LIttle Labyrinth 78: Making Complex Songs More Simple (Barry Harris Concepts)

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@richardbeyer2862 10 ай бұрын

These last 2 episodes feel like the culmination of the last 3 years, and a big step forward.

@johnrothfield6126 10 ай бұрын

"Summoning; That's the power we have have.We have to practice that."

@a.m.son222 5 ай бұрын

Fun diminished family sequence I noticed in a pop tune. George Harrison’s “Isn’t It A Pity”. The chord sequence is, in general: G ____ C G. The first time through the blank chord is Db-7b5, the second time it’s Db diminished and the third time it’s A7. All three chords from the Db diminished family.

@MuñozFerreyro 10 ай бұрын

Thomas, what on earth can be said when your understanding and delivering of BH's teachings is just not of this earth and yet pretty straightforward that it's seems a paradox both for our conception and scaffolding knowledge and execution (a propos of playing and making our hands linguistically literate). My goodness, you and Chris just rock!!!

@TheLabyrinthofLimitations 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind comment, Ramiro. I'm glad you are finding it inspiring:)

@MuñozFerreyro 10 ай бұрын

@@TheLabyrinthofLimitations Thomas, the way you make this knowledge accessible is just unbelievable, not trying to be verbose, it's just beyond my ken. However, it is just tickety boo, refreshingly inspiring.

@MuñozFerreyro 10 ай бұрын

Summoning is so powerful a word, I like it, hoping to summon with ease some, if not all, of the elevator's floors. Keep on, please, keep on sharing.

@BartCub 3 ай бұрын

This is truly brilliant stuff. Thank you so much, Thomas.

@TheLabyrinthofLimitations 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@NSinghJ 10 ай бұрын

OK I worked it out, using your system. Minor 6 BH Stella ii-Vs: Em7b5-A7 Dm7b5-G7 Cm7 b5 -F7 Bb In the BH family of 4 m6 scale of chords: Gm6-Bbm6 R to 6 Fm6-Abm6 b3 to R Ebm6-Gbm6: 6 to b3 Bb R So you basically start with with the Gm6 (156b3), G on 10th fret of A string, and wind up with th same shape (15b3) of the Bb resolution on the 13th fret . GOOD STUFF!!

@KennethGonzalez 10 ай бұрын

Elegant and effective. Bravo!

@jeffreygeorge4537 8 ай бұрын

Nice, Thomas. Thanks. I recognize the Granados. I used to own one. Nice instrument.

@user-pr1nz7yq3q 9 ай бұрын

Love it!

@TheLabyrinthofLimitations 7 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

@robertomacheda592 9 ай бұрын

very nice channel

@NSinghJ 10 ай бұрын

I play 8 string guitar-having been converted to the Brahms guitar concept, I sold my 6 string guitars and had an 8 string electric and acoustic archtop built, like Paul Galbraith’s Brahms guitar. I find it’s the best instrument for solo “piano style” guitar. The BH system is the best way to employ musical movements. I need to think about the whys and whereores of moving up all these shapes up and down a semi-tone, why that works musically. I.e, instead of playing Ebm6 ( R in bass) you can play Bb6 (3rd in bass). Basically the bass moves up from Eb to D. I like this a lot, it sounds good. Now just have to think about WHY it sounds good.

@TheLabyrinthofLimitations 10 ай бұрын

That sounds cool! Love Galbraith. My friend Redmond is a great player of that instrument. Beautiful stuff

@reinh 10 ай бұрын

Incredible. Two chord qualities, three families, and four root notes form 24 distinct chords. For each chord, there are 23 possible transitions. 552 distinct two chord progressions. Include all four chord qualities and you have three tesseracts stacked on top of each other, every node connected to every other node. A connected digraph with 2256 edges that is capable of representing every song in every real book, the totality of western tonal music. I guess I know what the sequel to the Labyrinth of Limitations app will have to be.

@reinh 10 ай бұрын

Fortunately for us, 10% of these gives us 90% of the actual Real Book. Now we just need a dictionary that maps each function onto one of these edges and then we just get our... hands... to read it? Sorry, I think I butchered your metaphor.

@reinh 10 ай бұрын

It's actually better than that because you don't need to map every root onto every root, you just need up/down/across/same. "Up" is the same whether it's 1-3, 3-5, 5-6, or 6-1.

@TheLabyrinthofLimitations 10 ай бұрын

🧐 I’m not sure about all that haha. But there are situations that aren’t happily played by just 6 chords, even as one option. The bridge of round midnight really needs a dom7 or dom7 flat 5 here and there. I’m he voiceleading just doesn’t work otherwise, imo

@reinh 10 ай бұрын

@@TheLabyrinthofLimitations When you add dom 7 and dom 7 flat five things get real complex real fast. I'm also trying to figure out the rules for tritone subs and non-circle of fifths root movements. Some surprising findings, for example Coltrane Changes with dom 7 tritone subs has some very small voice leading: B6 to Ab7 (tritone sub of D7) is x6647x x6657x. One voice moves *up* a half step.

@reinh 10 ай бұрын

Oh it's just Ab minor 7 to Ab dominant 7 lol. I wonder if this has anything to do with why it sounds good.

@paulcunningham3552 10 ай бұрын

Hi Thomas , you mentioned a classical guitar method book in one of your very early videos that I am unable to find which video you mentioned it in. Do you recall which method book ? Thank you kindly

@TheLabyrinthofLimitations 9 ай бұрын

Gosh, I have no idea. 🤔

@rrhett2119 10 ай бұрын

I am confused about what in a chord chart indicates a change in a family, and whether the change is to the upper neighbor or lower neighbor. Do you have a LL episode that explains that? Thanks!

@TheLabyrinthofLimitations 10 ай бұрын

There are places where i talk about this. It’s a great thing for private lessons, really. It’s a bit subtle. I’ll be talking about in more in the channel though:)

@rrhett2119 10 ай бұрын

@@TheLabyrinthofLimitations Thanks! Genuinely looking forward to it. I have worked out some rules for myself especially around cadences, but I don’t have a ”unified theory” that gives me a logical way at understanding every chord movement. I am fascinated by your development of BH’s concepts around family into usable and practical schemes for developing harmony. And your teaser on single line ideas using these concepts has me at the edge of my seat. Bravo!