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 the way he did, no, ...

This melodic line represents an attempt at incorporating some modern "Holdsworth" language into a more straight-ahead type context i.e., clean jazz guitar li...

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 chords, voicings, a...

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 only note that should b...

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 chord measure by me...

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

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 more traditional (f...