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Imagine Kirk Hammett watching this too 😅

I was lost at 0:18 (Well i guess in the begining)

He's just saying you can start a scale anywhere if you know notes in the scale.....you just start on a different degree. I wish people would ditch the effects saturation when they are teaching...... very unnecessary and annoying.

I forfeit. That means you win without a fight.

so what im gathering is in a simple caveman way, think of playing on fret 2, F#, and going back to E minor, then wanting to downtune to drop D to further the relative chord and scale shapes, but it obviously goes across the board, its starting on thirds and skipping 4ths but mostly as far as navigation goes, its more or less just not limiting yourself to roots, resolving off of what he appears to love in long phrases under a chord

this is like listening to a rocket scientist talk about propulsion.. you know, you push it goes up , but then..?

So if you study modes to map out the neck... and then look at harmonic minor, melodic minor harmonic major, diatonic, pentatonic and what I call the "melodic minus", which is just sharping 4th degree of the major key in each mode, you will understand everything this guy says, he just got there a different way. I use only 5 modes. the "Lionian", dorian, "Phrygilidian" mixolydian and aeolian. I know there are 7 and understand it. But on guitar, for mapping the neck you can combine the ones that are a semitone apart. Also see Rick Beato on modes

Could he read charts?

He can explain every way to use every scale ever created. But no one will ever sound like him.

"This next scale is a symmetrical scale, it's just ah what I call a Double Diminished Scale" -Allan Holdsworth

Can anyone please tell me what the name of the song is at the very beginning of the video?

Having been a crate digger record collector for like 40 years, pulling LPs out that looked unusual by groups I've never heard of, maybe one out of 300 are special that I've held onto...one of these... I.O.U. the masterpiece in that odd plainer than plain black matte sleeve. Records like that make crate digging worthwhile.

"Forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it." That helps explain why he used superhuman stretches to play his voicing and melodies.

After almost 2 years of finger placement and actually getting your fingers to actually press the note and ring it out clearly 😊i can see why this is a lifelong learning curve 😮but i am enjoying the ride its just a hobby at 59 years old i don't think i will even make it beyond a local open mic night at the local watering hole.😂😂😂😂

Interval permutations. That describes his playing to a vertiginous T. He's an absolute guitar paragon of a high caliber sophistication.

I think I now have a better understanding of why I don't understand much of his music haha. I love what he does .. but deaf to anything he explains here.. doesn't help either when the neck charts look like braille.

that's honestly such a weird way to look at it, but worked for him lol.

Run that by me one more time Allan?

Where can we find the booklet that Allan refers to?

These comments are hilarious!

gotta love it. This vid provides nothing to anyone.. but we love him lol xx

A master of harmony for sure It's a shame how few questions were asked of his tone design. It is second to none - te chordal backing tones more so than the lead tones.

I once invented a scale on the piano. It didn't sound too good but it was cool. It's just putting spaces in between notes regurlarly. It had three semitones in succession at one part.

Isn't scale 5 some kind of octatonic?

And everyone falls asleep.. cold machine like tedium..

If he had teamed up with stephen hawking they would have surely discovered the theory of everything.

TLDR; "A fixed number, the number 1"

Holdsworth, the Ornette Coleman of guitar.

Already learnt something in this video....simple complicated scales

Now I’m got it.

Looked at my guitar and sighed

The secret to this approach is having Allan's brain.

So that’s basically how I think of scales..

So mindblowing his headstock fell off

He lost me after “start with 1”

I've always thought there was a strong link between music and comedy, and this comments section proves it. You see tons of comments sections with people trying to be funny and failing... Probably mostly kids rehashing some meme that's funny if you're about 5 and never get bored of seeing something a million times. This section is actually a laugh though. Probably cuz it's mostly musicians.

THESE VIDEOS DESERVE 4K UPSCALING!!!

Allan Holdsworth "here is a C major scale" *plays in cursive in an exotic, forgotten alien language*

Genius! He is the Bruce Lee of Guitar!

In truth, he just play one scale of twelve notes....

helped alot man hehe

He talks about scales like he's Neo seeing the code of the Matrix

This video reminds me of those foreign channels on cable TV, you keep on watching them but you’re really not understanding anything that’s being said. 😂

Lit! 💥

This is what the word "savant" was invented for.

Greatest Guitarist EVER

He lost me at "Hello ,I'm Allan Holdsworth" 😅

Allan Holdsworth played Go on the fretboard.

This man was clearly a genius, but this is so above my level I don’t know how to make use of it lol