Wow! That was very impressive - the performance and the long transcription. This swings so hard and for so long with so many great creative ideas. I challenge any of the multi-millionaire rock star guitarists to try to cop most of this solo. Barney's articulation was dangerous in how he would sweep the strings, chop chords, and slightly overdrive his amps so that you could just barely hear all the fundamental notes of chords. That danger amidst great harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic sophistication was very cool. RIP.
What rock guitarists do is different. Mr Kessell would have a hard time in a another element such as doing what Randy Rhoads or Johnny Ramone or Adrian Belew might do. All is good if it is done with heart and soul
i met Barney kessel when he came to melbourne years ago him and Herb Ellis we spend all night with them we had diner together they were very humble great guitar players a big buzz for me love them both......
Late 1970's : had a nice little conversation with mr. Kessel, at George's Jazz Café, Arnhem, Netherlands. He did my request, being The Flintstones Theme. We shook hands + eversince then i play the guitar a lot better than before. Although never as good as he did, naturally.
Lol, the sheet is here as we could do it one day 😂... Well, I need to work on my sweeping technique if I want to manage it someday 😅 It's one on the very end of my list (part of the most difficult tracks I want to play)... After years of pracrice I see what's the difference between those who are talented and those who are not (like me) : it's not a matter of work or method, the genius just have inherant abilities, such as incredible technique without working that much and incredible inspiration whithout knowing where it comes from. People like me will need months to play something like this while people like Barney could do it between the bread and the coffee. It has been almost 20 years I'm in music and it looks like I've reached a roof I can't break through in technique and inspiration since several years. If I could broke it by moments by working on songs wich had specific hard techniques, I always lost it by just doing a little something else. What I want to say is that everyone have limits, it's like a rubber band you stretch, it always comes home unfortunatly 😅
@@seabertotter4325 (Sigh!) The reason I dislike tab is because it would be like having a Cezanne painting with "paint by numbers" overlaid on that great work of art. Not to put anyone down. If you read music fluently, tab detracts so much from the experience which for musicians is like a work of art or architecture. But I have foundered on the shoals of trying to encourage people to learn to read to open their hearts and minds to the universe of music. Unlike the Hubble telescope, tab is like looking at the stars with binoculars. You cannot appreciate that which you cannot see.
@@guitargod6997 I learned the standard way before tab. When I first saw music with tablature I found it to be more instructive. To me it is more natural for a fretboard. I use it for my own transcriptions and use standard time values to dress the fret numbers. Some great jazz guitar players didn't read music at all. So what does it matter?
@@seabertotter4325 As the French say, "chacun à son goût" Each to his own. My fifty plus years of experience in classical and other styles of music is at variance with yours. Some like chocolate, others vanilla.
de nada roberto! si fueron 3 o 4 días intensos de trabajo… y si hay material para entender a barney kessel…para rato :) yo entre en el jazz cuando escuche ese disco por eso tenia la obligación moral de transcribirlo..:)
Un placer encontralo, Maestro. Uno de mis primeros discos de jazz fue "The Poll Winners Three"...mi primer profesor me dijo, "--compra algo de Barney Kessel..."...yo no sabia nada de nada, ni quien era...nada...Era 1980....y me volo la cabeza...hoy, 36 años despues, me sigue poniendo la piel de gallina....lo tengo en vinilo, original de Contemporary. Me parece increible que grabaran eso en uno o dos dias, a primera toma!!..Eran marcianos!!!
And there isn't even a transcription for 5:30 to 5:38, hilarious, Barney Kessel is such a monster. I will study this transcription intensively after I try my own.
