Why Barry Harris' Approach Is So Much Better Than Bebop Scales!
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- What Makes Bebop sound amazing is not the notes, it is the melodies and the phrasing! In this video, I'll show you some of the most important things to learn to get the Bebop sound into your playing using first triads and enclosures but then moving on into some Amazing Barry Harris concepts!
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Content:
00:00 Bebop IS Modern Jazz
00:40 Charlie Parker Is The Mozart Of Jazz
01:19 What's Wrong With Bebop Scales?
02:47 Melody is About Direction
03:35 Back to Triads
05:48 Barry Pivots
07:21 Barry Harris Chromatic scale
08:53 Super-charged Barry Harris
09:57 Chromatic Boosted Half-step
10:30 Grant Is The Greatest
10:46 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!
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*How important is Bebop for learning Jazz?*
If you want to explore a practical way to deal with Jazz chords, then follow this approach inspired by Joe Pass:
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i'm so bitter,Years of jazz lessons,NOT a single teacher told me those simple and so effective principles to play the music i wanted to play so bad in my 20s glad i finally found the key.Thanks
Lazy teachers that just want the money give the rest a bad name. Sorry to hear you got some of them.
Well, I think Pat Metheny is nailing it with his remarks about how we still need to learn to teach melody. But I do think we are getting a lot better at it.
@@JensLarsen When I was an Undergraduate, we learnt enough Harmony (Diatonic, Chromatic and Serial) to kill an Ox. We hardly ever learned any practical rhythm. By the end of third year, not so many could compose an interesting melody. Granted that it was an 'Academic' course - that's how everyone got away with it. Pat Metheny is spot on.
Amen!
The players who were born to play music don't need someone telling them what to do. It comes naturally. There are people who don't even know that a tonic is and are amazing jazz improvisers.
I don't think I've ever spent 11 minutes getting so much useful information on anything in my life before! Thank you so much for this.
Glad it was helpful!
This is the best bebop lesson on RUclips. Can we delete all the other bebop tutorials and just keep this one? It will save people decades of trying to reach this. I also love the fact that it's only about 10 minutes long.
Glad you like it
Glad you like it
Another great lesson, Jens. I love how you speak like Barry is still with us - because, in many many ways, he still is. I attended some of his Zoom workshops just before he passed - he IS bebop.
Yep........
The patron Saint of Jazz education
This has got to be the greatest explanation about bebop phrasing on this planet... ultimate!!!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful
I think you are the best bebop educator out there. Teaching stuff is always a selfless act of love for who comes after. Thanks !
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that you found the video useful and that you want to support the channel 🙂
After watching the way jazz players create beautiful incomprehensible walls of notes, I see that this ~11 minute lesson is a fast track for me to create beautiful incomprehensible walls of notes 😎
Exactly! We all have goals 🙂
It’s shocking how simple and beautiful the pivot arpeggio is.
Yes, that is actually true. It is also not only a Jazz thing 🙂
Wow, amazing video Jens! Some seriously mind blowing stuff in here. This material will keep me practicing for a long time to come!
Glad it was helpful!
It is amazing how much you are able to pack into a video, and it is all so smooth! You are like the Charlie Parker of jazz youtubers......
Haha! Thank you 🙏😎
Django Reinhardt might not be the first name that comes to mind when talking about Bebop but listening to his way of making beautifully tasty melodic lines over just one chord is really a masterclass in Jazz and Bebop. His mastery of constructing MELODY and relying on it to the core gave him an enormous amount of freedom in what to do harmonically as well, it's almost like magic.
He is not mentioned as influential as Charlie Christian in Bebop context but there's just as much of Django in Wes' playing (Octaves, Minor 6 Diminished) as there is of Charlie Christian.
youre absolutely correct. theres definitely 2 schools of jazz guitar playing today. jens addressed it indirectly - those who think scales will make music and then those who reverse engineer melodies to understand the approach and reuse the infinite amount of approaches out there. a lot of the successful jazz guitarists like you mentioned, Wes and Joe Pass followed Django and that primarily aural tradition of jazz.
Playing some Django-Reinhardt Coleman Hawkins era stuff and transcribing them, youll see a lot of the "modern approaches" like substitutions. were they the pioneers? mmm we dont know. we dont care. its beautiful and accessible to be digested by us all. if you listen to modern day "gypsy jazz" players like angelo debarre and adrien moignard(which im sure you already do), a lof of their lines are "bebop". to be honest, its gotten to the point where players who follow suit to those guys such as myself cant even purposely distinguish whether the lines we play are deemed "bebop" or "gypsy jazz" anymore. the only difference is on how the rhythm section of the ensemble accompanies the soloists.
cheers man! your comment got me thinkin TIME TO SHED =D
@@bonusfat110 Si vous écoutez les derniers disques de Django (ceux d'après guerre où il joue de la guitare électrique et est accompagné par des gens comme Martial Solal ou Maurice Vander), vous entendrez qu'il avait écouté ses collègues du bop et repris pas mal de plans 100 % bop. Il y a une grande différence entre le Django de l'époque du Quintet du Hot Club de France et le Django des derniers disques (comme il y a une grosse différence entre le Django qui a enregistrés les titres "ouverts" et "flamenco" sous les titres "Improvisation N° 1, 2; etc" et le Django des enregistrements alimentaires avec des chanteurs parfois pénibles). En France, il y a pour Django dans les héritiers, les imitateurs souvent très doués (Tchavolo, Romane Angelo Debarre,...), ceux qui ont incorporés d'autres choses (Boulou Ferré la musique de Tristano, Rafael Fays avec le jazz fusion et le Flamenco, Christiane Escoudé ou Bireli Lagrene avec un peu tout,,...) et ceux qui ont été très influencé par le be bop et/ou Jimmy Raney et chez qui il ne reste pas grand chose du jazz manouche (le remarquable René Thomas, le peu connue Mailhes,...)
@@canardlaque8106 Je ne connais pas ces albums tardifs, ils valent le coup ?
@@ZAWARUD00 Oui. il joue dans un style très différent. Il a écouté du be-bop et ça se sent. Il joue parfois de la guitare électrique (avec un son assez "crunch" mais ça a son charme). Et, au lieu d'avoir la fameuse pompe manouche à la guitare derrière, il y a des pianistes comme Solal ou Vander. C'est assez facile à écouter sur FB, on troue à peu prêt tout ce qu'il a enregistré les "dernières années".
You`re such a great teacher, Jens! 😀 Clear and precise, straight to the point! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge! 🎸👍
Thank you! 🙂
Your channel is single handedly helping me become a better jazz soloist; thank you for your hard work!
Great to hear! 🙂
Hey Jens, I applied this to piano and changed my sound in hours. That bebop scale stuff was so confusing. Thanks so much. God bless you so you can teach more.
That is great to hear!
I applaud your videos! You definitely know how to explain jazz improvisation. And you always leave the diligent student on a great path to learning how to incorporate these ideas. I also appreciate that you never over-promise and under-deliver.
One of the best lessons I've come across in a while. Will be watching it a few times over. Been working on enclosures for a while but this clears it up quite a bit more. You just got another subscriber. Thanks!
I have seen a few others explain this topic in similar ways but you really added some concepts especially at the end I never saw in any of the others. You really put a lot of effort here. Thank you!!
So much incredible information and ideas crammed into a single short video... 🤯
Glad you liked it! 🙂
Excellent video Jens - the way you started with a simple triad and enclosure is like a life-line for those of us new to Jazz
Yes!! Movment, flow, natural rythm
Thanks Jens! Always love when you drop videos on Barry Harris. My teacher and I have been working through a lot of the Barry Harris concepts that you've been presenting, and it's completely changed my approach to improvisation. It's really helped in removing a lot of the mystery and fear I had when going through the Charlie Parker Omnibook. I'm now seeing patterns and have the terminology that I didn't have before. Great job, and it's always a pleasure watching your weekly videos!
That is awesome to hear Jonathan!
That's amazing content through all that years, and the quality is only getting better! You can really learn from it, or you can just enjoy some jazzy content. Works both ways for me.
Thanks so much for this video: first time I hear someone talking about the importance of melody in improvisation! Many years of teaching courses about harmony or scales and arpeggios are not so helpful when you've got to build your own phrasing style... I'll have to listen to your video many times to fully be able to use your recommendations in my playing!
Loved this. How you manage to combine entertainment and great teaching is a gift. That, and the fact that you are so generous with your work - you're a model for how to achieve fulfilment on so many levels.
Thank you very much! Glad you like the video!
Wow Jens the quality of your content improved so much !! I’m impressed, amazing work !
Glad you think so!
No one has ever gotten me to understand jazz licks and progressions until I ran across your videos. Even after getting a music degree I still felt like jazz was so foreign to me. You have inspired me to want to play more jazz guitar!
Man there is so much info in that 10 min video .I am doing the beginner "Jazz guitar roadmap " with Jen and still that video bring more clarity to those bebop concepts. fantastic.
Thank you Michel!
The great concepts are always the foundation ! No concepts, nothing to apply in practice.
Thanks Jens!
Glad it was useful
Thanks for another great video Jens, lots of fun to work on in this one too!
I first learned how to _label_ enclosures from Chad LB, who has some incredible stuff on melodic ideas. I hadn't really known what a pivot arpeggio was, even though I have been doing them without realizing it. Now that I see the concept and have a name for it, though, I'll be using it more and will have more awareness of my playing. Thanks for this!!
You give so much information in so little time. Great job for video format so I can pause and rewind without having to watch five videos and endless nonsense in between. Thank you.
Awesome, thank you!
The diatonic above/chromatic below is something that no one ever taught me, either in private lessons, or when I was a jazz performance major. Simple but effective idea, and it can be applied outside of a jazz context. something I wanted to mention, and I don't know how it will be received, either it will be ignored, or others will hammer me for it. I was watching your videos from the first year you started. It was refreshing, because there weren't any of the distracting gimmicks and trying to be humorous. It was just no BS, straight information on the subject at hand. It was much easier to take in, and seemed more professional, even if the production quality wasn't as slick and glossy. Take it for what you will, but I think I prefer your earlier videos without the gimmicks. You're a great teacher, and have top notch content, I just find all the editing tricks distracting.
Thanks Jens! That was an awesome overview with great insight into things to work on & listen too!
Glad it was helpful! That is great to hear!
Amazing video, Jens! I am gonna learn a lot putting that into practice.
You got this!
I just can't imagine how much time you spend on making these contents. Great, really really great
You are a brilliant teacher and musician. Thank you !!!!!
Thank you 🙂
Wow! Thank you for such a clear breakdown. Can’t wait to try these! ❤
You are so welcome!
Brilliant lesson! Thank you so much.
Glad you liked it!
Jens, this video is bebop gold! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Omg amazing! I thought I was the only one who didn’t think bebop scales were effective or sound good! And it still blows my mind when I see people who don’t have much experience ask about them all the time and place so much emphasis on them. I’m so glad you made this video, as a jazz pianist and teacher myself I couldn’t agree more with all of your points. And thank you for making a video about it before I did 😂
I love this. Because this is all new to me. Fascinating and everyone makes it look so easy
Great lesson Jens! This clarifies Barry's chromatic scale and how easy it is to use. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great as always. I geniunly thank you for all the ideas that you have given me
Glad you like them!
i love this video concept, really teach us well. thanks Jens
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is straight up the best video on bebop melody lines I've ever seen. Thank you sir!
Thank you!
That was the best lesson on jazz melody i have ever heard. Thank you thank you.
That's really great to hear! Glad it was useful!
I appreciate this very interesting and well explained wealth of knowledge on how to be musical instead of just playing scales (such a challenge). Not many tell you this!! So unique! Thank you for all your wonderful videos.
wow... best lesson ever ! I can work for years with these ideas !!
Go for it 🙂
Great lesson Jens. Very helpful, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This could be the most useful 10 minute video on jazz bebop in existence!
Thank you!
Wow, I'd already managed to internalize Barry's Chromatic Scale into my playing (usually descending), but now you've given it a "boost"! Thanks!
Thank you for sharing it , very useful
Glad it was helpful!
Wow! Lots of eureka moments in this one! Such simple concepts the way you explain them.
Glad it was helpful!
I think you're the best teacher on the internet.
Thank you! 🙂
I’ve taught for 40+ years and there is no “I think” about it. Jens has Perfected the ‘net teaching. He’s mastered the guitar, the medium and sharing. Amazing ability to make you feel good about your playing, while dazzling you with his. YT Gold!😊
Fantastic lesson for the point I was stuck at, knowing the scales for years, took the effort lately to play in more 'boxes' and eventually on the whole neck but still sounding like a scale and not like be-bop, Thanks a lot
What an absolutely amazing teacher you are. A tremendous thank you for these videos.
You're very welcome! Great to hear that you find the videos useful!
@@JensLarsen 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hello friend. Thank you for carrying the bebop torch for Barry. He was a huge inspiration for me.
Thanks Josh! Hope you are well! 🙂
@@JensLarsen doing well! Just making silly jazz videos all day. The dream lol
After taking multiple university courses on jazz theory and improv this is the least convoluted method I’ve come across. So simple to explain but encompasses all the important elements of jazz solos. No one wants a wall of chord scale runs haha
Thank you!
I think this is one of the most useful, no no nsense approach to learning the jazz language i have come accross. I am looking forward for more content that expands on these ideas.
Thank you! 🙂
What a understatement.
this lesson's so eye opening it almost feels illegal
Glad you like it 🙂
Great lesson cheers!
Glad you like it!
Excellent video Jens. I think it's interesting that as a trumpet player I'm pretty much forced into pivot arpeggios whether I like it or not because of the limited range. I discovered this for myself pretty early on: when I ran out of range I'd just use a pivot to get me back down again. Then I started hearing it everywhere in bebop and the penny dropped. Funny how we can arrive at the same destination by very different paths.
I'm really coming around to your way of thinking Jens.
Got it. Thanks Jens!
👍
Jens. I have always loved bebop, Thank You!
This is golden, thank you !!!
Glad it was helpful 🙂
Amazing amazing lesson here.
Glad you think so!
I love Be Bop!
Thank you Jens for another great video. I've been working with the David Baker bebop books, and I feel like the bebop scales themselves don't work, but the 100s of sequences laid out in vol. 1 and 2 help you sound more like "jazz"
As a beginner im just switching on to melody and phrasing. Thanks for another great video
Great! Go for it 🙂
great video the enclosure trick ,,, blow my mind ,,, thanks ......
Glad you liked it!
It's a great time to always think outside the box when how to use musical knowledge/theory in creative and musical ways. The tools are meant to be used, not to be used by the tools. Cheers!
Totally agree!
Bebop rules forever!
👍
Great work, thank you.
Glad you like it!
This video is GOLD ❤
Thank you!
Incredible, Thank You 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
THANKS, JENS!
Thank you for this great lesson on bebop.
You're very welcome!
I love you Jens Larsen! In a musical way of course. I could just listen all day to your videos. Yes, I also pick up my guitar and play. Won't get fooled again! (By boring bebop scales for one)
A 10 minute Masterclass that "blue" my mind 🤯
Great content. Thank you! :)
Glad you liked it!
Well done! I can totally relate with what you've said in this video. I''ve always hated scales too! My lines would sounds so dull. When I decided I wanted to try to improvise on chord changes, I thought that the first step would be to master 7th's arpeggios. But it was too complicated, so I skipped the 7th, and I had the triads. But then it was too hard to improvise with so few notes and I added the enclosures :) Then I used the non-diatonic notes to join the dots :)
I'd love to have a teacher, but I'm always so scared to find someone who just tell me to learn scales, when I just need someone who can make me progress on the path I've created myself...
Great lesson!
Glad you liked it!
great video!
Thank you, Jack 🙂 Seems like your videos are doing well
Gracias Jens
Looking forward to this 😎
Hope you like it!
I'm not much of a jazz player but have been prescribed to a similar perspective on the use of enclosures. It's similar to how Stravinsky works in Rite Of Spring and John William's Star Wars Tattooine theme. I like using these concepts in my electronic compositions.
AWESOME!!!
Glad you think so!
Thanks!
Glad you like it! Thank you for the support 🙏
My ears have been enlightened THANKS ALOT MUAHAHAHA
Ah, the power of enlightenment! It's amazing what a little audio can do. Thanks for watching and experiencing the magic!
Jens, I finally started to practice with your book. I'll try to make some simple solo on all of me using substitution arpeggios and 4 note Coltrane pattern and send it to you. Still feel there is a need of a mentor to guide me and help me focus on important thing and to learn faster. Thanks for sharing your experience.
That's great! The closest thing I can offer to mentorship is my course, for the rest I can only recommend other teachers 🙂
A compliment like that from Paul Simon is worth more than gold.
Great video 😀
Glad you enjoyed
Amazing.... so rhythm is what glues all this chaos together. Metheny said something about it too
loooooove be bop!!!
Couldn’t agree more!
Great video. Gotta watch it again with a guitar.
Melody training. Great stuff Jens. I’m thinking that if JSBach had played “lazy eighths”, he would’ve created BEBop! Hmm. If only there were recordings of his jams.
Thanks! Bach's melodies don't often swing in the right way, they are a bit square rhythmically (I know that might be a hot take, but for understanding melody that is important to realize 🙂)