Enjoy ! 00:00 - Fast strumming demo 00:19 - Solo on a Pink Floyd sounding backing track 01:25 - Hendrix style demo 02:12 - Waves with The Aristocrats 03:29 - Bluegrass related to bebop ? 04:43 - Fretless guitar solo
Funny because thats exactly how Shawn Lane envisioned one should be when playing the guitar: so fluid and well versed that it becomes as natural as speaking.
His sense of melody is what I envy the most. Almost everything he plays fits, makes sense, is interesting and serves and elevates the song. That kind of ear is something that can’t be taught.
He is a person who understands the laws of nature according to Buddhism. He learns music just like we all learn languages. Freedom + love + passion + discipline is key here. He also travels to expand his musical ideas. His parents must have understood life for which we should be grateful because the music in the family inspired him to study music. So now we have Guthrie, guitar’s God We can all be gods! By understanding yourself and consciousness.
I thought the same thing 😮 I then had the realization that all the classical string instruments are fretless. Maybe it has something to do with hearing blues type slide guitar played that way. Guthrie just has a way with the guitar that is so beyond yet so easy to listen to.
Fretless bass players and Guthrie here are the proof that electric fretless guitars could sound very good, but chords are very hard, in classical string instruments double stops are one of those medium-advanced techniques to do masterfully while in fretted guitar they’re one of the easiest techniques, the way Guthrie plays in tune is absolutely amazing
I always believed the source of Guthrie's powers was in his ears rather than his hands. His intonation on the fretless neck is a perfect example of that I think.
It seems like an age ago now.. and it probably was nearly 20 years, but I got to listen to Guthrie play live at the side of the stage with Richie Kotzen, and both of us just looked blankly at each other at the sheer brilliance of Guthrie's playing.
I sometimes forget what an outstanding jazz guitarist Guthrie is. I'm sure he would have no difficulty playing standards or Bebop. He seems to have an infinate vocabulary.
I don't think he would make a very good jazz guitarist, he just doesn't have that 'sound'. When he plays that style he just sounds like a metal guy playing jazz, which ultimately he is.
@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 Guthrie metal guy? Haha. The sound you are referring to probably has to do with the type of guitars he uses compared to the hollow body type, which sounds very different
00:00 - Fast strumming demo 00:19 - Solo on a Shine on you crazy diamond backing track 01:25 - Hendrix style demo 02:12 - Waves with The Aristocrats 03:29 - Bluegrass related to bebop ? 04:43 - Fretless guitar solo
I love Guthrie's phrasing. A few long felt emotional notes to get you feeling good and then a burage of notes in seamless scales to slap you in the fac e to ensure you are paying attention. Like when a magician does a perfect trick and you are sitting htere stunned thinking, what the hell just happened?
He's gone fretless now, this god of the guitar. Where will it end? Is he going to discard the guitar altogether and telepathically beam his solos into our brains?
There's also a funny and awesome clip of the Waves live loop where he explains how he composed the song and someone actually tabbed it and made the whole thing into a video! If you search gutherie govan waves loop tabs it should appear. It's so much fun!
Guthrie is probably your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist. Unless Guthrie is your favorite guitarist, in that case it's probably Holdsworth or Gary!
It became the standard diatribe for a while there - starting in the mid 1990s - for the guitar ecosphere to try and drive home this paradigm where "you don't need music theory", you don't have to learn the technical scholarship of "music on paper". Thankfully that has subsided some in the past decade. Guthrie is evidence, as are Vai and John Mayer (and any Jazz guitarist) that in order to truly attain the "next level" you need to understand how chords and scales relate and how to use them. How to play music with color. Not to down simple music, ie Nirvana, RAtM, or Green Day, etc. It has it's place and is very good. However sometimes a power chord just doesn't provide the level of detail you get from a sus2/4 or a m7b9, a #11th, etc., etc.
Thats more of a ginger joke, wich holds a certain truth when it comes to the mental state. And this does come from being a little different. Don't you just love people and how they accept eachothers differences especially our dear children. But the underlying truth funeral music does not sell.
He is so amazing. If you haven't heard Regret #9 take a listen. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IaH2C2Qe97Y.html I know it is orchestrated and a large production piece but here he is. Guthrie on a strat with bends and vibrato that develop the most tension possible in a guitar solo. This is Guthrie somewhat restrained by a fender stratocaster but by the end you know he wins. This video should have included this moment hands down.
The trick to seeing great guitar players is seeing them live in the span of a few days. l saw the Aristocrats at gas Monkey in Dallas and was blown away but the next night l saw this unknown guy at a seafood restaurant l was eating at that was better lMHO named Marbin or Danny marbin. lve seen great players tho going back to the early 70s.
Its funny how some people in the comments need to start comparing guitar players and who's better - it seems they have grown up in an environment that cannot accept the fact there can be multiple amazing things at the same time without one being better than the other. Like all the 5 basic elements have the same value. Nothing is greater or better than the other.
