Barney Kessel Chord-Melody Style: Lesson 1 - Getting Started 

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Thank you for your kind words. They are appreciated.

Well said!

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We are happy to share these great lessons and appreciate everyone's kind and thoughtful words. Yes, we are looking at how best to bring the booklets sometime soon.

Something else interesting to consider, especially for guitarists. Although not mentioned, you will notice, we always show Barney's right hand . The technique he uses is something worth studying, whether for single line or rhythm playing. As well, through the tracks that he and Dave are playing for you to jam on, you can also see the rhythm styles as well as the chord voicing being used. Even though these are not taught as part of the lesson, each is a valuable study on it's own. You could study each video simply with that in mind and learn even more.

!! Thank you so much for this suggestion I have tried to focus on his left hand fingerings since I had watched the previous videos talking about chord-formation which is really helping me a lot! I would re-watch these great series again and focus on his right hand! Thanks for mentioning this!!

That is why having videos available is so amazing. If you only had a book, you would never get to see the unique methods great musicians employ to get the sounds they want. Keep practicing!

It seems like Barney uses a lot of down-strokes pickings on previous videos ! Does anyone know if he has ever talked about that technique?

Thanks! We made 3 videos. All 3 will be posted here. We're also looking at how to best do the booklets as well.

ok, thanks!!

Great! Thank you!

Rumark Video It would be great if you could put all these on DVD. I’m grateful that you are putting them on RU-vid, but I like to have a DVD to play on my TV, the same way I do with all my other Jazz guitar instructional DVD’s. I swear...if you put them on Amazon, you’d clean up because a lot of us know how good Barney’s lessons are. We just don’t want to be tethered to WiFi and RU-vid to watch them all the time.

maybe he meant inverted fifths. hehe

You don't get it -- it's the voicing.

@@pacz8114 What? Please elaborate.

@@vecernicek2 Well, quite simply, a 4th can sound like a 5th -- it's all based on the voicing. At its most basic, a chord, which is a cluster of notes, may be rearranged ("voiced") many different ways to yield different tonal colors. The pianist, Bill Evans, had a unique gift for piano voicings -- as exhibited on Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue" LP. Of course, on piano there are nearly limitless possibilities, but on conventional guitar, one is limited to the 6 strings. Jazz guitarists' strength in supporting the harmonic foundation of the ensemble has always been from his/her ability to spontaneously "feel" different voicings. Jim Hall may be one of the finest at this (check out his duet LPs with Bill Evans).

@@pacz8114 I understand the concept of chord voicings/inversions. But here, fifth refers to an interval, not a degree in a chord. If you invert a fifth in a chord, it's still a fifth. If you invert fifth in an interval of a fifth, it's a fourth.

They're 5ths if you think of the 5 as being the low note and the 1 as the high note. So inverted power chords

Yes, I believe it was 1986.

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lol'd at that too. Not Politically correct anymore but the man means well.