This is one of the reasons that I love playing guitar. I can learn a lick just to have it under my fingers, Or I can dive deep into it and allow that lick to teach me something that I may not know. I'm glad Barry taught you that & I'm really glad that you're sharing Barry's knowledge with us! Thank you Chris!!!
You're welcome James. Of all the people that have influenced me to play the guitar from Page, Van Halen, Hendrix, etc...No one has made me want to practice my instrument more than Barry. Isn't that ironic? It took a piano player.
@@thingsivelearnedfrombarryh2616 I know the feeling. Some of the most inspiring theory tutorials that I watch come from piano players. Not trying to put down my tribe, but there's more to music than CAGED, three note per string scales & shred licks. All those things are cool & they've their place. But when I'm learning Barry Harris' method, I really feel like I'm learning necessary skills that can be applied to almost any genre. You're the first to dedicate an entire channel to applying Barry's method to guitar, that I've seen. I sincerely thank you again, Chris!!!
Hi Chris - these lessons are wonderful.. i keep going back thru them and am gaining a great deal from your insights. I hope you're able to keep adding these. Best, mark
Thank you so much. You do an awesome job of condensing complex ideas and then how to extrapolate them into such short videos. Every lesson in TILF is an uncut diamond for the mind to polish.
Man, I discovered your channel a week ago and I have to say that I am baffled by the fact that this is not part of the common Jazz education programs. All Barry's ideas and methodology are pure logic and simplicity in it's core. How did I study Jazz for 4 years in a well known school and nobody even mentioned Barry Harris or his scales of chords, diminished scales, rules for chromatics, triplets, etc... So many great solutions that can be instantly applied to really sound like jazz is supposed to. And it's also useful other styles that I play more. Thank you so much for your work, I hope this channel gets the exposure it deserves!
It’s fascinating how musically ubiquitous this particular voice leading sound is, but not commonly understood by many (especially rock) musicians. There are many brilliant variations of this descending turnaround , and it’s ascending twin brother: A6, A7/C#, D6, D#o7 (or even F7/Eb), A/E
No sir, I didn't know that either. Thank you for your intelligence and this channel, which came from your intelligence. Kindest regards this Holiday Season.
Wow,very cool. Been playing that lick for 50 years and you’ve showed us how to make it fresh. I’m working on the lesson you gave me and will take another one as soon as I get it under my fingers. Thanks bro!
Hey thanks so much for this lesson sharing Barry’s wisdom and your insight! It’s crazy how he sheds light on so many things we take for granted, thanks again brother!
There is a Greatful Dead jam in which Jerry Garcia plays this sequence starting with an A7/G. He slides up the third string to E, then hits the A on second string, then hits Eb and back to the A, then hits D and back to A, then C# and back to A. He repeats it 3 more times. He used it to transition from a free-form kind of improv to a bluesy sequence with the keyboard player, and by the 4th time he played it he had reset the tempo of the entire jam. I jumped out of my skin when you demonstrated because it's exactly that part of that jam.
Me too man. Like I said in the video, I had no idea where it came from I just repeated it without understanding the context. I'd been playing that turnaround since I was 17 not knowing. It made me question what else I play without knowing. Now that's embarrassing
It's ironic to me that within the last month or two I figured all this same stuff out. I also did the I I7 IV bIV7 V7 which is the contrary motion thing. Your channel is very cool and stimulating. I have incorporated a lot more chromatic ideas since finding it. Thank You!
Roni Ben Hur's web site has a great book on this for guitar. And I just got a chord DVD from Roni. Roni is a friend of Chris's I think and both are student's of Barry's.
@Chris TILFBH I'm am absolutely loving your channel brother! I have a request, I really liked seeing how you applied Barry's teachings to a traditional (non-jazz) blues. I watched an interview you did on another channel and you'd mentioned that you played a lot of rock and blues etc. like most guitarist ultimately do. My request is, I'd love to see how one might apply Barry's teachings on non-jazz tunes or even semi-jazz like say "Europa" or maybe even a Steely Dan tune. Thanks Chris 😊 🙏 🎵🎸
I always thought of these blues turnarounds as being "ascending" and "descending". The descending turnaround is usually this one that you showed us. The ascending one is the "I - I (first Inversion) - IV - #iv° - I (second Inversion) - V" or some variation of this. In the key of A it would be: A7 - A7/C# - D7 - D#° - A7/E - E7
Great lesson on expanding this chord turnaround. Thanks!!! Oh, subbed and hit the bell recently. This channel has some great information. I have the Barry Harris book written for guitar....but it's in storage in another city. :-/ SO this channel will keep me informed until and after i pick up the book. Plus your lessons seem to have a greater variety of concepts and ideas.
Great vid! I have thought of that turn-around as a VI II V I except with b5 subs o VI and V to make it chromatic for a long while now but never thought of it like that. Cool. Both ways i think are good but this way is sweeter.
Very cool. I wonder if the DeLeos from Stone Temple Pilots knew this when they wrote the chords for Plush. When the guitar and bass are considered together, it sure looks like they did. Unrelated: do you have any content that goes over the other chords in the sixth/diminshed scale? I mean instead of starting from C6, I mean when you start on Cmaj7 and it changes the whole progression and you get those pretty chords like E triad with F in the bass and A minor with a major 7 and all that. I have seen a couple of videos where Mr Harris talks about the fact that the chords exist but I don't know if I figured out how he sees fit to use them. Thanks
For whatever reason I didn't realize that they were just the same chords with a borrowed note. I thought this particular sequence was special since I saw it come up in some of his other videos. Now that I have my head right about them it's probably something you implicitly covered in your video about borrowed notes, I'll take a look at that one
yo man i was planning on going to a BH workshop this tuesday but noticed all the workshops for this month were cancelled as well as barry's planned performances. Do you know if anything happened to him while he was in italy?
@@thingsivelearnedfrombarryh2616 Hi. Is there another link that I could support for him? I can't get through on this one. Sure hope he's okay. Thank you.
