Barry Harris Half Step Rules Rules Workout

[@JoePariseauMusic]

Sooo glad to see you covering Barry Harris! He is one of THE BEST jazz educators ever!!!

[@elmelody7442]

Thank you so much! This is perfect!

[@lukeburns3761]

Mate, love the shirt!

[@rationalchimp8200]

Fantastic!

[@salvadorgarcia8661]

Como siempre una lección formidable. Muchas gracias maestro.

[@ArthurTabbal]

Hi Mikko ! Recently discovered your channel and i'm learning a lot! Thanks for these videos... I have a question. Couldn't you interpret the sus chords as minor 7ths / 11ths ? I mean, can you choose between these sounds arbitrarily in improvisation?

[@deepaktrivedi950]

superb video

[@stevewhite3753]

Is there a good book for this?

[@MrMewsique]

Have you ever worked with Jerry Bergonzi's book Melodic structures? If so, did you like it? If you did like it, could you do a video on it? I'm curious to hear your take on it. Thank you again for everything

[@Mikkokosmos]

Oh yes way ahead of you 😄👍 I made a video on that book years ago. It's called "Blues for Alice chord tones" if I remember correctly. One of my favorite books

[@salvadorgarcia8661]

I am interested in buying the Pdf's of the lesson. Tell me by mail what I have to send you and I will send it to you. Thank you very much teacher.

[@Mikkokosmos]

I have a pay what you can-policy 🙏 a cup of coffee 😃🍮 you can contact me on the email on here or directly with PP. If I give my emailadress here in the comment sectiom KZbin can remove it because algorithms treats it as spam

[@gourabshow3993]

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[@YukonDan]

What kind of amp and rug do you play?

[@Mikkokosmos]

That's a Quilter. Not sure about the rug? 😄

[@JoePariseauMusic]

What was the name of the book and author you'd mentioned? Jerry ?

[@Mikkokosmos]

The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar (2006 by Alan Kingstone) there is a link to where you can buy it in the description to my latest video

[@JoePariseauMusic]

@@Mikkokosmos Yes, I actually have owned the Barry Harris book for a while now. The other book by Jerry (last name?) Vol. 3 was the book I was referring to. You'd mentioned that you've talked about it in past videos a lot. I'd like to get my hands on that series of books. 📚🎸🎵 Thanks in advance! ☺ Love your channel and watch regularly. Keep up the awesome work my friend! 👏 😀👍

[@Mikkokosmos]

@@JoePariseauMusic oh I see 😅 Jerry Bergonzi. The book is called Jazz Line

[@JoePariseauMusic]

@@Mikkokosmos Thank you Mikko! 😁🙏

[@Osnosis]

@@Mikkokosmos There are 6 (or 7 now) volumes of the Bergonzi method.

[@gabrielmontecinopena3168]

Why only descending?

[@Mikkokosmos]

It works ascending as well

[@jfender8023]

Do all your Patreon PDF material include tab?

[@Mikkokosmos]

If it's a practical excercise like this one I usually include tabs but if it's a more theory based lesson I see no reason to use tabs. So it depends 🤓

[@klerin2732]

Does it includes tab???

[@Mikkokosmos]

sorry does what include tabs? I made an etude for this lesson with tabs. It's on my Patreon page

[@mandanglelow1442]

I appreciate the work put into making this video but it's overly complicated for a pretty simple concept. Simply put a chord tones of Any Given scale are played on the Beats of the measure and every other available Gap is open for chromatic interpretation

[@rodolfoamaralguitar]

I agree with you. Although I really respect Barry Harris IMHO these rules over complicate the process. Someone posted this somewhere which summarize all of this: ''For descending half-step rules: Starting on an odd-numbered degree (7, 9, 11, etc.) you don't need to add a half step. Starting on an even-numbered degree (6, 8, 10, etc.) you need to add a half step. That's it. These "rules" serve to balance the line. Balance = chord tones landing on the beat. It's basically a binary approach to balance a 7-note scale. 7 is an odd quantity of notes, balancing it with added half steps can keep chord tones on the beat.'' To finish, Hal Galper on his book Forward Motion page 86 (which has a similar approach) said: When and where to add the additional half-steps varies according to when and where you start and intend to resolve your line. It can't be done by rules. These additions can be successfully accomplished only if you're hearing ahead towards your last note and sense that you're going to arrive at your target note and beat either to early or late. Start ascending and descending scale lines on any off beat, on any added half step to test if you can hear where the added notes need to be placed to keep your line in sync.

[@mandanglelow1442]

@@rodolfoamaralguitar I will say respectively that the odd/even number concept you pointed out is also too rigid. Yes, a standard scale has 7 notes and the extensions fall on odd digits but 12 notes exist in total. Melodically you do not have to think in terms of extensions, you can but don't have to. Point being, regardless of odd or even numbering chromaticism works beautifully sliding them in anywhere off the beat, resolving to a chord tone. The trick is not to over do it. The odd even number concept seems to assume that you'll be playing line of 5s and 7s over 4/4 or any other even count. That would be a very rigid 16th note line with not much rhythmic variety.

[@gourabshow3993]

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