Jazz Theory with Barry Harris, Part One
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- Sit down with the legendary Barry Harris for a piano and theory lesson that will expand your harmonic vocabulary and give you deeper insight into the music!
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Barry Harris - Piano
Eli Yamin - Piano
Eric Suquet - Director
Bill Thomas - Director of Photography
Aaron Chandler - Audio Engineer
Richard Emery - Production Assistant
Seton Hawkins - Producer
Recorded September 11, 2013
RIP Barry - your teaching and playing will live on!
🙏
Ah, I did not know he passed. He’ll be greatly missed and thank the Lord for his genius legacy
This man is definitely a legendary jazz pianist
He’s 90 now and I think he still plays
Old black musicians. True hidden Gems
ORIGINATORS
So, here's what I hear happening for the first 5 exercises in terms of each chord/scale (all in C major, the "/" mark means switch hands)
in case anyone wants to practice this:
1. "Up the scale" 1 / 3 7 (C / E B -> D / F C)
2. "Dee da" 1 7 / 3 7 -> 6 / 6 (all the dee das end on the 6, lifting up all other notes before)
3. "Dee da da" 1 7 / 3 7 3 -> 1 b6 (relative to the chord/scale) / 3 b6 3 -> 6 / 6
4. "Dee da da da" (with root on bottom) 1 7 / 3 7 3 -> 1 6 / 3 6 3 -> 1 b6 / 3 b6 3 -> 6 / 6
5. "Dee da da da" (with 7th on bottom) 7 / 1 3 7 -> 6 / 1 3 6 -> b6 / 1 3 b6 -> 6 / 6
Hope this helps someone out there! I might try to finish off transcribing this video. This stuff is thick with info! These exercises will help you to move around all the diatonic 7th chords in a given key! Because Barry goes to the b6 scale degree, I think these movements might also start outlining his 6th diminished scale (major with half step in between 5 and 6).
Great comment!
Appreciated.
Thanks!
thank you , looking foward to see the transcription online!
I’ll let all of you know when it comes out!
People, continue exposing yourself to these videos eventually with some practice and continuous exposure the concepts will just start making sense. Believe in the process, this is a gold mine.
Do the dee da duh da one and all your worries will go away
Nicholas Lengyel Most definitely!
Lmao this is confusing
I've read all women XD
I can testify this is true
Rest in Peace Mr. Harris. It's been a wonderful life.
He has voyaged to dazzling depths of tones and timing, in the musical experience. From worldliness to divine.
His explanation of the 2 whole tone scales as man and woman is so charming. And the diminished scales as the DNA in the children!
I've come to practice my De Das and Da De Das!
Update, I got my De Da do das in C, so I moved up 1 Chromatically, and D Flat is kicking my butt. I can't wait to master this!
2nd Annual update: I now understand the musical family tree, the Diminished 7th theory has opened up so many new doors for me. I’ve been practicing the torture test, and will continue to practice. I always come back to see if there’s anything I’ve missed.
I tried this by droping II V and it works really great. You can play a phrase and then substitute the same exact phrase in major third keys.It can aslo generate tritone subs.The trick is to resolve it on time.
I look at it this way! The word "ALTERNATE" explains a lot!! If you play up and down and restrict yourself to semitones you only get chromatics which are not immediately obvious in terms of hinting at structure, However, if you take 12 notes and you play each ALTERNATE note you get the 1st whole tone scale. This is the first step in creating a new structure "ALTERNATION". Obvious hey? If you then play the notes in between you get the 2nd whole tone scale! Ok sorted!!!! But if you then ALTERNATE "whole-tone, semitone, whole-tone, semi-tone"....until you reach 12 you get THE DIMINISHED SCALE!!! IF you then start again with either of the whole tone scales and ALTERNATE you get AUGMENTED ARPEGGIOS. However, if you do the same with the diminished scale you get DIMINISHED ARPEGGIOS!!! This isn't jazz!! (Although it is the music I play!). This is music at it's structural core!!! Does it explain major chords? Yes, take an augmented arpeggio and flatten any note! What do you get? A major triad!! Sharpen any note and what do get? A minor triad! Take any diminished 7th arpeggio and flatten any note, what do you get? A dominant 7th arpeggio! Sharpen any note and what do you get? A min7b5 arpeggio!! So, Augmented, whole tone structures create TRIADS!!! ie 3 note harmony!! Diminished structures create, QUADS or 4 note harmony!! Then, there is how scales are truly built! Hit me up for that because it is very involved!! But it all stems from this!!! Barry Harris is totally right that it all goes back to dim and whole tone!!
thanks! I'm learning more by ear and by Barry Harris videos, so your explanation helps me move forward in terms of structure.
DJANGO BEAT do you have any PDF's or any site that lays the information down fully?
Thanks, i went to college for jazz and I was never even taught that! lol!
duck PuBZ that's because going to school for jazz (such as in any collegiate environment) is an oxymoron
Ideally college is supposed to provide mentor-ship and bring together a community of serious musicians. Both are key components of Jazz. College is just a tool. Unfortunately, most colleges lack focus and accept to many students in my opinion. Especially liberal arts jazz colleges that require time wasting classes such as " Gender studies", " Linguistics" 3 years of " Classical music history" and other classes totally unrelated to Jazz.... My college experience was 50% music, 50% b.s. classes, studying and writing essays that had nothing to with music.
Eli, thank you so much for sharing your lessons with Barry Harris with us. These lessons and the ones with you teaching to your student are so helpful and inspiring!
AMAZING! SO INTELLIGENT! SOOO MASTERFUL! THANK YOU MR. HARRIS FOR THIS ETERNAL INSTRUCTION. ILL MAKE IT LAST TO HONOR YOU! SMILES!
"He did de doo doo da dee do da da dee" - "Really?!" haha
If you don't learn to do 'do da dee da' early on in jazz, my friend, you're screwed.
@@lepredator189 Lmao ive never played jazz im so damn confused
7:55 hahahah
It’s the language of music
I know Barry Harris is a
LEGEND who's played with the best of the best and that he is an ICON
as a MUSIC educator, composer and arranger! I just finished viewing his discussion/demonstration on Giant Steps. It was AMAZING. What a fantastic approach to a rather
Challenging tune. I tried what he suggested and it sound a better already. Folks, for anyone who aspires to reach higher ground in terms of playing difficult changes, this is z "MUST SEE' video. Thank.you Barry Harris! You da' BOMB!
I also saw the giant steps video but I can't understand its approach much. Could you explain to me what did you understand in the giant steps video? please help me!
Love hearing this man teach!! I would pay good money for this!
Genius. I just started scratching the surface of his concept.
Our Uncle Barry Harris. Happy to see you are doing well. I am Donnel Harris's daughter who is the son of your sister the late Mayme Lou Harris. We are proud of you and love you very much.
this is fucked up
You are NOT Donnel Harris's daughter stop clout chasing
Freedom Works this is why I hate TH-cam
Love this video! I really like the slow tempo. One thing thou that would be better is a top camera view so I could see the keys on the piano better. It's a bit hard to follow when you don't see the keys. But thank you for this lovely video!
he is a truly legend
Barry Harris is the Yoda of Jazz.
I wish I had a musical mentor like this who would sit down with me and teach me how and what I'm doing, because I can sure as heck play and write music, but I have no damn idea what I'm doing!
Excellent. Learning never stops. Loved this. Will practice
I don't understand what's going on here, but as soon as I put my hands on the keys and do what Barry says it's like I'm on a psychedelic trip to insights I never dreamed possible. How does he *DO* that?
7:04 - 7:09. those fingers remind me of my brain on the daily...man, you did SOO good!
Barry is a musical genius. No 2 ways of putting it
One of the coolest teachers
My uncle Will put me on to Barry Harris. My uncle Will clearly makes good decisions.
Christopher Michael S/O to uncle Will
Will he?
@@peterchaolover1yfjud Lmao I read it like thay
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Barry Harris Award. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARRY!!!!!
Wow. This is fantastic.
Fabulous - as others have said could listen to him for hours :)
The people that disliked this video are still drinking the ‘music-institution’ cool aid
Me, a complete outsider:
I like your funny words, Magic Man
I LIKE JAZZ
i would love learn how to play the first 5mins what are they playing, it does sound right when i play it.
RIP Barry Harris, thanks for everything.
OK... so the first 'dee da, da, da' in C major shows that you can access all 12 chromatic notes from a major scale?
What about the 'torture test', it goes through the four keys (separated by minor 3rd interval from C), is this more about modulation possibilities?
*"See, we used to dance to the music. We danced to the music. You see, jazz musicians been gettin' away with murder; they ain't got no people dancin' to the music and they just do anything they wanna' do. And you couldn't dance to it if you wanted to, the way some of them sound. Then they go out on you and call it 'avant-garde.' Right now we in the dark ages. The golden age passed. We are in the dark ages. It's time for a renaissance."*
- Barry Harris from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague
Damn, R.I.P Barry Harris.
Rest easy Barry
love the way he teaches haha
RIP legend
Where is the part zero?
what chords were he playing at the beginning?
I wanna learn this are there jazz school that teach this in Toronto?
Can anyone explain the second practice exercise where the keys change
What is this sequence called?
Having Barry grab your hand and reposition it in the keys must either feel like the best or the worst thing ever.
❤
Is it possible to add a chinese subtitle to this series of video later?
is there a written score for the patterns? I can figure out the key changes.
nice.. yes there are 3 fours.. the diminished which share DnA..
and also 4 threes.. the augmented.. two from each scale..
7:45 “mmmm yes mhm. what a distinguished gentleman I see I see. Very distinguished”
Ha I'd be so nervous
What is it called that is being played in intro? The type of scale etc...
musikman337 it's an ascending harmonized c major scale keeping the 7th of each chord in the soprano voice. The little motif is him playing the 7th, 6, b6, the 6th again and back to the 7th in that order. In other words the first chord he played in the intro was a c major 7. B is the highest note being played (7th), he jumps back to A (the 6th), then Ab (b6th), A again and finally B. The next chord is a D minor 7 with a C as the highest note. He does the same idea for each harmonized chord he plays. The intervals shift slightly, but yeah. Hope that helps.
kukusooie thanks man
I'm positive my piano teacher saw this video
So he was switching keys by minor 3rds as a warm up exercise
hi, anyone knows what scale he's using?
who is the artist mentioned at 7:50? i hear 'glen bob' but can't find anything :(
Bud Powell
@@jkgto cheers
How I wish he could teach me that's...
you ever get the feeling you should be practicing right now?
Oh yeah....yeah
Lmao he just said dee dah and he did it...im-
Lol so true
Nate Dragland yes
Nate Dragland no
bruh, if that younger guy (i'm sure an accomplished musician) asks - what key are we in?, you know you have a real master teaching you.
Indeed
@@eliyamin543 oh hey it's eli yamin
You can see it in the way his fingers twitch, it’s the difference between being able to feel the chords like a master and understanding chords and fundamentals like a science. Both are great in their own respects but being able to straight tune with vibrations and allow the piano to become a outlet for your soul to express rather than a instrument you hit a different level entirely.
@@takb. Agreed. I'm a twitcher
Dude
Looking for a jazz theory video:
The master: “Do the dee da da daaa”
The Student: Ah yeah *rocks it*
Me: :-O
This is tricky to practice on a 1-octave midi controller.
By now I'm sure you've gotten really really good with the octave+/- function. :)
@@Drummer_Jacob if you do it fast enough it almost sounds like two notes in different octaves being played at the same time. With the octave +/- button there is no need for full size pianos.
On the button accordion all four scales, C Eb F# & A, are exactly the same, so it would probably be better practice to go up in major thirds.
One octave? As in 12 keys? Don't they sell midi keyboards at a minimum of 25 keys though? I haven't seen one that's 12 or 13 (in case C comes back again). BTW hilarious comment.
You’re doing it wrong
It is such a humble attitude of this guy eli yamin to let himself to be filmed learning
Why most humans being ego in the first place? 🙂 let there be humble
@@kongson14 Everybody has an ego
Incompetence is a prerequisite of achievement.
if learning makes you feel humbled then you have an ego problem to begin with, filmed or not
@@alistairmurray626 Indeed, but let's see the bright side, one may be struggling with oneself
Did i just hear zelda
Origami not surprise to find you here homie, keep making dope beats
Exactly what I thought, fairy fountain is based of of that principle
cut the crap, what do you want to enhance and do you have the material for it?
No, it's from a Hiromi Uehara track. Maybe it's Joy, don't remember 🙂
Perhaps
This is why I don't even pretend to understand Jazz. Its absolutely beautiful, but insanely hard
Jason Hatfield Doesn't have to be! Start here: th-cam.com/video/EadpcjMB_2s/w-d-xo.html
+Jazz at Lincoln Center's JAZZ ACADEMY practice practice practice!
Mind boggling!
It can be super easy, but can get as difficult as you want it to be. That’s the beauty of it.
Pliny Elder it never actually super easy. what u talking about?
I was fortunate enough to be able to take private lessons from professor Harris. He was always extremely kind and encouraging but also had a unique ability to make me feel like an absolute idiot at the exact same time. 😂
He was one of the finest jazz educators than I've been lucky enough to know. He's definitely missed.
yes, it's a occupational hazard to put push a students hands around on the keyboard when teaching a new concept and/or technique. it's a habit one should try to avoid developing.
What you say is unprovable, I took Blues classes with Muddy Waters.
When you show up to the jam and they call an obscure tune 4:10
LOL
what is the theme?
😆
This single moment, here, since his recent passing, seems to capture everything about this generous, generous and lovely man. I've watched this same video a few times, but it now possesses a certain charm and intimacy. Truly bittersweet watching this at the moment. God Bless you, Mr. Harris...R.I.P.
Barry Harris provides such amazing insight into how scales like the diminished 7th are in fact ingrained in the DNA of jazz
As he explains about the 12 disciples, they play the man as a C whole tone scale, the woman as the Db whole tone scale. The children are the 3 diminished 7th scales. Like C dim7, where the C and the F# come from the father (C whole tone scale) and the D# and A come from the mother (Db whole tone scale).
I was so happy when I too could say oooohhhh!
R 3 7 voicing for each chord.
I ii iii (change the IV to iv) the iv becomes the ii of the key a minor 3rd away.
Keys of C _ Eb _F# _A.
C - I ii iii / Eb - ii I ii iii /
F# - ii I ii iii / A - ii I ii iii /
C - ii (back to the start)
Good stuff!
Thanks! Super helpful.
Thank you very much
He reminds me of Yoda in so many ways! 😯
If he was a jazz pianist.
Unfortunately too many people only know a fictional character from a movie instead of recognizing the wisdom in their elders. Yoda was derived from many examples of actual living old wise men and women.
Thing it mean not, if that swing it ain't got
Rude. Very rude.
See what u mean I do
Speechless ... For the last 35 years, I've been playing and studying guitar, trying to learn as possible. This is pure genius, experience, knowledge and wisdom ! Priceless !
Man....I could be listening to Barry Harris for hours, I mean...just him speaking and me sat next to him
+Ruben SaiR Allen That would be pretty creepy.
+RedwolfPsx haha, i think you know what he meant
WolfPsx, so are they not seating close to each other? Am terribly sorry for what happened to you when you were young but not all men are like that.
@WolfPsx Think before spreading your hateful preoccupations around. Does everything have to be filtered through the worst possible scenario to escape a moron twisting it into something offensive? "Creepy" is in YOUR mind. Spending time with a wise old man is not to be disrespected. No one need contrast that with spending time with an ignorant kid like yourself to see which is the better situation. Doesn't matter how old you are chronologically, your mentality is that is an ignorant kid.
he's nice but he can stings a bit deep 3:57 (y'already can't follow)
Relax guys,,,have a beer,,,relax,,,watch closely and learn the good shit,,,
This is the real deal,,,,
First met Barry about 25 years ago and have been blown away by his teaching techniques ever since. He is one of the most knowledgeable and positive mentors one can imagine. As a vocalist, he encouraged me in ways I never before experienced. He is the MAN!
This is gold. Barry Harris, for some reason, is not spoken of in many jazz programs that I know of, which is not right.
Joshua Atere His name is Barry. His father loved Logan Berries ans so it was to be. those, (myself included) that actually know him have a little nickname for him... very berry. He sometimes carries fresh raspberries in his pocket and if you yawn in front of him he gon' pop one in der, ah huh, ah yessuh. like you know him. Barris. pfft. I made all that shit up.
Lol haha typo of course
Joshua Atere long time player but don't consider myself an expert. I've noticed that I keep running into Barry Harris whether guitar or piano. it seems he took the time to write down the rules. I've been using them for years but not consistently or perfectly. really enjoyed this video.
Yes he is also father of Halle Barris
I agree 200%
I'm sorry but I can't understand this video. I'm trying to practice some harmonization techniques and play some stuff, but they're just playing without really explaining what they're doing, or why they're doing what they're doing. If someone knows, I would really appreciate if they can explain what's going on here.
Pick out the melody note by ear and find the pattern. Maybe get another voice in there too. Its formatted like that so you have to use your ear to learn it. That's why this music is really challenging, it requires a developed sense of pitch and harmonies through how it sounds to your ear.
The exercise he's talking about is having you think of harmony/related keys in minor 3rds instead of 4ths or 5ths. The pattern is starting in C Major, then goes up diatonically to the minor IV, Fminor. F minor is the ii chord in the key of Eb Major. Repeat the same thing: go up diatonically until the minor iv, Ab minor. Ab minor is the ii chord in the key of Gb Major. Repeat and you're in the key of A Major. Repeat again and you're back to C Major. This is a very basic outline of what they are doing. Practicing this will let you play more fluidly between keys and will help your voice leading during improvisation. Hope that helps a little.
This is Jazz -- He just calls the exercises "dee da dee da".
The exercice sounds like Zelda's Great Fairy's Fountain theme lol
Oh boy! This was one of the best lesson vídeos I've ever watched! Thank you so much!
This reminds me of Amadeus when Mozart is telling Salieri how to write his Requiem Mass.
Yes!
@@eliyamin543 "You go... TOO FAST!" I love that reference!
just listening to that makes me nervous
yea fr but it’s funny
The one's who gave 4 thumbs down on Barry Harris really have no idea what they're doing; not a clue.
Lonnie D. Hillyer yeah I mean how sad do you have to be to have that kind of response
so true
They didn't know what key they were in
Perhaps they just played an augmented thumbs up?
Not sure what moron would down thumbs anything Barry Harris would be involved with a true master. The vid of him working on Giant Steps blows my mind.
Iam a guitar player and the least I can say is that this is GOLD.Thank you
+Kostas Charitou Thanks! Have you checked out some of our guitar videos? th-cam.com/video/h7i6S4_vi3g/w-d-xo.html
+Kostas Charitou Alan Kingstone has written a book adapting Harris' theories for guitar, entitled "The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar." You can find it on Amazon.
Thanks man I will try this for sure.
If "doo de doo dah doo de doo dah doo de doo dah" is the gold standard of teaching jazz theory, I'd hate to think what the silver and bronze must be like. This reminds me of my GCSE English teacher whose explanation of Iambic Pentameter, the total and only explanation of the subject that she ever gave to us (though she repeated it often) was that 'it goes der der der der der der der der der der".
??????
I'm atheist and loved his biblical analogies for the notes at the end!
"Bruh, do you even dee duh dah?"
This practice session reminds me of the great fairy theme from zelda.
That theme does use jazz theory
Yeaa I realized too. it's practically the same but that theme from Zelda is more like an arpeggio.
mechwarreir2 lots of videogame composers are jazzers its just that too many people are close minded about VG music
The older VG music really used to borrow against jazz and classical theory. Listen to the Final Fantasy 1 battle theme and then listen to Debussy's Passepied. Dragon Warrior's soundtrack was so well-received by even critical ears that an orchestra toured with that music back in the 80s. Essays have been written espousing the magic of Super Mario Bros's music, even just minor aspects like the three-bar "Game Over" progression. So much gold in those older tunes.
mechwarreir2 I can definitely hear that!
a great teacher...God bless him
Yh, ammo go back to ‘mary had a little lamb’ before attempting this 😄🙈
Yea, Eli! What an honor to learn from such a legend. I'm honored to know you, sir.
No idea what they're doing. I gave up @ 12 minutes or so. It's obviously me, since most of the comments are about BH's amazing teaching skills. ..Respect....movin' on..
Just keep practicing and learning and eventually you'll get it, trust me because I didn't understand it the first time I saw it and now I finally understand it.
Our elders are truly Walking Libraries. I hope this guy realizes what an honor and a privilege it is to have a mentor of Mr. Harris's caliber.
absolutely
If you would have to me an old school jazz master would have more musical influence on me than Jimmy Page years ago I’d have laughed in your face. I don’t even play piano.
My mind wasn’t ready for this knowledge
This series is the best I've ever seen on Jazz theory. 1000% recommended.