That kid is f**king incredible! I read someone criticizing his hand position while he was playing something on RU-vid. That person clearly did not understand what he was witnessing. When youre that good you make your own rules.
GG is surely a great master guitarist but you have to see Matteo Mancuso. I have never ever seen a person have such command of the fretboard as Matteo Mancuso has. I love Govan, but Matteo is on a different level believe it or not. Al DiMeola, a great master, said it would take 2 or 3 lifetimes to get on his level - he's light years ahead of everybody. Just amazing, but surely love and respect GG. I'm sure GG is well aware of MM - he is the talk of all the guitarist now - and rightly so. His phrasing is unmatched - please check him out.
I don't think Matteo is over Guthrie just yet. He has great skills and could definitely surpass Govan one day, but Matteo still needs to prove his own compositions. Guthrie is not only technical, but also an amazing musician.
As a guitarist of 50 years and a shredder myself, Guthrie just brings a smile and chills to my body. It’s as if he’s the full embodiment of every amazing player of all time and an android composite encyclopedia of all licks and guitar theory universally known. He can hang with the greatest guitarists on earth and say, “oh yea? Well watch this.”
I am at 23 years now and I would say 70% of that was really serious and 30% life got in the way but congrats on a half century that’s awesome I couldn’t imagine my life without the guitar.
ME. The thing with Guthrie is that he’s too damned humble when in the company of other guitarists. We only get to see him at his most outrageous when he is with the aristocrats.
@@frannyp46 Yes. That is true. I do love him with the ‘Cats but also really LOVE watching his JTC videos. He has otherworldly improvisational skills. Like ‘Rendezvous’ and ‘Bullet Blues’. I never tire of watching.
I know it's not possible to definitively say someone is the best guitarist in the world, but if there's a short-list, Guthrie is on it. Just phenomenal.
Before it was called Monty Python's Flying Circus, Graham Chapman suggested the troupe call their weekly sketch comedy show The Toad Elevating Moment. In hindsight, Guthrie Govan's Goat Moments would have made an alternative, and certainly more amplified, title.
This monotonous shredding you speak of is achieved through the lack of rhythmic diversity. Whole notes, half Notes, quarter Notes, eighth Notes, sixteenth notes, 32nd notes, tuplets and dotted rhythms ALL utilized in varying combinations, including syncopation, will create more melodically interesting and diverse improvisation and composition on the guitar. 🌎✌🌱🎶
I think he's tapping the 22nd fret on the E string, then sliding in to with his left hand, but at a really high speed! There was a viral video from year back called 'Insanely Amazing Guitar Solo', first hear this technique being used there.. I've never quite got it under my fingers though!
Guthrie has that "liquid legato" inspired by Allen Holdsworth, made possible with extremely low action on the strings. Stanley Jordan utilizes extremely low action in his "touch" piano-tap guitar style. Tim Henson of Polyphia sets up his guitar in similar string height. Max Ostro (seen in this video) also uses extremely low action to provide his brand of "liquid legato". 🌎✌🌱🎶
I am a Bluegrass guitar player, a slave to Flatpicking and all of my guitars are set up really low as well. I love this business of liquid legato man what a goal to reach for and dream about.
@@riceflatpicking4954 Cool! Liquid legato is 99% left hand coordination, strength, dexterity and technique. Exercises that increase these features through repetition will increase your skills and abilities. Keep on practicing! 🎶
To anyone saying that Guthrie is just shred and notes without soul just listen flatlands and then we'll have a discussion, I bet I can win just with that any argument 😘
No... you didn't win with that argument. As per your suggestion, I listened to the first 1:32 of "Flatlands" and felt "elevator-syndrome" kicking in and had to stop listening. If he had anything in that composition that was unique and/or emotionally interesting, he should have conveyed that sooner in the composition. The mindless and monotonous shredding people speak of is achieved through the lack of rhythmic diversity. Whole notes, half Notes, quarter Notes, eighth Notes, sixteenth notes, 32nd notes, tuplets and dotted rhythms ALL utilized in varying combinations, including syncopation, will create more melodically interesting and diverse improvisation and composition on the guitar. 🌎✌🌱🎶
As the late Eddie Van Halen said, the difference is the amount of emotion in your playing. I found Flatlands totally emotionless. Then I put up Matteo Mancuso covering Allan Holdsworth's "Fred" and found that, not only was his technique up there with the best, the emotion was so massive it brought copious tears to my eyes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H5armQSH8h4.html
The only problem is that Guthrie, Ostro, Mancuso and guys like them are so good that I can't tell them apart. It's not like the old days when Eddie hits one note and I know it's VH :)
You have to listen harder. They are VERY different players. Not even close, imo. You will hear similarities from influences but definitely a lot more differences.
Look. If he's got enough time to stop picking, pick up a beer and take a drink while hammering out distinct melodies with his left hand, obviously he's not trying very hard. He needs to challenge himself more. I see room for improvement.
Bro being a goat is not being a shredder, he's skilled and ca shred but he's not giving me one line of notes where I go holy fuck I need to repeat that section,so he's not a goat and shit,same goes to vai btw.people mix between a goat guitarist and a skilled guitarists
The virtuosity is peak, but his music has yet to float my boat. Feels like he's JUST showing off. Like, dude shreds, but is he even feeling it? Somewhat like a bored to tears office assistant that types several hundred words a minute and brags about it in the break room. 'I typed That, and THAT, oh yeah, and This. Actually, This actuallyyy took me like 5 minutes, but I had to change up the headers for pages 3,5, and 7. I'm not sure but I think it says we're all geting paid time off, or laid off. Or maybe paid off? I dunno.'
@@areallyreallyreallyreallyr5876 it's just lots of notes. You do know that musical taste is opinion ya. God bless you and I hope your brain damage isn't permanent
