Chords for Pat Metheny - Letter From Home - Today Show on NBC

Pat Metheny is one who's managed to enjoy both, thank you.
Besides winning four Grammys and the highest praise of music critics,
he plays to sold-out crowds at concerts here and abroad.
He's just released his 15th album, Letter from Home.
Good morning.
Good morning.
What's the significance of the title, first off?
Titles are hard for us, in general.
We can write these tunes and come up with them one after the other,
but it's always the nightmare to finally at the end of it have to come up with a title.
Why?
Because you don't like naming something?
Well, you know, it's instrumental music, and we could call it my dog Spot,
and who would know the difference?
It's really just a matter of _ how you feel about it.
In this case, Letter from Home somehow fit the spirit of this tune.
In fact, we're going to play that tune.
It's the title song.
_ It's kind of not exactly sentimental, but it's kind of a look back at things.
Somehow, when you think about a letter from home,
it's a storytelling thing which fits in with our music.
Since you have so much trouble titling your songs,
I guess you don't want to title your music for me, right? _
I mean, I called it jazz, but it could be_
I call it jazz, too, because for the most part,
the focus of what we do is on improvisation,
and I think that qualifies it as jazz myself.
I mean, you know, there are pieces that we do that are more structured than others,
but finally, the main reason that we go all over the world
playing and dragging all our instruments around is to do what we do as improvisers.
See, that's what I thought.
When I saw letter from home, I thought it related really to your troubadour ways.
You know, that you guys log a lot of miles.
Yeah, we do tour a lot.
I also saw where you said actually your music translates best in the United States and Brazil.
Well, I think that in a lot of ways, our _ music_
Because the United States and Brazil are large, multicultural, multiracial societies,
_ the music that's developed in those countries over the years really parallels each other,
and we draw very closely from American pop music and, of course, American jazz,
as well as a third of our band is South American now,
one Brazilian guy, one Argentinian guy.
Unfortunately, they're both in Brazil and Argentina right now.
Let's just say some of the guys aren't here.
_ We're talking all around.
Paul and Steve and Lyle here, who've been with us, obviously,
for a couple of hours throughout this morning.
We thank you for that.
But one other quick thing.
This tune you're not going to do doesn't reflect this,
but I understand that on the album you have some songs that are vocals,
but there are no words.
Yeah, it's true.
This is a sound that we've been using a lot in the last few years.
We have an excellent singer in the band, Pedro Eznar, from Argentina,
who has the capacity to sing in this style.
It's like another instrument, and it's very unique and something that I enjoy writing for
and love the sound of, and we've used it a lot.
You just used a phrase that struck me a little bit on you.
You said enjoy writing for.
Most guys who write don't enjoy the experience of it,
even though they enjoy it on the back end.
You enjoy writing still?
Well, I enjoy music in general, all aspects of it.
I love playing, I love writing, and of course with a great band like this,
going out on the road and playing is the most fun part of it.
But you've got to have some music to play, and _ it's hard to write.
_ It's hard to come up with stuff that's interesting to play night after night
for 300 nights a year, but I do enjoy it.
All right.
I'm going to get out of the way so you can do Letter from Heaven.
Okay, thanks. _ _ _ _
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