That kid is f**king incredible! I read someone criticizing his hand position while he was playing something on TH-cam. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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. 🌎✌🌱🎶
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. th-cam.com/video/H5armQSH8h4/w-d-xo.html
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
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! 🎶
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!
@@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
Goat moments:
0:01
0:29 (easter egg @Max Ostro)
0:34
0:53
1:07
1:37
1:52
2:06
2:45
3:12
3:31
3:44
3:49
3:54
When a guitarist is able to put a smile on the faces of both Satriani and Vai at the same time, you know it's not an ordinary man.
He's the kind of guitarist that inspires others to pick up a guitar and play and to put down a guitar and doing something else!
The problem with Guthrie is that pretty much anytime he picks up a guitar he creates a GOAT moment
I Liked the Max Ostro cameo.
That kid is f**king incredible! I read someone criticizing his hand position while he was playing something on TH-cam. That person clearly did not understand what he was witnessing. When youre that good you make your own rules.
I asked ChatGPT to play the most amazing live solos and it gave up and linked me to Guthrie.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
No man, i did it too, but it said Alip Ba Ta ...
It's not yet perfect. I prefer Matteo Mancuso, for example
A shredder who consistently plays the best notes possible in a phrase, no matter how fast or technical. This is what set him apart from the rest
most amazing thing about him is that his tone always comes out on any guitars any amps any situation
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 agree 💯 percent...
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.
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I love how at 3:07 Guthrie is over the Honeymoon period of appreciating his inspirations and shows them the first floor of their foundations
3:08
Joe: "Can I get this but clean"
Guthrie:
Never been closer to quitting guitar
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.
Yeah! a short list of one
@@IANSPA I was just about to say this. He can play pretty much what everyone else can play and no one can really play what he can play
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.
Vai and sach just didn't have an answer for him really...
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.
How do you make a Pro feel like a beginner. ⬆️ Show them this guy.
Max ostro 😂
Flight of the bumblebee in the middle of a solo. Class
Its a shame that Guthrie plays to such small audiences when he has such skill & technique...
That one handed playing is just insane. The guy is a complete master.
anybody know what's the full video ?
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.
Guthrie doesn’t need his right hand to play guitar to be honest, he’s just flexing on us.
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.
Guthrie has a very distinct sound.
The best the guitarists ever, because they could play virtually anything: Guthrie, Shawn Lane, Jason Becker.
I love the Erotic Cakes record. It literally breathes energy into my blood. Really looking forward to seeing him live one day.
Getting to see him live last year was more than everything I hoped for
I kind of think Guthrie is the avatar of guitar at this point:-)
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.
I think if this were TRULY goat moments, it'd be whenever he picked up a guitar
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.'
When you're jamming and doing arguably more weird things than Steve Vai of all people, you know you're on to a winner!
Impresionante. Es de otro mundo...
The Govaner
Almost as good as J J Cale . . .
but a little too nervous!😂😂😂
Great content 🤘🤘✌️🖖
Thank you 🙌
I know he can actually play but half of it sounds like pinball machine
Yeah. As the emperor Joseph said in Amadeus: "Too many notes". 😁
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.
🌎✌🌱🎶
You're a pinball machine.
@@erenbecomesdovecrying6016 The Pinball Wizard
I would say it's quite impressive to get pinball machine sounds out of a guitar. Was it a compliment?
It looks like he had his hands in a bee hive! 😂
Hybrid picking technique is the key. Tom Quale knows what I'm talking about.
Unfortunately, I'm too dumby to understand this technique.
have mercy 🎸🎸🎸
Keren banget.....ilove
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.
🌎✌🌱🎶
@@GuitarTotality it doesn't work on donkeys
@@GuitarTotality You have smoked for so long that you are at the special-needs level
@@GuitarTotality you really like this comment, don’t you.. posted it like 9 times
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.
th-cam.com/video/H5armQSH8h4/w-d-xo.html
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
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!
🎶
Can someone tell me where does the 3:54 clip come from?
Waves live london
@@Diakonov29 you rock
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if a robot with soul played guitar
0:59 holy moly! what's that!?
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!
3:13 Noway to compared him with them
Anyone else think Guthrie played better on the Suhr guitar?
hell yeah because he was younger
I am gonna drink more beer!
Pointless twiddle. He's at his best when he slows down, which unfortunately is a rarity.
And yet it is boring. But I'd applaud, maybe if he had his head inside bucket or standing on one leg. Or taming wild camel.
When jesus play guitar
My dad hated when I played like this
Cut to mark knopfler playing one note and the sound of a cash register going ballistic..
Type in Matteo Mancuso Fives - you'll see what people are talking about. He's the best !
His version of fives is clearly inferior to Guthrie. He's pretty good but his style is limiting.
san miguel pale pilsen beer haha
O cara mais bugado de todos
Fast and a lot, impressive?
02:08 I can do that... only the right hand part.
Hahahaha
Guthrie>Vai>Satriani...... And ... Satriani>Vai> Guthrie... All depends...depends on how we look at it and their talents and skills..
depends on wether Guthrie is drinking a beer or not :v
Not really jajaja you're right with the first chain tho
Why do you have to compare them? Just listen to them and enjoy the music, obnoxiousness isn't necessary to do that.
It's good but it has no soul
Brain damage opinion.
@@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
@@kevindrinkswater9024I bet your favorite guitarist is Jimmy Page or BB king 😂
The guy is a freak for sure but it’s just a wall of notes that lacks any melodic phrasing .
I think this is the first video you've seen of him.
@@JacobB70x7 Incorrect ! I’ve seen plenty of videos of his playing .
@@deanwitt7903 💀
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@@deanwitt7903 you should listen to his song “outsider”that song is quite melodic
Yawn. Another yawn. He sure can play fast. Yet another yawn. Yawn.
You do realize this is selection of technically-oriented jaw-dropping moments. It's not like his songs are like this
@@alpardal thanks for say it
You are probably some idiot boomer who hears some basic pentatonic playing with some bends and is like ‘WOAH THIS HAS SO MUCH FEEL’
this video is 90% whank noodling lol. go listen to the aristocrats
Por dios! Fuerte!