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  • waow

  • melodia perfeita...

  • Still beautiful

    

  • I'm from Chile and my dad told me he used to read our letters and hear our tapes we sent him when he was in Germany when I was a little boy and he told me he always cried when did it, now, whenever I listen to this song I imagine him crying and I cry along with him...

  • dio c'è!

  • I played "Wooden Ships" at my wife's.Still feel uncomfortable:( And that was 10 years ago

  • 17 osób jest zazdrosnych o talent Methenego

  • So Fantastic, I never mind revisiting this music, moments in time and memory. Now on our favorites.Thank you, The Rane Brothers

  • 5 notes and I'm in heaven!

  • The song in majesty. I lovlely. Bellísima canción! Thankyou, Pat.

  • As a young woman in the early days of disco, I was a fan of a young Pat Metheny. My friends didn't understand and used to say, "Pat who?" No scandals, no meat dresses, no arriving to the Grammy's in an egg, because there is no need for ridiculous hype. He's just a talented guy who plays incredibly good music, surrounding himself with equally good musicians all combined to make a marvelous melody. He hasn't allowed his record label to destroy him.

  • Just more proof that , as Brian Wilson said, "Music is the Voice of God". Beautiful! I always seem to go back to 'Letter From Home' and 'Tell Her You Saw Me". It just touches your soul and melts your heart. Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays have always had the gift of creating beauty in music that places you in a certain place at a certain time in life.

  • ive grown up listening to metheny and i gotta say, the guys a genius! exemplified by this beautiful song!

  • he lays me down to lie

  • This song makes me cry

  • @hadamorlank

    Agreed! Not many songs can make me happy and sad at the same time, but this one DOES! Beautiful.

  • The most beautiful,thoughtful music. Love you Pat

  • I LOVE U PAT! xxxxxxxxx

  • depuis plus de trente ans, Pat et sa gang me font tripper!!

  • This is a piece of art. Fantastic.

  • Reminds me of a hamburger.

  • musical music

  • It's possible read also the words wright on this letter. Thanks

  • Sin palabras! Cualquiera está demás.

  • amazing song. Great Pat Metheny

  • one of the most beatuful jazz master pieces I ever heard...

  • great composITION!

  • Absolutely beautiful.

  • What kind of an instrument is he playing there?

  • Oh...

  • Un brano che ti percorre l'anima, ti percorre la schiena con un brivido. Un'emozione pura. Poche cose ti danno una sensazione così. Grazie Pat. Grazie a tutti i musicisti.

    Gabriella

  • @Gaigi2008 I don't even speak your language but I can understand it enough to know your comment sums it up.

  • my wife walked down the isle to this song at our wedding...

  • @kahlil23 My wife did, too. Ours was the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) version.

  • @bigandtallreturn way cool! we played the CD, but a live guitar quartet would have been amazing. good taste!

  • @kahlil23 If only we could have gotten LAGQ to actually play at our wedding... though I'd hate to see how much that would have cost. ::shudders:: You too, sir, have good taste. Was it your idea or hers to use "Letter" at your wedding? In our case, it was her idea, but I kinda nudged her towards it with "You know, how about THIS song..."

  • @bigandtallreturn you know, it's funny but we were listening to CD's of jazzers and the like and came upon an old Metheny CD I had or something. We listened to the first 7 seconds of each song and the moment Letters started we knew we had our song. So it was definitely both our choices. It really is a great song for a bride to enter a wedding to.

  • This song keeps pulling me to listen to it. I love how simply moving its many tones and colours are. Thank you so much for sharing this. I hope to find this concert on DVD.

  • Music that is the backdrop of life. Simply beautiful and touching. Easily my favorite by PMG and company.

  • 16 persons without a soul...

  • Ahh ! It's easy to make a song called war, well, just take some 'metal pans' (kinda simulation of solders helmets) and hit them and record that genrated song, add some screaming, and we're done.

    To make song called 'Letter from home', that's not easy.

  • Congratulations Pat Matheny fans. You're choosen between millions of peaple listen to him. And that's because we are good peaple, and we'll stay.

  • I can't believe that lady gaga sell more disc than pat & band.

  • @bascusan79 At least we all know where to find real talent. It's right here in this video.

  • @bascusan79 yea but Pat has 17 Grammy awards and his music is genius!

  • @bascusan79 Just proves there's no justice in this world AND not much musical tastes either!

  • @bascusan79

    Song will always trump instrumentals

  • Did 16 people log on just to say they disliked this? Strange.

  • @jazzdod1 crazy eh? how could anyone possibly dislike this?

  • spettacolare...

  • This was the last sound at my wife's funeral. Although I no longer cry when I hear it I still envision her spirit rising along with the notes at the finale of this.

    Beautiful song.

  • @luchesse626 Wow, powerful words and I only hope that I find a piece of music that will give me such wonderful pictures if my man is called up before me....

    I wish you peace especially at this time of the year.

  • @luchesse626

    Wow, I can fullyu understand the choice for this song. Maybe you no longer cry, I just started to. Beautiful. I hope you're doing well.

  • I have no words good enough to describe how I feel listenning or playing this tune...amazing is saying so lil'... and of course you had my positive vote,as well!!!

  • Pedro Aznar best.

  • thanxs 4 posting ... makes me wish i was home ...

  • So,so beautiful!!! No words to say how much...

    It really touches my heart whenever I listen to it! Thanks!

    neli

  • I have heard a lot of musicians talking about how it feels while touring, it is wonderful because you get to be in so many places sharing your music, but remember you are away from your home, your family and loved ones, thats hard. I think this tune portrays that feeling so well..thanks for the upload

  • struggente ..meravigliosa..

  • that´s perfection

  • This song is like Mona Lisa

  • What a tiny guitar

  • one of the best songs.Tank you for all .

  • Pat Metheny Genius........................­....;;

  • it's so good

  • jizz fest!

  • i wonder, can this thinking a person to create such works, make you feel free, at peace, transport you to place of quientess, congralations Pat are wonderl, i hpe new, never stop suprising

  • This is so perfectly beautiful. It amazes me that our humanity is been brought down to who looks cool, or who comes out in a space looking egg to entertain us. This isn't over the top of ANYONES head. No matter who you are, this music is just perfect.

  • very very great !!

  • BEAUTIFUL, INSPIRING,MELODIUS, AWESOME... ONE OF THE BEST COMPOSITION ....

  • what a wonderful mood!

  • There is only one problem w/this song.....IT IS TOO SHORT.......Pat Metheny creates sooo much beautiful music, but this piece truly exceeds all expectations.......simply beautiful....I hope to meet Pat one day and tell him thank you for "Letter From Home" This is piece of music always makes me think and makes me feel good.

  • This is one of the greatest songs I've never heard! Pat and Mays have built an incredible and solid group based on solidarity and fraternity! That's honest love, and consequently, the Music is a truth on their hands!

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  • 2 of the most beautiful minutes in all of music.

  • Who are the idiots that posted a dislike? Perhaps you will feel more at home at PBSKids.com!

  • This song takes me away - dissolves the problems of my day, returns my childhood, long Summer days and the innocence of doing nothing. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing your gift Pat. (Thank you Jon for bringing this to me).

  • This is nice and mellow:)

  • pedro Aznar baba  *.*

  • He made me cry in concert......with this song !

  • Verdaderamente está más alla de las palabras..

  • im in high school n i love this

  • @TheNewageshit me too bro...playin its even better :)

  • @ishakehandswithbeef i bet but i only kno how to play the first part of it

  • to believe with the unimaginable, this proves it can be possible :) gorgeous song

  • 2 minutes ain't long enough. It's like having the best dream of your life, then waking up when it gets good.

  • Steve Rodby and Paul Wertico's new band - Marbin

  • This great song takes your breath away. Like someone said, it brings back years ago in the summer or fall and peaceful days and nights. Wow!!

  • makes me cry.... so melodic.......

  • i would play this for my boys when they were babies to fall asleep-constantly they are teenagers now and love jazz and learning to play guitar! :)

  • thanks pat....

  • Cada vez que escucho esta melodía, me pongo a llorar... recuerdo de inmediato a mi adorada abuelita, fallecida a comienzos de éste año... cada vez que la escucho vuelvo a ser niño, y me imagino una carrera feliz hasta fundirnos en un cariñoso abrazo... ven?, ya me puse a llorar... nada más que decir... gracias Pat por esta maravillosa pieza.

  • "AMO ERGO SUM"

  • This is the only thing I want to hear while making fresh tracks on a blue bird day

  • Exceptional. Was listening to this for the whole evening. 

  • This is one of my favorite songs by Pat Metheny. He really plays off the piano with this one.

  • simple yet so meaningful.

  • Gntly, smooth, wonderful, sweet gift from Pat.

  • Escucho este tema y me imagino un camino muy especial de retorno, tranquilo y que te reconforta sabiendo que has recorrido un gran camino en la vida y que sientes que has cumplido

  • this sounds better than the cd version

  • Beyond words...beyond everything...

  • @TheRealVibes Yes...absolutely!!

  • De esta mini soprano, me fascina su exquisita voz "quasi-arpa" que se conjuga a la perfección y en la misma tonalidad con las 'keys' de cristal del gran, gran Lyle!!!!!!!

    Os agradezco a vos, Sync! y a Fer, por supuesto -faltaba más- por verdaderamente adentrarme a un conocimiento más, mucho más profundo del universo musical del genio Pat Metheny!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    MUCHAS GRACIAS POR SU CÁTEDRA, AMIGOS MÍOS!!

  • IPEROMANTIK - MOMENTI listen......

  • wow

  • My wife walked down the aisle to this beautiful composition. It was perfect.

  • beautiful,excellent

    

  • This song is almost beyond words. Like being whisked away to a foggy Walden Pond, or being alone for the first time at overnight camp as a young kid where I would look in amazement at the stars whence surrounded by the tall conifers in Maine ... And like the stars, this is timeless, too: A brilliant mixture of organic emotions that run deep; deeper then we normally care to know. It's a nice, yet very serious reminder that we are here together but for only a short while. Let's try to enjoy it.

  • @CuteePie83

    I totally just envisioned that, and it almost perfectly describes this wonderful song!

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  • @CuteePie83 One of the most beautiful comments I ever read if not THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, appreciating the musical experience called PAT METHENY, a true musician larger than life! Thank you for conveying truth in your words! Deeply touched,

    Minerva

  • @patscircle shut the f**k up

  • @CuteePie83 I can only tell you that I was meant to come across your comment. I was just thinking about how grateful we should be for every tiniest thing that we have in our lives and the last sentence of your comment put into words what I am feeling right now. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Love,

    Ariel

  • @CuteePie83 Pat is the unique one who can render pure feelings into sounds.

  • @CuteePie83 well, it's nice melody but this is not a song. song needs a SINGER to be a song ;)

  • @adamemanuel sorry for the language, but are you fucking retarded? seriously? wow... and i guess you're right... this isn't a song... this is a masterpiece, and a brilliant composition.

  • @dmpilger please, don't use words like fucking etc. writing about such music, ok?

  • @adamemanuel

    You are quite literally a moron if you think that. This is one of the most well written and beautiful songs ever written by one of the best musicians, honestly, to ever live on this planet. It's a work of inspiration; you don't get that from pop tunes on the radio.

  • @MattLikesMusic27 wow, pat's music makes such an aggression? peace man and stop your vulgar language. what I think is mine, I have right to comment what I want. I don't write about value of this composition, I write about classification - this is NOT a song. So hard to understand? EOT.

  • A song is music, and music is (more or less) expression through sound. Ergo, any instrument/voice can be used - it can still be classed as a song, to some extent. I listen to everything from Waking The Cadaver to Metheny to Bonobo to Saosin etc., and they all make fantastic songs - with or without certain whatevers in their music.

    Music is also subject to opinion; one man's meat is another man's poison. But you can't seriously say this isn't a song? It is, and an amazing one at that :)

  • @CuteePie83 You are so right on! Well said... well said.

  • @CuteePie83

    Thank you so much for your gentle and touching words flowing strictly from the heart. Greetings from Poland. We Polish love Pat Metheny as a one of most gifted musicians of all times.

  • @CuteePie83 stfu

  • Magnificent!!

  • Masterpiece

  • So perfect..!!

  • @ferchw Tienes razón, Fer, coincido. Hay algo en esta versión que me sigue fascinando, sin lugar a dudas!!!

  • i heard this live version first and so i bought the cd . this live version is better than the studio version

  • beautiful music ...

  • ^^ :) 

  • tout simplement Magnifique

  • anybody know what guitar this is or if it's even a short scale guitar at all? could be another instrument? I can't find anything like it. Thanks

  • This tune is like the most shining star in a nightly sky.

    This one is just the proof of the human soul.

  • @RickInRock84 well said man.. well said.

  • One of the most beautiful peices of music ever. I am inspired every time I hear it.

  • awe-inspiringly brilliant

  • what a small guitar ;)

  • @Obigrobi666  It's not a guitar, silly

  • @postyesterdayman

    so what is it? is has 6 strings, stupid!

  • Eine Bereicherung, immer wider traumhaft schön.

  • why do i cry now? just answer...

  • I wish my guitar prowess, and hair for that matter, was half as good as Pat Metheny's. Awesome song that always calms me down.

  • pat oh pat //beautifull

  • For those who haven't listened to Pat in awhile--

  • Beautiful

  • One of the thousands MASTERPIECES ! GENIUS COMPOSER ! GREAT PERFORMER ! VERY UNIQUE & RARE MUSICIAN ! BLESSED MUSICIAN ....

    thanks for sharing !

  • Pat's great, and don't forget that this was a great version of the PMG with Rodby, Wertico and the legendary Lyle Mays.

  • itss sooo soft,pure....just lovely!!!!!!!!!

  • this is the best pat metheny song and video in the world!!

  • This really is a jewel.

  • I think that picking technique is great for that buttery sound he achieves....soo un guitar player like but so coooo

  • it is a sad thing that today, this kind of perfection and virtuosity is not as recognized as it was earlier. look at all the chart hits, almost everything is done by computers, even the voices are often generated and improved by technology. I would not say that all charts are bad music, i listen to some of them too, but i prefer "real" music and everyone, who plays his intrument with feeling, love and virtuosity, is my hero.

  • ah,but it IS coming back.recording studios are being asked more and more to produce acoustic sound. there is not a piece of music written in all time that can be played with a metronome completely in the past or reproduced by algorythms for digital songs. The love and heart and soul of of music is beyond that.

    Say amen,somebody.

  • @Sparkleplenty54 Amen it is!

  • Gorgeous tone from the bass pig . . I love it

  • Absolutely beautiful. Nobody can play this kind a music in such a touching way. RESPECT.

  • Emozionante...come l'amore..

  • Metheny come in questa canzone con un "titolo" e  "i suoni" evoca momenti e d emozioni della vita che chi è stato lontno da casa , dai suoi amici, dai suoi affetti , comprende e coglie in un attimo.,

  • Esta cancion es increible.

  • Pat Metheny Genius!

  • Pat Metheny Genius!

  • it is a pitty this song is too short, it would be last forever

  • My husband and I would play this song to our unborn daughter almost 20 years ago. Now, she will be walking down the aisle on her wedding day to this song. It reminds me of the journey of her precious life....

  • @LighterMan98 Nice song, but sounds like she's living in your shadow if not your Birkenstocks.  Let the poor thing have her own life.

  • cudowne!!!!!!!!!!

  • or "Honey, Who Shrunk The Guitar?"

  • Yeah! My drumline played this and Third Wind for our show!! It was awesome!!!!

  • You rule pat i am so thankful for your music it sencerely touches my soul.

  • absolutely beautiful;

  • I love this video - particularly how silent and attentive the audience is, and the shot of the equipment scattered around the ground. It feels like it was a completely random moment that everybody caught in time. Just magical.

  • Don't concern yourself with PM's technique - Pat himself described his hands as a "bunch of bananas". Just listen: the music is just undeniable....

  • STELLAR Pat and Team

  • This goes ou to Jeff love you forever

  • The best!!!

  • Came across this by mistake while I was looking for something else and I am absolutely in love with this. Soooo beautiful. This music evokes such emotion!