How Barry Harris creates movement over Ladybird πΉ
Published about 2 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
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Reader,
When I was in music school here in Cleveland my family moved outside of New York City. I would go home to see them a few times a year and would venture into the city to attend Barry Harris' workshops.
I was classically trained at the time, but my professors really encouraged me to go. Ultimately, its what sparked my love for jazz and jazz education.
Ever since, I've been endlessly fascinated by Barry's unique way of explaining jazz harmony, and watching how he puts the same ideas he teaches into his own playing.
In one of my workshops earlier this week we were practicing the tune Lady Bird, and that reminded me of this amazing recording of Barry playing that tune. Let's look at it.
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Join our workshop this Friday
This week we are continuing our workshop series on 3-note rootless voicings in our left hand. Last week we learned how to construct them, this week we are going to talk about how to get fluent with them, and practice over a new tune.
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Today's 2-5-1
I screwed up last week. Thanks too everyone who wrote to keep me honest (so many emails π). I still don't know what happened, but best I can tell I must have hit undo too many times and sent the wrong observations. I corrected them on the web version of this newsletter. I'll try not to let it happen again.
On with this weeks transcription:
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Ladybird
Recorded by the Barry Harris trio. Barry Harris (piano), Gene Taylor (bass), Leroy Williams (drums)
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This week I tried something new and I put my observations as notes in the notation itself above. I've heard your feedback that it can be hard to connect my observation with the section of the notation I'm talking about, so I thought I'd try something new here.
You can download this transcription to look at it more closely here: Lady Bird.pdfβ
Learn more about these Barry Harris moves
I'm hard at work on a video on the great song Pure Imagination, but its taking a bit of time to get right.
In the meantime, if you are interested to learn more about the Barry Harris moves above, here's a video from the early days of my channel that explains them:
 βTry not to cringe... the production quality was pretty poor back then. But the info is still useful.
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