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==[[Allan Holdsworth (Beat Instrumental 1979)]]== | |||
"Like most people I went out and got a few chord books, Ivor Mairantz’ ‘Exercise A Day’ and things like that, but I could never get on with them because I always found myself disatisfied (sic) with my progress. In the end I just used to follow my own nose." | "Like most people I went out and got a few chord books, Ivor Mairantz’ ‘Exercise A Day’ and things like that, but I could never get on with them because I always found myself disatisfied (sic) with my progress. In the end I just used to follow my own nose." | ||
==[[Allan Holdsworth (Guitar magazine 1974)]]== | |||
Why do you want to learn to read? | Why do you want to learn to read? | ||
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Well, it helps in a work situation to be able to read. And also, I compose quite a lot, but I can’t write it down. I have to remember everything and tell people, "You play this and you play that . . . It would be a lot easier to give them bits of paper with things written on. I’d really like to write more and arrange things - like I’d love to write something for a string quartet or something like that, which at the moment is totally impossible. I can hear the things in my head, but I can’t get them down. | Well, it helps in a work situation to be able to read. And also, I compose quite a lot, but I can’t write it down. I have to remember everything and tell people, "You play this and you play that . . . It would be a lot easier to give them bits of paper with things written on. I’d really like to write more and arrange things - like I’d love to write something for a string quartet or something like that, which at the moment is totally impossible. I can hear the things in my head, but I can’t get them down. | ||
==[[Any Key In The U.K. (Unknown publication 1978)]]== | |||
When and why did you start to play guitar? | When and why did you start to play guitar? | ||
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I started when I was about 16 or 17 after I left school because I ‘d always been interested in music. My father was a pianist so I was exposed to a lot of music at home. He was like an inspiration to me really in that he often presented me with things I wouldn’t normally get to hear. He helped me a lot in that way but I never actually sat and down and learned to read music. | I started when I was about 16 or 17 after I left school because I ‘d always been interested in music. My father was a pianist so I was exposed to a lot of music at home. He was like an inspiration to me really in that he often presented me with things I wouldn’t normally get to hear. He helped me a lot in that way but I never actually sat and down and learned to read music. | ||
==[[On The Level (IM&RW 1991)]]== | |||
IM - So, just going back to what you said about your writing things down, can you read music? | IM - So, just going back to what you said about your writing things down, can you read music? | ||
