Electric Guitarist » Pat Metheny Youtube Guitar http://electricguitarist.net Raising the Standard Globally Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:04:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Pat Metheny Youtube http://electricguitarist.net/2008/08/27/pat-metheny-youtube/ http://electricguitarist.net/2008/08/27/pat-metheny-youtube/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:40:30 +0000 Tony Hogan http://electricguitarist.net/?p=23 Pat Metheny is one of those rare musicians who matured musically at a very young age.  At sixteen he was daring enough to approach the great jazz vibraphone player and ask him if he couild play with him.  And the legend goes on from there.  Pat Metheny when he recorded on the ECM help draw a large number of younger musicians to contemporary jazz.   He is known for his very lyrical playing, wheras many players don’t think too much about getting a melodic result but concentrate on being brilliant.  Metheny achieves that brilliance by his attention to melody and tone as well as having a technique that is far superior to most players.  Few players will achieve what Pat Metheny has done in his life time.

On this recording he is playing a semi acoustic, it’s called have you heard and is recorded in 1995 in Japan. He’s .playing reasonably fast in this tune but if you have followed his musical journey, you’d know he does very slow material, open tuning, and tunes on acoustic as well.

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