Bebop Scales & Harmonization (Thank You, Barry Harris)

This post explores voice-leading major & minor 6th & 7th chords, dominant♭5, dominant♭9 & fully-diminished 7th chords, and more, through Bebop Major, Bebop Minor, Bebop Dominant, & Bebop Dominant♭5 scales, along with one & two-octave scale fingerings, chord alterations & substitutions. These structures form the foundations of the harmony/improvisation theories taught by Barry Harris.

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THE DROP VOICING BOOK FOR GUITAR: A Complete Guide to Drop 2, Drop 3, Drop 2&3 and Drop 2&4 Chord Voicings & Inversions

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THE DROP VOICING BOOK FOR GUITAR is a comprehensive text covering the logic behind “drop” voicings and their application to harmonic progressions and voice-leading. This ground-breaking resource investigates/includes:

• How “drop” voicings are formed, and their application to the guitar
• Four types of drop voicings on nine string sets
• The art of spacing or voicing chords
• Six “core” 6th & 7th chord qualities 
• How to derive voicings from elemental forms
• How to move beyond mere memorization and recitation of shapes and voice-lead harmonic textures spontaneously
• Nine comprehensive studies on the Autumn Leaves chord progression 
• Reductive techniques to tailor density & register to ensemble/context
• Using chordal knowledge to improvise harmonically-specific melodies
• Harmonizing melodies: “chord-melody” playing
• Extended tertian harmony
• Substitution & superimposition theory and techniques
• Alteration techniques to create an enormous palette of additional chord qualities
• Free audio downloads
• TAB, standard notation, diagrams, and comprehensive charts for practice and reference

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