HOLY STRETCH! Allan Holdsworth’s Nevermore Chords

Holy Stretch!

When I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to learn Allan Holdsworth’s acoustic guitar introduction to the track Nevermore from UK’s 1978 epic prog release. It was always too hard for me to perform and to hear. Now that I’ve been playing guitar for about 25 years, I’ve got the ears and chops to be able to do it. Turns out, those chords were harder to play than they were to hear.

Thankfully, I work closely with Gabriel Riccio, who does all the King Crimson transcription books. He was able to correct my mistakes and we were able to figure out the very Holdsworthian chords.

You can get the sheet music here on Soundslice.

Here’s my early attempt at trying to do all the crazy required stretching and making a few funny mistakes.