Barry Harris Workshop 1998 (Full), part 2 "Breaking the Habit" - Filling the Half Steps

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This is so important- priceless.

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This is one of the only Barry workshops I’ve never seen before. Thank you!

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Same! It’s life changing material.

[@TaylorJohnHardin]

Half step rules on harnonic minor and Diminished scales? Dope!

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✨ Thank you for your feedback! Barry is indeed a huge source for inspiration

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[@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743]

Amazing footage of the genius-- thank you

[@johnrothfield6126]

Thanks! Great to hear Barry teaching harmonic minor half step moves

[@brothercaleb]

33:50 “the fella who’s gonna be the best, is the one who knows the most ways to play” - Barry Harris, Holland 1998

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Merci ! Excellent !

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Thank you so much ! Learn so much !

[@jamieforjazz]

Great to see this. Miss Barry's workshops a lot

[@AlecKatz]

Me too!

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It's a great video.

[@johnrothfield6126]

12:00 dim scale ht rules

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23:40 that sax

[@brothercaleb]

I swear by these rules. Duyyymmmm

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15:36

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brilliant at 1600

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[@patrickwhitty1982]

Template shifting across the scale .

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Catalin rotaru on bass?

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[@Osnosis]

If I understand this correctly, he is simply adding one note at a time to make an 8-note scale, starting on each degree of an underlying/base scale. Is that right?

[@slowporch]

Exactly. Then you always land on a dominant chord tone.

[@AlecKatz]

Oh, you mean starting at 3:30? Barry asks to play a descending F harmonic minor scale with insertion of half-step betwen first two notes. When there already a half-step use a neigbour note tp fill between them.

[@robbyr9286]

That's the starting idea but he takes it much further. One big idea is that you can use other notes in place of the added half-step, for variety. Not only semitones/ minor 2nds. I'll call these 'half steps' in quotation marks. The idea 'half-step' is expanded to mean play a note to a an extra rhythmic 1/8 note. For example on F harmonic minor descending, to add a 'half-step' between 6 & 5 the default would be to make it D Db C. But you could use DEC or DBC instead for that portion of the phrase. It creates many, many options for how to navigate a scale sound. The 1/2 step rules which are not detailed in this clip have other central provisions. On a descending scale, for example, starting on 1,3,5 or 7 can take one 'half-step' OR three 'half-steps'. Using normal semitones on a C7 scale starting on 1 would give either something like C(B)Bb AGFEDC (the B is the added 1/2 step), but it could also be CBBb AG FEEb DDbC. Starting on 2,4 or 6 uses either zero added 'half steps', or two 'half steps'. E.g., Starting on 2 (D) gives either 1) DCBbAGFEDC or 2) DDbCBBbAGFEDC. But in any of these examples, the 'half-step' doesn't have to be the chromatic in-between note. E.g., instead of CBBb AGFEDC you could use CABb AGFEDC or CDBb AGFEDC. Chris Parks on Things I Learned From Barry Harris youtube channel covers alot of this material.

[@Osnosis]

@@robbyr9286 Your explanation is sensical. I have incorporated this as (a) you can always have a chromatic passing tone between diatonic scale tones that are a whole-step apart, and (b) you can "jump" away (instead of chromatic passing tone), and still hit the same diatonic target. The latter gives you an opportunity to create a secondary guide tone line, as well.

[@robbyr9286]

@@Osnosis That's the concept! The two factors I see missing in your description are 1) 'you can always'. The recommended rules for starting on 1357 vs 246 are different- typically one or three halfsteps on 135 or 7 & zero or two half steps on 246. 2) You can also add this kind of half step between adjacent scale tones which are only a semitone, not a whole step apart! E.g in a C major scale, you can use G or D as a 'half step' note in between the E & F, e.g., CBAGFGEDC or CBAGFDEDC. This is what Harris does in the this video w/ the G# A semitone in the A Harmonic minor. E.g., ABG#FEDCBA inserts the B as a 'half note' between A & G#. It could also have been AFG#FEDCBA.