I was recently re-reading my good friend’s blog and was inspired by the way they post/share unedited notes. I took some notes from a Pat Metheny show I saw last week (it was awesome) - he said he doesn’t normally talk so I jotted down something about most of what he said. I don’t know how helpful any of it is, the most tangible thing in there are some of the baritone guitar notes/tunings
Four and more Seven steps to heaven
There weren’t that many guitar players in Kansas City, so he got to start working
Jimmy smith trio
Trumpet everybody thinks same thing with Trumpet
But guitar has no single definition Everybody thinks something different Emphasis when he said Segovia lol There’s something important about that Also Chet atkins was one of the examples
He’s playing a nylon baritone Martin looking thing
He joined Gary burton
He met Charlie Haden, big hero, from Keith jarrett quartet
Invited Charlie to play on 8081 Became super tight with Charlie, was best man at Charlie’s wedding
Played with a ton of people together
Charlie mentioned they could do a duet record sometime , they were friends but Charlie was still an idol
Charlie said to bring acoustic guitars Charlie duet album is cult hit
People had that record and didn’t have either of pat or Charlie’s other records
Ending a song with thumb strum but don’t get quiet
Common studio technique, baritone guitar with pick doubling the bass
Tune middle 2 strings of baritone guitar up an octave (neighbor said only way it works?)
One quiet night was from 6hours of middle two string octave play
Hit the flat 9 by mistake, held it !
The baritone tuning he thinks of three two stringed instruments, viola violin cello
Pat did whole new album on nylon baritone with the octave tuning coming out in a few weeks
Played autumn leaves
Now he’s olaying another tune with the same process, plays the bass line on a loop pedal, then jams over it. Could be show shtick, but seems like a cool practice, the autumn leaves bass loop was really long, a lot to remember and then it’s super cool when it locks in with the guitar