Barry Harris - Dominant scale rules with examples

[@ernstlieber4340]

As I already said, your channel is a hidden gem on youtube. I compare it to a lot of other "Barry Harris"-explanations. Yours is by far the most understandable and useful one - so practical and at the same time explaining where things come from. Thank you!!!

[@JazzSkills]

I really appreciate that. Thank you so much for your kind comment and keep playing!

[@JTL2884]

I love this channel. Better than Open Studio. :)

[@JazzSkills]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@KennethGonzalez]

This is a fabulous example of how to use Barry concepts! Great job

[@khosrohedayat8213]

Thanks for the step by step teaching. I’ve learned a lot.

[@gerichtpresteren]

Your explanation is clearer than from other piano teachers on youtube, about the harry barris rules. i writing your explanation from a to z because my elglish language is not so good thanks from the netherlands.

[@johnpauletemesi4292]

Thank you Shan. Much love from Kenya.

[@JazzSkills]

You are so welcome and much love from London!

[@philippinenativehardwoodtr7327]

Thank you o much for this tutorial!

[@JazzSkills]

You are very welcome. I wish you well with your playing.

[@hoboken5224]

Thank you for this I will try and use this in my practice at the keyboard.

[@zacharyhadley2156]

Thanks so much, Shan. I have watched many of your videos and really like your approach of breaking things down!

[@JazzSkills]

Thank you Zachary, I appreciate your kind comment and wish you good jazz!

[@gramophoneloopers]

Wonderfull lesson with bright explanation! Love it! 👏👏❤️

[@JazzSkills]

Glad you liked it!

[@tugwinthrop7424]

Solid Gold. Thank you!

[@Solid_Brass]

Thanks, your lesson reminds me of the exercises in the Jamey Aebersold Vol 3 Supplement and the series by David Baker, The Bebop Era, some of the hottest stuff you could get when learning to play jazz in the early 80's.

[@soureel]

Thanks Shan. Great examples

[@samueldesouzamalaquias]

Very good! Can you make one on the major 6 chords?

[@JazzSkills]

If you mean the scale rules for Major, I already have that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ3Kf6SQjpaCkKM If you mean Maj6 movements, I have those too: kzbin.info/aero/PL2GT-F7_oAbmNf3Szot-P-NJIEtYWZeum

[@rickrocketts183]

Great lesson!

[@JazzSkills]

Thanks! 😃

[@faqtum]

Very valuable lesson.! Thank you Shan.

[@JazzSkills]

Glad you liked it! Thank you Armando.

[@dr.mikeybee]

Thanks for this!

[@karenrigdon4137]

This is a top notch lesson. I appreciate that you teach at a pace that I am able to follow! Could you please please tell me how to spell your first name if you see this? Thanks!

[@JazzSkills]

Thank you so much. Shan pronounced Shaan :)

[@anthonywritesfantasy]

So helpful! I wonder, do you ever teach the Boysie Lowery jazz stuff? That's all about time too, if I remember right, but I sorta bounced off that material...

[@coreycongilio]

Love your channel! Keep up the great work!

[@JazzSkills]

Thanks so much!

[@БудниСаныча]

I M from Ukraine. Thenk you very much for the lessons. My name is Alexander. I am sub sckribad to your channel.

[@JazzSkills]

Bless you Alexander and welcome aboard!

[@robertkasper]

Could you share your thoughts on Smile? Have seen you play it somewhere but i am so keen to hear more on your approach Shan!

[@JazzSkills]

I do have that in the members area of Jazz Skills already Robert so I'm not sure if that one will make it onto KZbin.

[@robertkasper]

OK. I'll be signing up soon! Thank you!

[@valeriekuhn3746]

Is there a book/playbook of Barry Harris's method? I've looked a little and can't find one. I would like to take lessons from Shon, he's very good.

[@rik-keymusic160]

Great !! But you can practice this concept in only one chord and have infinite possibility’s. How or when do you decide to move on ? If one wants to play this on fast bebop tunes it’s necessary to get it so well under the fingers that you don’t even need to think about it right?

[@jerryballard371]

Are the various chromatic rules applicable when using dim6 scales?

[@JazzSkills]

I use the 6th dim more for movement than improv.

[@Millo1868]

9:20

[@scottbaekeland9750]

It seems that this works if your in the rhythmic straight jacket of only using eight notes and the melodic straight jacket of insisting on chord tones on the downbeat. Interesting concept but kind of paints you in a corner like the twelve tone theory of making yourself use all twelve tones. Nice for setting parameters for a composition but should that be all there is? I like your videos but have always wondered about the restrictions of the Harris method. It reminds me of George Russell's Lydian Chromatic method in that it is an interesting concept but is it a bit limiting if it is adhered to all the time in every musical context? As a way to focus your awareness I am all for it.

[@JazzSkills]

It's certainly not the only thing we do. I don't see it as a restriction and it needs to be mastered to understand its true value.

[@ernstlieber4340]

@@JazzSkills So right! First we have to understand and make use of the "rules" - later we might break them. To me the point is: Barry Harris is an excellent method to approach important Jazz-Concepts. After being through a lot of the Berkley-stuff (the mainstream of jazz-exercises and -theory) I stumbled over Barry's ideas and approaches. Now it seems to me that what academia did to jazz was mainly to build up a rather intriguing barreer and making jazz a far too intellectual and elite "game". One extremely interresting thing to observe is that when jazz left the "Barry Harris" way (like Miles Davis, Coltrane and others!) was exactly the point when jazz lost a lot of listeners that somehow seemed to feel that musicality has been sacrificed for mere artistic virtuosity and intellectual analysis.

[@NizJazzBTC]

Use the rule based on the beat you are on when you start descending. Do I have that correct (summarized)?

[@JazzSkills]

You got it!

[@NizJazzBTC]

@@JazzSkills thanks. Love your videos!

[@antoniofragassomusic]

How to improvvise in 16th or 8th triplets?

[@JazzSkills]

I might do a lesson about that for Jazz Skills members with a segment for youtube