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My teacher busted out the BH on Polkadots and Moonbeams today.
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10-13-2022 08:40 PM
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Original handout from a 1993 class
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Beautiful!
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Remix
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Did Barry Harris ever comment on Lenny Tristano?
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Not that I remember. My exposure was limited to 1986-2017. My memory is weak.
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This is a pretty good playing example where he breaks down why a plain CM7 drop 2 (1573) can be thought of as C6 with a borrrowed note from the diminished. Bot only does he go up r the scale of chords using this borrowed note in the alto from C6 to D° inversions, he isolates the borrowed note and shows how that can be harmonized by itself to create movement, contrary motion and tension. I have to say I agree with him in his original opinion, “why can’t we just think of this as a CM7?” But if we see it as movement, color , and tension, it makes complete sense to see CM& as a C6 with a borrowed note.
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Cma6 diminished single borrowed note possibilities:
replacing A:
C E G B
C E G Ab
C E F G
C D E G
replacing G:
C E A B
C D E A
C E F A
C E Ab A
replacing E:
C D G A
C F G A
C G Ab A
C G A B
replacing C:
B E G A
D E G A
E F G A
E G Ab A
There are also 2,3 and 4 note borrowed structures. Some sound consonant, some pretty crunchy. The perspective of a primary function chord and a companion diminished offers an organized tonality based path to generate movement between the 2 functions. Within this paradigm, Cma7 is borrowing the diminished B note even though it is a common chord unto itself.
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Can someone enlighten me on the aug arpeggio?
I know Barry emphasized the important arpeggios on the root, fifth and flat seventh, but he mentioned one that was augmented and I can't find material on that.
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Form my notes:
Barry Harris: The Whole Tone Scale and the Augmented Triads as a V7 function
1. There are only two whole tone scales: C and C#/Db. Together, these comprise the 12 tone chromatic scale. C-D-E-F#-G#-A# AND C#-D#-F-G-A-B.
2. Practice: 1-2 -1-3 patterns C-D-C-E; D-E, D-F#, etc. Practice broken triads: C-E-D-F#; E-G#-F#-A#, G#-C-A#-D; C and DESCENDING.
3. Deriving an augmented triad: play a note, skip a note, play a note, skip a note: Get a C+ triad (C augmented triad)—> C-E-G#; E-G#-C; G#-C-E; OR the D augmented triad: D-F#-A# (which goes up a M3 systematically: F#-A#-D; A#-D-F#). Thus, there are only 4 augmented triads: C+; D+; C#+; D#+. Any of these augmented triads will work, functionally, as a V7 as a dominant chord. If the dominant root note is in the whole tone scale, you can use the augmented triads associated with it as a V7 type of function.
4. Nothing is easier than to find the augmented triads on a guitar. They just continuously cycle up a M3. So you can play C+ and D+ on a C7. And their inversions (E+ and G#+ and F#+ and A#+).
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I don't know, but Lennie was famous for deciding who was or wasn't a great jazz player.
He said to a friend of mine who studied with him that Bill Evans was not a jazz player, he was an arranger!
And then there was his declaration that Diana Ross of the Supremes was the greatest jazz singer alive!
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I'm a fan of augmented on the V7. My teacher has taught me to really utilize the tonality of pure augmented rather than always going willy nilly with anything altered. He looks at the main tonalities for over a V7 as augmented, diminished - 7b9, lydian dominant - melodic minor mode 4, and altered - melodic minor mode 7.
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Yep, can't sleep on the BH cst. Too elegant to forgo.
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Also, Mixolydian on minor key Vs is big and clever
in fact, ditching IIm7b5 and opting for IIm7 V7b9 Im is quite a common bird move. It’s easy to think that the IIm chord has to be IIm7b5 while even staying in minor you can make it a IIm7
i don’t recall Barry mentioning it in class though - anyone else?
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I wish I got to attend Barry’s classes. I’d love for the Zoom classes to be streamed.
The more I think about his half step rules, the main quality or effect is rhythmic: to keep the chord tones on beat, especially descending. Especially the half step between the R and b7. The basic premise is, on non-chord tones (2,4,6) you don’t need the half step. On chord tones (1,3,5) you do.
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Here’s the video I said I’d do
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Really basic stuff, but I’m doing it because I need to learn a new instrument that is much harder than a six string guitar:
1.Unison: the chord-scales as they are, combining the Major and Minor 6th chords with the four notes associated with its diminished chord,, creating an 8 note scale: CM6 /dim and Cm6/dim (C-D-E-F-G-Ab-A-B or C-D-Eb-F-G-Ab-A-B)
2. THIRDS— everything For CM6 and Cm6 is a minor third, except for (a) CM6 3rd degree is a M3 and the sixth degree is a M2; (b) and for Cm6, the fifth degree is a M3 and the 6° is a M2.
Major 6 Minor 6
C m3 C-A SAME
D m3 (D-B) SAME
E M3 (E-C) m3
F m3 (F-D) SAME
G m3 (G-E) M3
Ab m3 (Ab-F) SAME
A M2 (A-G) SAME
B m3 (B-Ab) SAME
3. SIXTHS: for CM6 and Cm6 scales is a M6 except (a) for the major six TONIC is a m6 and the P5 is a m7 and (b) for the Cm6 scale, the 3rd degree is a m6 and the 5th degree is a m7.
Major 6 Minor 6
C m6 (C-E) M6
D M6(D-F) SAME
E M6 (E-G) m6
F M6 (F-Ab) SAME
G m7 (G-A) SAME
Ab M6 (Ab-B) SAME
A M6 (A-C) SAME
B M6 (B-D) SAME
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4. TRIADS
Major 6
C: E-A-C
D; Dim: Ab-B-D or F-B-D
E: A-C-E
F: Dim: B-D-F or Ab-D-F
G: C-E-G
Ab Dim: D-F-Ab or B-F-Ab
A: C-E-A
B: Dim: F-Ab-B or D-Ab-B
Minor 6
C: Eb-A-C
D; Dim: Ab-B-D or F-B-D
E: A-C-Eb
F: Dim: B-D-F or Ab-D-F
G: C-Eb-G
Ab Dim: D-F-Ab or B-F-Ab
A: C-Eb-A
B: Dim: F-Ab-B or D-Ab-B
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Quick Dim trad fix:
Sometimes, it’s not possible to get to the dim triad in time due to the five fret stretches especially down the neck. Then you realize not only is a dm note note found not just a m3 away, but always a tritone away.
Also, the intervallic relationship between a m3 and a M6 is a tritone.
The tritone, that little devil, is actually your friend, not fiend. Throw that “R” in it. It can get you out of plenty of messes. :
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So, how you would you lay out the scale practice, BH-style, for Mood Indigo?
MOOD INDIGO (vanilla chords)——-
Key of Ab 4/4
| Ab / Abdim Ab | Bb7 | Eb7 Eb7+ | Ab Eb7 |
| Ab / Abdim Ab | Bb7 | Bm7 E7 | Bbm7 Eb7 |
| Ab7 | Ebm7 Ab7 | Db | Dbm |
| Ab / Abdim Ab | Bb7 | Eb7 Eb7+ | Ab |
|| Ab | Bb7 | Bbm7 Eb7 | Ab Eb7 |
| Ab | Bb7 | Bb7 | Bbm7 Eb7 |
| Ab7 | Ebm7 Ab7 | Db | Dbm |
| Ab | Bb7 | Bbm7 Eb7 | Ab |
BH:
Ab6—-Bm6——Em6———Em6
Ab6—-Bm6——Fm6————Em6
Ab6—Abdim—Db6——Dbm6
Ab6—-Bm6—Em6———Ab6
Ab6——Bm6—Fm6—Em6
Ab6—Bm6-Bm6–Em6
Ab6-Adim—-Db6–Dbm6
Ab6—Bm6-Em6-Ab6
Any better way of reformatting this tune to fit BH’s system?
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Sorry, being a bit lazy, but...
Since we are asking how to do the scale practice, what would one do for the beginning of "All of Me"?
I see the first eight bars written as:
CM7 | E7 | A7 | Dm | E7 | Am7 | D7 | Dm7 G7|
So would it be C, E7, A7, Dm6, E7, D7 <->, G7?
or do we do something different with the A7 because it is resolving to a minor? Is it C7 to the third of A7? Is this a situation where we think of the Dm as the "Important 5" and play a G7 instead of Dm6? What about the whole last four bar turnaround?
I guess I don't understand when we "go to the third of" a sibling dominant, which dominant and why? Can someone explain that, or point me to a good explanation.
Thanks.
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