Allan Holdsworth - Chord Scales video free download

Nick Antonino

Hey Allen, whats scale are you using for that augmented sus13th ?

Rick Salt

and all chords shall have chorus massaging the family of notes ...... and no chord movement shall resolve ...... the idea is to sus your way through life , like the sound of a casino as the slot machines meld one massive sus-chord into your psyche so to exist in suspended animation

Peter Marshall

Allan Holdsworth is a phenomenal musician but a very poor teacher unless you're a guitarist so advanced that you don't need his assistance. Apologies for saying it, but this almost seems like musically-inspired intellectual masturbation...

Man Paca

Allan is great. He plays beautiful chords.If there's a complain it's that he plays this chords non-stop,endlessly.He does not look at other elements, in a prominent way, like time,coming in at different beats.Play fast, play slow, play semi-fast,etc.., play few notes, play a lot. Also maybe explore rhythm.

Dave Harris

+GopherYourself : Are you seriously saying that Fusion has nothing to do with Jazz ?Don't be a penis ALL your life, take a day off.

kane kure

Recently when I copied Kurt Rosenwinkel 's chord voicing, I found Kurt has surely watched this video, and copied Allan's voicing.

rockzilla5150

I have had the pleasure of meet Allan Holdsworth and he certainly was not arrogant. He was however reserved but friendly.

Eduardo Cassiano

Hoooh... I got you Mr. Eric Johnson, now I know Erics secrets... I mean, it's similar, come on!

David Doyle

Liverpool accent?,,,,speak up lads,,,wheres Allan from,,,,???

David Doyle

"Absorb what is useful,,,," Bruce Lee

Thomas Atzinger

Gopher Yourself: So you don't like Allan's music, and you have arguments why not.But please don't speak for others. I reacted emotionally to his music from the first time I heard it - although I still don't understand intellectually what he does (and I don't care because that's not the point). I love Allan's music, and so do other people too. You're right though that this is not jazz, but his own invention.

imixing1

Some of the thoughts in the opinion section seem to be just personal ways of looking at Alan's music, and yet implying that the authors' good taste and way of thinking should be taken as a rule of common understanding, something that we should all agree.Alan is showing at a particular point in time in his musical development, a personal approach to discovery. But of course he can hear and see stuff that most can't identify. Like describing interesting new colors to say, someone who can only see a few of them.I found it inspiring and useful, a small challenge to normal education and methods of learning concepts and practice.One of my old European professors in Boston (berklee, now professor at McGill), used to encourage playful and novel approaches to practice and development. So did most of the best teachers that I had outside the school. At one point 4 piano instructors, from disciples of Madame Shalof, Banacos, Ram Blake, and the list goes on.Five american universities later, one Canadian, one in South America and a conservatory education since I was 7, qualify me to say, thanks Allan I get part of what you are saying. And I am learning a lot, and this new learning affects the way in which I think in the guitar. Of course it rippled into my piano playing as well....PS I also declined Yale grad music department and Cambridge. Perhaps I was too hard headed for them

Nick Burman

"I do not think if myself as a teacher by any stretch of the imagination" - Alan Holdsworth (from the accompanying booklet). He might not be a teacher, but if you're a student, you can learn from him. 

Samsgarden

Consummate technique but his guitar doesn't sport flames, he doesn't bend enough or palm mute. So he's shit

roman14032

holdsworth is one of those phenomenal players who cant give a lesson to save his lifeits pointless anywayyour never going play like himget your guitar lessons someplace eles

Travis Grimes

Gopher Yourself, I totally agree with your comment. I have said the same thing about Allan and a lot of rocker style guitar players. I have tried to educate a lot of guitarist that many of the jazz guitarist as well as old style guitar players in any style soloed around CHORD CHANGES, and NOT SCALES. It is nice to finally meet someone who shares the same philosophy and understands what many of the old time jazz players did. Players like Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, etc did not know how to play scales. They simply played over their chord changes with an understanding of chord tones.

DanY.36

Chord scale theory simply recognizes that each chord in a chord progression can have multiple interpretations and thus multiple options for scales used over that chord regardless of the ultimate tonality being expressed. "Linear playing" is quite normal for playing over chords, especially for instruments that only play one note at a time. This idea has nothing to do with creating aimless chord progressions that never resolve- that's a separate issue. Blues is an example of chord scale theory in use. I can play A blues over an A7 chord as well as A Mixolydian or a combination of A blues and A mixolydian. Neither of these scales remove a sense of the A tonality. A blues has a "minor" sound over a chord with a major third in it and A Mixolydian gives a sense of majorness. If you play a flat 9 over a chord that resolves into its root and prefer to think of it as a passing tone rather than an expression of Phyrgian it's the same difference. Chord scale theory provides flexibility in the colors one can play over a given chord rather than the rigidly of using only one of many answers. 

wikichris

I would love him to have more of a straight sound that moves in and out of these atonal sounds. They definitely do sound amazing but it is hard not to get bored. But I guess this is him and what he loves doing. Amazing player.

henry crun

banana-fingered git. let's get 'im