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Allan Holdsworth

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"I don’t know what he was doing – if it was either prog or jazz. He was a unique person – just the way he looked at things. And he reinvented musical theory in his own way – without getting the knowledge in school. He just analyzed it, internalized it, and he used it in his own perspective. And it created a very unique musical landscape. There will never be another Allan Holdsworth. And I’m not talking about his crazy legato technique or whatever. It’s just the whole thing – the harmony, the composition, the improvisation, the way he looks at the guitar, and music."

  • Daniel Mongrain

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Hey everyone! Finally, after 19 months I finished this massive video. I had no idea it would be over 5 hours long, so I suggest treating it like a "video book" in a way. Feel free to download it and do whatever you want with it.

0:00 - Introduction 7:19 - About this video 17:23 - About improvisation 29:09 - How Allan thinks of scales and harmony 1:05:26 - Common Allan themes

1:16:00 - Major tonality lines 1:20:55 - Minor tonality lines

Major Scale: 1:26:00 - Ionian 1:34:16 - Dorian 1:42:49 - Phrygian 1:49:45 - Lydian 1:53:58 - Mixolydian 2:02:31 - Aeolian 2:09:01 - Locrain

2:11:59 - Multipositional lines

2:13:51 - Octave phrases

2:15:12 - Pentatonic

2:29:38 - Melodic Minor

2:38:49 - Diminished scale

2:57:19 - Add b6 scale

3:09:38 - Add b6 / Harmonic Major / Harmonic Minor similarities

3:14:26 - Harmonic Minor

3:18:15 - Harmonic Major

Messaien 3rd Mode: 3:20:03 - Messiaen's 3rd mode 3:29:38 - Allan's scale symbols 3:34:47 - Whole Tone 3:36:35 - Augmented scale

3:38:06 - Outside playing

4:29:22 - Tapping

Synthaxe: 4:32:30 - About the Synthaxe and tunings 4:44:09 - 5ths 4:56:09 - 4ths 4:58:19 - Octave displacement 5:11:35 - Sequenced Solos

5:18:14 - Ending

If I sound a bit weird in it I apologize, it took me 11 hours to record all in one day.

This was a culmination of transcribing lines from almost 40 years of Allan Holdsworth solos and what I learned from it. The idea on making this video was to make YOU more comfortable with your own playing, and perhaps take some ideas and make them your own.

The video has 946 examples, but that's just about a third of what I transcribed.

In the end it turned out to be 34 files, 189 solos, 629 pages, 6,804 measures and 2,302 lines.

If you would like to send me a donation for my work, you can here:

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JVull...

Thank you so much for all the kind words and support you've all given me. Doing this is the best thank you I can give for Allan to help people understand his music better and also make people better players. This is my masterpiece of teaching in a way with everything i've learned myself in 25 years of playing.

Thank you!!!

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