Little Labyrinth 66: How to Improvise Chord Melody Arrangements (Barry Harris Concepts)
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Beautiful man. This channel has done more to help my chording than any other. 5k!
Thanks, my friend. Your channel has done the same for my single note playing. Very grateful for it
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I totally agree a lovely fellow and a fine teacher.
Oh, they're the same person. It's just a costume change.
Every little labryinth of your videos are actually gigianic mazes to me rn but Imma try hard to understand concepts. you are genious mate
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Congratulations Tom!!! I've been sending your channel to any guitarists I know! Keep killing it dude!! 😎👊🙌🏼
Love this video, I remember one of my first questions to you was "what are you really thinking when you..." and I love hearing how you really think about the elevator when improvising.
Glad it made sense! The "general air guitar" muscle memory aspect is really where it's at for me. Always trying to share the "inner mind" aspects of the practice, but sometimes that's tricky to do;)
Congrats Thomas! I spent 3 hours working on the elevator sequence today. I keep getting tripped up on the octave chord variations. But I’m getting better and love the freedom
It provides.
That’s awesome to hear! At first, I committed to one version of each octave chord voicing, but I would pick the easiest ones, making it a bit inconsistent. Sometimes it was with a triad In the top voices, sometimes high shell. I think I never did the low shell on top for quite a while. Then I gradually added vocabulary as I gained competence. But I also didn’t have it all mapped out with the 3 different playable versions of the octave chord until I had been practicing them for quite a while, so I might practice differently if I were starting now. So glad you’re getting the practice time in!
Another light-shedding installment, Thomas. Kindest regards!
Thank you, Ramiro!
@@TheLabyrinthofLimitations cannot thank enough. Checking and revising the elevator, families and relationships, can't get enough! Best wishes, Thomas.
Bravo!
You are awesome dude. Thank you for putting in the time to make this. I'm a year late but I'm hear now.
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Really inspiring!! I'm beginning to see more and more paths and relationships thank to you man.
So glad to hear it, Raul!
This episode gave me permission to hop around the floors in whatever sequence that sounds coolest to my ear.
you're unstoppable bro... infinity music :)
So beautiful.
Inspiring as always. Thank you!
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Beautiful Tone.
Why thank you:)
Did somwbody ever try to play Drop 3/2? I've never heard anybody speak about these, they do sound pretty nice, plus you can use them over two different string set with exactly the same fingering!
The way I organize things is a bit different, so I view drop 2/3 as being redundant with drop 3. It’s about having the most reduced way of looking at things to facilitate fast polyphonic improv. Once you e practiced the elevator enough (especially the small “floors”) nuances emerge. A drop 2/3 is just a shell chord with a note on top, for instance. A drop 2 is just a shell chord plus a note, or a third plus a 6th. I’m just trying to share the thinking that works for me and allows me to move through the spaces fluidly. One step at a time:)
Maybe improvised orchestral arrangements… but on the guitar 🤔. Thanks for everything Tom. Congrats on 5k!
Edit: improvised orchestration
Thanks Sam! Glad to see you're still keeping up with it:) Cheers!
By shells you mean R-3-6 and its inversions??. Or a dim triad? Usually when I hear shell, i think of R-3rd-7ths. But Barry’s 6th dim system uses 6th chords, so the 7th of the shell is replaced with a 6th?
It’s a colloquialism of my own devising that isn’t the same as the conventional term but allows me to speak quickly about the elevator sequence concept. If you search “shell” on my channel you’ll find a number of vids on it. Also episode 16 on the elevator sequence (and the accompanying pdf) go into it.
Essentially, what I’m calling a shell is a 4 note chord without one of the middle notes. If the tenor voice is missing, I call it a high shell. If the alto voice is missing, I call it a low shell.
Important to note that Barry’s teachings are not of a 6 dim system but of a “scale of chords” approach. There are 4 scales: the dom7 dim, the dom7b5 dim, the maj 6 dim, and the min6 dim. They’re all equally important :) I have episodes on each with PDFs