"Barry's (Barry Harris) Special Delivery." (B.S.D) MUST WATCH!!! (read description below.)

[00:00:00]Hi, my name is Aaliyah and welcome to my channel. Thank you if you're uh if you've been watching my previous content and if this is your first time um today, well, thank you also for joining and I hope that you might find something useful from what I'm sharing today. So, today I'm not I don't know if I'm good at forcing myself to pretend that I'm happy, but I'm I'm really excited to share this sound. [music] this one that all these [music] chords they all come from a scale in the key of C. It will be over the five chord this [music] sound.

[00:00:46]And what I love about [music] all of these chords is that you can mix them up. You can [music] borrow around those chords as well, but the majority are [music] are based off a special scale. And so I'm going to let me put it into a song first. So what's the song? How about um [sighs] [music] that one?

[00:01:16]So the E flat I might go over the G [music] over there over the B flat. I might add it here.

[00:01:40]I could put it over the D, but I'll skip.

[00:01:44][music] Maybe I'll add it in now. There it is.

[00:02:01]There it is.

[00:02:07]So, it's really good for like playing as [music] a as chords. And maybe it could be part of [music] however you hear it. Maybe it might harmonize part of the melody.

[00:02:20]Maybe it be part of your solo [music] like here.

[00:02:37]>> [music] >> Oops.

[00:02:46]Remember the last one. Okay. So, yeah, man. There's a lot of fun things to play over that. And so what I've in honor of Barry, he taught this scale on one of the videos, but like he showed the student how to how to play it. And he said, "Now this is our beautiful scale." And he didn't really go into detail after the fact that like you should play it over this or or here or there because he went into some he went into something else. So, I really enjoyed listening to that scale and this one.

[00:03:28]And I thought, well, okay. So, if this is all from the major 6 diminished scale, then we all know if you've been following along or if you've been watching other Barry Harris um students teaching his method, you'll know that the major 6 diminished scale, you can play the five chord and all the chords [music] that you get from that scale sound good over the five.

[00:03:58]Right? [music] I'm just showing you a very basic a bland kind of example. But if I use this scale now, come on mate. [music] Come on.

[00:04:13]Somebody call the doctor. Someone call the doctor because you know too much of one thing is a bad thing, right? Or is it a good thing?

[00:04:24]And [music] I love it.

[00:04:27]And so in honor of Barry, last year I was privileged to give a workshop over at Open Studio and I was teaching this as part of my workshop and I I called it go to the front here. I called it Barry's special delivery and [laughter] the BSD.

[00:04:54]So I thought well got to give it a name so that it's easy to identify and be able to um you know make reference to in the future. And so this is um yeah so this is it and I'm going to show you now um what what I learned and how I apply it. So just um quickly, it's basically um take your major 6 [music] and your diminished chords, right? Let's take this major 6 shape.

[00:05:30]C major 6 here.

[00:05:33]And then we're going to drop two. So we take that C, put it down an octave.

[00:05:38]That's our drop two. Um C6, drop two.

[00:05:42]And now we're going to borrow the diminished note. So that one.

[00:05:48]So switch the A for the B and we get what is what the rest of the world will know as a C major 7. [music] In the Barry world, they might call this a C major 6 with a borrowed diminished note.

[00:06:05][music] And the cool thing is that I'll play the normal major scale first, [music] the diietonic, C major. [music] What do they call it? Ionian scale, something like that. But, you know, and that's pretty. It's good for pop music, I [music] suppose.

[00:06:28]Right. And then now we're going to play it over the major 6 diminished scale.

[00:06:35]So, every time after the G, there's a A flat.

[00:06:41]And if you're new to the channel, just quickly, the scale is comprised of two chords, [music] C6 and the D diminished.

[00:06:49]So, the diminished notes in this scale are D, F, A flat, and B. So, and because we've borrowed [music] one of the diminished notes, the B, we're going to take that that [music] shape diietonically up the major 6 diminished scale. So, there's the A flat right after G.

[00:07:13]Get all fourths here. After this, G is A flat.

[00:07:17]We get an E over F. And that's [music] like a diminished uh from a diminished scale.

[00:07:24]So Barry was also saying that all of this scale contains a whole lot of nice chords from different scales.

[00:07:32]And you can [music] see here's a sus chord. Here's another one of those diminished scale chords like that one but up a minor third G over A flat.

[00:07:43]Minor major 7 half diminished. Back to C. uh major 7. Okay. So, and the cool thing too is that you could if you wanted to, I suppose you could borrow.

[00:07:57]You could experiment. [music] I'm not going to that's not this video, but you could [music] experiment with it.

[00:08:07]So yes, they are kind [music] of like static chords, but it's a special case, I think, because they sound really [music] pretty all over the five.

[00:08:22][music] I mean, come on, man.

[00:08:25]In the key of E flat, let's say we're playing another U and so five chord.

[00:08:31]Someone might say, Elliot, do an intro.

[00:08:33]Okay. Um, [music] ballad. Okay.

[00:08:43]Borrow, [music] okay? You know, and you get into it. So, it's really fun. Uh, you could also put it over any five chord in a song. Just uh what's another song? How about All the things you are. So the E [music] flat 7 is from the A flat major. So I could choose chords from the A flat major.

[00:09:20]And I'm not trying to reharmonize the melody. I'm just playing the melody so that [music] you can kind of follow along. But if I'm comping or soloing, I might do it here for example.

[00:09:39]See, man, how that's pretty, man. And so like that's why I called it the the uh Barry's special delivery because when you're served it, it's like, man, game over. It's game over once once you get that. Oh my. So, there's a disclaimer, right? I'm I'm no Barry Harris expert.

[00:09:58]I'm not that. But I'm I love a lot of the things that I've been learning, and this is one of them. And for me, I love the sound because [music] in the key of um what key am I in? Sorry. There.

[00:10:13]Because in the key of E flat, for example, I really like how it [music] feels and how it sounds.

[00:10:23]Uh yeah, and it sounds like R&B to me, especially like that chord [music] over the five.

[00:10:34]Now, all these things that you learn from the BSD, it's not meant to be like a a one trick pony thing. I think I made a video about one trick pony thing, some on something else. It's meant to go in in in like a conjunction with the other stuff.

[00:10:55]Everything that you learn like any kind of let's say that you've learned borrowing.

[00:11:04]Why am I borrowing over that there?

[00:11:10]And then you add the BSD as well. So you might go and then combine it or or not. You know, it's all about taste at the end end of the day. But this is just giving you some tools so that you can discover the beauty of the BSD in your own playing thanks to Barry. Man, what a genius.

[00:11:36]So yeah, and oh I will mention one other thing. So So here's the one for C major. And then I gave like numbers. I numbered them from 1 to 7.

[00:11:57]It's got a flat six in the middle. 1 2 3 4 5 flat 6. Here's the flat six. Bit diminish.

[00:12:03]And then six [music] seven. And so basically you come up with your own numbers and it's good to finish if to resolve it finish on a one or the three because those are the ones that sound in that sound in. So [music] here's the C major 7. Yeah, that's you know self-explanatory. And there's the three [music] sounds really nice gives you a nice C69 sound. If you try and finish on the other ones over the one, you're going [music] to get beautiful sounds, but they don't sound resolved, right?

[00:12:37][music] Not there.

[00:12:41]No.

[00:12:46]See, that didn't sound resolved. It's pretty much just the two. It's just the one [music] or the three.

[00:12:53]It gives you the one sound. So over the five bass for pianists we can play the five with our little finger and the left hand and then [music] we play the chords with the right.

[00:13:07]So my uh the rest the what am I trying to say? So the chord will be with these fingers of my left hand I'll play the root note [music] and the right hand will play three notes.

[00:13:26]I don't [music] actually use the the six and seven very much. I'm kind of biased, I suppose, because before the Barry Harris stuff, I played a lot of diminished. [music] I played this kind of thing. And so, just hearing that [music] those two of those chords exist in this C major 6 [music] diminish, the scale is blowing my mind.

[00:13:51]And I was like, what? What? So where did the other two come from? Well, if we keep it in the Barry world, go to the trionee, the F sharp major 6 diminished, those other two, this one and that one will be the four and the flat 6 of F sharp.

[00:14:12]Okay, that's pretty cool. I mean, there's some people like that that might want to know that. So yeah, have a go.

[00:14:19]And like if you're also the kind of person that doesn't like to read music, if you want to use your ears or um yeah, if you want to use your ears or if you want to look at the chord instead, then I'll just just quickly we'll do it in F#.

[00:14:39]It's going to sound either too low or quite high in that key, but just bear with me. We'll just do it anyway. we can still follow along with the same quality chords. Right? So, we've got our As long as you know [music] the scale, [music] the major 6 diminish and F sharp. We're going to be playing the F sharp major 7 like that.

[00:15:06]So, then the next chord is a minor 7 flat 5.

[00:15:10][music] The next one is all third uh fourths. The third one is all fourths.

[00:15:16]Then four would be a like a B flat of a B.

[00:15:22]And then the five is a sus chord.

[00:15:26]And then the flat 6 would be another would be like a D flat over D.

[00:15:34]And then the sixth would be a minor major 7.

[00:15:41]And then the seventh the seventh will be a half diminished.

[00:15:47]Okay. So you could also do that in every key if you don't want to look at the music written out.

[00:15:56]And if you do like reading the music, well, it's there. But I would highly encourage you to move away from the music and try to um try to visualize it and get it under your fingers without looking at the music. But I've included the music here just um just for the content. I don't know. And also, you know, there's some people out there who might want to who might appreciate reading it. So yeah. And so yeah, you can so these numbers here I write down and here we have look flat 6 5 4 2 3 so that'll be this in the key of C five uh in the bass flat 6 [music] 5 4 so it's going down the scale skip to two and then [music] three resolve Wow, that's nice. So, [music] can we put this in a fast uh fast tune? Maybe. But I don't know if you would be able to play all of those numbers, right? You could probably get away with playing one or two. Like maybe, you know, let's do 165.

[00:17:23]So 1 6 2 5 there 1 6 2 5 [music] 2 five. So there the five I did that and I just borrowed.

[00:17:38]So you could you just have to experiment with it.

[00:17:42]And I think that's all I'm going to share for today. But if you like this, if you'd like me to get more into it and then maybe actually pick a tune that we could find all the places where we could put that over. I mean, that's an idea.

[00:18:00]Otherwise, I'm just going to keep sharing what I like. And I love this.

[00:18:05]And please remember this stuff, this BSD, it goes really well with other things.

[00:18:13]So, you know, short, long, contrary, um, just moving like enclosures or whatever, moving around the scale and the BSD, um, you know, throw it in. And it doesn't have to be all the numbers. It could just be like my my favorite ones that I seem to always go to would be like 4 three two because I love I actually like those [music] sounds there.

[00:18:47]Sometimes I like the flat six and four because I always play this kind of thing anyway. So, it's like out of habit, but I I know that sound.

[00:19:00]And see over there, too. It looks like I mean, I don't want to change the the scale, but I mean, that to me is screaming, you know, if you know, you know, right?

[00:19:15]To me, it's screaming an F minor 6. This is drop two. And so you could do short long over that. Come on, man. Come on. You know, don't make me give you all the answers. So just go and explore for yourself. Let's all thank Barry Harris for the amazing person that he is and and was like, you know, rest in peace, Mr. Harris.

[00:19:42]And u if you're new to this channel, I always say that the person that I learn a lot of the Barry Harris from is Chris Parks. Now, not to it's not to say that the other amazing Barry Harris content from other YouTubers and online tutors, not to um disregard their the way that they teach, but because I'm a member of Open Studio and Chris Parks is teaching there, that's how I got to to actually get into it by watching his classes And [sighs] yeah, and I like um I like the how Chris teaches because he has had a personal connection with Barry.

[00:20:33]And Chris probably knows more than I don't want to say it, but he probably knows a lot more than he lets on, you know, because he's really good. Just go check out his channel. The link is in the description.

[00:20:50]And yeah, I can't remember if I asked Chris about this title if it's if if he would approve it or not, but I call it the BSD. And I don't mean to offend any any Barry Harris teachers out there, but for me, it just helps remind me that that particular scale with that sound, it's it's a a really beautiful thing, right?

[00:21:17]And so I don't overuse it and just throw it in here and there and it's going to make your playing elevate to the next level because I mean come on you got a five one and they [music] say hey go play an intro and you're like okay um what do I do? [music] Yeah. I add in some BSD. Right.

[00:21:46]So, [music] what are you going to do?

[00:21:49]1 2 3 6 4 3 or [music] contrary 2 3 1. Come on. I'm just making it up on on the spot. You know, I haven't prepared for this video. Like, whatever.

[00:22:08]Maybe the next time I play when when I turn this camera off is going to sound way better. So that's the beauty of this thing is that it's not it's not the only answer. Like you might discover something really nice now, but then tomorrow you might discover something even way more different and it might inspire you even more because this stuff is endless. Anyway, I was just rambling.

[00:22:34]So, I just want to say thank you very much for your time and I really hope that you might use some of the BSD into your playing. And if other Barry Harris people say, "What the heck is the BSD?"

[00:22:47]You can say, "Oh, it's actually the major 6 diminished with a borrowed diminished um chord going diatonically up the scale. So it's like a major 7 but that you know and then you go up and down the scale and then you get beautiful chords from it and each of these chords come from different scales.

[00:23:09]So I've just named it the BSD to make it a bit more easier to reference and yeah so thank you and thank you if you made it all the way to the end and I'll see you next time. Take care.