The history of Allan Holdsworth’s tunings w/ examples

Hey all. I tried to make this video as short as possible and it was still an hour long! But that isn’t because of me, but because there is just so much info. I go thru all the different tunings and techniques Allan Holdsworth used to spice up his tunes. Tom Penaguin - ALLAN HOLDSWORTH - Gone Sailing My Allan Holdsworth book and lesson material PDFs: 0:00 - Intro 0:50 - “Gone Sailing“: ~1974 3:22 - “Last May“: ~1976 5:50 - Harmonizers: 1983 11:17 - 5ths 14:56 - 5ths chords 18:35 - My opinion on Allan’s outside playing 23:11 - 5ths lines 25:52 - Allan’s use of 5ths lines live 26:58 - April 16th, 1986 5ths zone lines 29:39 - 4ths: ~1985 31:41 - 4ths lines 33:00 - Octave displacement: 1988 37:52 - “EDB“ strings Octave Up 39:20 - “EDB“ strings Octave Down 39:48 - “AGE“ strings Octave Up 41:33 - “AGE“ strings Octave Down 42:45 - “GBE“ strings Octave Down 47:23 - “Reverse“ tuning 51:52 - “Reverse“ tuning live! 55:48 - May 2nd, 1989 Reverse tuning live! 56:31 - Baritone / Piccolo guitars 58:55 - C Baritone “Natasha“ 1:00:16 - Bb Baritone “Boris“ 1:03:37 - A Baritone “Gonan“ 1:04:37 - A Piccolo “Igor“ 1:05:20 - Roland VG99: ~1996 1:07:30 - Outro
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