Barry Harris “Diminished Genealogy”

Well, hello everyone, today I'd like to talk a little bit about Barry Harris'

diminished

theory or what I like to call Barry's

diminished

genealogy

, which is what chord started, what chord started, what chord spawned all the chords we use now. . I think it's a very elegant and fresh way of looking at tonality, looking at how the notes relate to each other and you have to put aside everything you learned in music school because it's a completely new way of looking at things from a different perspective. of sight. logical perspective and gives you a little bit of information too about how he came up with the diminished six idea the way he does, so let's get into it.

I'll try to keep this as concise as possible. I just want to apologize in advance, this is going to be a very pointy and lame theory, but again, to describe it, it is a very theoretical idea, but if you understand the principle behind it, you can see all the relationships in a holistic way, which which makes it so important. It's easier to improvise and be able to get your ideas flowing because you don't need to think anymore, you need to think to get to the point of understanding it, once you get there it's liberating, so let's start from the beginning. there were twelve twelve tones of the chromatic scale which was 14 is in the repetition, so 12 and that's for the 12 signs of the zodiac, those are the 12 disciples, whatever you want to call it, that's God, that's 12 and then God He made the man and the woman right and the man and the woman are the two complete tonal scales, you have one that starts in C sharp, flat and another that starts in D flat, D flat, E flat, F G and B, and those They are the two complete tonal scales that Barry calls male and female. so out of 12 they came here for a man and a woman to get together and what do they do and then someone insists that Clint sell classes, they argue and someone says ha ha ha and then Barry says no no, they get together and They make babies and they made three. babies, okay, the three babies are the three diminished seventh chords, you have one that starts on C C E E flat G flat and a you have one that starts on C sharp or D flat D flat E G and B flat and you have one that starts on D F a flat and those are the three diminished seventh chords that come out of the two whole tones and he really likes to say, you know, you can try it because the DNA is perfect. 7cc scale.

Sorry, C full tone scale and I changed it to C diminished. I got two notes from the C whole tone scale and I got two notes from the C sharp whole tone scale, so there's one chromosome from one parent and one chromosome from the other parent. He was diminished, here are the two tones of each father, so it is logical. it makes sense that the two parents would get together and have this child, but here's what I can change to any of the diminished tones from any of the full tones, so here's a CD to change it to C diminished by moving a couple of notes. to a C sharp diminished by moving just a couple of notes and changed to a D diminished, let's try it in the full key of C sharp.

I'm going to make it flat all the time change it to a C sharp diminished change it to a C sharp diminished and change it to D diminished so you can see now it's starting to give you some sounds like oh wow, what if I went and what if I win? Can you start to create some movement in the key that you may not have thought of? Looking at how a whole tone or just this is an ephemeral idea of ​​a whole tone that is not related to any key, moves into a decay and then gives you a door into a key, something really beautiful, so we got the 12, the 12 became 2 2. whole tones the two old tones had three babies the 3 diminished 7th chords of the 3 diminished chords we can move the chord tones to get all the other chords we use or what Barry calls the diminished family okay, because family is what comes out Obviously, this is all one big family, so let's take a look, let's take this C sharp diminished because it's a little bit easier to illustrate.

Well, here's the C sharp diminished seventh chord every once in a while. I talked about this briefly in other videos. A link. to all of them, but let's discuss here all the different possibilities that are discussed in class, by moving one chord tone down, you've created a dominant 7th chord, ok, so the C sharp decreased by 7, you move the C sharp down a half step for a C and now you have a c7, okay, and I can do that with all the chord tones. I move to E 2 and E flat and I have a 7. I move the string to G flat and I have a 2 flat 7.

I move the flag to an A and I have an 87, this is very common, you see this everywhere and it is Many people know this and talk about it, but I don't see people talking about it much. He says? Well, what happens if I move a chord tone up instead of down so we have another string? Now we have C sharp with C sharp E G flat and with C sharp up to D I get D G B flat which makes it G minor 6 chords, so by moving one chord tone up from a decay I get a minor 6 chord and I can get four minus six chords, move one up, which is B flat, D flat minor 6 e minor 6, so I got four dominant seventh chords for minor. six chords, let's continue, what happens if I move two consecutive chord tones down, okay, what do I have now this C sharp diminished, C sharp, E B flat?

I moved the C sharp and the E down and I end up with an E flat six, so I get a major diminished six chord when moving to the court tones down and what happens if I move those same two chord tones upwards? I get another major six chord. I get a B flat 6 and in another video we talked about connecting these two and I can do that move four times here Zone C sharp diminished to E flat six some sharp diminished to B flat six move the G flat middle Grand D flat the top to the e and and will be the outer ones that are actually C G consecutive, so we have four dominant diminished seventh chords we got four diminished minor sixth chords by moving a middle tone up we got two different sets of six major pitches by moving the tones of the chords up or down, what else can we do?

We can reach court tones. that are not consecutive not consecutive there is that C sharp diminished again move to non-consecutive chord tones the C sharp and the Qi I end up with a C dominant seven with a flat five okay, move them up I end up with an e or B flat because how can you see, a diamond said that when the flight five is the same, but moves the tone away, the C seven flat five. I'm going to see up here that it's an F sharp dominant seven flat five, so going to diminished non-consecutive chord tones down I end up with C and F sharp dominant flat 7 5 to dominate seven five five chords and B flat and E dominant seven flat five so what do we have?

We took, we had a diminished one, we moved one chord tone down on each chord tone. we end up with four dominant seventh chords to move one chord tone up we end up with four minor six chords two chord tones down four six major chords up four other six major chords non-consecutive notes down you get four dominant flat seven chords up up four other dominant seven flat five chords, those are a big family, but they are all related and the whole family plays well together because they are all related, so you can mix and match all those chords to create a beautiful harmony and I.

I'll go into this in more depth in other videos because I don't want this to go on too long with the last one, the last point I wanted to mention now is how do you get to a diminished six seven two minute seven flat five diminished and... diminished 6, well, we get to all those chords moving chord tones in a right diminished, let's take a look at the six. I moved to more shades down, what do I have now? I actually have a string that is made up of two diminished s. - so I have two diminished one scene notes and two diminished C sharp notes now before we said there are three diminished ones, so where is the diminished third? the diminished third is a diminished D, well that's the one you went through, that's how the six The diminished scale came out of this

genealogy

, yes, you have a court that is made up of two, although the third is diminished and let's try all the Otherwise, we have a dominant seventh chord, you have a C note diminished to three notes. instead of C sharp diminished, where is the D diminished?

Let's try the minor six it's E minor six, right, it has a fruity diminished note and three notes of the D flat get diminished sharp, where's the diminished C? It's the one I went through the dominant seventh with a flat five here's C dominant seven flat five two non-consecutive notes I have two up to C diminished I have two from C sharp diminished where is my D diminished so this is the most concise way in which could I personally explain right now what I call Berry's diminished genealogy where everything comes from the twelve tones of the full tone scale divided by 2 gave us the two full tone scales that is, man and woman got together and had three babies the three chords of diminished seventh which in turn two of them give us all the different chords moving and then the third one comes in and gives us the six super elegant super simple diminished scales.

I know I didn't, I didn't go into the applications here because they would have taken too much time, but I think that's actually a ripe topic for upcoming videos, so stay tuned, we'll take a look at each of these levels and see what we can do with them, but I really encourage you to reflect on it to contemplate it and see what relationships come to mind. yours and please share them. I love hearing your comments, it helps me, I like it, it gives me great ideas for videos and stuff, and yeah, like and subscribe if this was helpful, share it, tell your friends.

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