Playing "out of your comfort zone" music

[CrushingAnvil]

If you can read music, Pat Metheny has a million books. There's one for the entirety of "Bright Size Life" and he even has his own Real book. There are definitely tablature transcriptions out there which you can pair to them, but you gotta dig deep on the net in some cases - which is what I did, because I can't read music good.

I learned a few Metheny licks as a teenager and it affected my phrasing/inflection for good. Probably part of the reason I don't really play metal anymore.