Home - Allan Holdsworth (Transcription) 

One of the most beautiful tunes he wrote, makes my heart ache

Allan Holdsworth's idea of Home still sounds out of this world! Crazy to see this insight into his writing

I used to listen to this my senior year of high school. Has it really been over thirty years? Rest in peace, Alan.

Hi there! Here is my humble contribution to Allan Holdsworth memory, transcribing this have been a real adventure! But now i am proud of the result. It's been a while that I wanted to transcribe one of his tunes but I just wasn't able to find the right one. this one have a beautiful chord melody and the acoustic solo is way more accessible than most of his other tunes. This said, I've been really surprised when I realized that he was stretching up to 8 frets for some of his chords!$*&? And that he is doing that on a stratocaster with, you might be aware, have a 25' 1/2 scale length "/$?$%&.... I just hope I will not get too much un-sub because of this one.. lol. With some work I've been able to play these voicings on my telecaster but I need to hold my guitar horizontally and place the higher and lower fretted finger first than lean the middle fingers afterward. Man, there is so much to say about this one.... Regarding the chord notation; I decided to go for the closest to traditional notation possible. Allan Holdsworth notation would have been too confusing for those who are not familiar with. For the chord sequence within 1 bars, I have wrote the mode associated with the sequence... if you are familliar with Allan Holdsworth way of composing this is pretty much how he intellectualize it. Although, I have stick to common terms like 'minor melodic' instead of 'jazz minor' like Allan would do. OK... finally, Allan uses some kind of hybrid modes. This is very personal to him. So for the transcription you will often see something like 'Lydian (add #5)' this mean; he is using the 5th, the #5th and the 6th (three notes in a row) in a given chord sequence. Allan would phrase it like; 'Jazz minor (add b7)' but for the sake of reaching the more musician possible I have phrase it like; melodic minor (add b7). Not too complicated. .............. Have fun! By the way.... in bar 50 he is using his index to phrase the higher note and he his strumming the chord with his thumb. Don't try to play this chord with one hand.... it's just impossible... lol

there is no possibility I can play this---- but I can listen and marvel at the beauty of his guitar.

Wow, when he reach bar 125... it's just too good, my personal climax!

Another masterpiece Francois, ... thanks very much for you effort and conviction, especially for us developing the facilities to hear and play this music. And, thanks very much for posting this

Excellent travail ! ! Bravo ! Phil from Dunkirk 😉

Francois, thanks so much for this surprise! I'm a huge Holdworth fan; I was so sad when he died two years ago. My favorite songs of his are those with long, chordal ballad sections like this one. I've never learned one in its entirety, but I've learned parts from the "Reaching for the Uncommon Chord" book, and they've greatly influenced my playing. Very unusual to hear him on acoustic, for the lead part in this song. Definitely one I'll have to study. -Tom

Wow! I'm really impressed. This is so cool, thank you for another amazing transcription.

A composition and performance as only the master can and a brilliant transcription as well. Thank you very much for posting this wonderful gift.

I miss you so much, Allan!

Woooow!!! AMAZING!!! Thanks man!!! Beautiful work!!

Some time in the future, all of Holdsworth's Opus will be transcribed and will become the bible of guitar students, just as Scarlatti and Bach are for the keyboard. As the student progresses, they will undoubtedly come to a point where they will sit back in amazement and say, Holdsworth played this, no way, it's impossible.

Wow! Excellent transcription! I aspire to be this good!

Fantastic work

Love this!Ever since Devil take the HindMosT,In a Feb 1985 Guitar Player mag,with the little,plastic Record,I was Hooked!Just Reading about him from an Eddie Van Halen,interview.That started mah ongoing Facination, with A.H,PermaNTlY!Take care,nah!jcs

Awesome, man! More Holdsworth, pls!)

Fantastic transcription! Thank you.

Allan was an alien from another world..... Prove me wrong.

I cannot thank you enough for these videos,. You are a Blessing

Thank you for the hard work and talent! I honestly just enjoy reading and following along listening

Wow, Thank you !! VERY educational content, because It's hard to have the time needed to transcribe such a masterpiece , and It will help to spread the harmonic conception of such a GREAT musician! ✌️😊

Howwww? Transcribing jazz fusion? what an ear!!!

Joe pass was the Art Tatum of trad. jazz guitar , Alan Holdsworth was John Coltrane fused with Bill Evans of fusion ...

Awesome song and Great transcription! I recommend checking out the solo on the live version!!!

Excellent, excellent!!!!

so beautiful...

Exquisite!

Merci Francois, clest toujours apprécié au plus haut point 🍻

Great job👍

absolutely incredible!

I have this tab somewhere in a box. Thanks for uploading.

What a good job 👌👍💪👏👏

I hurt my fingers just looking at the tab

Outstanding 👌🏻

Genius¡¡¡¡

Alien Holdsworth

Espectacular!!!

Amazing job!

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU

Thank you!

Unless Allan had 10 inch fingers, there is no way he played some of those chord voicings.

This is amazing. Can you tell us how you developed your fantastic ear? I have tried for years to understand music of this complexity; though I have a pretty decent ability to play by ear, I'm lost when it gets this complex. Again, bravo, and thanks.

You are great

Reaching for the Uncommon Chord?

Another amazing transcription Francois! Can I ask whether this is a particular live version?

Thank you so much for this formidable transcription. I just subscribed to your channel....looking forward to more like this. How about Fred?

measure 56 is actually Amaj7#11 X47664

One great song mouch amonya and melody arpeggio,

Duuuuuuuuude!!!

I have huge hands and I cannot even come close on some these 7 fret stretch chords !

How can I play this wonder 😳 It is so cool but very hard!

that 60th bar chord is blasphemous RIP genius

Великолепно!!

So this is where Lane got some ideas from on Get You Back.

smells like my tears

I might get killed for saying this but I really wish tons of digital reverb and chorus were not in fashion when this music was recorded.

Stretch!!!!

L'accord 2ème mesure : j'y arrive déjà pas...

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Wow, a lot of those voicings seem downright impossible..

Thank you! how do I pay you

Gracias x tu trabajo!!!Misty estaría disponible???

I never get the hate/dislike for alan holdsworth smh

This is like relearn how to play an F chord

my fingers.... I simply cannot play this....

um, dorian add flat 6? dorian has a natural 6. aeolian has the flat six. no way you can have a chord or scale with both ringing at the same time. sure, as a passing tone, the flat six. but dorian doesn't have a flat six to 'add' the notation shows a clear natural 6, as F# in A dorian is the natural 6, not the flat which would be F natural. . sorry. splendid work, otherwise, keep it up! hope you are well, this is an old video!

Thanks, but my guess is that many of the chords are products of double tracking (or you just transcribed them incorrectly). It is not physically possible for human fingers to play some of those voices.

Came here just to laugh at the ridiculousness of the chords 😁

How the fuck im i supposed to play the chord at bar 50???? 6 fingers or what holy shit

Im not a fan fo Holdsworth, this sounds nice, but ! That chorus-sy tone, hmmm, keeps me further from him.

So Stretchy...