I love the idea of “practice together” videos! I found it kind of hard to follow along with this one because there’s so many rules/patterns, but I appreciate how much content you fit into one video. Great stuff and Barry would be proud!
This is an important video. You've previously demonstrated the use of the half-step rules, but this makes it much more accessible. Great stuff and thank you for sharing it!
Your a mind reader. I’ve been spending most of my practice time working through Mr Echols elevator ideas and having my mind and ear opened to all of the contrary motion and other possibilities. Just yesterday I was thinking to myself “I need to get the 5 4 3 2 and the half step rules into my playing.” I look forward to each new video, thank you for your efforts. We’re all learning a lot, but I can only speak for myself. Much gratitude to Barry Harris for a life in music and his willingness to share this vital information.
I think in that case we have to think of starting the rule from the second note, the one on the beat, isn't it ? That way we don't have to think about reverse
Hi Chris thank you for all the information on all the different Barry Harris topics. It is great and is extremely useful. I've been studying the pivots, chromatics and 1/2 step rules and apply them to every day routine. It is changing my playing and the way I make up lines. But I encounter a problem when playing the 1/2 step rule starting on the 7th of a dominant scale and first going up and then descending, because there is no "even" note between the 7th and the tonic. And therefore you can't use the rule that applies for the note I started on (7th). Maybe this has already been mentioned, sorry if I missed that! Forgive me if I'm missing something here.
We seem to still think alike my brother, I just put up a "practice along" last weekend using the 5 note exercise on the pentatonic and have another in the can for next weekend with the major scales. And here you are doing it with the rules!! How cool is that?!
hello chris, i saw a lot of videos and i would like to ask you about how barry thought about the pentatonics, i really like playing blues ideas on jazz standards and i am very curious to know how it fits into his methodology. Thank you very much for everything, your contribution is invaluable.
Anyone know where that other BH scale of chords journal went? Seems like it got deleted? There were some great videos on there. Especially the visual aspect
I don't know it you mentioned it, if so, I'm sorry, but I noticed that You can apply the rules starting from a chord tone descending as many octaves as you want. But starting from a none chord tone, you can only apply the second rule for one octave. For exemple, that's what you did there, starting from the 4th, on the first octave you did half steps between the 2nd and the tonic, and between the tonic and the 7th, but as you kept descending toward the tonic, you didn't put an half step between the 2nd and the tonic (for the tonic to be on the beat)
This is really great…. again 😀😀😀. Thanks Chris!!
I love the idea of “practice together” videos! I found it kind of hard to follow along with this one because there’s so many rules/patterns, but I appreciate how much content you fit into one video. Great stuff and Barry would be proud!
This is a brilliant video Chris - you’ve given us SO much information, bringing it all together is SO helpful! Thank you!
This is an important video. You've previously demonstrated the use of the half-step rules, but this makes it much more accessible. Great stuff and thank you for sharing it!
More of these practice lessons please. I'm constantly blown away by the amount of information each of these videos contain!
Incredibly useful, please do many more of these, I understand this in a new way despite having heard you mention them many times.
Man I love this practice series!!! Please keep them coming.
Amazing content. I’m so glad I stumbled onto your channel.
This is just the lesson I needed today Chris! 🙏😊🎸🔥
practicing together. perfect, just what i needed!
That was a damn good lesson! trully inspiring .Thank you
Great stuff! Thank you and I’d appreciate more like this too. 👍
audio is getting better man, good stuff as always
Your a mind reader. I’ve been spending most of my practice time working through Mr Echols elevator ideas and having my mind and ear opened to all of the contrary motion and other possibilities. Just yesterday I was thinking to myself “I need to get the 5 4 3 2 and the half step rules into my playing.” I look forward to each new video, thank you for your efforts. We’re all learning a lot, but I can only speak for myself. Much gratitude to Barry Harris for a life in music and his willingness to share this vital information.
Thanks Chris. This is helpful 🎶
Super helpful! Yes please more of these. I just have to remember to reverse the rules when on an off beat.
I think in that case we have to think of starting the rule from the second note, the one on the beat, isn't it ? That way we don't have to think about reverse
Hi Chris thank you for all the information on all the different Barry Harris topics. It is great and is extremely useful. I've been studying the pivots, chromatics and 1/2 step rules and apply them to every day routine. It is changing my playing and the way I make up lines. But I encounter a problem when playing the 1/2 step rule starting on the 7th of a dominant scale and first going up and then descending, because there is no "even" note between the 7th and the tonic. And therefore you can't use the rule that applies for the note I started on (7th). Maybe this has already been mentioned, sorry if I missed that! Forgive me if I'm missing something here.
This is SO helpful!! Thank you so much, Chris!! Cheers man!!! 🙏
We seem to still think alike my brother, I just put up a "practice along" last weekend using the 5 note exercise on the pentatonic and have another in the can for next weekend with the major scales. And here you are doing it with the rules!! How cool is that?!
Fantastic!🧘♂️
hello chris, i saw a lot of videos and i would like to ask you about how barry thought about the pentatonics, i really like playing blues ideas on jazz standards and i am very curious to know how it fits into his methodology. Thank you very much for everything, your contribution is invaluable.
May i ask if these rules aply also to major and minor 6 dim scale?
Thank you.
Anyone know where that other BH scale of chords journal went? Seems like it got deleted? There were some great videos on there. Especially the visual aspect
I don't know it you mentioned it, if so, I'm sorry, but I noticed that You can apply the rules starting from a chord tone descending as many octaves as you want. But starting from a none chord tone, you can only apply the second rule for one octave. For exemple, that's what you did there, starting from the 4th, on the first octave you did half steps between the 2nd and the tonic, and between the tonic and the 7th, but as you kept descending toward the tonic, you didn't put an half step between the 2nd and the tonic (for the tonic to be on the beat)