Foundations 1: Polyphony [Barry Harris Improvisational Method]

I'm very excited to know what you all think of this one. This is the beginning of a whole new venture!
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[@JesseChisholm-qm7bz]

I bought your PDF on the elevator a year or more ago. It was amazing. I wish I had you around when I was 14 and had nearly infinite time to play guitar. Back then I tried to be like the Chili Peppers and "not know" music and then I realized that was a scam and I tried to learn all the scales and wasted tons more time. It wasn't until my 30's that I realized the use of Arpeggios and Chord inversions. But this Barry Harris stuff is next level and you are a fantastic teacher. Thank you!

[@thingsivelearnedfrombarryh2616]

Awesome! The My Romance in the beginning got me.

[@jameserenberger3425]

The whole time I was listening, I heard your voice saying, "Wow! This pretty stuff." lol

[@LokeyeMC]

Same, got me too! I'm also excited to try the exercise @14:00.

[@ozkancanbay4963]

I've been watching this for the third or fourth time now after reading the theory part of Volume 1, and I'm thoroughly impressed. Mr. Harris's approach to treating music as an art form so radically complete and self-contained (also elegant), more precisely, axiomatically, is truly admirable. Equally admirable is how you break down the Creation Theory into small steps for practical application.

[@critical9999]

Barry's theory and method is like looking western thonal theory with microscope, I would say Quantum Theory of Music Theory

[@petezah6557]

Excited to re-enter the labyrinth with a new perspective!

[@elmelody7442]

Omg. Good job. This is gold. I hope ppl recognize your effort in this.

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

thank you!

[@uneedtherapy42]

Especially if the classical guitar world extracts its head from its 19th century keister and embraces the modern world! Great comment tho seriously

[@MC-mi4ck]

I bought the Foundations 1 Polyphony packet and love it. It really ties everything together I’ve learned so far. Getting a deeper understanding of Barry’s ideas. Many thanks.

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Great to hear! Thanks, man!

[@RafaelMorgan]

Hey brother. I just discovered your channel. You're the best teacher in this area on KZbin. The way you approach the guitar is very, very inspiring.

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

:) aw thanks, Rafael! Glad you've joined us!

[@ozkancanbay4963]

Absolutely impressive and convincing! I'll certainly give this concept a shot. Many thanks.

[@juanar_97]

Man, I cannot thank you enough for this new series.

[@NSinghJ]

welcome back! I bought the 62 page PDF, will study it later, when I have time. Skimmed through it, and saw a bunch of shapes that, at first glance, made me think of Pat Martino’s Sacred Geometry. Pat was a master player, but lest we forget, he learned to play on “Chitlin” Circuit. In fact, he was a friend of my teacher, who was, himself one of the very few masters of both jazz and classical guitar. I got to meet Oscar Ghiglia a couple times, listening to him and my teacher talk music (I had nothing to contribute, but was happy to listen). What I got from Oscar (What a highly brilliant, thoughtful, cultured and funny man he is!) was his basic point about the most important movement in (western tonal) music: V7 to I. Dissonance to Consonance, chaos to order, etc). If we think about it, that’s what Barry teaches us as well. In any event, welcome back.

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Thank you, Navdeep, for this thoughtful comment. Oscar is one of my favorites, and studying with him changed my life forever:) Glad to be back!

[@jameserenberger3425]

Pat Martino was amazing! He is truly missed.

[@evuono]

Oscar passed away past week

[@THEItchybruddah]

This is gold. I WILL be coming back. Between yourself and Parks, I’ve been RE-defining my approach since the start of the pandemic. MUCH obliged!

[@Pagemmanuel]

This is gold for people striving to explore rhe instrument and some of the inner logic of harmony (i am one of those people), looking forward to the rest! Keep going, thank you so much ❤

[@pawlowski6132]

Brilliant

[@jerryballard371]

Thank You… for naming the ‘off chord’ after the 7th (leading tone diminished) and not the 2nd! 👍 Sometimes leveraging 200 years of tonal theory really is easier than reinventing the wheel. 😉

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

😂 so true

[@davidkurraschmusic]

Thank you for putting all of this together. I've watched a few others explain these concepts, and your presentation paints the clearest picture. Looking forward to the rest of the series!

[@stevealbertjohnston]

you have out done yourself this 62 page pdf is a god send i love the step by step directions of what to practice

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Thank you:))

[@critical9999]

wow and I have been waiting since you sent emails thru all of us

[@guivieiraalves]

Brother, I’ve been following your channel and it’s AMAZING! Thank for your genius way of sharing this things. I gonna join your Patreon very soon! See u there. Thanks for your music and teaching!

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Thanks so much! I'll look forward to having you with us in the Patreon crew! It's getting really fun:)

[@marianopedroza]

Very inspiring!!! I had been yearning to find a method to learn more about creating and possibly improvising chord melodies. I feel very motivated to explore this paradigm.

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Awesome, Mariano! Excited to have you join us! More to come

[@TheDonnielaw]

This is excellent! Any advice on how to play that C6 without strain? Sometimes I can and sometimes it feels very off. What is the secret?

[@xyzyzx1253]

Truly beautiful work! As some one who has been working their way through the drop system vocabulary and how to play the scale as chords for a few years now, this is a lovely refresher and really clears things up very nicely! I spent ages figuring this out! It really feels magical to see the sheer mass of information arranged so elegantly and seemlessly, really excited for this course! :) x So glad to see this come from you, I subscribed ages ago with a hunch I’d spot this kind of thing in the future! Amazing effort! :) thanks again

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Thank you! Really appreciate this thoughtful comment. Means a lot to me:)

[@xyzyzx1253]

@@TheLabyrinthofLimitations The app is truly a marvel, i used this to explain the labrynth to a close friend of mine who is a pianist and she is super excited to start a project where we learn it together, and build up a shared improvational language, im hoping to relearn the approach on piano as wel because the sounds are so wonderful, thank you again this is a life changing gift to be able to share! what an achievement :)

[@jorgejewsbury]

Excelente!!!

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Gracias, mi hermano!

[@critical9999]

Just bought the pdf and it worths million dollars boys I highly recommend all you to buy if you are Barry person

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Thank you!!! These shout outs really mean a lot. Very glad folks are digging it:)

[@ramiromunoz4305]

Looking forward to getting hold of my 62-page PDF, though I must confess the shapes and diagrams are a bit daunting, hope I have it off pat

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Thanks, Ramiro! There is sheet music, chord charts, and lots of prose discussion to guide the way. Plus I'll be going through every example on Patreon!

[@uneedtherapy42]

You and Chris Parks have ruined my life 🤣 just kidding this is incredible

[@ulisestheguitarist]

So when do we meet Daneel Olivaw?

[@matt_greene]

this is so over my head but so fascinating! im a computer programmer and this seems like a very algorithmic look at theory. Feels like you are generating your own diagrams as well which is sweet. python?

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Thanks, Matt! The goal here is to go forward from very basic steps, so, if you can play a diminished chord, you can do this stuff:) I make the diagrams in Adobe Illustrator. I do a lot of programming in the Cycling 74 environment MaxMSP (that's how I made the Labyrinth App). I use pure data a lot, and some javascript here and there. Cool to have a programmer in the crew!

[@patwalden78]

Hi! Thanks for the videos.) It’s says 4 videos are hidden in the playlist? I can only see 0 and 1? Thanks

[@patwalden78]

Hi, I’m looking to join patreon, do any of the tiers include access to the app? Thanks,

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

The app is separate, but I will be posting beta tests of other apps (and beta updates to the current one) for the Innovator tier on my Patreon

[@yossif2504]

Hi Thomas. I feel like I’m a bit lost here.. - who is the course for? I have been playing the guitar for five years non-professionally (chords, songs - without a teacher or reading notes...) - so usually I’m only watching your videos / beauty without playing… do you think this course could be relevant to me?

[@tommyecho]

Hi! Yes, I think this course could be great for you:)

[@marianok52]

Wondering what Patreon to join to follow the Foundations course

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

www.patreon.com/labyrinthoflimitations

[@marianok52]

You have different tiers which one will I be able to use and follow your foundations series?

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Oh, sorry I didn’t understand your question! The Collaborator tier gives you access to the Daily Practice Regimen series, which is a weekly video series going through the most important part of foundations. I view every tier as a subscription to the foundations course, just with different benefit levels. For example, the Innovator tier adds, among other things, online masterclasses/guided practice sessions that are another way of learning within the foundations course. But the collaborator level might be of most interest to you, with the daily practice vids:)

[@marianok52]

@@TheLabyrinthofLimitations thank you. It seems a bit overwhelming at this point because it challenges your embedded perspectives of looking at the fretboard and musical relationships. I guess it’s slow go with lots of patience at the beginning.

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

@@marianok52 this exact issue is what the Daily Practice Routine video series (on patreon) is about. Small steps of actual practice that gradually make it all make sense:)

[@hazenclough4212]

Question: Can you change the guitar tuning in the tesseract app?

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

Not at present, but I have it in the list for the next update

[@hazenclough4212]

@@TheLabyrinthofLimitations You're the man

[@miTnosnhoJ]

Do you have a Patreon channel in English? Google will only take me to the Spanish version.

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

That’s really weird! Can you try out the fix in this video? Let me know how it goes! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHq7i5xsZ7ubbMksi=OtF1LX7-xglZkTsL

[@miTnosnhoJ]

The video basically works, but I had to figure it out in Spanish. I used Google Translate to try to see what some of the options on your page were. I found the “free signup” button. Patreon sent me to a Profile page. On the second or third page I found a phrase that looked like it could be “change language” so I plugged it into Google Translate - and it was. So then I changed to English and refreshed the browser. And now I am in English. I am excited about your new course. Having bite-sized lessons to practice is going to help me a lot!

[@tioliak]

Hi. What's his name?

[@tioliak]

Is it Thomas Echols?

[@TheLabyrinthofLimitations]

yes:)