Weekend Wankshop 125: Allan Holdsworth Inner Urge - RIP Allan

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What can i say, you guys?! We lost an absolutely legendary, influential, technical, brilliant, prolific, unique, and absolutely genius player this week, Allan Holdsworth. The music world will be spending the next 1,000 years trying to figure out what he was telling us through his music.
Allan's lead playing, his chord voicings, his tone.... everything he does has been imitated by SO MANY PLAYERS from a multitude of different genres. Listen to some of his stuff with UK in the early/mid 70's and prepare to be floored by the stunning technicality of his playing, WAY before EVH ever hit the scene.
To celebrate his incredible genius, i've chosen to teach you all a lick form his solo on Inner Urge! This solo, like many of his other solos, is FULL of incredible licks and concepts, and this one seemed like the most compact and approachable one, if you can believe that.
Later part of the video features some insight into his signature legato technique that you'll find useful to nail his sound!
Thanks for watching, and thanks to Holdsworth for being such a profound inspiration. Have a nice ale in his honor after you watch this!!!
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[@JensLarsen]

If you are curious the lick starts out on the 2nd chord of the bridge and moves through a series of Maj7th chords: Dbmaj7 Dmaj7 Bmaj7 Cmaj7 Amaj7 Bb7 Gmaj7 You can hear the chord change each time he moves the pattern up I guess? Great video Ben!! Nice nice!

[@BenEller]

Jens Larsen I knew I could count on you for that! Thanks Jens :)

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! Thanks! Glad to be of service with my very narrow jazz guitar skill set 😀👍

[@The_PlagueDoctor]

Holy shit. I like How I know both your KZbin channels and you two know each other. I think I'm on the right track on who I should take advice from on KZbin

[@Amber57499]

We humble KZbin guitarists must stick together! I'll join the club soon enough, too.

[@patandmacmusic]

I JUST came over here from Jens' video on Holdsworth 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@michealodwyer7306]

Allan dies. Ben Eller creates a brilliant tribute showcasing Allan's unique style of playing in a lick and talks about his pioneering of the instrument. Exactly how it's supposed to happen. Brilliant video and RIP Allan Holdsworth.

[@BenEller]

Mike O'Dwyer cheers man, thanks for watching!

[@Bifrons]

Can't "thumbs-up" this enough. Holdsworth needs to be recognized. I was fortunate to meet him briefly at the Carvin factory. Nicest guy. Very humble despite his tremendous accomplishments. He created emotions all his own with his music. Other-worldly nostalgia, if you will. I like to think that he just went back to his home galaxy and planet. Gonna miss you, Allan.

[@timehat6781]

Thanks, Ben. Holdsworth has always been the ne plus ultra of guitar playing for me, and I've been emotionally devouring his catalog since hearing of his passing on Sunday. I only wish I could have seen him play live

[@BenEller]

timehat same here, dude!

[@patrickbarnes9343]

Cool lick !

[@rickr7361]

An absolutely inspiring and innovative guitar player.. great lick and very nice tribute to the man.. well done Ben

[@fernandoverdun4980]

Great lick Ben! Would be great if you do more Allan Holdsworth licks in the future (?

[@WindsOfNeptune]

Patrick Mameli from Pestilence is an outspoken worshipper of Holdsworth

[@guitardavepdx]

I have to say that you show a ton of class when you give respect to other players, especially those who have passed. You do a honorable job of it as well as do your best to showcase their ability. Well done and thank you

[@BenEller]

guitardavepdx thanks a ton, man! RIP Allan!

[@Theosis78]

Thank you for this fine tribute, Allan Holdsworth deserves it!

[@SpartanLaserCanon]

Exivious is so sick. Nice to give them a shoutout basically.

[@snail415]

Allan passed on my birthday of all days. Thanks for doing this tribute.

[@williambennettofficial]

great tribute, Ben, thank you

[@abdullaalmarri4562]

Great tribute Uncle Ben , loving that intronaut shirt !

[@Dukebox69]

thanks for this lick breakdown ben. holdsworth was such an iconic player..even if you weren't a fan you've more than likely been indirectly influenced by his style through other great players

[@bestboy897]

Ah cloud good times great tune

[@RichardFriendartist]

really fascinating...thank you.

[@roopher2]

Nice tribute Ben, well said.

[@churlesjenkins4338]

I knew you would mention Exivious!

[@matthewsmith8568]

Metal Fatigue has a killa lick near bar 3 of the solo? If you ever have the time. Thx for the rad channel!

[@GodKedon]

Hey Ben, watched a few of your "you suck at guitar" videos, and have to say, they go over some of the finer key details that have helped my playing improve a lot. Was wondering if you could do a video on rhythmic displacement? Seems I really like hitting the second phrase on the beat, rather than the off beat.

[@Steve-nq8jc]

I, like most metal fans discovered Allan through Fredrik Thordendal's leads. Absolutely inspiring player and a real great loss to music.

[@BenEller]

B Thomas same here!!!

[@TenaciousTheSketcher]

RIP Allan Holdsworth

[@MatthewMaranan]

RIP \m/

[@Meshuggapeth]

Meshuggah would not be Meshuggah without the Holdsworth lead style. RIP

[@lilikura]

Please do a 'your legato (hammer ons/pull offs) sucks!

[@spoonerluv]

Per from Scar Symmetry has very similar legato.

[@SpartanLaserCanon]

I didn't use this lick because I didn't see or look for tabs or music notes for any of the licks in Allan's version of this song at the time I was practicing this as a personal song choice for an audition video I did, but it would have been cool if I used this lick but this video was not even uploaded at the time hahaha. Anyways you can check out me covering Inner Urge in an audition video I made.

[@jackrobinson3106]

Great video once again, RIP Allen. Can I ask what was the band playing at the beginning of the video??

[@danielb.6013]

Please do a necrophagist lesson or two

[@GuitaristGuyJames]

Great video man, Iove that you’re working with Andy wood right now! Is this a free profile on rig exchange? Can you give me some EQ tips that i can use to get close to Holdsworths lead tone with other profiles?

[@GuitaristGuyJames]

I found this profile on RM and it sounds nothing like the great tone your getting. I can tell the audio in this is in the room so I'm sure it;s even better in person. How did you tweak it?

[@EmperorX2000]

Hey Ben, where did you get your Kemper profile for this lick? It sounds great!

[@BenEller]

Marvin Seegers thanks! Got it for free on the rig exchange! Holdsworth Nights 2 or something like that. You HAVE to turn the reverb mix down, though, it's at 100% when you get it!

[@jeffmedina8839]

Another reason why other musicians laugh at us Guitarist speak notes not fret numbers. “ How do u get a guitarist to turn down his volume? Put a Music Chart in from of him!! Learn to read Music people forget about tab.

[@EVEROSFP1]

I deeply worried for Allan...

[@Slormer]

Sombre.