Seems to be a general "female guitarist" thing. The era of "i'm way cooler than you'" rock star BS is over, welcome the "let's just have fun" era and we should all be for it.
As a Brazilian, I am very proud of Lari having not only a signature guitar but also a pedal… she is an amazing player… great energy too!!! Thank you JHS for bringing her in…
Love Lari. One of the few players who just authentically look so full of joy when they're playing and it comes across in both her demeanor and her playing style. Can't help but smile when watching her play.
Thank-you both and everyone making this happen! The "don't quit your day job" truly fits here. Ya both do what ya do @ the highest levels with the priceless benefit of mashups like this. Appreciate y'all so much! 5★!
When playing the guitar becomes a natural thing to you, learning a new technique that requires failure and practice is like being placed back into your 1st lesson. You have to have that same desire to nail it in order to not give up and go right back to it all feeling natural again. Btw Josh, you’re one of my favorite players. I love your style.
I've said this before but saying it again anyhow... Not sure what's in the water in Brazil but I need some of it lol. Sooo many fantastic players and music from there, including Lari of course. Cheers!
Big thanks to Lari Basilio. She just explained something that has foxed me for years! I still can't do the shit ("tremolo quack thing") but at least I now know what is happening. And I get to use the excuse that my bridge is screwed down! Nothing to do with lack of talent, honest! Excellent video. Thank you!
It's called a warble or a flutter. Brad Gillis is one of the earliest players to do this in the Night Ranger song "Don't tell me you love me" released in 1982
Honestly Josh, you're overall technique & feel is good. You had a great sound & feel when you were playing those little melodies when learning the tremolo flutters & you were grabbing those power chord riffs with proper authority & control when trying the divebombs. Just a matter of time & the right mental approach. Obviously the physical element gets us started, but true improvement in our playing technical or not is really in the mind ✌️🤘 And man, Lari.....too cool!! Fun vid!!
I'd call it a flutter or a warble. With a Floyd Rose you can easily do it with just a quick tap of the bar - you don't hold on to it at all, just give it a lil bop. The bounciness of the spring returning it to tension gives it the warble. They are also loads of fun. Seriously Josh, I've never tried Lari's guitar, but all of these things are much easier on a Floyd equipped guitar. EDIT - after watching further into the clip, I see her bridge is also floating. Removing the middle spring on the back of the trem can make it easier too.
Josh, don't downplay your skilz. I've been playing for probably longer than you've been alive and I'm like, "he's pretty damn good,'... esp. for also making gifts to guitarists such as the Notaklon. I have one, and just bought one as an xmas gift for an old friend. Rock it.
This was really fun..! It's cool to see people like you guys (our heroes) so to speak, learn something new, because usually what is shown online is years of practice in the making. And I've always wondered how to do the dive bomb, I just was too lazy to look it up! Ha
When I was 16, I got into a bar-band with some older and very good players. It was 1986/87 so the guitar-player was an EVH-fan and knew all of the tricks. Once during a break at rehearsal, I asked the guitar player to show me a few tricks and he taught me the harmonic dive-bomb. It made me feel powerful.
For me, that flutter comes with a floating fulcrum style bridge where the spring tension and bridge position is perfectly in balance. I have a Floyd pro on a Jackson dinky and a really nice hip shot two post fulcrum on my mexi-strat. Both are really in balance, particularly the hipshot. The lightest flick at bar tip will warble. Sometimes even a strong pick attack will create a subtle warble just do to how balanced the strings are to the string tension. This also really helps tuning stability with terms that aren’t locked. The key is that the bridge plate is perfectly 90 degrees to bridge posts.
Lari seems like both the coolest guitarist and the nicest at the same time. And her beautiful smile is absolutely the icing on the cake. Keep rockin, Lari!
I think of dime bag. I could never do it so i just started using hard tail guitars so i had an excuse not to lol. I have had Floyd, Ibanez and even old Washburns with wonderbars . I end up just blocking them lol. Its so musical though when done right. Eddie was amazing and his would just go down
I’ve always done the Dimebag method, where you flick the third string with your left finger while you dip the bar at the same time. Then you “catch” the string with the left hand at 3rd or 5th fret, and slowly ascend with the bar.
I’ve learned to do those things but in any real world situation Josh would absolutely smoke me because he is so damn good at using what he knows to the absolute fullest yet at the same time he never seems to end up in deep waters. That’s a life skill right there
You are the best channel on TH-cam!! I’m 40 and finally building a pedal and not relying on amp effects. These videos are great (the sarcasm gets me every time) and the shameless pedal pitching is spot on! Cheers
Ah, interesting to see her going for a short pull at the end of a lick to end it. Lari Basillo is ubercool and gentle! Eddy Van Halen kinda vibe i get back from her playing. Do check out Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine though and particularly the track "Only Shallow" wich holds some amazing whammy technique. Shields perfected the trick of strumming chords while manipulating them by continuously hitting the tremolo and used it in many of their songs.
You can also get the flutter/gargle effect on some trems by simultaneously pressing down and sliding/swiping your fingers off the end of the bar so that the bar kicks back up, you don't neccessarily need a floating bridge this way. Not quite the same effect, but something Steve Vai always does is point the end of the trem away from the headstock rather than towards it, then hit and release the middle of the bar (or the end closest to the bridge) immediately after picking a note (or just fretting a note) to get that hiccupy sound. Dimebag's squealy and divebomb technique is king though. Lari does a few of these in this video. Rather than simply picking the harmonic, you dump the trem bar down so the strings are slack, then do a pull off on the string of your choice (usually on fret 3 of the g string), catching the vibrating open string very gently with your fretting hand so that it makes a natural harmonic as you raise the bar up before pushing it back down. You can also do this on the 2nd fret if you use a wah pedal and cock it fully forwards, it makes a lot of natural harmonics ring out more loudly. I love how explaining whammy bar techniques feels like expaining skateboard tricks sometimes, with all the weird sleight of hand movements. Both are rad too I guess.
I might need to see Josh learn a variety of techniques and tools. Who knows, maybe he'll find inspiration from playing a Sustaniac-equipped guitar or find joy in using an on-board killswitch. But also, B benders?? I want more learning with JHS.
Watching this reminds me of one of her clinics here in Thailand. I asked her a question that's not really related to what she presented in the clinic, and yet she tried to answer the question. I still feel kinda bad about it till this day.
Pinch harmonics, natural harmonics, tapped harmonics are all essentially the same thing. A pinch harmonic is a natural harmonic played beyond the fretboard and made with your picking hand instead of your fretting hand. A tapped harmonic is a natural harmonic tapped by either hand after the note is played. They’re all the same harmonics. You just get that harmonic by a slightly different method. The other difference is that what we call natural harmonics can only be played in certain places on the fret board, whilst tapped and pinched can be played anywhere, providing your fretting hand is in the correct position. This can be seen with natural harmonics when you capo the guitar and the position of the natural harmonics all change accordingly.
any harmonic you play PAST the 12th fret (the middle of the string) can be played BEFORE the 12th fret. I believe for the dive bombs they were playing (on the 16th(?) fret of the G string) you should be able to play that harmonic on the 4th fret (just before it for the cleanest sound), as well as the 9th fret. harmonics work this way due to simple fractions and the overtone series. dividing the string into halves gives you the second harmonic (octave), thirds you get 2 spots you can play the 3rd harmonic (which is a fifth)(7th and 19th fret), quarters and you get another octave up(but only 2 spots because of the overlap with the octave), and dividing the string into 5ths gives you 4 spots where you can hit the dive bomb note in the video on frets 4 9 16 and another one that goes past the fretboard and I don't want to think about this anymore. I don't think this has any real noticeable change in tone when you pick one position over the other. also make sure you're on the bridge pickup for the most toan (and because the harmonics are louder closer to the bridge)
1:19 Some of the videos that I've seen that technique demonstrated they called it "whammy bar chirping" and it does kinda sound like a lil' birdy chirps.
🖐️Ibanez had a Paul Gilbert signature Airplane Flanger AF2 that allowed him to dive bomb on his fixed bridge Ibanez. There is a video of him demo-ing it.
Brad Gillis of Night Ranger has been flickering his tremolo bar on his modded '62 strat for over 40 years. His tremolo is the original Floyd Rose(he's the third person to receive one after Eddie Van Halen and Neal Schon) Of course, tremolo systems are better made these days but this can be done with any floating tremolo bridge as long as it's not too stiff.
You actually don't always need a floating bridge for that "flutter" sound, for instance Duesenberg trem systems are kinda built like Bigsbys but much softer and more responsive, they can do that aswell.
There are easier harmonics to hit for divebombs a clasiic one is the fifth harmonic but you hit both the B and high E stings together so there's dissonanace as the notes drop away. Unfortunately the higher, really screaming ones can be harder hit. There's a good one around the second and fret, it's usually notated as 2.3 because it's not directly over a fret but a third of the way up from the 2nd fret. If you can hit it it really screams, but also it's down where you're riffing so you don't have to move far up the neck and end up missing.
Her constant joy a smiling when playing or talking about the guitar is contagious
Seems to be a general "female guitarist" thing. The era of "i'm way cooler than you'" rock star BS is over, welcome the "let's just have fun" era and we should all be for it.
As a Brazilian, I am very proud of Lari having not only a signature guitar but also a pedal… she is an amazing player… great energy too!!!
Thank you JHS for bringing her in…
Thanks Josh for being a stand in for those of us trying to learn this technique.
Thank you Lari for the education and you wonderful music.
Now l have to buy another guitar to do this!
Is this like Josh learning how to e-bow?
pretty much
But without the e-bow
Josh: "So, there's not like, a pedal I can buy that does this for me"
The Digitech Whammy: "Am I a joke to you?"
Im dying haha 😂😂 but you'd still have to hit that harmonic ha
She is such a great guitarist. And I love her approachability.
Can I just get a 3 hour video of Josh trying to hit that natural harmonic
We cut so much of it to prevent long-term hearing loss 🫣
@@jhspedals Belle Scott? Wait what?
@@jhspedalsahhh bummer I wanted more too haha
2:42 Ha! "The lick" when trying the flick.
Right?! He hummed part of it, but it sounds like someone dubbed in the whole lick!
Lari is from São Paulo, SP,, like me, an honor and pleasure to see her conquer the world! Aqui é BR!!
Love Lari. One of the few players who just authentically look so full of joy when they're playing and it comes across in both her demeanor and her playing style. Can't help but smile when watching her play.
Thank-you both and everyone making this happen! The "don't quit your day job" truly fits here. Ya both do what ya do @ the highest levels with the priceless benefit of mashups like this. Appreciate y'all so much! 5★!
The whammy flutters are the guitar equivalent of the ol ruler spring board thing off the edge of your desk in school.
And those spring door stoppers lol.
They’re called Flutters
This is it, I’ve only ever heard them called flutters
That, and a dive bomb is just a normal note being dive-d. What they're talking about isn't a dive bomb, it's a harmonic dive.
I called them warbles, but flutters makes way more sense.
Yes, It requires a good ballanced floating bridge.
I fluttered 💨
When playing the guitar becomes a natural thing to you, learning a new technique that requires failure and practice is like being placed back into your 1st lesson. You have to have that same desire to nail it in order to not give up and go right back to it all feeling natural again. Btw Josh, you’re one of my favorite players. I love your style.
8:58 me and shredding. "I understand it fully.. I can't do it".
So much fun to watch this! Lol. Josh is unafraid.
everyone should be when they're learning something
Somewhere there’s a 12 year old metalhead tearing his hair out because the dive bomb is the one thing he knows how to do perfectly.
I've said this before but saying it again anyhow... Not sure what's in the water in Brazil but I need some of it lol. Sooo many fantastic players and music from there, including Lari of course. Cheers!
Do that 15th fret harmonic on the 3rd fret. It’s the same harmonic and it’s easier when you’re riffing. That’s where Dime always grabbed it
Big thanks to Lari Basilio. She just explained something that has foxed me for years!
I still can't do the shit ("tremolo quack thing") but at least I now know what is happening. And I get to use the excuse that my bridge is screwed down! Nothing to do with lack of talent, honest!
Excellent video. Thank you!
It's called a warble or a flutter. Brad Gillis is one of the earliest players to do this in the Night Ranger song "Don't tell me you love me" released in 1982
Honestly Josh, you're overall technique & feel is good. You had a great sound & feel when you were playing those little melodies when learning the tremolo flutters & you were grabbing those power chord riffs with proper authority & control when trying the divebombs.
Just a matter of time & the right mental approach. Obviously the physical element gets us started, but true improvement in our playing technical or not is really in the mind ✌️🤘
And man, Lari.....too cool!! Fun vid!!
Lari is so gracious to show off and show us how she does it...3 rock-ons🤘🤘🤘
I'd call it a flutter or a warble. With a Floyd Rose you can easily do it with just a quick tap of the bar - you don't hold on to it at all, just give it a lil bop. The bounciness of the spring returning it to tension gives it the warble. They are also loads of fun. Seriously Josh, I've never tried Lari's guitar, but all of these things are much easier on a Floyd equipped guitar. EDIT - after watching further into the clip, I see her bridge is also floating. Removing the middle spring on the back of the trem can make it easier too.
Josh, don't downplay your skilz. I've been playing for probably longer than you've been alive and I'm like, "he's pretty damn good,'... esp. for also making gifts to guitarists such as the Notaklon. I have one, and just bought one as an xmas gift for an old friend. Rock it.
This was really fun..! It's cool to see people like you guys (our heroes) so to speak, learn something new, because usually what is shown online is years of practice in the making. And I've always wondered how to do the dive bomb, I just was too lazy to look it up! Ha
Owner of a Lonely Heart riff @3:24
When I was 16, I got into a bar-band with some older and very good players. It was 1986/87 so the guitar-player was an EVH-fan and knew all of the tricks.
Once during a break at rehearsal, I asked the guitar player to show me a few tricks and he taught me the harmonic dive-bomb. It made me feel powerful.
Thats badass you got her on this channel. I love watching her play.
Lari is amazing! 🇧🇷🎸🔥
For me, that flutter comes with a floating fulcrum style bridge where the spring tension and bridge position is perfectly in balance. I have a Floyd pro on a Jackson dinky and a really nice hip shot two post fulcrum on my mexi-strat. Both are really in balance, particularly the hipshot. The lightest flick at bar tip will warble. Sometimes even a strong pick attack will create a subtle warble just do to how balanced the strings are to the string tension. This also really helps tuning stability with terms that aren’t locked. The key is that the bridge plate is perfectly 90 degrees to bridge posts.
Lari seems like both the coolest guitarist and the nicest at the same time. And her beautiful smile is absolutely the icing on the cake. Keep rockin, Lari!
Muito feliz em ver esse episódio, me diverti aprendendo com uma brasileira eo Josh. Parabéns Lari
I think of dime bag. I could never do it so i just started using hard tail guitars so i had an excuse not to lol. I have had Floyd, Ibanez and even old Washburns with wonderbars . I end up just blocking them lol. Its so musical though when done right. Eddie was amazing and his would just go down
I’ve always done the Dimebag method, where you flick the third string with your left finger while you dip the bar at the same time.
Then you “catch” the string with the left hand at 3rd or 5th fret, and slowly ascend with the bar.
I’ve learned to do those things but in any real world situation Josh would absolutely smoke me because he is so damn good at using what he knows to the absolute fullest yet at the same time he never seems to end up in deep waters. That’s a life skill right there
love how Lari does that tremolo💖
Another video of her "full-time-smiling". And so did I.
chapeau josh, 😁 this was permagrin inducing !
👍👍👍👍👍
This whole video made me happy
You are the best channel on TH-cam!! I’m 40 and finally building a pedal and not relying on amp effects. These videos are great (the sarcasm gets me every time) and the shameless pedal pitching is spot on! Cheers
Lari is awesome! way to go Josh. you're getting there!! great video!
Nice job sneaking in the lick at 2:46.
The year is 2027, JHS releases a new dive bomb pedal mainly so Josh can do this more effortlessly.
Ah, interesting to see her going for a short pull at the end of a lick to end it. Lari Basillo is ubercool and gentle! Eddy Van Halen kinda vibe i get back from her playing. Do check out Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine though and particularly the track "Only Shallow" wich holds some amazing whammy technique. Shields perfected the trick of strumming chords while manipulating them by continuously hitting the tremolo and used it in many of their songs.
You can also get the flutter/gargle effect on some trems by simultaneously pressing down and sliding/swiping your fingers off the end of the bar so that the bar kicks back up, you don't neccessarily need a floating bridge this way.
Not quite the same effect, but something Steve Vai always does is point the end of the trem away from the headstock rather than towards it, then hit and release the middle of the bar (or the end closest to the bridge) immediately after picking a note (or just fretting a note) to get that hiccupy sound.
Dimebag's squealy and divebomb technique is king though. Lari does a few of these in this video. Rather than simply picking the harmonic, you dump the trem bar down so the strings are slack, then do a pull off on the string of your choice (usually on fret 3 of the g string), catching the vibrating open string very gently with your fretting hand so that it makes a natural harmonic as you raise the bar up before pushing it back down. You can also do this on the 2nd fret if you use a wah pedal and cock it fully forwards, it makes a lot of natural harmonics ring out more loudly.
I love how explaining whammy bar techniques feels like expaining skateboard tricks sometimes, with all the weird sleight of hand movements. Both are rad too I guess.
Dirty Down In Dover Dive Bomb Pedal !!!!! Lari for me has always been an absolutely amazing and brilliant guitarist! You've proven you CAN DO IT Josh!
JHS should make a line of guitars too
Josh is the nicest guy and Lari is a hidden beast ❤ thx, guys
Brad Gillis calls it his cricket noise. You can also pound on the body near the Trem.
ive have always heard people call it Tremolo flutter.
I might need to see Josh learn a variety of techniques and tools. Who knows, maybe he'll find inspiration from playing a Sustaniac-equipped guitar or find joy in using an on-board killswitch. But also, B benders?? I want more learning with JHS.
Lari is such a lovely person and an extremely tasteful and melodic player.
Thanks. This is great.
Love conversations like this between players.
These are fun videos! My kids keep asking me about new Tone Squad videos.
Wow Josh! I detected a little bit of a Pull Out on the end of that Dive Bomb. Nice. Well Done! I give that a solid B.
“The cricket”! Brad Gillis, “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”!
In the 90s, I think we used to refer to the flick as Doppler Effect. Can't recall if it was named after a guitarist named Doppler.
Watching this reminds me of one of her clinics here in Thailand. I asked her a question that's not really related to what she presented in the clinic, and yet she tried to answer the question.
I still feel kinda bad about it till this day.
@10:24 You can use the Bigsby pedal from Gamechanger Audio for this purpose. It's pretty much a whammy bar foot pedal.
im so excited to see full dive bomb jams
Pinch harmonics, natural harmonics, tapped harmonics are all essentially the same thing. A pinch harmonic is a natural harmonic played beyond the fretboard and made with your picking hand instead of your fretting hand. A tapped harmonic is a natural harmonic tapped by either hand after the note is played. They’re all the same harmonics. You just get that harmonic by a slightly different method. The other difference is that what we call natural harmonics can only be played in certain places on the fret board, whilst tapped and pinched can be played anywhere, providing your fretting hand is in the correct position. This can be seen with natural harmonics when you capo the guitar and the position of the natural harmonics all change accordingly.
Her guitar is fire! PURPLE FIRE!
8:05 Great teacher makes all the difference. Lori Basilio Harmonic Pedal: 2025 April Fool's Day Pedal!!!
Lari is new to me and I am defo an Indy Dad Rocker Goth Pad Generator .. she rocks.. and so do you BigJ! Now what would an EBow dive bomb sound like?
❤❤❤ lari Basílio!!!
This is some awesome content! 😀 Love it
any harmonic you play PAST the 12th fret (the middle of the string) can be played BEFORE the 12th fret. I believe for the dive bombs they were playing (on the 16th(?) fret of the G string) you should be able to play that harmonic on the 4th fret (just before it for the cleanest sound), as well as the 9th fret.
harmonics work this way due to simple fractions and the overtone series. dividing the string into halves gives you the second harmonic (octave), thirds you get 2 spots you can play the 3rd harmonic (which is a fifth)(7th and 19th fret), quarters and you get another octave up(but only 2 spots because of the overlap with the octave), and dividing the string into 5ths gives you 4 spots where you can hit the dive bomb note in the video on frets 4 9 16 and another one that goes past the fretboard and I don't want to think about this anymore.
I don't think this has any real noticeable change in tone when you pick one position over the other.
also make sure you're on the bridge pickup for the most toan (and because the harmonics are louder closer to the bridge)
This is a blast to watch
Lari!! 🥳🥳🥳🤘🏼
When i hear those tones I am imagine wild horse for some reason! 😊 ❤👌 👍
Jeff Beck, Edward Van Halen, Brad Gillis,Reb Beach……. they’ve all flicked that twang bar.
ur never going back josh
That is a beautiful guitar
1:19 Some of the videos that I've seen that technique demonstrated they called it "whammy bar chirping" and it does kinda sound like a lil' birdy chirps.
SERIOUSLY!!..... how COOOOOL is Lari!!!
Hey Josh! Those flutters are more easy to do if you don’t pull the bar up. Instead of pulling it up try to push it down little and release.
She’s so great and ,playing is effortless ..
That tone is great. What you guys are using ?
🖐️Ibanez had a Paul Gilbert signature Airplane Flanger AF2 that allowed him to dive bomb on his fixed bridge Ibanez. There is a video of him demo-ing it.
I love how he has a bounty of different amps in his shop yet they're sharing an amp
Loving the nails and lipstick matching the guitar
Brad Gillis of Night Ranger was the first person that did that growly-duck thing with the trem bar.
Brad Gillis of Night Ranger has been flickering his tremolo bar on his modded '62 strat for over 40 years. His tremolo is the original Floyd Rose(he's the third person to receive one after Eddie Van Halen and Neal Schon) Of course, tremolo systems are better made these days but this can be done with any floating tremolo bridge as long as it's not too stiff.
She looks like such a nice person!
You actually don't always need a floating bridge for that "flutter" sound, for instance Duesenberg trem systems are kinda built like Bigsbys but much softer and more responsive, they can do that aswell.
Virbera Flick sounds like an awesome name for a vibe pedal 😂
Please make a flutter/ chirp pedal!! I cant do it with the bigsby...
You can do the harmonic dive with the bigsby gamechanger though
There are easier harmonics to hit for divebombs a clasiic one is the fifth harmonic but you hit both the B and high E stings together so there's dissonanace as the notes drop away. Unfortunately the higher, really screaming ones can be harder hit. There's a good one around the second and fret, it's usually notated as 2.3 because it's not directly over a fret but a third of the way up from the 2nd fret. If you can hit it it really screams, but also it's down where you're riffing so you don't have to move far up the neck and end up missing.
This was cool. The flutters…now I gotta try
That is fun.She is cool too
Voa, Lari!!
perfect Squeals -->ask Dimebag guyssssssssssssss🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
RIP Squeal Master Dime 🤘🤠
Dude those guitars are sick.
I think you meant "I Don't Know Anything" by Mad Season 😮
If not mistaken, Michael Shenker used this tecnique back in the day .
THis was awesome. Does Josh talk more when he has a crush?
Josh, as a whammy bar abuser, just play with the bar in a ready to grab position so your pinky and ring finger can always find it :)
@2:20 as far as i know it's called a "flutter"? or is that another thing?