This book is about harmonic motion, playing through chord progressions by moving voices like a piano player not by playing isolated chord grips. On page 30, under More Movement in paragraph two Alan says 'Two/Five/One exists on sheet music. We need to 'use [these] little things' as Barry says, to avoid the 'the two chord, five chord, one chord' prison-like stasis of jazz interpretation'. There is also a transcription of Alan playing Like Someone In Love that has practical applications of using the method to play two-fives. The information is there but it does require focused, thoughtful practice. Last edited by monk; at 04:58 PM.

You would still think they could have taked some common chord progressions used in many standards and said, these are examples of how to use the home and away chords over the first say 4 measures of Misty. But they really don't give any real examples thats why i'm confounded. I mean even Rick Stone who didn't write the book had better and more examples of how to apply this method. My 2 cents kI have the same complaint about the book. For me an example clarifies the text and gives me a point to start my experimenting with. Interpreter Preparation Program Ccbc Dundalk.

I find this common with people talking about Barry Harris Approach including Barry Harris himself they make a statement then move past it with minimal explanation. Rick Stone's came from the Barry Harris approach. But he's not teaching Barry Harris approach, but his teaching seems to explain things from a Barry Harris POV.

Barry Harris - JazzTutorial.pdf. Any reproduction. In classical music and all others. The Barry Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar. Barry Harris Harmonic Method For Guitar Pdf. And Barry Altschul concert. Rock music is way more cool than classical, and will take up the guitar.

For those not familiar with Rick Stone he's excellent guitarist in N.Y. I've never had a lesson with him, but his website/blog has lots of very interesting materials and videos worth checking out.

You would think they would have 100's of examples how to use this method over the most common chord progression in jazz 2-5-1 yet for the life of me i don't see one example. The only real good example i ever saw was from someone who had nothing to do with the book, I think his name was Mike Stone.He gave a view examples that were really cool. Yes this book does none of that.mind boggling.lolThx Ken. I haven't checked this out, but it's always nice to hear an honest and respectful report of online materials. Your welcome Srlank, It still makes me crazy because i'm sure this method would be great for comping and chord melody as well, but as previously stated their aren't any reall good examples or exercises in the entire book.

I bet this could have been a huge seller, but as you see on this forum almost know one ever recomends.yet we want to comp with alot more chord movement then just playing inversions. This book could have done that if it really explained in detail. For instance they start out with Fmaj6 chords, do they even tell you that you don't use that over F chords? Nope enough of my Rant, they should redo the book. Well it sounds like you are keeping a sense of humor at least.