Jazz Theory with Barry Harris, Part Five

Sit down with the legendary Barry Harris for a piano and theory lesson that will expand your harmonic vocabulary and give you deeper insight into the music!
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Barry Harris - Piano
Eli Yamin - Piano
Richard Emery - Piano
Eric Suquet - Director
Bill Thomas - Director of Photography
Aaron Chandler - Audio Engineer
Richard Emery - Production Assistant
Seton Hawkins - Producer
Recorded September 11, 2013

[@fosterchild4523]

"Here are the keys to the world son..."..............."Oh Okay".

[@_con_fetti_]

oh..okay !

[@didondio]

hahah, I love how you have the three stages of learning: youth, maturity and old age. The young guy is like "oh, ok". The mature guy is tripping balls he is so happy and apriciative of the xp he is getting and being there and the old guy is giving, zen and wise :) :) :)

[@avalianiii]

Dilyan Nikolov no mature guy is just very stoned

[@stray1957]

Oh, okay.

[@davidallsopp4030]

I can’t explain why this is so funny 😂

[@vtlbz]

😅

[@MLaurence]

9:06 "uuh couldadoneitbetta, could-Ah!couldhedoit gummanow" My brain needed this break from his knowledge. He's a gem. Grateful for his wisdom!!

[@JaggedEdgeBouldering]

omg this is hilarious. praise you for that time stamp hahahaahha

[@grenciamars4876]

Good Lord I'm crying from laughter

[@sirtorchington]

LMAO

[@amotinyabongo5659]

Hey man, I'm making dinner and I'm doing my best not to burn dinner, cause the wife don't want to hear it..."You were listening to Barry???" But my brain will be done before dinner. 🤣🤣🤣

[@tyu3456]

"I gotta pull out the whip!!" lolololl

[@Simon-ct8bc]

Damn this is precious... Barry Harris what a genious..

[@andrewandrus3296]

the roles played by each individual are beautifully summarized by a still shot of 10:41

[@sirtorchington]

lmao yes 100%

[@vocalchords88]

I can't get enough of Dr Harris.

[@andrewandrus3296]

"you can play this on your guitar" 10:40 the look of doubt lol.

[@jean-lucbersou758]

at 12''45 B.H. says there is no guitarist playing that stuff except one he knows .....and name PASQUALE .OF course jazz guitar connoissers guess he evoques Pasquale GRASSO who studied with him as he was only eleven and is considered today as the best one .

[@imalamboman12]

I love Barry Harris' philosophical approach.

[@filmcrew1551]

I watched the first part of this series for years, there was so much information to absorb in those short videos.I can see why they waited so long to release the next set. Can tell I have another few years of contemplation already. Wow, what a treasure.

[@filmcrew1551]

This man just showed us how to play in the key of " H " .

[@zvonimirtosic6171]

@@filmcrew1551 The key of H, that is B. H is B in German/Austrian music notation, and in German/Austrian music notation, B is Bb.

[@jungsoo_hancock]

True Genius... Thank you Dr Harris for this wonderful lesson.

[@ErGoyoTV]

More Barry Harris videos... Thank you very much. I have learn more from Barry Harris through these videos than from anybody in 40 years.

[@inaschurwanz5995]

GoyoSound ii

[@joshhampton7628]

This is awesome. Ready for Part Six!!

[@JulianLambert]

Can't thank you all at the Lincoln Center enough for posting these wonderful videos. Barry Harris' teaching style forces us to think. When Rich lowered two consecutive notes I was hearing a Minor 7th, but BH was saying Major 6th. Took a moment for the penny to drop: they are of course the same thing! I must dig deaper, when two consecutive notes raised i heard Major 6th, when two consecutive notes lowered i hear Minor 7th. They are of course inversions one of another: sort of the same thing? And it is BH's powerful teaching that has got my thinking.

[@myhumbleopinion1036]

Julian Lambert good to see you here 👍🎹🎶

[@JulianLambert]

Ah, you too. Such a great resource of knowledge ... and really well presented here.

[@myhumbleopinion1036]

Very true

[@musicJRF]

Man, I'm glad I read your comment. I got to that part and thought the same thing. I was wondering why he said 6th instead of a Dm7. After reading your comment, I went back and played it, and realized what you had realized. Dm7 is harmonious with a F6. The same way a C6 is harmonious with an Am7. That's so interesting, and I never realized that before. Now, it makes me think of what you can influence with the resolution depending on what you put in the bass with your left hand. But even then, it's still up for interpretation. If you do a Cdim7 chord and resolve the two middle notes down and play a D in the bass, you could say that's a Dm7, but you could also say it's a F6/D. Like how in an old Barry Harris video when he said Monk would call a B half diminished (Bm7b5) chord a Dm/B chord. I love all these different perceptions and interpretations. Thanks, again.

[@nilskavanagh]

Another simple trick is if you are playing let's say a Dm7 chord just play the F as the lowest note and suddenly everyone perceives it as a F6 chord. Simple but interesting

[@ArgoBeats]

The Master is back! Thank you JLC!

[@conqueringlion420]

Rest easy Legend, and hey thanks for teaching us Cat.

[@allaboutbuckets]

This stuff is amazing

[@tonmota1461]

Amazing!

[@jppontat3909]

Such a humble man.

[@luoshengying]

Amazing!!

[@emanuelerizzo4599]

Thank you very much, Barry is my mith. God bless you Master.

[@thingsivelearnedfrombarryh2616]

Thanks for posting this.

[@W.E.]

Hi Chris; from about 05:58 ... Barry says play the B7 B D# F# A = B7 at about 06:05 ... Barry says play the C#dim7 C# E G A# at about 06:10 ... Barry says next inversion of the B6???? Why did we go from B7 to B6? I get the B6 = B D# F# G# and C# E G A# = C#dim7 form this scale B C# D# E F# G G# A# Maj 6th dim in B

[@psunie]

Wayne Elliott I am scratching my head with that too.

[@rudyandersson38Star]

One can always learn from the best

[@LokeyeMC]

Mind blown! I just now for the umpteenth time, after watching a Barry Harris video, looked at my piano and saw all the new glorious inner logic. I'm so thankful to this video! Each chord change in the 12 bar blues is actually flipping polarity on the whole tone scale it uses, at each change, thereby maximizing tension by adhering to the subtle wavelike motion of travelling forward to each polarity's extreme end before passing back through release/balance again. Also, each degree of a diatonic scale partners with 2 notes from the whole tone scale, until all the notes are used up, assuming the degree corresponds to a minor, major, or dominant chord. There aren't any doubles! I realize, this is hard to explain. For example, the A and Eb pairing would lead you back to the I in C Major, the C# and G lead to the ii and so on, until each note pairing is used up, by the time you get to the vi. It even works for diatonic minor scales! I have no idea how much more I'm going to learn or how useful it's going to become but wow, now I understand how some could play and compose beautifully without even hearing the piece. Thank you once again Mr. Harris. I'm forever in awe and gratitude for your gifts. Now I will compose to generate maximum tension and release by flipping whole tone polarities!

[@michaelkiese7794]

I’m going to learn this.

[@tdubasdfg]

*Recorded 2013 I hope this well of information doesn't dry up anytime soon! The first 4 parts of this series were amazing and this 5th part continues that excellence

[@MarimaruXD]

Master is back :D

[@billrupp1019]

That’s the REAL major scale- oh okay

[@TheLuminescentGrand]

Wow I was watching the video and then when I decided to open up comments was right at 7:37

[@brunochartreux]

7:38 "That's the real major scale" 7:41"Oh OK."

[@JS-dt1tn]

what an oaf. LOL

[@QubitVector]

I would kill for this lesson

[@JorisPosthumus]

We mis you Mr Harris!!

[@LA-cy1zj]

2:25 - Barry just tearing apart the 'half step whole step' diminished scale narrative hahaha

[@souldreamer9056]

Excellent video. I was wondering if you felt up to the challenge of explaining the harmonic structure of Chick Corea’s Slippery When Wet. I can’t make any sense of it.

[@kabalayouri419]

If you have more please share !!!

[@JazzAcademy]

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[@kabalayouri419]

Thanks but I've already seen all of them 😭

[@JaggedEdgeBouldering]

What do you do with the 3rd diminished? What do you do with the 3rd diminished? What do you do? What do you do with the 3rd diminished? Can't you see it? Think about it. What do you do with the 3rd diminished?

[@CharlesK441]

11:15 oh WOW! 😮

[@janbrombach]

Deamn I need to learn this stuff - thats what music is about ! :D

[@JavierSpicer]

12:26 Pasquale Grasso.

[@pedromrls6]

Javier Spicer thought in the same Pasquale

[@matthewserino6786]

Anyone know the guitar player that he mentions uses the 6th dim scale? 12:35, I can't hear him.

[@m4gdelen4]

It sounds like he said "Pasquale." I don't know who though. But a quick search for guitarists gives me Pasquale Grasso.

[@leosteinriede5633]

pasquale grasso

[@pianoarmond]

Barry will give four directions at the same time and say no that's wrong 😂😂😂

[@bill3837]

5 chord uses dim scale with half step

[@raydrysdale2726]

I'm a drummer and mostly a metalhead - I love this! I've always been a fan of Chopin and Blues/Southern rock and New Orleans sounds

[@richardmcnulty6934]

I’m very confused by the “scale of chords” terminology. Is this a scale involving all twelve notes?

[@W.E.]

No ... just 8 of the 12. 1 2 3 4 5 b6 6 7 G A B C D Eb E F# Maj 6th Dim E F# G# A B C C# D# F G A Bb C Db D E 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 6 7 G A Bb C D Eb E F# Min 6th Dim E F# G A B C C# D# 1 2 3 4 5 b6 b7 7 G A B C D Eb F F# 7 Dim E F# G# A B C D D# 1 2 3 4 b5 b6 b7 7 G A B C Db Eb F F# 7b5 Dim E F# G# A Bb C D D#

[@nicolobalestrino]

at 04:50 which are the 4 chords he's referring to? i mean the ones that came from two two diminishes

[@Pootzification]

The 4 chords are B7, D7,F7 and Ab7. They are derived from Cdim7 by moving each chord tone down a halfstep. The roots of those chords (BDFAb) also spell out a Bdim7 chord. So those 4 dominat 7 chords come from Bdim 7 and Cdim7

[@hanktheblesseddeejay]

If you draw that dim 6 maj scale round a circle youll see that flat 6, is on a line of symmetry

[@JS-dt1tn]

what

[@JS-dt1tn]

couldnt you say that with any note as the circle itself is symmetrical

[@hanktheblesseddeejay]

Joel Steinke Not really, lots of scales dont have a line of symmetry, draw a circle with 12 points, draw a major scale, youll notice there is a line of symmetry that cuts across from the 2nd degree of the major over to the flattend 6th.

[@sense8371]

I totally understand what you are saying. The best way to see this symmetry, for those that are wondering, is to take the C diminished 6 scale and the second inversion of the c major sixth chord. With the notes down with E, G,A, C, in that order notice how the Flat 6, Ab, lies in the middle of this symmetrical chord. In this sense, you can start to see that the Ab note is almost like the pivot, or middle point, which acts as the mirror on the left and right the C major scale.

[@michaelsiao]

@4:21 why are there 3 dimished? what i understand is 4. pls help thank you!

[@charlieherbert7716]

Michael Siaotong play diminished chords going up chromatically, when you get to the fourth you will realise it has the same notes as the first, it is an inversion. So there are only three diminished chords.

[@JamesExcell-InterJex]

There are 12 tones. 3 diminished 7 chords, which has 4...equals up to 12.

[@TheMrlovegoodtimes]

ooooohhhhh

[@JamesExcell-InterJex]

OK.

[@Mrfailstandstil]

i know a couple of chords on a guitar and a major scale, i guess it's a little bit early for me to even not to know what i do not know about what they're talking about, see ya in 20-30 yrs.

[@twire61]

LMFAO

[@isaiahlawsom6494]

I don’t really understand. How can a sale be rhythmic?

[@boswell255]

The extra note makes it fit better into 4/4 than a regular 7 note major scale does.

[@guidemeChrist]

How could a scale be not rhythmic? Jazz is tonal music

[@calebwilliams6984]

The added note means that if you play starting the “rhythmic” scale at the downbeat on a chord tone with an even rhythm (straight eighth or sixteenth notes, etc.) that you’ll always land on a chord tone For example, the C major sixth chord is C, E, G, A C(d)E(f)G(g#)A(b)C If the C is the down beat and the (d) is the upbeat, you’re you can play straight up or down and always play a chord tone on the down beat. Or you can syncopate and do the opposite... like every minor detail in these videos, this idea will come in very handy if you keep studying. Especially when you learn all his half step rules for the Bebop scales.... The sixth degree ( the A in the key of C) is very important in his system of harmony and simply put is considered the true of the C major chord (C, E, G, A not C, E, G ,B). Keep watching these over and over and you’ll pick up different things. Now, you learn the other 11 keys 😉

[@Pootzification]

Shoutout pasquale grasso

[@1.4142]

new guy

[@yoericktv9610]

This IS what music is about. It's not about hoes, bitches, junkies, getting money or stealing the next man's girl. It's about the SOUL.

[@JaggedEdgeBouldering]

Ooh. Ogeh.

[@sitodavid2437]

that was rhythmic a f11:10

[@cedricary9633]

"Play it."

[@GestattenWinnetou]

"Where's the dementia scale [...]" ... LOL YT's automatic subtitles are sometimes hilarious...

[@discoinkernow7815]

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[@vtlbz]

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[@johnhyon8519]

Feeln like I need to practice my diminished vocabulary… yikes