Pat Metheny - All The Things You Are

Pat Metheny - 1992-10-22 Jazz Guitar Clinic at UNT - All The Things You Are
Concert Hall Music Building
University of North Texas
Denton, TX

Pat Metheny Jazz guitar clinic during his Secret Story tour.
Pat answered questions for hours (past 3pm iirc) from the audience until he realized that the clock that was visible from the stage was broken.

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[winebrew]

I wish I could talk, think, and have the ear of a jazz musician... you guys make us rock and blues guitarists look like elementary school children....:P

[bigwm]

The truly incredible thing about this performance, is how Pat made the static lifeless metronome swing!!

[SquigglyJ0e]

Yes, modal interchange.

The very basis of modern substitutions.

[flipadiddle]

@mattpolofka it's modal substitution, where you substitute a chord that is diatonic to a parallel (not relative) mode.E Maj7, in the key of Abmaj (the key of this song) can be referred to as flat 6 major. this chord is diatonic to the Ab phrygian scale. So, a chord from that scale was substituted. It also just helps to know that flat 6 major is a very common substitution, because it works very nicely in a tune where the melody ends on the tonic note, because it ends up being the 3rd of the chord

[69torus]

@mattpolofka I hear an E major 7#11, that I would voice as E - D# - G# - A#. enharmonically, that's E - (Eb - Ab - Bb) an Eb suspended over E. Also, you could view as playing an F (flat) major 7 # 11. The flat 6 modulation is quite dramatic and Pat uses it alot. Think C maj 7 to Ab maj 7.

[Cradour]

When you substitute A Maj7 with E Maj7, what you need to be careful about, I think, are tones deviating from A Maj7 which are B and D#, just as a simple power chord (composed of 1-5-1) sounds like both major and minor chords.

[apzlw5]

@Cradour But don't you need a C#(3rd of A)? E Maj7 don't got a C#

[Cradour]

My understanding is, Abmaj7 can be approached with Amaj7 before the resolution and then Amaj7 may be substituted with Emaj7 because the components are pretty much same as Amaj7 except for B(9th) and D#(#11th).

[BananaRelapse]

@mattpolofka If the highest note in the Emaj7 chord is in the Abmaj7 chord, it will work, because you have 2 common notes, and you get a similiar character. My theory atleast, and the ear is allways right, so you dont need a theoretical reason for it to fit ; )

[mattpolofka]

Also just curious if anyone knows why an E maj7 works at the end of this tune. I already do this sometimes but I don't really understand the theory, just using my ears.