I'm so happy i'm an Indian....and Guthrie is absolutely right...indian classical musicians are extremely talented !!!!

[2]: "...one day, when you get really excited, you can actually speak twice the speed when you get tempered. because you practised speaking perfectly rather than striving to become faster. in instrument terms: if you want to practise one basic thing, you will have one basic principle: practise by playing every note perfectly! and if you do that for years, the 'the speak thing' will just happen."

i wish i have a brother or a father like him. :(

'It's been emotional, it's been a tease' ... love it!

The guy's a guru in the truest sense.

The guy is just as happy to talk and play guitar in a back street dive bar as he is on the world stage... and happens to be a most genuine and humble guy too.. He was clearly born to do this and gives us mere mortals permission to play to our limits with dignity and pride - and not be too obsessed with 'talking' too fast at the expense of being heard.. Wisdom indeed...

thankyou for the upload. really useful info

GUTHRIE AND PAUL BOTH HAVE A GUITAR CAMP THIS SUMMER!!!! Paul is in charge and he is bringing Guthrie and other great players for like a week of guitar training in New York. Look it up on Paul's website.

hand of God guitarist..

Yes relaxation is a most important aspect to playing fast, and learn the lick really slow first till it is second nature. One way Shawn mentioned is to learn easy chromatic licks really fast alternate picking to get a feel for speed and relaxation also, and i use to include two string sweeping also with the hammer and the pull off also until really fast and relaxed as well. Then i learnt a new harder lick over and over really slow till it was well ingrained in my subconscious, then just went for it relaxed fast and was surprised how i could learn a new licks fast this way. The stretched ones take time i have tiny hands like Shawn had, but if you stretch them out in the slow practise it amazing how bit by bit they will adapt. Also as GG states just treat speed as a tool to get a desired effect, not as a race otherwise this adds to the tension and shows in your playing and tone also, just feel the licks rather than force at them in anyway. Good Luck!

very good guy

[1] (More or less) : ""music is a language; so if you compare it to the language you know better, say it english, did you ever say to yourself: 'i really need to teach myself to talk faster' ? we never though that! all we ever try to do is to communicate, we try to speak well, we try to make sure every time we are in a mouth and we gradually try to convey it to the listener. if you do that for years and years and years...

Imagine how inspirational it would be if Guthrie Govan and Paul Gilbert did a clinic together and just talked. We'd all be pros. Maybe it's good those two stay on opposite sides of the world.

5:19 = profound.

HE LOVES INDIA AND INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC....

You know what... I wanna learn to talk fast too... that's a great idea... and people who can't understand me when I talk fast just don't appreciate the english language enough... .

I never saw him using that T-Shirt :P :P :P

He is undeniably a genius through and through but ffs would it kill him to give one straight answer lol

the,,metronome,, lol

thse people laugh too much