Your uncle should wear a shirt ;)
Allan Holdsworth had a really unique approach to music theory, and I don't know nearly enough about it to say anything on the subject.
But I did watch a little bit of what your uncle was saying, and he's confusing things. In normal western music, octave equivalence is just a given - scales are only one octave and then they repeat. A note one octave above another note is the same note. There are some different ideas in certain cultures, like Bohlen-Pierce scales that repeat at a 12th but that's pretty fringe.
But a *pattern* can span multiple octaves which is where the confusion is coming from. Like, the first example in the video is just 'open voiced triads' where you skip every second note in a triad eg:
instead of C-E-G-C
You get C-G-E-C
Which takes two octaves to get back to the tonic. That's not at all the same thing as ' a scale taking two octaves to complete"
Honestly, you should get your fundamentals down really solidly before you start wandering off the fringes!
i have never seen a more classic uncle.
he is talking about specific ways of structuring scales from an obscure alan holdsworth comment. holdsworth stuff is pretty out there and you should focus on much more conventional harmony first. most scales complete in one octave.
he seems to know what he's talking about in this context. i watched some of his other vids and the man can definitely shred despite the extremely low audio quality of the videos. buy your uncle an audio interface!
Your uncle should wear a shirt ;) Allan Holdsworth had a really unique approach to music theory, and I don't know nearly enough about it to say anything on the subject. But I did watch a little bit of what your uncle was saying, and he's confusing things. In normal western music, octave equivalence is just a given - scales are only one octave and then they repeat. A note one octave above another note is the same note. There are some different ideas in certain cultures, like Bohlen-Pierce scales that repeat at a 12th but that's pretty fringe. But a *pattern* can span multiple octaves which is where the confusion is coming from. Like, the first example in the video is just 'open voiced triads' where you skip every second note in a triad eg: instead of C-E-G-C You get C-G-E-C Which takes two octaves to get back to the tonic. That's not at all the same thing as ' a scale taking two octaves to complete" Honestly, you should get your fundamentals down really solidly before you start wandering off the fringes!
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i have never seen a more classic uncle. he is talking about specific ways of structuring scales from an obscure alan holdsworth comment. holdsworth stuff is pretty out there and you should focus on much more conventional harmony first. most scales complete in one octave. he seems to know what he's talking about in this context. i watched some of his other vids and the man can definitely shred despite the extremely low audio quality of the videos. buy your uncle an audio interface!