As a bassist, Allan Holdsworth is my favorite guitar player. I seem to get lost in his playing because there is no one that can play the way he does. There are many imitators, but only one Holdsworth.

That pedal point motif like in Home is my favorite, so emotional imo.

Thanks for being so resolute,your lessons are incredible.I have followed Mr Holdsworth since the Feels good to me album and was lucky enough to meet him at the jazz cafe in Camden and he sold me the forty reasons album, and he signed it for me,what a lovely man.James

Such a beautiful piece the chords really stand out on their own here when played solo without the rhythm section

Going thru all your AH videos tonite. If there was ever a more beautiful song then I do not know. Endomorph with Rowanne Mark's vocal are soo emotionally hypnotic.

What gets me -as a bassist- is trying to figure the bass lines and how they relate to AH's chordal work. Looking Glass being my favorite of all AH tracks, the bass line is a mystery to me. Any insights on this would be greatly aprecciated !

" Abandoning the concepts of tertiary harmony or harmonies in thirds..." this is the moment one rids themselves of the shackles of 'rules' that is accepted and taught for hundreds of years, Thereby opening up new worlds of music

I guess for Allan's standards this song isnt that odd but imho its very unique. I love those chord changes especially the #11 chord in the main part. Also interesting how everytime i hear the C in the pedal section, i dont hear a minor third i hear C major sound evem if its not being played

Knowing Robert (only from watching interviews and such) I seriously wonder if the oddball changes in this song like in the end part were on purpose to try and mess up Adrian or just to mess with OCD listeners XD. I've heard other people say its a mistake which it could be but seeing as this is a studio recording; why not fix it if it was? Although they could've decided to let it in maybe cause it sounded more interesting or my above suggestion.

I don't wanna sound like I'm boasting at all cause I'm not and certainty no great musician but I totally get what Allan says I think (or I'm completely misunderstanding!). I kind of always thought of chords this way; for example I never understood the argument "proper music instructors" gave about the m7b5 versus minor 6th chord. To me its the same chord, the notes being inverted doesn't matter to my ears, I hear the same thing. Of course the context its in matters and can give a different overall feel or mood, but the chord at heart (for lack of a better term) is essentially the same.

John, amazing work! I am preparing an all-Allan concert with string quartet + voice, bass, drums, solocello, and you have literally saved me weeks of chord voicing-transcribing work! I am eternally grateful, and you will be credited at the concerts. Endomorph is the only tune on the set list that I'm still missing. Can you please do a lesson, or send me chord voicings as a midi file, or tab, or whatever is easiest for you? Anything helps. If you want, I can send you my standard notation scores of the guitar/synthaxe chordal parts of 16 tunes.

How do you get that tone? What’s the setup?

upload a video with all the section solos examples only

I reckon as a song writer if I had written a song as creative as Ghost of Perdition, I could consider myself satisfied and that I'd written a fluid masterpiece. It's just one of many masterpieces by Mikael though. It's arguably not even the most well written song on its own album! What a fucking genius that dude is.

Best channel ever for holdsworth!!!!

this is the first time I have ever been to this channel. Man I am absolutely blown away at how much you put into this. its so well done. fastest sub of all time

by chance have you seen the Beat Tour yet? I have and it was incredible. Tony Levin is 78 years old and still going strong! anyways; this is really the song I first heard as a teenager that changed my life and made me want to get into music :D

Yeah, but according to Your t-shirt, does it Djent?

I want one of those SOOOO bad. Sounds great, great playing!

Great video! An advice, press the strings a light as you can and use light gauge to make it easier. Allan used .08's, that's what I use, it's hard enough LOL

Thank you so much for this bro!

El Synthaxe sigue siendo una maquenia del futuro, eso demuestra que Allan estaba adelantado a nuestro tiempo por 5000 años, gracias por tus videos!

man youre a king!! tysm!

Wow

Let’s start a band ;), you rock the SynthAxe; I’ll rock the Hotz and we’ll find someone to rock a Zendrum.

I've just come across this and have barely watched anything yet, but WOW. No idea how you found the time for that, but it's ridiculously impressive. I'll be coming back often.

This is astonishing.

🔥

You are fantastic. Do you think you’d ever to teach Hazard Profile Pt.1? with Soft Machine

I think it's a mistake to think of this song, or album as "pop". That segregates it from the rest of Allan's material, and we know if he didn't like it and believe in it, he would *not* have released it. It's just another facet of Allan's music, like "None Too Soon". This song, and the album was my introduction to his music. I read a review of it in Guitar Player, and had been coming across his name over and over. Being a massive Rush fan, my fifteen year old self reasoned if Alex Lifeson thought highly of him, there must be a reason why. So I used my money from mowing lawns and other chores to buy the LP. If I'd heard other material first, I might not have been so impressed. Admittedly, I wasn't crazy about Paul's voice, but I ignored it for the sake of this amazing music I was hearing. That album has probably been an "Allan gateway" for many more than just myself.

Thanks John , you are an immense talent yourself.

The best teacher in the business. Thank you for everything you do!

Allan Holdsworth - не обсуждаемый, как и Шопен с Дебюсси и Бетховеном. А уж на чём он играл и как - дело десятое😊

Great job!

AMAZING! I have never been able to find the B part of Discipline anywhere

я не могу сыграть это на гитаре и я включаю твое видео , там есть возможность послушать эти аккорды медленно и отдельно. спасибо

41:00 Is that G# note on the high e a typo?

Can you do Frame by Frame too? Nice work!!!

Yet again you share this goldmine of things. Thank you! On another note: I wonder what the most accessible route to trying out a lot of these concepts would be? Does anybody know whether the line6 variax guitars could be used for these types of tunings? Or how about some kind of midi-tool?

Amazing! I really want to thank you a lot for putting this stuff out there. You hard work with this is very much appreciated!!

There is no denying how lovely these voiceings sound. What an amazing channel, you are really great at presenting this material and figuring it out obviously thanks.

also can you have different presets on the same box? I play bass, electric guitar and acoustic in church and I'd like to switch between those settings without having to re-flash every time.

if you lose your power cord can you use a 1 spot?

Haha epic !, really like that the other guitarist was playing in a solid arpeggiated style, and your playing is obviously bloody brilliant, very cool when you both started doing lead in parallel. Very interesting blend, thanks for sharing.

Did Holdsworth have an album that was especially midi ?, one that really stands out for its midi music. The example here "Snow moon" sounded like complete midi. did he ever just do an album of midi ? bloody hope so.

He used a short scale guitar

Just heard this mindblowing tune for the first time today, amazing exotic chord voicings! I was curious if there was any information out there, but I wasn’t a full lesson including CHORD DIAGRAMS!!! Thank you for pulling back the curtain on Allan Holdsworth’s wizardry, your analyses are incredibly illuminating and clearly explained. Not that us mere mortals could even attempt to play some of these voicings…

He uses different tunings, and FOUR of em!? He's even more godly than I thought...

Excellent tutorials maestro. Thank you. The first time i listened to i.o.u i thought it was the worst music in the world. Then i wanted try again and after 4 or 5 times of listening i started appreciating . Since then is my favourite album ever...

Absolutely genius thank you! Just purchased can’t wait to dive in. Cheers