Guthrie Govan masterclass, phrasing

[@JustinGillenMusic]

I love listening to him talk.

[@Diogolindir]

Justin Gillen Me too man, I use it as a kind of therapy or something.

[@petezah4597]

Guthrie apppears to be very fond of cake

[@ohvnaq]

great videos, thank you!

[@dylanturner67]

That was amazing! Thanks

[@geraldfried2752]

The equation of music to speech is an interesting one, but the fact is that when most people speak, they simply repeat phrases that they've learned and used in the past. There's very little breadth or depth to the ideas that most folks put into words. Speech, which is just the verbal evidence of the thoughts that engender it, follows a normal distribution. That is, the greatest number of people have middling thoughts (and therefore uninteresting speech,) while a dwindling minority at either end of the spectrum have on one side less and less interesting thoughts and on the other side more and more interesting thoughts. The problem, if we choose to view it in those terms, is that people who don't think interestingly can't think interestingly. The same is true of music. Most people's musicality is limited by the inability to generate musical thoughts outside a narrow and very common range. Guys like Guthrie, who are on the far right end of the normal distribution, think that all someone has to do is to be exposed to more musical ideas and then they, like he, can assimilate and synthesize those ideas in new and interesting ways. I can expose someone to partial differential equations, Laplace transforms and Gauss-Jordan reductions all day, but if that person can't grasp algebra, then he will not suddenly have a mathematical mind. I've had the good fortune to have known a number of highly talented folks in a few fields and one characteristic they've had in common is a certain astonishment that others couldn't do what they do. They, after all, find it so natural and normal to play their instruments or write their stories or paint portraits or generate mathematical functions, etc. that it becomes hard to understand why someone else would not find it so.

[@vicentealvarado5608]

Gerald Fried You should make videos

[@Hidekinaru130]

Good point, I'd love to see Guthrie's opinion about your comment. I think that, unlike math, you don't need a theoric base to advance in the "subject". In this case, when we're talking about improvising: in order to absorb music and apply new melodies into your playing, you just need to practice and listening to music, because it's more about "feeling" and learning a "musical vocabulary" than learning the logic of the "numbers" (it's great to study the logic of music though, of course haha). You're right, though. There are people like Guthrie that can naturally do that. People that can speak throught their instruments.

[@lolcano2346]

@@Hidekinaru130 exactly, you first learn to hone in on the "vibes" that any given musical thing is creating in the listener- then you just go a little further by figuring out how exactly that musical thing might be achieving that particular vibe/s. Once you get a feel/understanding for what's going on there, it's yours to begin applying

[@kevincasals2008]

Tq

[@Lupocide]

WISDOM.

[@MSA-uj7cp]

He needs to eat more cake....