Why Barry Harris' Approach Is So Much Better Than Bebop Scales!

What Makes Bebop sound amazing is not the notes, it is the melodies and the phrasing! In this video, I'll show you some of the most important things to learn to get the Bebop sound into your playing using first triads and enclosures but then moving on into some Amazing Barry Harris concepts!
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Content:
00:00 Bebop IS Modern Jazz
00:40 Charlie Parker Is The Mozart Of Jazz
01:19 What's Wrong With Bebop Scales?
02:47 Melody is About Direction
03:35 Back to Triads
05:48 Barry Pivots
07:21 Barry Harris Chromatic scale
08:53 Super-charged Barry Harris
09:57 Chromatic Boosted Half-step
10:30 Grant Is The Greatest
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[@JensLarsen]

*How important is Bebop for learning Jazz?* If you want to explore a practical way to deal with Jazz chords, then follow this approach inspired by Joe Pass: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hl6zXpqDbLt9rpY

[@TheWaveFiles]

i'm so bitter,Years of jazz lessons,NOT a single teacher told me those simple and so effective principles to play the music i wanted to play so bad in my 20s glad i finally found the key.Thanks

[@floaty10]

Lazy teachers that just want the money give the rest a bad name. Sorry to hear you got some of them.

[@JensLarsen]

Well, I think Pat Metheny is nailing it with his remarks about how we still need to learn to teach melody. But I do think we are getting a lot better at it.

[@kevindonnelly761]

@@JensLarsen When I was an Undergraduate, we learnt enough Harmony (Diatonic, Chromatic and Serial) to kill an Ox. We hardly ever learned any practical rhythm. By the end of third year, not so many could compose an interesting melody. Granted that it was an 'Academic' course - that's how everyone got away with it. Pat Metheny is spot on.

[@puke1505]

Amen!

[@user-ov5nd1fb7s]

The players who were born to play music don't need someone telling them what to do. It comes naturally. There are people who don't even know that a tonic is and are amazing jazz improvisers.

[@davidwallis4281]

This is the best bebop lesson on KZbin. Can we delete all the other bebop tutorials and just keep this one? It will save people decades of trying to reach this. I also love the fact that it's only about 10 minutes long.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it

[@wsirota2007]

I don't think I've ever spent 11 minutes getting so much useful information on anything in my life before! Thank you so much for this.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@irawhitlock1084]

It’s shocking how simple and beautiful the pivot arpeggio is.

[@JensLarsen]

Yes, that is actually true. It is also not only a Jazz thing 🙂

[@Joel_Powell]

Another great lesson, Jens. I love how you speak like Barry is still with us - because, in many many ways, he still is. I attended some of his Zoom workshops just before he passed - he IS bebop.

[@RaiderClarke312]

Yep........

[@Jazzinthecountry]

The patron Saint of Jazz education

[@albertyap7369]

This has got to be the greatest explanation about bebop phrasing on this planet... ultimate!!!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! Glad it was helpful

[@rossfinazzo]

I think you are the best bebop educator out there. Teaching stuff is always a selfless act of love for who comes after. Thanks !

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that you found the video useful and that you want to support the channel 🙂

[@manoftheworld56]

Django Reinhardt might not be the first name that comes to mind when talking about Bebop but listening to his way of making beautifully tasty melodic lines over just one chord is really a masterclass in Jazz and Bebop. His mastery of constructing MELODY and relying on it to the core gave him an enormous amount of freedom in what to do harmonically as well, it's almost like magic. He is not mentioned as influential as Charlie Christian in Bebop context but there's just as much of Django in Wes' playing (Octaves, Minor 6 Diminished) as there is of Charlie Christian.

[@bonusfat110]

youre absolutely correct. theres definitely 2 schools of jazz guitar playing today. jens addressed it indirectly - those who think scales will make music and then those who reverse engineer melodies to understand the approach and reuse the infinite amount of approaches out there. a lot of the successful jazz guitarists like you mentioned, Wes and Joe Pass followed Django and that primarily aural tradition of jazz. Playing some Django-Reinhardt Coleman Hawkins era stuff and transcribing them, youll see a lot of the "modern approaches" like substitutions. were they the pioneers? mmm we dont know. we dont care. its beautiful and accessible to be digested by us all. if you listen to modern day "gypsy jazz" players like angelo debarre and adrien moignard(which im sure you already do), a lof of their lines are "bebop". to be honest, its gotten to the point where players who follow suit to those guys such as myself cant even purposely distinguish whether the lines we play are deemed "bebop" or "gypsy jazz" anymore. the only difference is on how the rhythm section of the ensemble accompanies the soloists. cheers man! your comment got me thinkin TIME TO SHED =D

[@canardlaque8106]

@@bonusfat110 Si vous écoutez les derniers disques de Django (ceux d'après guerre où il joue de la guitare électrique et est accompagné par des gens comme Martial Solal ou Maurice Vander), vous entendrez qu'il avait écouté ses collègues du bop et repris pas mal de plans 100 % bop. Il y a une grande différence entre le Django de l'époque du Quintet du Hot Club de France et le Django des derniers disques (comme il y a une grosse différence entre le Django qui a enregistrés les titres "ouverts" et "flamenco" sous les titres "Improvisation N° 1, 2; etc" et le Django des enregistrements alimentaires avec des chanteurs parfois pénibles). En France, il y a pour Django dans les héritiers, les imitateurs souvent très doués (Tchavolo, Romane Angelo Debarre,...), ceux qui ont incorporés d'autres choses (Boulou Ferré la musique de Tristano, Rafael Fays avec le jazz fusion et le Flamenco, Christiane Escoudé ou Bireli Lagrene avec un peu tout,,...) et ceux qui ont été très influencé par le be bop et/ou Jimmy Raney et chez qui il ne reste pas grand chose du jazz manouche (le remarquable René Thomas, le peu connue Mailhes,...)

[@ZAWARUD00]

@@canardlaque8106 Je ne connais pas ces albums tardifs, ils valent le coup ?

[@canardlaque8106]

@@ZAWARUD00 Oui. il joue dans un style très différent. Il a écouté du be-bop et ça se sent. Il joue parfois de la guitare électrique (avec un son assez "crunch" mais ça a son charme). Et, au lieu d'avoir la fameuse pompe manouche à la guitare derrière, il y a des pianistes comme Solal ou Vander. C'est assez facile à écouter sur FB, on troue à peu prêt tout ce qu'il a enregistré les "dernières années".

[@texaspete7897]

One of the best lessons I've come across in a while. Will be watching it a few times over. Been working on enclosures for a while but this clears it up quite a bit more. You just got another subscriber. Thanks!

[@bennettkeasey665]

I applaud your videos! You definitely know how to explain jazz improvisation. And you always leave the diligent student on a great path to learning how to incorporate these ideas. I also appreciate that you never over-promise and under-deliver.

[@timfairfield407]

I have seen a few others explain this topic in similar ways but you really added some concepts especially at the end I never saw in any of the others. You really put a lot of effort here. Thank you!!

[@randykalish7558]

After watching the way jazz players create beautiful incomprehensible walls of notes, I see that this ~11 minute lesson is a fast track for me to create beautiful incomprehensible walls of notes 😎

[@JensLarsen]

Exactly! We all have goals 🙂

[@regismeyran8833]

Thanks so much for this video: first time I hear someone talking about the importance of melody in improvisation! Many years of teaching courses about harmony or scales and arpeggios are not so helpful when you've got to build your own phrasing style... I'll have to listen to your video many times to fully be able to use your recommendations in my playing!

[@user-kk4kn1ue8u]

That's amazing content through all that years, and the quality is only getting better! You can really learn from it, or you can just enjoy some jazzy content. Works both ways for me.

[@hearpalhere]

Thanks for another great video Jens, lots of fun to work on in this one too!

[@MrRuneberre]

You`re such a great teacher, Jens! 😀 Clear and precise, straight to the point! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge! 🎸👍

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! 🙂

[@GregoryPearsonMusic]

Excellent video Jens - the way you started with a simple triad and enclosure is like a life-line for those of us new to Jazz

[@jonathanlangston6958]

Thanks Jens! Always love when you drop videos on Barry Harris. My teacher and I have been working through a lot of the Barry Harris concepts that you've been presenting, and it's completely changed my approach to improvisation. It's really helped in removing a lot of the mystery and fear I had when going through the Charlie Parker Omnibook. I'm now seeing patterns and have the terminology that I didn't have before. Great job, and it's always a pleasure watching your weekly videos!

[@JensLarsen]

That is awesome to hear Jonathan!

[@paulreitz5]

Thanks Jens! That was an awesome overview with great insight into things to work on & listen too!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful! That is great to hear!

[@SvenHulaHoop]

Loved this. How you manage to combine entertainment and great teaching is a gift. That, and the fact that you are so generous with your work - you're a model for how to achieve fulfilment on so many levels.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much! Glad you like the video!

[@dvdesmond]

Wow! Thank you for such a clear breakdown. Can’t wait to try these! ❤

[@JensLarsen]

You are so welcome!

[@hunterda0209]

It is amazing how much you are able to pack into a video, and it is all so smooth! You are like the Charlie Parker of jazz youtubers......

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! Thank you 🙏😎

[@twostep919]

Your channel is single handedly helping me become a better jazz soloist; thank you for your hard work!

[@JensLarsen]

Great to hear! 🙂

[@PlayBetterJazz]

Omg amazing! I thought I was the only one who didn’t think bebop scales were effective or sound good! And it still blows my mind when I see people who don’t have much experience ask about them all the time and place so much emphasis on them. I’m so glad you made this video, as a jazz pianist and teacher myself I couldn’t agree more with all of your points. And thank you for making a video about it before I did 😂

[@blow-by-blow-trumpet]

Excellent video Jens. I think it's interesting that as a trumpet player I'm pretty much forced into pivot arpeggios whether I like it or not because of the limited range. I discovered this for myself pretty early on: when I ran out of range I'd just use a pivot to get me back down again. Then I started hearing it everywhere in bebop and the penny dropped. Funny how we can arrive at the same destination by very different paths.

[@suzannahardman207]

I appreciate this very interesting and well explained wealth of knowledge on how to be musical instead of just playing scales (such a challenge). Not many tell you this!! So unique! Thank you for all your wonderful videos.

[@ericstrauch3215]

Great lesson Jens! This clarifies Barry's chromatic scale and how easy it is to use. Thank you!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@russianconservative]

Great as always. I geniunly thank you for all the ideas that you have given me

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like them!

[@davidfairweather1034]

Wow, I'd already managed to internalize Barry's Chromatic Scale into my playing (usually descending), but now you've given it a "boost"! Thanks!

[@1233farhan]

i love this video concept, really teach us well. thanks Jens

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@piercealexander]

Wow, amazing video Jens! Some seriously mind blowing stuff in here. This material will keep me practicing for a long time to come!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tcobbish]

No one has ever gotten me to understand jazz licks and progressions until I ran across your videos. Even after getting a music degree I still felt like jazz was so foreign to me. You have inspired me to want to play more jazz guitar!

[@vibrationoftheone]

I love this. Because this is all new to me. Fascinating and everyone makes it look so easy

[@michelvaliquette8679]

Man there is so much info in that 10 min video .I am doing the beginner "Jazz guitar roadmap " with Jen and still that video bring more clarity to those bebop concepts. fantastic.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Michel!

[@bebop425]

You give so much information in so little time. Great job for video format so I can pause and rewind without having to watch five videos and endless nonsense in between. Thank you.

[@JensLarsen]

Awesome, thank you!

[@idlevandal69]

So much incredible information and ideas crammed into a single short video... 🤯

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you liked it! 🙂

[@petermcateer1354]

The great concepts are always the foundation ! No concepts, nothing to apply in practice. Thanks Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was useful

[@robbertr1558]

Amazing video, Jens! I am gonna learn a lot putting that into practice.

[@JensLarsen]

You got this!

[@Dang...]

Great lesson Jens. Very helpful, thank you.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@1199ccttv]

this lesson's so eye opening it almost feels illegal

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it 🙂

[@voxwah75]

Fantastic lesson for the point I was stuck at, knowing the scales for years, took the effort lately to play in more 'boxes' and eventually on the whole neck but still sounding like a scale and not like be-bop, Thanks a lot

[@SeyongMasi-ug6sb]

Hey Jens, I applied this to piano and changed my sound in hours. That bebop scale stuff was so confusing. Thanks so much. God bless you so you can teach more.

[@JensLarsen]

That is great to hear!

[@moritzvdforst]

wow... best lesson ever ! I can work for years with these ideas !!

[@JensLarsen]

Go for it 🙂

[@justanotherguitarguy]

I just can't imagine how much time you spend on making these contents. Great, really really great

[@hack-ta-guitare]

Wow Jens the quality of your content improved so much !! I’m impressed, amazing work !

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you think so!

[@SweetSpotGuitar]

I first learned how to _label_ enclosures from Chad LB, who has some incredible stuff on melodic ideas. I hadn't really known what a pivot arpeggio was, even though I have been doing them without realizing it. Now that I see the concept and have a name for it, though, I'll be using it more and will have more awareness of my playing. Thanks for this!!

[@dantelaw7759]

This is straight up the best video on bebop melody lines I've ever seen. Thank you sir!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you!

[@jroc2201]

Yes!! Movment, flow, natural rythm

[@koolword7477]

What an absolutely amazing teacher you are. A tremendous thank you for these videos.

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome! Great to hear that you find the videos useful!

[@koolword7477]

@@JensLarsen 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@markdunnell5591]

That was the best lesson on jazz melody i have ever heard. Thank you thank you.

[@JensLarsen]

That's really great to hear! Glad it was useful!

[@kevinelliott5823]

Wow! Lots of eureka moments in this one! Such simple concepts the way you explain them.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@PedroSilvaMusic]

You are a brilliant teacher and musician. Thank you !!!!!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@Der_an]

Thank you for sharing it , very useful

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Cross_Contam]

I'm not much of a jazz player but have been prescribed to a similar perspective on the use of enclosures. It's similar to how Stravinsky works in Rite Of Spring and John William's Star Wars Tattooine theme. I like using these concepts in my electronic compositions.

[@olivertevcev125]

I think this is one of the most useful, no no nsense approach to learning the jazz language i have come accross. I am looking forward for more content that expands on these ideas.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! 🙂

[@shaolin1derpalm]

I think you're the best teacher on the internet.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! 🙂

[@BrettPenza]

I’ve taught for 40+ years and there is no “I think” about it. Jens has Perfected the ‘net teaching. He’s mastered the guitar, the medium and sharing. Amazing ability to make you feel good about your playing, while dazzling you with his. YT Gold!😊

[@rubng__]

Amazing amazing lesson here.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you think so!

[@damiankostkamusic]

This is golden, thank you !!!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful 🙂

[@user-vx4jy8jh9i]

Thanks for the great video, Jens! Do you have any online courses with step by step exercises to master these jazz skills? e.g. enclosures, Barry Harris chromatic scale, pivots, etc.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Alex! I do have a course called the Jazz Guitar Roadmap which covers a lot of this on a song in a step-by-step manner.

[@StevenRosenberg]

Thank you Jens for another great video. I've been working with the David Baker bebop books, and I feel like the bebop scales themselves don't work, but the 100s of sequences laid out in vol. 1 and 2 help you sound more like "jazz"

[@robertpeveler9570]

Couldn’t agree more!

[@augustusbetucius2931]

The diatonic above/chromatic below is something that no one ever taught me, either in private lessons, or when I was a jazz performance major. Simple but effective idea, and it can be applied outside of a jazz context. something I wanted to mention, and I don't know how it will be received, either it will be ignored, or others will hammer me for it. I was watching your videos from the first year you started. It was refreshing, because there weren't any of the distracting gimmicks and trying to be humorous. It was just no BS, straight information on the subject at hand. It was much easier to take in, and seemed more professional, even if the production quality wasn't as slick and glossy. Take it for what you will, but I think I prefer your earlier videos without the gimmicks. You're a great teacher, and have top notch content, I just find all the editing tricks distracting.

[@cbolt4492]

Looking forward to this 😎

[@JensLarsen]

Hope you like it!

[@RC32Smiths01]

It's a great time to always think outside the box when how to use musical knowledge/theory in creative and musical ways. The tools are meant to be used, not to be used by the tools. Cheers!

[@JensLarsen]

Totally agree!

[@albertofornasier3305]

Well done! I can totally relate with what you've said in this video. I''ve always hated scales too! My lines would sounds so dull. When I decided I wanted to try to improvise on chord changes, I thought that the first step would be to master 7th's arpeggios. But it was too complicated, so I skipped the 7th, and I had the triads. But then it was too hard to improvise with so few notes and I added the enclosures :) Then I used the non-diatonic notes to join the dots :) I'd love to have a teacher, but I'm always so scared to find someone who just tell me to learn scales, when I just need someone who can make me progress on the path I've created myself...

[@comaranagroove2347]

Jens, I finally started to practice with your book. I'll try to make some simple solo on all of me using substitution arpeggios and 4 note Coltrane pattern and send it to you. Still feel there is a need of a mentor to guide me and help me focus on important thing and to learn faster. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@JensLarsen]

That's great! The closest thing I can offer to mentorship is my course, for the rest I can only recommend other teachers 🙂

[@steveleeatfullmeasure]

As a beginner im just switching on to melody and phrasing. Thanks for another great video

[@JensLarsen]

Great! Go for it 🙂

[@frederic1000001]

Great work, thank you.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it!

[@gertzpalma]

THANKS, JENS!

[@MrFractalito1]

great video the enclosure trick ,,, blow my mind ,,, thanks ......

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you liked it!

[@paulsenn1281]

I love you Jens Larsen! In a musical way of course. I could just listen all day to your videos. Yes, I also pick up my guitar and play. Won't get fooled again! (By boring bebop scales for one)

[@jensbusch5602]

Great content. Thank you! :)

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you liked it!

[@GreyHorse019]

Jens. I have always loved bebop, Thank You!

[@user-ef1yh9cs7i]

Got it. Thanks Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

👍

[@GreyHorse019]

Incredible, Thank You 🙏

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sandrocavali9810]

Amazing.... so rhythm is what glues all this chaos together. Metheny said something about it too

[@vivoni4sept]

Great video as always! Trying to decode the Bebop language and to create rules is fascinating! Is there a book about barry harris' method?

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! I would be careful with making rules, that usually never ends well 😁

[@vivoni4sept]

Well…you know how it is…beginners NEED rules!😂

[@JensLarsen]

@@vivoni4sept which is why they stay beginners

[@markwhite-what-da-jazz]

Thank you for this great lesson on bebop.

[@JensLarsen]

You're very welcome!

[@andresdotcom]

Excellent lesson! I loved how you started from simple to complex without making it complicated. There was so much to unpack I watched this and practice the concepts on many occasions (still am). Now that I have the different concepts in mind, I’m able to look for pivots and Barry Harris chromaticisms when I transpose solos. I will also be able to see how I can apply them into my practicing/playing. Overall, I’m happy I can mentally grasp the concepts of jazz improv which you explained on a deeper, more fundamental level. Thanks!

[@jamesdaviesguitar]

Great lesson!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you liked it!

[@arturoaguilajr2009]

What a understatement.

[@ORF5519]

This is the second video on improv that I've heard the term "enclosures" used. It's a very cool way to describe it. And like you mentioned there are other terms used for it. In Classical Theory I remember the device being called "changing tones" Many years ago I got to Jam with Rich Matteson and he called it "rotation." Another cool term. And of course there are the terms used by Slonimsky and Yuseff Lateef in their books, which are cool but overly complicated.

[@awol2602]

The reason why be-bop is not my favourite form is predicated on my preference for space atmosphere economy and succinct distillations of emotion in playing. However I'm really enjoying the cool sounds here and the way you're explaining them.

[@christianmani1730]

Jens, this video is bebop gold! Thank you!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@JoshWalshMusic]

Hello friend. Thank you for carrying the bebop torch for Barry. He was a huge inspiration for me.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Josh! Hope you are well! 🙂

[@JoshWalshMusic]

@@JensLarsen doing well! Just making silly jazz videos all day. The dream lol

[@user-ze3nl2kc2f]

Great lesson cheers!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it!

[@jadeowenhamblyn4405]

I'm really coming around to your way of thinking Jens.

[@hrsif]

Hi Jens. Thanks for the great lesson. I was wondering what led you to choose the Fmaj7 as the pivot on the G7? According to the "traditional" rules the C is an avoid note over, but it still sounds good. So how can one know which arpeggios work well together?

[@JensLarsen]

I don't really think in rules and avoid notes so that is not really a problem. It wasn't a problem for Parker and Benson

[@gmitter-sl3qq]

Barry Harris teaches the two apeggios starting on the 5 and starting on the 7 of a dom7 chord to be the two "important" arpeggios of a dom7 chord, both work great. (also starting on the 3 going up to b9 is of course a very typical arpeggio) Resolving the last note diatonically down on the next downbeat gives the 3 and 5 respectively, and then one can start running down the dom7 scale with Barry Harris' half step rules for dominant scale, and/or BH chromatic scale, both of which give great beboppy sounding exercises.

[@renatochacon289]

This video is GOLD ❤

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you!

[@flashkatwillie7657]

Great video 😀

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed

[@jhoylangoncalves3127]

It's amazing how we can hear the swing on his fingers alone, without a drum or bass to help. Just first class.

[@JensLarsen]

yes, Barry is amazing!

[@jhoylangoncalves3127]

@@JensLarsen I was talking about you, you have the swing deep in your mind, we can hear it.

[@JensLarsen]

@@jhoylangoncalves3127 hahaha! Thank you! Sorry, I thought you meant Barry 🙂

[@DragonBiscuit]

Love BeBop 😊

[@_B_E_A_D_G_C]

You’re such an amazing teacher! I love how you can break things down into digestible bits. I’m a bass player (boo, hiss 😂)and I think you’re my favorite jazz educator !

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! It is really great that this is also useful for other instruments! 👍🙂

[@user-jb3zo4bl4h]

Hello Jens, could contra-enclosure be the name you need? Thanks and regards, David.

[@jeromeking6001]

You MAY be my 'epiphany moment' I look back on. Thank you

[@RomainMacre]

This could be the most useful 10 minute video on jazz bebop in existence!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you!

[@silviomp]

Great video. Gotta watch it again with a guitar.

[@SaschaOnBass]

I should have clicked on your videos much earlier. This is very helpful! Thank You Jens!

[@RubinhoSilva01]

Thx!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it!