Allan Holdsworth Style Extreme Legato Lesson Part 1

[RowanJParker]

Holdsworth is a totally original and unique player. No one sounded like him before he broke out and although many have tried to copy his style none have reached his level of fluidity. I think there are players who play on the same level as him, Frank Gambale for instance, but these guys have developed their own original and strong styles in any case. Put this way, no one is better at being Allan Holdsworth than Allan Holdsworth! Cheers Rowan

[brummell]

Excellent explanation. Now I watch the next!
Thank so much Rowan ;-)

[abosco]

Hi Rowan!  I just stumbled across your videos and website, and man I'm glad I did!  EXCELLENT lessons my friend.  I'm almost 60 and just beginning to discover Legato...I think I have a lot to learn from your lessons.  Love your tone and playing.  Thanks for posting all your material.  I definitely subscribed to your site.  :-)

[tinelismiper]

All kidding aside, with his cheeky & humorous personality the GUY is a awesome and gifted musician.

[musicandnature]

I love your lessons! Greetings from Amsterdam!

[abutomatto]

You are best guitarteacher on Youtube!!

[ssdtrain]

i love this guy!!!, he's hilarious and talented!!...

[VioletDeliriums]

Exercise 3 is not just the first 4 tones of the Lydian mode, it is also a whole-tone scale minus 2 of its 6 tones. In fact, I heard whole tone scale when you first played it, then you called it Lydian and I was like, oh ya, that too.

[manguera]

legato was a playing technique in the classical music for guitar since 70 yr ago. legendary.rock progressive guitar player Steve Howe used a lot in his classical song and in solos in the Yes Album and others., is nice that Alan Holdsworth went beyond in this technique.

[horsepowerslave]

Allan, 1 of my all time, respected players. simply a master,

[DhirajVSalian]

Hey Rowan..It's great to see you on YouTube. Had attended a rockschool workshop by you in Mumbai like 3-4 years back! :-)

[RowanJParker]

If you like that then I have another couple of whole tone licks on the channel somewhere. Late night licks I think it's called. Cheers for the comments Violet.

[Soboliew]

Hey man- love your vids and your accent ! :D Awesome stuff!

[RowanJParker]

Your cheque is in the post! Cheers Rowan

[RowanJParker]

@ballsackmctit Hi there, the guitar is a mid 80s model. Cant recall exactly. I bought it second hand for £800 which was a bargain. The original owner had a guitar synth installed and I think that was the mounting for the pickup. Cheers Rowan.

[elherna]

Yeah, sorry, my english is crap. I understand, I just asked because i have this sort of stupid theory on my mind: If I practice a pattern, scale, whatever, I wan't to be able to apply it everywhere. Thanks for this vids anyway, really helpful. I'm working a lot on my legato since a couple of months now, I'll try this excersices right away!

[RowanJParker]

Hi Bruno, not it's just into the amp. Some gain on the amp of course and a bit of reverb and delay as well but no compression. Cheers Rowan

[Walamonga]

This is insane...might as well throw my guitar to the rubbish. Great chops by the way!

[RowanJParker]

Hi there, I think that usually I do pull off when descending which is something that Holdsworth doesn't do as he dislikes the pitch distortion. However, when I play with just the left hand only I often hammer everything so the answer is sometimes yes, sometimes no.

[cast]

You sound like the guy who played Scotty in the new star trek movies.Great lesson btw...