Barry Harris Workshop 1998 (Full), part 2 "Breaking the Habit" - Filling the Half Steps

This is a part of a Barry Harris Workshop in The Hague, Holland in 1998 Barry Harris explores the possibilities of filling the half steps between notes of a scale by adding a neighbor note and then using it as a rule, applied to melodic lines built from various scale degrees.

Barry Harris:
"Any note can be put in between two notes"
This creative approach, in Barry's words, helps "breaking the habit" [of playing the same ideas].

Here is what Barry Harris says:
"...what you learn from this - you learn a lot of ways to play something.
...The fellow is gonna be the best, is the one who knows the most ways to play"

"You can't practice all the ways, it is impossible. You have to know the best ways to play by the rules in your head. And your rules are governors of the whole thing. You have to let the rules govern you."

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:25 - The rules
02:56 - F harmonic minor
11:26 - "Rules make the scale sound more inviting"
12:06 - Ascending F harmonic minor with one 1/2 step between 1 & 2 from each degree
14:30 - Ascending F harm min. with two 1/2 steps between 1&2, 2&3
19:30 - "You Have to have rules". Filling the half-steps of the 5 notes of a major (from each degree)
24:14 - "Breaking a habit", Rhythm in C
27:00 - The diminished scale workout
30:02 - Up with the chromatics, down with the chord applying to the related dominants of the diminished.

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Filmed by Frans Elsen at the Barry Harris Workshop at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Holland in March 1998.
This is a raw video filmed by Frans Elsen in 1998 that I recently captured and edited digitally.
(sorry for the video/ audio quality of the original VHS tapes)

Frans Elsen was a veteran Dutch jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and educator who helped to establish Jazz Schools in The Netherlands. Frans was a master bebop pianist with a beautiful and original sound. He was a close friend of Barry Harris and helped to organize and document Barry Harris's workshops in The Hague which became famous all over the world.
✨ Frans Elsen, Dutch jazz pianist, composer, and educator (May 28, 1934 - Feb. 23, 2011) https://www.franselsen.com/

The annual Barry Harris workshops in The Hague were made possible by Wouter Turkenburg who has been the head of the Jazz Department of The Royal Conservatory for more than 30 years and organized BH workshops for more than 10 years. Barry Harris's workshops in The Hague were attended by people from all over the world and had a significant contribution to Barry Harris's Legacy and further development of the Master's concepts and ideas.

✨ Dr. Barry Harris, a legendary jazz pianist, composer, and educator (Dec. 15, 1929 - Dec. 8, 2021) https://www.barryharris.com/

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