Guthrie Govan vs Michael Casswell | Vigier Fretless | Online Guitar Lessons

In this video Guthrie Govan and Michael Casswell have an epic jam and trade licks.
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In this exclusive performance video you'll watch Lick Library tutors Guthrie Govan and Michael Casswell trade licks in an epic jam session. Guthrie is playing on a Vigier fretless guitar which allows him to play some very slippery lines and emulate some slide guitar style tones, while still shredding in his own unique way.
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[@licklibrary]

Anyone else want to shred on a fretless guitar? ▶ Learn guitar with Guthrie Govan: www.licklibrary.com/learn/tutors/guthrie-govan

[@00Kie00]

Even with a lot of skill in guitar, it still is very difficult to play without frets, and most of the skill lies in having an ear for pitch, so props to this guy for being able to do this.

[@felphero]

3:11 holy crap to just improv something like this out of the blue...for reasons like this and others I say this man is the best guitar player in the world

[@vawrzyn]

Thank You a lot for approving my video answer! All best to You!

[@licklibrary]

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[@achouqueeutavadezoas]

it might be tough for those who don't know the place of the frets .. this song should be in guitar hero

[@bamboosa]

Once I get over the "I'll never play guitar again" feeling, I feel like a better player just watching this.

[@licklibrary]

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[@justinsatov947]

Absolutely awesome. Love it. Just made myself a fretless guitar today and I will say from my limited experience this guy is an absolute hero

[@ricknet57]

The level of precision and control to play that thing on pitch is mind blowing!

[@ravenhawk82]

I made my own fretless guitar by removing the frets from the second cheapest guitar I could find (the cheapest needed new electronics), filling the slots with epoxy, then sanding and lacquering the fingerboard. Total cost, including tools to do it, was about $120. If you google how to make a fretless guitar you will find lots of useful resources.

[@itsdNine]

That intro is one of the most amazing sounds I've ever heard.

[@judeappetite]

I swear the second lick nearly made me explode with its awesomeness!!!!!!!

[@MartinMaat]

So, we now all know it's a good thing to have frets on a guitar. Thanks for making that clear guys.

[@Wutcool]

never seen anyone shred on a fret-less guitar before until this guy did this.

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

I love the way they crack each other up at the end there. Good times! :)

[@MartynDunnMusic]

It takes loads of skill to able to place your fingers at the right position... To see him doing this, is amazing!

[@joshbrenneman]

I want one!!!!!

[@preetmendiratta]

That fretless just shows how knowlegable Guthrie Govan is on guitar playing. That takes years patience!

[@cdemarcomusic]

Mike Casswell is one hell of a musician but everytime I watch guthrie he never ceases to amaze me...one of the most creative guitarists I ever seen

[@thetinydreameater]

They just know by trial and error, and then your body and mind begins to remember where to go to find the right note. It's amazing as hell to me. You also see it on violins, cellos, contrabasses and trombones for example.

[@jmmcdon25]

My jaw is still dragging on the floor! There are just no limits for this man! No frets, no picks, no strings...he is just pure beast. Inspiring...inspiring me to get my paper route back because I will never be this great on guitar! ahahaha!

[@HeiinZz]

Tabs?

[@da1stjibjib5th]

Holy crap, litterally coolest thing ive seen.

[@xNavillus]

this just left me awestruck.

[@MrOrangefuse]

I like how you can see the rhythm players reflection in the neck.

[@BubbaNintendo]

It's like having a slide built into your guitar. Genius!

[@razvanciub8a]

they are both such great guitarists!!! with very different styles...

[@vckiller13]

i had a good time jamming with my bass while you guys did your thing sounded great

[@gibsonbfgman]

i saw him in colorado he is a beast! one of my favs.

[@chris00412]

@licklibrary Oh thanks! Gotta check him out pronto!

[@BusinessMan36]

@BluesYourAss Wow! I van't believe I've never seen a fretless guitar before! I want one!! Way cool!!

[@Hazellarack]

that's completely insane! That's some freaking skills!!!

[@morbidangel848]

fun with this song called "quack-quack-quack-quack-quack" and loving it none the less.

[@STOLGUITARS]

Talk about some great noodling !! thanks guys !!

[@empoeta]

unbeliavable!!! and one more - ! how kind of mastery does a human need to domesticate a beast like fretless guitar in such a musical way

[@TheMetalMag]

jeff beck's intro and wow the vigier guitar is amazing, man u know yr neck well!

[@Nisbuhh]

that ending was beautiful o.o

[@FernandoSantucci]

OMG, shred with frets just is difficult, without frets is only for big heads. Finally Michael Casswell got someone to play guitar with him is his height. Guthrie is a Monster!

[@littlefrank90]

I want more of this!

[@Strummify]

would love to try this one out!

[@brettk1380]

sounds very slide like without the slide. supa cool

[@staticvoidman]

stunning fretless guitar!!! cant dream of one now :P

[@nevigo5519]

Love Caswells tone.

[@cagonzalez1965]

Just plain breathtaking!!!

[@citukas]

Sick ! Just sick. Epic jam.

[@a7xthefate]

I believe there are still dots on the side of the neck to indicate the approximate location of the frets.

[@jaguarcesar]

Beautiful!!!!!!!!

[@omgawdhax]

Fretless guitars also have the dots to help them determine which fret they are close to or hitting.

[@elpenot]

awesome playing, very nice fretless guitar

[@georgeford9417]

He plays everything ... amazing player

[@kombik98]

That is VERY impressive. Theanthill is right....the actual pitch on guitar is where the string hits the fret so you'd have to nail that spot EVERY time. I love the cross between a standard rock sound and a slide guitar tone.

[@Jem7Vellz]

They also have very good ears, and there are markings along the neck to indicate 5th 7th fret etc.

[@tegolin]

1:36 The stars aligned, and it was awesome.

[@Marioguitar]

beautiful!!!

[@alspageddi]

@solye2 Yes, for quite some time, too. Guthrie is playing a Vigier Surfreter Ron Thal a.k.a. Bumblefoot is also a well-known user of the fretless Vigier.

[@Lewishred]

Amazing...simply amazing

[@iusegentoobtw]

You can buy beveled, chromed glass at Lowes and have them size it for you. You use silicon glue to adhere it and you have to sand off the radius of the neck. Costs about $30 and done well, can perform amazing. Raw wood has almost no sustain in the high register so you have to use a lot of compression for it to sound decent.

[@jesusantanamusic]

actually not just their ears but .. also they have a very accurate sense of the position on the fretboard

[@EJ9832]

This is some jazzy blues, feelin it

[@licklibrary]

@Chrhannil Hi there the other guy is Michael Casswell you can find many videos of Michael playing on KZbin or check out his lessons and monthly column free in Guitar Interactive Magazine. All the best!

[@leandroreis7002]

2:30 fretboard works as a mirror.. haha... amazing guitar playing form Guthrie. With the wah it sounds so cool!

[@roundhousekicker88]

Like the other guy said, they use their ears. But there's also fret markers on the side of the neck, which makes it a little easier.

[@ThomasJordt]

This is sick, crazy and absolutely amazing!

[@MarcoFresi1]

il più grande in assoluto!!! mitico guthrie!!

[@dan131fram3]

Wow, Amazing!

[@Croft64]

Guitar playing experience, and as someone pointed out, differentiating by ear.

[@ShammShammy]

I believe Guthrie showed that guitar in a demo before, and he said that it has side dots on the side of the neck to show where the frets would be.

[@GuitaristLogan]

those little pick noises at the end sounded like R2-D2

[@migueldahlstrom]

best jam EVER!!!

[@PWalden762]

I've just completed my own, I an old epiphone I got for free, but the important bit is that I used a thick epoxy coating on the fretboard, like you would finish a table with, that dries extremely hard and gives you more sustain than just wood, although it's still not quite as nice as the Vigier metallic fingerboard ;).

[@Weewokk]

Agreed. Michael has crazy good bar control!!

[@ShredFever92]

my uncle has this guitar in blue. its sounds so cool when he sweeps andd taps on it.

[@tubbaguts5813]

Muscle memory. After a great deal of practice, you just know where to place your fingers. When I started playing the violin, we used bits of pinstriping tape to mark the common positions and took them off once we had the feel for it.

[@jordaniac89]

Mind.Blown.

[@enricsolernoe]

Sometimes (at least in fretless bass) there is a mark on the side of the fretboard, another way to go is to learn the fretboard by "positions" (usually done for upright bass and such).

[@wolfofworld]

Really great.

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[@stergenakis]

Amazing playing on the fretlless, it's so impressive since the fretboard has no inlays to guide his left hand.

[@Amphibianman94]

Guthrie's Brain>> 1100101110100010111010111010011010011101001110100101110010011110001100101011010010011110100110101011110010111001

[@kevinandrewsphoto]

See the white circles on the left guitarists neck? They're called "Guide dots". A few of those remain on the high end of the neck in the guitarists line of sight. Markers for frets. I played a fretless which compensated by having a larger amount of markers. But it still takes time finding that perfect note. Vibrato does help with masking it at first, but it has nothing to do with the intonation. Hope that helps!

[@SebastianSalinasOficial]

Guthrie Govan such an inspiration !! Creative guitar I&II are my holy bible.

[@JDJGottaGetEm]

He is so awesome he don't even need frets to see what note to play lol awesome jam dudes

[@YayaBunWa]

My god. That was brilliant. I want one.

[@ricardodominguez5066]

I haven't seen anyone other than Guthrie play this thing adequately. o.O

[@licklibrary]

We've seen a few people do this and it's a great way to experiment with the fretless concept and see if it's for you. We can't recommend the Vigier enough though as we've found that the wooden board kills the sustain and tone more.

[@Zorlak108]

i love how he starts playing slap on a guitar

[@gundamforce999]

@chrisbrown18andup Yea, it's amazing how he keeps shredding and sliding and is still on track.

[@topdog2328]

i love the tone he gets out of that guitar

[@Falling2Grey29]

Just in case you guys don't know, theres dots on the bass side of the neck for Guthrie to look at while he's shredding if need be.

[@MooTaters]

The frets just allow you to be accurate on your notes and do so easily. Think bass guitar vs you're regular stand up fretless bass(don't know what the correct term might be, but what you might see in a jazz band) where you have to know where each note is on the neck.

[@aligatorsandwitch72]

Guthrie is a God Also after years of looking, I have finally found a video of what one of those Vigiers could do.

[@maxman2324]

I WANT THAT GUITAR!!!!

[@JhonnyLaiho]

AWESOMEEE!!

[@jinkss111]

awesome!!

[@guitarfreek1]

I actually made one myself. I took a soldering iron, heated the frets, and took em off. There are tools you can use to do it safely though.... but mine turned out great. Sanded the neck and it's as smooth as a table surface. It's great. You'll have to set up the guitar so the strings are a bit lower on the fretboard though, and probably sand down the (bottom of) nut and redo the intonation and adjust the truss rodd

[@snoopyguy21]

Its partly from remembering where the frets would normally be. and theres notches and dots on the side of the fingerboard to remind you where theyre supposed to be. he did a video explaining how to play a fretless instrument.

[@aaronmcbryer3980]

Yeah,I made one that is a Jackson Rhoads body with a Yamaha neck that I de-fretted and filed the nut down on,it's pretty sick.Sounds pretty cool if you use a killswitch in unison with the fretless neck,but you HAVE to get flatwound strings for it 'cause regular strings will tear up the fretboard,wood or metal.

[@yohodelic]

Govan is the Master !! for me , the best of all times !!