This is a tune I wrote for Allan Holdsworth right after he passed away in 2017. It is based entirely on "The Diminished Scale" or "Messia...

I want to start by saying the point of this lesson isn't to show you a bunch of "Holdsworth" voicings and then have you use them exactly ...

No notes outside "Messiaen's 3rd Mode of Limited Transposition" have been used in this piece. Below I have included a list of some of the...

This is an A minor pentatonic lick I like to use to build stamina in my left hand. There is very little picking involved. In fact the onl...

Kreisberg Inspired C7 Line Analysis  In this lesson, I will be breaking down a Jonathan Kreisberg inspired line over a C7, C9 or C13 type...

This lesson/line is an attempt to shed some light on some of the unorthodox fingerings, and techniques that make Allan Holdsworth’s style...

The analysis of this solo is based on laying the original “Countdown” changes on top of Allan’s solo and analyzing what he played using a...