Jazz Essentials: Pat Metheny

[@guitarreilly]

cant believe how melodic every improvisation is from pat, he is untouchable

[@jacksonpayne3477]

kim burley HUH? what the fuck are you talking about

[@joejoe5921]

you mean wes is untouchable?

[@lastdaysguitar]

@@joejoe5921 I think he meant what he said: Pat has taken Wes's style and has built a new thing on top of it.

[@joejoe5921]

@@lastdaysguitar im just joking. I love both

[@TaylorG0014]

Pat Metheny, you are that musician that all jazz guitarists have to "deal with." Of course now there are plenty of guitarists that can be drawn from, but for that one classic figure, you are him.

[@IainHatt-m8o]

As Gary Willis said about Jaco for bass players. You can’t go over,under or around him. You have to deal with him. Too true for both.

[@hugocra]

Metheny+Mays son el mas genial regalo en la historia de la música

[@thebathrobebassist58]

along with being a huge inspiration to me, Pat's musical philosophy is in line with mine. I will never be as good as him, but it gives me hope that we have a similar outlook, and its all about the music, leaving no room for ego with this man. Pure aewsomness

[@haveatomato]

love hearing pat talk about music, such an insightful guy

[@bobbysbackingtracks]

This is a killer interview and a killin post!!! Thank you.

[@ergoguitar]

One of the most important pieces of advice you can give or get: think like a drummer. Better yet: play the drums, no matter what your instrument is. A million reasons why this will make you a much better musician.

[@homzymusic]

Think like a drummer - and learn the piano - no matter what instrument you play.

[@hunterkubat4805]

think like a drummer- and learn piano- and guitar and sax and didgeridoo- and norse mythology and yoga dance- and magic and 4 figure leg lock fighting technique . . . that's how you become a good musician

[@alejandrosoza8006]

Piano is essential tho

[@frankfog5372]

Right you are... ;-)

[@roughdraught153]

The song is "Third Wind" from Metheny's 1987 album "Still Life Talking". It's quite an epic!

[@TheVinciol]

Pat, please never die! we would loose one of the best human ever lived in this world

[@JonesTonesGuitar]

This guy is a really good interviewer 👍

[@filippoieraci]

It's also rare in my opinion to find an interviewer that actually knows what he/she's talking about nowadays... This is pretty awesome

[@musiccellarmillerton]

This is great!

[@noisyneil]

that guy's bowl cut is an inspiration.

[@caindelgado3744]

Thank you very much for uploading this video subtitled in Spanish!!!!!

[@JohnPrepuce]

Haha the interviewer mentions "Zero Tolerance for Silence" with a straight face. I think Pat was intentionally trying to deconstruct all of music with that album.

[@cr4957]

I'd love tha watch the full clinic shown here in excerpt. Metheny is a god, such a great musician!

[@NeilRaouf]

...cool! thx for uploading. always nice to listen to a master!

[@maxin55]

Thanks for posting this, great stuff.

[@Frapzoid]

You have to go through Wes Montgomery. Even Pat did to some degree.

[@fretbuzz59]

@kim burley Don't be trolling now.

[@fretbuzz59]

@kim burley Sounds like you think he can't play over changes. That might have been an opinion of him, by some, 40 years ago. It was wrong even then. But to still hold that view today is supreme ignorance.

[@andycanona]

@kim burley Yeah... because you get to define for everyone what “real” Jazz is and what isn’t...

[@jacksonpayne3477]

Frapzoid but Montgomery got most of his inspiration from Charlie Christian

[@OutOnTheTiles]

Of course. Everyone knows this.

[@verdejade30]

Maravilloso! Maestro Pat

[@robertkscorpio3680]

@Jack Reilly- I was just thinking about how pretty and Lyrical Pat is when I saw the Acoustic effected Solo- and I saw your Quote..

[@ectomy1235]

agreed, he such an amazing improviser

[@wtwrush]

"i believe as a jazz guy, that one of our obligations is to document the time that were living in through the way we manifest sound as improvisers" o.o

[@wtwrush]

"the brilliance of the innovations of blues and jazz is that through the american experience, a form was created that acts as an envelope for people to put their thing in it, and to me the form of jazz, and blues also, not only suggests, it requires that you bring who you are, in an honest way, to the music"

[@AndreasDevig]

I want to document the future. I want to document the fantasy world. I want to document the past. And maybe also a little bit of the time I'm living in. But not too much.

[@witoldzielinski5216]

This is fenomen. Pat Metheny is the best!

[@DarjanKostic]

Nice interview. Tnx for upload :)

[@YST5700]

It takes a higher intellect to play that well, and he's clearly got it.

[@19Lqueen17]

Third Wind solo entering is amazing...

[@charlycrett]

Thanks. Happiness.

[@carlosadail]

Pat is my hero.

[@favoritos569]

Buenisimo¡ las clases e pat

[@Back2Bass777]

Thanks dude I appreciate it! (I looked everywhere for that song with no luck haha!)

[@catrinacompositions]

4:12 I disagree. Jazz guitar has Wes Montgomery, Tal Farlow, and Jim Hall. No jazz guitarist can avoid them entirely.

[@stefBEARmusik]

I dont think west is to the guitar what miles is to the trumpet or Parker Coltrane to the saxophone.i do agree with pat

[@guitardt]

Muchas Gracias por este Regalo!!! Saludos desde Chile!

[@The1970cesar]

Grandioso Máster Pat....

[@flangeres1752]

so true!

[@charlielopez8636]

Leyenda viva, el argentino Pedro Aznar! 11:10

[@emexokezie7796]

The master at work

[@kvnboudreaux]

the great jazz player has more in common with a great rock player than he does with a poor jazz player...I like it! so true

[@rillloudmother]

K Boudreaux he never actually said that though...

[@kvnboudreaux]

ah well I still like the idea don't you think...what did he say?

[@wtwrush]

what he said was, a great musician at any level, regardless of genre, has more in common with other musicians of that level than with lower level musicians in their own genre. "once you get up to a certain level, i think everybody's dealing with similar things, in terms of how to get their message across to an audience"

[@donpawa]

I truly love his music, but I think there is a Louis Armstrong for the guitar, which would be Django Reinhardt.

[@KiraPlaysGuitar]

5:14 - Am I the only one picking up a little Pat Martino? Maybe just the thick, buttery tone?

[@fedbos91]

Thanks!

[@Deliquescentinsight]

I like Pat's music from his 'Watercolors' album, it was more lyrical and had definite forms - but that's me!

[@uneedtherapy42]

Offramp was my life at one time...

[@fndngnvrlnd]

Montreal 82 was my life. Also still life.

[@JustusVidyo]

JEEAASS

[@sblack48]

Justus Bacon me is from Missoura

[@eat-study]

at best, music transcend style 08:25

[@charlycrett]

GRACIAS POR SUBIR ESTO : D

[@koshomannheim]

Hi Carlos, thank you very much for posting this very interesting interview with PM. Could you tell me in which programme/country it appeared and/or in which year that was?

[@jakekhawaja5101]

Andresa1963... Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's not musical. Every note he plays has intention, and you're ignorance of that intention doesn't change anything.

[@lapeercharlie8691]

Can anyone identify the acoustic he is playing in the concert footage, starting at 3:07?

[@fretbuzz59]

+Lapeer Charlie That clip is from a video called "More Travels" The song is "The Road to You." Here's what Pat said about that guitar: 'The guitar on the More Travels video is actually "student" model Ibanez that I bought in a store for 89 dollars. I liked it because it had a small neck and was very easy to play. I had someone install an ovation pickup in it.'

[@lapeercharlie8691]

+fretbuzz59 Thanks so much! Great info, very helpful.

[@DoDoJazz7]

muchas gracias por compartir el video!!! saludos! :D

[@TheRealSorav]

Pat Metheny kind of looks like Jim Halpert here.

[@lucasarias8294]

the comments and questions of that interviewer are off the hook.

[@thelunarcrush]

ahah crazy at 4:40 only uses his index finger !!!

[@musiccellarmillerton]

Guitar Man noticed that too! I wonder why..pointer has the best tone? Or just a habit to set himself up with his pointer leading

[@DavidKleinProductions]

post some info about the video.....year...

[@anouman9883]

1994. The interviewer mentions that We Live Here was released the same year this interview took place.

[@egyptianminor]

What year was this? Name of tune @ 10:53...?

[@briantoth29]

+EgyptianMinor Third Wind from the Stil Life Talking album 1987

[@Back2Bass777]

what was the last song in the video????

[@homzymusic]

Interpretation: Some songs - and Autumn Leaves is one of them - don't lend themselves to much rhythmic/expressive variation. Pat should have played something like Polkadots and Moonbeams - compare versions by Chet Baker - Sarah Vaughn for example.

[@emy1968]

my music idol

[@fedbos91]

What year was it?

[@ectomy1235]

me too, but gee he looks so young here

[@yasabaraza]

what concert is in cuts??!

[@nicorido]

more travels

[@ectomy1235]

he says the guitar doesnt have one person to go through like say saxophone has john coltrane, but what about wes montgomery? isnt he the man to follow?

[@TruthSurge]

Why is he tutoring the lead singer for the Animals???

[@heatherstub]

Why not?

[@cobblewright]

Jeeasz.

[@s3njibaz]

if you get an answer do let me know!!

[@MTheoOA]

Hahaha, he saying about jazz is really like Brazilian music and some others works from here... Just a few people in Brazil listen to them, and they're just awesomeness. Europe can recognize their talents, but Brazil not...

[@willibald99]

Third wind.

[@MarkOlier]

[@filippoieraci]

Jesus did you see what he did at 5:02 ?!?!?! Dear Lord!!

[@tinfoilhatter]

i'm not so sure it takes a 'higher intellect' to play jazz and all that difficult stuff...i mean guys like kenny g proved that--haha--ok,there's no one like kenny g.-but y'know what i mean?

[@tinfoilhatter]

haha! obviously kenny g. is frickin awesome,merely by virtue of what he did with the jeff lorber fusion alone,he will always be one of the giants-nevermind the 'solo' career--haha

[@tinfoilhatter]

frickin wizard island,by the jeff lorber fusion ain't just an album,it's a whole world unto itself! frickin magical-- just like all pat metheny's stuff i ever heard...

[@WilliamSlaght]

***** and when the rocker learns it then he becomes a jazz cat, or fusion... Like Scott Henderson.

[@tinfoilhatter]

or that band called focus! they were light years ahead of their time!

[@homzymusic]

What is "intellect"? Erroll Garner never learned to read or write - yet he may be remembered long after Metheny is forgotten. Maybe Pat should have said to play jazz takes more musical knowledge. Yet, musical knowledge is not a substitute for Musicality - of which Metheny, Garner and all great musicians have.

[@theswime945]

For his hobby, he's an assassin. He has some big political leaders amongt his clients. He's always fair, but has gone a bit darker since the sad passing of Lyle...

[@afrodiameter]

Anyone know where to find the full video of that clinic/masterclass they excerpted here?