Barry HarrisThe method

Tunes he taught

Just One of Those Things

Barry played and recorded Just One of Those Things often, but no class in the archive has him working through it. The one teaching clip filed under it, from a 2008 clinic in Spain, is about grooving and keeping time rather than the tune itself.

moments in class
1
recordings
1
Barry plays it
9

What he teaches through it

At his 2008 clinic in Spain, in a short clip whose description names this tune and Like Someone in Love, Barry told the players that the music is not exact and the main thing is to groove. The bass player, he said, began to sound like a real bass player once he was made to pat his foot and kept the tempo.

The main thing is grooving0:471:19

In class

Every moment he works on it, with the ideas of the method it shows.

The main thing is grooving

Spain, 2007–08

  1. 0:47

    Spain 2008, clip filed under this tune: music isn’t exact, the main thing is grooving; pat your foot.

    1.2

    Watch on YouTube at 0:47

Barry plays it

In the method

The ideas of the method these moments show, and how many moments each.

  1. 1.2Swing by yourself; hold the time1