# The Best Pat Metheny Guitar Solos

> The 17 best Pat Metheny guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Are You Going with Me? (1982), then Bright Size Life and Phase Dance. Every video starts at the solo.

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Pat Metheny reshaped jazz guitar with a warm, horn-like tone, pioneering guitar-synthesizer work and a melodic gift rare in improvised music. Across the Pat Metheny Group and countless collaborations, his solos balance virtuosity with song-like storytelling.

1. [Are You Going with Me?](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-are-you-going-with-me/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1982
2. [Bright Size Life](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-bright-size-life/) — Pat Metheny · solo by Pat Metheny · 1976
3. [Phase Dance](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-phase-dance/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1978
4. [Last Train Home](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-last-train-home/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1987
5. [Minuano (Six Eight)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-minuano-six-eight/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1987
6. [Question and Answer](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-question-and-answer/) — Pat Metheny · solo by Pat Metheny · 1990
7. [Have You Heard](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-have-you-heard/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1989
8. [First Circle](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-first-circle/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1984
9. [James](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-james/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1982
10. [Song for Bilbao](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-song-for-bilbao/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1983
11. [(Cross the) Heartland](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-cross-the-heartland/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1979
12. [San Lorenzo](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-san-lorenzo/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1978
13. [The Roots of Coincidence](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-the-roots-of-coincidence/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1997
14. [Better Days Ahead](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-better-days-ahead/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1989
15. [Third Wind](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-third-wind/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1987
16. [Airstream](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-airstream/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 1979
17. [Here to Stay](https://greatestsolos.com/song/pat-metheny-group-here-to-stay/) — Pat Metheny Group · solo by Pat Metheny · 2002

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