i enjoyed this lesson so much BECAUSE it wasn't a guy ripping off holds worth licks note for note,..but rather a talented guy approximating his style,....after this i actually got a few things that are my own! great lesson!
Thanks. I really wanted people to learn something new with this lesson and not just cop a few new licks. I'm glad people are appreciating this concept based approach. Thanks for watching.
Thanks. I made these with the intention of them being evergreen content that is useful for year. I'm glad people are still watching and getting something out of them.
@@Chandlerguitar They're very useful. I don't know if Chandler guitar is the name of your channel based on you owning a Chandler guitar or not. I ask, as I just bought a very expensive Ibanez, it's 'very,' complicated and yours sounds great with less constant maintenance. May I ask what axe you're playing. Take care.
@@allancerf9038 Thanks. The guitar I'm playing in the video is a schecter. It might be different from the ones at your local store though. I got it at the custom shop in Japan. Outside Japan I believe schecter mostly makes metal style guitars, but in Japan they to make a wider variety.
The repeating note in the 5 fret stretch (7:28) is the guitar equivalent of saxophone alternate fingering technique. This is why Allan used it, as it is another technique to sounding more sax-like in his legato lines. The notes are the same but the timbre is slightly different.
I agree. It took me a while to figure this out, but I remember I did it once on accident and it sounded like Allan. I thought "Oh that's what he's doing".
I have been listening to Holdsworth since 1977, and this is the BEST explanation of Allan's soloing technique I have ever seen or heard. It should be mentioned that when Allan played with Jean - Luc Ponty, Ponty said that Allan could not read sheet music, he knew where the notes were on the guitar but had no clue to notation. Thank You
Great lesson. And you don't have large fingers like alan. This gives all of us not only hope but also forces us to go stop making excuses and go for it
Still one of the best Holdsworth tutorials, and it's obvious you studied his technique to bring this to us. I wish you success and please do another one of these on Holdsworth techniques. Wonderful window into his world! Peace my brother.
Thanks. I hope people use these ideas and make something for themselves and come up with new ideas. Allan always did things his own way, so I hope I can help others do the same.
A great analysis done with humility and respect for the source and those who can profit by it. It's not only the information, but your teaching style that wins the the day. Kudos2U!
This is the most interesting video I have seen on guitar techniques. What you are showing here is so incredibly useful and helpful, and it totally opens all kinds of new doors to being creative with soloing on guitar. I have played guitar for over 35 years, and your awesome video just got my creative juices flowing again, and in a whole new way! Thanks very much for making this video and posting it here!!! :)
+John J I'm glad everyone is enjoying this. I wanted to share this for a while and I'm happy with the reception I've received. I hope this gives people new ideas and inspires people to try some new things. Thank you for watching.
This video changed the way I look at the pentatonic scale !! Thanks soo much ! Opened soo many new doors and stretches and to cut out the sections of the pentatonic in a different way so it’s much less recognisable !
Loved your playing in the first 30 seconds. Very useful video. Thanks very much and I'll definitely watch the other vids in this series. You deserve more likes BTW.
yeah, great stuff. As an old 80s player I started doing legato to a metronome to get my hand back in shape. And Ive been doing some stuff like this. But this lesson is a good shot in the arm. I love the half step up outside thing.
Thanks so much for this, I've been discovering this a bit on my own but no where near to the extent you did. Combined with your humble, heartfelt and grounded teaching style, a real treat! Suscribed!
This is fascinating to me. Thank you for explaining some of the ways that Mr. Holdsworth played the guitar. I think he hoped that other guitarists, like you, would take what he did and add to it. I remember reading that he referred to his compositions as vehicles for improvisation. Keep on doing what you are doing! You sound great!
Just found you. Great info and explanations, thanks! I've been listening to Allan (and trying to cop some of his ideas) since Bundles in the mid-1970s. Good observations - well done. 👍
Hello Chandler, I just subscribed. Very awesome how you can do this. Taking and modding blues scales to sound like Allan? What a Godsend concept. Thanks so much! Very cool. I will be redoing all my blues scales now. I just hope I can convert these typical box shapes into these 3 notes per string styles. If you can upload some diagrams for your followers, that could be really awesome also! Rock on!
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll see what I can do about the diagrams. RU-vid is supposed to be adding a new community feature that lets you upload imagine and short messages and I want to put stuff like diagrams on there. Unfortunately they've been promising it for about a year now and I still don't have it. Anyway, thanks for subscribing.
If I had known Holdsworth was my musical twin I would have merged with him much much sooner. I found out after watching his scales video a second time. Turns out I wasn't paying attention properly the first time. These things happen.
Great lesson .... I’ve worked on the 3-1-3 fingerings (to go straight up and down the scale) but not so much the three note for string fingering like you were demonstrating .... i’m a little bit hand sized challenged
Thanks. If you are already familiar with 3-1-1 patterns you should pick it up in no time. Don't worry about hand size, Shawn Lane had small hands and he was a monster at wide stretching patterns.
So to recap just so I understand. 1 pentatonics with repeated note phrases. 2 building small motifs and permutations 3 moving them in large intervals Like 6ths and 4ths 4 moving the large intervals and the slipping by step
That's pretty much it. By doing those things you should get this type of sound. The main thing is playing the pentatonics in 3 note per string patterns.
Thanks... very interesting : skip strings, penta used in a different way, and changing on the 4th interval and moving up half tone...you have understood Allan and you manage To explain his way of phrasing so particulier...hé never sounded like Satriani or i do not who i do not care...Allan music makes me fly spiritually speaking on the precise moment my brain and ears switch on his incroyable voicings and the scales hé was using on them... Maybe you should have give some voicings on which he plays these scales and phrasing cause i think they are closely linked... Thanks again...tomorrow (it is 23 P.m in Paris...) I plug my p.r.s electric guitar + light disto and Reverb and try To apply what you gave to us...I understand better now Allan playing....
It is me who thank you for sharing something coming from an other world (lol) and that you have worked for hours and hours but we do not feel it, it remains human , and not a demonstration...this is the roots of pedagogy for me... L.Armstrong knew when hé had played Well after à gig when someone from the audience came To him and said: "it seems easy To play trumpet when we see you playing"... Louis was saying it was the best compliment for him...
Thanks. I don't have tabs of it, but Its fairly easy(if its what I'm thinking of). Its 4ths on 2 strings that are moved up chromatically. For example play G,C,C,F,F#,C#,C#,G#,G,C,C,F. Its easier than it looks, it just takes a little practice.
Thanks. I do a breakdown of it here. I'm using S-gear, but you can do it with many different types of software. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bpmc2jcAEdI.html
