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Here's a niche for you to stand out, shred chords like BK, its almost like he's playing a different instrument.

Looks like Douglas Reach and Barney Kessel have polar opposite personalities, they are both great though, in their own way.

" just because you can play what you hear (in your head), doesn't mean it has any musical value" That's real talk right there!

These are priciples. Thanks barney, RIP. These what I need for years, n barney tell it all... Once

Thank you! Brilliant!

I've seen a lot of these, but this is definitely the very best video teaching improvisation, even for non-guitarists. Finally, the real thing! No need to ever look elsewhere...

Yo, yall.....I got hip to Barney Kessel recently, so I barely know him. But I know that his playing is phenomenal AF. And these lessons he gave us are nice. And then I got to this point in the lessons series, and he mentions "Now I'm gonna play some chords and I want you to solo over them." Can someone tell me why I had to hold back tears when he said that? 😭😭😭

Goodness that ending etude is quite the pinky workout, with the Gmin11 (sub. for C)

Tip for anyone trying to play the Fm11/C (sub. for Bb7) @ 12:26, try fingering the C and F with the middle (doublestop), semi-barre with the index across four strings from the G# to the high F, then the D# with the ring and G with the pinky.

Barney was the best and also as a person. I met him several times near the end of his career in San Diego, CA. He was always so kind and generous. A true gentleman.

I saw Barney play in Brisbane Australia in the early nineties. Fabulous! A true legend.

Are these booklets available?

Cool Acoustic stuff on your Channel…trying to expand my own horizons. Thanks a bunch for the VIBE 🤗

Barney feels like a long lost friend...

Thank you fine sir for sharing this 🙏

His voice and guitar sound so good for me😊

Great cooool lovely art

I’d love to watch the whole video

extra emphasis on the “same time”

Thanks for posting.

by the way, I am obsessed with the intro theme of this vodeo, playing all the time with thumb in C (6th string) and being able to move rest of fingers so loose to play different chords and arrangements while thumb is fixed on C. Anyone can do that? I can barely do some chords like that and the first strings is so hard to make it sound. Maybe my hands are too small or he has realy big hands. Any of you can play that way?

Thanks, Rumark, for sharing this video series. It is amazing to have him playing and exolaining all the time, very useful.

Thank you for the valuable content

FIRST STEP??? wut the hec

Que buena música y excelente interpretación en la guitarra.

Man... Anyone who is wanting to undertake any musical studies and improvisation should listen very closely to what Barney is trying to teach here. It's the heart and soul of any music style. Save this to come back to... Thanks very much!

From the thumbnail I thought this was Al Di Meola lol

Thank you . Just brilliant !!

Muito bom mesmo

I've always dreamed of playing what I think.

He reminds me of Bob Dylan.

Thank you for posting this

Did he just play smoke on the water?

This is great..! I only started learning guitar about 9 weeks ago & I'm documenting my entire learning journey on here so this was super motivational!

were these lessons free or you had to buy them?

What a great instructor! Also he could be a perfect Wes Anderson character

best lesson I have ever seen.

Amazing!! I only started learning guitar 7 weeks ago and I'm documenting my entire learning journey on here so this was super motivational!

Never heard him speak , from his looks I always thought Barney must’ve had a South American accent, so hearing a country accent straight out of the south caught me off guard😂😂😂

those strings look so thicc lol

Another excellent song as well as a magnificent and exciting interpretation, I liked it a lot, congratulations from Madrid and see you soon, like 2

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Thanks a lot fot this helpful video

Wow! Completely improvised! That is the level of musicianship I hope to achieve in my lifetime.

I can't believe these videos don't have a million likes 😢 this is gold!

He was amazing and one of the originals of Jazz Guitar..

Barney I miss You so very much !

giant ahh guitar

I´m short of words to describe how happy I feel with thiese lessons