Barry Harris 6th Diminished Scale FULLY EXPLAINED
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- Everything you need to know to start on a lifetime of exploring this beautiful sound. The Barry Harris 6th Diminished scale is an essential concept for any #jazz musician wanting to add the ability to play movement and take their improvising to a whole new level.
In this lesson I talk about Bebop legend, Barry Harris and his 6th Diminished concept. I share all my findings from years of studying this theory and explain it all from the ground up. You'll learn everything, such as where this concept and scales come from, Barry's unique view on the theory of music, and how to fully use all these ideas.. (to name but a few!)
This video will connect all the dots for anyone who has dabbled with Barry Harris' 6th diminished concept as well as give you all the knowledge/tools you'll need to endlessly develop your own ideas.
▬ Contents of video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Barry Harris
0:54 - What is the 6th Diminished scale?
1:20 - (the major 6th diminished)
3:33 - Chord Voicings
3:57 - (the drop system)
5:44 - The Four Voices
6:03 - (close position voicings for guitar)
6:48 - (shell voicings)
7:15 - The Other Scales
8:12 - The Diminished Family Theory
10:58 - (8 note diminished scale)
14:08 - Connecting Chords: C6 to F6
15:32 - (Bb6 to F6)
16:00 - (biiio7)
17:32 - Where The 6th Diminished Came From
19:26 - Applying The Scales
20:07 - (the important minor)
21:25 - (the tritone's minor)
22:22 - (tip: where not to put the diminished chords)
22:45 - The 6th Chord Options
24:38 - Harmonising Melodies With Movement
27:10 - (6th against diminished in contrary motion)
28:30 - (melody in the bass)
28:58 - Major to m7b5 move/relationship
36:18 - Practising The Scale
36:49 - (interval sets)
37:47 - (contrary motion)
39:12 - (interval sets + contrary motion)
39:35 - (contrary motion + filling in the scale)
40:36 - (filling in the scale + moving through keys)
41:00 - (left hand move)
42:14 - (barry move suited for guitar)
43:12 - (breaking up the block chords)
44:35 - Single Note Lines
46:53 - The Borrowing Concept
50:27 - (borrowing example 1)
53:39 - (borrowing example 2)
55:59 - No longer a “ii V” player
56:35 - The Short & Long Voicings
1:00:14 - (tip: on piano)
1:00:28 - (tip: on guitar)
1:02:43 - (long short changing key)
1:03:04 - (practising through different keys)
1:03:32 - (minor)
1:03:57 - (applying to a ii, V)
1:04:29 - (different inversions)
1:05:46 - (including b6)
1:06:16 - Outro
1:07:08 - Example Performance (Autumn In New York)
▬ Credits ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
△ Barry Harris Photo Credit: Brian Mcmillen Jazz Photography
△ For more #barryharris & #6thdiminishedscale info, go to barryharris.com
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Hi I'm Robbie, welcome to my channel! My videos are for anyone looking to add to their musical knowledge and to develop their ability to improvise. I've gathered some pretty cool concepts throughout my journey of becoming a professional musician and I'm excited to share my musical findings with you ...this is also an excuse for me to dig out my pile of notes and develop these concepts further! Thanks for stopping by.
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WOW! I've been trying for the past 1.5 years to explain the Barry Harris method to all my guitar players friends and as a pianist I was embracingly unsuccessful 😂
This is gold! I even learned a few new things that I missed on the way.
Thank you, I'm sending all of them now to your page ❤
There is one problem, I could not solve:
if my melody goes a-b-c in the key of C and the chord is Dm7. The associated 6-deminished-Scale would be F6, which contains *Bb* on the deminished chord. How does that work together with *B* in the melody?
*Example:* "fly me to the moon"
Right in the first line: "let me play among the stars". *'let me'* sings *a* and *c* over Dm7. If there was a passing note *b* - Maybe a triplet a-b-c... ???
Must be one of the best uploads on TH-cam.
...everything, except; it looks like the eatable's kicked in.
@@christopher-miles al!
Musical Epiphanies Galore!!!!!
At least a year's worth of study here. Bravo mate
Or 10.
I was introduced to Barry Harris's methods several years ago and still find that there's ever more to learn. Once you understand one thing it opens the door to so many others that you never really reach an end point.
A year….HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Maybe if you stay up 24 hours a day!
@@40pianos And all that has happened is you’ve added one note to a major scale… Unbelievable.
At least a year for sure!!
As someone who has been studying Barry's method about 3 years now, I have to say this is the best single video I've seen on his method. Congratulations. This will keep me busy the rest of my life!
Thanks for the lovely comment Pete, really great to hear it's given you some stuff to keep you busy!
me too!
@@RobbieBarnby thank you for producing this tour de force.
And me too it really keep me busy.
who else got their
brain melted but still coming back later for more
ahahhaha everyone :D
Me! Im not even half way through the video. I am trying to practice some of those drop voices for a bit before continuing.
Me! Me! Me!
lol...My brain has been fried a few times and i am not yet halfway through....yet like you i keep going back for more
dude, i was laughing half way through. it all sounds super cool and i understand the basics after the first pass but it's a lot and that's coming from someone who's a massive theory nerd.
This is the kind of jazz education I wish there was more of
Barry is the master!
Please, post more video's!
@@mikeking453 On the way!
Barry is the master, but you did an amazing job nailing it! 💚
@@marcosfischer_ Agreed...Barnby did a good job, much appreciated. I know I will stay on this a while, its liberating.
I feel like i should have paid $300 for this video
you mean 3000
You Mean 10 000$ 😊 = 1year at Berklee
付点也行
This shouldn’t be free,I see there is a virtual tip jar let’s support
Holy shit who needs a music degree when you have jazz youtube videos. Great info!
The time you took to digest Maestro Harris's method is commendable,, and your presentation is equally awesome...and much appreciated...warm regards to both of you...the quality of this video does serve him and your integrity as a student and musician well. Much respect to you both.
this could eeeeeasily be 2 years of study to learn and a lifetime to apply. so well done. your playing is fantastic too. it's great being able to hear you play all of these examples so excellently on guitar.
13th minute and my brain already melted several times. But this is sooo interesting. Congrats man, you're impressive and your enthusiasm is contagious !
I’ve just found out about the sixth diminished world and using it for piano and I really love the way it pumps a melodic line full of movement. Haven’t quite gotten to the contrapuntal and drop voicings yet but man you’ve got it down. Watching you do the “or you can do this” and then play it perfectly like 20x in a row just shows how much you’ve worked on this. Seriously, you’re a phenomenal musician.
Had to slow him down to 75% speed but gained 100% knowledge.
That's a lot of study for those not fully committed to this but would like to dig deeper!
Perhaps a condensed p.d.f.
version of the explanation would be of help at least for the introduction, which could make viewing more comfortable.
Thanks for the video and sharing of your understanding!
LOL..you're not alone!!
That's a great thing too
What an unbelievable achievement this video is! I’ve got so much respect and admiration for Robbie Barnby, both as a musician and as a teacher. Kudos!
This is thesis level of masterclass with wonderful examples, not to mention how you played them all beautifully!!!! I learned so much from this! Thank you
This guy is great. He’s like a Jacob Collier for the guitar without the hyper and obnoxious personality.
This is one of the greatest youtube lesson videos ever created. period.
The amount of effort and work you put into this is incredible! Thank you so much
This was one of the most in-depth lessons on harmony in general and a well thought out and clear demonstration of Barry Harris' genius I have ever seen. On top of that you expertly demonstrated the concepts showing us all how well practiced you are. Bravo brother! I'm a fan! I went to many Barry Harris' classes back in the early 90's. This helps bring it all together.
holy heck man - i have never in my entire musical life seen anyone make informative videos like this. So well produced and a crazy amount of wonderful information! Thank you very much for doing it! Also, you're a phenomenal player!
You're too kind! Thanks for watching and for the nice comment.
As a piano player, found this to be incredibly helpful. Not being formally trained, I was still able to hear many of Barry’s harmony concepts. I’m still miles away from understanding the entire 6th diminished scale concept…but have gained a better appreciation and fascination for harmonic movement and improv ideas using this approach. Thanks!
I dream of a world where Internet is filled out just by quality videos like this one. I've been scratching my head on so many Barry Harris videos, and I must say yours is really a more condensed but also much more clearer wrap up of most of them (even though I'll have to pause the video at some point to prevent brain overheating). Thank you so much for the sharing, the skills, and even the quality of the video itself. Cheers from Paris, France.
Every part of the Barry Harris community is incredible, I feel this knowledge is more important than we might realize. Please, by all means, keep them coming.
Agreed! Will do. Thanks James.
I'm going to be re-visiting this video for the rest of my life, slowly chipping away at each insanely rich minute
The final piece is breathtaking;unpredictable modulations, elegant ,delicate phrasing,refreshing melodic patterns and coloring.
Many thanks for your kind words and for sticking around till the end!
I've broken through a plateau thanks to this video. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
This is by far the best lesson I've had in 20 years! Sad that I'm only now discovering it. Dear Robbie, I am really impressed with your incredible talent as a guitarist, but also for conveying this complex matter so clearly!! Pure Gold ❤🔥! Thank you for sharing this!
Fantastic! What a wonderful overview. You've given me some great stuff to practice!
Thanks for checking it out!
WTF! Jesus...I'm gonna have to watch this at least a hundred times more. Brutal. Thank you so much.
Nasty Brutal I say..Omelet brain I feel..Not giving up though..sloooowly I will chop it down!! Until then its@$%&*$#@!
Amazingly complete video! The key to getting started using this to improvise comping and chord solos over jazz standards is at 5:01 and 24:32
Thank you for making a one of the most complete and clear condensations of Barry Harris' musical concepts that I have found so far! Bravo!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the nice comment.
@@RobbieBarnby My Pleasure, Robbie! Barry is a friend and mentor of mine and I am always happy when someone presents his material - specially as complete and clear as you did. Your channel is a great source of condensed knowledge!
@@thetrombonehub6254 That's wonderful! Thanks again for the kind words.
I'm not even a jazz musician but I still watched because of how good a teacher this guy is.
I've been playing/teaching guitar for 30 years+ and this is THE best (by far) instructional video on this subject I've ever seen /read. And, you are a stellar guiter player Robbie. Wow. You're musical examples at the end are jaw -dropping IMO.
This is the most clear and exhaustive survey of Barry’s ideas that I’ve found. Thank you for doing this! So much to chew on…
This is scary monster good: multiple lines going in many directions - blown away
This is wonderful. Lovely tone. Barry tells great stories always resolves it with "art just outplayed those cats ". I'd imagine he did he is a window into different group of legends. I love Miles, Coltrane, dolphy, Wayne, geez everyone but he gives you a glimpse into an established industry that a young miles would enter at night after julliard. So fascinating. Gorgeous playing there is some Django Reinhardt sounds in scale for sure can see how dynamic it is. So many use it in so many ways
Amazing content. So thorough and applicable for pianists as well. This guy knows his sutff!
Masterful lesson. You are a true teacher. Amazing set of skills, deep understanding and a very charming way of presenting your knowledge. The tempo is crazy fast, though, but luckily one can watch this piece of art several times or in little episodes. Much respect!
As everyone has said, this is the most comprehensive discussion of Barry Harris' harmonic language, and the only one I know of that really translates between Berklee/standard language and Barry's.
What's really boggling though is how thoroughly modern this all sounds. Some of this material is literally breathtaking.
Many thanks for the kind words Andrew. I agree, Barry's concepts have a totally unique approach which seem to cover everything as well as the modern sounds (just with a different way of getting there). It's amazing how everything is connected too!
The speed&quality, the indepth and educational calling, and the Shere quality of this, as others mention, is purely amazing. this kind of format is a bliss for the tube imo. Thank you
Truly amazing concise review of this topic. The best part is how you relate the theory to real world harmonization, and stress the importance of theory as only a part of music, but internalizing and using it in you own way IRL is the goal
This is absolutley incredible. You explain it so clearly without hesitation. The graphics illustrate your point so well. Everything is great :)
Haven't commented on any music tuition video before but this is such an amazing explanation and resource you've put together. So many concepts carefully explained and amazing musicianship in the examples given.
Years of practice ideas here! It is such a beautiful and complete theory of harmony. Amazing stuff - keep the content coming!
The fluidity in which you move between these chords..man you are really inspirational.
Every once in a while I watch this video again, and always I learn something new. I do recommend playing it at 3/4 speed, or less for novices 🙂
This was such a treat to watch, fantastic editing, content and overall production quality - thank you for making this!
Devastatingly great playing and lesson. Thank you for the in-depth look at these ideas!
I keep coming back to figure out something I didn't get last time. I'll be getting bits and pieces and learning from this for a long time. Thanks, A LOT, Barry!
I am so grateful to you for the clarity and precision of this video. Just incredible work. This is one of the most required videos for understanding the depth of Barry Harris' contribution to music education and improvisation.
I will watch this many many times for sure, absolute gold...
this video is such a gold mine thank you thank you, his remark from a spanish lecture "guitars should know everything, in fact a guitarist should be teaching me this" has haunted me for a while without only slight insights into what he was talking of. Thank you so much!!!!!!
I love everything about this. I’ve learned so much useful stuff already, having watched it once. I especially love the smirk on RB’s face throughout. As if he’s thinking silly thoughts the entire time he’s dropping knowledge. Thanks for all of it!
Dont remember being that fast to subscribing a channel and liking a video. This is an impressive articulate way to put this content together. We appreciate your effort, thanks!!
Thanks a lot for the support!
this was a instant subscribe for me, the amount of effort and clarity you went through with this video is astonishing. I now have several years worth of material to study with! thank you
I consider my main instrument to be the piano. So, I discovered Barry Harris through piano. However, due to financial constraints, I only have access to an acoustic guitar. Your clarity of presentation, theoretical rigor and human connection with the music all motivated me to learn how to implement this sound. I hold myself to the same standard when I teach math and physics. Thank you so much. Please keep sharing your gifts.
Thank you SO much for this video. I have scoured the net for an in-depth explanation on this topic, and this video is the BEST one. I have watched the Barry Harris videos and it's not as good as this was. You are an excellent teacher, your videos are concise, well organized and entertaining, but most importantly, they are practical. This video is for the advanced jazz players. I have been using these chords to create movement and harmony in my playing over the years but never knew the theory behind why they worked; your theoretical explanation regarding the negation of the five chord, or the 6th on the 5th concept gave me an UH HUH moment. I used to always use the five as a spring board to go outside, when I wanted to on a two five one, now I have got memorize some go too notes. Thx again.
By far one of the best videos I have found on the concept.
Man oh man.. so much to take from this. This is properly invaluable !
Robbie please never erase none of your videos! They 're so good! Keep going, amazing chanel and player!!
Wow! My music studies for the rest of 2021 are mapped out by this video. Thanks for putting the time into this. It's so comprehensive and well explained. The music notation and tablature are perfectly placed for pausing and reflecting on the content.
Thanks for the nice comment, Happy practising!
Robbie, aside from your brilliant examples, the playing is amazing and such a treat to watch. This video is literally a treasure trove of information presented in a digestible and humble manner for anyone interested in learning more about BH's concepts. Thank you so much for sharing. You brighten the world young man - good on ya.
Thanks so much for the kind words! Great to hear you enjoyed the vid.
I plan on watching this video once a week for the rest of my life.
Two months later. I've made progress so far but I feel like I'm learning slower than usual. It turns out that watching it all the way through has been good for me but as anticipated stopping and reviewing small segments and working on specific parts has yielded better results.
Everything about this video is so well done, if it were lessons about digging trenches in the rain I might have mud on my boots right now.
What a perfect teacher and player you are! Please continue to show how to teach us! Thank you veery much!
Just an amazing lesson. And what technique!! BEAUTIFUL!
Barris Harris brought me here. Robbie Barnby guided me back.
You’re helping musicians reach another level with this kind of content and information man .. thank you greatly
Robbie your are a great musician and just showed me so much. Thank you kindly sir
I think I heard Pat Martino talk about some similar ideas, changing notes from augmented and diminished chords to make everythng else.
This is a superb video..glad you came along !!!
👌Absolutely love this video Robbie! 🤔I think it's one of the best jazz scale description/example videos on the Internet. 👉Fabulous!👈
This is blowing my mind!!!!!!!!
This is by far the most informative video. What’s fantastic,also is, you’re teaching a system of harmony that has been passed down and instilled in you. This is so rich in practical theory and has developed by Barry Harris’s life time of music and his passion for teaching and transmitting his career of knowledge in the most powerful language the human race has at its grasps. You’re a great translator and teacher Robbie. Cheers!!!
I was blessed to have been taken to his nyc class as a toddler!!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Incredibly thorough video Robbie!
brilliantly explained, fantastic examples, thank you so much!! instantly subbed + followed!
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it!
Objectively, this Dude has matinee idol looks and PLAYS all that damn guitar! Seriously???? Its not fair! I’m green with envy!!! lol
Robbie- while your tech knowledge of harmony and chords is absolutely astoundingly brilliant- please, please make some videos of full guitar arrangements of classic standards(solo voicing) Thank You.
I'm only about 18 minutes in but just have to say how wonderful this video is. Your command of the material both verbally and on your guitar is astonishing.
I need to go back and take notes - every 30 seconds or so there is a bit of info that you could literally spend the next few weeks exploring!
Amazing work Robbie and your team (I'm assuming you've got a few people helping out with this..?)
I know right! I've been on the 1st 30 minutes for about 2 weeks. Starting to get it through.
What a brilliant tribute to the Mastro, Barry Harris! I'm a self-taught jazz accordionist from Cape Town and had benefited immensely from Barry's videos. Your succinct teaching makes it so much clearer to understand his condensed presentation. I hope Barry sees your work. Thanks a mil; bless you. I've just subscribed and liked your video.
Thanks so much for your kind words and support!
I have already watched the video for 5 times and still coming back! Thank you man!
You did great job for every guitar player in the world. thank you very much!
thanks a bunch for this man, looking forward to the in depth drop voicing vid
My pleasure. Me too, I've got some great stuff to share on the drop voicing system!
I thought I've seen all the guitar channels out there that teached theory in an actual comprehensible way, but turns out I was missing out the best of them! Dude, the diagrams and the transitions are so smooth and clear, also your way of talking about it... Even pentagrams side by side with tablature! Thank you very much for your taking the effort to make these videos. Also, may I ask which program do you use to make the pentagrams transparent like that?
Thank you for this amazing lesson. I'm going to watch in bits to properly understand the complicated material.
Quickly becoming one of my top TH-cam music teaching channels..!!
dude... great playing.... so nice...
Really nice Robbie. I have to work on the Long short, Short long things.Those are so pretty.
They really are! Thanks for checking out the vid, love your channel.
This is so obvious. Though I have decided to become a short-order cook after watching it 🤓
hello TILFBH i love your content
Robbie, Thanks for your musical presentation of Barry’s teachings. Fantastic to try and get this approach.🎼🎺🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🎶😎
man, that is some powerful sounding jazz guitar. you have some type of power and energy a lot of jazz guitarists lack. very inspiring
Thanks for the kind words, that's really nice of you to say. Glad you enjoyed the vid!
I would like to watch you playing more Standard tune useing this method please!
I can imagine that you have dedicated a lot of time to B.H. material - your explanation is clear and exhaustive, your playing is beautiful
Thanks Stefano, that's really nice of you to say!
Thanks so much for this! Really packed full but also digestible. Exactly what I was looking for to better understand and start applying these concepts. You did a great service with this video!
I have been working through a book on the Barry Harris method for a long time, and after a long time, it's all starting to click... your video is an awesome accompaniment to that book, crystallising and presenting the knowledge from a different perspective. I'm only just now starting to see how amazing this whole system is.
this is insane, thank you!!
You're very welcome, thanks for checking it out!
If you could unpack this into a longer online course, I'd gladly pay for it!
I learned this kind of stuff in a whole different way, and i always thought it's too oldfashioned. I've tried to make a concept with pentatonic scales modifying one note at a time and i've get pretty close to this. But when i'd saw this video, every piece just has fitted in its place. Marvelous, thank you!
Nice job. I have watched the keyboard guys struggle with this. Now I can struggle right along with them. Thanks for giving me another way to look at tunes.
i'm gonna need to watch this several times. great work, though!
ya, it breezes through all the ideas pretty fast for all but the folks that know this stuff already. nonetheless we have timestamps. .-) one of the best guitar lessons videos i`ve seen and i`ve seen them all pretty much.
Thank you for this. You've obviously read Alan Kingstone's book on Barry Harris' harmonic theory for guitar, and while a good book it is hard to understand and not available for purchase much anywhere. Very good production value and distillation of the concepts in the book. For anyone wanting a further and deeper study of this I'd look around for "The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar" I know there are copies around and a pdf floating around somewhere on the internet. Cheers!
..anybody lookin for that pdf can @me 😶
@@nicholasquiller1135 Same
U can view Alan Kingstone’s book as PDF at Scribed appt.
this information goes back before even fletcher henderson before 1920s
@@johnjacquard863 Nobody teaches it anymore except for those in the BH school of thought unfortunately tho
Thank you so much for such a clear and in depth analysis of Barry's concepts
Great video, so much stuff involved, this feels like years of work to get a firm understanding of and get it into my playing