The Labyrinth of Limitations
The Labyrinth of Limitations is a jazz guitar channel (its links point to thomasechols.com) that applies Barry Harris’s scales of chords to polyphonic improvisation. It mixes shorts on the author’s Elevator system, guides to the Labyrinth app, Foundations and Deep Dive lesson samples, and performances of standards.
242 videos in order. The coloured numbers are the ideas of Barry’s method each one covers.A second opinion, not Barry
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First short: exploring Barry Harris concepts
The channel’s first short, shared from TikTok, exploring Barry Harris concepts.
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My Romance, played with concepts from earlier episodes
A performance of the standard My Romance using the Barry Harris concepts shared in earlier episodes.
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Garden of Forking Paths: quick start with the Labyrinth app
A tour of the Labyrinth app: changing chords, exploring harmony, the songs menu, progressions and analysing tunes.
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Inversions within the Labyrinth app
Shows the app’s chord-inversion controls as another way to study scales of chords, with some improvisation.
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Version 1.1.0: the elevator for contrary motion
App update for exploring the ‘elevator’ concept from Episode 1 on relative motion, with inversion and movement controls.
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Short: watch ‘the ugliest duckling’ for the explanation
A short whose title points to the video ‘the ugliest duckling’ for its explanation.
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Version 1.2.0: importing and exporting playlists and lessons
Shows importing playlists and lessons into the Labyrinth app, with sections on the tritone and the tritone’s minor.
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Garden of Forking Paths: metronome and new synth in version 1.2.0
Introduces the app’s new synthesis engine, user sound presets and a metronome for staying in time.
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All the Things You Are: an improvisation with earlier concepts
An improvisation over All the Things You Are combining single-line playing with polyphonic playing.
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Stella by Starlight revisited, in memory of Dr. Barry Harris
Stella by Starlight revisited in memory of Barry Harris; app users can import a full interactive chart of the tune.
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The octatonic is a scale of chords too
A short whose title says the octatonic scale is also a scale of chords.
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Movement 33: single notes with scales-of-chords polyphony
A short combining single-note playing with polyphony drawn from Barry Harris’s scales of chords.
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Movement 36: the chromatic concept caught in a loop
Goes back and forth with Barry’s chromatic concept while the lower voice climbs in thirds.
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Polka Dots and Moonbeams with Barry Harris harmonic concepts
Polka Dots and Moonbeams with Barry Harris harmonic concepts; an updated app playlist containing the tune is offered.
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Short: the little movements at 0:32-0:34 of episode 74
Focuses on the little movements at 0:32-0:34 of episode 74, which have many variations to explore.
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The triads floor of the Elevator with the G major 6 diminished scale
Triads from the G major scale, then from the G major 6 diminished scale (G6 and F# dim7), as an Elevator floor.
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The thirds floor of the Elevator with scales of chords
Thirds from the G major scale and the G major 6 diminished scale, staggered into suspension figures.
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The shell chords floor of the Elevator for scales of chords
Looks at the ‘shell chords’ floor of the Elevator system for Barry Harris’s scales of chords.
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The octave floor of the Elevator method for polyphony
Looks at the octave floor of the Elevator method for polyphonic playing.
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Drop 2 chords: a floor of the Elevator with scales of chords
Adds drop 2 chords to the Elevator system for polyphonic improvisation with Barry Harris’s scales.
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Drop 3s: the next floor of the Elevator with scales of chords
Drop 3 voicings as an Elevator floor, practised in thirds like a scale and over a ii-V7-I progression.
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The drop 2 and 4 floor of the Elevator system
Continues the Elevator shorts with the drop 2 and 4 floor for polyphonic improvisation.
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Foundations 1.2: the diminished scale
Adds a fifth scale, the diminished: the six-on-five relationship, on and off chords, function and practice.
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The C major 6 diminished scale
On the C major 6 diminished scale, as its description names it.
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Deep Dive: the flat 3 diminished
A Deep Dive sample on the flat 3 diminished: musical examples, harmonic theory and melodic improvisation.
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Embraceable You: an improvised arrangement
An improvised arrangement of Embraceable You using Barry Harris concepts.
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Deep Dive: the movement to the mediant
A Deep Dive sample on the movement to the mediant, and how a movement can link different songs.
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Building bebop lines no. 1
The first in a series on building bebop lines with Barry Harris methods.
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Practising polyphony over the tritone’s minor
Practising polyphonic guitar playing over the tritone’s minor.
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5 levels of a turnaround in any key with scales of chords
Summoning chords and transforming them (up/down, major/minor, family) in five levels, from ii-V7-I to turnarounds.
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School is in session: lesson packages
A short promoting the channel’s lesson packages.
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Build bebop lines this way
A short on a way to build bebop lines.
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4 steps to improvise chord melodies in any key
A 4-step process: know the melody, find its scale degrees, summon chords for each degree, then transform them.
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Pretty endings for jazz ballads with Barry Harris harmony
A short on pretty endings for jazz ballads using Barry Harris harmony.
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Jazz Roulette for practising scales of chords
Introduces Jazz Roulette, played in levels, for practising Barry Harris’s scales of chords and chord melody.
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More beautiful endings with Barry Harris harmony
A short with more beautiful endings using Barry Harris harmony.
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The major 6 on the five
A short on the major sixth chord built on the fifth.
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Borrowing from the neighbours on the major 6 diminished scale
Barry’s ‘borrowing from the neighbours’ applied to the F major 6 diminished scale of chords for colour.
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Finding colour with Barry Harris harmony
A short on finding colour with Barry Harris harmony.
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Brothers and sisters with Barry Harris harmony
A short on Barry Harris’s ‘brothers and sisters’ idea on guitar.
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The minor 6 on the five
A short on the minor sixth chord built on the fifth.
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Practising the family
A short on practising the family with Barry Harris harmony.
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The Labyrinth app (short)
A short featuring the Labyrinth of Limitations app.
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Kinda bossa with Barry Harris harmony
A short with a loose bossa feel using Barry Harris harmony.
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Moving up with Barry Harris harmony
A short on moving up with Barry Harris harmony.
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Movement and colour with Barry Harris harmony
A short on movement and colour with Barry Harris harmony.
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A beautiful scale with Barry Harris harmony
A short on a beautiful scale, with Barry Harris harmony.
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A pretty turn with Barry Harris harmony
A short on a pretty turn using Barry Harris harmony.
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Learn bebop with Foundations 3
A short presenting Foundations 3 for learning bebop with Barry Harris harmony.
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Many ways of playing a minor 6
A short on many ways of playing a minor sixth chord.
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Practising the Elevator
A short on practising the Elevator system.
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The beautiful minor iv
A Christmas-tagged short on the minor iv chord.
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A pretty minor 7
A short on a pretty minor seventh chord.
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A beautiful turnback
A short on a beautiful turnback.
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The beautiful diminished scale
A short on the diminished scale.
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A bossa bridge
A short on a bossa bridge for jazz guitar.
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A beautiful move
A short on a beautiful move for jazz guitar.
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A pretty cadence
A short on a pretty cadence for jazz guitar.
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Barry Harris’s beautiful scales of chords
A short on Barry Harris’s scales of chords on guitar.
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Pretty chords in dominant 7 scales
A short on pretty chords found in dominant seventh scales.
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A pretty ending from the blues
A short guitar example of a pretty ending taken from the blues.
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Borrowing from the neighbors
A short guitar example of borrowing from the neighbors.
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5 essential chord melody techniques for improvisation
Five chord melody scenarios (sustained, stepwise, skipping and borrowed notes) on four standards.
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Beautifully oblique
A short guitar example of oblique motion.
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A pretty line
A short guitar example of a pretty line.
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Parker’s Mood
A short guitar example on Parker’s Mood.
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Pretty connections
A short guitar example of pretty connections.
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Stealing by Starlight: borrowing from a Bach fugue
Ideas from a Bach fugue (BWV 997) applied to the end of Stella by Starlight with minor 6 diminished scales.
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Shell chords are beautiful
A short guitar example of shell chords.
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The whole-tone scale is beautiful
A short guitar example of the whole-tone scale.
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Endless colour
A short guitar example on endless colour.
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Brothers and sisters blues
A short guitar example of a blues with the brothers and sisters.
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Labyrinth Live announcement
An announcement of a Labyrinth Live online session.
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Not all diminished chords are the same
A short guitar example showing that not all diminished chords are the same.
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Labyrinth Live is this week
An announcement that a Labyrinth Live session is happening this week.
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Substitutions: the diminished is the centre
Substitutions on Cm7-F7-Bb (Stella by Starlight, bars 3-5) by lowering the 5th and 3rd, then on ii-V7s.
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Such a beautiful sound
A short guitar example of a beautiful sound.
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
A short guitar take on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
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The polyphonic chromatic scale is beautiful
A short guitar example of the chromatic scale played polyphonically.
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Bring ii–Vs to life (Labyrinth Live 2)
A short from Labyrinth Live 2 on bringing ii–V progressions to life.
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Borrowing from the neighbors for chord melodies
Borrowing archetypes in the Eb major 6 diminished scale, applied to chord melodies on Stella by Starlight.
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Labyrinth Live is this Sunday
An announcement that a Labyrinth Live session is on this Sunday.
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Augmented triads are pretty
A short on augmented triad basics, with chord progression examples and a musical application.
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The elevator for polyphonic improvisation
A short on the elevator system in the D minor 6 scale: exploring its floors and combining them.
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Little things are beautiful
A short guitar example on the beauty of little things.
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The diminished is a world of colour
A short guitar example of the colours found in the diminished.
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5 levels of the diminished scale
Five levels of practising the diminished scale on Like Someone in Love: elevator floors, borrowing, chromatic scale.
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One idea, endless variations
A short guitar example of making many variations from one idea.
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Pretty little floors of the elevator
A short guitar example of the floors of the elevator.
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The beautiful dominant 7 diminished scale
A short guitar example of the dominant 7 diminished scale.
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Stop learning music theory
Sounds before labels: practising the Big Four (half-step rules, chromatic scale, important arpeggios, movement).
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Borrowing and stealing
A short guitar example on borrowing and stealing.
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Study movement with Foundations 4
A short on studying movement with the Foundations 4 book.
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The tritone sub is easier than you think
Practising the tritone sub with scale outlines, movement, the tritone’s minor and borrowing from the neighbors.
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Endless possibilities for improvisation
A short guitar example of the possibilities for improvisation.
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A beautiful movement
A short guitar example of a beautiful movement.
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Jazz improvisation workshop in Brussels, November 14–15
An announcement of a jazz improvisation workshop in Brussels on November 14–15.
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Pretty little chords
A short guitar example of pretty little chords.
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Livestream AMA this Wednesday
An announcement of a livestream ask-me-anything session on Wednesday.
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How to practise thirds over Alone Together
Thirds in the D minor 6 diminished scale over Alone Together, adding minor thirds under the off-chord notes.
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Minor 6 diminished over a dominant chord
A short guitar example of Barry Harris’s minor 6 diminished played over a dominant chord.
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One phrase, endless chord melodies
A short guitar example of turning one phrase into many chord melodies.
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Episode 0.1: welcome to the Labyrinth
An informal primer on chromaticism, the tritone, the guitar, geometry and resolution.
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Episode 0.2: ii–V in the tesseract
A primer placing the ii–V in a tesseract, with tritone substitution and symmetry in harmony.
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Episode 0.3: Tristanesque
A primer on Wagner’s Tristan chord among four-note chords, linked to Barry Harris and chromaticism.
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Episode 0.4: the charm of impossibilities
A primer on a piece by Olivier Messiaen that the presenter arranged.
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Episode 1: relative motion in the Eb major 6 diminished scale
Practising the Eb major 6 diminished scale of chords for independent soprano and bass lines with smooth voice leading.
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Episode 2, part 2: substitutions with the 6th diminished scales
Using the major and minor 6th diminished scales: contrary motion, tunes, minor-key and tritone substitutions.
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Episode 3: borrowing from the neighbors
Borrowing in the major and minor 6 diminished scales: core techniques, drills and borrowing several notes.
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Episode 4: taking the elevator to borrow from the neighbors
Using the elevator to borrow notes (even three at once), chord variations, and borrowing versus suspensions.
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Episode 5: Barry Harris’s chromatic scale
Barry Harris’s chromatic scale as a melodic and rhythmic idea, applied to triads and minor 6 diminished scales.
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Episode 6: on symmetry (the whole-tone scale)
The whole-tone scale, its elevators and how they intertwine, with musical applications.
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Episode 7: Stella by Starlight
A performance of Stella by Starlight using the methods from episodes 1–6.
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Episode 8: the dominant 7th flat 5 diminished scale
The 7th flat 5 diminished scale: inversions, contrary motion, the chromatic scale, borrowing, Stella by Starlight.
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Episode 9: the octatonic (diminished) scale
The octatonic scale: locating it, contrary motion, borrowing, chromatic scale, standards and dominant options.
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Episode 10: the dominant 7th diminished scale
The dominant 7th diminished scale of chords: basic moves, the elevator, borrowing and changing to another scale.
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Episode 11: Ponce’s 13th variation with the scales of chords
Ponce’s 13th variation through Barry Harris’s scales of chords, with dominant substitutions and a canon.
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Episode 12.1: Christmas Time Is Here
An improvisatory arrangement of Christmas Time Is Here using Barry Harris concepts.
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Episode 12.2: all notes are diatonic (Christmas Time Is Here)
The thinking behind the Christmas Time Is Here arrangement: chord structures, diatonic notes, oblique motion.
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Episode 13: I’ll Be Home for Christmas
A performance of I’ll Be Home for Christmas using concepts from earlier episodes.
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Episode 13.2: the “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” arrangement explained
Walks through his I’ll Be Home for Christmas arrangement: oblique motion, diminished use, major and minor ii-V.
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Episode 14: the extended family
Adds more ways to use the dominant 7th flat 5 diminished scale, with three ways to play it over any dominant 7th.
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Episode 15: Blue in Green through the scales of chords
Explores the Kind of Blue sound of Blue in Green with Barry Harris’s scales of chords, with a solo arrangement PDF.
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Episode 16: the elevator sequence
Climbs the elevator sequence floor by floor up to double-octave chords, then shows movement and oblique motion.
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Episode 17: pivoting through the looking glass
Makes lines that pivot within the elevator sequence’s movement, apart or inward, then applies them to songs.
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Garden of Forking Paths 1: the tesseract
Revisits the tesseract from episode 0.2 in the app, mapping Barry Harris’s chord moves as paths through its geometry.
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Garden of Forking Paths 2: practising movement
An intro lesson on the E flat major 6th diminished scale with the app, starting at a slow tempo and building speed.
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Garden of Forking Paths 3: contrary motion on Autumn Leaves
Uses the elevator and Barry Harris’s four scales of chords to make contrary motion over Autumn Leaves.
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Foundations 0: introduction and overview
Outlines the Foundations course: its structure, polyphony versus monophony, the curriculum and a practice timeline.
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Foundations 1: polyphony
Begins the Foundations course with polyphony: a lesson and a practice routine, backed by a 60-page PDF.
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Foundations 2: monophony (single-note soloing)
Launches Foundations 2 on single-note soloing with Barry Harris’s methods: ii-V-I, tritone substitution, line building.
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Foundations 3: multicursal charts for real-time improvisation
Introduces Foundations 3 and its multicursal charts, choose-your-own-adventure etudes for connecting ideas in real time.
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Foundations 4: the study of movement
Presents Foundations 4: lowering the 5th and 3rd of a major 6 chord to build a ii-V7-I, the tritone’s minor and its sub.
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Little Labyrinth 1: practising thirds
Opens a run of short interval videos by practising thirds on the guitar, with patterns and chromaticism.
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Little Labyrinth 2: sixths into thirds
Practises sixths on the guitar, then shows ways of moving between sixths and thirds.
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Little Labyrinth 3: the little elevator
A first look at the elevator of intervals: fifths connect thirds and sixths, with examples over a minor ii-V.
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Little Labyrinth 4: finding more floors (octaves and tenths)
Adds octaves and tenths, moving between sixths and tenths, and links these intervals to the elevator of chords.
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Little Labyrinth 5: moving beyond the octave
Treats fifths and sixths plus an octave as two-voice dyads, the outer edges of drop 3 and drop 2 and 4 chords.
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Little Labyrinth 6: subset and superset
Explains his subset/superset method for linking two-voice dyads to the chords of the elevator sequence.
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Little Labyrinth 7: a major I-vi-ii-V in two voices
Plays dyads through a C major I-vi-ii-V with the dominant 7th diminished scale, in parallel and contrary motion.
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Little Labyrinth 8: Barry Harris’s chromatic scale in two voices
Revisits Barry’s chromatic scale with two moving voices, switching which voice runs chromatically, over G7 to C.
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Little Labyrinth 9: the opening changes of All the Things You Are
Works movement over the first few changes of All the Things You Are, with tritone substitution and borrowed notes.
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Little Labyrinth 10: revisiting the whole-tone scale
Revisits the whole-tone scale, using dyads and subsets to learn the two elevator sequences it contains.
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Little Labyrinth 11: connecting scales to chords in Autumn Leaves
Connects the C, F sharp and E flat minor 6th diminished scales with the F7, B7 and Ab7 scales.
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Little Labyrinth 12: the generative guitar
Treats the guitar as an analogue computer, generating ii-V-I progressions by following paths of linked minor 6th chords.
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Little Labyrinth 13: family connections
Moves through the family of minor 6th chords and their inversions, minding the bass, then resolves to the tonic.
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Little Labyrinth 14: major key transformations
Applies the same transformations to major ii-V-I progressions, moving through the family of major 6th chords.
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Little Labyrinth 15: a movement exercise through the family
A drop 2 exercise up the strings in one position, ending with borrowing, through minor-third-related 6th chords.
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Little Labyrinth 16: the scale of scales
Moves between the scales used over a dominant 7th, centred on the diminished, and joins them in a chromatic super-scale.
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Little Labyrinth 17: a move from Barry Harris’s class
Looks at a move Barry Harris showed in a Saturday Zoom class and how it fits the octatonic and diminished scales.
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Little Labyrinth 18: half steps in the family
Adds half-step-below notes inside the minor 6th diminished scale of chords, following up a TILF Barry Harris episode.
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Little Labyrinth 19: asking creative questions
Asks what borrowing octatonic notes on the diminished chord sounds like in a minor 6th diminished scale of chords.
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Little Labyrinth 20: middle-voice movement
Moves the middle voices of C major 6th diminished drop 2 chords in parallel, contrary and oblique motion.
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Little Labyrinth 21: connections in the scale of scales
Moves between the dominant 7th flat 5 diminished and minor 6th diminished scales over the start of Night in Tunisia.
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Little Labyrinth 22: triads to shell chords
Explores ways of moving between two elevator floors, triads and shell chords, and applies them to a song’s bridge.
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Little Labyrinth 23: Lydian sounds over Blue in Green
Takes a loose approach to the Bill Evans sound on Blue in Green using Barry Harris’s scales of chords.
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Little Labyrinth 24: moving from I to IV, and playing on Moon River
Announces a concert, then shows moving from the I chord to the IV and playing over Moon River.
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Little Labyrinth 25: building movement with Barry’s chromatic scale
Practises Barry’s chromatic scale in the minor 6th diminished scale over m7b5 and over V via the tritone’s minor.
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Little Labyrinth 26: Night in Tunisia study 1, thirds
Begins small movement studies between elevator floors over the first part of Night in Tunisia, starting with thirds.
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Little Labyrinth 27: thirds into triads over Night in Tunisia
Moves between thirds and triads, two adjacent elevator floors, over Night in Tunisia, with G minor 6 chords.
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Little Labyrinth 28: triads to shell chords over Night in Tunisia
Moves up a floor, between triads and three-note shell chords, over Night in Tunisia.
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Little Labyrinth 29: shell chords to octave chords
Ends the Night in Tunisia studies with movement between shell chords and octave chords and their voicing options.
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Little Labyrinth 30: a movement from Blue in Green
Examines a Dm6-Db7-Cm7-F7 move from his Blue in Green arrangement, starting from different places in the scales.
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Little Labyrinth 32: connecting scales to chords
Shares a practice of connecting scales to chords over a minor ii-V, with minor 6th chords and tritone substitution.
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Little Labyrinth 33: memorise as little as possible
Argues for memorising very little, starting from the diminished, and practising by process across chords and standards.
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Little Labyrinth 34: the ugliest duckling
Explores the most off-sounding family member, the minor 6th a minor third above the tritone’s minor (Ab minor 6 on E7).
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Little Labyrinth 35: a practice tip for the scales of chords
A simple way to learn the scales of chords in context: bass movement, building string by string, harmonising a melody.
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Little Labyrinth 36: diminished practice tips
Practice tips for the diminished chords and diminished notes in Barry Harris’s scales of chords.
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Little Labyrinth 37: modulation with movement
Modulates through movement, within a family and on to the next, with an example from Body and Soul.
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Little Labyrinth 38: moving directly to the “off” chord
Shows how to move directly to the “off” chord in the scales of chords.
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Little Labyrinth 39: shell chords over Body and Soul
Plays shell chords from the scales of chords over Body and Soul, finding moves in small pieces in real time.
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Little Labyrinth 40: minor key transformations with the CAGED sequence
Steps back through CAGED patterns in one position, moving lines from the minor-third dominant into the tritone sub.
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Little Labyrinth 41: borrowing on shell chords in the octatonic scale
Plays shell chords from the diminished (octatonic) scale over the start of Stella by Starlight, with borrowing.
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Little Labyrinth 42: Baroque-style counterpoint, part 1
Begins a short series on Baroque-style counterpoint using Barry Harris’s scales of chords and the elevator of intervals.
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Little Labyrinth 43: the endless world Barry Harris gave us
On the endless world of exploration Barry Harris gave us, with an interactive Stella by Starlight chart for app users.
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Little Labyrinth 44: practising Barry Harris’s chromatic scale
Practises Barry’s chromatic scale with thirds, triads, shells, octaves and drop voicings, with an Autumn Leaves demo.
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Little Labyrinth 45: cowboy chords inside the scales of chords
Finds familiar cowboy chords within Barry Harris’s scales of chords.
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Little Labyrinth 46: moving through major 7th chords
Uses Barry Harris’s scales and borrowed notes to move through major 7th chords, then applies the movement to a song.
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Little Labyrinth 47: borrowing in Barry Harris’s “Breaking It Up”
Studies borrowing in a moment from Barry Harris’s 1958 album Breaking It Up, with tritone subs, shells and octaves.
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Little Labyrinth 48: a Bach fugue gesture through the scales of chords
Moves a gesture from Bach’s Fugue BWV 1000 through the scales of chords, over Autumn Leaves and All the Things You Are.
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Little Labyrinth 49: family roles and the minor 6 diminished scale
Looks at family roles, a minor fourth approach and the ‘ugliest duckling’ chord with the minor 6 diminished scale.
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Little Labyrinth 50: lessons from Things I Learned from Barry Harris
Draws on a Things I Learned from Barry Harris episode: half-step rules, triplets, pivots, phrase endings, chromatics.
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Little Labyrinth 51: polyphonic possibilities with scales of chords
Explores polyphony with the scales of chords: minor six chords, family movements, D7 options, arpeggios and octatonics.
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Little Labyrinth 52: improvising over a Baroque ground bass
Improvises over the ground bass of Purcell’s Dido’s Lament with Barry’s harmony, parallel motion and chord variations.
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Little Labyrinth 53: whole-tone movement over Body and Soul
Applies whole-tone lines and movement to Body and Soul, embellishing them with intervals.
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Little Labyrinth 54: practising polyphony on Ab major 6th diminished
Shares a practice idea on the Ab major 6th diminished scale, worked through triads, shell chords and a chromatic idea.
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Little Labyrinth 55: Body and Soul with the scales of chords
Plays freely over the first eight bars of Body and Soul, explaining the scale-of-chords motions behind each phrase.
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Little Labyrinth 56: getting out of a rut with Barry’s concepts
Ways out of a rut: melodic movements, changing voicings, expanding from chord tones, single-note line thinking.
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Little Labyrinth 57: seeing the inner movement in the scales of chords
Practises middle-voice motion within the scales of chords and diminished borrowing, applied to tunes and arrangements.
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Little Labyrinth 58: more ways of using shell chords
Shows more uses of shell chords: low shells and drop 2-4 and drop 2-5 voicings, with musical examples.
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Little Labyrinth 59: connecting single-note lines to scales of chords
Connects single-note lines into scales of chords over All the Things You Are, keeping an open mind and using pivots.
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Little Labyrinth 60: practising the tritone sub in single-note lines
Practises getting in and out of the tritone substitute in single-note lines over ii-V-Is on the bridge of Cherokee.
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Little Labyrinth 61: long lines over Stella by Starlight
Creates long lines over Stella by Starlight with the scales of chords, looking at shell voicings and pivots.
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Little Labyrinth 62: playing through the scale of scales for colour
Plays through a ‘scale of scales’ for colour: shared off-chord concepts, minor six chords and the tritone minor.
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Little Labyrinth 63: the Ladybird turnback with scales of chords
Works the Ladybird turnback with tritone substitution, new chord movements and drop 2, drop 3 and drop 4 voicings.
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Little Labyrinth 64: chromatic movement through the family
Moves chromatically through the family with voice leading, the ‘ugliest duckling’ chord and a chromatic exercise.
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Little Labyrinth 65: practising All the Things You Are
Practises All the Things You Are: chord movement exercises, root and interval movements, and joining chords to lines.
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Little Labyrinth 66: improvising chord-melody arrangements
Shows how to improvise chord-melody arrangements: analysing the melody, the elevator sequence and melodic summoning.
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Little Labyrinth 67: half steps below are the way to go
Explores a half-step-below technique with elevator progressions, chord movements and harmonic analysis of tunes.
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Little Labyrinth 68: a way to practise the elevator
Suggests a way to practise the elevator sequence, including in thirds and with chordal variations.
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Little Labyrinth 69: practising meta-scales on Round Midnight
Practises meta-scales and the elevator over Round Midnight as a way of learning movement.
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Little Labyrinth 70: a classic chord movement seen in new ways
Reworks a classic chord movement in new positions and voicings: shells, tritone and tritone minor subs, contrary motion.
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Little Labyrinth 71: the bridge of The Girl from Ipanema
Approaches The Girl from Ipanema’s bridge with scales of chords, simplifying the harmony and harmonising the melody.
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Little Labyrinth 72: working on rhythm with a Barry Harris exercise
Works through a Barry Harris rhythm exercise, stressing the breath, rhythmic and melodic focus and practising in thirds.
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Little Labyrinth 73: Fly Me to the Moon with scales of chords
Maps the harmony of Fly Me to the Moon and practises voice leading, a descending line and pivots with scales of chords.
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Little Labyrinth 74: a beautiful movement Barry plays on Stella
Studies a movement Barry plays on Stella: the octatonic scale, embellishing with intervals and the tritone minor.
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Little Labyrinth 75: learning family, with triads and elaborations
Builds on a Things I Learned from Barry Harris episode on family: examples, evolution theory, triads and elaborations.
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Little Labyrinth 76: practising dominant triads with Chris Parks
Practises with Chris Parks: dominant triads, root and fifth position voicings, minor six triads and melodic minor.
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Little Labyrinth 77: transformations for freedom with scales of chords
Practises transformations with the scales of chords: the minor six, the circle, formulas and single-note lines.
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Little Labyrinth 78: making complex songs simpler
Simplifies complex songs such as Don’t Blame Me through transformations, inversions and thinking from the fifth.
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Little Labyrinth 80: half steps below are beautiful
Replies to a Things I Learned from Barry Harris episode on half steps below: shell chords and tritone minor uses.
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Movement 2
A clip in the Movement series; the upload gives no description.
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Movement 3
A clip in the Movement series; the upload gives no description.
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Movement 4
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 6
A jazz guitar clip in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 7
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and improvisation.
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Movement 8
A clip in the Movement series; the upload gives no description.
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Movement 9
A clip in the Movement series; the upload gives no description.
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Movement 10
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 11
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged improvisation and music theory.
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Movement 12
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 13
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 14
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 15
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 16
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged improvisation and music theory.
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Movement 17
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 18
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 19
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 20
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and improvisation.
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Movement 21
A jazz guitar short tagged harmony and counterpoint, pointed out to the Things I’ve Learned from Barry Harris channel.
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Movement 22
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 23
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 24
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 25
A jazz guitar short in the Movement series, tagged harmony and counterpoint.
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Movement 26: Christmas Time Is Here with scales of chords
A short on Christmas Time Is Here played with Barry Harris’s scales of chords.
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Movement 27: the tritone’s minor instead of the altered scale
A short suggesting the tritone’s minor in place of the altered scale to find contrapuntal freedom.
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Movement 28: taking Movement 27 up the scale
A short that takes the movement from Movement 27 up the scale.
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Movement 29
A short movement; Movement 30 plays it over a standard.
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Movement 30
A short in the Movement series, tagged classical guitar and improvisation.
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Movement 31
A short in the Movement series, tagged turnback.
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Movement 34: ending of Stella by Starlight
A short guitar movement on the ending of Stella by Starlight.
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Movement 35: iii-vi-ii-V with tritone substitutions
A short guitar movement over a iii-vi-ii-V progression with tritone substitutions.
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