I love it when technically proficient jazz heads like this are into the technology too, and not all snooty and looking down their noses at it. Music is supposed to be fun too. Not just pain with a lot of notes and chord changes. Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock were the same kind of visionaries in this sense as Pat. Love this!!
@@icecreamforcrowhurst true bt not true. lots of people get stuck with the old sounds just because they want to emulate their idols who like rock, metal, jazz; there isnt much innovation in the electric guitar sound other than pat; but understandably so, becuz the learning curve is steep and u would still have to have many other musical realms to tend to ie practice, production etc
he kept it simple, and sounds that tracked well on guitar. That is really why he made it work from him. To this day, anything percussive on a guitar synth tracking is crap.
@@morbidmanmusic I wish it had been the simple.That guitar was so hard to play because it was not MIDI info, it was a language called XPL speaking to a machine playing back samples and or less likely FM synthesis. Latency was in its infancy in terms of understanding how to play, trigger a sample, not glitch notes and play in time with feel. Very few could do it. I struggled with my Synclav guitar for years and then gave up. pat not only mastered it but found sounds with quick deployments and performance transients that worked well with the instrument. It is amazing what he could do.
@@shizukashearn6619 sort of. That sax sample was not easy to track with and a lot of people confuse his work with the Roland synthesizer and that amazing sound that he would get with the sound that he would get off the Synclav. He did quite a bit of programming for the records on the keyboard and then quite a bit on the guitar itself which was amazing. As I said that Guitar was very difficult to work with but somehow he was always able to make it sound like music.
My first Metheny album was Travels as it was released and then on from there. Got to see the PMG live in Europe while stationed in Germany in the Army. Great time to be alive and a fan of great music.
Pat is one of the most important musicians/composers in the history of all musical genres...jazz is just one of the many styles he has mastered. Legend is an understatement
KhalDrogo76 yeah I think this is true. For me it‘s his musically esoteric side, there‘s something that‘s deeply spiritual about his harmonisations, that I don‘t think people have even begun to mine yet
@@morbidmanmusic maybe....but I can count on one hand musicians who’ve made records like The Way Up...and Bright Size Life....and Missouri Falls....and so many more. He’s one in a million
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I was going to Berkee in 76' and would see him they on occasion (performing in a very tiny venue there). I've Pat's work for decades, and especially like the album he did with bassist Charlie Haden. One think I've never liked, from the first time I heard it, is that sampled trumpet/synth sound he uses. I heard live during one of his performances....and it just makes my skin crawl.
I could NEVER figure out what Metheny was playing on This is Not America. That instrumental is SUCH a beautiful groove. Thanks for this post, I learned something.
Hace ya 9 años de este material que se convirtió en referencia imprescindible y cultural para que los seguidores y los medios pudiesen entender con mucha mayor claridad todo lo que representó para PAT su Synclavier; en la etimología del término ya se aludía al abanico y versatilidad de funciones contenidas en dicho instrumento y por tanto a la riqueza de potencialidades a explorar , con este video me contestaste a muchas de las preguntas con las que te avasallábamos al respecto, muchas, muchas gracias al Profe Dari, 20 OCTUBRE 2019
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Wow what a visionary. If you asked a pop star in 1986 what the Synclavier meant, they'd be talking about how they're using their demigod powers for creating new vistas of experimentationalsitional innovation LOL. Metheny is like, yeah, it's taught me a lot about sound. Also it's a kickass drum machine for practicing. It's basically a word processor for composers. LMAO - of course that's what a great DAW has become by 2014, but it's marvelous to see someone being exposed to the VERY FIRST commercial system like this and instantly apprehending what it is, what it does, and how it's useful. Oh damn he even presages pop musician bastardizing the technology. Damn Pat M is INB4! BTW where is the rest of this interview/feature/whatever? It cuts off mid-sentence?
I was on zappas Wikipedia page, which led me to the synclavier page, where I saw that Pat played them too. So I hop over to UA-cam to see if there's any videos of him and the synclavier and I came full circle back.to zappa.
Pat Metheny is mind blowing and using the computer to make all kinds of sounds is amazing to those of us who love his music and how he composes it all in it's unique way.This guy is a genuine grammy award winner year in and year out.
The Interviewer is Dr. Billy Taylor who was a jazz legend. This segment is likely from Sunday Morning produced by CBS News. Dr. Taylor for many years worked as a special correspondent for the program and produced over 250 interview/profile segments for the program.
The idea of Ornette Coleman being called “controversial” - what does this teach us about modern life that nothing is considered musically controversial now?
The mid 1970's upto the late 1980's was an amazing time in relation to Electronic Music and Instruments, and from the late 1980's upto the late 1990's an amazing time for computers/software etc ... after that the two slowly became interlinked Fortunately, I was apart of all that and have enjoyed all the frustration and learning of this hybrid technology/interface from an early commercial stage (not the inception of) and I am enjoying the moment in which computers, hardware, software and MIDI are talking to each other I wonder what tomorrow will bring ... ?
Jajá! Lo veo a Pata Metheny acá y "me siento orgulloso" de haberlo escuchado desde los 80's. Qué locura, es como ver jugar a Messi. ¡Gracias por el honor de escucharlo, Maestro!
@@acbulgin2 I'm a McLaughlin fan more so than Holdsworth and Metheny. I think McLaughlin has more depth since he integrates more music forms than anyone else. But I must say that McLaughlin used a variety of things on his guitar on the track Miles Out on the Inner Worlds album. I think he was using a 360 Frequency shifter. I know he plugged his guitar into one of the first guitar synths which was the 360 Systems interface that was connected to 6 (one for each string) Mini-Moogs. But McLaughlin toured with that rig only for a short period of time since Mini-Moog's were not famous for holding their tuning. He later went with the Synclavier and he's used other Midi synth setups, but the only thing that I actually liked was when he used a Midi pickup on his acoustic and he triggered a B3 organ sound more as a backdrop for his acoustic playing. It was OK. But generally guitar synths never really lived up to the Hype. I remember that Roland Guitar synth they came out with and I worked a music store that had one of their first units. It was just a pile of shit.. As far as keyboard players, there's really only a small handful that really made synths great. Joe Zawinul, Jan Hammer, and George Duke. I don't even care for Chick Corea's synth playing. I much prefer him playing piano, Rhodes rather than synths. Herbie is OK, but again, I prefer his piano, Rhodes, and Clavinet playing than his Synth.
@@acbulgin2 I don't know about the British schoolboy thing, but the thing I like about McLaughlin is that he has done far more studying and blending of more music forms than any guitarist. He's studied Classical Indian which is heavily rooted in improvisation, odd time signatures. He's also done more studying of classical music which helps in composition. He's done more studying of blues, jazz, flamenco, and other important music forms, which he blends together. I got kind of sick of progressive rock that Holdsworth was doing because the melody lines weren't that great. I think Holdsworth's best work was only on the two albums with Tony Williams, the rest of his catalog I wasn't that thrilled with. I find myself listening to more of what McLaughlin has done through the years than any other guitarist. I do like other guitar players, but McLaughlin just does the best job in blending music forms.
@@acbulgin2 What I noticed when I listened to Holdsworth's solo albums is that the band members were all playing independently of each other and no one was listening to each other. With McLaughlin, he always had musicians LISTENING to each other. Few weren't. I never cared for Colaiuta with McLaughlin. Colauita simply wasn't listening to anyone else and he seemed to be in his own world. Conversely, Trilok Gurtu, Cobham, Narada and a few others were constantly listening to the other musicians and playing the melody lines of the music.
@@acbulgin2 The major difference in MO and what the prog rock bands were doing is that MO intertwined Classical Indian, classical, etc. where one music form wasn't any more dominate than the other, and they had a lot more improvisation where there was a lot more interplay in between each other rather than a band backing up the soloist (traditional soloing methods) and the way the executed odd time signatures "swang" a lot better than how typical prog rock bands play odd time signatures. The Prog Rock bands tend to play odd times straight and choppy..
Wow, at the beginning you can see "Yolanda You Learn" videoclip. Cannot find it nowhere. UA-cam or elsewhere . One of the first Pat videoclips I've watched and catched my attention along with Last Train Home.
"What's the ethical implication of this ... that I can sit here and play the drums from the guitar...?" It's a tool. And that's all. Trust your musical instincts. Pretty awesome.
It's really not that different from the idea behind a Wurlitzer theater organ, technology that was 70 years old when this was filmed. One guy at an organ console was basically functioning as an orchestra. These days, the Wurlitzer has more of a cool factor than synth trumpets.
Great interview, was always really intrigued by that huge "synclavier" button panel you'd see attached on Metheny & McLaughlin's guitars and didn't know till much later what it was -- before the internet, there WAS no way to find out what a Synclavier actually is except digging through magazines at the local library.
Profe Sync., ahora me quedó, por fin, clarísimoº Bueno, por fin podemos verlo y escucharlo y déjame decirte que superó mis expectativas. Extraordinario documento, para analizarse paso por paso. Muy revelador y me confirma lo que ya sabía de su genialidad y alto espíritu. Te felicito por haber dado con tan maravilloso registro y haberlo subido para el gozo y reflexión de todos. MUCHAS GRACIAS, PROF. ,D
For those who are unaware (and, evidentially, there are many), the guy who mispronounces David Bowie’s name is the preeminent jazz pianist and educator Dr. Billy Taylor. Not exactly a random guy who knows nothing about music.
The interviewer looks like the great jazz pianist and music professor Billy Taylor. He used to come to UMass, in Amherst MA, every year for summer session and they'd put on a great, free outdoor jazz show at the end. I saw Metheny show off his synth system at Berklee (in Boston, MA) in the summer of 1985, so I'm wondering if this was filmed in the summer at Berklee. I remember the audience was most concerned about "tracking" -- how immediately notes were heard, with no notes dropped. Metheny said that the tracking was really good and he had no problem even while playing fast. The earliest Roland guitar synth had severe tracking issues.
Pat and Tom Sholz in the same room would have been frightening.
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Maravilha Mine!! 🎻🎼🎺🎸 Pat é meu também!! Gracias e besitos ?-)
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+magajazzfan Lee Prregúntale a ÉL Maguinha linda demais, mais eu creo que siempre ha sido vuestro BRAZIL, Boa Noite Mâe, Deussa do Jazz também Lá no Belo Horizonte, "com afeito com açúkar!! Beijoooooooo a la netinha e as tuas filias MagaLee Craveiro sos a major fôda, fôdinha^,~ ~ ~tá visto neeh xaxaxa eu te querooo 8-)) 16 x 2015
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The very last line that Pat Metheny finishes this clip with about ( at 7:48 ) could not have been better put. The music being created by our "pop music industries" in ANY genre seems so disconnected from the music that artists compose for something greater than the superficial... for something genuinely artistic, not trendy. I STILL hold a lot of respect for all musicians or performers, but there are clear aspects of a Pop Musical artist's career that equates to absolute useless garbage for the sole purpose of satisfying non-musical goals, either for themselves, the industry, or the expectations of the masses who prefer senseless lyrics over rehashed sounds/beats using the same 2-4 chord progressions. *sigh*
I agree with you, but he did say "the average pop musician", not all. There are many pop musicians that he likes, of course I am sure you are aware: The Beatles, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, etc.
24 años después, en lugar de una orquesta sintética, superó los límites imaginables con Orchestrion, un visionario de la música contemporánea. Un perseguidor.
What an awesome innovator,I wonder if he ever met FZ,who also used the same type of technique. Jazz from he'll was partly constructed by using sounds from a lumber mill,(saws etc).
@SynclavierMPDR Aún así, es muy explicativo y nos brinda mucha luz a los neófitos y a los no tanto.Suficientemente esclarecedor, amén que oir la risa de Pat es muy gratificante, este hombre bueno lo carga a uno de energía positiva.Gracias verdaderas, otra vez, Profe. ,D
I believe the price of a standard Synclavier guitar synth setup started at around $100.000 (one hundred THOUSAND dollars!!!). And with that you could sound like a $5 instrument (like a harmonica) - or a donkey. Still, Metheny created magic with it! However he's also been using the Roland synths as well as the Roland VG8 Virtual Guitar System.
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Pat: This new groundbreaking technology will take Jazz to exciting, unexplored new heights. But first check this out: wolf backing singers!
lol. That was a seriously WTF moment
Intro: pat metheny at the forefront of jazz innovation and development of new sound posibilities, etc.
First pat moment: donkey
I love it when technically proficient jazz heads like this are into the technology too, and not all snooty and looking down their noses at it. Music is supposed to be fun too. Not just pain with a lot of notes and chord changes. Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock were the same kind of visionaries in this sense as Pat. Love this!!
A lot of it is because he’s a guitarist. The nature of electric guitar lends itself to electronic experimentation.
@@icecreamforcrowhurst true bt not true.
lots of people get stuck with the old sounds just because they want to emulate their idols who like rock, metal, jazz; there isnt much innovation in the electric guitar sound other than pat; but understandably so, becuz the learning curve is steep and u would still have to have many other musical realms to tend to ie practice, production etc
Having owned 4 synclavs I can say the guitar interface was very challenging and that what he was able to get it to do was nothing short of amazing.
I've long suspected that it wasn't an easy instrument to master and that Pat was working *really* hard to keep it under control.
he kept it simple, and sounds that tracked well on guitar. That is really why he made it work from him. To this day, anything percussive on a guitar synth tracking is crap.
@@morbidmanmusic I wish it had been the simple.That guitar was so hard to play because it was not MIDI info, it was a language called XPL speaking to a machine playing back samples and or less likely FM synthesis. Latency was in its infancy in terms of understanding how to play, trigger a sample, not glitch notes and play in time with feel. Very few could do it. I struggled with my Synclav guitar for years and then gave up. pat not only mastered it but found sounds with quick deployments and performance transients that worked well with the instrument. It is amazing what he could do.
@@TheZenguitarguy Right. Basically sticking to a sax sample mixed with the guitar tone
@@shizukashearn6619 sort of. That sax sample was not easy to track with and a lot of people confuse his work with the Roland synthesizer and that amazing sound that he would get with the sound that he would get off the Synclav. He did quite a bit of programming for the records on the keyboard and then quite a bit on the guitar itself which was amazing. As I said that Guitar was very difficult to work with but somehow he was always able to make it sound like music.
Love Pat Metheny Group. I am old enough that I bought all of their albums as they released- a beautiful time.
R.I.P. Lyle Mays.
My first Metheny album was Travels as it was released and then on from there. Got to see the PMG live in Europe while stationed in Germany in the Army. Great time to be alive and a fan of great music.
Pat is one of the most important musicians/composers in the history of all musical genres...jazz is just one of the many styles he has mastered. Legend is an understatement
KhalDrogo76 yeah I think this is true. For me it‘s his musically esoteric side, there‘s something that‘s deeply spiritual about his harmonisations, that I don‘t think people have even begun to mine yet
Mountain Man very true - his first album Bright Size Life alone...changed guitar composition overnight
no, he is just one of the many.
@@morbidmanmusic maybe....but I can count on one hand musicians who’ve made records like The Way Up...and Bright Size Life....and Missouri Falls....and so many more. He’s one in a million
R.I.P Lyle Mays. :(
didn't even know he died :(
Truly, RIP Lyle!!!
I had no idea!
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Mucho mucho quedamos en deuda por toda su ayuda en momentos tan tan difíciles, gracias 💠🏵🌟🙌👐🙌 🌟🏵💠
The most horn-like phrasing of any guitarist on the planet. An absolute national treasure. So glad I got to see him with Lyle. RIP Mr Mays.
I have seen the Pat Metheny grp several times 1980-2005. This guy always 'brought it' to the stage, 3 hr shows...!
I was going to Berkee in 76' and would see him they on occasion (performing in a very tiny venue there). I've Pat's work for decades, and especially like the album he did with bassist Charlie Haden. One think I've never liked, from the first time I heard it, is that sampled trumpet/synth sound he uses. I heard live during one of his performances....and it just makes my skin crawl.
Who else loves David Booey as much as this narrator?
Don't be silly. It's David Buoy.
I could NEVER figure out what Metheny was playing on This is Not America. That instrumental is SUCH a beautiful groove. Thanks for this post, I learned something.
I love how they are laughing about all the crazy sounds pat uses. Pat is a creative guy and his music amazing
That's Herbie Hancock's brother doing the interview
"Hey Herbie, it's Marvin... YOUR BROTHER, MARVIN HANCOCK?!...You know that NEW SOUND you're lookin' for?...well listen to this!" ;)
LOL! I never thought of that. But you do know that's Dr. Billy Taylor?
Hace ya 9 años de este material que se convirtió en referencia imprescindible y cultural para que los seguidores y los medios pudiesen entender con mucha mayor claridad todo lo que representó para PAT su Synclavier; en la etimología del término ya se aludía al abanico y versatilidad de funciones contenidas en dicho instrumento y por tanto a la riqueza de potencialidades a explorar , con este video me contestaste a muchas de las preguntas con las que te avasallábamos al respecto, muchas, muchas gracias al Profe Dari, 20 OCTUBRE 2019
Ahead of his time, and a favorite of mine for 35 years. Very sorry to hear Lyle is gone. Loved his work.
Your comment is ahead of its time.
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I saw Pat at the El Paso Civic center right about this time. After seeing nothing but hard rock concerts, I was mesmerized.
maybe one day we 'll discover how much Pat metheny has been a genius
7:50 - 30 years later and he's damn right!!
Did it really take him that long? That's almost unforgivable.
RIP Lyle Mays ....your music changed me
Wow what a visionary. If you asked a pop star in 1986 what the Synclavier meant, they'd be talking about how they're using their demigod powers for creating new vistas of experimentationalsitional innovation LOL. Metheny is like, yeah, it's taught me a lot about sound. Also it's a kickass drum machine for practicing. It's basically a word processor for composers. LMAO - of course that's what a great DAW has become by 2014, but it's marvelous to see someone being exposed to the VERY FIRST commercial system like this and instantly apprehending what it is, what it does, and how it's useful.
Oh damn he even presages pop musician bastardizing the technology. Damn Pat M is INB4!
BTW where is the rest of this interview/feature/whatever? It cuts off mid-sentence?
Sorry for that "cut". It's all i have. A tv commercial appears after that cut. It's a shame, i know :S
Wow -- this clip is priceless! Pat Metheny & Frank Zappa with the Synclavier. Thanks Dario!
twostikks1 Thanks you!!
I was on zappas Wikipedia page, which led me to the synclavier page, where I saw that Pat played them too. So I hop over to UA-cam to see if there's any videos of him and the synclavier and I came full circle back.to zappa.
@@kevinr.3542 lol this is literally how i got here too!
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Pat Metheny is mind blowing and using the computer to make all kinds of sounds is amazing to those of us who love his music and how he composes it all in it's unique way.This guy is a genuine grammy award winner year in and year out.
He's one of those original god guitar greats, like Al Di Meola.
Zappa did a lot with the sync too, if I'm not mistaken.
The synclavier is the sound you hear at the beginning of Beat it!
For those under the age of 30, Metheny was basically doing for jazz what Matt Belamy of Muse is currently doing in a rock context.
"This is not America" => Pat & David were seeing the future 100%!
The Interviewer is Dr. Billy Taylor who was a jazz legend. This segment is likely from Sunday Morning produced by CBS News. Dr. Taylor for many years worked as a special correspondent for the program and produced over 250 interview/profile segments for the program.
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Pat is just Superb in everything he creates. Love it!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Weve come so far in music technology!
The idea of Ornette Coleman being called “controversial” - what does this teach us about modern life that nothing is considered musically controversial now?
I was blown away by that too: how was Coleman controversial??
The mid 1970's upto the late 1980's was an amazing time in relation to Electronic Music and Instruments, and from the late 1980's upto the late 1990's an amazing time for computers/software etc ... after that the two slowly became interlinked
Fortunately, I was apart of all that and have enjoyed all the frustration and learning of this hybrid technology/interface from an early commercial stage (not the inception of) and I am enjoying the moment in which computers, hardware, software and MIDI are talking to each other
I wonder what tomorrow will bring ... ?
When Pat Metheny talks in this video, the first person I picture in my mind is Garth from Wayne's World lol
He sounds like Lewis Skolnick in the movie Revenge Of The Nerds.
He is a Big Muscician nerd, thats why it sounds like that.
Tough crowd
I like to play
If Garth was a genius he might talk and act like that.
Jajá! Lo veo a Pata Metheny acá y "me siento orgulloso" de haberlo escuchado desde los 80's. Qué locura, es como ver jugar a Messi. ¡Gracias por el honor de escucharlo, Maestro!
At the same time Holdsworth was using the Synthaxe which was a dedicated MIDI guitar.
And no one uses them anymore. Thank God.. ;-)
@@acbulgin2 I'm a McLaughlin fan more so than Holdsworth and Metheny. I think McLaughlin has more depth since he integrates more music forms than anyone else. But I must say that McLaughlin used a variety of things on his guitar on the track Miles Out on the Inner Worlds album. I think he was using a 360 Frequency shifter. I know he plugged his guitar into one of the first guitar synths which was the 360 Systems interface that was connected to 6 (one for each string) Mini-Moogs.
But McLaughlin toured with that rig only for a short period of time since Mini-Moog's were not famous for holding their tuning. He later went with the Synclavier and he's used other Midi synth setups, but the only thing that I actually liked was when he used a Midi pickup on his acoustic and he triggered a B3 organ sound more as a backdrop for his acoustic playing. It was OK. But generally guitar synths never really lived up to the Hype. I remember that Roland Guitar synth they came out with and I worked a music store that had one of their first units. It was just a pile of shit..
As far as keyboard players, there's really only a small handful that really made synths great. Joe Zawinul, Jan Hammer, and George Duke. I don't even care for Chick Corea's synth playing. I much prefer him playing piano, Rhodes rather than synths. Herbie is OK, but again, I prefer his piano, Rhodes, and Clavinet playing than his Synth.
@@acbulgin2 I don't know about the British schoolboy thing, but the thing I like about McLaughlin is that he has done far more studying and blending of more music forms than any guitarist. He's studied Classical Indian which is heavily rooted in improvisation, odd time signatures. He's also done more studying of classical music which helps in composition. He's done more studying of blues, jazz, flamenco, and other important music forms, which he blends together. I got kind of sick of progressive rock that Holdsworth was doing because the melody lines weren't that great. I think Holdsworth's best work was only on the two albums with Tony Williams, the rest of his catalog I wasn't that thrilled with. I find myself listening to more of what McLaughlin has done through the years than any other guitarist. I do like other guitar players, but McLaughlin just does the best job in blending music forms.
@@acbulgin2 What I noticed when I listened to Holdsworth's solo albums is that the band members were all playing independently of each other and no one was listening to each other. With McLaughlin, he always had musicians LISTENING to each other. Few weren't. I never cared for Colaiuta with McLaughlin. Colauita simply wasn't listening to anyone else and he seemed to be in his own world. Conversely, Trilok Gurtu, Cobham, Narada and a few others were constantly listening to the other musicians and playing the melody lines of the music.
@@acbulgin2 The major difference in MO and what the prog rock bands were doing is that MO intertwined Classical Indian, classical, etc. where one music form wasn't any more dominate than the other, and they had a lot more improvisation where there was a lot more interplay in between each other rather than a band backing up the soloist (traditional soloing methods) and the way the executed odd time signatures "swang" a lot better than how typical prog rock bands play odd time signatures. The Prog Rock bands tend to play odd times straight and choppy..
This guy is fantastic!
Wow, at the beginning you can see "Yolanda You Learn" videoclip. Cannot find it nowhere. UA-cam or elsewhere . One of the first Pat videoclips I've watched and catched my attention along with Last Train Home.
12 or 13 hours per day...starting at 10 or 14,,,,,or forget about it...you'll never get there.. you gotta be crazy obsessed to attain true virtuosity
Last 10 seconds, that understanding... wow, bang on.
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If Pat Metheny can tape notes to the front of his guitar, then so can I.
The Beatles used to do it all the time.
• trumpet (???)
• sax (???)
• flute (???)
• James Taylor (???)
Lol
"What's the ethical implication of this ... that I can sit here and play the drums from the guitar...?" It's a tool. And that's all. Trust your musical instincts. Pretty awesome.
It's really not that different from the idea behind a Wurlitzer theater organ, technology that was 70 years old when this was filmed. One guy at an organ console was basically functioning as an orchestra. These days, the Wurlitzer has more of a cool factor than synth trumpets.
"David Boo-e"
Who the fuck is this guy? I'm gonna call him. 28 years later.
But don't do it later. You won't find him.
Excelso "upload" para los que profesan admiración por Pat Bruce Metheny, qué duda cabe, gracias siempre, Dari
Great interview, was always really intrigued by that huge "synclavier" button panel you'd see attached on Metheny & McLaughlin's guitars and didn't know till much later what it was -- before the internet, there WAS no way to find out what a Synclavier actually is except digging through magazines at the local library.
the best part is his quote at the end, truly insightful to me
Profe Sync., ahora me quedó, por fin, clarísimoº
Bueno, por fin podemos verlo y escucharlo y déjame decirte que superó mis expectativas. Extraordinario documento, para analizarse paso por paso.
Muy revelador y me confirma lo que ya sabía de su genialidad y alto espíritu.
Te felicito por haber dado con tan maravilloso registro y haberlo subido para el
gozo y reflexión de todos.
MUCHAS GRACIAS, PROF. ,D
We love you Pat !!!!!! 🥰😘
For those who are unaware (and, evidentially, there are many), the guy who mispronounces David Bowie’s name is the preeminent jazz pianist and educator Dr. Billy Taylor. Not exactly a random guy who knows nothing about music.
Many people pronounce "Bowie" that way. UK and American. See: Bowie Knife.
I need to send a fax to someone right now.
Just hit me up on my pager
THATS WHAT I SAY WHEN I NEED TO TAKE A DUMP
There may be something to what Pat says at the end about music vs. money, but it's never clear cut and never easy to judge.
Buenísimo! Digno de verse para todo seguidor de Metheny!
The interviewer looks like the great jazz pianist and music professor Billy Taylor. He used to come to UMass, in Amherst MA, every year for summer session and they'd put on a great, free outdoor jazz show at the end. I saw Metheny show off his synth system at Berklee (in Boston, MA) in the summer of 1985, so I'm wondering if this was filmed in the summer at Berklee. I remember the audience was most concerned about "tracking" -- how immediately notes were heard, with no notes dropped. Metheny said that the tracking was really good and he had no problem even while playing fast. The earliest Roland guitar synth had severe tracking issues.
Gracias siempre Darío Alenczyk º namaste buena noche hijo querido
+El día que me quieras la rosa que engalana . . . Gracias Minerva!
Thanks for sharing this with us.
great Artist...
Pat and Tom Sholz in the same room would have been frightening.
Buenas noches hijo, mis mejores deseos para tu retorno a clases, que dicho nuevo ciclo escolar te encuentre listo, despejado y lleno de vigor para encarar las nuevas tareas por venir, siempre disfrútalas ya que la autogestión dentro del aprendizaje es más ligera y asequible si la hayas lo suficientemente divertida y versátil: sé que así lo habrás de realizar, ten fé, mucha fé en tí mismo y a concentrarse! Te estrecho con mucho cariño Darío º namaste
Maravilha Mine!! 🎻🎼🎺🎸
Pat é meu também!!
Gracias e besitos ?-)
+magajazzfan Lee Prregúntale a ÉL Maguinha linda demais, mais eu creo que siempre ha sido vuestro BRAZIL, Boa Noite Mâe, Deussa do Jazz também Lá no Belo Horizonte, "com afeito com açúkar!! Beijoooooooo a la netinha e as tuas filias MagaLee Craveiro sos a major fôda, fôdinha^,~ ~ ~tá visto neeh xaxaxa eu te querooo 8-)) 16 x 2015
+Minerva González Gracias Minerva!
+magajazzfan Lee Gracias Minerva!
+Dario Alenczyk Muchas Gracias a tí hijo ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨te quiero mucho mucho mucho más de lo que te pudieses imaginar algún día y siempre te estaré infinitamente agradecida :Dari💫mi preciado niño virtual! º n a m a s t e 20 x 2015
Awesome Video- I really enjoyed watching!
Best wishes, Max
Apparently, I've been mis-pronouncing Synclavier for 30 years!
I heard that about you too. What are you like?
Feliz Año Nuevo Darío, 2016
The Synclavier 1986= pentium II 2001
The very last line that Pat Metheny finishes this clip with about ( at 7:48 ) could not have been better put. The music being created by our "pop music industries" in ANY genre seems so disconnected from the music that artists compose for something greater than the superficial... for something genuinely artistic, not trendy. I STILL hold a lot of respect for all musicians or performers, but there are clear aspects of a Pop Musical artist's career that equates to absolute useless garbage for the sole purpose of satisfying non-musical goals, either for themselves, the industry, or the expectations of the masses who prefer senseless lyrics over rehashed sounds/beats using the same 2-4 chord progressions. *sigh*
I agree with you, but he did say "the average pop musician", not all. There are many pop musicians that he likes, of course I am sure you are aware: The Beatles, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, etc.
I love this video
wow! SynclavierMPDR thanks a lot!! give us more and more,
wishes from Poland, Darek
When he told the hard truth about pop musicians (what motivates them) versus jazz musicians'quest, that was when he was cut off.
Synclavier was about 100.000 dollars. Now you can do this for 300 dollar thank god.
The combo of wolf/cow tone is really something..
Man I‘ve got to hunt down this whole segment on Pat now, talk about ahead of his time
Super merci Dario
Having fun back then!
You're welcome my sunny son "D
" ))
x
feliz cumpleaños a tí!
Dario Alenczyk Gracias mi chiquito lindo-,D por acordarte de mí ✨o-x en este ,Día tan especial🌟💫✨Muchísimas Gracias x .. x hijo, buena noche🙏💞😘👶✨💛💖🐥💗
Always years ahead of us all. Damn you Pat!!!!!! By the way, Falcon and the Snowman is one of my favorite albums.
24 años después, en lugar de una orquesta sintética, superó los límites imaginables con Orchestrion, un visionario de la música contemporánea. Un perseguidor.
Utilisation d'un traducteur:
Merci cher ami Bruno! C'est un plaisir que j'ai écrit! nous vous apprécions ici, merci!
David Booey, you say? This guy sounds amazing!
✨
What an awesome innovator,I wonder if he ever met FZ,who also used the same type of technique. Jazz from he'll was partly constructed by using sounds from a lumber mill,(saws etc).
thanks!
Einstein of the guitar
Quarter of a million dollars at least for one of those beasts back then.
$13,000
+wattage2007 acabo de ver un lindo gatito con anteojuelos jeje de pepino y turbante de SPA jaaa adorable mwáh xxx
It was a modular system, it could cost everything from 13000$, up to 500 000$.
And now you couldn’t pay someone to haul it away.🤣
I purchased 'Tree Wound' but have not applied it yet. And it is a good thing, I am now reading that it is bad for trees.
great video! thanks
@SynclavierMPDR Aún así, es muy explicativo y nos brinda mucha luz a los neófitos y a los no tanto.Suficientemente esclarecedor, amén que oir la risa de Pat es muy gratificante, este hombre bueno lo carga a uno de energía positiva.Gracias verdaderas, otra vez, Profe. ,D
cool. thanks
I love him playing guitar!
Gracias Maga!!!! Ya quedo obsoleto esto, pero, trato de que se vea el Pat de antes
I believe the price of a standard Synclavier guitar synth setup started at around $100.000 (one hundred THOUSAND dollars!!!). And with that you could sound like a $5 instrument (like a harmonica) - or a donkey. Still, Metheny created magic with it! However he's also been using the Roland synths as well as the Roland VG8 Virtual Guitar System.
al verlo a pat, empiezo a creer q, lo perfecto si existe.
I love him! Yup, he's got a sense of humor.
Thanks!!!
Recollectively, I do remember, as anyone in this sangha "always & forever" to my three Meth Argentinian dear friends, the introductor ( leoblack97 ) the Master Methinian connosieur ( ferchw ) and most specially, last but not least to my darling Meth friend, the littlest one in age but the real fan specialist in early PMG rarity D A R Í O ALENCZYK
La treceava Ola 5
I could listen to PM improvise over a rhythm track all day long. Never the same line twice. Charlie Parker would be proud.
david bowie= david booey
David bowie Caca pooey...
He pronounce Sinclavier wrong too. Apparently "editing" wasn't invented yet.....or they just couldn't find someone who can read. 🤪
@@vcp93 Not a fan of his pronunciation, eh? What do you think of his piano playing? ua-cam.com/video/9pUJJfuapfA/v-deo.html
I wonder if billy T came up around Maryland, I just moved here and they pronounce the town Bowie as Booey. I can’t get it right ever. Lol.
If they had been mentioning Baba Booey instead there wouldn't have been any issues.
I forgot that this was Dr Billy Taylor interviewing Pat.