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Originally Posted by Donplaysguitar
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04-12-2021 05:03 AM
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Terms are important in music. Terms are important in any field or practice that is wide and deep.
For playing, application of the content is where the potential for deeper
value lies. Bebop scales and ma6 diminished scales represent different application derived from an overlap of content.
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fumblefingers
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lol, didn’t you realise? He’s had more reincarnations than the Buddha.
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Originally Posted by Jonah
Originally Posted by Jonah
Originally Posted by Jonah
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I think if people want to sound like BH they should consider taking his counsel and studying his approaches (no pun intended).
Of course, many may study with him believing that they are experiencing a living, breathing lineage to Monk and Bird. And to an extent perhaps they are. All fine by me.
For the guitarist, the jazz conception (to borrow a term) of players like Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery might be more effective though. I wonder what your critical thoughts about that are?
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Originally Posted by Donplaysguitar
Originally Posted by Donplaysguitar
Originally Posted by Donplaysguitar
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Originally Posted by WILSON 1
Originally Posted by WILSON 1
Originally Posted by WILSON 1
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Originally Posted by Donplaysguitar
This assumes we are all in the same boat ie using the major 7th scale and adding accidentals to taste.
So instead of teaching the major scale and searching for tensions he starts with all the tensions and makes a harmonic system...
that's backwards from any learning system I've experienced.
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Can't disagree with that.
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Originally Posted by Donplaysguitar
What Baker would call the dominant bebop scale is by far the most common usage of the ‘Barry Harris added note rules’ I have encountered. So I don’t actually have a huge problem with people having a specific name for it .
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12:55 lol, ready to take the plunge.
That was a helpful video about starting to learn the bebop scale in a simple ascending/descending manner. Thanks for that.
And regarding David Baker, for someone who takes criticism for coining (or at least codifying) the bebop scale, one can easily observe that he included multiple strategies for using other chromatics within the first 16 pages of his first book (of three).
I guess it would be helpful to see a side-by-side comparison of the two treatises in order to determine which has the greater utility. Or one could study both.Last edited by Donplaysguitar; 04-12-2021 at 07:13 PM.
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Originally Posted by WILSON 1
if so, that would be a refreshing approach.
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Originally Posted by Donplaysguitar
Anyway it might be interesting video fodder to compare the Baker How to Play Bop books to the Barry Harris DVD’s. It’s on the list, just need some time to do it.
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But then there’s the 8 notes scales such as the maj6 diminished which are a whole different thing...
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To get an idea of what Barry’s approach is like, I would simply recommend anyone to take the time to watch episodes 1 to 6 of Chris Parks’ ‘Things I learned from Barry Harris’ youtube channel.
It won’t take that long, and it will probably be a lot quicker than trying to find some written version anywhere. After that I think you would have a reasonable idea of whether you think Barry’s approach would be of further interest to you.
Episodes 1 to 5 show some of his scales and half-step rules etc. as used for linear improvisation.
Episode 6 gives some idea of his sixth-diminished scales used for his harmonic method (i.e. chordal movement).
A good thing about Chris’ videos is that he nearly always demonstrates these concepts by applying them to an actual tune.
For the record, I am not exactly a Barry devotee, but I have certainly found his harmonic method useful (I got Alan Kingstone’s book a few years ago which covers it).
The linear improv stuff I have not delved into so much, simply because I had already spent years teaching myself improv simply by getting it off the records, long before I came across the BH methods. In fact Barry’s rules look a lot like the stuff I already know, which suggests that his rules do accurately reflect what those guys actually played.
But I do find Chris Parks’ videos very interesting and useful. His approach of applying Barry’s scale outlines across a whole tune is something I use sometimes, to get a quick grasp on a new tune.Last edited by grahambop; 04-13-2021 at 04:33 AM.
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The funny thing is, those BH/David Baker half step rules are codifying the opposite of what you probably want to do 99% of the time. You don't want to end up on one of the chord tones of the current chord when you go to the next bar. More often you are targeting a non-common chord tone in the next bar when you're playing the changes. So you want to reverse those rules when you're playing the changes. Especially over dominant chords Moreover you can arrive at that note on the up beat or the down beat. They both work. So there are no rules about how many half notes you put. Of course you can also put any interval as the extra note, repeat notes, extend rhythmic values etc.
There are some more frequent places that half notes go in the bebop era. These are easy to identify. Whether you want to put your half notes in those place or experiment with other options depend on what you want to sound like.Last edited by Tal_175; 04-13-2021 at 09:01 AM.
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Originally Posted by Donplaysguitar
BH has said, " so they gave us the major 7 scale and left us with it, while they proceeded to improvise over everything ! "
( They gave us the wrong scale.)
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Originally Posted by Tal_175
Do you mean half notes or half steps?
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Originally Posted by Donplaysguitar
Suppose scalar descend G7 -> C
Start on a chord tone (F) descend 8th notes to the 3rd of C:
| F E D C B A G F | E
No half step needed despite starting from a chord tone.
If I start from a non-chord tone, I need to put a half step to land on E
|E D C B A G Gb F | E
Opposite of the rules.
Following the half steo rules would lead to landing on a chord tone of G7 on the next bar! Why come up with a messy set of rules only to codify that?
Of course you can use the same rules if you want to anticipate 'E', that's also fine. So what's the point of any of the rules then?
BTW I'm not saying guide tone resolution is be-all and end-all. But you'd think it'd be a good thing not to introduce a complex set of rules that circumvents it in a material aimed at beginning improvisers.Last edited by Tal_175; 04-13-2021 at 09:41 AM.
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Ooooookaayyyy
OK, so the way I interpret it, the advantage of the half step rules is that you know where you end up rhythmically.
Generally, you want to connect to the next chord via ... well a connection of some kind.
The simplest way to do this is a dim7 arp.
If you run down an added note scale this is pretty easy to do.
We use the dominant scale on the II-V
So if you have
Bm7b5 | E7 | Am6
You have more than enough time to run a G7 scale on the first two bars and maybe do a G# dim arp on beat 3 of the second bar, play yer four notes of that, and finish up on an Am chord tone. As you'll end up G, B, D or F with the G7 scale on beat 2, all you have to is make the G into a G#and you can run into that scale as smooth as anything.
I don't think guide tones are terribly relevant to this process. I don't think Barry has this conception of guide tones. Remember he's working with maj6 and min6 chords. (In general I don't like 3/7 guidetones as away to outline harmony. They often sound quite ugly to me on min/maj chords.)
Sometimes educators contradict each other. That's life.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
Last edited by Tal_175; 04-13-2021 at 11:35 AM.
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Originally Posted by Tal_175
I think you can get yourself into trouble combining approaches. But I absolutely would NOT teach BH to a beginner anyway. It doesn't work.
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Originally Posted by Tal_175
After that (as Christian says) there is still time to do something at the end of the 2nd bar to connect the line to the next chord. Chris Parks' videos show plenty of ways of doing this.
Didn't this question come up before? Someone said the rules don't work in the space of 1 bar, and the answer was that's not what they are intended to do.
If you are trying to resolve in just 1 bar, then you probably need to adjust the rules. I guess Barry just thought the 2-bar scenario is more common and useful.
I don't know anything about David Baker's material though, never seen any of it.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
The thing is, the use of chromatic passing notes (or leaped diatonic notes) as a way to make lines come out right rhythmically is a more generally useful notion then in the specific implied context of 2 bar ii V's. It's certainly useful for connecting chords as well for example (on a down beat or anticipated). So the presentation of the half note application as a set of specific rules (as both BH and David Baker resources do) I think make that point less transparent.Last edited by Tal_175; 04-13-2021 at 06:58 PM.
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