I feel totally more stupid and inept after watching that video. I`ll just stick to bar chords.
@wayneiredale845
7 жыл бұрын
IntotheFire I can totally relate and agree!! lol
@badhabitz69
7 жыл бұрын
Wayne Iredale Allan is from another galaxy far far away......
@funkyfurballs1078
7 жыл бұрын
IntotheFire...LOL! I just want to learn one little legato lick... it's just not happening :o(
@badhabitz69
7 жыл бұрын
Funky' Furballs I share your pain man!!!
@LionelFreemanMusic
4 жыл бұрын
Scales talk about Allan Holdsworth.
@Claytone-Records
4 жыл бұрын
Those scales are saying: WTF?
@ollie2244
4 жыл бұрын
Talk Holdsworth scales about Allan.
@heyimgoingtoplaysomegames
4 жыл бұрын
When scales go to sleep, they check their closets for the ghost of Allan Holdsworth.
@frank2778
4 жыл бұрын
I think Holdsworth's approach to chords was inspired by The I Ching, Vedic Astrology, and Quantum Mechanics. Computer scientists attempted to program his understanding into Big Blue, but Big Blue blew up.
@Twominutedevotions
4 жыл бұрын
Modes learn Allan Holdsworth.
@jammyd33
4 жыл бұрын
I've found what I'm showing my friends the next time we get high
@brianhyland4140
4 жыл бұрын
😂👍🎸
@harmonygaleria6311
4 жыл бұрын
Bro that was hilarious 🤣🤣
@noesgaragejams
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@jackstrawfromwichita6168
4 жыл бұрын
Watching this on edibles right now
@raz0rcarich99
4 жыл бұрын
This is too relatable
@jeff7775
7 жыл бұрын
Alan's returned to his home planet, and in sure I'm not the only one who misses him here on earth. Thanks for the weird, wonderful and uniquely brilliant music🙌🏼
@TheMusicfan189
3 жыл бұрын
This is just insane. The guy is doing more work inside his head than a high end piece of technology. This is some robot level shit, honestly.
@robertterrill525
6 жыл бұрын
I don’t wanna sound super pretentious but he really proves people should experiment more with scales and understanding really truly why we use them and what the point is. You don’t even need a formal education just a piano and a notepad and if you’re really dedicated learn the relationships between the pitches themselves. Everyone knows how 12 tone is based on the harmonic series but nobody takes the time to just write it out and understand the framework for harmony better.
@canobenitez
2 жыл бұрын
I started playing 2 months ago and I came across this video, I don't understand how can I use a notepad to learn all the relantionship, it sounds useful though, can you elaborate a bit about that?
@DinosaurSuccess
Жыл бұрын
where do i start
@jayall00
Жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more. I'm self taught and everyone asks me how I got so good... The answer is simple. Hours and hours of dedication and practice, taking notes, samples, playbacks, playing around with different sounds and figuring out that x y and z sound amazing together, heck, they sound even better over a b and c. It's no mystery, just put the time in and make it your mistress
@meshzzizk
Жыл бұрын
Couldn’t agree more. I hope you’re a music teacher, because this is really important advice to any committed musician
@meshzzizk
Жыл бұрын
@@jayall00 ha! I hadn’t even seen your comment when I typed mine 😂
@ekirenrut
4 жыл бұрын
"You don't shout the changes to the people. They only hear the music." Well, I believe that's a wrap.
@colinburroughs9871
7 жыл бұрын
RIP..
@pratibhakote6086
7 жыл бұрын
Fatmagul
@ichnsnchgo1510
6 жыл бұрын
Colin Burroughs my god I had no idea, damn shame his death wasn't in the news.
@philipatoz
2 жыл бұрын
Remarkable that Alan left us quite a while back now, and here we have no musical composition but rather a mere teaching video of his with 650,000-plus views - just shows how massive his influence and respect by other musicians. Strange, but I remember about 7 years before he died, he was interviewed saying it had become increasingly difficult for him to get work and gigs, as he felt what he did wasn't in demand anymore. But the business model of the music industry has nothing to do with genius and influence. If Jimi himself were a young player today, he'd likely be just an enthusiastically followed KZitem player, with mostly musicians appreciating his skills and music!
@Orangetension
Жыл бұрын
Maybe, but that would definitely destroy his mystique.
@zappancojoey2277
7 жыл бұрын
I have owned this instructional tape since it was released and it still boggles me. I dont even play guitar, but Allan pulls in all willing ears to his genuine out of this world approach to making music. Thank you Allan . You are sitting on the pinnacle structure of all guitarist we know. You are the greatest threat to all of them. Lol. I miss you dearly.
@AW-kr9fl
2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome how Allan has come up with a system totally unique. The biggest thing is to think of scales using the whole fingerboard and not in a box pattern or in modes
@P00TANARA
7 жыл бұрын
I learned one thing...that I did not understand shit!!
@fitnessguru8012
7 жыл бұрын
hahaha!
@stephenbowyer7269
7 жыл бұрын
don't worry about it, you have lots of company.
@spwr1931
7 жыл бұрын
P00TANARA Don't worry, Frank Gambale and John McLaughlin didn't either.
@ericknarvaez5752
7 жыл бұрын
write down what u did not understand replay de video as many times as u need and google everything and study what u found. its impossible to learn all that in 13 minutes. at least his is what i do information is out there just gotta know how to use it.
@ericknarvaez5752
7 жыл бұрын
write down what u did not understand replay de video as many times as u need and google everything and study what u find. its impossible to learn all that in 13 minutes. at least his is what i do information is out there just gotta know how to use it.
@paulczech
5 жыл бұрын
When Allan plays that F major scale around the 4:20 mark, that's the first time I've ever heard him play muted notes in that manner.
@chriscoxofficial
4 жыл бұрын
Lol when he said “and the next 3 scales are my jazz scales.” Wait.... the first 4 were your pop scales??? This is an amazing and eye opening clip. His scale charts look like computer punch cards. He was such a genius player. Thanks for posting this!
@nostalgiacreep
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah man i thought it was pretty awesome too, never thought itd have this kind of response tho!
@dsvet
5 жыл бұрын
Like Tolkien who knew around 7 languages was able to combine language prefixes and suffixes to invent "Elvish" , Allan knows the "language" of chords and scales and seems to have come up with his own musical language that is only meaningful to him. However when he plays it through the guitar it is beautiful and speaks to us.
@spyderlogan4992
7 жыл бұрын
Eyes dancing on the notes. Brilliant.
@dimejoe2621
8 ай бұрын
I come back to this everytime I need humility check once in a while✌🏻✔️
@zigzignuts
3 жыл бұрын
What's mindblowing is that this was recorded before a live audience... We dont hear them because they are all stunned speechless with jaws in their laps gawking at these scale charts
@richmacer2108
3 жыл бұрын
I just stumbled across this. I have a lot of experience with autistic people including close family, and the phrase "gifted and talented" was never more true than right here. Within one minute of starting to watch this, I had google "is Allan Holdsworth autistic/aspergers?" As a guitarist, I feel crushed.
@snakefinger
3 жыл бұрын
Thank You for letting my man here in on the game. Thank You Eddie Van Halen. You’re a prince ! We’ll never forget you both.
@P3t3rPizzarelli
7 жыл бұрын
"10 most useful scales", sounds like one of those click bait list videos that are all over KZitem now.
@jonathanbrake3070
7 жыл бұрын
"You won't believe number one!"
@jasonwhite7427
7 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Brake hahaha! "number 4 will SHOCK you!"
@AndJamTracksForAll2014
7 жыл бұрын
pentatonic
@rooannaroo446
6 жыл бұрын
Must see!!! - This scale has been banned in most countries.
@JammyTom
6 жыл бұрын
Musicians HATE this one weird trick
@jamiemacdonald3635
3 жыл бұрын
And after the first week, his guitar teacher decided to take lessons from him! RIP 🙏
@stevelangridge1755
3 жыл бұрын
I saw Nucleus play in the early 70s. I’m not sure if he was in that particular lineup but they were on another planet musically speaking. I think the only comparable level of musicianship I’ve seen live personally was the Shorter/Pastorius lineup of Weather Report.
@skunkproductionsMLA
4 жыл бұрын
"(Allan Holdsworth) has notes on his fretboard that I do not have..." - Greg Howe
@tjn0110
Жыл бұрын
"My symbol which is completely meaningless to anyone but me." And that's the beauty of guitar, or any artform for that matter. YOU can take it, figure out things that make sense or are important to you, the limitations being only the physics of the instrument and yourself, and when you start banging against those walls, some magic can be found, and you can report back to others with your findings, with notation/terms that you had to invent, because they didn't exist before.
@curtisunit
3 ай бұрын
Allan with a baton explaining the unexplainable Is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while.
@panzerballettfan340
3 жыл бұрын
I miss this guy a lot
@meanmistermustard1041
3 жыл бұрын
This should be a required video to watch for any child considering learning guitar. It would certainly help to curb the number of guitarists in the mix...
@jb-ro4ow
5 жыл бұрын
All these comments are making me lol. Thank you Allan for being such a humble, incredible guitarist.
@andrewbevan4662
3 жыл бұрын
How do you apply this when playing "Wonderwall"
@SpaceCattttt
4 жыл бұрын
Right, the notes go here and here and here. Now fucking play it!
@MichaelVickerage-Composer
3 жыл бұрын
Are you listening, humans? Btw, i saw his first ever perfornance with Soft Machine, in Ilfracombe. It was arranged by the Musicians Union. Six people turned up. They were all my friends. We thought God had strapped on a Strat and I remember it to this day. Astonishing, visionary man.
@coralanyon757
4 жыл бұрын
"Xcetera"....indeed. Howzabout 3 of us split a gram of pharmaceutical/Burningman-grade, & we'll jus' sit up and listen to him play jazz-improv scales w/ the chorus on for a couple three hourz....
@KungFuChess
3 жыл бұрын
His scales are all encrypted codes
@Bagabonda
3 жыл бұрын
"--completely meaningless to anyone but me."
@InternetTRex
Жыл бұрын
I can take someone being born with the calculator brain to have every scale ever imprinted in their brain, but to actually be able to play them all this fluidly too is just taking the piss. Allan's not dead, he just returned to his home planet of Microsoft
@Viper-dz2kw
Жыл бұрын
Took me a minute to understand what he was saying but I guess he just didn’t see modes, he saw everything as different modification of a single scale starting from E and ending on E
@batmandeltaforce
4 ай бұрын
"I guess I was particularly stubborn" :) ...thank you for that:)
@jackduffy8286
Ай бұрын
So that’s basically how I think of scales..
@RavencoreLZR
3 жыл бұрын
6:03 Am major 7, flat 6 . That’s basically a harmonic minor. He’s either intentionally throwing us off, or genuinely oblivious to music theory.
@THEDRAWINGSTUDIO1
3 жыл бұрын
This dude's a fucking genius. Check out his work. He's probably just using it make nomenclature easier for beginners.
@jazzman1954
Жыл бұрын
He basically figured out the guitar neck using diagrams and not paying attention to music school academics or transcribing (mimicking) other peoples solos.
@ExtremelyOnlineGuy
3 жыл бұрын
Ya know who reminds me of him like that thousand island stare and just level of insight not playing wise. Plini. There’s a video of him on guitar world and that *insight has gotten too high* vibe is viscously abundant with both of them
@miparedro76
4 жыл бұрын
The Quantum mechanics theory explained by a vulcan scientist in proto-klingon (proto-tlhIngan Hol)
@caustixsoda8125
4 жыл бұрын
Got his book. Gotta say, incredible. I've a few already but his tops them all. I highly recommend "just for the curious" 👍
@SrikanthIyerTheMariner
3 жыл бұрын
If this were a physics video --- it would be Albert Einstein explaining relativity and I would still be scratching my head
@srb-ef3zs
4 жыл бұрын
As clear as mud! My hero genius R.I.P. AH.
@chrisclarke1893
3 жыл бұрын
Holdsworth was a guitarist’s Yoda!!! Pure genius!!
@SlyHikari03
2 жыл бұрын
I miss you Allan.
@jamescumbie2187
3 жыл бұрын
Right. Just memorize all this and then all you have to do is A) develop top-level, on-the-fly improvisational skills over any kind of tricky progression, even in odd meters, and B) hone your ability to play insanely long phrases at lightning speed flawlessly, and you too can play like Allan!
@BrockDavisson
3 жыл бұрын
Most of those scales all are just variation of a simple Natural minor scale aka aeolian scale. For example Scale 9 is basically A aeolian scale with an added F# note etc.. etc.. but then again you could pick out the other modes too and go from there. All scales and modes connect in one way or another.
@Doty6String
Жыл бұрын
This makes sense to me. He plays modal all the time. Also with chords.
@darrondocie8062
2 жыл бұрын
I feel 87.3% more stupid now I've seen this.
@Rob_KaBob
5 жыл бұрын
I now know less about everything including my own life after watching this
@TheKiddingStar
5 жыл бұрын
I shit myself halfway through
@mathieudager4234
4 жыл бұрын
😂
@danjacksonguitar3701
4 жыл бұрын
Been thinking like him my whole life but literally just found out about it him, ashamed.
@beoz658
4 жыл бұрын
classic reply very funny
@andym28
4 жыл бұрын
I feel I have no clue what he is in about but I do know he is significant in musical history.
@TheArtofGuitar
4 жыл бұрын
Watch his eyes when he plays, he's getting datas from beyond.
@fatmikeSauce
4 жыл бұрын
New video of you translating this to english coming?
@bryandowlyn5479
4 жыл бұрын
Can you tell me about that song called Metal Fatigue from Allan? It's so difficult to understand the tuning and there is no tabs available.
@chumleyshaver7942
4 жыл бұрын
LOL 😂
@torrid94
4 жыл бұрын
Yo...nice seeing you on another video!
@BungleJoogie68
4 жыл бұрын
@@bryandowlyn5479 that song uses a harmonizer set to different parts. I believe it's set to either fourths or fifths. One or the other. On top of that it's weird chords. But it is still in standard tuning.
@Quinkermarine
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Allan, that's the basics covered. Can we move on to the serious stuff now please?
@Bridging_the_Political_Divide
4 жыл бұрын
The dude's on another level. RIP to the king.
@flaccidego4291
3 жыл бұрын
This Holdsworth guy seems pretty good, but can he play 'Smoke on the Water?' I think not!
@canadianroot
3 жыл бұрын
He neglected to mention the importance of the H#13 minor double-diminished chord, and its pentatonic augmented ultra-dominant equivalent. Not to take away from his obvious talent.
@raymondmartin2858
3 жыл бұрын
Once you've finished the booklet you can move onto lesson 2.
@anguitenens
3 жыл бұрын
😆
@glenngulia5409
5 жыл бұрын
This inspires me... ...to sell my guitars.
@DanielHoerle-ww9so
4 жыл бұрын
No Shit. I understand Bach but Allan is not from this planet
@enzosmith5371
4 жыл бұрын
I stopped guitar in 2016. Played since 12 yrs old. Holdsworth may be one of them 🛸 🛸 He's brilliant
@qwertyzxcv123
3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@flaccidego4291
3 жыл бұрын
Yep. I quit
@jsamc
3 жыл бұрын
Gosh guys just because u can't screw like john holmes don't mean u have to stop screwing LOL !!
Its only under our sun that he can use his full power
@WinstonTexas829
Жыл бұрын
@@ianleonard3264 👏👏
@robertlawson682
Жыл бұрын
Yorkshire?
@vecernicek2
7 жыл бұрын
This is like music theory from an alternate universe.
@noi5emaker
7 жыл бұрын
More like an Altered Universe (U Alt). Or an Augmented Universe ? (U#5)
@bmaiani
6 жыл бұрын
I'd say it's FRETBOARD theory, applied to music theory
@schnuffischnuff4837
4 жыл бұрын
Brad Maiani exactly...
@metalheadblues
4 жыл бұрын
That's Holdsworth in a nutshell , otherworldly playing
@DanielHoerle-ww9so
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly its like the term think outside the music theory box. Im a classical player and I play metal. I understand Bach , but Allan is really in his own league,both music theory and technique no one literally plays like him. No disrespect to Bach he is an 18th century musical genius but seriously i think if Bach was alive today and saw Allan play I think he would say " I am not worthy "
@interstellish
7 жыл бұрын
Allan Holdsworth talking about scales is perhaps the single most intimidating thing any guitarist will ever encounter in their musical lives.
@Bifrons
5 жыл бұрын
This kinda sums it up. Guthrie Govan once said about Holdsworth: "I think it's potentially dangerous when a rock type player hears a bit of Allan Holdsworth or Frank Gambale and then dives straight into that style of playing; not only is the technical aspect daunting, there's also all that musical knowledge and understanding going on behind the scenes, and it's really hard to absorb both of those aspects at once without your playing just starting to sound worse."
@WardyP
5 жыл бұрын
Yes 😎
@aylbdrmadison1051
5 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't call it _intimidating_ per se. Definitely _daunting_ though for most.
@renatoarauz7784
5 жыл бұрын
Not really. the theory is understandable, but the execution and application is a whole new world
@hm09235nd
4 жыл бұрын
Aylbdr Madison thanks for the italics there, buddy.
@whatifindbeautiful
3 жыл бұрын
"Welcome back Allan. How was Earth?" "I messed with the Earthlings the whole time. It was awesome!"
@ValirAmaril
3 жыл бұрын
'why do you sound like you're from the north?' 'lots of planets have a north!'
@anguitenens
3 жыл бұрын
😆
@andym28
3 жыл бұрын
Yorkshire is known as God's country.
@pastapants4209
3 жыл бұрын
This is like inventing a language as a kid and speaking it to yourself for years, then explaining it for a video
@quinnly
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@vanguard4065
3 жыл бұрын
Allen should have studied real music theory. He is trying to reinvent the wheel but it doesn’t work.
@verresmilliterres
3 жыл бұрын
@@vanguard4065 It worked quite well for him. He didn't need it to work for anyone else. Not to mention, his "wheel" is his music theory, which is not the same as conventional music theory.
@marco-xe9je
3 жыл бұрын
@@vanguard4065 real music theory? wtf is real in arts
@vanguard4065
3 жыл бұрын
@@verresmilliterres it worked for him which is why his music is simple and senseless.
@Prossdog
4 жыл бұрын
Good lord, it’s like teaching astrophysics to preschoolers
@31145_
3 жыл бұрын
Not true I got it in year 72', since then I have been playing rythm with my hands when I listen music hiding from the hall of fame
@6nosis
3 жыл бұрын
@@31145_ OOH SO YOUR FROM THE FUTURE?
@donmackie6086
3 жыл бұрын
Ha! Great line!
@JSBroadcast
4 жыл бұрын
Legend says that even Allan didn't understand this video after he watched it himself.
@peterspurrell1574
4 жыл бұрын
LOL
@Kramtteckebb
4 жыл бұрын
That made me laugh.
@shawndimery
4 жыл бұрын
Aleksandar Grbic haha
@badgertw8425
4 жыл бұрын
😂
@RohannvanRensburg
3 жыл бұрын
I actually think I get what he's saying now, coming back to it. It seems like he doesn't think of scales in the context of a root note but in the context of the intervals available within that scale regardless of the root. I'm not sure what he makes of modes, or if he just uses them accidentally or subconsciously, but it's a confusing and complicated way of explaining scales and modes in different but connected positions on the fretboard. But hey, clearly it worked for him.
@richiea.2137
4 жыл бұрын
To the commenters, thank you for the laughs.
@GusFogle
3 жыл бұрын
The way he explains his ideas is a bit confusing but everything he's talking about has a firm basis in conventionally known music theory. He's just come up with his own terms for certain things and his own way of approaching them. A lot of the stuff he does like modal borrowing, chromatic enclosure, etc. is rooted in what many other jazz players have done before him. Allan just had an especially unique vocabulary.
@Allan-et5ig
Жыл бұрын
That's quite a 'just' as you use it, but I've thought the same thing for a long time. I think his 'vision' of the fretboard and the entirety of every chord within it - is pretty off the charts and probably not normal even for people like say - to pull a random name, Herbie Hancock.
@yohohoho7675
4 жыл бұрын
I had the pleasure of having a pint of guiness with him after his last gig of a tour in the jazz cafe in Camden in around 96, 97. He played a chordal instrumental on his own half way through the gig with a loud clean tone with a huge reverb and a volume pedal. What I heard was simply stunningly beautiful and I was almost in tears at how other worldly it was. I have never heard anything like it since. He was a true gentleman and a very keen listener and gave really honest advice. A humbling experience meeting and talking to such a brilliant musical force of nature. Thank you Allan.
@EASFromTheWest
Жыл бұрын
What did you guys talk about
@nospillblood
Жыл бұрын
@@EASFromTheWest Being gay probably
@BillyCraigMusicArtist
Жыл бұрын
That's pretty amazing.
@hazor777
Жыл бұрын
@@nospillbloodounds like something you’re well versed in But no: we don t care to hear about it
@Soldano88
Жыл бұрын
@@nospillblood Go away troll 🤢
@GoatMee
6 жыл бұрын
"Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do." "Imagine your eyes like dancing on the notes you wanna play, and then forget about whether your hands can do it or not, just try it."
@stackedfat
4 жыл бұрын
Scale 10 is the Messiaen mode 3. It's one of the 7 Modes of limited transposition. Oliver Messiaen catalogued these in his book La technique de mon langage musical 1944.
@patrickjordan8373
4 жыл бұрын
I thought the quotes you cited described autism pretty well.
@darenwobensmith4868
4 жыл бұрын
U got it. Go for it. Experience the experiment. Lol
@hachouma23
4 жыл бұрын
That's the difference between Allan Holdsworth and people who aren't aliens
@sinesteticostrauben8426
4 жыл бұрын
@@patrickjordan8373 it'a a synesthesia
@sukotto1001
4 жыл бұрын
I was just looking for "Rock you like a Hurricane."
@anguitenens
3 жыл бұрын
😆
@Rr0gu3_5uture
Жыл бұрын
Holdsworth always struck me as having the vibe of being the world's most boring geography teacher, who, in his spare time was the world's most epic, noodly guitar player.
@fabiopnoronha
7 жыл бұрын
Bottom line: there will never be another Holdsworth.
@tombouwmeister6254
5 жыл бұрын
@@PureHoney_ASMR hell no
@westong6819
5 жыл бұрын
@@PureHoney_ASMR hell no
@ReggiePostlethwaite
5 жыл бұрын
@@PureHoney_ASMR no
@PluckMyStrings
5 жыл бұрын
@@PureHoney_ASMR stop
@Hosh-id2lr
5 жыл бұрын
Chickenwomp no
@flowerpunkchip
7 жыл бұрын
RIP Zappa quite rightly rated you highly dear Allan
@TruthSurge
5 жыл бұрын
4:27 Sure, when I grow another 2 inches of finger length, I'll start thinking like that!
@johndejulia7022
4 жыл бұрын
Lolo amen to that brother
@jamescumbie2187
3 жыл бұрын
The added finger length then Rain Man-like savant mental powers and I'm there too!
@JM-zq9em
3 жыл бұрын
My wife says I'd be way better if I gain 2 more inches as well😅😅😅😅😅
@Mick-Dempsey
3 жыл бұрын
Love your stuff brother.
@anguitenens
3 жыл бұрын
@@JM-zq9em 😆
@SamuraiGuitar
4 жыл бұрын
The pentatonic does not feature among his ten most useful scales hahahahaha
@maxwellbarnhart1375
4 жыл бұрын
He has transcended such basic scales as that lol
@WbadasAllDay
4 жыл бұрын
Samurai Guitar you can go further than 2 notes
@IamAMenaceToS0ciety
3 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@SamuraiGuitar
3 жыл бұрын
@Electric Jesus I understand what you mean, but that's not really the same thing, otherwise he could have said that there's only one scale, the chromatic.
@SamuraiGuitar
3 жыл бұрын
@Electric Jesus...says the guy who made his perspective on my comment the main object... I have no idea what you are talking about: I've never claimed there wasn't a pentatonic nested in the listed scales; and if I did rag about anyone, it was about guitar players who still think only or mainly about pentatonic scales.
@jamesshort9217
Жыл бұрын
He was a straight-up genius. For one to just invent their own entire complex musical language is unheard of
@christophermitchum6829
Жыл бұрын
Ditto, absolutely, if u can't get it...go! Hide behind your imaginary world of the web, and know that He did his best, influenced more than a few (me, too) and was humble, genuine, what can I say? Rest in peace, bro😎✔️💯🎶💥
@kwimms
Жыл бұрын
Sure, but in the end it just sounds like noodling around... really fancy noodling around.
@SuperCrazylegs26
Жыл бұрын
@@kwimmsat the time of this comment this video has 784,000 views. If he was just noodling even in a “fancy” way there wouldn’t be so many people tuning in to a complete guitar players guitarist to see what he has to say.
@strangeuniverse1199
Жыл бұрын
Quite a bit different music he plays, very different than the standard heavy metal garbage you hear nowadays.
@petestanton1945
11 ай бұрын
@@strangeuniverse1199Heavy Metal Fatigue
@Kitsurai
7 жыл бұрын
This man exemplifies the adage: "You must know thew rules before you can break them."
@theystoleitfromus
7 жыл бұрын
To paraphrase Picasso: "Learn the rules like a professional so you can break them like an artist." Or Charlie Parker: "Learn all the theory you can, and then forget it."
@andym28
7 жыл бұрын
theystoleitfromus very interesting. The issue is many feel so restricted by the rules I guess playing with total freedom outside playing is a stepping stone to the middle.
@illuminatibraincontrol
6 жыл бұрын
I believe he taught himself most of the rules using math. Kinda different from traditionally learning them imo
@DominicAirola
5 жыл бұрын
He kind of just wrote his own rules before learning the normal ones though
@panama1942
5 жыл бұрын
@@theystoleitfromus The funny thing about Charlie Parker's quote is that I've tried to learn many scales and chords and and end up throwing them in the trash and just do my own thing whenever I want to create my own music
@silentinaway7407
3 жыл бұрын
For all of you still baffled (including me) it's nice to know that McLaughlin said that he'd steal what Holdsworth does if only he could figure it out!
@bertramlefarge69
2 жыл бұрын
"I am Allan Holdsworth, i come in peace" What a guy. He stands alone in the Pantheon of Electrified Guitar Gods.
@albertochiesa5815
3 жыл бұрын
".... it is completely meaningless to anyone but me." Sounds encouraging! 🙂
@jamiepastman5594
3 жыл бұрын
how a true genius functions in the world, his own path and no one else's. And modest about it. Compare this great man to what we have now, celebrity "influencers." sigh
@drewdelargo4520
4 жыл бұрын
Omg, I enjoyed reading the comments as much as seeing the master explain his technique. RIP Allan
@ATreeofNight
3 жыл бұрын
this must be what a dog feels when being shown a card-trick. fascination...
@IBOJOE
3 жыл бұрын
😂
@StratMatt777
7 жыл бұрын
So, instead of learning scales, he invented them all on his own, plus additional scales. Amazing. This guy is clearly not human, but at a completely different level.
@danfuerthgillis4483
5 жыл бұрын
He did what Segovia did, throw away all the BS chords and open up the guitar in sets of notes as Segovia did for many of his classical transcriptions.
@richardpaulus9823
4 жыл бұрын
You dont invent scales. Like chords, they are either minor, major, or diminished in nature. There are only 12 notes to use. Then it repeats. Each interval in any key will give the same feel. The 5 will always sound like a power chord compared to the root. The flat5 compared to the root will always sound dissonant/evil so on and so forth. A major3rd will make it sound happy. A minor3rd will always sound sad. Etc etc.
@BradsGonnaPlay
4 жыл бұрын
Richard Paulus “so on and so forth” and then you go from 5ths to 3rds. Intentional or not, that gave me a chuckle.
@McMinnManiac
4 жыл бұрын
@@richardpaulus9823 It is interesting how he puts a minor 6th in the Melodic minor. that shows me he doesn't think about interchanging keys as much as playing patterns Most players think "I am playing The second mode of melodic minor (dorian b2) and making it function as Dorian or mixolydian by borrowing notes from the relative diminished As it was explained to me by a professor , Allan plays to chords , most players play through changes (although Allan could do that too!) god damn Allan , how did you get so good ?
@nuberiffic
4 жыл бұрын
Really? Cos I did exactly this a few years ago. A lot of guitarists will do this. It's pretty basic stuff
@itj5598
6 жыл бұрын
Here is a list of scales from a formal music theory context put into Holdsworth's format. Each given scale does not label all of the possible modes associated with the formal music theory names. Holdsworth just condenses all their modes into one Scale #. Scale 1 - Major Scale 2 - Jazz melodic minor (ascending melodic minor) Scale 3 - Harmonic minor Scale 4 - Lydian Harmonic minor Scale 5 - Half/Whole or Whole/Half Diminished Scale 6 - Bebop with passing tone between scale degrees 1 and 2 Scale 7 - Bebop with passing tone between scale degrees b7 and 1 Scale 8 - Bebop with passing tone between scale degree 1 and 2 Scale 9 - Jazz melodic minor with added passing tone between scale degree 5 and 6 Scale 10 - Messaien's 3rd Mode Hope this encourages more fellow music theory nerds!
@jabari22
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks🙏🏾
@barryvisoc6851
3 жыл бұрын
I use all these scales.
@foalar
3 жыл бұрын
Scale 6 and Scale 8 appear the same
@-solidsnake-
3 жыл бұрын
@@whitelightenergydads no, one is scale degree and one is scale degrees
@gerrykavanagh
3 жыл бұрын
Nope. Even more intimidated now.
@markandersen793
3 жыл бұрын
The late great Edward Van Halen once said: Alan can do more with one hand, than I can do with two.
@slimmmshaney5695
3 жыл бұрын
This video is as hard to follow as Finnegans wake, yet I feel like if I decipher it I may ascend to another plane of existence
@abirdthatflew
3 жыл бұрын
I wish that, too.
@AlanIsHarmony
6 жыл бұрын
Don't worry about it and don't feel restricted just because Allan did this. I think the most important thing to take from what's in the video is that Allan did this in the interests of finding his own voice and a system that worked for him. What's more important than anything else is how you find your voice and doing so and I suspect Allan would agree.
@icecreamforcrowhurst
3 жыл бұрын
Well said. The real lesson here is: find your own way, if you *really* want it you’ll find a way.
@abirdthatflew
3 жыл бұрын
@@icecreamforcrowhurst It might take 1600 years to work out the tempered scale.
@marylondonszpara1628
7 жыл бұрын
RIP Allan Holdsworth The guitarist that was so brilliant he made other guitarists' jaws drop. I found his discourse on chords so interesting...I wonder if he had synesthesia...he is able to visualize music in a way that is exceptional.
@prsplayer210
7 жыл бұрын
Mary Szpara likely
@RaviOmJazz
5 жыл бұрын
I am trying to write a book on teaching this approach of learning the guitar, it’s very similar to how I developed my ear and solo ability
@genesiskeglar6372
4 жыл бұрын
If you visualize the colors of the frets based on number or notes, it definitely helps. Still have to play a lot, though
@maxwellbarnhart1375
4 жыл бұрын
He might have. But I think he was more of a "visionary." Visionaries tend to be able to visualize concepts in really interesting ways. They're visual thinkers, and it allows them to master concepts and get really really good at whatever they do.
@kingminotaur4693
4 жыл бұрын
Eddie Van Halen said "You have to be a guitar player to know how good Holdsworth is. " Also something to the effect of "I can't even steal anything from him because I have no idea what he's doing" There's something about showing those "maps" ( I don't really see them as scales because they duplicate up the neck) that totally discourages me because I know I could never memorize that, and part of that is not just my memory but my ear-- I think he can actually feel those obscure scales and know WHERE HE IS in one, no matter what position. SO you couldn't approximate his playing even if you memorized the patterns and developed the dexterity to play them. The strangeness of the intervals takes an freakishly acute harmonic sense to recognize and know where you are.
@XwpisONOMA
7 жыл бұрын
No reason rubbing it in, we know we know nothing. RIP, Alan...
@toddwilliamson8557
3 жыл бұрын
He basically charted every possible scale/mode and arpeggio that would fit over certain chords and combined them all into one mind boggling system per chord. Its not that far off of Pat Martino's 'Linear Expressions' where Pat breaks every possible chord into minor triad's and solos over that. (Yes that is an overly simplistic description)
@HoboSammiches
6 жыл бұрын
"This is an A major minor flattened 6th" Makes perfect fucking sense dude
@gregsimmons3323
3 жыл бұрын
lol! I think he just means A harmonic.... but yeah, his approach is certainly "idiosyncratic"
@hammerhead2325
7 жыл бұрын
Holdsworth is genius. He was genius when I saw him in 1981 performing in a trio. Everything is about opening up the ear and relating it to music and the fingerboard.
@noi5emaker
7 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was golden. 12:43 is great advice - follow the music, not your fingers. I like the idea of NOT shouting out changes to the audience because it's all about the music. I could probably throw away all my other theory books and study this video for the next ten years! I have some practising to do...
@samva81
2 жыл бұрын
4:18 : FM7 (4 notes on each string) 4:55 : CM7 (Exercise) 12:12 : Symetrical Cm
@blueeyedsoulman
3 жыл бұрын
Doesn't mention visualizing this requires a photographic memory. Good luck. Love Allan Holdsworth: International man of musical mystery.
@icecreamforcrowhurst
3 жыл бұрын
Yes I was thinking that, the way he describes it suggests he really has a photographic memory. I’m not even sure what that is but he seems to have it lol
@tobongkim9687
3 жыл бұрын
Glad to know that I wasnt the only one who felt that way. The way he just points at the lowest and the highest note on the instrument and goes "yeah you just gotta memorize all the notes"...
@raybergstrom
7 жыл бұрын
This is brilliant! The way Allan visualized the fretboard, it was like lights popped up under every available note on the whole neck each time the harmony changed. Rather than playing in patterns or positions, he played whatever interesting combinations of available notes he felt like instead of being constrained by shapes or licks. To have this instant recall of all the possibilities must be amazing. RIP Allan and thank you for sharing your gift with the world.
@AlanIsHarmony
6 жыл бұрын
Really? Would you care to elaborate?
@emcg.9655
6 жыл бұрын
simon lloyd no it’s not
@DanielsFreeStep
6 жыл бұрын
The ideia gives us the concept of the CAGED system right? But it's almost some symmetrical scale from Oliver Messian n some "different" assymetrical scales like harmonic major etc
@marcocosmic
5 жыл бұрын
This changed my life back in 1996
@CG-828
4 жыл бұрын
This video was almost as crazy as stumbling across this comment and realizing I never heard of him passing... Grateful I got to see one live performance. Definitely a legend.
@petemcgowan2828
3 жыл бұрын
i also give scales names, like that fucking scale, this fucking scale, thats a cunt of a fucking scale, that bastard scale. quite similiar really.
@legatrix
7 жыл бұрын
I've watched this video about 20 times, and every time I watch it my awe increases.
@mattf9076
4 жыл бұрын
same with his music for me.
@truthlivingetc88
7 жыл бұрын
Alan . The guitarist who dared to dream the impossible . And turned that impossible musical dream into reality. RIP .
@kelvinpanesar6511
7 жыл бұрын
Hey!! That was a really cool statement!! Thanks for posting!!!
@jamiepastman5594
Жыл бұрын
Musically, yes. But he died broke and unhappy, so the dream had a lot of hard reality for Allan, imposed by an ignorant world who couldn’t understand him. Life was very hard on him, and he was very hard on himself too
@truthlivingetc88
Жыл бұрын
@@jamiepastman5594 yes well said
@truthlivingetc88
Жыл бұрын
@@kelvinpanesar6511 thanks Kelvin took me a while to reply but thanks again
@Tfrne
3 жыл бұрын
This must be what music theory sounds like to non-musicians.
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