Official Barry Harris Thread

[joe2758]

ooohhhhhhh I see. Got it.

[joe2758]

There's a cool BH exercise where you play BCE, C#DF etc but in eigth notes. Probably my favorite exercise.

[joe2758]

If I understand correctly you would put it
B C E C#
D F D# E
G E F A

[Navdeep_Singh]

There's a cool BH exercise where you play BCE, C#DF etc but in eigth notes. Probably my favorite exercise.

Check out this excellent class on Compound note groupings by Adam Rogers. This reminds me that I need to re-review it as well.

Adam Rogers - Guitar Lesson (3) - My Music Masterclass

[Navdeep_Singh]

This is a good small exercise using the BH dom7 scales and chords using the B section of Rhythm Changes. How to generate ideas for lines

[GuyBoden]

Anyone have any thoughts about using the Barry Harris 'Expanded Extra Note Rules'?

Workshop Vol2, Chapter 1, Expanded ‘Extra Note Rules’
The Barry Harris Workshop Video Part 2 – Howard Rees' Jazz Workshops

[Christian Miller]

Harmonizing the scale in triads is BH 101. Same with harmonizing in thirds or in 7th chords. Three note groupings are usually felt in groups of 3, often as triplets. Grouping 3 note triads into 4 means we can feel the triads as quarter notes-8th notes, or double time (16th notes).

Adam Rogers has a great class on this subject, taking odd note groupings (1,3, 5, etc) and grouping them in even note groupings. Triplets can be felt in duple or multiples of 2.

The three is fundamental ‘doo wa doo wa doo wa’; but groupings of five also have a long history in jazz. Sorry to video post, but I discuss a hip django line that uses this idea in this old vid:

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