Allan Holdsworth

Dec 18, 2012 Allan Holdsworth, Alan Pasqua, Chad Wackerman & Jimmy Haslip

Set List:

1. The Fifth 0:00:00
2. Looking Glass 0:08:29
3. Fred 0:16:20
4. It Must Be Jazz 0:25:05
5. Blues For Tony 0:34:47
6. San Michele 0:43:34
7. Pud Wud 0:57:04
8. Proto Cosmos 1:10:11
9. Red Alert 1:15:33

Allan Holdsworth was a genius. Obviously. I always thought that the Drive/Amp were the important part of his tone, and have bought the J Rockett Holdsworth drive a number of times to see if I was missing something. After playing with both the Yamaha MagicStomp and the Yamaha UD Stomp - which Allan used for a huge part of his career, I've found what I think is the MOST important part of his lead tone.

THERE IS NOT A SOUND DEMO IN THIS VIDEO. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THIS UNVERIFIED CIRCUIT, WATCH THE VIDEO.

I have been intrigued by Allan Holdsworth's "Harness", AKA Juice Extractor, for quite a while. I recently discovered some more information about it and decided that I was going to attempt reverse engineering it.

NOTE: This is NOT the same circuit as Rocktron's Juice Extractor, which is frankly completely different from Allan's design. The only thing the two have in common is Holdsworth's name and the concept of a power amp to line level interface. Watch the video or visit the link below to learn more about that.

There is quite a lot more to say about Allan's ingenious invention, but that's not within the scope of this video. If you want to learn more in depth details about the somewhat complicated story of The Harness, check out the webpage at my website -- http://www.diyguitarist.net/Misc/Hold...

THIS IS NOT A SOUND DEMO WITH A GUITAR AND AMPLIFIER. It is an analysis of Allan Holdsworth's tone control using an oscilloscope and a pair of function generators used in the audio range where we can hear it thru an LM386 based mini-amplifier. Also there's a brief bit about my LTSpice analysis of the circuit.

I wanted to know more about this tone control that Allan Holdsworth designed for his custom Harness units, so I built it and tested just that part of the circuit. I think it has potential to be used in a few different ways, in a simple tube amp or in a DIY guitar pedal. In my use of it so far it has never been harsh or "muddy" sounding!

Allan Holdsworth 1997

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!!!

You passed away exactly a month after I posted this cover! This is my humble 'Tribute' to you! RIP Allan Holdsworth!

Armed with my Beloved 'Marilyn' which is custom built to my specs by Uncle Yanger Aier of Yahuya Guitars in Dimapur, Nagaland and a BOSS GT-1 into a Stranger Amp, Here is an attempt to play along one of my favorite Holdsworth track - 'City Nights' from the album Secrets (1989) written by Gary Husband.

This Video/Audio was shot with a LYF WIND 6 Smart?Phone!

Not perfect but hope you like,share or comment on it! Cheers!

#No Copyright infringements if any intended. This video contains no paid promotion such as paid product placement, sponsorships or endorsement that I am aware of. #No personal Tabs available. Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/@MhaseveTetseo

Allan Holdsworth Instructional Lesson REH Video?

This is the video I used to show people who they wanted to know about just how good Allan Holdsworth is.