A different approach to handling chord extensions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- In this lesson, I'll show you why I ignore extensions on lead sheets, drawing inspiration from my early encounters with Barry Harris. We explore the limitations of extensions, the concept of simplifying written chords, whilst still creating amazing sounds and embracing authentic harmony from the original chord changes.
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You’re the Barry Harris teacher with the most clarity, I think you offer fundamentals and practicing tips for all levels. Thx!
Wow, thanks!
Thanks for sharing Mr. Harris's legacy!
Thank you so much
Alto Sax. Learned my 12 major scales, 3 half step diminished, 2 whole tones, both ways round the cycle, and shoehorn major third arpeggios in where ever possible (sometimes where it's not), a handful of patterns, and let my mind do the rest. If I want to sound like a dork, I'll play the blues scale. Love your lessons.
I joined Jazz Skills because of content like this video. It’s the definition of demystifying what looked like a conundrum. but my absolute favourite part of the video is when you say “I wished I’d said” and then play the movements that had just come to you. That split second shows the power of your method, can’t say how much I’m getting out of the clarity of your teaching.
Oh wow. I'm lucky to have members like you. Thank you so much Paul and keep up the good work.
Thank you. Your playing is wonderful and your explanation so clear. Thanks
That was great. One thing your videos have done for me is to make me think of chords in groups instead of static slices of time. You can’t really consider the character of a chord without knowing what came before and comes after.
That's really great. Well done!
Don’t even play keys but love these videos
My “main” instrument is the Sax, but I’ve always plonked on a piano for fun, but taking Shan’s course to get some piano chops has given me some musician chops that means I am a better sax player. I think it’s a great journey, I’m sure I’ll never be a great piano player but, what I’m learning is opening my mind to playing sax and piano that I’ve only dreamed of.
At 9:20 or so, talking about how, with extensions, you can just subtract 7, I would have thought there is a little more information in the 13th or 9th notation than is expressed by using 6th or 2nd, and that is that the chord is, in fact, a seventh. That is not so if you just write C6 or Eb2, and seventh chords are quite a different thing from triads.
Horn players would say Keep It Simple. We don't want fancy chords if it stops you from swinging. When you're backing, the job is to make the Soloist sound good.
Get out from under our feet & let us do our thing. Play what you want in your solo.
PS Thanks for good videos. We all learn heaps from you.
Just came across this channel. Wow, I am loving what I am seeing/hearing. As a guitarist I have been intrigued with the Barry Harris method. I'm always wanting to demystify changes. At the 7:15 mark it seems you also have the vanilla changes, or possibly the original changes. Is there a place to find that rather than The Real Book?
Thank you,Maes5ro⭐🌹⭐