Pat Metheny

Note-for-note guitar transcriptions from Pat Metheny's Grammy Award winning solo guitar album. All the songs from the record have been carefully transcribed under Pat's supervision. Metheny's collection of acoustic solos blends Jazz with some strong Folk and Pop influences - he even performs personal arrangement's of Norah Jones' Don't Know Why and Gerry And The Pacemakers' Ferry Cross The Mersey. A must for fans - Pat's remarkable guitar playing and musical approach continues to evolve.

Following the acclaim and success of the 99-00 album The Pat Metheny Trio present another spectacular session of blistering and beautiful jazz explorations all presented in approved Tab transcriptions.With Larry Grenadier and Bill Stewart beside him Metheny extends his musical arms to embrace just about every facet of the modern Jazz guitar. From the serene bluesy beauty of Into A Dream (featuring the 42 string Pikasso guitar) to the raw and avant garde Faith Healer. Counting Texas boasts a fretless 12 string guitar complete with Metheny's trademark Guitar Synth processing which is also a dominant feature of Question AndAnswer.Every note from the double album has been painstakingly transcribed with all transcriptions approved by Metheny himself.

Transcriptions in notes and tab for 10 songs from Pat Metheny's Grammy-winning 2011 album What's It All About his first to feature covers.

Artist Edition B-Flat Instruments-Pat Metheny is one of the most important voices in modern music. Through his writing recordings and performances he has created a significant body of work that places him among the major musical figures of our time. With his recent induction as the youngest member of the Downbeat Hall of Fame Metheny becomes only the fourth jazz guitarist to be chosen for that honor joining Charlie Christian Django Reinhardt and Wes Montgomery. He has won twenty Grammy® awards in twelve different categories been named Best Guitarist in countless polls over four decades and has sold millions of records worldwide.For all his accomplishments in music hiscompositions have become modern standards beloved by musicians all over the world. With this volume Metheny has selected 147 of his most played tunes to create a new type of Real Book approved and gig-tested by the composer himself! This edition is arranged for all B-flat instruments. Titles include: April Joy • Better Days Ahead • Bright Size Life • Farmer's Trust • (Go) Get It • H & H • Have You Heard • Jaco • James • Lakes • Last Train Home • Midwestern Nights Dream • Phase Dance • Question & Answer • The Red One • So May It Secretly Begin • Sueno Con Mexico • Uniquity Road • Unity Village • Whittlin' • and more!

Note-for-note guitar transcriptions (carefully reviewed and approved by Metheny himself!) for all 8 songs from his highly acclaimed 1975 studio debut - which also features one of the earliest recordings of bass legend Jaco Pastorius. Includes: Bright Size Life · Midwestern Nights Dream · Missouri Uncompromised · Omaha Celebration · Round Trip/Broadway Blues · Sirabhorn · Uniquity Road · Unity Village. Contains jazz-style handwritten notation and tablature a full-page photo of Metheny and a Guitar Notation Legend.

Pat Metheny is one of the most critically acclaimed commercially successful and musically significant artists of the last 50 years. He has not only revolutionized his instrument but also changed the face of jazz itself.In 2007 composer arranger and performer Richard Niles wrote and produced a three-part series of in-depth interviews for the BBC titled Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life. This book is comprised of these never-before-printed interviews and discussions with Metheny whom Niles has known and worked with since 1974. In this series of intimate in-depth interviews Methenyreveals why he was driven toward music with astratospheric drive and dedicationuncovers the inner workings of his creative mind showing step by step how he set and achieved each of his own demanding goalsdescribes his methodology as a guitarist improviser and composerdemonstrates his concepts and methodologies on the guitar. Niles has transcribed these unique musical performances for the book.Some of Metheny's closest colleagues including Lyle Mays Gary Burton Jack DeJohnette John Patitucci Metheny's brother Mike and the late Michael Brecker have contributed to the book which also includes numerous photographs and a discography.

A complete collection of Pat Metheny's work which features 167 compositions spanning the guitarist's 25 year career. Written in 'Real Book' style arrangements with chord symbols this folio also features biographical information a discography and a commentary on each of the songs by Metheny himself.

The Complete Score-Metheny says ?'Orchestrionics' is the term that I am using to describe a method of developing ensemble-oriented music using acoustic and acoustoelectric musical instruments that are mechanically controlled in a variety of ways ... with the pieces on this particular recording leaning toward the compositional side of the spectrum. On top of these layers of acoustic sound I add my conventional electric guitar playing as an improvised component.? Here are the original scores for five pieces: Entry Point Expansion Orchestrion Soul Search Spirit of the Air.

Description Pat Metheny Songbook A complete collection of Pat Metheny's work, which features 167 compositions spanning the guitarist's 25 year career. Songlist A Map Of The World Across The Sky Airstream Always And Forever American Garage And Then I Knew Antonia April Joy April Wind Are You Going With Me? As A Flower Blossoms As I Am Ballad Z Barcarole Beat 70 Better Days Ahead Bright Size Life Cathedral In A Suitcase Change Of Heart Chris Cool Nights Cross The Heartland Dancing Daulton Lee Daybreak Don't Forget Double Guatemala Dream Of The Return Eighteen End Of The Game Estupenda Graca Every Day I Thank You Every Summer Night Extradition Facing West Family Farmer's Trust First Circle Follow Me For A Thousand Years Forward March Get It Goin' Ahead Goodbye Grampa's Ghost Half Life Of Absolution Have You Heard Here To Stay Hermitage Holding Us Homecoming House On The Hill If I Could Imaginary Day In Her Family Inori It's For You Ivy Jaco James John Mckee Just Like The Day Kathelin Gray Lakes Language Of Time Last Train Home Letter From Home Lone Jack Long Ago Child Marta's Theme Mas Alla Message To A Friend Midwesten Nights Dream Minuano Missouri Uncompromised Mojave Nacada Naked Moon Never Too Far Away New Chautauqua Nine Over Reggae Not To Be Forgotten On The Night You Were Born Praise Pretty Scattered Quiet Rising Red Sky Resolution Sea Song See The World Seven Days Slip Away So Falls Wichita Falls Sometimes I See Story From A Stranger Take Another Look Tears Of Rain Tell Her You Saw Me Tell It All The Bat The Awakening The Calling The Chief The Epic The Fields, The Sky The Girls Next Door The Heat Of The Day The Last To Know The Longest Summer The Red One The Red Wind The Road To You The Search The Sun In Montreal The Whopper , This Is Not America To The End Of The World Too Soon Tomorrow Unity Village Watercolors We Had A Sister We Live Here What Do You Wan't

This matching folio features 9 transcriptions of Pat Metheny's Guitar parts from his all-star collaboration with Antonio Sanchez Ben Williams and Chris Potter.Pat Metheny: Unity Band includes the songs Breakdealer Come and See Leaving Town Roofdogs New Year and more.