Guthrie Govan String Bending Masterclass - Part Five

[@Thomasplaysguitar]

I can never get enough of this guy.

[@BluesLicks101]

Watched all 5 episodes of this masterclass and this was BY FAR the very best lecture and demonstration on bending notes on guitar I've seen in +45 years of playing. Guthrie, you are a treasure to the guitar world.

[@Steve_9292]

Oh Guthrie, you're wonderful. Bloody wonderful.

[@1992OGW]

+Egregious And slippery.

[@elvisjsax]

Thing.

[@AnchovyRun]

Hopefully they'll have him back for another masterclass

[@gerysasko3410]

Monster player, sophisticated humor too as a bonus lol

[@robertbliss4611]

+Gery Sasko tosser

[@Browithabow]

If i ever won the lottery , I would buy Guthrie Govan

[@Wyldelyfe]

+K Fed I'd buy two!

[@kewlfonz]

A drink...

[@kewlfonz]

@broomsterm That's a bit bitchy and unkind...

[@borgan1964]

no thought,,he would be my best mate and we would play in the same band,,of cause

[@mountain_manmoto5566]

@broomsterm can you buy better character?

[@rajendrankappat3118]

Perfect. When the master demonstrates , the technique appears so simple and easy..

[@christopheradcock2980]

Wow! Not a hope of playing these ones but inspiring to watch such a talented and humble virtuoso teach. I've got so much out of this series. Thank you.

[@mensamin]

You should try!, it isn't that hard

[@coconejococonejo]

He is like the Bob Ross of guitar

[@johnmacward]

Less fro, more flow...

[@ScottMacLeodCompany]

Yes. You nailed it!

[@youtube-person0098]

I think everybody has subconsciously given him that title.

[@svendtveskg5719]

Arh, I don't know... :)

[@TheMusicislife29]

I come back and watch this every now and then when I'm in a music rut and it helps every time! I would love to see another masterclass from him, maybe on faux slide guitar! Of course I could learn something new from any concept he teaches

[@TheDillinger22]

Bravo .. I get almost as much pleasure listening to Guthrie speak as I do listening to him play the guitar :)

[@janneboman8573]

I play bass. I just come here to hear him talk.

[@AW-kr9fl]

That harmonica lick is absolutely unreal! Shit’s ridiculous in an awesome way

[@BalloonRace]

He has such a great way of explaining things without boring you.

[@GregoryPearsonMusic]

Guthrie is an excellent teacher - these lessons are so useful

[@AgimLubonja]

Great guitarist as well as teacher!

[@bilalmalikguitarist]

he's the best teacher in the world for a reason!

[@yonikup2865]

Paul Gilbert as well

[@jakelabete7412]

You make it look easy and you make it fun - hallmark of a great teacher.

[@jordansyangden1289]

Guthrie Govan is the best guitarist and his lesson is so helpful to all the beginners ....Ty Guthrie you're the best

[@TheHesseJames]

Yeah, that‘s what I tell all beginners: you‘ll need some basics first, so once you got Guthrie‘s bending master class down, come back and I‘ll show you how to play SOTW.

[@ScotDvorak]

Awesome group of lessons! It’s as much of a pleasure listening to Guthrie’s insightful and comedic explanations (Guthrie-isms) as it is to watch and hear him play... almost! Scariest thing is... he just wails any of this stuff in there at any time in the heat of insane improvisations!

[@gkniffen]

That “harmonica” lick with the tone knob rolled off is wild... ✌️

[@jkguitar-w2n]

He's the most funniest and the most fastest squirrel guitarist of the Planet..God bless him..

[@MinusCube]

Great video and series... Thankyou sir!

[@Identitees]

I enjoyed watching all that, will I go over it again and try to learn all the riffs? Probably not. Guthrie is a star...

[@majian123123]

Deserve more view, that’s all I wanna say

[@conradkriel6279]

Thank you for all this work guys - i have been working on the unison bends and they sound fantastic now due to Guthries instruction

[@2na-phish]

IMO the whole mad scientist aspect makes for a very happy lesson.

[@RobbySchechter]

"you should have some fun with that one...maybe" (shoulder shrug.) Guthrie your my hero

[@TheHesseJames]

„That one“ was criminal

[@HarlanHarvey76]

I can't keep a shirt clean for 1 hour, Guthrie kept his clean for 5 months!! He's more than just a generational musician!

[@Fitzliputzli23]

Regardless of his music I like the way he expresses himself with words.

[@paulsharpe]

Great stuff. Thanks!

[@karimsalhani]

Guthrie's lessons feel like being at Hogwarts school of wizardry and he's just demonstrating cool stuff that he deals with on a daily basis and that we all have to master one day.

[@los5300]

Exactly true

[@Johnny1.0]

Funny cuz its true.

[@Bittersteamtrain]

He even looks like a wizard.

[@bartnettle]

Great communicator!

[@tonydeltablues]

lovely pedal steel sound - beautiful

[@pepevalenzuela8422]

Thanks a lot Ian, I loved a Passion Play and Thick as a Brick

[@maccaslash]

Mr Govan, you are truly a god. I hope I could even be half the musician you are someday.

[@ginoorcullo2052]

If this session is every month, I'm amazed on how they maintain the set, and Guthrie's shirt. Aside from GG is out of this world amazing

[@jackdellad4602]

Release times! ..they are ..Oh,

[@hyyddraa]

Here is the true definition of tapping!!! Thanks Guthrie!!!!

[@megadeth7659]

Steve Hacket used taping way back in the early 70's in Genesis, definitely not just for metal!

[@PauloGutemberg123]

What a wonderful human!

[@tubeamp2872]

They gave him a dime bag for doing these master classes !

[@justy256]

Guthie Govan = Steve Vai + Kenny Everett. All my heroes.

[@martinsinigriega6999]

Thanks for this amazing series Guthrie!

[@LucCournoyer]

Un virtuose! Un des meilleurs, assurément! Généreux en plus!

[@samuelpacker2976]

those are some crazy hard licks!

[@seamanjive]

Ian Anderson is looking well. His guitar playing has come on a bit.

[@pjg238]

Alright cool so when's Guthrie's Country Math Rock album coming out?

[@geneinewmai3868]

...omg only guitarist watching only 3000 views ..You're the best No doubt ...

[@juanmartinreborati7928]

Guthrie... You're the one...

[@belatorius3442]

I dont even play but you explain/show shit so clearly

[@jdimeleegoku2971]

drawingmaster that's because you probably just never played :)

[@Kashed]

Poor B string. Never gets to add in the fun.

[@0---------b5----------0]

This man is the Dumbledor of guitar right now.

[@concero]

Thanks Guthrie !

[@ogmakefirefiregood]

This guy is a Monster.

[@mrsnakepit]

"painless" Pain on my brain 😮

[@lucas.baladi]

Tapping Stigma comes from players that can't play it. I think it's a fantastic technique! Awesome series of Masterclasses, BTW

[@theoriginalbillholt]

+Lucas Baladi -- I'm inclined to agree, but maybe for slightly different reasons. To my ear, 'not knowing how' to tap is best exemplified by players who think that any interval sounds cool if it's tapped. No so. Some intervals sound horrible. As the overexposed Heavy Metal guitar solo equivalent of 'Hotel California' or 'Stairway To Heaven', Eddie's 'Eruption' stands the test of time against any critic's attack for the reason of Eddie's use of very pleasant and melodic intervals. I heard Van Halen's debut album, got it for Christmas -- on vinyl, so this is an original Throwback Thursday event ; ] -- and cranked it from my bedroom at the other end of the house so that my friend could hear, over a corded phone, what we had been marveling at with its much-anticipated plays on the radio. If I haven't heard it in a while 'Eruption' still has that magical effect, a 'holy crap' 38 years later. It's the melody and the tapping combined.

[@lucas.baladi]

But that's exactly the point i was refering. The problem with (us) guitarists is that we tend to think about technique, before music, and that's wrong. That's the reason why guitar has become such a (ridiculous) competition. BTW i'm not saying it happens only with guitarists. It happens a lot with Saxophone players as well. A LOT!!!

[@theoriginalbillholt]

***** -- I just got to the end of this, and I've come back with the warning that it's a bit lengthy. ; ] Again, I essentially agree with you. My 'first love' was drumming. It still is, but I like to dabble, which interestingly reinforces your opinion. My endless sense of musical curiosity and fascination with sound is rooted in fundamentals. I'll hear 'music' in ambient sounds. I'll chew gum in rhythmic accompaniment to my walk. I've been without a car stereo for at least nine years. I drive around with a wind chime inside my car. Ha! I think I first saw that done with the girl who's my 'Muse'. ; ] I was enamored with the sound of my Dad playing the old Hammond when I was very young. Like many musicians, he was 'gifted' and never had a lesson. I rather followed in his footsteps with regard to formal training, my innate interest in the magic of music being what drove me. Overwhelming displays of technique which are built upon the foundational elements of music are fine, in context, but beauty in simplicity represents an equal and perhaps even greater artistic achievement. While technical mastery inarguably has a place and a purpose, the essence of a good composition -- no, a good performance -- is its ability to evoke emotional responses in listeners. Consummate technique can have or enhance this effect, but it can just as easily have the opposite influence. Most drum solos are rather non-musical, oddly enough. As a result they typically bore me, as do extended 'noodling' guitar solos. To the 'layperson' these can provide for moments of sheer amazement, as witnessed in any KZbin example of them. However, once you have an understanding of Oz's workings from behind the curtain, as I've said in metaphor many times, the thrill can diminish. This is especially likely if a player is a rote technician. As you say, sax players who overly embellish can also do a disservice to the music they play. That's a shame with such an expressively capable instrument. Honestly, ANY instrument is brimming with the potential to be used with great expressiveness, and any 'overplaying' can be a detriment. Therein lies the distinction between mere players, however skilled, and true artists. Because of its kinetic disarray, for lack of a better term, Hard Bop sucks ass as far as I'm concerned. I'll stand by that opinion forever, although I'm just using that genre as an example of sonic overkill. Push a piano from the roof of a ten-story building and call the crash 'music'. You'd be right as well as wrong. ; ] Ultimately, beauty in the musical realm is in the ears of the beholder. Three-chord Rock isn't immune to criticism for its own reasons, either, but I'll close my rambling with a trip back to your original point. Technique is a tool. The content of a musical message is meant to convey a feeling, and delivering it as such should be the focus of playing any instrument in the first place. Teenage boys have formed garage bands since the 1950s so as to impress girls. Simple message, simple focus. Let's also be mindful that the element of showmanship, especially in Rock, can override both skill and song. From the musical equivalents of engineering-grade building blocks as well as Tinkertoys and LEGOs have arisen some enduring monuments to musical expression. Among them have been works steeped in performance technique as well as those born of far more rudimentary playing abilities. As I often quote, Duke Ellington purportedly said "If it sounds good, it is good". Sorry to be so verbose, but I'm sure you see that in essence I agree. Musicians can lend credence to the catchphrase that if you give a hammer to a two-year-old, suddenly everything needs to be hammered. Learning everything about playing the guitar, as the object instrument here, is a tremendous asset in terms of facility and execution. However, technique somewhat ineffably and poetically loses its sense of importance when it routinely BECOMES everything about playing the guitar. A technically accomplished musician with an emotive sense of style is the best type of player to be heard, in my opinion. Something interesting to say, with a fine way of saying it, makes for a great listening experience, and that is defined differently for everyone. ; ] While beige will never have the same impact as red, a dress doesn't have to be red if an attractive and interesting woman is wearing it. Sorry for that metaphor. Ha! I guess I could have spared some time for anyone who cared enough to read this far by simply saying that musical technique should always be the servant, whereas the ethereal artistic component of music's genesis should forever remain the master. Otherwise what have you, aside from tools and templates that virtually anyone can learn to use to greater or lesser effect? A dictionary catalogs individual words as seeds: it doesn't contain full-bloom poems. ; ]

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

Govan criticises tapping but uses it extensively in his playing.

[@shtdaprdtr]

Lick 5 is some dukes of hazzard shit!!!awesome!

[@karmeluk]

great! thank you very much

[@Julius_Seizure]

I could hang out with him every day.

[@TheCaveman05-13]

"A few licks I have concocted this month" you've been wearing the same shirt for 5 months!?!

[@SCtrojan2k]

You make this look way too easy.

[@m.drakibulhassanbhuiyanlip4646]

Great

[@Yanthungbemo]

8:09 if he's doing that without a compressor, I'm throwing out my guitar

[@colomboval]

simplismente incrível,perfeito😂

[@CMM5300]

Lick number 4 was straight up harmonica. Wow

[@itznoxy7193]

pause at 9:46

[@keifergaudry3128]

Thanks

[@Kashed]

What am I missing?

[@o0VallaS0o]

Can you recommend any country artist?

[@zgparsons]

So good

[@pattttttrick]

Would it be evil to combine sweep picking and hammer-on bends with the picking hand?

[@ProgMax1992]

10:15 I'm still asking myself if he's using a compressor :O

[@davidfrench409]

He's got Bruce Lee DNA in his fingers.

[@frannyp46]

David French.He is a fan of Bruce’s one inch punch which he applies to hammer ons from nowhere.Serious,I read that in one of his books

[@tamhewitt-baker5602]

Square inverse law, the closer you are to GG the less talented you feel.

[@Makanator]

I'm just curious because my guitar doesn't sound like that or is his pick ups doing that work?

[@haydenhack]

Hilarious and amazing..

[@meowwoem6372]

for some reason i'm imagining guthries being the son of catweasles teaching guitar wizadry at hogwarts.

[@chanhtrungle1188]

I learn from Paul Gilbert for rock and metal, i learn from Guthrie for everything about guitar and music

[@Makanator]

what kind of effect is Guthrie using for lick #5??

[@TomSamulak]

Adrian Reyes overdrive

[@streetlegal008]

Salmay Dalmay Adonay!

[@VyzCreates]

what is the point of the strap around the neck, is it like a capo??

[@ThomasVammenJensen]

String mutting.

[@aidanscovers]

^what he said Very helpful with sweeps fingering taping etc

[@coolvidman9844]

ring out and join in the fun LOL

[@freeelectron8261]

Is that the Jan Hammer on?

[@beatvampire]

I generally prefer pulling off

[@uthamanvk3390]

Great master I have ever scn like u Jesus of guitar

[@dustinsmith9375]

Legend has it his strings can only be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom

[@lauriecook8226]

Dear Subscribers: This amateur photograph was taken in 1903 somewhere in Central California (an apple orchard). I don't know if the snake is a rattlesnake. I live in Central California and come from New England. Totally different environments so many ways. I believe in the USA is one country one destiny as you know but I will regions can be completely different experiences. When we first moved here my wife and I, we lived in a rural mountain area with many walks through the woods where the lumbermen had left trails. they were so beautiful and calming with the sound of birds and wind and smells that we had not ever smelled back east (as they say). On one walk we saw 350 pound feral pigs. On another walk we saw a baby mountain lion - and got the hell out of there as fast as we could. On one walk we saw a beautiful snake and walked over closer to it and it began to make a noise. It took about 15 seconds for us to say to each other this is strange. And we jumped back. Of course, it was a rattlesnake who was letting us know not to come any closer. We felt both dumb, and suddenly educated. After that we kind of walked the paths looking down much too often. It took away from the innocent fun although was still beautiful. I hope that you all take some time today to stand straight and walk looking out in front as what your eyes present to you. When I do that, I always feel a life. David Hoffman

[@MrFrampo56]

Wtf? Are you nuts? Dumb question.

[@orbitaljellyfish808]

8:03 😎 8:09 😦

[@socalsalas2983]

4:24 super casual ;D

[@douglassandberg5557]

Hahahaha 2:03

[@ricks7665]

Who knew all you needed to do to play at the grand ol opry was take lessons from a jolly englishmen

[@HughJitsu]

@5:13 - "... painless" = lies!

[@BillypilgrimII]

It's like Mozart had a KZbin channel...

[@paulwingert9993]

As you can probably hear, it's a g major Kind of thing Me: assumptious...

[@markyboo]

Five months and one shirt.

[@areyouavinalaff]

well it's a 50 minutes series... probably filmed in one day... you can get 50 minutes of filming done in one day you know.

[@object764]

I've reported Guthrie to KZbin for his filthy guitar playing

[@justinh8049]

I hate when people say Jimmy page and Hendrix are the best at guitar lol.... I don't think so... its Guthrie

[@starrk7158]

Don't worry they are just living in an illusion because it's the first guitarist they ever saw.

[@frenchiesfrankieandhenry]

This guy.. so silly lol

[@borgan1964]

tobaco stain finger,,,,,hahahahahahahah

[@GibsonDE]

van Halenism!

[@fenixfp40]

Sorry Guthrie, but I refuse to use my little finger to tap with. (If only)

[@skatetodeath666]

Tapping was used way before metal

[@ManWithoutThePants]

Yes, but Van Halen kind of popularized it and it has become more of a metal thing although many players in other genres use it too. It's just more rare to see it in other genres and Guthrie says that he doesn't like the stigma it has gotten himself.

[@jamesturner2012]

5:15

[@lauriecook8226]

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