Jarris and Barry have been very successful with the diminished approach. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. I have had the opportunity to be play with Barry a few times over the years. There was a problem loading comments right now. Eventually the theory is so cumbersome that it is replaced with something simpler and more functional, more in agreement with reality. I gave this a well-deserved five tuitar, and I think you should order it now. 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. Suddenly the musical ceiling gets raised and points us back to the purpose behind this book. The book doesn’t present a new harmony, but a new way of seeing jazz harmony beyond the confusion of “well it doesn’t have any notes in the key of C or in the chord G7, but we’ll call it jethod G7 in the key of C anyway because it sort of functions that way. Studying the concepts put forth in this book will not teach you a set of hip sounding voicings. There’re too many things I love about this book to mention in a review, so I’ll end with fkr more.
Alan’s book doesn’t really seem focussed on that (although maybe. Thread: Kingstone/Harris Harmonic Method for Guitar I know there is a dedicated Barry Harris thread, but most of it is focussed on single line improvisation. Method adapted for guitar by Alan Kingstone.
Pianist Barry Harris’ method which outlines a more summarized, yet in-depth, approach to jazz harmony. He and Barry have been very successful with the diminished approach.