Rare to see such an artist playing with that much of a feeling, being that open to music and feelings, and not being afraid to share all that. Awesomeness.
Amazing. There are no bum notes here. He is pushing the boundaries of what a human being with eight fingers and two thumbs can actually achieve musically. This is really musically mind boggling for me. Since I was first introduced to the music of Pat Metheny way back in 1982, his music has changed my life. Together with Lyle Mays, I learned new and amazing musical creations. I continue to listen every day to Pat’s music. It inspires me and fills me with feelings I just can’t describe. The fact that he continues to perform live is also crazy. Will he be like Les Paul I wonder?
+James McKellar Well Lyle Mays more. Well the both Pat and Lyle together. I find it funny how everyone credits only Pat simply because he was the leader of his group. This does not mean that he was the only one composing.
I just love this version of these great pieces. Clear, crisp, poignant, tender, lilting, I can't say enough about this music except that I am profoundly grateful for the posting here on UA-cam for us all to share. Thank You so much for posting!
Memories, oh such memories! These songs mean so much to me, you are truly amazing guitarist, made me cry just thinking back on the life I had. Thank you Pat Metheny
One of the most beautiful solo guitar pieces I have ever heard. Pat's musical consciousness is fully baked and he worked hard to develop it and it shows and the combination of depth while staying pretty is very special.LOVE IT Pat and you are a good example of what hard work and real study of music and guitar can produce.( and natural talent but your hard work when you were young and your constant learning shines like a planet) I love the different ideas and sections that still tie in but keep expanding like the universe.The song reminds me of a flower blooming.
at the end he seemed to have tears in his eyes like he really had connected with something. Did anyone else see that right at the end when he looks up to acknowledge the crowd. Man, this guy is amazing.
It's like I'm trapped in an elevator but I've had lunch and a coffee so I'm feel pretty cool. Have my thoughts together and I'm not panicking. The door opens eventually and I stroll to the restroom for the best shit I've ever had.
What is bizarre is that at times I hear some poll about the most influential guitarists ever and they say Jimi Hendrix, Edde VanHalen, etc...but never mention Pat.
I had the greatest privilage of meeting Pat Metheny this year at the Detroit Jazz festival. He was getting swamped with crowds and crowds of people! Me and a friend of mine actually caught him coming into his hotel just as we were leaving. He actually stayed and talked to us! He is the most sweetest man! He was so kind to autograph a book of mine, and take a picture with me. I showed my mother the picture with me and Pat. She thought he was a bum! He's casual and cool..and he rocks at it.
Ive been listening to Pat Metheny for around 35years, my first album was the double vinyl live album "Travels" with a host of players including Lyle Mays & Danny Gottlieb, I was just 17 when i made the purchase. It has material that will bring you way down as well as material that will lift ones spirits to a much higher place never experienced before. Every one of Pats albums is of such high quality not to mention musically mature which is why i have every single album Pat has made, and im not a guitarist, Im a Pro Drummer. Next up would be the album "Secret Story" that album is quite literally from start to finish orgasmic. If your a serious, I mean, a real serious guitarist then you will know that all the worlds most amazing giutar players all listen to Pat Metheny & Allen Holdsworth.
Thanks for the reply Pat. We obviously have great taste in music that requires sensetivity, emotion & understanding, not to mention a great set of ears in which to enjoy all of the above. Safe Travels Pat, Jonathan.
+Jonathan Harrington Me too! Defining moment in my life was sitting on the windowsill at the beginning of summer and had just had my last ever day at school listening to 'Travels' ready to go out into the big wide world.
I walked into a Warehouse Record store in 1979 to the opening riff of New Chautauqua. The rest is history - I've been hooked ever since. I've had the great fortune to travel throughout the world and each Metheny song takes me back to another place and time. I hope I die before Pat stops playing. Seriously, don't really know how I'd go on in a Methenyless universe.
I agree about "Secret Story". I was fortunate enough to make it to Boston to see him do the entire album beginning to end. I also love the "Letter From Home" work. I still don't and ever will 'get' the "Zero Tolerance for Silence". I think he was in a bad mood that day.
Pure genius,no doubt.But when he started it was way easier to do anything in arts.After dozens of LP-s,and millions of fans I guess he is one of those,who is NOT underrated. I am underrated,with no CD-s available,one gig per year,no food,no heat.After touring all over Europe in the late 80-s,playing with Dave Holland Quintet,Gabor Gado,Bob Magnuson...and being able to do NOTHING in these days.This is being underrated.
uneedtherapy42 I agree with you!!! I saw him in concert... I dragged my 15 and 12 year old daughters with me.... I got so choked up.... I was in heaven and to be honest my kids didn’t complain one bit....
Some of you critics might not be realizing that this performance is a medley of several popular PM tunes from his first two decades. Every fan in the audience knows these standards by heart. Pat's performance plays with listeners' expectations. He adds quick improvs and digressions, makes cool transitions and uses the blues/jazz tradition of moving his time ahead and behind the beat. In the flamenco tradition, that may be sloppy, but in jazz, it's groove & style and personal statement.
DUDE! IM 16 TOO! and i love him. we have similar music taste! and i prefer this sort of music compared to the heavier ones. i dont detest them but i prefer this one!
The first piece he plays is from "Phase Dance", a song on his 1978 album, "Pat Metheny Group." It's a Metheny CLASSIC! All of the songs in this video are listed at the 0:10 mark. :)
Simplesmente sensacional. Pat nos remete a lugares indizíveis, viajamos ao sabor desse som personalíssimo, estilo inconfundível. Poucos são os instrumentistas que conseguem "inventar" uma linguagem só dele, facílimo de identificar logo depois de alguns acordes. Lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!
With over 1.7 million views and almost 4,600 comments, it's pretty reasonable to expect a couple of negative reactions to anything. And it literally is a couple--98% of the thumbs were thumbs up. The others? Well, it's their right (but also their loss).
and who will come along the next generation to match or exceed. Nada. Corporate music has slowly destroyed when of America's greatest exports. Our diverse and talented musicians.
Brilliant guitarist---guitar synth, traditional straight-ahead jazz guitar, and acoustic solo. On top of that he is a brilliant composer and arranger, with an adventurous musical spirit. I consider him a national treasure.
And if you knew is catalog of music, you would know he DOES shred on a few albums. He has played plenty of rock. He's just beyond speed without feeling. This man plays in colors.
getthetapjj bro if i were you id get your ears primed with some rich BOSSA NOVA ,pick a tune that you really dig and really get into ALL of it,meter harmony and rythmn ,bossas are a gentle way of approaching jazz harmony.all the changes are there but is moving slowly so your brain has a easier way of dealing with it.the key is this..if u can hear you can play it (eventually lol)then gently head down the path of submerging yourself in jazz harmony
Well, once for me, I was playing live, and I had to improvise a jazz solo, and since I knew all the licks and tricks (well not all, just a lot of it), the weird thing was I was just looking at myself playing, it was like my fingers were playing by themselves, and I didn't control it, didn't feel anything, wasn't thinking of playing, it was doing all the work, but then it hit me that I was playing! But for those 5 seconds, I was shocked and amazed about that feeling, I think that only happens.
Well learn how music works, learn music theory (very important for jazz), then learn the fingerings of chords, and practice your plucking of the fingers (I use my pinky finger, you decide if you should use it)... And then there is more and more, and also learn the jazz chords, and then practice and practice, O YEAH! You should learn the music theory especially about jazz, because it's different than just music theory, and learn R&B and blues too. then play, practice and most important have fun!
The first time I heard this live it literally made my head spin as it brought back one memory of my life after another. Pat is the best and "every day, I thank" him...
I saw Pat perform live in the late 70s at Berklee and was amazed. I was 20-years-old. I'm 66 now. Pat's music has been the soundtrack of my life.
Ditto, I first heard him in the early 80s when I lived in Miami, I've seen him probably half a dozen times since. He continues to amaze for sure.
Yes Amen!
Rare to see such an artist playing with that much of a feeling, being that open to music and feelings, and not being afraid to share all that. Awesomeness.
Two Minute Papers! 13 years ago! Nice!
I have known Pat's music since 1974.......and still to this day he never ceases to amaze me. He is the consummate musical genius of our time.
1. Phase Dance
2. Minuano 6/8
3. Septiembre 15
4. First Circle
5. This is not América
Es un medley.
There's another one hidden in there.
Chris/The Falcon. Beautifully done.
Very kind ... Thankyou!
Amazing. There are no bum notes here. He is pushing the boundaries of what a human being with eight fingers and two thumbs can actually achieve musically. This is really musically mind boggling for me. Since I was first introduced to the music of Pat Metheny way back in 1982, his music has changed my life. Together with Lyle Mays, I learned new and amazing musical creations. I continue to listen every day to Pat’s music. It inspires me and fills me with feelings I just can’t describe. The fact that he continues to perform live is also crazy. Will he be like Les Paul I wonder?
my dad's favorite guitarist. I can clearly understand why..super talent
Thanks for making me feel old. Then again, I guess I am starting to get old.... (sigh)
always feel like flying...like reaching the unreachable....and still calming, and like home..
M. Stefanovic perfect comment... to me describes all of Pat's music... sublime...yet like home
pat is our modern day Mozart, Beethoven.....you name it
+James McKellar Well Lyle Mays more. Well the both Pat and Lyle together. I find it funny how everyone credits only Pat simply because he was the leader of his group. This does not mean that he was the only one composing.
+LinkBulletBill Totally true.
You make an excellent observation. Lyle and Pat together are creative geniuses!
Respectfully, Lyle is good, but not even in the same league as Pat. There are plenty of Lyles, but there is only one Pat.
big dawg Are you so sure about that?
I just love this version of these great pieces. Clear, crisp, poignant, tender, lilting, I can't say enough about this music except that I am profoundly grateful for the posting here on UA-cam for us all to share.
Thank You so much for posting!
If only life were this beautiful.
Memories, oh such memories! These songs mean so much to me, you are truly amazing guitarist, made me cry just thinking back on the life I had. Thank you Pat Metheny
One of the most beautiful solo guitar pieces I have ever heard.
Pat's musical consciousness is fully baked and he worked hard to develop it and it shows and
the combination of depth while staying pretty is very special.LOVE IT Pat and you are a good example of what hard work and real study of music and guitar can produce.( and natural talent but your hard work when you were young and your constant learning shines like a planet) I love the different ideas and sections that still tie in but keep expanding like the universe.The song reminds me of a flower blooming.
Well said!
Exactly
This guy is amazing. He's our modern day virtuoso...I suppose as Mozart, Duke Ellington, etc. were in the past.
Vince Clarke as well
4:22 This section of First Circle is one of my all-time favorite guitar passages.
at the end he seemed to have tears in his eyes like he really had connected with something. Did anyone else see that right at the end when he looks up to acknowledge the crowd. Man, this guy is amazing.
No man lol 😂🤣 he is sweating!!! That light is burning him!!
Beautiful and poetic story telling.. Thank you
Pat Metheny. Truly a phenomenal musician.
Pat is the man who made me think more about the huge possibilities that a guitar has. I am so grateful for his contribution. God bless Pat.
It's like I'm trapped in an elevator but I've had lunch and a coffee so I'm feel pretty cool. Have my thoughts together and I'm not panicking. The door opens eventually and I stroll to the restroom for the best shit I've ever had.
I went to a master class with him last year, and the playing in this video is how he warms up. He's such inspiration and a really chill dude.
This is by far the best piece of music to my ears than I have ever heard.
Such beautiful music. Feel blessed to have discovered him so long ago but he's timeless. Guitar virtuoso!
What is bizarre is that at times I hear some poll about the most influential guitarists ever and they say Jimi Hendrix, Edde VanHalen, etc...but never mention Pat.
My goodness, I just have to mention that this guy and especially this gig literally changes my life!
Astonishing awesomeness.
Twelve years? Woah
@@beanreeses4364 yeah no kidding the dude was spamming yt comments when we were babies
Just a little pre-show warm-up exercise.
I had the greatest privilage of meeting Pat Metheny this year at the Detroit Jazz festival. He was getting swamped with crowds and crowds of people! Me and a friend of mine actually caught him coming into his hotel just as we were leaving. He actually stayed and talked to us! He is the most sweetest man! He was so kind to autograph a book of mine, and take a picture with me. I showed my mother the picture with me and Pat. She thought he was a bum! He's casual and cool..and he rocks at it.
Ive been listening to Pat Metheny for around 35years, my first album was the double vinyl live album "Travels" with a host of players including Lyle Mays & Danny Gottlieb, I was just 17 when i made the purchase. It has material that will bring you way down as well as material that will lift ones spirits to a much higher place never experienced before. Every one of Pats albums is of such high quality not to mention musically mature which is why i have every single album Pat has made, and im not a guitarist, Im a Pro Drummer. Next up would be the album "Secret Story" that album is quite literally from start to finish orgasmic. If your a serious, I mean, a real serious guitarist then you will know that all the worlds most amazing giutar players all listen to Pat Metheny & Allen Holdsworth.
+Jonathan Harrington. you and me both. glad to know that at the same time, at the same age, some one else was picking up on this. thanks
Thanks for the reply Pat.
We obviously have great taste in music that requires sensetivity, emotion & understanding,
not to mention a great set of ears in which to enjoy all of the above.
Safe Travels Pat,
Jonathan.
+Jonathan Harrington Me too! Defining moment in my life was sitting on the windowsill at the beginning of summer and had just had my last ever day at school listening to 'Travels' ready to go out into the big wide world.
I walked into a Warehouse Record store in 1979 to the opening riff of New Chautauqua. The rest is history - I've been hooked ever since. I've had the great fortune to travel throughout the world and each Metheny song takes me back to another place and time. I hope I die before Pat stops playing. Seriously, don't really know how I'd go on in a Methenyless universe.
I agree about "Secret Story". I was fortunate enough to make it to Boston to see him do the entire album beginning to end. I also love the "Letter From Home" work. I still don't and ever will 'get' the "Zero Tolerance for Silence". I think he was in a bad mood that day.
Pure genius,no doubt.But when he started it was way easier to do anything in arts.After dozens of LP-s,and millions of fans I guess he is one of those,who is NOT underrated.
I am underrated,with no CD-s available,one gig per year,no food,no heat.After touring all over Europe in the late 80-s,playing with Dave Holland Quintet,Gabor Gado,Bob Magnuson...and being able to do NOTHING in these days.This is being underrated.
Is ok to have tears as the notes of phase dance begins? His music is direct to the soul.. listen to Antonia if you need further confirmation...
uneedtherapy42
I agree with you!!! I saw him in concert... I dragged my 15 and 12 year old daughters with me.... I got so choked up.... I was in heaven and to be honest my kids didn’t complain one bit....
Love this. I've met Pat a couple of times after his shows and he really is the guitar virtuoso boy next door. Very chill dude.
Some of you critics might not be realizing that this performance is a medley of several popular PM tunes from his first two decades. Every fan in the audience knows these standards by heart. Pat's performance plays with listeners' expectations. He adds quick improvs and digressions, makes cool transitions and uses the blues/jazz tradition of moving his time ahead and behind the beat. In the flamenco tradition, that may be sloppy, but in jazz, it's groove & style and personal statement.
As a lifelong PM fan, I frequent this posting quite often. There's a lot of soul in this performance. Very personal. Also, great sound and reverb!
It's not just This is Not America, but actually Chris/The Falcon mixed in with it. Special ensemble.
DUDE! IM 16 TOO! and i love him. we have similar music taste! and i prefer this sort of music compared to the heavier ones. i dont detest them but i prefer this one!
"the happy man" as i used to call him as a kid :) always a smile on his face. fantastic.
my fave part of his concerts - the acoustic medleys - he doesn't always play them so it is a real treat when he does
visonario, virtuoso, es quisito. Sólo hay uno Pat..
Wonderful Music from a great Gitarist!
he's a great guitar player.
:)
anobody know what is the title of this song?
I feel so soothed
The stripes of his shirt are like lines of music ,only without the notes ,key signature, tempo etc. Pat fills that in man
made me cry
a beautiful player, thanks for share.
OMG, it's TRULY Amazing...!!!
I love Swiss, especially Basel (I'm from Poland), I love Pat's music :-) Thank You for posting It :-))))
Can not say a word
pat metheny is a great musician whit a high high sensitivity! it's beautiful...thank you patrick88
Just saw him in Japan. Pat is just an incredible guitarist and composer. He has a special touch for those great melodies.
Can anybody tell me the first melody that he played?
Damn...
That's when music really at its best
The first piece he plays is from "Phase Dance", a song on his 1978 album, "Pat Metheny Group." It's a Metheny CLASSIC! All of the songs in this video are listed at the 0:10 mark. :)
Pat is just the best, a genius. His songs gave light to my existence.
it gives a listening of the songs involved in the medley at the beginning of the video
So much emotion is infused in his playing here, Its absolutely beautiful.
2,500,000 views, yet only 7500 likes. No accounting for taste I guess. Beautiful stuff. Thanks.
wow, i almost cry watching thw fantastic way in that he plays and hearing his beautiful melodies
Betty: I agree! We are all better as a result of PAT.
I adore this medley and Pat plays it so very well.
I too am a Pat Head. I am growing my hair out and playing my guitar as God like as I can!
Magical guitarist !
how could you be so big and seem that simple
One of my best guitarists of all times. Extremely talented!!! What a feeling!
it's a medley with:
Phase Dance
Minuano
September 15th
First Circle
This is not America
the greatest, a master!
When I am in my casket, I want this song playing....
amazing how he put these songs together in such a way that they fit perfectly
its so structured!
Born to play the guitar and he always shows the love and respect he has for the instrument!!...
Metheny on an acoustic in my living room.
Seek Beauty!
He wrote all these songs? This guy is creative!!!
I am from Recife in Brazil south america and i really like this video ...
I listen to this when my mind is uneasy.
Simplesmente sensacional. Pat nos remete a lugares indizíveis, viajamos ao sabor desse som personalíssimo, estilo inconfundível. Poucos são os instrumentistas que conseguem "inventar" uma linguagem só dele, facílimo de identificar logo depois de alguns acordes. Lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing...How does he remember all of those changes... it is going evrywhere for like 15 mins
With over 1.7 million views and almost 4,600 comments, it's pretty reasonable to expect a couple of negative reactions to anything. And it literally is a couple--98% of the thumbs were thumbs up. The others? Well, it's their right (but also their loss).
and who will come along the next generation to match or exceed. Nada. Corporate music has slowly destroyed when of America's greatest exports. Our diverse and talented musicians.
bullshit there is so many great musicians today. As for guitar, Juilian Lage. that's all I have to say
Hot damn, thanks alot for posting this - it is such a fine compilation of his wonders!
@matteroid the way his hands are positioned when he plays chords look like he's in standard.
Last chord - AWESOME!!!!
Like J. Sebastian Bach - Major chord. :))
When you finish playing a tune and people sort of come out of a dream?...that's what Pat does!!...
Truly beautiful take on his classics. Metheny is definitely one of my favourite players
He really expands old McDonald had a farm here as far as I’ve ever heard it gone
wao that song makes me fell really nice its like so divine
pat is awesome!!!!!
H played this as his first encore in Phila. last night. A great evening of music.
The Greatest guitarrist that ever lived! Still years ahead of time!
this made my day.
freakin' awesome.
I'm so blessed to be living on this planet at the same time as Pat.
i love how he ended on an a although it sounded like hed end on a minor
Brilliant guitarist---guitar synth, traditional straight-ahead jazz guitar, and acoustic solo. On top of that he is a brilliant composer and arranger, with an adventurous musical spirit. I consider him a national treasure.
"Let's hear how you sound, UP THERE, without all the assistance." (sounds pretty good)
Regardless of how much I Love Pat, -- am I the only one hearing the constant *mike noise*???
This is absolutely my favorite bed head video to date.
he's wearing his gig jumper! Legend :D
I give up, some people will dislike anything.
Simply, Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome..... please more videos
And if you knew is catalog of music, you would know he DOES shred on a few albums. He has played plenty of rock. He's just beyond speed without feeling. This man plays in colors.
Oh, I just realized that you can read the titles at the beginning of the video! :-(
4:22 it's fantastic
Just saw this medley played as a farewell to a double encore in worcester mass last night! UNREAL
it's a medley of some of his best compositions most of them from the 80ties i hear
getthetapjj
bro if i were you id get your ears primed with some rich BOSSA NOVA ,pick a tune that you really dig and really get into ALL of it,meter harmony and rythmn ,bossas are a gentle way of approaching jazz harmony.all the changes are there but is moving slowly so your brain has a easier way of dealing with it.the key is this..if u can hear you can play it (eventually lol)then gently head down the path of submerging yourself in jazz harmony
Well, once for me, I was playing live, and I had to improvise a jazz solo, and since I knew all the licks and tricks (well not all, just a lot of it), the weird thing was I was just looking at myself playing, it was like my fingers were playing by themselves, and I didn't control it, didn't feel anything, wasn't thinking of playing, it was doing all the work, but then it hit me that I was playing! But for those 5 seconds, I was shocked and amazed about that feeling, I think that only happens.
Well learn how music works, learn music theory (very important for jazz), then learn the fingerings of chords, and practice your plucking of the fingers (I use my pinky finger, you decide if you should use it)... And then there is more and more, and also learn the jazz chords, and then practice and practice, O YEAH! You should learn the music theory especially about jazz, because it's different than just music theory, and learn R&B and blues too. then play, practice and most important have fun!
The first time I heard this live it literally made my head spin as it brought back one memory of my life after another. Pat is the best and "every day, I thank" him...
Even though he looks like yahoo serious, you can't beat the clarity and vibe of Pat. His group always makes it into my mixes.
I was turned on to Pat years ago and love his music. He can be Crazy but can then turn into a Mellow misician. I think he's a Musical Genius!!!!!!!
104starfighter He is a Musical Genius. Saw home about 10 times live. I’m always blown away by his talent.
Kenneth Chartrand he definitely is a genius....