GUTHRIE GOVAN - Solo - the best guitar improvisation ever

All Star Jam at John Petrucci's Guitar Universe 2.0
John Petrucci & his band perform a super jam featuring Guthrie Govan, Andy James, , Tosin Abasi, Jon Finn on Night One of the John Petrucci's Guitar Universe 2.0. Video by Randy Edwards Photos

Happening August 6-10, 2018 at the Mansion at Glen Cove in Glen Cove, NY, the event converges guitarists from all over the globe in Glen Cove, New York for a week of collaboration, community, connection and six-string kinship
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[felixiiisoriano]

When Petrucci is playing rhythm for you and Tosin just looks at you like a kid in a candy store while playing your guitar then you are on a different God level.

[shimahdnb]

The joy on the faces of some of the best guitarists on the planet when guthrie plays tells you who the daddy

[nickbelcher]

You know you're good when John Petrucci is just strumming chords for you to solo over.

[shiblihasan]

Friend : Who is Guthrie?
Me : Petrucchi plays rhythm to him.
Friend : Ok.

[g.o.a.t]

When your solo is so sick that you started growing in size.

[jebjebson]

There’s a lot of genres, techniques, flavours out there but this guy might actually be the best guitar player in the world.

[ohvnaq]

i've seen countless Guthrie solos and every single one blows my freaking mind

[puppylinuxer]

Phrasing and note selection are just insane

[justinleblanc]

Tosin's smile says a lot. I feel like he would be a hard guy to impress

[giblaz]

This is literally just another average evening on the guitar for Guthrie. Every day he's coming up with insanely creative and beautiful improv like this. He is music.

[marcoebasta]

It's not really the technical difficulty, it's the amazing beauty of his phrasing.

[NeesyPlaysGuitar]

Tosin looks like he's 5 years old and meeting santa for the first time!

[Tom-dgex]

Guthrie is the dude that makes you go home and rethink guitar from A to Z.

[zothanzualachhangte]

Love how guitarist today aren't ego maniacs and have so much respect and appreciation for their fellow guitarist 👍👍

[Heiteinah]

Petrucci being a bro and helping with the backing track while keeping his eyes fixed on greatness and also smiling to the GREAT stuff he just witnessed. Guthrie is incredible.

[canman]

I was fortunate enough to be at this event and I made damn sure to attend every single one of his workshops. The man is absolutely legendary and an entertaining instructor as well; I could listen to him lecture and play all day. I also got to hang out and have some beers with him until 4 AM, so there was that as well, lol.

[SMBONE]

he has the ability to make you feel as though any note would be the right note. Very subtle but powerful effect of utter mastery over the idea of music itself and his interpretation over music itself. He opens up the playing field in such a way that anything is accessible, there seemingly is absolutely no criticism holding him back, no thoughts, as though he has literally become a guitarist and not a human playing a guitar. That is what makes him so special and unique and a model for everybody, simply considering how little he showed here when in fact he is conversationally fluent as though it were a native speaking language, truthfully

[marcusimbesi]

I was there and saw it live. I can tell u that was one of the greatest nights of my life. An absolute blessing

[jdimeleegoku]

I see this as one of the most magical moments in the world of guitar I know. Just imagine someone who doesn't know him, the way Guthrie looks at the rest like he's lost, the fact that he waits for a while in his turn before he begins and the way he caught everyones attention when he starts playing. Simply magical

[DOPIllustration]

He's so good that it's hard to believe he's improvising. Damn that phrasing really sings to your heart.