We dig deeper into Barry Harris voicings. If you’re not familiar with the subject, check out the other lessons on Barry Harris voicings.
For this masterclass, we will be using closed position voicings, meaning that the notes of the chord are inside a single octave.
In this workshop we explore “Barry Harris Voicings” and his unique harmonic concepts for harmonizing melody lines and jazz piano comping voicings.
Block chords and drop 2 style voicings were used extensively by jazz pianists such as George Shearing, Bill Evans, Barry Harris and Red Garland.
Learn to comp and improvise over the tune “The Days Of Wine & Roses”. Study 2 comping choruses and an improvised solo over 2 choruses.
This lesson features 3 choruses of comping over the tune Autumn Leaves using a selection of voicing techniques and accompaniment principles.
In this lesson we explore comping and improvisation over the Bb Blues including drop 2 Voicings, blues licks, and bebop vocabulary.
We explore inner voice movement over major, minor, and dominant chords, and then we will apply this information to a well-known jazz standard.
We start with simple voicings and then add in extensions, alterations & embellishments to add interest to the repetitive chord changes & melody.
In this tutorial we explore modal comping possibilities and modal improvisation techniques over the iconic jazz standard ‘Footprints’.