The Rhythm Guitar Style of Pat Martino

This book chronicles several years of study with Pat Martino and traveling all over the United States to see him perform. Along with help from My Sheet Music Transcriptions, Dr. Jörg Heuser, and Wolf Marshall LeRoy has put together a book that chronicles the Rhythm Guitar Style of Pat Martino.There is an interesting aspect to Pat Martino’s rhythm guitar style. The author cannot find examples of Pat Martino comping (accompanying) a pianist or even an organ player other than during organ solos when the organist has their hands full laying down a bass line and soloing. Pianists typically punch chord fills in during their solos so Pat would simply lay out. A while back Pat had a period where he was touring with a pianist and a bass player. This was after his stint with the fantastic organist, Joey DeFrancesco. When the author asked him to return to the organ trio format Pat told him” LeRoy, I have to work too hard in that format.” What he was calling work was the comping he felt was necessary during organ solos because there usually isn’t an underlying chord for the reason stated above. Luckily, he did return to that hard-working format and this book is an attempt to document his comping during those organ solos. Read more