"Letters of Marque" (Holdsworth) - Guitar & Drums cover ||  

The stereo separation of the new drum device comes out nicely with headphones. Sounds great.

Always listen with headphones. The sound is good, but the playing and the dynamics makes it awesome...

😆... I kind of like that, maybe my cool drummer nickname can be *the stenographer*....

Well, I watched the video last night about the rolling Stone top 250 guitar players of all time.... Somewhat amazingly, Holdsworth, Fripp, Michael hedges etc etc etc were not on that list.... So I think maybe it just has to do with plain old popularity. Although, some number of years back I was thinking to myself that, surely it would have hit in the hundreds of thousands after several years... LOL.... Uuuhhhh, not necessarily, apparently

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Gary Husband plays on IOU

@@terrapin323 Tory has a husband? Cool... That was a knee jerk response plus I don't know Holdsworth's music that deeply. I know who he is, I can recognize his playing, I actually love his music but I only own one album of his. Metal Fatigue and I bought it because the song Metal Fatigue is the kind of sound I'm into. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gUSTgQbXR8Y.html

@@Earth_to_Kensho...ComeInKensho oh man, just wait till you meet a drummer who likes holdsworth. I can think of 4 different drummers on different albums. Also checkout Brett Stine's channel, his in the mystery book is an in depth analysis of holdsworth's playing, with full transcriptions of songs off metal fatigue, 16 men of tain, etc. Ive never learned a complete solo, just some small licks to pave my own path. Imo craziest thing about Holdsworth's lead playing isn't the 9 note scales, its the quintuplets and septuplets, which you see in the devil take the hindmost solo, I didnt even notice till I started looking at transcriptions. Even hazard profile part I he fits 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 notes in the space of 4. Skip to 2:00 in this video it will melt your brain ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oLsdV9LFuQA.htmlsi=gXY8IMwVdG6DjBBl

@@terrapin323 thanks!

@@Earth_to_Kensho...ComeInKensho Once you find a way to enter through the door marked Holdsworth, there is a giant world of music awaiting to blow your mind. The whole of Metal Fatigue album is a masterpiece, and yet still not considered his best work although some do think this too.

🫣 my god, they're multiplying

That will be tricky

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Thanks, I might actually play bass on some tune where there's more going on with that instrument.... I tend to just mostly use the bass guitar as a support instrument, opting to just take solos with the guitar or drums or something, it would be nice to have a bass player collaborator TBH

Well thanks, that's an enormous compliment. I kind of like the hard edge to alienation and sort of vibe that holdsworth gave off though... I'm intentionally trying to do more of a Corea acoustic band or Keith Jarrett type thing.... It's kind of this aesthetic, you know plus where I'm shooting in the room it's kind of an intimate thing but it's still kind of a big sound at the same time... Sort of like my own NPR tiny desk setup. That's why I've been using this modern Jazz preset kit and this thing instead of the regular full-on modern acoustic kits, it kind of has that vibe. I would also point out that a lot of the time, since I already have spent so much time developing the whole pianistic approach to comping while you're playing etc that's just how I do a lot of arrangements, it's not even like me trying to impress anyone, it's just that I like the sound, The rhythms, the feel etc the whole approach. It kind of changes your trajectory mentally when you're just playing the lead kind of a thing... You might even have a tendency to play too much.

​@@TorySlusher interesting observation about the alienation! I digg that in No Wave, Industrial etc but for Holdsworth I never read it that way. Maybe it's the mixes and productions. I.O.U is ok, but everything later sounds very 80's in a bad way to me.

It kind of swings already, I mean the original version he did.... Gary Novak would just play like a regular jazz type beat instead of all of the extra stuff that Gary husband and Chad wakerman would do...

I don't know if it's really changing anything, I just have more pads and better response, I've already kind of already know how this stuff works, even if it was in my head or just listening to it or looking at the notation etc I used to meticulously program in drum parts, so this is like instant composition in a way

@@TorySlusher Yes but the older gear was really holding you back. This new Yamaha model has unleashed much more potential.

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It's just a regular ukulele, yeah I've been missing around with that lol

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Thanks, for some reason I've found that ceramic magnet pickups seem to do better for me than the alinco...

Honestly, I'm hearing a lot about it being ordered, so maybe quite a few

@TorySlusher Yo, Yamaha, send this lady a sponsorship offer

Yeah, I could, but I don't want to do a bunch of one artist in a row...

I'm actually using a fender Coronado hollow body bass

That could be an either way thing

Only just slightly

@@TorySlusherI told one of AH's daughters about you.

I did that off of camera

@@TorySlusher Google translater : Congratulations to you ! I hope you have great musical projects that you will enjoy and that will allow you to live....

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@@TorySlusher well you're still doing better than most of us . Way to inspire