Contrary-Motion Scales for Guitar Harmony🎶Body and Soul🎸Advanced Comping Strategies🎓Jazz Fusion

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Most commonly a reserve of pianists, other instruments can benefit from the harmonic application of the contrary motion scale too. Scales travelling in opposite directions can be used to create fascinating polyphonic lines on all jazz and fusion standards, as well as in your own compositions.
Used by players from Mozart, Chopin and Liszt, to modern monsters such as Art Tatum, Bud Powell and Oscar Peterson, the contrary motion scale offers simple but effective harmonic language and has been discussed frequently by Jazz pianist and educator Barry Harris.
In this video I'll demonstrate the head of Body and Soul by Thelonious Monk with contrary motion scales adding interesting polyphony to an advanced jazz guitar comping part. We'll cover the Bebop scales and the altered scale, however this technique can be applied to any and all tonalities to great effect.
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@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

Download the PDF here: bit.ly/3xuEEz1

@speakuscorner 2 года назад

And great sounding Guitar.

@j6449663 Год назад

Good work !

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition Год назад

Thanks for taking the time to say so 🙏

@speakuscorner 2 года назад

Very insightful!

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 2 года назад

Cheers!

@pranavphx 3 года назад

Would you consider doing a short video on what are you listening to/liking these days? You can make it a series that you do every 3 months or so. I really like your musicality overall would love to know where your ear takes you musically over the next few years.

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

Certainly can do that Pranav! Thanks for the suggestion

@theblarneystone5125 2 года назад

I honestly think that having a good grasp and facility with contrary motion is key to improvising in a true polyphonic way. It’s tough though. I find playing contrary with any amount of legato to be elusive. Hundreds of hours of practice…

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 2 года назад

Relatively guitar friendly visually but certainly not technically as you say! I need to use these ideas more in my day to day playing to come up with some ready to go licks. Cheers

@chestyguitarron 3 года назад

Thank you for exploring Barry Harris's system beyond the usual "6th diminished scale adds a note to help you land on chord tones" approach. Also Labyrinth of Limitations (with classical guitarist Tom Echols) is a great channel for further work on this. Love your playing and your teaching style very much!

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

Thank you very much for the suggestion, I'm not aware of that channel I will do some research. Cheers!

@TheLabyrinthofLimitations 3 года назад

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition Hi John! Really lovely sounds in this. And I absolutely love what you said about chords "not existing" and the video metaphor. Great stuff. If you end up checking out the channel, episode 1: relative motion is where the convo about contrary, parallel, and oblique motion begins in the labyrinth:)

@pranavphx 3 года назад

Brilliant lesson!

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

Many thanks Pranav!

@hugos.w.8976 3 года назад

Keep making videos! Nice content, nice musician. God bless you and keep blessing your channel dude. You are really helpful

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

Many thanks for taking the time to say so. I'm delighted that you are finding this content helpful. Cheers!

@LaurenceGuitar 3 года назад

Really great Ideas! Reminiscent of the great Jimmy Wyble!

@LaurenceGuitar 3 года назад

great conclusion too.

@LaurenceGuitar 3 года назад

Jimmy Wyble wrote a book @the art of 2-line improvisation... Absolutely killer book! Hes an amazing guitarist!

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

I did check out this book when you posted this- I will look into it further.

@FullMetalDMZ 3 года назад

Tasty sounds... that bass though! So using octatonic scales seems to work great because the extra tension they create! Or maybe spicy scales like Hungarian minor and neapolitan minor!

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

The low end on this axe is unbelievable! It seems that octatonic scales are the secret sauce for many of the tastiest flavours in jazz!

@NinjaTurtling 13 дней назад

Phenomenal lesson… can you please tell me what brand / material your sweater is??? It looks so comfortable 😂

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 13 дней назад

Almost certainly ASDA George! My grandmother gifts me a jumper every Christmas, she is to blame for my style choices 😂

@hexagram531 3 года назад

Lovely sounds, interesting concepts. Another one on my ever-growing list of Charles Harrison videos to revisit and work through (I'm just not ready for some of them yet!)

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

You'll get there before you know it- stick to the basics and the rest will fall into place in no time! Cheers

@epserps5055 3 года назад

Great, great!!! How can I buy the music sheet from this lesson?

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

Just send me an email at ctharrisonmusic@gmail.com and it's yours!

@epserps5055 3 года назад

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@epserps5055 3 года назад

@@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition thank you so much, merci, muchas gracias, gracie molto and obrigado.

@shitmandood 3 года назад

Is there any PDF worksheet associated?

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

There is now, ask and you shall receive! bit.ly/3xuEEz1

@Pretzels722 3 года назад

Ur guitar needs a shave

@CharlesHarrisonMusicTuition 3 года назад

I didn't know not cutting my strings would cause so much mental anguish for many of my viewers- I will sort this out immediately! Cheers!

@pranavphx 3 года назад

Lol I'm on the other side, i like the fact that there are no sharp end s that might cut someone. I cut my hand and it bled on my headless strandberg, inspite of it actually have a slightly extended neck to keep the wire ends on the neck 's wood lol.