Masterpiece of a performance! You nailed it! It is an incredibly challenging solo and you not only got the notes, but all the nuances, vibrato arm techniques, harmonics and excellent phrasing throughout! This blew me away entirely!
Allan invented a whole bunch of new phrasing. This isn't jazz phrasing. It isn't blues phrasing. It's allan holdsworth phrasing. Genius. And so accurately played here by you. I'm going to have a go at it. I doubt I'll play it as well though
The thing is reaching that level of harmonic complexity just improvising, without even care about what was happening with his hands on the fretboard... says it all. Sometimes we forget about this aspect, just being stunned at his speed. To me it has never been about the technicality, to be fair. I always try listening what he's creating from an harmonic point of view, the way he builds it. It's like and old friend telling you a great story in a very detailed way. Unique as the greatest classical composers were, pioneer of musical genres.
Sounds like a chorus effect. Kudos on nailing this so spot on. This guy must have the patience of a saint to learn such dense musical pieces. Incredible playing.
Derryl G! Guitar legend Allan Holdsworth would certainly be proud of you playing his classic melody of Devil Take The Hindmost Solo. which is definitely a FAN FAVORITE.🎼🎸well done.🎶
Awesome, Derryl. Allan was featured in the Feb 1985 issue of guitar player magazine, and this song was on the “sound sheet” that month. (Sound sheets were thin, floppy, vinyl records that were stapled into the magazine and could be removed by tearing along a perforated line.) I wore mine out. I HAD TO figure out the line that starts in Derryl’s video between 0:55 and 1:03. I slowed it down by recording it to tape while playing it at a slower speed, and then bouncing it between tape recorders a few times. It’s the only portion of an Allan Holdsworth solo I ever figured out. It’s amazing to see the entire solo transcribed, and beyond this, the command of Allan’s vocabulary in general that Derryl has developed.
@@derrylgabel I didn't. I'll check it out. If I remember correctly, there was also a transcription in that issue of Guitar Player. But back then, I preferred learning stuff by ear, so I didn't spend much time on it. I did one bit of fingering that's different from what you do. On beat 2 in your measure 35, starting on the B natural, I did pull-offs down to A, hammer-ons to Bb and D and a pull-off to A. So all of the notes from beat 2 of measure 35 to the downbeat of measure 36 were played on the B string with just one picked note, the B natural. My goal was mostly to avoid going back and forth between the B and E strings with the pick. Relative to now, my right hand technique was slamming back then (I used economy picking exclusively). But even then, I couldn't have pulled off your cross-string picking when going from Bb to D to A in measure 35 at that tempo. This puts in perspective for me how well developed your right hand is.
The playing is impressive, but what really did it for me is the way you mastered the Allan "not looking at the neck and just vibing while the notes are flying by". Completely authentic.
Hello, Derryl, absolutely amazing played! Fun fact, I sent my hand-notes to Livio Lamonea for the second solo part, I worked with dismantling that solo for two weeks, like 10 hours a day, and I thought I should go insane. But finally I had it. And Livio made a perfect transcript of it :) MIT also made a case of our cooperation on that solo, and I am so glad that it is made a proper transcription of it now in order so that everyone can learn how to play that masterpiece. And you nailed it, definitely :) Sincerely Jostein Odland
wow! amazing job Derryl! to my ears its the best guitar solo ever recorded. I bought Metal Fatigue when it came out around 85- and to this day I haven't heard any better than the DTTH solo
great solo indeed ....also right at the top are 415 Bradford Executive , unMerry GoRound and albeit a synthaxe solo, the solo on Spokes. Never heard any guitarist play lines like those on spokes.
Awesome work as usual Derryl ! Please one of these days play the solo for Spokes . Yes allan played it on synthaxe but , i've never heard ANY guitarrist play lines like allan did on Spokes . Just mind boggling elegance
Takes a lot of work. You listen to the solo so many times that you can practically sing it. At least sing the melodic parts. Then, start memorizing and playing it phrase by phrase. Then, start practicing with the track at a very comfortable tempo and gradually over time, increasing the tempo. Usually, when I do something like this, I'll immerse myself in the project, and that's all I will play and work on until I've filmed it at tempo.
Flawless. I’ve always looked up to the Metal Fatigue album. So now you have clearly mastered it, can you say if this is derived from one or more of his ‘ten most useful scales’?
I'm using Amplitube 5 Max and ToneX Max. I really didn't want to do this but a student of mine asked me so I obliged because he takes good care of me. It was a good break from what I was doing so I'm glad I did it now. I'll send you something.
Fantastic job! Absolutely dreamy! Technical Question: How did you get that doubled guitar sound? Did you double it, use a doubler effect, or a delay (if it's a delay, how many milliseconds)? Thanks! Keep up the great playing!!!
I'm playing along with the track although my guitar is louder. There's actually 8 delays on my guitar. There are 4 short delays which create a room sound and 4 long delays that create the ping pong echo. I got the settings from Allan's preset on the UD Stomp. I'm actually using Amplitube 5 Max and ToneX by IKmultimedia. If you want my specific settings go here derrylgabel.net/product/an-afternoon-with-derryl-gabel-download-version/
I think maybe 3 takes. I don't really remember. However, before I ever recorded it I must have played it a million times haha! I think the total time of transcribing, memorizing, and then practicing took about 6 weeks I think.
Excellent as always. I had to learn the solo for a wee youtube Holdsworth style lesson. I found the transcribing not too bad once I got my head round Allans concepts, but getting the phrasing (and timing) right.......ach! I even tried the Holdsworthian tactic of quaffing a few pints of Timothy Taylor, but it didn't help. You nailed it. made it look easy and I bet you didn't need a good ale to do it?
Madre de Díos Santísimo!!!!! Incredible performance. So smooth, so legato, so well interpreted. You must really enjoy it while playing it. Keep up your nice content. Wish you love and peace.
Great playing as always from a great player more people should know... same with Brett Stine who Derryl mentions, and who I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) has set out to transcribe every recorded Holdsworth solo (!)...........thanks and keep up the outstanding work
@@derrylgabel BTW, I think I saw you leave a comment for Bryan Baker on one of his videos? Now that Allan is gone, he's me favorite of the fusion guitarists out there now because he very much plays his own lines and ideas, something that's increasingly hard to do with so much parity at the top and so many monster fusion guys (of which you are no doubt one) out there now... plus he's got the pedigree as a child classical guitar virtuoso and I believe the youngest guitarist to ever get a full scholarship to Berklee at 16...
