The BH “Echappe”: An extremely useful Barry Harris 2-5-1 move

Well hello everyone so today I thought I'd talk about one of my favorite berry

move

s and it's so simple and so

useful

in so many applications and Barry uses it everywhere and that's what I affectionately call his eschapay figure. I know it's a little ridiculous to put such an academic term in Barry's teachings, but there you have it, that's how I think about it um and esha pay is when or an escape tone is when you have a downline, for example, and it's a note escapes. the line, so let's go down to the right, that line escapes and they call it shape, so how does that apply here?

Here's the real quick thing, for example, if I'm doing uh 251 um in c, people's key is c. Here's my isha pay right and then you can run it through all the modulation patterns that we did in the last video on how to practice Barry Harris style 251. By the way, all the videos I will reference are linked in the description. So you can go crazy, and that's where there's really a much more specific discussion about those concepts, but we'll try to apply them to this idea here, so first, let's work from two to five so that the two is D minor. seven, but in Barrie's world we know that a D minor 7 is actually an f6 and an f6 if you take an f6 in three note voicings and again there's a whole video on drop voicings and three note voicings, you can See it, uh, come on. to release we are going to release the F, now we have the C and the C, the C

move

s down the octave and there is my three note f6, okay, which serves as a seventh in D minor that will move to a g7 and we are going to invoke the family, the diminished family of g7, in this case we will play an e6 with b is the drop three, what does this mean?

Here is my e6 inverted up to the second inversion, the third voice down is a b, it is lowered one octave. and there's my e6 b is drop three and that serves as the diminished family of g7, okay, so there's a very, very good, uh g7 and why it's the diminished family. There's a whole discussion about this, the diminished genealogy, but basically I did take i. I took this uh um, you know, in this case I guess it would be a diminished d to the right and moved the bottom two chord tones down a half step.

I ended up with an e6 which is the same diminished, this diminished d or a diminished flat because the a diminished flat is identical to a diminished b is identical to a diminished d is identical to a diminished f this a diminished flat if I lowered if I lowered the a flat to a g I end up with a g7 so, in other words, all of these tonics of these dominant chords are in the diminished family of g flat d flat and e, so if

barry

ever asks you what the diminished family of g7 is, you would say G B flat D flat and E and here's an E-6, right, I have here's E E diminished I took the D and the F I moved it down I ended up with an E6 and that works well with the G7 so that's the version lightning flash notes in the diminished family but again there is a whole video on this so recapping d minor 7th with the voice of three notes f6 to a g7 with a voice uh uh drop three e6 drop three now use this everywhere , TRUE?

Uh, what's the sign of the song she wrote? How high is the moon? It's escaping me at the moment I guess the theme of the video is escaping the name, the name that Esha made me think of, but um, but it's a simplified version of what she's playing, but it's the exact same idea, uh, if you wanted do the i. I can go? There are a few more notes, but it's exactly the same. So back to back to our pattern. Actually, it would be better to start this at g. and so on, if I wanted to go in half steps, it would be f and then e right and then e flat and so on, so this is eminently

useful

now for the pay part of esha, as we know, and let's go back to our kia c. example, okay, so here's my example in c, since we know that f six is ​​part of a diminished f6, so now I could reduce that diminished six when I get to that inversion, I can run my two five pattern, so It's already a nice line, so it's already a very nice line now there is a chapter, what is nesha pay?, a note slips away, so if I come here from this reversal to this reversal and there is a decrease in the middle, I can escape to the diminished note and then it lands on the diminished note and there you can see that only the external voices move.

This is what makes it very useful and executable. You're not trying to do too many things at once, you're just moving the outside voices around. What would happen if you made the next investment up? If I were to make the following investment above, oh lord, what is this? This is a diminished flat six. I never did this. There are many of them, but as you can see, you have a lot of possibilities here. So how would you apply? This is the only main app, well I showed you another app before and about how high the moon is.

There's also a really beautiful example that came up once in the choir. He was toying with this idea and he stuck with me. forever because it was so beautiful and that was in April in Paris. Now the thing about this is that he's talking about you can do this from 2 to 5, but you can also do it on one and it serves as a really beautiful theme. continuity, if you want, April and Paris, so here you have a C major. I'll play a simple c6, simple c6. I did it wrong. Here again there are festive tables under the trees.

Now here it will put it on f and it will go and then. here is the one from f. I wonder if I could do it in a minor six which is so pretty here in this E minor seven flat five. You could choose to use a G minor six and do the same exapi figure well and then that move on to maybe the minor tritones on A7, which is a minor sixth in B flat and more on that, there are a total of six chord rules , check them out, check out my ten chord routine, so and the ten chord routine, three note version, which is actually in the At the bottom of this, all you're doing is adding a melodic movement to that.

I wonder if I could do it in the minor tritones. Here is my e7 in minor. You know, this is where I would get yelled at for trying to do too much. but I'm going to try it anyway I don't care, I never knew my heart could sing, let's try this perfect place to put the E major until April, what would I do here in a dominant so that the major minor in a dominant is y? here we have an a7 I would use E minor six I wonder what that would sound like so uh and um so E minor six would be o D flat to B flat minor six uh so here are my three notes B flat minor six which is nice it started to sound a little strange but in the end it worked ah, let's try it here so imminently useful eminently because you're going to use it very soon eminently because it's very, very available, so it's imminently and eminently useful.

Listen to your comments, let me know. Barry uses it all the time. It's just a basic element and it's a very elegant use of several of these concepts. The beauty of this system is that you really have a limited number of concepts, maybe a handful. less than 10, but the connections between them are endless, that's also the bad thing because it can be overwhelming, so what I try to do is focus them on specific groups and then see how those groups connect on a case by case basis and again that's what? What makes this an open conversation?

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