Sam Holdsworth: Difference between revisions
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Holdsworth credits much of his astounding technique to the fact that his first teacher, his '''father''', the late Sam Holdsworth, was a piano player and not a guitar player. "He used to help me with chords and scales, and since he wasn’t a guitar player he couldn’t tell me how it was to be done on the guitar. But he could tell me about the music. So while I did learn the music from him, I had to apply my own logic to everything. | Holdsworth credits much of his astounding technique to the fact that his first teacher, his '''father''', the late Sam Holdsworth, was a piano player and not a guitar player. "He used to help me with chords and scales, and since he wasn’t a guitar player he couldn’t tell me how it was to be done on the guitar. But he could tell me about the music. So while I did learn the music from him, I had to apply my own logic to everything. | ||
== | ==''[["...Where No Guitarist Has Gone Before..." (Cymbiosis 1986)]]''== | ||
''[["...Where No Guitarist Has Gone Before..." (Cymbiosis 1986)]]'' | |||
Cymbiosis: I understand if your family could have afforded it you would have had a saxophone instead of a guitar when you were younger? | Cymbiosis: I understand if your family could have afforded it you would have had a saxophone instead of a guitar when you were younger? | ||
