Eddie Harris Intervallistic Concept: Pdf Patched !!top!!

However, within the underground jazz pedagogy community (specifically on the podcast forums and Sax on the Web ), a user named "TenorExplorer45" released a community-driven "v3.1 patched" PDF in 2021.

The unit of music is not the scale degree (1, 2, 3, 4). The unit is the distance (Unison, Major 2nd, Minor 3rd, Perfect 4th, etc.).

Write this out: C (root), D (Major 2nd), C (down Minor 7th? No—Harris’s rule: always change direction after a half-step). Just play this sequence on your instrument: eddie harris intervallistic concept pdf patched

Take one page—just the "Table of Perfect 4ths" (Page 12 in the patched version). Play nothing but Perfect 4ths for 10 minutes over a blues backing track. You will sound strange, then interesting, then finally, like Eddie Harris.

He was also a pioneer of slap-tonguing, circular breathing, and, most controversially, Write this out: C (root), D (Major 2nd), C (down Minor 7th

Assuming you have a corrupted PDF that only has text, look for the section titled "The 12 Tone Row minus 1." Harris believed that playing 11 of the 12 tones in strict interval order (alternating Major 2nds and Minor 7ths) creates the most "vocal" melodic line.

Eddie’s widow, and later Racer Sessions (who reissued some of his late-career works), have been notoriously protective of this book. There was a rumor of a 2019 "re-typeset" edition by a German musicologist, but it was never licensed. Play nothing but Perfect 4ths for 10 minutes

Notice there is no scale. There is only distance. This is the Intervallistic Concept in a nutshell. Why do musicians obsess over a "patched" PDF of a book written 50 years ago? Because the concept works.