Howard Rees The Barry Harris Harmonic Method For Guitar - Kingstone - Book/CD

• Composer/Author: HARRIS/KINGSTONE
• Instrumentation: GUITAR
• Model # BHHMG

Author: Alan Kingstone

Alan Kingstone has studied piano great Barry Harris' educational methods since 1986 with The Howard Rees Jazz Workshop and in classes led by Barry in Toronto, New York and Rome.

The Barry Harris Harmonic Method For Guitar adapts Dr. Harris' chordal approach for guitarists to explore.

Studying the concepts put forth in this book will not teach you a set of hip sounding voicings. You won't come out sounding like everyone else, and that's the good news!

What you will find herein are the structural components, as mapped out and developed by jazz giant Barry Harris, that will guide and aid you on your own personal road to discovery. Imagine, a system for learning jazz harmony that actually embraces the concept of improvisation.

There are two paths for a chord player to go down. Either one becomes a hitter or, one becomes a mover. The hitter sits up and works out a couple of beautiful sounding voicings for each kind of chord (or worse, learns someone elses from a method book) and from that point on, plays them exactly the same way. These vertical groups of notes are hit or struck on the instrument with no thought to creating movement. The mover on the other hand, understands that chords come from scales and thereby learns to approach chording in a more fluid fashion. As well, one realizes that the interesting spots in music, whether you are comping, harmonizing a melody or writing an arrangement, are the places in between the chord symbols... thinking movement-to-movement as opposed to chord to chord.