Pat Martino Interview #2of2 (Guitar Lesson MA-004) How to play

[FliegendeHollaender]

and 'lesson' it indeed is!

[EricNos24]

his...intelligence....ahhhhhhh­hhhhhhh *dies*

[xXironraiderXx]

Dr Martino

[xxmanx1]

Huh? Pat is always amazing!

[EB1089]

Pat Martino is very esoteric and philosophical about music like the late, great Bill Evans (pianist).

[sclogse1]

Boy, I"d like to hear Pat talk about Balinese music..the gamelan.

[WILLOW5521]

He has the greatest philosophy on earth! His entire ideology about music is fascinating. I've watched these particular interviews more than 10 times. He is the ultimate!

[taildragger53]

He's perfectly right about the duality in life (opposites).

Everything is a cycle....Pat Martino was ahead of the game wayback in the 1960s.

[atapoicos00]

there is a certain point in this interview where pat leaves mundane earth and travels to his own paralel dimension .... haha...

[sp2834aa]

@atapoicos00 I think he did that a long time ago.

[TLPnega]

THROUGH MY MIND.

[namtil]

The man, the music, and the philosophy are completely inspiring.

[Kaitano94]

haha. I'm the 16000the viewer :D

[ratfinkdc]

gr8 interview, thnx.

[MrCampy123]

Pat is so deep that the interviewer seems lost!

A genius in all ways.

[FranticRock]

this is absolutely astounding stuff

pat martino is a prophet of music. 

[mivec25]

Anyone who has played guitar for some time will know exactly what he means- put it this way the piano is based on a 12 tone system, the guitar in standard tuning is based on a pentatonic system. So why adapt piano theory to it??!!

[ShaneBluesRI]

@mivec25 Guitar operates from the same system of tonal harmony as all tonal instruments in western music,known as the chromatic scale.The study of any other instrument ALWAYS HELPS.Just because a lot of guitar improv is pentatonic,jazz guitar makes use of the Major scale,melodic minor,harmonic minor,all there modes,all types of pentatonic scales,whole tone and diminished scales,melody,harmony,polyryth­ms,tension,release and all types of chromaticism to create an unique sound.

[jazzand]

@ShaneBluesRI

If you take a lesson with Pat you'll see what he's talking about. I've gone through lots of traditional methodologies; graduated from Berklee, studied with Barry Harris, Jimmy Heath, Donald Byrd, Hal Galper, Ted Dunbar, and got my Masters Degree at Queens College in 91. I've also hung with Pat. He's thought a lot about music and has found some very unique and direct ways of understanding the guitar. He's a river that runs deep!

~ Rick Stone

[JohnWalshGuitar]

What a legend. One of the greatest guitarists I've ever had the pleasure to hear live.

[aodessey]

this dumbass has no idea what he's talking about and sounds like christopher walken. music is all about getting the KICK, like METALLICA or AC/DC. distortion, phat riff motifs entirely in minor pentatonic, wild stage antics, etc. that is MUSIC.

[GHub99]

this cat is far out

[seserere]

He's like the Noam Chomsky of the guitar- A genius with an entirely unique, philosophical approach to his subject.

[carmellotruffles]

@seserere haha that's hilarious! yeah i suppose he is.

[taildragger53]

@seserere Pat is the ultimate educator.....he's absolutely for real.

[atj409]

I like his advice about freeing oneself from "the craft" of music so as to experience music itself more fully

[anakid123]

@atj409 I have to agree with him as well. I did this with another genre of music where my work almost gravitated to complete dissonance, musical noise, where, for myself, expression was lost.

[TheJuliusJT]

interesting

[Vakinar]

Pat Martino is one the most advanced and musical guitarists in the world. An incredible life story also. Young players should check out his music and his story.

[lonestar225]

Explains his approach to his craft like no one I'veard before..very deep and insightful and gets his point across.

[tiluriso]

Man, Pat's esoteric take on these complementary dualities of nature and how to apply that to look @ music from a wider scope is refreshing..yin/yang, tonic/dominant=home/away from home, etc...awesome!

[wejamm]

The golden section of what?

[menilmontant]

@wejamm

"the golden section" "of course, bartok"

[mrcndrn]

the g s  is the mathematical ratio behind the proportions of the greek temple. Architecture.

[AhYaOk]

wtf?

[ShinobiBoiX]

holy crap he sounds so legit

[shrd11]

yeah, great interview. I had a guitar lesson with him long ago in Philly. I love this guy's views! It's all very inspiring. Thanks Pat!

[mybig88]

The Zen philosophy of music. Will need and want to watch part 1 and 2 several times.

[SIRONEDRAGON]

Very enjoyable to hear Pat

[marioreaper]

you know what he's talking about is that there is NO duality

[gunfart]

genius

[MusicMan20061210]

A very good interview...one of the best about music that I've seen.

[Jpkrao]

Good interview. Interesting views about music by Pat.

[ghanzo]

very interesting indeed.

[jazz1bro]

very interesting !

[lydian7999]

Great musician, although I don't totally dig his philosophy regarding opposites (good/bad, black/white, yin/yang), I find that there is no good or bad, but only the answer to our commitment.

[taildragger53]

@lydian7999 Of course there has to be duality as Pat says. If there is NO good or bad why do perceive murder or other acts as gross? Whty do we perceive a paedophile as being evil? Why don't we just welcome him into society with open arms?

Why do we have a built in CONSCIENCE to process good or bad?

[lydian7999]

@taildragger53 Well that's the thing, we don't have a "built in" conscience...it is (as I said) because of our commitment to the type of life we live, and though I don't believe necessarily in evil, I do know fear exists, and fear is a discomfort that we'd rather not face....this is not a matter of conscience but of survival instincts.

[mdub2000]

man i dig this guy he observes the tao, the i ching, bagua, ayurvedic phylosophy, chinese and a whole bunch of eastern way of thinking towards the nature of things and applied it to his music...i dig that i've always wanted to work that out but he's got it down.

[wwwaster]

Thanks you for these quality interviews! The way time is given to really discuss one topic is very appreciated. I would very much like to see more of the same sort.

[cryman89]

wow. I literally walked in the door from my music theory class and this man just blew my mind

[indigochile]

this is some good stuff.... what he's talking about is the concept of Duelality. Pos and neg make up the whole.... a deep thinking musician... we could use more of that..... great interview....

[licksnkicks]

This guy is very insightful and quite articulate! A lot of what he says is a fact and some opinion!  He's very interesting to listen to.

[djcuvcuv112]

Pat Martino adds a lot of really interesting perspectives to how one views music. And hes not afraid to "feel" a certain way. Thats probably the most important part to building one's melodic sense; the willingness to feel any way. The dude was sick of jazz so he listened to other shit, WATTUP

[william1theguitarwah]

great guy, he sounds like he has a great understanding of the actual music.

alot of big words in there tho

[Noterunner]

Great point of view.

As a side note we have 8 senses not 5

Vision

Smell

Taste

Pain

Hearing

Equilibrium

Pressure

Proprioception

[LordApes]

what is "Proprioception"?

and does instinct count as a sense?

how about "common"? common sense?

thanks.

[Noterunner]

Proprioception is your bodies sense of space in reference to its self. If you close your eyes you can still touch your finger to your nose. Your body knows where in space it is.

[TapeMeasureandhair]

actually we have up to 21-QI

[Noterunner]

QI? we don't have 21 types of senses as interpreted by nerve types outside the CNS (central nervous system)

[tam705618]

I think he's talking about yin and yang, taoist's stuff heh.

[HoldinCoffee]

pure quality

[padraigf76]

these interviews are great for looking at learning the guitar from a broader perspective....and he certainly went quite broad with this one :)

I'm not sure I understood it all but found it very interesting. I like how he talks about dissonance as an appealing quality, I'd understood it before as something being off or out-of-kilter. but I like his take on it.

[jrod2211]

Fascinating talk, thanks for posting.

[lidesnowi]

Pat Martino=Genius

[Johnnygogone]

In 1980,Pat Martino underwent surgery as the result of a nearly fatal brain aneurysm. The surgery left him with amnesia, leaving him, among other things, without any memory of the guitar and his musical career. With the help of friends, computers, and his old recordings, Martino made a recovery, and learned to play the guitar again. His improvisation method, "Conversion to Minor", is based upon using exclusively minor scales for soloing. Amazing man thanks Justin and your friends at institut

[JazzyZenBrotha]

Wow!

Mr. Martino is pretty deep with his thinking and logic. I like this guy a lot. It would be awesome if Pat Martino and George Benson collaborated just once in their careers

[rcf1105]

Great guitarist.

Great interview.

But I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

[jx14aby]

no wonder justin didn't show up for the interview.

[jrod2211]

lmao

[Optimistiq1]

Translation?

[archipelligo]

This man is a genius, but maybe when he is too old to play guitar he should write the cryptic crossword in the times "the opposites became a very true phenomenon that was a very truthful and realistic condition" "light and day" "man and woman" what is going on?!? :D

[Gummy132]

This man is an absolute genius.

There's something about his voice as well, I don't know what it is.

[lidesnowi]

The voice of wisdom.

[DAVIDDAMIENR]

WOW

Thanks for sharing this One,

David

[Tomurow]

What a great interview!!!!!!!!! Thanks Justin! Genius! 4th!

[wpc8384]

i hope ill be as wise as him when im that age..such wisdom

[JustinSandercoe]

first lol :) wanker! ;)

[PotatoHandle]

Dammit Justin you're such a noob. Tsk, tsk, tsk. >_>

[dd1yr]

3nd

[RunsNGoses2008]

someone done your car window in? gutted :P