Bebop Voicings on a 2-5-1 

Dear Adam: your playing, your explanations, the resources... you are the best!

everytime he said you probably already know this, I felt like I was trespassing

Always an incredible treat when we can get explanations of how to construct the wonderful lush harmonies we’ve heard so many times on recordings! Thank you so much!

Just terrific, Adam. You have a way of making these cool changes so easy and accessible.

Adam. Still working on the basics of the 6th diminished scale and chords. Noticed that I have to look at chords somewhat differently than how I learned. It’s starting to sink in more and more, thanks to great video instruction like this. Thanks

Incredible lesson! Thanks for sharing in such a clear, accessible way 🙏🏻

Thanks. This was the first time I understood the 6-diminish concept. Very clear explanation.

This is simply PHENOMENAL! Before this video, I started messing around with this scale, and the chords, then I realized the 7 flat 9 relationship with the diminished chord and said to myself this cannot be...and I watched this video and became convinced of the diminished and 7 flat 9 equivalent resolving to the key. Thanks for your brilliant explanation.

I've been waiting for this one. I worked through Oliver Prehn's (Newjazz) take on 2-5-1 and I'm becoming much freer and more fluid. I expect to be here for a while. Thanks Adam.

The Fdim7 chord has: F, Ab, B D. If you borrow from C6 you add in C, E, G, A. If you borrow from Eb you also get Eb and Bb. As C6, Eb6, F#6 and A6 are all related then you could also borrow from F#6 and A6 which adds F# and C#. Therefore Fdim7 plus the above listed added notes is all 12 notes. So anything seems ok to borrow, in context.

Excellent info, and top notch production!

This is so awesome, Adam. Thank you!

Thank you for organizing this explanation .. these things sound great !!

Mind opening, so clear and logic

Thank you so much for your excellent tutorial, Adam. Best wishes from Taiwan.

I love Adam’s appropriate “wow” reactions to the extra tasty resolutions

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed this

Thank you for showing this. What a great explanation. I started getting curious about this concept because I would tell my teacher how I was making sense of certain changes in my head and he would say, "Barry Harris would agree with you." This way of thinking of chords is mind blowing and simple at the same time.

This is a fantastic video! Thanks for sharing.😊

Thank you so much... I got a better understanding with your video

Great Lesson! 4 Note voicing works great with the vibes!!!🥁👍🎹🥁

Thank you very much Adam. Great lesson! :)

Would love to see a video on this with the minor scale. I always thought the relationship between dominants and tonics is felt more with a minor sound. Great video !

This is brilliant! Thank you!

Love this! So cool, thank you!

Thanks Adam, this is gold.

Whoa, amazing lesson.

Great stuff Adam.. Just keep teaching, we'll keep learning... Thats a promise :D

Best exposition I've watched on the inter webs. Well done. At the very end I was wanting to see an extension of the exercises into an arrangement on a standard...an applied use case. Maybe you have done this? Cheers!

This is amazing!!!! 6th Diminished

Great video - thank you!

This is GOLD! Thank you 👏🏻

Super helpful, thank you!!

Great video!

Awesome thank 😊 🙏 you! Great exercise. The 3 diminished scales truly are the base 3 DNA nucleotides of the piano ! I studied under the late great jazz guitarist Billy Bauer as a kid and am now 44 and been taking a deep dive into piano the last 2 years and i woudlnt be half the player without you guys so grateful. Only following this channel for about 4 months now and I truly appreciate all the hard work yall are putting in I plan to support $ by buying more if not all of the in depth courses asap! I feel terrible I haven't supported sooner but I'm neck deep in opening a new arm of my vacation getaway and music recording biz here in the Colorado. If there is a carrot on the end of the stick to my last ten years of grueling entrepreneuring it's to finally have the time to sit down and benefit from these classes and see how it opens that channel for the spark to become a flame as you so eloquently stated once! Just wanted to say thanks and I super appreciate the huge heart you Peter and the whole team put into this! I'm recommending it to all my friends in the biz keep on swingin!

mate this is a solid lesson

Hope you earn money with that! It's so useful!!! Great job, the videos, the pdf´s!!!! Wow!

In classical music that D diminished chord is called a vii dim 7 chord, so it would be a B dim 7 chord but still a sub for V7 or G7. Such a nice sound. Nice video.

I love the 6th diminished videos! Will there be a course on uses of the scale on the website?

Many thanks, Adam, for this instantly plausible explanation. I am an Oscar Peterson fan as long as I can remember, and this is what he does all the time. On top (or bottom 🙂), he often added grace notes with the left hand to link the chords and embellish the melody, but this is easy, once you have understood the principle. Great! By the way, what piano sound do you use? It is really convincing.

I would love to see a video of how we might look at a song like Body And Soul through the 6th diminished. Thanks

Thank you.

Excellent excellent excellent!

great great man!

i am very crazy about those lesson i encourage you to keep sending those kinds of lesson because they are very useful to me my name is Fabian Cosster from the lovely island of curacao

Wow This videos shows all what i need

Explanation @ 4:00 blew my mind again lol music is great

I need one or two years to really understand this 20 min video. Life is like that.

Rock on!

Unbelievable lesson! I attended a few Barry’s workshops here in Rome, Italy and I have to admit you are very clear, maybe even more than Barry himself, at least for me, beginner jazz pianist! Only one question, why borrowing from Eb 6 diminished scale when I can easily borrow then same notes from C parallel minor scale? Thanks ☺️

no one else hearing the beginning of "on the sunny side of the street"?

Very nice c6 dim

This expresses my philosophy of a newbie's piano practice: Piano Lessons I have ten fingers. The piano has…really… twelve notes plus octaves therefrom. I tell my fingers each day “land somewhere new. Somewhere you’ve never been. If it sounds good then lead me forward. IF it does not. We go again. Ten fingers. Twelve notes and octaves. Fingers: spread yourselves newly. Knuckle middle finger rise a bit. Good. Now…listen. OK? send five left fingers to the lowest octave teach them where they belong repeat the patterns repeat the patterns repeat repeat repeat bring the fingers back up then throw them like dice at the keyboard let them fly repeat the patterns again repeat the patterns: over time my fingers know things, acquire sense and pitch before my ears know before my brain knows my fingers know. And, strange as it may sound, always listen to your fingers.

So by this logic, you could also borrow from A major and F# major right? Because they all share the same diminished chord.

Dear Adam: Could you in theory also borrow from the Gb 6th-diminished and A 6th-diminished scale?

8:00 - I’m gonna go play “The First Noel” a la Barry Harris!

Does anyone know if the pay site is a comprehensive program? I've paid for three different sites and was disappointed they were just a big archive of videos with no direction about how to follow them.

Note to self: 4:50

It can be used on Xm6 chord?

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If I can borrow notes from a scale a minor third apart, applying this logic, can I do the same from A and F# scales?

Check out Stijn Wauters channel with tips re Sonny Clark’s “Blue Minor”. Great stuff that makes you want to practice.

Today I learned when you jazz up Three Blind Mice you get Three Blind Cats.

Where does this Eb6 comes from ?

So… jazz is basically entirely based on 6 chords?

Be Bop Three Blind Mice.....you heard it ? right ?

Adam is hot someone had to say it

Très joli mais c'est du chinois !!!