Barry Harris - part 3 Jazz Theory (Lincoln Center).pdf

Barry Harris - part 3 Jazz Theory (Lincoln Center)
Original YouTube source: https://youtu.be/xBcK-mvYF6U
Transcript: R.Glover 8/2018
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Jazz Theory with Barry Harris -- Lincoln Center -- Part three (last update: Aug 25, 2018 R.Glover)
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Fmaj7 Gmin7 C(7) Barry: But
we say:
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Fmaj7(6) F dim7 Gmin7 C(7) F
Barry:
like this.
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[0 min 12 sec] Barry: Jazz is the continuation of classical theory.
You know...See, we just never learned how they did it.
You know...See, we.... I never had figured bass...I never... but see, I was so...
I was so in love with the music.
See, nobody loved it more than me.
I can't imagine..... where... I was always searching...
"What's to THIS?"..."What's TO this?"
And see, and I think right now I know more about how to teach a person to really improvise.
I feel like, I know how to do it.
'Cause it's simple.
They....see what they did...
Play me a C major scale: [Eli Yamin next plays on piano]
[ 0 min 56 sec ]
Barry: See that?
They say, "okay,"
[vocalizes
rhythm of the scale
just played]

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10
Barry: "I might say: thirds" [vocalizes playing
C scale in triplets] [ 1 min 8 sec ]
Barry: So, now
we start learning
about improvisation.
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[Barry vocalizes
playing C scale in four
note groupings]. "Out of
four notes".... [ 1 min 18 secs ]
Barry: See,
that's how we
start to learn
about how to
improvise
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Barry: So, they
told us about the
triad. Give me a C
major triad.
[1 min 31 sec]
Make it
minor...
Make it
major...
Augmented...
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See, they told
us this.
Make it
diminished....
[1 min 41 secs ]
See? So, those things start coming
in. You start bringing in these triads.
So now you going to end up with
triads... you got scales... you
got the whole tone scales...

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18
You got triads...
You got the diminished 7th...
And so, from these things
we learn HOW THEY HEAR
[2 min 3 sec ]
'Cause I might tell you,
play "C" to "C"...
[Barry plays]
Cdim7
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Barry: Put it right there...
[Eli Yamin plays]
Cdim7
Barry: Do this...
[Barry plays] [ 2 min 11 sec ]
Cdim7
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[Eli Yamin plays]
Cdim7
See, I put all the
notes in between
[Barry plays] [2 min 16 sec ]
Cdim7
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Eli Yamin: "Oh yeah"
[Eli Yamin plays]
Cdim7

4
25
Barry: "I think I'll come down"
Cdim7 A
Cdim7
27
Barry: "Do that"
[Eli Yamin plays] [2 min 22 sec ]
Cdim7 Cdim7
29
Barry: "Put 'em in between HERE"
Cdim7 Cdim7
31
Barry: "in between THESE two"
Cdim7 Cdim7

5
33
Barry: "... THESE two"
Cdim7 Cdim7
35
Barry: "Do that"
Cdim7 Cdim7
37
[ 2 min 38 sec ]
Barry: See that? That's the way you do things.
You know, [Austrian composer Arnold] Schoenberg did... he's slick, too...
Just like I made you go up the scales in "C"...
Schoenberg did this... here ...
hit that third.... [2 min 50 sec ]
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Barry: Go up "C" major scale
in thirds.
[Eli Yamin plays]
Now, he wrote that
out. And you know
what he said after he
wrote it out? In the
book he say, "now
you learn the other
11". (Barry laughs).
See, that the secret.

6
41
[3 min 3 sec ]
[Eli Yamin plays in Db]
Barry: That's
right! You've got
to know the other
11 ...
43
[3 min 9 sec ]
[Eli Yamin plays in D]
45 54
Barry: The same
thing with OUR
SCALE ...
[3 min 13 sec ]
[Barry plays]
Barry: You gotta
say ...
[3 min 15 sec ]
[Barry plays]

7
47
[3 min 17 sec ]
Barry: You gotta
know all o' that
too ...
[3 min 21 sec ]
49
[Eli Yamin plays]
[ 3 min 22 sec ]
Barry:
That's
right,
ALL of
THAT
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[3 min 30 sec ]
Eli Yamin: Didn't Bud
Powell make a whole
introduction out of that

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[ 3 min 37 sec ]
Barry: Right! That's all!.
I think it was even
smaller.
I thought he did...
56
[Barry Plays]
[3 min 41 sec ]
[Barry Plays]
[3 min 41 sec ]
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[3 min 47 sec ]
Barry: But that shows you... it can tell you...
If he wrote that, then we KNEW he knew how to
play the SCALES like that. So you see? ([Eli Yamin: "sure"].
So... See, we.... we've gotten away from so many things...
If HE did that....
then WE should know how
to do that...

9
61
Barry: I heard Monk one time.
Monk said this.....
[4 min 7 sec ]
So, it showed me that...
this chord ON THE THIRD
[A minor 7],
IS A ONE [F major].
I can make it .... see?
it's a "ONE" [F major]
chord. [Eli Hamin: "Wow,
yeah!"]
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[4 min 21 sec]
Eli Yamin: "You might think of it as "A minor 7" but...
Barry Harris: "Yeah, but it's a "one" chord [F major]..
Barry: So, Ahhhh, so you got to be careful about that one.
That why most of the cats, now-a days, what they do....
They be playin' the blues in "F", and they put....
suddenly when they go back....back to the....
from the "Bb"back to the "F"....
They play "B natural".
And you CAN'T play that "B natural" against... in the "F major" scale
'Cause each chord takes the scale that it comes from...
You dig it?
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[4 min 50 sec]
Barry: Like where-ever's chord on each degree...
[4 min 57 sec]. Barry asks Eli Yamin: "How many chords on each degree?".
How many degrees is "major 7th"? ... How many degrees would you find a major 7th?
Of the scale? How many degrees of "C major" scale?

10
67
Eli Yamin: "Oh! ... Would you find a major
7th.... Well, you find it on the 4... that's pretty
much it....
Barry: "So, what did you say?"
Eli Yamin: "Two...."
Barry: "Two, right?"
Eli Yamin: "The one and the four".
Barry: "Right?" Eli Yamin: "Right".
Barry: "Ok, now we know that...."
Eli Yamin: "Yeah".
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[5 min 22 sec]
Barry: "How many keys... minor 7th?"
Eli Yamin: "Let's see... well, we got it on the
two chord, on the three chord, on the
sixth chord.
Barry: So? That means it's on the "2" of one
scale, the "3" of one scale, and the "6" of one
scale.
Eli Yamin: "Right".
Barry: That means each degree....
if you took this chord right here....
[5 min 41 sec ]
It's the"2" of "C" (Eli Yamin: "Yeah")
It's the "3" of what?
Eli Yamin? "It's the "3" of Bb"
Barry: "Right. And it's the 6 of what?"
Eli Yamin: "Of "F".
Barry: "Right. See there?"
Eli Yamin: "Yeah".
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Barry: [ 5 min 56 sec ] See, all this stuff is ... this ain't nonsense, man, ...
We're the continuation... I let them get away calling me "jazz musician",
you know? I've no de[sire]...I'm a classical musician... See, Chopin there would be glad to
have me around (Eli laughs...Barry chuckles). See, I know I'm a classical musician, you know.
But I... you can't... these people they.... you can't trust people... you know ... they don't realize,
but this is... this is classical. [6 min 23 sec ].

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72
[6 min 24 sec]
Eli Yamin: I remember
one time I saw you play
this song
[Eli Yamin plays ¨I Want
To Be Happy¨]
Fmaj F dim7 Gmin7 C7( 5)
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Gmin7 C7( 5) Fmaj A 9 G9 C7+5 9
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[6 min 37 sec]
Eli Yamin: And you used that diminished
thing that you were showing me.
Barry: That was.... see though who...
what Bud Powell did...
He changed the thing.
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Fmaj7
Barry Harris: Sonny Rollins
did it right. He said...
[Barry plays] [6 min 46 sec[
Gmin7 C(7) [6 min 49 sec]
Barry: But
we say:

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85
Fmaj7(6) F dim7 Gmin7 C(7)
88
F
Barry:
like this.
[6 min 57 sec]
Barry: So, we made it into a diminshed,
the second one. But really, itś a G minor 7.
Sonny Rollins played it perfect. 'Cause he's
the perfect, like, perfect cat.
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Eli Yaman: And then you can
do those things like
[Eli Yaman plays]
[7 min 8 sec]
Cdim7
Barry: Oh, Yeah.
Those things.
Those....
Like, you put...
91
[Eli Yaman plays
a little clumsier this time]
Cdim7
Barry: You see,
You gotta...
You gotta do 'em
in time too...

13
93
[7 min 14 sec]
[Eli Yamin plays ¨I Want
To Be Happy¨]
Fmaj F dim7
Barry:
(to Eli)
Not so,
No so
fast...
[7 min
18 sec]
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[7 min 20 sec]
Barry sings, but
Eli does not catch on yet]
Fmaj
[Although Eli
stopped playing,
Barry continues
singing the melody]
Barry: "The song"
[7 min 22 sec]
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[7 min 23 sec]
[Eli Yamin plays, fades...]
Fmaj
[Eli stops at beat 2 of 2nd measure of
"I Want To Be Happy"]

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100
F dim7
[7 min 25 sec] Barry: no, no,
no, no...
don´t do it there...
[7 min 29 sec]
Barry: You gotta,
keep this
all the way...
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Deet Day Doot Day Doot Da
[7 min 31 sec]
[Barry plays the bass notes
shown, and at the same time
SINGS the corresponding
melody from "I Want To Be
Happy"]
Doot Day Doot Day Doot Dee Doot Day
[7 min 35 sec]
Barry: "Just like that"
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[7 min 36 sec]
[Eli Yamin plays]
Fmaj F dim7
Barry:
Do De Doo
De Doo...

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107
[El Yamin has lost
the beat] B
Barry: Yeah,
but you gotta do
it in time.
[7 min 44 sec ]
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Barry: Okay, Watch [it]
[7 min 45 sec]
[Eli Yamin plays]
Fmaj F dim7
Barry:
Thatś
right.
Exactly
right.
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[7 min 52 sec]
Barry: Thatś how you learn.
You know....
Thatś how you learn.
Eli Yamin: How to do it in time.
Barry: Yeah...
That´s the thing
See, what happened when it came over here,
we had...we got a drummer...
They didn´t have that stuff....
Eli Yamin: Right

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115
[ 8 min 5 sec ]
Eli Yamin: And I remember when Jimmy Lovelace was in class.
[Jimmy Lovelace, a
bebop drummer who played in NYC, died at age 64 on October 29, 2004].
You always wanted to make....he always wanted to make sure he could see you.
He was always very demanding about that.
We´d all be gathered around the piano..
Barry: And he couldn´t see.
Eli Yeman: ¨Excuse me!¨ (laughs)
Barry: Yeah, that´s right (laughs). No, it´s really true.
Eli Yemin: A connection between the piano player and the drummer.
8 min 23 sec ]
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[8 min 23 ]
Barry: See, What we've done so far, we done... Oh, a lot.
See, just the beginning.
See, when we start talking about what Schoenberg said...
You now, like, "If you lower a note..."
Play the C diminished 7th.
[Eli Yemin plays]
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Barry: Schoenberg said that if you
lower one note at a time,
you'll end up with four dominants.
Barry: Lower the "C" a half step.
[8 min 49 sec]
Barry: What's the dominant?
Eli Yamin: B seven
Cdim7 B7
Barry: Go
back
Cdim7
Barry:
Lower the
E flat
D7
Eli Yamin:
D seven
Barry: Go
back...

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119
Barry: Lower
the F Sharp
Cdim7
Eli Yamin:
F 7.
F7
Barry:
Go ahead,
go back...
lower the
"A"
Cdim7 A 7
Eli:
A flat
seven
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[9 min 9 sec ]
Barry: So now we know, those 4 dominants are very important.
There're brother and sister.
Who do you play with first?
You're brother and your sister. (laughs)
If you've got 'em, you know, you play with your family first.
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[9 min 25 sec]
Barry: So, that's why...
If I told you to play a
C 7... Play a C 7.
[Barry plays]
Barry: Play a C 7
[Eli Yamin plays]
Barry:
No, just the 2 notes

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125
Barry: Play
a "A" triad,
starting
with
"E"
[9 min 40 sec]
Barry:
Hit the
chord
Barry: The
chord gotta be
pretty....
That's family.
Eli Yamin: That's
family, right there.
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Barry: See, the family
says....
Barry: Put the "A flat"
triad above it...
[9 min 53 sec ]
Barry: See that?
[9 min 57 sec]
Barry: That's right.
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Barry: Which one you
put above it there?
Barry: Aww,
you cheated on
me.
Eli Yamin:
You said,
"A FLAT",
right?
Barry:
Yeah.......
Oh, I shouldn't have said
"A FLAT", really. (they laugh)
I cheated sort of I think (laughs)

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132
Eli Yamin: There's
the "A"
Barry: "A"
Eli: Yeah
Barry: Put a
"C" triad above
it.
Barry: Put a
"E flat" triad above
it. [10 min 24 sec ]
Barry: Put
that....
Play that "E"
next to
that "E flat"
No, keep your
hand....
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Barry: That makes it sound...
That makes it sound like
a dominant. Otherwise it sound
like a minor 7.
Eli Yamin: Umm huh. Right.
[10 min 39 sec ]
Barry: 'Cause then you can hear that
go....[Barry plays Eb, Db]
Eli Yamin: Alright
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Eli Yamin: Alright Barry: Or double it...
Put the "E flat" next
to the "E".
[10 min 50 sec ]
Barry: And then...
and then move...
watch:
[Barry plays]
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Eli Yamin: Okay
[ 10 min 56 sec ]
Barry: Go to "F major"
Right there
[10 min 59 sec ]

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143
Barry: Do that again
[ 11 min 00 sec ]
145
Barry: See how that is?
[ 11 min 04 sec ]
Barry: Right.
[11 min 9 sec ]
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Barry: See, what you did
just then, you borrowed a
diminished.
Eli Yamin: Umm humm.
Barry: See, you
borrowed a diminished
note. The "C#" is
diminished.
Barry:
You could have
borrowed the "E"
too. [11 min 21 sec]
[Barry had not noticed
that Eli DID also borrow
the "E")
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[11 min 22 sec ]
[NOTE: Eli played this the
same as prior time, but this
time Barry noticed that
Eli borrowed the "E" (too)]
Barry: That's right.
You could
have borrowed
the "E" too.
You see?
[11 min 25 sec]

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154
Barry: You could have
borrowed the whole thing
like this [Barry plays]
[11 min 31 sec ]
A/A dim7 F6
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[11 min 34 sec ]
[Eli Yamin plays]
[Eli seems to have
borrowed a "Gb"
instead of the "G"
that Barry intended.
i.e. " Eli borrowed "Gb",
"E", "C#", A#" while
Barry had borrowed "G",
"E", "C#", A#]
Gdim7 drop 2 Fmaj
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Barry: Those kind of things sound, to the human ear,
some of the stuff sounds funny, you know.
[11 min 45 sec ]

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