Do you know your Minor 6th Diminished Scale? EP 123 TILF Barry Harris

[@lmwald]

Love explorative spirit. Always learning. Cool way to spend time.

[@annonymeandfish]

I love the fact that you are going all out. At the very limit of your skills and knowledge. Eternal student of the labyrinth of limitations. Thank you so much ! To you and Thomas.

[@jimh77]

Beautiful. That exercise is great. Thanks so much for showing it, Chris.

[@matemagyari4717]

Beautiful! I've been practicing this for a couple of weeks now and I have so much fun with it!

[@Sammywhat]

You are always appreciated, Chris. Great lesson!!

[@j.garnergtr]

Dang!!! this is cool. I do some of this already, I found it transcribing Django solo pieces. But this is a deep dive on this concept. Killer. Going to incorporate. sounds good. grazie.

[@ChuckSilva]

Fantastic! Thanks.❤

[@diminishedguitar748]

That's a beautiful exercise. For me it changes how the drop-2 sounds after you do the inner voice moves, it sounds somehow bigger. Gonna practice this one!

[@dananthony6258]

This is right where I’m at. I need to take the elevator.

[@PabloDegregori]

Legend

[@jakelee7639]

Great stuff,…don’t these two chords live in the C melodic minor with an added #5 note?

[@ryanswiggs]

this is such great information. thanks so much

[@TxShoreDog]

Thanks

[@bidbinary]

For Barry’s ABC’s, did he mean learning 3rds, triads, chords, etc. of the scales as we are familiar with them (7 notes), or did he mean we should do all that with the 6th/diminished scales? …Or maybe he meant we should be able do it with both?

[@MrThepopopopo]

From what I've gathered it seems that you should be able to do all the things you mentioned on any scale.

[@jacintoroymendoza7903]

sax players don't know what drop two means tho

[@davidcheek3125]

I've heard you refer to broken drop 2's. What are they exactly if it's not too much trouble? Sorry but I haven't been able to find any info on it. Thanks for everything. Love your channel!!

[@annonymeandfish]

I think he calls it like that because it is the top 3 voices of a drop two chord. Drop 2 without the bass voice

[@jeffreydelisle7337]

You should show the notes on stave paper

[@TheDave292]

PDF of TAB would be helpful. Wasting too much time trying to read the inversions off the vid.

[@andrewchumich9606]

Look up the Elevator Sequence from the channel Labrynth of Limitations. He sells a PDF of this exercise for $4 on his website. We’ll worth it if you want to explore this method

[@TheDave292]

@@andrewchumich9606 Thank you. I'm 'sweating' it out which is probably the best way but the PDF will be good to insure I have it correct. Thanks again.

[@jeremyversusjazz]

Man…theres not enough time! Im still on episodes 1 thru 4! Lol btw chris, u should do a video on why you never use hybrid picking to pluck all those gorgeous chords in favor of all strums and flatpicking.

[@mranon7485]

Yeah I also want to know why he only uses a pick

[@jeremyversusjazz]

@@mranon7485 my guess it comes from starting out as a rock player as he said early on he was-but i dig that hes able to play all those complex chords cleanly-it works for him…but love to hear him discuss it!

[@mranon7485]

@@jeremyversusjazz agreed. i also think picked chords sound more piano-like than fingerstyle.

[@jimkaznosky3132]

Stick with it. The learning curve can be a little steep. The core practice material can be a little daunting at first but it will become second nature - basically how he runs the scales, the thirds, the triads, etc and then the whole thing with the chromatic approaches. Spend a lot of time with that because it will make the pivoting, the chromatic scales, and the descending stuff easier, which then makes all of the material as he applies to certain chord progressions a heck of a lot easier. I'd also spend time with the first four labyrinth of limitations (I call it the harmony version of the material) episodes. Very useful.

[@jeremyversusjazz]

@@jimkaznosky3132 appreciate the thoughtful advice!