I think I need 5 more lives to get 5% of the geniality of PMG's music... it's so deep, so complex and yet so easy to listen, it is within milli seconds deep in emotions, there is comfort, love, passion, truth... WOW! Almost listening to this music for 40 years and the magic is growing and growing!

Plus the melody line at 8:10 adds the Lydian context to the Cmaj7 which immediately sends the listener to that sentimental place which the mode does so well. Love your videos!

great teachers draw people further into things they don't understand or think they will never understand. Thats what you are Guy. A great teacher.

Wow ! This channel is a gold mine ! Thanks for sharing this with us !

fascinating!! amazing concept analysis!! PURE GOLD!!

Ahh! I always had the same exact feeling about "I say a little prayer for you". Now, I understand why! Thanks for clearing that up!!!

Finally got analysis for this magical harmony approach. Thank you.

What a phenomenal lesson! Much of Pat's stuff has hit me in the heart for decades, and I may have noticed something was up unconsciously, but you put your finger right on a big part of it. Thanks!!!!!!!!

Love the content and how you approach and learn theory and harmony. Thanks a lot !

A BIG Thank you! You analyze in depth the essentials with your skills and your feelings as a great musician. And your focus on Pat and Lyle's music is a great choice. I will follow you for a long time.

Amazing work, Master. Very helpful explanations, not only in terms of progressions and chords , but even for analyzing details that makes music so special and artistic

Yes, I am also fascinated with these songs that we never get tired of!

I can't follow all of the harmonic analysis, but I certainly understood and appreciate your wrap up explaining the idea of our perpetual hope/tension that the shortened chord value causes... pretty cool (and I agree!!).

Addiction...love your teaching. It wakes me up from the "sitting at the piano and starting or hitting the same chords" Thanks

Loved the Giant Steps section. I would love a Giant Steps only video. xo

Brilliant work.....For a song writer and Pat Metheny fan like myself your videos are truly inspirational. I wish I'd had these insights 20 years ago....I can't get enough.....Thanks so much

You are amazing doing a great service Your channel is very underrated, Love you brother ❤️

This video is like a mini Master Class. Thank you Doctor!

Great channel! I really enjoy your perspective on songwriting and what makes good songs interesting. It’s a very unique way of looking at things! I would humbly suggest however to obtain a mic setup that is either on you or close to you, so that there is not so much room echo. It will really go a long way to improve the overall quality of the production. I look forward to more of your videos and Thank you!

Love your clear and concise approach to music plus your playing.

Awesome .. coming back !!

Thank you very much for such great material! Very insightful! Yesterday I was just analysing the song "Make Peace" (Metheny/Mehldau) becouse I was obcessed to know why the the D chord sounds so good. The melody goes: A E F# and the D chord harmonizes this F# (a third)... It happened that the preceding chords comes from a modal interchange.

Personally I think what's really interesting about this tune by Metheny is not what you're talking about but something else. It's very hip and harmonically sophisticated the way many of the chords are serving "more than one function" in a sense. A clever use of slash chords, scale wise root movements, moving bass notes over triads, and using enharmonic equivalent's in a clever manner. The first clever thing is the song starts on IV major instead of the typical I major and therefore moves from: IV G maj to V A maj to I D maj. The bass line though stays on G until the I major chord arrives, But instead of using the D as the bass note Metheny takes advantage of enharmonic equivalent's here. D maj and F# min have the same notes except for the root. So he moves the root (AKA the bass note) of the D maj chord to F#, the ii minor chord in the key of Emin. so in essence its a cleverly disguised ii V i from F# min to B/D# to Em that is written as Dmaj7/F#, B/D#, Em. so the Dmaj7 with F# in the bass is serving as a I Maj7 but it could also be written as F#m, the ii chord in the subsequent 2 5 1 leading to Em, Then why not continue the madness right LOL? So since Em chord and C Maj7 are enharmonic equivalent's Pat cleverly moves the bass note again this time from E to C thus changing the tonality of the tune again from minor to major just by moving the note the bass player is playing. ii Vmaj i IV an unusual progression that sounds beautiful. BUT SINCE YOU'RE A PROFESSOR YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT. So here's the answer your looking for on the rhythm thing. Even though the song is written in 4/4 in the songbook if you count it in 2/4 then the mystery LOL is revealed. If you count it in 2/4 notice that the pulse of the song is heavy on 1 (that's on 1 & 3 if you count it in 4/4). So the pulse is on 1 right where Mr. James Brown taught us it should be :) In 2/4 the pulse is heavy on 1 and space for the ambient melodic ballad to breath on 2. However occasionally in the tune the bass will walk to a 1 chord with a pulse (note played) on 1, 2,, & 1 again. That's cool though because we arrive on a resolution, a I chord (or a nice harmonious major7th IV chord) AND it does NOT disturb the original "groove" 'of the tune to do that. It's just a walking bass line all quarter notes (disguised 251) leading to a tonic chord. The whole tune is essentially based on those concepts.

Invaluable insight. What you do is precious, I can’t thank you enough!

Interesting thoughts, I will definitely keep this in mind.

I agree with you! Maybe this lack of chords lead us to listen this music time and time again!

Fantastic video! Thanks for this :)

Oh man, you're a genius!

this is the high quality stuff i have been looking for

Invaluable, extremely hard-to-find information from somebody who is obviously a very knowledgeable musician. Just wondering if you could use an over-head camera in future videos so that we can see exactly what you are doing at the keyboard. It would be the icing on the cake !

Naked Moon is one of my favorite Metheny ballads (more like a hymn IMHO), I wonder why it only ended up on a live album. I like the way you make a connection in your videos between the musical elements and human behavior/thinking. For example, in one of the videos the progression didn't end up on the expected chord, and you said "Ab denied it" like it was a real life situation". I think this subject is not discussed enough, and I think that subconsciously this is how people connect to certain music. Regarding harmonic rhythm in the example of I Say a Little Prayer, another way to look at it is from the point of the rhythm. The bar was short due to the rhythm of the lyrics, so there was no time for the last chord to extend.

Dr Shkolnik you are teaching me so much, now if you could look at this rash...(cracked myself up, so now I gotta watch the video again)

superb explanation sir!!!

I truly enjoy your teachings,thanks for all the work you put into it.

Very interesting video, and a concept I need to pay more attention to. Thank you!

nailing it.

Thanks for this fascinating and informative video, Doc. ☝️😎

Thank you! Priceless, keep going, awesome approach! Did I say: Thank you!?

Thank you for this, I love this piece

..'good work, my brother!

Very nice video, thank you. One question. Would it be fair to say that Lyle Mays also has something to do with this piece of beauty?

Great insights and analysis, Guy. I always learn something new from your videos. Thank you for the thought, effort, and time you put into them. Peace 🙏

master.... genius....

Awesome!!

Great fan of your channel! Thank you!

Once again.You are amazing!!!!Thank you!

Dude, who are you? This is great! Can you do a video on the structure of "Are You Going With Me?"

Great insight again.

I like your presentations. Thanks!

Thought provoking....thx

thanks!! Beautiful

Your videos are amazing.

This is great! Thank you

merci super intéressant !

Man I'm really appreciating your videos. I'd love to see some Bach videos...I know there's tons to learn from the chorales but not sure how to approach them sometimes.

Pat is.....I can't quite find the words....

Great lesson :)

Why did I start sobbing like a baby when you started playing Naked Moon?

Great analysis

Thank you! : )

I think you should put out an album covering these Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays songs. Gorgeous interpretations and would be great to just listen to.

Thanks a lot for these amazing videos ..would like to know if you do personal online tutorials..thanks

Fantastic!

Great video Very well explained 👍

An iConnectAudio4+! One of my favorite pieces of gear, on one of my favorite channels! 😄

Muy buen análisis.-

Thanx

I think there is mistake in the two very first examples

Great analysis! I've been thinking about this for the last years. Not so deep as you. Thanks.

I'm watching almost all your videos by now. They are really good. Gongrats for your great job. Do you teach compositions through skype?.

Big fan of yours - I've been watching your videos for some time! I haven't delved deeply into your channel, but I'm wondering if you share any of your own compositions?

Interesting thanks!

Nice Guy Very6 interesting :)!

I'd like to hear your analyses of David Becker's Waltz For Lavignia

Is that the trio+ from tc electronics you use for comping?

I have a strange question: are you a medical doktor, and if so is it hard to combine your music with being a clinician?

Is there anything harmonically speaking that can be interesting in Michel Petrucciani compositions?

Btw - Pat is an amazing pianist 👌🏻

Oh my such a great question...What if?

preciosa version de piano. gracias.

I'm not totally sure about the harmonic rhythm but it feels a lot like The Last Time I Saw Richard off Joni Mitchell's Blue

genial

Agree. We are all too neurotically eager!

Un tipo que sabe.

hi Dr. I love your videos; what kind of digital piano is that?

Check Pippin the musical. You are going to find many jewels there.

OMG. NAKED MOON, The chords are " hurtful" and those with a heart will know what I mean

Thanks. Wow Naked Moon❤

10:55 I don't think people think of it as as two missing beats. Lot's of songs have missing beats or added beats. In this case I think It's serves as a transitional section with emphasis. It makes the song more interesting. Lot's of progressive rock songs have strange time signatures like 4/4 followed by a measure of 7/8 or something like that. I have written pieces of music with dropped beats or added beats and not even realized it until I was arranging a drum track or overdubbing another part. Of course I'm not a drummer. I suppose drummers notice these things while they are playing.

Sorry but your chords/Harmonic Rhythm are wrong! Here we go: Intro: 4 bars of | G A/G :|| A Section: Harmonic Rhythm: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Gmaj7 A/G| Dmaj7/F# B7/D# Em| Cmaj7 Gmaj7(9)| F F7(9) || Harmonic Functional Analysis: I V7/V7| IVmaj7 V7/VI VIm| IV I |bVII V7/bIII ||

The drums behind are very bad