How do I Use that Barry Harris Exercise Anyway? 

I hope you liked the video, Mr. cursed Swordsman!

Yay, I’m glad it’s helpful, Kathy!

Absolutely! I try to steam from the very best! 😜

I’m glad you didn’t hate it! I’m speaking with no authority on Barry’s pedagogy here…

@@JeremySiskind I will gladly ramble endlessly and uncontrollably about his methods at our next dinner. Haha

Great! Love it, George - enjoy!

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Sorry I meant ‘that you’re NOT always trying to sell…”

That's so very nice! Thank you for these words, Jack! I'm honored.

I’m honored that you liked it even though you studied with Barry. Any time I say anything about his work I worry that my the Barry Cult will come after me. 😂

@@JeremySiskind don’t be too humble Jeremy, I wouldn’t follow you in all this journey if I didn’t think your work is at the same level of all the great teachers, Mortensen and Barry included!

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I think you’re great, Sergio! Thanks, my friend!

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Cool! I’m glad it opened up something new for you, Silver!

It is really lovely, isn’t it? Inversions are so underrated!

I get it and to each their own. I don’t spend time watching his content but there sure are a lot of gems hidden in there 😉.

Thanks, Ant!

Thanks, Cliffy! Enjoy!

I’m not the expert here about what Barry thought but I think there are lots of really fun and lovely ways to use this!

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@@JeremySiskind Found it! thanks!!

I haven’t really studied his terminology - does this refer to borrowing notes from the parallel minor (particularly the b6?)

​@@JeremySiskindWhen you're using the "sixth diminished scale", alternating inversions of sixths with appropriate inversions of the relevant diminished, you can mix notes from each ("borrowing" notes from a diminished and adding them to a sixth chord in some particular inversion to add colour.) So you can add, say, the seventh instead of the sixth, which in Harris' conception is borrowing from the diminished, but in everyone else's conception is just playing a major 7th. Or you can "borrow" the second or 9th, which comes from the diminished, but which everyone else just calls a 9th. On dominants they're just altered notes to everyone else. The disciples claim that it's helpful to see it as borrowing, but I haven't quite grasped the advantage thus far, although mastering a different conceptualization can never hurt. Isaac Raz is one of the better disciples here (yt); he also has videos on this exercise that you're demonstrating and variations on it; perhaps you know him.

Thanks for watching, Mark!

@@JeremySiskind Love your playing And your teaching approach!

Phew! Thanks, Brian!

@@JeremySiskind haha, at least you have a good sense of humour as well

I don’t know what that means! So…thank you?

Something noicy in background disturbing in that streaming

@@JeremySiskind There may be a bit of distortion (only when you play the piano)…like it’s clipping…Not sure if it’s on my end, or what you’re putting out. I haven’t figured that out.

Two thanks are better than one, right? 😉