Anatomy of a Tune - Be-bop Style

Master the Barry Harris method of harmonic analysis and discover how bebop legends construct their melodic lines in this comprehensive exploration with renowned guitarist Roni Ben-Hur. This course takes you deep into the essential skill of breaking down jazz standards to their most fundamental harmonic structures, using "How High the Moon" as your working laboratory. You'll learn to identify the underlying harmonic progressions that exist beneath the chord changes—the skeletal framework that bebop masters use as their starting point for improvisation. Roni demonstrates how to strip away the color chords to reveal the dominant progressions that truly drive the music forward, giving you multiple substitution options including diminished, augmented, and tritone alternatives. This isn't about simplification—it's about understanding the architecture so you can build more sophisticated solos with informed choices. Working through practical examples from Roni's book "Talk Jazz," you'll explore the bebop approach to adding chromatic notes to major and dominant scales, understand the concept of important chords within the dominant scale, and analyze a complete pre-written solo that demonstrates these principles in action. You'll discover why that G minor 7 to C7 is really just an extended C11, and how recognizing these relationships opens up your harmonic palette. Perfect for intermediate to advanced players ready to move beyond chord-scale theory into the deeper waters of bebop construction. You'll leave with a systematic approach to analyzing any standard, plus the tools to develop melodic ideas with the sophistication and logic of the bebop masters.