So in a practical sense, where does that leave the jazz musician? Well if you yearn to weave intricate harmonies rather than just bash out ii, V and I chords, then this method gives you the simple harmonic relationships to start making music on the fly. Or in Barry Harris's concept you could choose to take a road trip instead, experiencing the gradual transition from point A to B to C, taking small steps and stops along the way (Barry says 'focus on small chords'), enjoying the journey, not just the destinations. You could board a jet plane at point A, zone out for a while in the generic looking cabin, step off at point B to take in a meal and a concert, and then fly on another generic jet where you zone out for another 2 hours before reaching point C for some more site seeing. I think of it as a choice you have when planning a trip.Ĭardshark darwin ortiz pdf download. If you had to sum it up, his viewpoint is that the prison of ii-V-I is too static and confining, that jazz and all music should be about motion, even when the chord chart says the harmony is static. Does this start to sound like a cumbersome and outdated theory for working in real time as a musician? I am trying to interpret it in the most basic ways, to get a feel for.Īnd our theory then says we need to the play the 7th mode of the melodic minor scale built a half step above the root of the dominant chord.I recently stumbled upon the concept of negative harmony in these threads: None of the notes one plays are in the key of C or even in the chord G7, but we still try to force it into our little universe that says everything is a ii, a V or a I of the key we are in.īarry Harris Harmonic Method For Guitar Pdf To Adam. This brings us to jazz where we still talk about the V7 chord of a particular key even if its a G7 flat 9 flat 13 or some other form of G alt. Eventually the theory is so cumbersome that it is replaced with something simpler and more functional, more in agreement with reality. What I mean is that a theory works for a while, but as our knowledge progresses, that same theory becomes bogged down with more and more addendum and exceptions to keep it in agreement with known reality. In science there is the old adage that a theory works until it doesn't. This is NOT just another jazz guitar book, of which you probably already own dozens, most rehashing the same topics.
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