Bebop WorkshopExplore music through the ideas of Barry Harris.
A warmly lit music room with guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards

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.

Explore the tools

Choose your way in

Start with the musical question you have.

Build a line, move a voicing, or practice the ingredients inside the language. Each tool stands on its own and shares a familiar frame.

Build, hear, refine

Line Lab

Shape single lines with notation, TAB, playback, and clear ingredient details. Hear what changes as you work.

Open Line Lab
Line Lab showing notation, guitar TAB, a fretboard, and recipe details

See and move harmony

Scales of Chords

Practice voicing movement inside a selected scale of chords with fretboard, piano, notation, and playback views.

Open Scales of Chords
Scales of Chords with fretboard, scale-degree wheels, piano, notation, and sharing controls

Practice the pieces

Ingredients

Experimental alpha

Work with the small moves, ABCs, and connecting material that make the bebop language speak.

Open Ingredients
Ingredients showing a musical move, scale degrees, notation, guitar TAB, and fretboard

Go deeper

Follow the harmony outward.

Use these exploratory spaces when you want to see the larger system or work through an entire progression.

Harmony Explorer showing a progression, scale choices, voicings, and fretboard

Explore a progression

Harmony Explorer

Experimental alpha

Walk through a progression and audition scales of chords and movement over each change.

Open Harmony Explorer
Barry Universe showing diminished parents and chord-family relationships

See the family tree

Barry Universe

See how the four scales of chords grow from their parent diminished chords and connect as one system.

Explore Barry Universe

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.

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