Out of Nowhere

Barry’s one captioned class moment on Out of Nowhere is a short Hague clip in which he uses the tune to teach the tritone: while he plays E7, the student plays F minor, taken from B♭7, the tritone of E7.

moments in class: 3
recordings: 1
Barry plays it: 0

What he teaches through it

Learn about the tritone. On Out of Nowhere Barry showed it against a dominant: the tritone of E7 is B♭7, and F minor goes with B♭7, so the student can play F minor while the piano holds E7. He pointed out how pretty the result sounds.

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In his own words

It’s like playing the tritone of the E7. E7, tritone, Bb7, F minor.

Tritones on Out of Nowhere, The Hague, 1989–98. Explaining the tritone on Out of Nowhere: the student’s F minor belongs to B♭7, the tritone of the E7 Barry is playing. 0:52 Watch on YouTube at 0:52

In class

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

Tritones on Out of Nowhere

The Hague, 1989–98

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Tells the student he has to learn about the tritone, then starts playing the tune.
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0:55
Against his E7 the student plays F minor, from E7’s tritone B♭7.
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1:45
Points out how pretty it sounds: horn players have to learn about tritones, and this is really tritone substitution.
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In the method

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