This solo is on the Steven Wilson song Home Invasion/Regret #9. From the album Hand Cannot Erase. This solo was improvised and done in one take. Another brilliant solo on the album is from the song Ancestral which is also played by Guthrie
Marco Minnemann didn’t accept the offer of playing in dream theater because of the big commitment it meant, he wanted to be free to play on his other projects too, which is amazing. I love me some Aristocrats, and also It’s crazy to know how many of my favorite musicians are playing together!! Steven Wilson, Guthrie, and him. In other hand, Guthrie will always be a huge inspiration to me to go practice and play some solos on my guitar
@@caryd67 Both. I ofc know that there were a few half/close to half rests in the first bars, but other than that it wasn't the use of silence that impressed me :)
i wrote down the changes and HOLY FUCKING SHIT i couldnt even figure out what key it was in !!! I consider myself pretty advanced soloist and it truly is an amazing solo now that someone tabbed it i think i might learn it?
@@TheWhatthefuck12 yeah, I'm not entirely convinced by some of those chord changes. It sounds like it changes key at least once, perhaps twice. I don't think that's clever. Run out of ideas? Change key. I don't mean to detract in any way from Guthrie's playing, it is amazing and exceptional, but the underlying music has more than a whiff of 'prog rock' about it, which I don't particularly like.
The progression makes a huge difference. But to me Guthrie is still the maseter. Wilson's "dark matter" solo has a similar chord progression in some parts (alternating between A and F instead of E and C), but the solo (while still being great and all) has a very different vibe. More raw and sloppy. At times just forgetting about the rhythm and getting lost in pentatonics. Also cool. But at least to my ears Guthrie's playing is so much more elaborate, both musically and techically. @@davidderoux7552
Not only is it brilliant: if you've ever tried to solo over the changes it's really difficult to make it sound seamless and melodic as Guthrie does. The guy is a phenomena.
This is so true. After years of playing I can say I have some decent shred chops, still I always struggle to weave a thread and tell a story thru the changes like these players. Just amazing.
Most players that are good in playing the chord changes doesn't treat scales like we rockers/shredders do ... They usually use scale notes to connect triads and arpeggios 😁
@@BrunoGarciaMusic where are people getting the claim that it's improvised? I don't doubt Guthrie's talent but you can see at 0:28 the video is from a different take
@@theharvardyard2356 Improvised, and "the same take as the video" are not mutually exclusive. When have you ever heard him play the same thing the same twice?
He gets criticised for playing too many notes, but those who have followed his career, pre solo album, know he can play any style convincingly, and this solo proves it. I remember getting this album and just melting listening to this solo.
he plays a hellava lot less notes that many other 'guitar scene' guitarists. i was watching the john petrucci all star jam earlier and was thinking GG plays 1/10 of the notes of the other guys, but says 100x more. basically he's playing the right notes. melodic. tasteful.
He does play ' too many notes ' but all of them have purpose and are part of the story he is conveying through his solos. He is by far the most accomplished overall Guitar players out there. And has been for at least 20 years or so.
Great work transcribing this Levi. I love this song and the album. Hearing the solo in context with the whole song makes it even better. What's not to love about Guthrie's playing? He's on another level.
It was definitely worth looking up the full song to hear, and appreciate how this solo synergizes with the (also fantastic) keyboard solo preceding it.
Great solo and great transcription. That had to have taken some time. His guitar tone and those spacey drums are on fire too, everything about this is actually super cool.
If I remember correctly, Steven mentioned in an interview that he had to tell Guthrie to rein it in and not go crazy with the fast runs. Simply crazy that this was a single take. Thanks for the transcription :)
@@edidpro and if people followed up on that story and listened to Steven's output subsequently, maybe people would more accurately analyze what's what. Steven at his best does tasteful homages to stuff that's already happened, when it's not tasteful, it's kind of an obvious knockoff and this has been going on since The Incident if not before. Guthrie and Marco should be getting at least some of the enthusiasm that the PT/SW has- as they're more genera hoping, than knocking off specific elements of classic groups.
I find that rather hard to believe, only because, when you listen to the alternative take of this song/solo, Guthrie is far more subdued. You can find the alternative on Spotify.
Brother, these videos are FIRE! Levi is one of the greatest music and guitar educators of our time, and seeing some justice from the algorithm is LONG overdue. Big love my man! Keep hustling!
A phenomenal solo indeed. Luscious bends and perfect vibrato. The right note in the right place. No unnecessary flash, just soul. The man is a master of his instrument.
Amazing......simply just lost for words when it comes to the pure art and talent of this guy. LOVED how he actually looked a bit suprised at the end there haha!
A Guthrie Gilmour solo. Doesn't hurt that the song is great and ends / segues just after. Love Govan to bits, great sense of humour and is passionate and captivating everytime he talks about music. He's got incredible chops but what sets him apart is the constant sense of spontaneous musicality, like he never runs out of fresh ideas. His chemistry with the other Aristocrats is incredible.
Only thing I don't like about him is how stingy he is with sharing tabs or allowing people to know how to play stuff. If he knew this video was up he would probably try to get it removed because of the tabs lmao.
Electric guitar in it’s modern form, with the effects chains, and the tools we have available these days, all part of this wonderful musical instrument, with the capability to be so incredibly expressive. And then, in the hands of a musical wizard, like Guthrie, with his ears and soulful care, inside such a beautiful arrangement, we are very very lucky to get to experience musicians like this during our lifetime. I love this, I will listen to it again many times, and I am very inspired. And the band members also absolutely on fire. Thanks for posting. For all the younger musicians, checking this out, just learn your craft, learn music, and learn your instrument, backwards and forwards, and up and down, but don’t ever forget your soul energy, the thing inside you that wants to burst out and fly. Because eventually you may get to this level if you keep it up. And when you do, there’s simply nothing else like it. I still can’t believe we have RU-vid accessible 24 hours a day seven days a week to check stuff out like this!
Guthrie is so talented; But not just talented. He is so depley versed in music theory and understands the guitar so much more than, I'd say almost everyone. This guy is maybe the best ever.
I believe Jason Becker is at that level as well. Completely different styles, since Jason is a Heavy Metal musician, so it gets hard to compare. But I feel these two are equally deep in therms of music and guitar playing. Thankfully, we have them both.
I personally rank this as one of rock history's best solo ever. But the most amazing thing for me is that just looking at the two records that GG recorded with Steven Wilson, there are at least two other amazing solos. One is in Ancestral, still from Hand Cannot Erase. The other one is in Drive Home, from the Raven album, which oozes an unbelievable, beautiful sadness.
There are only a handful of guitar solos that can bring me to tears… Drive Home is one of them! Another one of course is the outro solo of Comfortably Numb.
An absolute joy to watch this solo over and over. It gets getter with every single watch… that blow of the cheeks at the very end sums the whole vid up.
I've been focusing so much on the solo that I didn't realize how impressive Minnemann's drumming is here. Like how simple it is but he keeps putting ideas in to spark it up and lives with the mood as the solo gets more intense, supporting the raise in the feeling.
Yep. The whole band on this album is amazing. Walked out of the live show on this tour and literally said this was probably the best playing live on the planet tonight.
check out his solo on "drive home." something about that one just makes me want to weep every fucking time i hear it. this is a great one too, thanks for sharing!
Check out his solo from 'drive home' if you haven't already. It's also by Steven Wilson. The story goes that there was this modified guitar in the studio that he wanted to try out. So he did an improvised solo using it and it ended up being used for the final recording.
Love Guthrie, great guy and great player but so many people are so overly impressed by a barrage of notes in key. I will take Dave Gilmour's simple solo from Comfortably Numb over this any day. This kind of playing is a sure fire way to end up with a bunch of dudes staring back at you from the audience.
@@jhrdrake7205 oh no, I completely agree with you that technicality doesn't trump form and musicality. There are players out there who literally sound like a child going ape with a tin-whistle and so many people's jaws drop at the circus trick, but if you stop admiring how hard it is to do that and actually listen you realise it's absolutely pointless application. A player on social media at the moment who is like nails on a chalk board to me is Bernth. I think he epitomises everything wrong with ambitious and attention craving musicians whose main motivation is to posture... Guthrie is a very different guitarist than those kinds of players though. His choice of notes and expression is really emotive and listenable.
While there is no greatest guitarist (or greatest guitar solo,) there is no doubt if there were, Guthrie would be a contender for the title. I love this solo but I am also in love with the chord progression behind it. So atmospheric and powerful. That he can improv these things is astounding. Perhaps no other guitarist is ever so frequently in the zone as Govan.
No, that would be a toss-up between Slash's solos in November Rain, Gilmour's solo in Time, or Hotel California's solo. Skynyrd's That Smell solo is up there too.
🤔 Gilmour: Comfortably Numb, Lifeson: Freewill, and you're right about Hotel. Hard pass on Slash and his sour note-fest on November Lame, though. Dude's so overrated... ☮️+💜+🎶
Steven Wilson told in the interview with Rick Beato, that when recording that solo (Drive Home) the high E string slipped out of the saddle and Guthrie improvised that amazing solo anyway without it. He's slowly becoming the Chuck Norris of guitar players :D
What we have here is voice leading in a rock context. The voice leading is fairly simple and obvious, the phrasing between is beautiful. It’s so great to hear a rock solo that based on the changes rather than the usual pick one scale that works over the whole thing approach.
I think this is without a doubt the best solo he's ever recorded. However there are people like Jeff Beck and Tim Henson that can do solo's that will blow the back of your head off.
Please do not put those two names one after the other .It hurts. If you said Matteo Muncuso,Josh or Antonie boyer etc. It wouldn't hurt so bad. But please don't. Ps. I don't dislike Tim,he's great. But if you know what I mean,you know. Otherwise keep listening to music.
I agree with the other guy, putting Govan and Henson together would be offensive, if it didn't immediately make it obvious that you're a fucking clueless troll...
I think he’s trying to say - that Tim’s playing is phenomenal but to me very very technical and sterile ! I think it’s that lack of blues in his playing ! I love watching him play ! But could he play anything like this ! No I don’t think he could with his more classical background Guthrie on the other hand could most probably conquer Tim’s sound and chops in a week ! ❤😮
@@lukather1 you're clearly not a guitar player. Guthrie couldn't play what Tim plays if he lived to be 1000, it's not a matter of "chops", it's a completely different technical level. Guthrie isn't even in his league let alone could conquer anything in a week. The problem with people like you, is you have no actual understanding of what takes skill, and what sounds like it takes skill. It's a night and day difference. What Guthrie played might sound hard to someone like you, truth is it wouldn't even take me a day to learn and play, there's not 1 single difficult or technical thing to learn there, all he's doing is basic hammerons, pulls, and stretches. To a real guitar player, that's like a warm up.
Of course it subjective. The solo also works even better in the context of the entire song. It just does something to me that hasn't been matched by much else, besides Guthries solo on Drive Home
See when you phrase it a certain way it gets all the clicks. It doesn’t lead you to any other solos. So a young guitarist get obsessed with one and doesn’t know the rest of great guitarists. Guthrie can’t do what Zakk does, Zakk can’t do what Vai does, Vai can’t do Gilbert does, etc. my thing is lead people to find every great not end it.
Dave Gilmour with uber-technique. Guthrie is probably the most technically gifted electric guitarist ever, with a seemingly endless supply of licks from every genre, and an unrivalled imagination and improvisational skill. That said, I don't actually like most of what he does...especially the more jazz elements. It's all very complex and clever, and it certainly has you crossing your arms...and twisting your fingers.But does it make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck? And of course a great solo without a great song is just a waste of a great solo. When he plays relatively “straight“ like this, though, and within the context of a good song, he is truly brilliant, and capable of giving you those goosebumps normally reserved for the like of Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Gary Moore and a select few others. Kudos!
Clickbait Clay is at it again. Love you're work, man, but it sucks that you have to slave to the algorithm like that. Only hope is that it grows this channel a lot, because you deserve it! Oh, and Guthrie is a freakin machine.
It’s the best thing to do, not only does it help me, but it gets more people to see the video. That Danny video yesterday? Old video on my channel that got 2000 views in 3 years. New one got 10k in a day. That’s better for Danny’s legacy.
@@MikeSingSing You see the problem though ? - diminishing returns. I clicked on to it, then realised that it was clickbait, wasting my time. So, as a result I'll happily pass by titles by Levi, because I assume they'll be clickbait too. There's so much guitar content on YT that when I know a creator uses blatant clickbait, I just pass on them. Maybe many more will do this too, without commenting. As I say, diminishing returns.
Allan Holdsworths solo on "Joshua" is what I consider to be the greatest guitar-solo of all time. It's all a matter of personal taste. There is no greatest, really.
I have never heard Guthrie hit a wrong note. Ever. Not live, not in the studio, never. I think Guthrie invented music as we know it and he just never got the credit for it, he’s so amazing…
Technically you're correct because there are no 'wrong notes', but he's has certainly hit notes he did not intend to hit many times. Stop fanboying and listen with your ears instead of your hero worship...
The depth and breadth of his technical skill and his creativity make him one of the best who has ever played the instrument. Take a night and listen to him for a few hours and you’ll hear what the talk is about. Best to you…
@@redstrat1234 But you remember Mary Had a Little Lamb right and Happy Birthday and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star? The complexity of his leads make them hard to remember but it doesn’t mean they aren’t works of genius.
@@redstrat1234exactly, there wasn't even one bar in that solo with any memorable melody to it. There's no questioning his technical proficiency, but I'll take less of that if you give me an actual good composer.
stairway to heaven, beat it, jump, soli (by gong), ruff stuff, shook me all night long, paradise city, black dog, in the land of grey and pink, third stone from the sun, comfortably numb, etc etc etc. 'greatest solo' is a mighty heavy title to be throwing around willy nilly - would take a LOT to claim it. guthrie aint even close. he is most sophisticated and advanced guitarists technically.
@@jordanc2844 Not really into progressive pop metal. The solo is of course technically interesting, but that song suffers from the same thing many modern songs do. It's compressed beyond belief, and the dynamic range is basically nonexistent. I respect what they're trying to do, but I find the pursuit of musical perfection to be quite boring. I'll take a dirty, imperfect Beck or Page solo over that every time.
I think it deserves a place in the hall of great guitar solos. Ive heard it dozens of times over the years and never get tired of it. Saw Wilsons Hand Cannot Erase on tour. Incredible.
Not even close, Gilmour has a few in the top ten IMO. The solo on Howlin Wolf Going down slow is "better" than anything I've heard by Gonovan Guthrie, but I grew up on real music.
Almost as good as Greg Howe's "Oracle" solo but still far away from JP's "The best of times", "Lines in the sand" or "A great day for freedom" live in Gdansk of sir Gilmour.
Great feel, tone, dynamics and an amazing control of everything he plays. This guy has impressive technique yet he decides to use it to play in the most musical fashion possible.
@@MatejMajdandzicI don’t know who they are, but I do know that they are right. Have you only ever heard this one solo? There are many out there that are better than this both musically and technically and creatively. Parisienne Walkways, for one. Mark Knopfler, Robin Trower, Snowy White, Uli Jon Roth, Brian May, and others are all more accomplished than whoever played this piece.
@@andyhiscox2750Ok boomer let people have opinions, I grew up with classic rock and worshipped Jimmy Page, Blackmore, Uli Jon Roth but nothing everything is just sloppily improvised blue solos
Seriously? The greatest guitar solo EVER recorded?? There are dozens of guitar solos in history that are both melodically/harmonically more sophisticated and brought millions of grown men to tears, including Mr. Crowley, Comfortably numb and basically everything Jimmy Page played in 1973 MSG (Stairway, Since i've been loving you, No Quarter, Dazed and confused etc.). That title is not only a huge clickbait, but also a disgrace to the rock legends from the 60s forward.
This solo is incredible as is the Moog solo that leads into this. The Stick, drums, moog during the solo make it even more incredible, definitely playing as 1 .
Some of the note selection is just.... * chef's kiss Technical prowess is one thing, and impressive by itself. But to draw or invoke emotion in others with a guitar is a talent all its own, and there are more that can't, than can.
His face at the end is ample proof that he poured everything into that.....his mind wasn't even in the room.....it was off somewhere that it lives, and we occasionally get to glimpse.
