WOW, Thank you very much! I'm not a guitar player but I am a HUGE Allan fan! I have listened to every Holdsworth record and I know every lick (in my head) 😉
This one is really funny. You think honestly you know how to play the chords after all these years, and you end up never be in time with the band when comes the first bridge ahah. That's terrific ! Thank you for these uploads !
Many guitar players want to sound like Allan but there is an Allan's book called "Reaching for the Uncommon Chord", the issue with Allan's sound is HIS HAND is huge, that's why people get frustrated because it does not sound like him! You don't reach the uncommon chord because your hand is not big enough! 🤣
well, here's the thing, his hands aren't that big. i shook them three times. the secret to the stretch is manifold. 1) gotta wear the guitar high, above your waste. look at pictures of allan, he wears the guitar near his chest, this allows your hands to stretch wider.. 2) gotta have that strapholder BEHIND THE NECK WHERE THE BODY MEETS THE NECK, not on the damned top horn! when the strapholder is on the horn, playing the guitar while wearing a strap, it makes the guitar fretboard point up at you, greatly limiting stretch. i can't even play guitar if the strap holder is there! once again, look at pictures of allan playing ANY of his strat styled guitars, the strap meets the neck and body, not the top horn. this is crucial, i modify all my guitars that way, it forces the fretboard to be PERPENDICULAR to the floor, giving far more reach. .. 3) this might be obvious, but for long stretches, the thumb goes BEHIND the neck, BELOW the middle of the back of the neck. for really long stretches, your thumb can actually anchor on the bottom flat side of the fretboard where it meets the neck. I can reach from the 5th to 12th fret , easily, for single not runs, and the 6th to 12th fret for dense chord voicings. i have average sized hands. anyone who follows all three of these tips will at least increase their stretch range greatly, .... @@BneiAnusim
i like hearing the drums isolated, too. chad is so killer, i always thought he was such a distinctive player. of course, that's true for most of allan's drummers, or all of them, even the one(s) i don't care for, (virgil, ahem. he's incredible, for prog rock, misfit for allan's stuff. )
