Barry Harris Workshop 1998 (Full), part 2 "Breaking the Habit"

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

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This is a part of a Barry Harris Workshop in The Hague, Holland in 1998 Barry Harris explores the possibilities of filling the half steps between notes of a scale by adding a neighbor note and then using it as a rule, applied to melodic lines built from various scale degrees.
Barry Harris:
"Any note can be put in between two notes"
This creative approach, in Barry's words, helps "breaking the habit" [of playing the same ideas].
Here is what Barry Harris says:
"...what you learn from this - you learn a lot of ways to play something.
...The fellow is gonna be the best, is the one who knows the most ways to play"
"You can't practice all the ways, it is impossible. You have to know the best ways to play by the rules in your head. And your rules are governors of the whole thing. You have to let the rules govern you."
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:25 - The rules
02:56 - F harmonic minor
11:26 - "Rules make the scale sound more inviting"
12:06 - Ascending F harmonic minor with one 1/2 step between 1 & 2 from each degree
14:30 - Ascending F harm min. with two 1/2 steps between 1&2, 2&3
19:30 - "You Have to have rules". Filling the half-steps of the 5 notes of a major (from each degree)
24:14 - "Breaking a habit", Rhythm in C
27:00 - The diminished scale workout
30:02 - Up with the chromatics, down with the chord applying to the related dominants of the diminished.
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Filmed by Frans Elsen at the Barry Harris Workshop at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Holland in March 1998.
This is a raw video filmed by Frans Elsen in 1998 that I recently captured and edited digitally.
(sorry for the video/ audio quality of the original VHS tapes)
Frans Elsen was a veteran Dutch jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and educator who helped to establish Jazz Schools in The Netherlands. Frans was a master bebop pianist with a beautiful and original sound. He was a close friend of Barry Harris and helped to organize and document Barry Harris's workshops in The Hague which became famous all over the world.
✨ Frans Elsen, Dutch jazz pianist, composer, and educator (May 28, 1934 - Feb. 23, 2011) www.franselsen.com/
The annual Barry Harris workshops in The Hague were made possible by Wouter Turkenburg who has been the head of the Jazz Department of The Royal Conservatory for more than 30 years and organized BH workshops for more than 10 years. Barry Harris's workshops in The Hague were attended by people from all over the world and had a significant contribution to Barry Harris's Legacy and further development of the Master's concepts and ideas.
✨ Dr. Barry Harris, a legendary jazz pianist, composer, and educator (Dec. 15, 1929 - Dec. 8, 2021) www.barryharris.com/
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@HiamoviCheyenne-c6e 17 күн бұрын

It's a great video.

@hayaomiyazaki4899 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ddd231 5 ай бұрын

Same! It’s life changing material.

@robbyr9286 5 ай бұрын

This is so important- priceless.

@TaylorJohnHardin Жыл бұрын

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

@johnrothfield6126 2 жыл бұрын

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

@wshyuwrehre 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for filling in even more of barry teaching history and style. I miss his zoom classes deeply. He changed my life without knowing me or knowing how he touched my desire to reconnect with music again. Thanks to him I am finally happy.

@AlecKatz 2 жыл бұрын

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

@korieklion Жыл бұрын

Beautiful. It always scares hoe thought loops and certain environments can almost kill parts of you. But that desire is a guidance for direction. And you have to get lost but be able to find your way at a different place. You will never know the right choice. There is no right choice. That’s the power of NOW.

@raefblack7906 2 жыл бұрын

More Gold, thanks!

@AlecKatz 2 жыл бұрын

More to come!

@raefblack7906 2 жыл бұрын

@@AlecKatz Yippie!😀

@billyross1133 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for posting these!

@AlecKatz 2 жыл бұрын

It is my pleasure!

@youyou1265 6 ай бұрын

Merci ! Excellent !

@samueldesouzamalaquias Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@pasonnosapwang6025 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ! Learn so much !

@brothercaleb 2 жыл бұрын

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

@AlecKatz 2 жыл бұрын

✨

@ianleemusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this!

@AlecKatz 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@Tabu11211 2 жыл бұрын

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@Tabu11211 2 жыл бұрын

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@AlecKatz 2 жыл бұрын

@@Tabu11211 right, you know everything :)

@jamieforjazz 3 ай бұрын

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

@AlecKatz 3 ай бұрын

Me too!

@brothercaleb 2 жыл бұрын

I swear by these rules. Duyyymmmm

@musical_lolu4811 2 жыл бұрын

23:40 that sax

@johnrothfield6126 2 жыл бұрын

12:00 dim scale ht rules

@johnrothfield6126 2 жыл бұрын

brilliant at 1600

@simonaarones Жыл бұрын

✨

@patrickwhitty1982 Жыл бұрын

Template shifting across the scale .

@johnrothfield6126 Жыл бұрын

15:36

@saywhat445 10 ай бұрын

Catalin rotaru on bass?

@cyalos 9 ай бұрын

Alex Milo

@Osnosis 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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

@AlecKatz 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

@@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 5 ай бұрын

@@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.