Barney Kessel solo on There Will Never Be - Lick Transplant
Channel: Stefano Micarelli
Date: 2019-06-29

In this solo Barney Kessel expresses all his improvisational brilliancy with a rich and effective phrasing, the ingredients of bebop are all there, chromaticisms, alterations of the dominant, targeting, blues touches.

Lick Transplant

Try to extrapolate the phrases that you like, experiment with fingerings, transposing in different keys. "Transplant" these licks integrating them into the improvisation on songs that contain similar harmonic passages.
In the transcription of this video two example licks with their alternative fingerings are highlighted. The same licks are later integrated into the improvisation on famous standards. Transplant performed!

original 230bpm
transcription 174bpm

CD track: https://youtu.be/WJPXAsVR7sc?t=138
PDF:  https://bit.ly/2X8nftb


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