or 'bebop' scales theory is well known in a ' scratching the surface' way, the ramifications of it's prolonged and intense study and application are not so well known. Harmonic Method For Guitar? Has anyone > worked with/through it? Back in the late 80's or early 90's the jazz faculty at McGill University handed classes over to Barry Harris for one week and the results on the students were amazing. On Oct 10, 3:38 pm, kentburnside wrote: > Any thoughts on the B.H. The Barry Harris method: How are the 7th diminished and 7b5 diminished scales and chords used? There is a LOT of great information about how There is a LOT of great information about how.