"Barry Harris put the virtuoso improvisations of Parker, Gillespie and Powell under a microscope, discovering the musical grammar that makes bebop work - scales, chords, chromatic passing tones. He then organized a set of rules that helps musicians play like natives, without an accent."
Adam, I have to say... I'm in my early 60s and just decided to learn keys, I love your lessons as they are right at my level , not overlay complex and not school kid either. I reckon it could be your demeanour that strikes a CHORD with me. (Yeah Yeah Pun intended) Quiet, gentle, not rushed and repeated enough times to get the gist. Hope you keep up the good work and get the satisfaction you are helping would be pianist's across the globe. (I'm in Oz BTW)
The pdf only indicates going upward, but try going down the scale with this exercise to melt your ears. Thank you Adam, and Thank you Barry, rest in peace, master.
Words can not express how grateful I am for your teaching and your gorgeous devotional approach to teaching, so full of Love and Wonder. Thank you and thank you Mr Harris.
As a classical musician, Barry Harris has opened up a new world for me. I had spent four years in the Big Apple as an undergraduate student; what a shame it is that I had been completely unaware of his soul back then. I had been looking forward to finally getting a glimpse of his soul in real life upon my next return there. This loss felt more personal than I could have possibly imagined. Thanks for this, Adam! Forever grateful for him, many of us are :)
Thanks for this remembering to the master Barry Harris. Hoping that OS will take over the specific Barry’s method & thoughts to perpetuate his gift to the future generations!
Thanks for this. I just spent a half hour trying to transcribe Bud Powell’s solos from Webb City, which was one of the first bebop songs Barry learned. I’ve been going to some of his NYC workshops since early 2018 and checking in to the Saturday online workshops during the pandemic. A very sad week.
Thanks Adam , I discovered Barry on RUclips about 5 years ago while recording a tremendous amount of music for my catalogue that required at least some degree of foundational sophistication in the piano and keyboard parts I wanted. I’m a guitarist and had no idea how hard it would be to hire someone to do it for me , so I rolled up my sleeves & dove into it. I don’t mind saying that I did have to resort to midi writing of more advanced techniques that I simply could not master in a reasonable amount of time and I needed just the exact type of teacher that Barry was to learn from. I barely scratched the surface of just one or two videos and was on my way to a very satisfactory finish of getting those tracks done. The huge bonus of it all is that I have since totally enjoyed JUST LISTENING TO HIM FOR HOURS AND HOURS from time to time and really appreciating both his mastery as a pianist and his total approach to imparting such wisdom and understanding to all who are willing to listen and apply his techniques and ideas. Just a really great human being who just so happened to also be that and more as musician and teacher. He will be greatly missed by many , I’m sure of it. May he R.I.Power.
This little gem right here 🤣😂😆 A former student of Barry Harris shares a hilarious anecdote before moving on to the point of his post and it felt like someone I have known all my life was being talked about. Amazing 🤩 ruclips.net/video/7qiE8hLlYy4/видео.html
Thank you for this video! I'm really quite new to the world of jazz but know of the legend of Barry Harris. So many of the greats are passing on and I really appreciate you guys who are keeping jazz alive! Thank you! I NEED to sign up at Open Studio and just go through, from the very beginning. Even though I play at a fairly high level, I know I'm missing a lot and would so like to fill in some of the gaps. Started in classical but never had much theory, just had music shoved in front of me with the command, "play this", and I did. Got as far as Tchaikovsky piano concertos, Chopin etudes, stuff like that, but never learned the theory or scales or any of the underlying stuff of how jazz (or any kind of music) is built. Did some conservative church work for about 30 years and now playin' the keys with a three piece. And while I can make most of the people around here happy, oooh and aahh, (guess I'm a fairly big fish in a rather small pond), I'd love to be able to play for guys like you and not be totally embarrassed at my lack of skills. Some is physical skill which can be improved just by doing but I know a lot of it is mental, I just haven't learned what to do. I know you guys probably will never read this, RUclips comments are like this meandering into oblivion. But maybe it helped a little just to write it. Thanks!
Thanks Barry was a great human being and amazing teacher I remember those exercises from our classes in Rome! Thanks 🙏 for the refresh! It s a lot to do especially if you transpose in in all the keys 🔑
I feel you the same way i did when chic passed. : Its not been a great year , but the way through this ... they oassed on enough. Hence our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to carry on the work ; explaining how stuff works as well as experiences Time will heal us! & thanx for the very beautiful tutorial. Abraço
Your passion and child-like excitement - as if you've heard these melodic harmonies for the first time - is contagious! That's so exciting and proves to what degree the Mastro's music had moved you. As he rightfully said; he plays movements. Thanks Barry; thanks Adam🙏
Thank you for this! Beautiful tribute. Barry was like a spiritual father to me and my dad. My dad was in the original Jazz Cultural Theatre back in the 80s; almost 40 years later I joined the online workshops every single Saturday, and got to meet and play with Barry as well as reuniting him with my dad. He changed my life and shaped me as a musician, and it's so beautiful to see how much he is loved and revered all around the world. That's all he wanted - to pass on the music. There will never be anybody else like him, but there are and will be people who will channel his genius, his brilliance, and above all, his kind and selfless heart. We love you, Barry! Rest well
Thank you for this amazing, scaffolded lesson! I adapt as many of these lessons as I can to guitar for myself and I look forward to using them with my choirs next year!
The piano cliche licks. One of the first bits I took from watching a Barry video some years ago. But nothing cliche here. Great foundation for understanding how inner voices move. Barry will be missed.
Anyone who bought the course would like to have me as a studies' partner? I just got the piano course (which is fantastic) and would like someone to keep pushing each other :)
A legend who's knowledge and spirit will carry on forever in music history. Thank you Barry! Also, does anyone here where Koji Kondo got some of his inspiration for Zelda?
Regarding technique: It’s really hard to get the stretch between the right hand pinky and ring finger to do the “dah-dee-dum” inner voice movement with the 3,2,3 fingers. How far should you need to put your right elbow to the outside? How bad would it be to just reuse finger three. eg for the first “E, D, Db,D”, with pinky on the A, instead of using fingers 4,3,2,3 use 3,3,2,3 for the moving inner voice. It’s definitely not as smooth but that stretch between the number 4 and 5 fingers between E and A is killer. It’s hard for me to even hold the perfect fifth, perfect fourth stack like A E A with the 1 4 5 fingers even without moving the inner voice.
Reuse fingers. Only two fingers per hand are needed for the inner voices. Hardly anyone will notice if you use the sus pedal correctly. Make sure to use pedal only where the fingers break or else it sounds too messy. Never use the 4th finger for this exercise unless you have the hands of a giant. Using three notes with half-step approach your right hand fingering per chord should in general be (p for when to use pedal) 3 2 3p. Using four notes as the last example rh fingering is generally 3 2p 2 3p. Left hand fingering for inner voices (three notes with half-step approach) both down and up the board should be 1 2 1p. With four notes it is 1 2p 2 1p. Keep in mind that your fingers kan also easily slide from black keys to white. Hope this helps. If any hand movement feels too uncomfortable or sounds bad even with sus pedal look for other ways to do it.
@@psykofarmaka Thanks for the tip. "Never use the 4th finger for this exercise unless you have the hands of a giant. " Adam seems fine ;) I suspect that if you've been playing piano since you were a kid, you're probably more flexible than those of us that haven't.
When I began studying piano in Sept 2020 (after my career as a drummer), it was Barry Harris that was my first RUclips "find". Thank heavens for the prescient videographer who got all these lessons on...uh...whatever that was, film, video, etc. So I jumped into 6th chords. Hah!
Noooo! I didnt even know he died! And just a week before his birthday (his birthday is today as of me writing this). I only found out about Harris from my teacher from my HS jazz band. That was only 5-6 years ago, so sadly I never got to seem him live or anything. Hes been a huge inspiration to me recently as have delved into improvisation and bebop.
after over 60 years of playing, I don't always find things that let me move ahead in my playing. This is just a gem. Just a wonderful excerise, but really just very soulful and insightful. Thanks.
I agree, Adam. An absolute gem. Not hard to do and makes you sound like the real deal. The voice doublings on the third, seventh, and sixth degrees -- that's the cream in your coffee. That's jazz.
Hello from Argentina! Did Barry created that excercise? I been wondering where that came from for years... PD: play those same things but now descending the scale (start an octave higher) and listen that new melody :)
I practised the last exercise you're playing (on guitar) from Barry couple of years back. But then only I, ii and iii, then a half step higher to a new key ii-chord, back to I starting the sequence again. Hereby showing us a beautiful way to modulate keys in minor thirds like a dim arpeggio. Very tasteful (as if I heard romantic orchestral strings from an old movie, playing the melody)! RIP Barry. We'll miss you.
I’m just beginning my Barry journey. Ive learned of him years ago but bounced around jazz guitarist mini lessons but should have been studying Barry’s theory. I feel inspired again.
Very cool exercise. I love how that simple inner motion adds so much to the sound. That metronome, by the way, sounds like a flyswatter against a wet window - LOL.
I am grateful/Honored, that I got to sing in his Spring Concerts at the Symphony Space many years ago! I was sitting and waiting for my friend a bass player (David Colding) at a rehearsal session! Barry saw me and just came over to me and asked me if I could sing! I said No, he said “ yes you can!”He had me sing some notes at the piano and said, “you are a soprano!” After that, I got to sing in the soprano section! I cherish that time, because I met fantastic singers and musicians! I will never forget such a Beautiful Person! RIP Barry Harris!🌹❤️
Lovely tribute. The tone above/half step below exercise has always made me think of Del Sasser, and Barry was the pianist with Cannonball on that recording. Loved him.
This was really awesome - I was inspired to go deeper into Barry Harris's discography and his teachings via OS here... and one quick comment on the run through exercise at the end: HOLY ring-finger + pinky stretch, that was intense. When you're doing the C7 and the ring finger is on Bb and pinky is on E, wow!
Barry had a very distinctive style that was immediately recognizable. Complex, classy, be-bop. This was a great lesson because immediately i recognized the sound and wow, it was that simple but I was never able to put it together myself. even after all those years of jazz piano lessons a new 'holy smokes' moment. thanks.
Thanks for a wonderful tribute,and thanks for your knowledge/wisdom.Adam,you truly are the Salt of the Earth! Many Blessings to you,and your family this Holiday Season.
Adam, a year ago I posted on this platform. Watching you again today, a year later, I still see and feel your utter respect for the genius, Barry Harris. Thank you again
Thank you for doing this and providing the PDF. Worked on it and it's really helpful. It was also a wonderful tribute to Barry Harris. Keep up the great work of spreading the language of jazz.
Hi from stone cold Canada, Barry's music will warm us all up...thank goodness for Utube, and we can listen to him for a long time to come. Thankyou Adam
Awesome tribute to a great Master of the music and truly one of the most articulate and transparent educators ever. Barry always spoke with intent and wanted to make sure that you understood that nothing comes without hard work and commitment to your craft. He will be greatly missed. Thanks to you and Peter for carrying the torch.
Watching all these Barry Harris type videos the last month has really allowed me to get to know the keys in a different way. I’ve played guitar forever and only really knew a few things but like this technique a little brought me a long way.
Thanks Adam, that was so cool. I'm a guitarist and I've learned so much from you, Peter and Chris Parks who is one of many who carries the baton for Barry.
When I saw the title to this video in my recommendation, I was like “oh no, it says remembering Barry Harris. What happened?” So that hit me hard. I love listening to his music, watching his master classes, and practicing his techniques such as the Barry Harris 6th Diminish Scale. Thank you for this video. It helps me to clean up and add on to this technique that I’ve heard for years but it’s good to learn the theory to why it works and sounds great from and harmonic position. I’ll be incorporating this and the 6th diminish scale more in my play to pay my respects. RIP the legend, Barry Harris
Any recommendation as an intermediate guitarist on where to start to learn these concepts? I've been kind of taking the perfectionist approach by starting with triads and basics since I have heard Barry say something like I gotta know the 5th chord of Db, or like the Dominant of every key, etc, but am kinda stuck when it comes to playing in other keys too, seems like I just gotta do it, yet I am wary to skip some fundamentals by jumping to those and have gained use out of staying in Cmaj key for simplicity but also comfort I know is not good to keep forever, so I've just started playing with triads centered around a note, like ACG to ACF to ACE to GCF to GCE to FCE kind of thing. Even if the feedback was to affirm that this is a good place to start and to try to run through these all over the neck. My thoughts are to get really good at triads in this way. Thank you so much for any feedback in advance. I do not expect much, but I do get overwhelmed when I think about 4 note chords as 6th and 7th's when I've barely really scratched the surface with regular triads.
"Barry Harris put the virtuoso improvisations of Parker, Gillespie and Powell under a microscope, discovering the musical grammar that makes bebop work - scales, chords, chromatic passing tones. He then organized a set of rules that helps musicians play like natives, without an accent."
✊🏽💯
RIP the world's greatest Jazz PHILOSOPHER of all time, Barry Harris.
Adam, I have to say... I'm in my early 60s and just decided to learn keys, I love your lessons as they are right at my level , not overlay complex and not school kid either. I reckon it could be your demeanour that strikes a CHORD with me. (Yeah Yeah Pun intended) Quiet, gentle, not rushed and repeated enough times to get the gist. Hope you keep up the good work and get the satisfaction you are helping would be pianist's across the globe. (I'm in Oz BTW)
I am in the same situation and totaly agree, from Belgium
Same here. Poland
The pdf only indicates going upward, but try going down the scale with this exercise to melt your ears. Thank you Adam, and Thank you Barry, rest in peace, master.
Bill Evans’s ‘Like someone in love’ uses this beautiful technique in measure 15 of that beautiful song! Thank you very much for this!
Barry Harris’ version is much better imo
Words can not express how grateful I am for your teaching and your gorgeous devotional approach to teaching, so full of Love and Wonder. Thank you and thank you Mr Harris.
As a classical musician, Barry Harris has opened up a new world for me. I had spent four years in the Big Apple as an undergraduate student; what a shame it is that I had been completely unaware of his soul back then. I had been looking forward to finally getting a glimpse of his soul in real life upon my next return there. This loss felt more personal than I could have possibly imagined. Thanks for this, Adam! Forever grateful for him, many of us are :)
I just found out today... I've never felt this way about a man i never met
Thank you for 91 wonderful years!
Thanks for this remembering to the master Barry Harris. Hoping that OS will take over the specific Barry’s method & thoughts to perpetuate his gift to the future generations!
Adam, that was such a wonderfully beautiful tribute to Barry Harris. He lives forever in out hearts. So deeply appreciated!
Thanks for this. I just spent a half hour trying to transcribe Bud Powell’s solos from Webb City, which was one of the first bebop songs Barry learned. I’ve been going to some of his NYC workshops since early 2018 and checking in to the Saturday online workshops during the pandemic. A very sad week.
Thanks Adam , I discovered Barry on RUclips about 5 years ago while recording a tremendous amount of music for my catalogue that required at least some degree of foundational sophistication in the piano and keyboard parts I wanted.
I’m a guitarist and had no idea how hard it would be to hire someone to do it for me , so I rolled up my sleeves & dove into it.
I don’t mind saying that I did have to resort to midi writing of more advanced techniques that I simply could not master in a reasonable amount of time and I needed just the exact type of teacher that Barry was to learn from.
I barely scratched the surface of just one or two videos and was on my way to a very satisfactory finish of getting those tracks done.
The huge bonus of it all is that I have since totally enjoyed JUST LISTENING TO HIM FOR HOURS AND HOURS from time to time and really appreciating both his mastery as a pianist and his total approach to imparting such wisdom and understanding to all who are willing to listen and apply his techniques and ideas.
Just a really great human being who just so happened to also be that and more as musician and teacher.
He will be greatly missed by many , I’m sure of it.
May he R.I.Power.
This little gem right here 🤣😂😆
A former student of Barry Harris shares a hilarious anecdote before moving on to the point of his post and it felt like someone I have known all my life was being talked about.
Amazing 🤩
ruclips.net/video/7qiE8hLlYy4/видео.html
Thank you for this video! I'm really quite new to the world of jazz but know of the legend of Barry Harris. So many of the greats are passing on and I really appreciate you guys who are keeping jazz alive! Thank you! I NEED to sign up at Open Studio and just go through, from the very beginning. Even though I play at a fairly high level, I know I'm missing a lot and would so like to fill in some of the gaps. Started in classical but never had much theory, just had music shoved in front of me with the command, "play this", and I did. Got as far as Tchaikovsky piano concertos, Chopin etudes, stuff like that, but never learned the theory or scales or any of the underlying stuff of how jazz (or any kind of music) is built. Did some conservative church work for about 30 years and now playin' the keys with a three piece. And while I can make most of the people around here happy, oooh and aahh, (guess I'm a fairly big fish in a rather small pond), I'd love to be able to play for guys like you and not be totally embarrassed at my lack of skills. Some is physical skill which can be improved just by doing but I know a lot of it is mental, I just haven't learned what to do. I know you guys probably will never read this, RUclips comments are like this meandering into oblivion. But maybe it helped a little just to write it. Thanks!
Thanks Barry was a great human being and amazing teacher I remember those exercises from our classes in Rome! Thanks 🙏 for the refresh! It s a lot to do especially if you transpose in in all the keys 🔑
I feel you the same way i did when chic passed.
: Its not been a great year , but the way through this ... they oassed on enough.
Hence our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to carry on the work ; explaining how stuff works as well as experiences
Time will heal us! & thanx for the very beautiful tutorial.
Abraço
Your passion and child-like excitement - as if you've heard these melodic harmonies for the first time - is contagious! That's so exciting and proves to what degree the Mastro's music had moved you. As he rightfully said; he plays movements. Thanks Barry; thanks Adam🙏
Thank you for this! Beautiful tribute. Barry was like a spiritual father to me and my dad. My dad was in the original Jazz Cultural Theatre back in the 80s; almost 40 years later I joined the online workshops every single Saturday, and got to meet and play with Barry as well as reuniting him with my dad. He changed my life and shaped me as a musician, and it's so beautiful to see how much he is loved and revered all around the world. That's all he wanted - to pass on the music. There will never be anybody else like him, but there are and will be people who will channel his genius, his brilliance, and above all, his kind and selfless heart. We love you, Barry! Rest well
Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful. Thank you Adam.
And thank you for everything, Barry ; )
"Our e - goes down to d" my egos always been based from my d...apologies amazing lesson inspired from another amazing man 🙌🏽
Thank you for this amazing, scaffolded lesson!
I adapt as many of these lessons as I can to guitar for myself and I look forward to using them with my choirs next year!
Great tribute to a great musical mind. Bill Evans plays this on his rendition of Who Can I turn To?, Wouldn't surprise me if Barry influenced him.
And, vice-versa. They were contemporaries...
The piano cliche licks. One of the first bits I took from watching a Barry video some years ago. But nothing cliche here. Great foundation for understanding how inner voices move. Barry will be missed.
Anyone who bought the course would like to have me as a studies' partner? I just got the piano course (which is fantastic) and would like someone to keep pushing each other :)
Are you playing the thirds in your right hand with #4 finger? Not super hard but will take some getting used to
Thankful for the exceptional greatness of Barry Harris. RIP.
A legend who's knowledge and spirit will carry on forever in music history. Thank you Barry! Also, does anyone here where Koji Kondo got some of his inspiration for Zelda?
Dude, that click is like a sonic weapon. Maybe try something nicer on the ears.
Damn Adam, that stretch @13:44! I can keep up for most of the 10ths but that is insane
Reminds me about Fats Waller’s “my fate is in your hands”.
For a moment I thought that at 7:12 you were saying that "Now, we're gonna do some Barrryations on this" 😆
How the hell do you guys stretch that 5 and 4 fingers on the right hand to play E Bb E?
Excellent video. What VST do you use?
Regarding technique: It’s really hard to get the stretch between the right hand pinky and ring finger to do the “dah-dee-dum” inner voice movement with the 3,2,3 fingers. How far should you need to put your right elbow to the outside? How bad would it be to just reuse finger three. eg for the first “E, D, Db,D”, with pinky on the A, instead of using fingers 4,3,2,3 use 3,3,2,3 for the moving inner voice. It’s definitely not as smooth but that stretch between the number 4 and 5 fingers between E and A is killer. It’s hard for me to even hold the perfect fifth, perfect fourth stack like A E A with the 1 4 5 fingers even without moving the inner voice.
Reuse fingers. Only two fingers per hand are needed for the inner voices. Hardly anyone will notice if you use the sus pedal correctly. Make sure to use pedal only where the fingers break or else it sounds too messy. Never use the 4th finger for this exercise unless you have the hands of a giant.
Using three notes with half-step approach your right hand fingering per chord should in general be (p for when to use pedal) 3 2 3p. Using four notes as the last example rh fingering is generally 3 2p 2 3p.
Left hand fingering for inner voices (three notes with half-step approach) both down and up the board should be 1 2 1p. With four notes it is 1 2p 2 1p. Keep in mind that your fingers kan also easily slide from black keys to white. Hope this helps. If any hand movement feels too uncomfortable or sounds bad even with sus pedal look for other ways to do it.
@@psykofarmaka Thanks for the tip. "Never use the 4th finger for this exercise unless you have the hands of a giant. " Adam seems fine ;) I suspect that if you've been playing piano since you were a kid, you're probably more flexible than those of us that haven't.
@@psykofarmaka As Adam says, omit the top voice.
Works great with the the 6th diminished scale as well as the major scale
It's about time somebody told the truth This is the way Barry Harris taught it
is that what joe shearing? did in lock voicing??
How would you apply this playing a standard
That was great fun… thank you Adam
How do get the 4th finger on the the note 3, painfull!
Does this relate to the 6th diminished concept?
Thank you Adam for sharing!
What's the tune that was played at the end of the GPS?
Awesome lesson, lovely video! 🫶🏻
Thank you Adam! Very nice tribute to Barry Harris! Eventually you could show us some examples where to use these beautiful patterns. Thank you!😊😇
When I began studying piano in Sept 2020 (after my career as a drummer), it was Barry Harris that was my first RUclips "find". Thank heavens for the prescient videographer who got all these lessons on...uh...whatever that was, film, video, etc. So I jumped into 6th chords. Hah!
Noooo! I didnt even know he died! And just a week before his birthday (his birthday is today as of me writing this). I only found out about Harris from my teacher from my HS jazz band. That was only 5-6 years ago, so sadly I never got to seem him live or anything. Hes been a huge inspiration to me recently as have delved into improvisation and bebop.
I would LOVE to buy one (or more) of his books. I can't find them! I don't know the titles. Do you have any info?
after over 60 years of playing, I don't always find things that let me move ahead in my playing. This is just a gem. Just a wonderful excerise, but really just very soulful and insightful.
Thanks.
I agree, Adam. An absolute gem. Not hard to do and makes you sound like the real deal. The voice doublings on the third, seventh, and sixth degrees -- that's the cream in your coffee. That's jazz.
Hello from Argentina! Did Barry created that excercise? I been wondering where that came from for years...
PD: play those same things but now descending the scale (start an octave higher) and listen that new melody :)
I practised the last exercise you're playing (on guitar) from Barry couple of years back. But then only I, ii and iii, then a half step higher to a new key ii-chord, back to I starting the sequence again. Hereby showing us a beautiful way to modulate keys in minor thirds like a dim arpeggio. Very tasteful (as if I heard romantic orchestral strings from an old movie, playing the melody)! RIP Barry. We'll miss you.
great forever. Thank you
This was clearly presented and structured in a progressive stepwise fashion. Kudos to you AND BARRY HARRIS!
Good to see you live, Adam.
I’m just beginning my Barry journey. Ive learned of him years ago but bounced around jazz guitarist mini lessons but should have been studying Barry’s theory. I feel inspired again.
Very sad to hear of the passing of Barry Harris. Excellent tribute video.
Very cool exercise. I love how that simple inner motion adds so much to the sound.
That metronome, by the way, sounds like a flyswatter against a wet window - LOL.
I am grateful/Honored, that I got to sing in his Spring Concerts at the Symphony Space many years ago! I was sitting and waiting for my friend a bass player (David Colding) at a rehearsal session! Barry saw me and just came over to me and asked me if I could sing! I said No, he said “ yes you can!”He had me sing some notes at the piano and said, “you are a soprano!” After that, I got to sing in the soprano section! I cherish that time, because I met fantastic singers and musicians! I will never forget such a Beautiful Person! RIP Barry Harris!🌹❤️
Lovely tribute. The tone above/half step below exercise has always made me think of Del Sasser, and Barry was the pianist with Cannonball on that recording. Loved him.
This was really awesome - I was inspired to go deeper into Barry Harris's discography and his teachings via OS here... and one quick comment on the run through exercise at the end: HOLY ring-finger + pinky stretch, that was intense. When you're doing the C7 and the ring finger is on Bb and pinky is on E, wow!
Barry had a very distinctive style that was immediately recognizable. Complex, classy, be-bop. This was a great lesson because immediately i recognized the sound and wow, it was that simple but I was never able to put it together myself. even after all those years of jazz piano lessons a new 'holy smokes' moment. thanks.
Thanks for a wonderful tribute,and thanks for your knowledge/wisdom.Adam,you truly are the Salt of the Earth!
Many Blessings to you,and your family this Holiday Season.
Well done.Great video !
Adam, a year ago I posted on this platform. Watching you again today, a year later, I still see and feel your utter respect for the genius, Barry Harris. Thank you again
Thanks from, yes, snowy Denver, CO. And RIP Barry Harris. We lost a giant. Kind regards, Daniel
You know it's a good exercise when it provokes new ideas when your finger slips. Arpeggios for days.
Thank you for doing this and providing the PDF. Worked on it and it's really helpful. It was also a wonderful tribute to Barry Harris. Keep up the great work of spreading the language of jazz.
This is great!
Hi from stone cold Canada, Barry's music will warm us all up...thank goodness for Utube, and we can listen to him for a long time to come. Thankyou Adam
Dang this is some good s@@t.
Thanks for doing this Adam, unfortunately I have to teach shortly, hopefully I can catch this later. RIP Barry H.
I loved him, (you knew he was beautiful, in his voice,) in some of the classes I found on RUclips.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Nicely and simply explained but work for a few months😊
Rest In Peace 💔💔💔💔
Awesome tribute to a great Master of the music and truly one of the most articulate and transparent educators ever. Barry always spoke with intent and wanted to make sure that you understood that nothing comes without hard work and commitment to your craft. He will be greatly missed. Thanks to you and Peter for carrying the torch.
This was just delightful as always. What a wonderful tribute to Barry. Thank you Adam. ❤
Thank you Adam!!! Im sure Barry is smiling now! Thanks for all your awesome work!
There is a whole chunk of stuff here just executing the scale in this voicing. Thanks, Adam!
😊 thanks
Watching all these Barry Harris type videos the last month has really allowed me to get to know the keys in a different way. I’ve played guitar forever and only really knew a few things but like this technique a little brought me a long way.
Thank you. It was a moving, wonderful way to pay tribute to him.
Thanks Adam, that was so cool. I'm a guitarist and I've learned so much from you, Peter and Chris Parks who is one of many who carries the baton for Barry.
Thanks adam, i think it would be beatiful to have a "barry harris 101" and so on in open studio courses.
thank you so much
When I saw the title to this video in my recommendation, I was like “oh no, it says remembering Barry Harris. What happened?” So that hit me hard. I love listening to his music, watching his master classes, and practicing his techniques such as the Barry Harris 6th Diminish Scale. Thank you for this video. It helps me to clean up and add on to this technique that I’ve heard for years but it’s good to learn the theory to why it works and sounds great from and harmonic position. I’ll be incorporating this and the 6th diminish scale more in my play to pay my respects. RIP the legend, Barry Harris
This was also my first video I saw of yours so it’s a memorable subscription video 🔥
You may be the next great educator! Thank you for breaking this down!
Thanks. That was wonderful. RIP, Barry Harris.
Very beautiful, true, genuine, worthy tribute to Barry Harris! Thanks a lot!
Thanks Barry
Isn't it "bad" voice leading with parallel octaves and fifths and what not? Is there a better way to do these movements without the parallel octaves?
also doubling the seventh? that's just not done really if we go from the classical perspective.
@@maxdavidsonchannel We're not going from the classical perspective!
Thank you Adam for a heart felt lesson in honour of the great Barry Harris . He left us so much.
Any recommendation as an intermediate guitarist on where to start to learn these concepts? I've been kind of taking the perfectionist approach by starting with triads and basics since I have heard Barry say something like I gotta know the 5th chord of Db, or like the Dominant of every key, etc, but am kinda stuck when it comes to playing in other keys too, seems like I just gotta do it, yet I am wary to skip some fundamentals by jumping to those and have gained use out of staying in Cmaj key for simplicity but also comfort I know is not good to keep forever, so I've just started playing with triads centered around a note, like ACG to ACF to ACE to GCF to GCE to FCE kind of thing. Even if the feedback was to affirm that this is a good place to start and to try to run through these all over the neck. My thoughts are to get really good at triads in this way. Thank you so much for any feedback in advance. I do not expect much, but I do get overwhelmed when I think about 4 note chords as 6th and 7th's when I've barely really scratched the surface with regular triads.
Thank you for this beautiful video. This channel is deep.
Superb! Thankyou and thankyou Barry.
Nashville checking in, thank you for doing this
Great exercise .. Barry Harris showed us the truth here. So much to practise !!
Well done Adam. You are doing a great job. Thanks
can you do a lesson about the barry harris solo in jeannine
please!!
Chapters:
3:35 1. Spread voicings - explanation
5:56 1. Spread voicings w/ 65bpm click
7:36 1A. Down diatonically - explanation
9:01 1A. Down diatonically w/ 65bpm click
11:13 1B. + half step approach - explanation
13:32 1B. + half step approach w/ 65bpm click
15:40 1C. Run-through explanation
16:33 1C. Run-through w/ 65 bpm click
Great lesson Barry Harris was a virtuoso RIP