You do realize chances are you’re the only one on earth doing this work? Outstanding, John! Thank you.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
I've thought about that! Thank you 😁
@grief_hammer Жыл бұрын
No matter how good one gets at guitar, Allan's playing is always beyond the horizon of ability.
@cudq76879 ай бұрын
you should check out shawn lane!
@fusionfan6883 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for all your incredible hard work keeping the Maestro's legacy alive!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Trying my best!
@fusionfan6883 Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial You're doing more than that, gotta say you are an inspiration, wish I had your discipline and focus, but suffice to say all you do is really appreciated (as are your learning materials all of which I have invested in). I am one of the old guard who actually bought Iginbottom when it first came out and have been mesmerised and spreading the word ever since, Allan has been the soundtrack to my life. No need to reply just wanted to let you know.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
That's pretty amazing you were there from the beginning! Still, I'm doing stuff I find interesting and I'm glad others are enjoying it. So thank you again
@adamgentile9714 Жыл бұрын
Dude, thanks for doing this. I can only imagine how much goes into one of these videos… Allan’s music makes me feel a certain way. I can’t explain it. Its like it came from another dimension. When I am feeling down or sad about something, and I hear some Allan, it puts things into perspective. I can’t even explain what I am trying to say, lol.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
No I get it! I can totally understand. Also thank you! These videos are actually not as much work as some of the other ones like the Meshuggah ones I did.
@MercutioUK2006 Жыл бұрын
I still can't believe you a) got that thing functioning so well and b) nailed so much of his work with it. Very cool :)
@joemusicman64 Жыл бұрын
I'm just going to state the obvious. You're a fricken genius dude. I can't believe how you get through all that with almost zero mistakes. Two different tunings. Geez man. Calling out all the chords. I just marvel. Not joking here.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Well, i get one chord wrong, and in my defense, it sounds similar. Also I was going from memory haha. But I'm no genius, only doing my best!
@joemusicman64 Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial Well if you want to see something funny watch me make the same video that you just did. I'd be stuck on the first chord in STD tuning. Tuned to fifths? I didn't even know what that was until recently. lol. Maybe exaggerating a bit but this stuff is not easy and you're covering it very well....on a SynthAxe that you just learned on. This content is so cool because it brings Allan's technique closer to us subscribers who would otherwise wonder how he does all this. Also these videos push me to work harder and achieve things I would think are impossible. It makes me better and that is a cool thing. Appreciate it.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
I'm glad people dig it as much as me. When I first did these videos, I wasn't sure if I was the only idiot that didn't know this stuff haha. Thank you though for the nice words and glad I could help bring Al a bit closer
@pranavphx Жыл бұрын
I just love that we are still getting Allan content here!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
It's all because of this Synthaxe. Else I'd have VERY little left haha.
@EgoShredder Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial What next I wonder? Violin? 😉
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Hahah def not!
@biorythmicshifter Жыл бұрын
You have the patience of a saint…this is painstaking work dissecting this material…
@thelonghairfreakypeople6374 Жыл бұрын
thank you so much for your uploads, i’ve been waiting all my life for someone to go over these songs with this legendary instrument, it’s means everything to me and everyone who watches these videos!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Great! Very glad other people are getting enjoyment from em 🙂
@no_problem8023 Жыл бұрын
Even the great guitar stuff aside, you're a real one for having love for Holdsworth AND something like Incesticide. Mexican Seafood on synthaxe when?
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Hahah one of my favs!
@planetpjr Жыл бұрын
So much solace from this, very grateful.
@planetpjr Жыл бұрын
geezer's birthday yesterday, glad to see this!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
I'm embarrassed to say it slipped my mind because I was busy with other stuff. I did post a little in the FB group from this vid yesterday
@planetpjr Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial no worries . I just mentioned you on that pedal show live chat. Really cool
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Oh thanks! What's that?
@planetpjr Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial That Pedal Show on KZbin. Fun chat about gear and gizmos.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Ah ok!
@clarkrichardson949 Жыл бұрын
Really dig your tuned in 5ths lessons! It can be confusing when he switched tunings on the SynthAxe and your breakdowns are super helpful! Look forward to more of these!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Only Looking Glass is left that has a lot and part of Dominant Plague. Everything else should be pretty straight forward
@aharchives Жыл бұрын
Hey John, thank you for doing this! So great to have this documented. I'm kind of imagining an alternate universe with a bunch of teenagers sitting with their SynthAxes glued to the computer screens, trying to learn this tune. Another thing I thought about is how the title is almost like an English rhyming slang kind of thing. Nothing is ever what it seems like on the surface of it. And that is certainly the case with Allan's music!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
My pleasure! More excited to share the more obscure tunes 😆
@mckinleymorton Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficialthats funny because, I did hear AH in the early 90s for the first time, then didn't get all his albums until the 2000s. So, I missed all the hype-there are no obscure songs...or they're all obscure. 😂
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Hah!
@PGX2223 ай бұрын
I love the dedication to showing us the way to play these but your attention to the settings , I didn’t see the video about that but your sounds are basically indistinguishable from original
@TurrigenousOfficial3 ай бұрын
Thank you! I know next to nothing programming sounds. Luckily someone offered to help and they did a fantastic job
@GoDamnWeird Жыл бұрын
Just found your channel. Ye gods, man... In awe. What a great breakdown & lesson! Seriously, can't describe what it is I want to say. "It's getting hot in here." I'm just coming out of winter in a different hemisphere and you're not wrong! Hot damn, man. Love your work & appreciate your dedication.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the nice words and for watching!
@TheUnrealAllanHoldsworth Жыл бұрын
Amazing stuff John, as always. Cheers Manning
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
My pleasure! Thanks for all the support from the higher ups 😁
@JoshDambuleff Жыл бұрын
Absolutely Incredible. Plus, the Synthaxe is looking great!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Finally got everything working 100%
@gv-can47183 ай бұрын
Dude! Your videos on Allan are remarkable and I cannot thank you enough. This is my fave synthaxe tune of his & all the Sand album. I always wanted to hear a break down of this and also a little history on it which is impossible to find elsewhere! Greetings from Ireland ❤
@TurrigenousOfficial3 ай бұрын
Thank you and thanks for watching! 🙂
@luigi1mario Жыл бұрын
So cool to see! Nice work John
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@jimhealey9566 Жыл бұрын
This is really cool. Been casually watching your shows and wow this is very cool. Totally agree with all the comments. I can imagine it was a challenge to do all this, but it must have been awesome learning all his ideas so up close.....he went way to early for sure but maybe you doing all this will help younger cats not be intimated by his playing and try to dive in. Of course we can never really emulate him but we sure can be inspired to keep his vision going in our own little way. You helped in that process so much. I men what kind of dude is going to go into the cave and bring out this type of gold for us. Thanks dude! :)
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you!! Trying to get people to attempt or understand his stuff is my thank you to him for helping me so much with my own playing. So it's all worth it. Thanks again! 😀
@ES175jazz Жыл бұрын
I love this channel!!! Keep up the amazing work!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@ES175jazz Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial are these tones pre programmed into the synthaxe? thanks
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
They are not. All sounds I'll be using will be from my computer.
@ES175jazz Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial so how did you get the sound so close?
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
A guy Luigi Masella has been programming sounds for me. Wouldn't be possible without him!
@schultzdigital1 Жыл бұрын
Great work man, thx for all you do.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
I appreciate that!
@lvbandmore Жыл бұрын
Sweet stuff John!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks!!
@TF-si3gp Жыл бұрын
HELLL YESSS, i love this song
@TF-si3gp Жыл бұрын
wow just watched the end with line examples, sounds just like holdsworth
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks! That's all Luigi with those great sounds
@DavidSmith-rz1pc Жыл бұрын
Thanks for these video - very well done. A side note on "reaching for chords", when I saw him first at Ronnie Scott's London with a trio ~ 1971, he occasionally would use his right hand to move his fingers into place. So anyone learning these chords could justify this manoeuver. But not if it hurts. When I saw him later with Tony Williams at Carnegie Hall I didn't see this technique. Another observation of that era was that among rock/fusion guitarists it was not cool to have a vibrato arm - because it looked too much like Hank Marvin and the Shadows - old school by then - except for Hendrix (can't remember who else). Allan made it cool again. The other guitarists at the Scott gig were Barney Kessel and John Williams - brilliant of course, but we were all waiting for Allan! My first Holdsworth record was 'Igginbottom's Wrench, Dec 1971, for 50p. He actually song on that one!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Wow you were there that early! That's so cool 🙂. Thanks for sharing!
@howardduck285110 ай бұрын
I love the live versions of this tune with Steve Hunt. If I recall, at the beginning, Hunt would play the chords and Holdsworth played the super fast head melody on electric; and then at the end, they switched up, and Hunt played the melody on keyboard. I certainly never knew Holdsworth ever played live with backing tracks. I thought that was verboten to him.
@FededeDiosDrums Жыл бұрын
This is fantastic, thank you!! I wonder the delay from plucking to the sound is it a latency from the setting or did allan also have to "play ahead" to get the sound?
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
It was the bit rate of the audio driver for the program. I fixed it and it plays perfectly now
@Joeh1154 Жыл бұрын
What an outstanding video! I truly appreciate the effort that went into your in depth analysis and demonstration. I know we all have considered the mind that composed this piece and Holdworth's music, knowledge and technical ability is staggering and a wonder to behold for those of us who were lucky enough to see him perform live. I saw him perform twice in the early 1980's at New York's "Bottom Line" venue, just across the street from NYU. The band line up both times was Jimmy Johnson, Chad Wackerman and Alan Pasqua. There was just so much amazing musicianship happening on that stage on those performances. I was floored that players like that even existed and the music was exquisite. Thank you for posting this amazing music and keeping it alive. Best to all.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thats awesome! I know he played the Bottom Line often. Thank you for watching!
@Joeh1154 Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial That venue was really small. No matter where you sat, you had a great view of the musicians. I went there to see Larry Coryell's eleventh house band, was seated and Stanley Clarke was across the table from me! Yup, it was small alrighty.
@MarcosMoletta Жыл бұрын
Another top level video, glad to see you with this instrument, so deserved 🙌🏾🛸
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@robertritchiesse Жыл бұрын
Great video - much entertaining to check out =) Well done, John.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks dude :)
@danjocastro Жыл бұрын
Your vids are so bad ass! Thanks for another banger
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks dude! 🙂
@howardduck285110 ай бұрын
This is one of the few tunes where I imagined Holdsworth felt it was not quite fully complete sounding for a trio live. Again, I loved the quartet with Steve Hunt. Especially when they did the early stuff and Hunt played the vocal parts on keys. Particularly The Things You See.
@esmoroglu Жыл бұрын
Admiring work as always.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 😀
@MrThomas1958 Жыл бұрын
thank you John🏆
@milgarofalo3377 Жыл бұрын
Superb. You’re the best. And I mean it :-)
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
You're too kind, thank you!
@Ernieshaus Жыл бұрын
Hey bro, cheers for your effort, coolio. I'm a piano/keys guy, on some levels technique really crosses over. What you refer to as cells i call shapes, i've heard of "chunks" too, but we move them around similarly. Great dive into working with 5ths. 👍👌🖐🖖✌✌✌
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Ah yeah! For shapes I usually think of that as for voicing or one particular shape. But it's all basically the same
@johnpaulrhodyllacsiveluz1535 Жыл бұрын
His tracks non brewer condiment Great Allan Holdsworth stretch legato melody synthaxe❤
@marcorogani3977 Жыл бұрын
First of all, thanks for your doing and your uploads. I have a question tough: may you do a lesson & tutorial on Eidolon?
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
I'm planning on it
@erictripton Жыл бұрын
Glad you're digging the S Axe, John
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I just found and tweaked a choir patch on a synclavier vst similar to Allan's swell sound and had a blast yesterday! I play it more than my guitar now haha
@erictripton Жыл бұрын
Lol, I hear ya. Keep open eye to an Oberheim Matrix 1000, more affordable than a Matrix 12, oh yeah those DX7 modules too. Enough of my suggestions, just stoked about you performing on the S Axe@@TurrigenousOfficial
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
@erictripton-artist2313 The Ob and Dx7 vsts are good enough for me 😁.
@eduardosci1909 Жыл бұрын
Tks!
@pvillez Жыл бұрын
Ha! I have that very flexi Disc! Its where I first heard it
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Nice
@mckinleymorton Жыл бұрын
Omg! Love it. Is there a way to buy your music? I would love to see what you get up to in your own time. Do you have any original synthaxe tunes? It just fell off the radar. I guess because there were so few and the difficulty to repair.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you! The SA is pretty new to me so I haven't done much, nor do I write. My band does have originals but it's prog metal. You can find it on this channel!
@mckinleymorton Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial awesome, thanks. I am sure it is very interesting, I will have a look. If you ever get to writing/performing with th SA, please send out a note so people cane tune in. Very cool stuff. Also, I was curious, do you have the strings very tense? Do you just need to "tune" them until they feel comfortable?
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks! That's a very good question about the SA. It's really tough because for playability there are so many variables inside of the console and the physical part of it. I had them real lose, then real tight and slowly have been loosening them. I was finding for barres I had to be VERY precise to press the strings on the fret, else the fret behind it would trigger. Lowering the tension allowed less pressure to press the strings down and made other stuff easier.
@mckinleymorton Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial thanks, interesting. I have not heard anyone talk about the nitty gritty when it comes to fretting the SA.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
I'll eventually do a video how the SA works and all those little details
@JAYg33t4r Жыл бұрын
Hey this is probably the wrong place to leave this, but I am studying "Secrets" after purchasing it and going through the modal charts, phrygian the iii doesn't have a section. Is there an addendum online somewhere? The section header mentions it, but the charts jump from Dorian ii, to Lydian IV. Thanks for any help and I love both books I bought recently. Helping my Dad and I with all of your content! I suppose a workaround is to print the Dorian section again and flat the 9 and 13 when they appear haha. Thanks for giving enough info in the book to even conceptualize solutions.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Hey thanks so much! If there is no Phrygian section, then there weren't any chords that I felt were specifically Phrygian. Which for that section, would be some minor chords with a b9 AND b13. But any of those chords you could modify for it. These are just chords I saw Allan played. So you could take even a maj9 voicing and move that up thru all modes
@JAYg33t4r Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial those minor 7 Aug 5 chords sound pretty useful for phrygian phrases. Looped some chords and played yesterday. Very "forward heavy" phrases that lead the ear to expect more
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Min7#5 chords? Absolutely. But to me phrygian needs a b9 to specifically be phrygian. It lends itself more to Aeolian because that has a b6 but a more pleasing 9 to it. You can take how I organized them with a grain of salt 🙂
@JAYg33t4r Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial yeah the b9 is the defining characteristic and thanks for the follow up!
@Marc-Tu Жыл бұрын
I love mayonnaise. I recently learned that mayonnaise is one of the "sauces mères", mother sauces, in French cuisine. There are a couple of them: 1. La sauce béchamel 2. La sauce espagnole 3. La sauce tomate 4. La sauce veloutée 5. La sauce hollandaise Allan was married to a French woman, but wasn't Allan's ancestry French? I wonder if he liked Mayonnaise, haha.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
I hope not. It looks so vile haha
@orlando3367 Жыл бұрын
🔥
@huckleberry38-pn4wo Жыл бұрын
Please could you help me out, how did you become so good are you self taught or did you take classes?
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I'm a big geek. I took some normal guitar lessons but I learned the more fancy stuff on my own, really
@boboyamyams Жыл бұрын
Im noticing a latency on the synthaxe note trigger till the sound. Is that standard for the experience or is it the delayed attack of the patch
@boboyamyams Жыл бұрын
Upon seeing the second half of this video, nevermind 🤯
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure exactly. I think the strings have some analog to digital conversion. But when I put it in left hand trigger mode, it's instantly responsive. The keys are fine too. It also could be the synth patch with a delayed attack.
@JohnVullo Жыл бұрын
@boboyamyams as an update, turns out the latency was on the programs end, not the SA. I adjusted the buffer on the audio driver and its perfect now!
@samkc6422 Жыл бұрын
Do endomorph next!
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Not yet 🙂
@alexanderallegra432 Жыл бұрын
Omg please do Eeny Meeny, my favorite tune of his. Or at least the intro part, lol
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
I could probably do the chords. I think I wrote em out, but I can't remember how viable it is to play at once. The solo is def impossible. Allan spliced and edited the heck out of that one
@alexanderallegra432 Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial lol, the chords are super amazing up until the first cadence thingy
@60secmusic96 Жыл бұрын
long latency sound or long latency synthaxe?
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Can't tell yet. It doesn't bother me too much but it could be only when I attack the string hard. Softer it seems more responsive.
@JohnVullo Жыл бұрын
Just figured out the latency was an audio buffer issue on the program I use. I adjusted it and it's perfect now
@brisbrg5179 Жыл бұрын
the pick attack sounds so funny lol
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Yea haha. If I pluck hard there seems to be a bit of a delay but when it's softer there isn't. That may be a setting on SA or the synth patch attack
@andrewbowen6875 Жыл бұрын
There’s a funny scene caught on video of the late Andrew Wood of Mother love bone mentioning Allan Holdsworth, meaning he must of been a fan
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Cool!
@lucagrigoli7453 Жыл бұрын
Sintax is an interesting possibility. It feel ambient feels. If you discover some syntax music composer interesting i would like to discover. Hallo friend.
@snoolee79507 ай бұрын
"It's getting hot in here" ha ha
@TurrigenousOfficial7 ай бұрын
The synthaxe gets pretty hot when you use it a while haha
@rainblaze. Жыл бұрын
That ... "thing" is like some kind of over blowen convoluted weapon that would have been used on the eighties Brutish tv sci-fi "blakes seven". It also makes the sound of the music and sound effects used as well. All very over bowen, unnecessary and very very eighties
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Yeah? 😁
@Turboy65 Жыл бұрын
I respect Allan's playing and skills, but certainly was never into it. It's too off the beaten path for me.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Took me a while to get it. Hopefully one day it might click
@Turboy65 Жыл бұрын
@@TurrigenousOfficial It's been so long, if it doesn't connect to me by now, it probably never will. Never really got Eric Johnson, either.
@TurrigenousOfficial Жыл бұрын
Well don't give up hope!
@ArmenMagtesyan5 ай бұрын
Maestro way to advance you need to reach that level it doesn’t happen overnight