We are so fortunate that we got to live during Barry Harris's lifetime. He was one of the greatest jazz educators who ever lived. A diplomat and representative of music... RIP Barry Harris And yes, Bill Graham has made the quintessential documentation of Barry's bebop "rules." He's the ultimate devotee, who is helping to pass on this knowledge.
This shows huge commitment from you, kudos and very much appreciated. Both videos were great, of course the 6th diminished scale and the versatility of the 6th chord hold so much utility in them that it'd be a 300-hour video.
Taking that 5 - 7 - 9 - 1 pattern through All the Things You Are is turning out to be a great exercise for me. I love it when I discover a new practice technique that feels like it's working. Great video.
This is gold for performers of all levels. Barry left us oceans of understanding with bebop & other styles. The break downs are vital to coming generations for creativity. Thank you Noah for being so share oriented, it is monumental in the Universal music culture. Many other fields of study decline to do this, and that is a frustrating mistake.
U Tube videos seem to have gotten so much better recently (or the algorithm that picks for me has got better?!). This teacher is a great example. Thank you for your hard work, Noel.
Thank you for this video as I'm a self taught gospel musician helping others build a base for better playing technique. I never learned jazz but use elements of its style in my music. I just subscribed and will absorb from you what. I didn't learned from gospel albums in my youth.
Regarding the half step rules, later in his teachings Barry Harris R.I.P. had an evolution to the rules. Essentially wherever one of the half steps occurs in any of the rules, ANY NOTE from the chromatic scale can be used in its place. So for example the instead of using Ab between the sixth and fifth, use any other note. It’s great!
@@barryo5158 This makes so much sense! Does that apply to chords as well in the same way as 6th dim? Like making chords out of any 8 note scale? Do you have any other tips? Love to hear stuff like this, thank you
This is an awesome insight, thanks! One idea I forgot to mention was exactly centered around this concept- you can essentially create "enclosures," although I know Dr. Harris didn't refer to them this way. But instead of a half step, you can "enclose" a chord tone and that works great as well for creating bebop lines.
I met Barry Harris in concert and asked if he could teach me his chops and he agreed, not knowing who I am. Unfortunately, I didn't connect w/ him on follow-up due to personal circumstances but he impressed me for being very open, candid, and not at all pretentious of his star label.
Awesome work Noah, I’ve been learning a ton from your videos. I’m a self taught gospel musician keyboardist, and I’ve been implementing some of your teaching into my playing. Question, do you offer midi files for your courses/books. This would be beneficial for someone like myself that does not read sheet music.
Hey Chris thanks for the comment! Really appreciate hearing that. I don’t usually include them as standard but happy to send them over if it would be helpful.
@@NoahKellman i would love that Noah. I think most folks would find them to be extremely helpful. It would allow individuals to slow down licks and chord movements and easily transpose them to different keys.
I like to streamline the "half step rules" that Barry Harris taught. For descending half-step rules: Starting on an odd-numbered degree (7, 9, 11, etc) you don't need to add a half step. Starting on an even-numbered degree (6, 8, 10, etc) you need to add a half step. That's it. These "rules" serve to balance the line. Balance = chord tones landing on the beat. It's basically a binary approach to balance a 7-note scale. 7 is an odd quantity of notes, balancing it with added half steps can keep chord tones on the beat. Observations: Add 1 half step or 3 half steps and the result is the same, either way balances the scale. Add none or add 2 half steps and the result is the same, either way balances the scale. Harry Likas was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book". Harry studied for 20 years with Barry Harris. Harry spends his time teaching online and playing solo piano gigs.
Don’t listen to the complainers, you are a great teacher and your last video tribute to Barry was spot on … I guarantee you the majority of those whiny individuals can’t even play at your level
It says a lot from you to took those comments from the last video on a good way and used them to improve your content and teaching instead. Even though your previous video was still great, at least from a perspective of some who still do not have a proper understanding of barry's concrete metodology. Continue doing this great work you do for us, apreciate it.
Great video. In the added half step section, it seems like you are approaching this differently from the way BH taught it, in that it sounds like you are thinking of tonic lines over V resolving to I, while he would talk about playing the x7 scale over the V chord, not the major scale. Same set of notes but different framing.
Hey Noah. Thanks for your video. It was informative. The only critique (if Ok to provide some constructive criticism) is that your piano chops are obviously based from classical piano training and not jazz piano. Only observing that you do not swing your eighth notes in true bebop style. Hope you don’t mind this observation. Still enjoyed your video. Thanks.
What a lot of excellent info but a pity it is almost impossible to get anything out of it. He speaks too quickly. the notes indicators go too fast and disappear after playing each note as do the manuscript music at top left. A chord is shown when he plays it and then disappears as soon as he stops so can't inspect it.I've tried playing the videos at half speed even and pressing pause but that doesn't work. The pdfs of the exercises are perfect but what can you do with them in a piece of music? Have I missed those videos?
Picking radome numbers off of the floor -- aleatoric music -- They always refer to John Cage, but I think Mozart was known for doing this sort of thing.
As far as the tossing of the numbers on the ground and creating a melody thing goes... please go ahead and memorize your phone number, social security number, address, and maybe passport # as melodies. They are yours and yours alone; it's kind of poetic.
Teach me how to use my ear using nothing more than a whole step. You might reference some earlier vid here, if it exists, I come from dumb. You pass this off as LA DEE DAH, and yet I say....whoa motherfather! Peace.
Yet, in the first 1:30, you could have mentioned that Barry Harris had just passed on Dec 08, eh? For future viewers might not have the same "sensibility/awareness", eh? Anyway, I like your stuff, except that you do not break it down into elements. For example, your 20 bebop licks does nothing to explain the concept of enclosures which also Jamey A never discussed...and I have spent 35 PLUS YEARS noticing that the greats played notes NEAR the chord tones, but I had NO CLUE, until I stumbled upon perhaps Chad LB or Open Studio, upon the concept of ENCLOSURES !! Hey yeah yeah...a simple ideer, eh? I nevah had a CLUE !!! And I did my share of transcribing, but it yielded nothing but licks that could only be used in one context...because I had no foundational knowledge. BUT I come from the less well musically edumacated cuz I was born in 1960 and had no solfege before I play me the clarinet, etc... and thus there are the DIVIDES a tween Jamey A and older cats and less music in schools when I was in , say 1968 to 1978, and today, when kids caint sing do re mi if they tried, for cuz it wasnt nevah shown to themski. I speak my piece pure and true, for once I discovered music in 4th grade, I loved it, but how did I know if my teachers were edumacated themselves? And thus, we now exist the age of low-information music, per Rich Beato. Anyway, I'se trying to becum a bethah blues/jazz pianist...the struggle for self-improvement continues....WHAT KIDS TODAY DON'T GET IS THE IDEER OF SELF IMPROVEMENT, and I'm beginning to wonder if THIS is the principle behind google and meta, and thus a re-creation of enslavement, but this time it ain't Big Brutha, but rather private corporations who can then sell your info to Govt when it is convenient, by tracking EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE.........aaaaaggggghhhh!!!! And besides that, that you have been conditioned to not need to make an effort, and thus since you don't need to memorize the times table, you can just look it up, and thus you become a SLAVE by low standards....which is just what the super-rich want, since they need you to cut their lawns and "clean" (by moving dirt around--see Nickled and Dimed by Barb Ehrenreich).....and thus low standards will create a wacko new society. Anyway I support self-actualization and practice of music per Noah!! And ALL people who strive towards a greater and BETTER and FAIRER world society! Micah
That’s what’s wrong with today’s musicians…. You can’t play like Berry Harris. Nobody can’t explain nothing from other musicians. People are explaining John Bohnam drums fills… but in order to play like them, you gotta have their life story, their frustrations, their joys, their fear in order to play like them. Explain how they play, is such underestimating them. T he y would laugh at a kid who explains their playing. People should find their own personal way and not copying somebody else. Good playing tho
nobody should play like barry harris one of the most overrated players.. can you name SINGE seriously amazing solo from him? listen to bud powell, kelly, garland if you wish.. harris is absolutely boring artist
