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This exercise helped me a lot. At first I thought it wasn´t that great but after practice it in five positions I began to get results in my playing just from the first day. It would be great to have an unified thread about Harris teachings, something like All the things Barry Harris is
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We can debate about bebop fingerings as well, I don't think caged positions are the best option for chromatic lines, horizontal lines are far better for that.
This bebop scale exercise will help develop your improv jazz skills. | Jazz Trumpet Licks
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04-11-2016 02:05 PM
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and then you have studied five superbooks and you don't know to play Happy Birthday by ear
Originally Posted by sjl
I have plenty of books and dvds and I have realized that I have learned the same from this forum than learning from books. As Galper says, if a book teach you only one thing, it is a good book; but books often try to make a rule from the random.
Take for example Baker's books, they are very good, but I think none of the greats is playing thinking where to put those extra chromatics, They were feeling the beat, looking for the sweet notes, expressing a feeling, hearing themselves.
I heared sometime ago a good sentence: I you want to be free, learn to be constrained; that cost me no money
, but it is difficult to go from practice to playing with all that info in your mind.
May be I am wrong but I think the strong point about Harris' method is to go to his rehearsals, to be able to hear what He is saying to you, just like a band use to train.
The ones without musical environment have to rely on books; it is a pity.
It is always the same process repeating. You feel you need something more, and that new book is gone to tell you the truth who will convert you in the next Bird, but this new book is only telling you the same thing than the previous but from other point of view: hit the changes at the strong beat, hit the changes at the weak beat, play arps from the 3rd to the b9 going to the 5,..., and then you have studied five superbooks and you don't know to play Happy Birthday by ear.
Music is my only teacher now.
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I have just watched the Pasquale Grasso's lessons from MMC. It is great to see Harris' concepts played by a guitarist with such a facility with the instrument and good taste.
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funny, Barry Harris stuff never really called my attention til I watched those videos today. Very inspiring Originally Posted by sjl
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His picking is amazing. The lesson on picking alone, justifies the purchase.
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I've been a practitioner of Benson picking for awhile and I spent so much time on finally getting it down that it sort of kills me to switch, but I think I may switch to Pasquale's method now. I like both sounds though. One is so legato and smooth, very horn and piano like and the other is like an organ or vibes player who has very definitive attack. Maybe I'll try and keep up with both. Decisions. Originally Posted by sjl
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I just watched the preview clips and I was gratified to see Pasquale playing a lot of the same Barry Harris chord moves and harmonisation approaches that I have been exploring recently. The main difference is he does it about 20 times faster than I can! Originally Posted by sjl
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IMHO, PG's chord work uses rock solid concepts that he has learned from harmonic masters such as Tatum, Powell, and Harris, and transferred to the guitar with flawless technique. Johnny Smith did a similar thing, but he used other pianists to emulate.
I'd get one of his videos, but an injury to the middle finger of my RH has made his technique of using the pick and fingers impossible for me to use.
I haven't come to terms with his single-line playing yet.
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I think everything in the videos could be played pick style.
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Not the contrary motion ideas.... Well you probably could, but it would be a pain. Originally Posted by fritz jones
Pasquale's example is encouraging me to try out a bit of hybrid picking...
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