Album: One Quiet Night (2003)
Track: Song For The Boys (4:30)
Time and introduction:
This is a solo acoustic guitar piece. It's played in the time signature of 6/8 with rhythmic accent on beat one of each bar. A fade in is used to introduce the song. Gradually, more picking definition can be heard as the sound thickens.
Hearing double?
When I first listened to this I had the feeling that is was played by two simultaneous guitars. However, I've found a video of Pat performing this piece.
Dynamics:
The dynamic range in this music is quite large, after building up to some intensity, the guitar drops back to a very gentle position. These dynamic shifts are often accompanied with a change from either picking to strumming. So dynamics are not just caused by playing intensity buy by technique also.
Tonality:
The tone and texture of the guitar is (to my ear) quite coarse and quite warm, The best way for me to describe this is by pointing out the loudness of string noise as well as the large swells bass produced under the guiding rhythm. The guitar is a full range sound (as we should expect on a solo track).
Two sided guitar:
I can hear a slight difference in texture between the left and right speakers. On the right side of the panorama contains more the sound of strumming. Where the left carries more of the guitar's resonance. I would expect that the guitar has been recorded with two microphones; one at the body, the other up the neck. It's hard to judge this one, but the sound is so thick that perhaps there is a room mic also, playing a big part in filling space.
How it came to be:
I have no source on this other than Wikipedia but "The album was recorded in one night and provides a raw sample of Metheny's skill on acoustic and baritone guitars". It was released on the Warner Bros. label and produced by both Pat Metheny and Steve Rodby.
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