While paying strict attention to voice leading, each of the four voices, leads to the next note in the scale, creating a very interesting take on the bebop scale. I chanced upon a youtube video of Barry Harris working with (astonished) students and he did a similar thing except he played them over the bebop major scale. The scale: in C major: C D E F G G# A B C.įor starters, most jazz players these days will study the scale-tone sevenths of at least four or five different scale types, so most are familiar with playing scale-tone sevenths for example, in major scales in a step-wise root motion as in C major:ĬMa7 Dmi7 Emi7 FMa7 G7 Ami7 Bmi7(b5) CMa7 and learning the modes that are often associated with those chords. OK, then comes Barry Harris (a well known jazz piano/educator) who instructs us with some mysterious sounding, but not necessarily rocket-science, ideas for the bebop scale. So check that out and you’ll see a few examples of some ideas for expanding upon that idea. I have outlined the tonic/dominant (IMa6 iiDim) polarity in an earlier blog (March, 2012). The major bebop scale has been in common knowledge for decades. More Documents from ' Later - Kenny Kirkland's Solo.pdf December 2019 83.įor more information on this and related topics, check out An Approach to Jazz Piano. Barry Harris Jazz Workshop April 2020 133.
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Barry Harris Jazztutorial Pdf October 2019 395. The 'Harris Method' is structured more explicitly around bop practice and focuses on creating smooth chromatic melodies through the use of certain 'rules' (for example, descending from the tonic, 3rd, 5th or 7th of a major scale add one half-step between the 6th and 5th. That program is structured around the ideas of bebop pianist Barry Harris. Known to his peers as the “keeper of the bebop flame,” jazz pianist Barry Harris has cultivated and imparted a unique approach to teaching the music of Charlie Parker, Earl “Bud” Powell, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. The exercises also explore options of starting. These exercises add half-steps to descending scales to interrupt the rhythm and meter of the line. Harris is a noted jazz pianist and pedagogue who has been teaching jazz improvisation classes in New York City for over twenty-five years. From Barry Harris’ classes in New York City in December 2008.
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