The tour of the offices of MMI it also touches Campania with the headquarters of San Giorgio a Cremano, which in addition to being the home of Massimo Troisi it is also the seat not only of the school MMI but also of the association Ultrasound.
The Ultrasuoni headquarters, as well as all the others scattered around Italy, hosted the master classes of one of the best modern guitarists on the face of the earth, Guthrie Govan.
The masterclass began after a brief introduction on the history of Ultrasound e on its now home to the school MMI with performances by Claudius Acampora e Mimmo Langella, both professionals in the sector for many years before moving on to the highlight of the evening.
A dictionary, Anglo-Saxon or Italic, would not be enough to define Guthrie Govan, a musician with an unshakable genius and a real six-string killing machine, a high-level session player for many artists, he has lent his guitar skills to albums such as Hand Cannot Erase di Steven Wilson or XY of our local talent Cyrus Manna.
After having widely disheveled us with his first opening song, during the question & answer govan showed what for him was a very physical and analogue excursus towards music, how he committed himself to trying to imitate the sounds of the records he had at home and how he moved towards transcription in the first years of collaborations with English music magazines, where he published transcriptions of songs and solos.
Immediately after concluding the masterclass with his latest song "Ner Ner", there was the classic Meet & Greet where Guthrie met fans for photos and autographs.
Guthrie Govan has given us a small space of her time for a small interview, let's see what she has to tell us:
How has the musician Gutrie Govan evolved from the beginning until today?
Actually I have always remained the same, I started at the age of 3 and for me it is necessary to play, I like to play and I feel it as a part of me, an important moment in my life was certainly when at the age of five years I did my first concert.
For a long time I played because I liked it but at the age of 21 I thought about doing it as a profession because I would never be happy to do another job, when I started to undertake this life as a professional musician I realized that my life was taking a very important turning point.
What do you think an aspiring professional and an aspiring teacher should not miss?
There is actually no specific rule, each one I play in my own way, the important thing is to understand why you want to play and what you expect the world of music to give you in return, there are people who just want to write a song, who to play the guitar , who to break the world speed record on the instrument.
There are others who just want to know everything about the world of music, so if you understand where you want to go and what you want to do you will have a downhill path and a goal to achieve.
How do you think the guitar has evolved as an instrument in recent years?
Look, honestly I don't know, many guitarists have learned by themselves, if these sacred monsters had had a path followed from the didactic point of view they would have had a much more performing technique but perhaps they would not have had that push for innovation that made them then large.
The guitar technique is evolving because it is obviously an instrument born a few years ago, if you compare it with the piano the guitar does not even have a tenth of the scholastic tradition that this instrument has.
It is still an evolving tool and it is difficult for me to predict how it could evolve, it is time to give us the answer. .
