Sam Holdsworth: Difference between revisions
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- The books he wrote were actually better than anything I could have bought in the music store. He could not play the guitar himself, but he had all the necessary theory. In this manner, he did not limit me by saying the chords should be played this or that way for example. One can say that the foundation of my style was laid there - I started without a lot of notions of what one could or could not do. He also pointed out that I should not use open strings, which I greatly benefited from when transposing what I had learned to other keys. It also meant that from the very beginning, I was using four fingers of the left hand. Many only used three and for me that was a mystery - the guitar is difficult enough to master with all fingers available. I wish I had more, he says, laughing. | - The books he wrote were actually better than anything I could have bought in the music store. He could not play the guitar himself, but he had all the necessary theory. In this manner, he did not limit me by saying the chords should be played this or that way for example. One can say that the foundation of my style was laid there - I started without a lot of notions of what one could or could not do. He also pointed out that I should not use open strings, which I greatly benefited from when transposing what I had learned to other keys. It also meant that from the very beginning, I was using four fingers of the left hand. Many only used three and for me that was a mystery - the guitar is difficult enough to master with all fingers available. I wish I had more, he says, laughing. | ||
==[[The Outter Limits | ==''[[The Outter Limits: Allan Holdsworth's Out of Bounds Existence (guitar.com 1999)]]''== | ||
Guitar.com: Your legato sax-type attack has always come through in your playing going back to Soft Machine. If you listen closely, it’s very much a Coltrane thing. | Guitar.com: Your legato sax-type attack has always come through in your playing going back to Soft Machine. If you listen closely, it’s very much a Coltrane thing. | ||
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Holdsworth: Yeah, I was just dabbling with it. I was still really interested in the horn. I had wanted a saxophone, I didn’t really want the guitar. But saxophones were pretty expensive in those days anyway, relative to a cheap acoustic guitar. There weren’t so many guitars around then, not compared to nowadays. But my uncle played guitar and when he had bought himself a new guitar, he sold his old one to my '''father''', who then gave it to me. And that’s basically how it started. | Holdsworth: Yeah, I was just dabbling with it. I was still really interested in the horn. I had wanted a saxophone, I didn’t really want the guitar. But saxophones were pretty expensive in those days anyway, relative to a cheap acoustic guitar. There weren’t so many guitars around then, not compared to nowadays. But my uncle played guitar and when he had bought himself a new guitar, he sold his old one to my '''father''', who then gave it to me. And that’s basically how it started. | ||
==[[Allan Holdsworth (steveadelson.com 2000)]]== | ==[[Allan Holdsworth (steveadelson.com 2000)]]== | ||
