Guthrie's string bending masterclass has seen a huge increase in the sale of individual G and B strings!

"Surely this madness has to end soon" my all-time favorite Guthrie Govan quote.

Guthrie -** _plays impossibly complex, beautiful, perplexing, sonic-acid-trip of a chromatic scale guitar lick_ Guthrie - "You know, just have some fun" Me -** _hits guitar with stapler_

"Sorry, that happens sometimes" YEAAAAH, IT DOES

"It's uncomfortable and demeaning . . . " I love Guthrie's sense of humor.

Thanks Guthrie, it feels like your best mate giving you advice, then you suddenly realise your best mate is soooo much better than you are. But he doesn't want to rub it in, Guthrie honestly looks like he just wants us to enjoy the guitar as much as he does. That rarest of people, an accessible legend! Inspirational!

Guthrie and Paul Gilbert are probably the most entertaining guitar instructors ever.

Mr Govan's got some seriously strong hands... man that dude can play! and the guy can really communicate guitar wisdom well, and not all great players are that great when it comes to instructing others.

1:53 Ive never noticed that before...That sounds really cool.

1:45 Damn! I never noticed that third note that you're not actually playing and is going down in pitch...

“The fret, beyond which you do not go” That’s got a nice ring to it

I heard that ghostly 3rd note and I will never unhear it now lol. I've never noticed it until now. Guthrie is a genius.

Took a break from studying the beats in physics and came here, dude spoke about the unison bends and the beat phenomenon

Coolest (best) guitar teacher/instructor/Sensei I’ve seen (heard) yet. Exhibits perfectly proportioned and (endearingly)diametrically opposed personality traits: frazzled, wild-eyed geek + cool, comfortable confidence. Top level guitar skills/knowledge + simple, clear, not-too- long winded or too quick lesson. Earnest and enthusiastic + deliberate. Ugly + Sexy.

7:03 that attention to detail - mentioning challenges of live performance vs theory - he is truly a master @ craft AND teaching

Some people just have a natural knack to teach others so fluidly and effectively. I wish my calculus teacher in High School was half as articulate and cohesive as Guthrie. Would have saved me a lot of hours.

3:35 That's the biggest motivation I got all week.

Teach me, Master. Minute 05:30 LOL!

a vibrato masterclass please.

that ghost note, this guy chnaged my life once more

11:31 holy shit that's insane

5:36 rofl

Wow - what a great teacher. Well paced, precise and detailed. Obviously a very intelligent man.

He is like a standup comedian for guitarists. Knows his music theory inside and out.

Guthrie is the man and theses videos are beyond awesome. Love these!

I could listen to him all day. So articulate, clear, unassuming, humble and helpful with a wonderfully dry sense of humour. Pretty good guitar player too :)

5:30 I was thinking about the very same melody there! That's amazing when stuff like this happens

Amazing teachings keep up the great guitar work my friend your an inspiration

You're my favourite guitarist ever👍 I love your style man

Learning from Guthrie is pure joy,. The chromatic bending at the end blew my mind.

Great, great video~ I love your teaching style. One thing you don't mention is if the bending is near impossible, to get a lower string gauge. I played 10's for over 30 years (metal!!11!) and saw a video about who used 8's and it was an epiphany. I put 8's on the top strings and low and behold all my bends are practically painless! It's like if you run with weights on your ankles and take them off. Just something that I think a lot of guitarists don't even think about. Thanks again, sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar. And a badass.

Mr Govan is not just the undisputed king of guitar at the moment, he is also WILDLY intelligent. I didn't understand this until after watching a few videos. How he speaks, and his choice of words are as well thought out beforehand as the notes he plays. He is ALWAYS thinking ahead, and I think that is key. I truly and fully appreciate how much thought he puts into how he teaches something, even if it isn't obvious at first. The words he uses are as perfect as the notes he plays for that very reason. Thank you Sir Guthrie. I have never understood something as clearly as when you took the time to lay it out for us with the proper words and sentences.

absolutely fantastic lesson

tks por this master class sound perfect still working on it a lot types and sounds and movements

Thank you for amazing advice. Wonderful advance guitar teacher and player . bless you

It's his love of guitaristry for me 🤘 ❤ your work Guthrie!

Love this stuff! Guthrie is the man

1:37 I love playing with that dissonance where there's a cancellation of frequencies. there's like pops in between the ringing of the notes on the two strings which I call the helicopter effect. listen to someone speaking into a mic while in a helicopter with the door open, the changing air pressure gives a certain vibrato, a pulse, to the voice. you can do the same by speaking into a fan. and the fun thing is you can change the speed and duration of the pops with very subtle changes in bend force.

Meu amigo! Esse cara é incrível , surreal 🔥🎸

This really helped me out with the Dickie Betts stuff on Stormy Monday

He's the man. 4 dislikes must be bassists or drummers.

Not just a great player also great teaching which is hard to find this combination

Best person to teach you guitar!

This guy and pauly gilbertous cracks me up and inspire me at the same time..

what would steve vai do? lololol amazing

This was great! Thanks, Guthrie.

Huge Huge fan of Guthrie,the guys a real modern day minstrel thats just as at home in this modern time as he would be wandering around the ren fairs of the middle ages shredding on his Lute....And that british gentlemans tenor in his speaking voice is practically screaming to do some voiceover work..

From all the guitar lessons I have seen Guthrie has to be no.1. He gives you advice, shows you how to do it, how to think about it. Makes you feel okay that maybe you can’t do it that well. Then shreds and makes you feel like wow that’s possible? Let’s try this out.

The GOAT! Funny, Friendly and wicked smart....oh, and I now I know what to focus on for the next 2 lifetimes

Great lesson! Love your sense of humour too

i love this guy, just a great teacher!

Cheers, Guthrie! Ira here-we met backstage (in Orch) after Hans Zimmer concert in LA at The Shrine! I am simply aghast & drooling at your Stellar playing!!! I had never heard of you prior. Hans was playing guitar & Johnny Marr's son, so...then you played, and not since hearing Allan Holdsworth in NY in the 70s with Soft Machine have I literally drooled (unfortunately in NY, I was in Balcony...so shouts from below!). Your playing is NOT just shredding/chops! It is Highly Imaginative and Emotional and Unpredictable! You are also kind & FUNNY! Your voice/demeanor reminds me of Ian Anderson. So, with Gilmour (met them all & hung out with during Atom Heart Mother tour in NY-interview on tape very funny), your bend in Brick goes up 2 whole tones. Having played it and seen live many times, I believe "the bend" goes up 5 semi-tones. So, not say E to G#, but E to A! Stopping along the way from E to F#, F# to G#, and finally G# to A! Then D to root. By the way...I heard from reliable sources that...he did not Play the solo on the record! I am a Recording Engineer/Composer/Guitarist (1 millionth as great as You!) and worked for Chick Corea at Mad Hatter Studio for years. I ran into the awesome Lee Ritenour there and asked him if it Indeed was him!!! He smiled widely and said: "Yes!" Lee is kind like you, Guthrie! Dave....not so much.

5:31 Guthrie, we love you!

Oh Guthrie, with your fancy vocabulary and old world accent it makes the lesson infinitely more interesting ,well done I learned alot

Dude should be in academia. If there is a university of rock, this guy is the dean!

Such an awesome lesson. Think David Gilmour actually stops at three pitches during that bend in ABITW solo( a final 1/2 to end) I know coz I’ve been failing to do it smoothly for about six months.

He bent up a Tritone for that chromatic example- hitting every note on the way up and also on the way down. Holy shit that’s insane

Thank you so much Guthrie !

"and i'll be back with more of this nonsense... Guthrie signing out... cheers!" LOL! my gosh this man has me on the floor rolling.

Maravilloso canal gracias👍👍

5:31 - gotta love Guthrie for such comedy acts :)

real guitar genious and so down to earth!

I love these classes, it's monty python like guitar wizardry

Thank you, Guthrie, you are a genius!

great lesson thanks!

This guys awesome!

Muscle memory is realy important. Thank you Master

30 views, 33 likes. Go Guthrie! lol

Love it! Guthrie is the man! What camera are you guys using to shoot this video? It looks amazing! Thanks!

5:30 lol too funny! Guthrie has an awesome sense of humour.

Very entertaining. And helpful.

That whole some noodling at 5:30 just top tier

guthrie you are bang out of order mate

1:50 That ghostly third note man... its like you always knew it was there, just never realised it

The best. Period.

Thank you Sir so freaking much for the wrist tip 🤘🤘✌️🖖

guthrie is quite simply an awesome dude

I broke a string lmao

Please can I give this man a hug 🤗

Jimi hendrix in the intro to red house at Woodstock also does that 2 note bend then the 1 note bend to.

could listen to GG all day!

"You can use your pick or finger." Inconspicuously flips off all the viewers XD

When Neo went to find the oracle in the matrix he found this man

Not only as he a master guitarist, gifted teacher, he’s also hilarious

Essential lesson ...Got a good humour , respectta...

Explain me the chromatic scale: 11:00 Done

GG is the man.

So much control

Sir Guthrie Govan, how would you not love this guy?

+1 for citing Lukather and the Rosanna outro solo

the day of the unexplaining rock god is over and he has been replaced with an uber interlectualised A + student.

Great video, speaking of over-bends, Chris Cain is the over-bend master.. Listen to 'Live At The Rep' the opening song ''Good Evening Baby'' Well that whole album is simply the best blues guitar playing ever, it really is.

谢谢, merci, obrigado and ta, much appreciated. "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." OW.

You have a ghostly third note. If you don't want it, make the deep frequencies away, it disturbs. You can also make the high frequencies away, the deep note will stay. Suddenly there is a guy with a guitar and tones beyond a bass. I tried it, it works, with special equipment. I imitated a string bass in Folk.

Is there a knack to keeping the static finger... static? It always tries to replicate the bending finger/s, especially mid-phrase.

5:31 lmao how can you not love this man

very nice great

Where did you find this old footage of Ian Anderson teaching guitar bends?

hello congratulations, I would like to ask you, I on the twelfth fret, on the first and second string, I use the little finger, rather than the ring finger, is that correct?

4:32 This moment made me realise I’ve probably never seen Guthrie’s ears. Furthermore I’m not entirely convinced he has them, but rather a pair of antennae to some distant alien species.