Barry Harris: Using Major 6 Diminished Scale

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playlist: https://goo.gl/uVkcZQ Transcript: Robert Glover 17-Jul-2017

90

(video
abruptly
starts...)

C7 alt
3 Gmin7 5

Fmin6 "See the

5
Edim7 A min 6 Edim7 A min 6 B 7 5 movement..."

7 "Watch... watch...watch..."
Edim7 A min 6 Edim7

Barry Harris: Using Major 6 Diminished Scale

 2
9 (C major 6 diminished scale chords, in "drop 2" positions from "C" to "C")
"Here..... Here's what music's playing..."

11

15 "Now watch. From every note you should be "from 'D'..."

able to say: from 'C'..."

19 " 'E'..."

21 " 'F'..." " 'G'..."

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25 " 'A flat'..." " 'A'..." 3

"See, that
29 " 'B'..." means you "From any one of the notes
should be able..." you should be able to move"

33 "So I say..." "Suppose I did this...."

"And I grab those notes.... You know what

"Now, here's C six... 'C' six. would happen if I go contrary? It's going
It's 'A' minor 7, but it's 'C six'. " to be beautiful. Watch.... "
35

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 A 4

37 64
D7 alt
Amin7

"Just... just through

7
the moves...."
40 Amin7 D7 Gmin7 C7 Fmin7 B
E Maj7

"So.... So you have to know the scales..."

44 50 Cmaj6
G min 7

46 G min 7 Cmaj6 "I've gotta know...."

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 5
47 "Any kind
of way...."

"If you
50 100 said..."

Cmaj6
53 60
D7

54 B maj 6 C7

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 "You end up with all kinds of stuff...." 6
55 80
D7
Cmaj6 (or Am 7)

58 70 C7
Gmin7 (or B maj 6)

"Now watch...
watch right (video ends
"And it says here... as Barry
"So if we half to play it in a song... augmented..." F minor 7...." stands and
60 we can play it in a song..." points
B maj 6 F7+5 Fmin7 at lead sheet)
B maj 9 F13

Barry Harris: Using Major 6 Diminished Scale