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Melody · harmony · practice

Explore music through the ideas of Barry Harris.

Interactive tools that make melodic and harmonic relationships visible, playable, and easier to hear—built by a musician, for musicians.

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Start with the musical question you have.

Build a line, move a voicing, train your ear, organize repertoire, or make a teaching chart. Every public workshop tool is here.

Melody and repertoire study

Line Lab showing a generated line with notation, TAB, and an instrument display.

Line Lab

Build and inspect a single musical line.

  • Notation and guitar TAB
  • Playback and ingredient details
  • Line editing with Pro

Access: Basic exploration is public. Free adds core practice; Pro adds advanced choices and editing.

Scale Outlines showing a phrase map, notation, piano, and fretboard context.

Scale Outlines

Follow scale movement through a tune or form.

  • Phrase-level outlines
  • Synchronized playback
  • Create and edit outlines with Pro

Access: Basic outlines are public. Free adds transposition; Pro adds the full library and authoring.

Ingredients showing a selected musical move with scale context and instrument displays.
Experimental Alpha

Ingredients

Explore the small moves that connect a line.

  • Ingredients and ABCs
  • Notation, guitar and piano views
  • Multi-ingredient chains with Pro

Access: Basic exploration is public. Free adds keys; Pro adds advanced resources and chains.

Harmony and voicings

Scales of Chords showing a selected resource and its current guitar voicing.

Scales of Chords

See and hear movement within a scale of chords.

  • Guitar and piano views
  • Voicing movement and playback
  • Advanced voicings and borrowing with Pro

Access: Basic exploration is public. Free adds core practice; Pro adds advanced resources and settings.

Harmony Explorer showing its default progression and current harmony view.
Alpha · Experimental

Harmony Explorer

Explore scale-of-chords movement over changes.

  • Progression timeline
  • Scales and voicing choices
  • Chart and movement authoring with Pro

Access: Sign in for the default study. Pro adds other studies and authoring.

Barry Universe showing the chromatic home view and whole-tone parent groupings.

Barry Universe

Trace the connections between diminished parents and chord families.

  • Whole-tone and diminished parents
  • Four scales-of-chords families
  • Interactive relationship map

Access: Open to everyone.

Listening and interactive trainers

Ear Training showing an interval question and visual instrument hint.

Ear Training

Identify intervals by listening.

  • Harmonic and melodic questions
  • Guitar and piano answer displays
  • Results by playback mode

Access: Open to everyone.

Voicing Trainer showing a voicing-completion question on a guitar fretboard.

Voicing Trainer

Find the missing notes in a voicing.

  • Guitar and piano answers
  • Optional audio
  • Exercise settings and statistics

Access: Basic questions are public. Free adds core practice; Pro adds advanced exercise settings.

Borrowing Trainer showing a borrowing question on a guitar fretboard.

Borrowing Trainer

Find the note a chord tone borrows above or below.

  • Borrowing directions
  • Guitar and piano answers
  • Selectable exercise settings

Access: Basic questions are public. Free adds core practice; Pro adds advanced exercise settings.

Interval Trainer showing a chord-tone interval question on a guitar fretboard.

Interval Trainer

Locate chord-tone intervals inside a voicing.

  • Visual interval questions
  • Guitar and piano answers
  • Selectable exercise settings

Access: Basic questions are public. Free adds core practice; Pro adds advanced exercise settings.

Contrary Motion showing a challenge and its revealed voicing on a guitar fretboard.

Contrary Motion

Explore contrary motion through voicings.

  • Interactive voicing challenges
  • Guitar and piano views
  • MIDI input and sound

Access: Basic challenges are public. Sign in for the full trainer.

Teaching and organization

Chart Maker showing a four-note guitar chart with interval labels.

Chart Maker

Create a clear guitar or piano diagram.

  • Note labels and marker layers
  • Guitar and piano charts
  • PNG export

Access: Open to everyone.

JazzRep showing a synthetic repertoire grouped into four readiness buckets.

JazzRep

Keep your repertoire and listening references organized.

  • Tune familiarity and readiness
  • Book and listening references
  • Personal tunes and links with Pro

Access: Sign in to track repertoire. Pro adds personal tunes and listening links.

LiveFrets Display showing synthetic MIDI notes across its public fretboard and piano displays.

LiveFrets Display

Display live MIDI notes for teaching and casting.

  • Fretboard and piano display
  • Voicing detection
  • Teaching and screen-casting views

Access: Basic display is public. Sign in for full Display access. Private LiveFrets is separate.

Built from the instrument outward

A musician-built place to investigate and practice.

Bebop Workshop is an independently authored educational project by Birdsnake Brown. These tools are built for close listening, practical experimentation, and the moment when an idea becomes music under your hands.