for the people here that don't understand.. breaking a string on a guitar with that type of setup takes the entire tuning out of whack, for all strings.. for him to take a slide and just play a totally de-tuned guitar purely by ear and instinct ... it's just pure genius
Me and my buddy actually got a pretty good laugh outta that, he was like wtf is this? His signature guitars jack in on the side, so he can loop the cable around the strap knob (if he steps on the cord it won't unplug, tho he didn't bother looping it in this clip cuz time was of the essence lol). The input is actually recessed into the body to hide it & it's angled down for the strap-loop trick. Strats usually jack in the front, lots of thin-body electrics use that feature as well, more meat near the middle of the body for electronics. Cheers!
He wasn't fumbling for the socket, he was putting his in-ear receiver that was on his other strap in his pocket and plugging in all at the same time...!!!
What really impresses me is the quick thinking. When a string breaks, not only you have one less string to play, but the whole instrument gets thrown out of tune. The moment the break happens, he immediately grabs back the slide so he can continue playing by ear without minding the frets.
I had the opportunity to take classes from Guthrie this week at John Petrucci's Guitar Universe. I hadn't heard of him before this week, and in the first class I took with him, I was absolutely blown away. His depth and breadth of knowledge is astounding, not to mention his technical chops. He can probably mimic the guitar playing of every somewhat major guitarist of the last 60 years or so. Not only that, he's very funny, charming, and an extremely good teacher. I am a huge fan, now.
This performance brought tears of joy to my eyes,guthrie is phenomenal and im so happy to see him getting recognition beyond the guitar nerd/shred scene.
And in the HARDEST PLACE to break a string - a timed solo where he has to come back in after being disengaged from the song by surprise and figure out where he is, meeting up with the orchestra. Doesn't matter how pro you are, breaking a string is always surprising and is uncommon enough to be virtually impossible to get used to. As a guitarist who has been playing professionally since I was 10, that shit gave me a bit of a palpitation. I would have been freaking out inside. The professional trick is to not show it.
I love the fact that after the string breaks and guthrie changes the guitar, the song goes from a mysterious pink floydish kind of sound to a hopeful place. It's as if the song is telling guthrie and the audience "everything is gonna be alright". It fits perfectly with the situation 4:45
When you break a string and your first reactions are: - Saving the lines (I bet some people didn't even notice it. Maybe some in the orchestra behind him even didn't because they couldn't see it), - Look at the composer and saying something like "I got this, don't worry, I won't let this ruin your beautiful piece", you then know he's a pro and humble as can be. Also; Guthrie's other videos and interviews. I often think Govan Guthrie doesn't even know how good he actually is. Zimmer & Guthrie, WHAT an amazing collaboration!
Anyone keep coming back here on a regular basis like I do? Just yesterday I heard Guthrie play this live but they switched it up a bit (for worse imho) - this version is just untouchable.. so much nuanse, so melodic. Grabs me by the heart each and every single time. The broken string only adds to the whole experience.
Most of today's greatest guitarists would agree on Guthrie being absolutely incomparable... there is probably no other guitar player who is so far ahead of everyone else he is just so consistent on whatever he does and he can play basically everything you could imagine. He's one of a kind and maybe even the greatest ever... there I said it.
termol-no only works if you block it as long as the tuning is still okay. if you break a string the tremolo goes out of position and the tuning is totally off. blocking it then an retuning is just a big mess. A system like in the Ibanez ZR Trems would help but you can't do any flutter trem-tricks with it but it stays in tune when a string breaks. Or the Steinberger TransTrem and S-trem can be blocked in the zero Position. But a Tremol-no just helps with downtunings or if you want to do some heavy country bends.
+AlexisGitarre the tremolo-no actually has a secondary block to prevent it from going sharp if a string breaks just like the ZR trem. He might have had it with some slack so he could pull back on the trem for subtle vibrato when playing chords. Regardless, he handled it so well it just goes to show you how great a player he is to mask the guitar going out of tune in time for a switch.
Nope, the second block can be used but if you know Guthrie you even seen in a lot of his videos that he has taken off the second block. guthrie has always his guitar in free floating and only blocks it if he plays detuned. And in this tune you can hear how the guitar goes out of tune and look at his fingers bending at the lower frets until he grabs the bottle neck. He not even touches the back of the guitar to lock the TremolNo. And a ZR tremolo and TremolNo are totally different systems. the ZR has counter springs, the TremolNo only has just a rod that you can fix with screws. I do have guitars with both systems and I absolutely hate the ZR with the blocking springs in them because it makes the tremolo stiff and you can't do a lot of tricks anymore. the tremolNo is way nicer to handle and made for a totally different purpose.
He told many time in interviews that he were practicing and learning pieces from great players like gilmour , scofield and other ones , so he managed his own universal technique at highest level :)
oh my god, thank god for guthrie existing... He is just freaking amazing, what an incredible into with so much feeling, thank you for doing what you do Guthrie, and for gifting us with your music
How amazing it is to see that even the best shows can suffer from simple unpredictable things such as a broken string but the professionalism is actually how cool it gets handled.
@@timidboy02 I saw an interview in which he was clearly gutted it happened. He was nervous about doing the same big bends in subsequent performances. Not for himself, but in case he ruined performances for Zimmer. Zimmer told him not to worry, and keep doing it - and it will fade into the distance.
There is nothing Guthrie can't play on the guitar. I've never seen another player as free as Guthrie. Beautiful feeling. He can pull out Floyd and any other tone he wants whenever he wants. Unbelievable player.
Oh God, I love the internet. Somehow, I’ve never heard Guthrie Govan play until now. That, thankfully, has been rectified. His phrasing is simply unreal.
Michael Ciancetta I know. It was a friend of Hans back in the day. Peter I think? I didn’t mean the main melody which GG did not write. I meant the improvising afterwards.
@@stratosaurusrex3399 yeah that's true.. govan as technically virtuoso as he is never came up with anything creatively interesting in my opinion.. far from being one of the best :)
You can tell Hans loved what he did right after the string break. Amazing performance, love Hans Zimmer, Guthrie and the amazing band behind all of this
Still blows my mind how he pulled this off. Love the way he looks at Hans & just gives him the nod like "I'm good! no worries" & he's just like word, imma hop on the piano then.
Not quite. Both are Charvels. Though yes, the second one is the Charvel version of the Fender Strat (the "So-Cal" model) with single coils. You can hear the lower output leading to a slightly shorter sustain, which Guthrie fills with some additional phrasing like the fucking pro he is. And Charvel is of course owned by Fender. Made in the same factories in Corona and Ensenada.
I saw Guthrie Govan with his band The Aristocrats play live two days ago... I am still smiling. What a great display of musicianship, virtuosity, humor and joy on stage. All at once. Please, check his trio band together with Bryan Beller and Marco Minnemann.
I was working on something on my other monitor while listening to this. Didn't even notice he broke a string until I read the comments after the song ended. Amazing lol.
Rest in Peace Pete Haycock.... I remember listening to this song when I was 14 years old in 2003 in Malaysia on a trip and it wasn't until 2008 when I saw a Jeremy Clarkson video when this song stuck me again. I dug through, watched Thelma and Louise (loved it), went through the credits and got to know about the song. I love the song to bits and it's a shame I didn't get to watch Pete play live.
Sick combination of Hans & Guthrie.. But man you're killing it yourself ... I am Addicted to your album Flux! Had to comment you just to say thank you very much sir for quality music.. Hope you keep producing!
Love the fact how Guthrie respects Hans so much he looked at him before using the slider, got the approval and went on to use it like a total pro! Huge respect for this man
This piece of music is the song of my soul... it can make me weep tears of joy, freedom, sadness... whatever however I feel, this song is pure magic. I nearly died when I heard it this year in Wembley.... I turned into a puddle of happy tears...
what a soothing music..love guthrie govan the way he played...look Hans behind him floating on the cosmic ocean of music...how much he enjoying his own creation we can all see it...respect from heart
It's as if the soundtrack started off as Thelma & Louise and transcended into the theme to Guthrie's superb string break recovery journey towards the end. :)
*The string broke under the pressure of working under Guthrie Govan.* Funny note: the input jack on Guthrie's main instrument, a Dinky-style body, is on the side; the replacement was a Strat-type, with the input jack on the front. Guthrie forgot for a moment! See 4:35 All is forgiven of course, given ow well he carried on playing.
i think he was trying to put the cable from behind the strap .... musician use this so if they accidentally step on the cable it doesn't get pulled out causing damage to the cable or guitar
biggest respect to him! To play with a broken string on a floating tremolo guitar is a masterpiece. I couldn‘t do that, I had it once during a show but stopped playing and quickly changed the guitar nice job!
He's not just treading water after the stringbreak either, even then he keeps it tasteful and well phrased. Most players would be too flustered to remain focused on the music. Also notice the well timed dive bomb to allow for the seamless changing of the guitars. Govan is out of this world.
Unbelievable - amazing music of Hans Zimmer for an epic movie, Guthrie really adds the icing on the cake! Hard to believe the movie was shot 30 years ago (June 1990 for 12 weeks)...
The awesome things we see is that he was in the zone before the break, then the problem solving of going back to the slide, but the shift of the guitar tremolo because of the changed tension caused the relative pitch between the remaining strings to be off, so he couldn't count on string to string (home base). I'm sure his adrenalin was in overdrive when he switched guitars. He immediately locked back in to the zone and finished flawlessly. One of a kind mastery.
