Barry Harris 4 Scales Explained 

Sadly Barry Harris passed away at ninety one going on ninety two yesterday December 12th 2021. Barry’s depth of insight into music was singular.

I loved this video Mikko. AS you're probably aware of, these 6th arpeggios are used SO much in gypsy jazz. These type of lines flow through the tunes because that 6th chord, and note is so common to the Gypsy sound, along with these hybrid lines connecting the minor, major and diminished with these 6 type sounds. Thx for this video series.

This is great lesson ‼Every Jazz musician must dig those 4 scales❣ Thanks.

Great stuff mikko! Love seeing more Barry Harris concepts like this. I only made it thru 20 mins of this video. But I'll be sure to watch the rest later today. You nailed it when you said something about getting out of the box and moving harmony. Makes for endless new ways to practice.

I'm still paying on a college music education that didn't teach me this stuff. Mostly we were taught that people who had talent shouldn't have needed college. Now, thanks to RU-vid and teachers like you, I totally agree with them. I wonder if I can get my money back.

The thing I like about your videos Mikko is your example songs - I go away and learn them too - which reinforces the best advice I was ever given: “Learn Songs” 👏👏👏

23:20 I agree completely.. Very refreshing to hear this. In the course of watching the YT music teaching thing grow over decades, I’ve been annoyed by spoon fed and gimmicky/marketing styles.. it has ruined the essential and joyful discovery process for many younger aspiring musicians who’ve never known a world without the internet. Quality over quantity all the way

I’m so glad you’re getting into Barry’s stuff. I’ve already watched this twice. A video on ”playing with your brothers and sisters” would be an interesting follow up to this.

For an Am/blues scale rock guy like myself this can be daunting but if this helps anyone, I see the diminished starting at the major 7th, it sped up the process for me big time thinking like this, thanks Mikko for another really cool lesson

Great stuff and it reflects a lot of the effectiveness of Barry’s revelations and the how to’s ..and thoughts on potential challenges and solutions..Thanks !!

You go man’s, I just love your teaching.

Great explanation of these concepts Mikko. It's giving me a better understanding of these ideas, which I haven't really grasped up to now. Will watch this in a few chunks

Thanks man. Clear and easy understand the method!

Loving the sound of that guitar and your playing

Great tutorial and explanation. Thanks!,

Terrific lesson! Thank you!

Suveränt!! Stort tack, dags att ta i bruk på pianot.

Your statement of going through the material yourself is completely right on. I went on a journey of exploring of Barry Harris's teachings, first through Chris Parks and then through the direct source. Chord scale theory never grabbed me (or more accurately overwhelmed me). While going through this material, in particular what others refer to as the ABCs, is challenging, it opens a lot of things up on the instrument and then harmonically. Every other method I've tried had me either going through someone's prewritten materials, diagrams, and whatnot. Figuring all of this out for myself (starting with one concept) is slowly eliminating my blind spots and making me think a bit more widerange. For those on the fence, commit to at least running dominant scales in Barry fashion through the whole ABCs thing for a month.

Another great video with approaches and concepts well worth putting time into. I just moved and got a lot of stuff out of storage and discovered I have a copy of the Barry Harris Guitar book (by Kingstone). I just found it during the move yesterday, so the timing of you putting out this video is perfect. Thanks for always having something to keep me busy at being the eternal student! Take care you big guitar geek!!!🤓 🎸and THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH, as usual!!!

Always great to check out your posts man. Theres 2 books by Roni Ben Hur, definitely worth checking out imo theyre both called Talk Jazz

Hi Mikko, I love these videos. Jamey Abersold is selling Kingstone's Barry Harris Method for guitar. Apologies if this has already been addressed. Thank you for your efforts keeping the interest in jazz guitar alive.

Wow! Thank you, Mikko!

This is a really useful video. I have that book by Kingstone. I was about to give it away while I was clearing my shelves of all these "method" books I had collected over the years, each one promising to provide the missing ingredient to making me a better guitarist/musician, but ultimately disappointing. Either what they had to offer was a rehash of what I already knew and was just struggling to apply, or some, like Ted Green's books, tried to encompass every scale, arp, chord-voicing, cadence in every possible position and therefor was useless to me. I think that when I first got Kingstone's book, I was not yet ready for it. I was just learning to play over changes and was still struggling to learn all the "shapes" and positions. It just seemed to add another level of complexity and I didn't understand why I needed it. But your video (and a few other videos) make it really clear, that it's not really about playing over changes, but creating your own "changes" (movement) within a chord or cadence. So I kept that book, and I'm really glad I did. What I find even more intriguing in it that you could do a whole new video about it the concept of "borrowing". For example, Barry says that a maj7 chord is really a maj6 chord with the note, the major 7th, borrowed from the dim7 beginning on the lead-tone. Then he harmonizes it through the scale, so in each dim inversion, the same voice (say alto), will borrow a note from the maj6 chord. You get some really cool voicings that I would never think to associate with a maj7 chord. I saw Chris from Things I Learned From Barry Harris do an example where he treats a B7(#9) as consisting of two notes of a C-6 and two notes of a Bdim, then harmonizing them through the scale. That's still a bit advanced for me, but now I can appreciate the brilliance of it. ;). This cat gives a whirlwind tour of what you can do with these concepts on a guitar: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7reOAaveCi0.html

i wish you were teaching in the guitar fac at humber when i was there. your lessons are great extensions and reminders put into practice

new to the channel. what a great resource

So friggin awesome...thx sir...

Thanks, Mikko. You're definitely putting out "quality" videos.

Thanks! I’m more interested in single notes soloing using Barry Harris method.

I got that book had to import it. You should definitely do a series on it. One of your best thanks

Äntligen trillade sista poletten ner, stort tack!

Barry is great

Mikko, I need a video of all your favourite Benson licks!!!

I have a copy that book. I bought it off Alan .

you're the great ....

The 2nd Best for me is GMC I & Ii..the 1st Best thing for ne is Smoke Gets in your Ears by Barry Harris...JS Bach in.Jazz...Wow I have to Cry each time....I am going to pray Once I will turn in to a Harmony Nerd....

23:54 great advice for anything to do with playing guitar

Wonderful, thank you 🤟🎸 I am interested in your digression at 21:00 of how a m7b5 could function as tonic in a major key? I understand applied to minor key, but major i don’t quite follow?

thx

14:57 “ sorry “. (… it still sounds super cool )

Awesome video, thank you very much for the content. I have a question about applying the scales - it’s about applying the m7b5 scale in context of a song - Let’s take there will never be another you for example. The first two bars of the tune are Eb6 then the third bar has dm7b5 to G7 - so my question is for the dm7b5 chord would you construct the scale based off the note d, or would you just use the m7b5 scale based off the home key of the song? Which is Eb - So I’m trying to say would the scale for dm7b5 be spelled - d e f g Ab Bb C C# d Or would it be based off the home key of Eb, which would be spelled - Eb f g Ab Bbb Cb Db D Eb-

little bit of Lullaby of Birdland in there maybe thats the first thing i heard at least

What page in the book does this come from? I just got the book and I don't find what you're doing in the book per se.

I know the point of theory is that it explains the magic, but when you do some simple variations on the c maj6 dim scale at about 15:00 it suddenly just becomes jazz! Magic is real!

Hi Miko, I subscribe to Scribd. It’s there as other of Barry’s stuff.

Could you look into the book Improvisation by melbay publication author is Vincent Bredice......

Tonal axes notion is what's missing in your approach. It has to do with the three diminished scales where C7, for example, can be a part of four scales (F, G and C# melodic minor, g. up and A diminished), within the diminished scale it belongs to the family that includes A7, F#7 and Eb7. This is just to show that the same chord can be part of multiple scales and when playing standards people tend to ignore the exact tonal axe, to which, each chord belongs. Old pianists didn't learn harmony in Jazz "schools", so, their chords rarely sound wrong.

Minor 6th dim frequent vehicle used by Charlie Parker over chord with minor progessions

Mikko you are such a tease lol .

Gypsy jazz in the house

“If we play in G as we play Guitar not Horns … “ 😂😂😂

Dude Lenny Breau was from Oklahoma. I am from Oklahoma, and it is NOT Toronto! :D

Kwality not Kwantity!!!