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Originally Posted by tore
Yield Bitch, I don't know much about modes and scales and stuff, but I'm just wondering out of curiosity. As someone who knows that stuff, is it easy to tell what Holdsworth is doing? I hear he's difficult and I can sort of hear it, but of course it's hard to know how difficult without the theoretical background. Here's an example song :
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Blastingas10 somewhat has the right idea, it's mainly built up from arpeggios, however he also employs parallel fifths, it's the arpeggios though which are interesting.
I may be wrong, but I would say the secret to his playing doesn't revolve around modes and scales but voice leading and doubling.
All of his arpeggios (in this song) seem to start with a dominant 9th chord (without a 3rd) and always leads into a minor 9th chord at the last bar.
Other than that I gotta be honest and say I have a hard time figuring him out so far, his phrasing especially is rather weird.
I'll definitely check him out some more and see whether I can learn more about what he's doing, thanks for the recommendation.
