I really appreciate people who one can tell are truly lovers of something. I can tell you really loved Eddie, and that's really touching. Thanks for your lessons, I've gotten a lot out of them. RIP to another legend.
Since the news of Eddie passing I have read, watched and learned about a true American legend. Years ago I read 3 books about Eddie and the band which gave me a perspective on the early rise to prominence. Still so many things to read, watch and listen to that I enjoy but in a way it just reminds me of what we all lost. The pain is real and we all feel the loss. I bought a EVH guitar which I had wanted for about 2 years but put off. Now was the time. It seemed only right to have one produced before he passed. A run that he had a say in what was produced. Some may think that is not important but if you feel it is then it is. Keep the legend with us! Thanks for the EVH content!
Great video . My roommate and I were going through a bunch of eddies music . He was such an awesome chord guy as well . Just simply the best for a long time . He will live forever ! Thanks again for the great video . David you are an awesome player and instructor. Glad to have found this channel . Keep on rocking
Thank you so much for doing everything that you do on TH-cam! I hope you know how much you are appreciated in the guitar community keep up the great work!!
The elephant trick was always so cool. I remember a video on VHS I had in the 90’s of Curt Mitchell showing a tapped harmonic section during the chorus of Dance the Night Away. It was a single line tapped on the B and A chords and it was so hard for me to learn. Slapping the chords for the breakdown wasn’t too bad but I’ll always remember that “impossible” for me line. I’ll have to track it down after I work on your lesson and see if it’s still as hard as I remember. Great video.
Everyone knew Eddie was sick but I thought he was just keeping his head low and just taking it easy. I came in my house and my wife of 30 years came up to me with a weird look and said "I don't know how to tell you this," I was like "What?" "Eddie Van Halen died today". I felt sick. I felt my stomach drop and I felt like I was going to throw up. My wife knows I've been an EVH freak even before we got together. She hugged me and in the shock of it all I started crying. I couldn't believe it, I still can't. Awesome lesson today, Thank you! R.I.P. to The King!!!!
I love this. First riff I got deep with after Eddie passed was Top Jimmy. The one area I’ve been laser focused on was his use of stretch licks: Ice Cream Man, The Full Bug, Beat It, etc.
Awesome in depth analysis! Thanks very much for putting this together! Love the Em pentatonic on the 7th & 12th fret thing - never saw / heard it that way :-) btw it's not D7 without an F# being present, sounds / feels more like a Dm7 to my old ears Oh, and that strat's gorgeous!
Eddie figured out so much of what you could pull out of the neck of his guitars and he always said it was because at first he couldn't afford all the effect's everyone else had so it forced him to be creative, i don't know if he was suggesting that anyone could have done it because he used to say if i could do it anybody can but when i first heard him in 78 i was thinking hell i didn't even know a guitar could make that sound, to say Eddie Van Halen was virtuoso is a big understatement, that guy was scary good, he almost made me hang it up but what he was doing was and still is so dam interesting i just had to try and figure at least some of it out, i think everyone that heard him that played went dam what the hell is that i got to get a guitar and see if i can do it, influence to the max.
I played more than ever the week he died and probably drank to much but man i have never played better than that week..King Edward will never be topped.He lived life his way and was real.
I heard Sammy Hagar say this years ago about Eddie ."Edward is an alien from a planet where everyone plays guitar 🎸 just as natural as we shake hands casually
These techniques are great. But, Eddie’s genius and longevity will be measured with his “songwriting,” his out of this world chord progressions and rhythm playing, especially on albums no. 7, 8, and 9.
First time I have ever cried for someone I didn't personally know... still tough. Man, you did a great job on this lesson, thank you very much. Channel is awesome.
@@PatrickAustin At the risk of sounding melodramatic, it genuinely feels like a family member passed. It still randomly hits me and I'm sure many, many others. Take Care All and Stay Safe & Stay Frosty VH brothers from another mothers \m/
"THERE WILL BE NO OTHER " " LONG LIVE KING EDWARD " The intro to Women in love is also a great example on how he used tapped harmonics with chords n triads I'm surprised you didn't mention it. Great in depth lesson. ROCK ON DAVE ! 👊 👍 🎸 😎 P.S. I just started taking guitar lessons in 1978, I was 11 yrs old n VH1 Emerged. The rest is history. I want to thank him for making me the guitar player I am today. He will always be my favorite guitar player of all time. I am truly going to miss him.
In Dutch, we would say: De beste Rock n Roll-jamsessie ooit vindt nu in de hemel plaats. Eindelijk in Jezus Armen, Eddie! 🍃🕊🍃 Translated in English: The best Rock n Roll jam session ever is going on right now in heaven. Finally in Jesus Arms, Eddie! 🍃🕊🍃 What a lovely humble man that was happiest when he made others happy! Eddie just being himself and not trying to impress anybody ended up impressing everyone. His beautiful smile let us know we were going to be in for a little bit of fun. I will hold good memories close to my heart! Knuffels & Zoentjes, Hugs & Kisses, from your Dutch friend, Katrinka, San Francisco Bay Area🌺🌴 I will miss you Eddie, always💞
like everyone here i grew up wanting to play like Eddie and never really could, best I could manage was a note for note copy but could never really pull off sounding like him even after 30 years of playing. Vai said this best about Eddie Van Halen... “I could never play like him,” Vai admits. “I never really tried. Only an idiot competes with Eddie Van Halen. in another article he says Eddie would visit him after he was done Roth and one day he just picked up my Guitar which was all setup for me, levels, pedels etc and the moment he started playing, Vai said, it sounded 100% Edward and he then knew Eddies tone was all in his fingers.....had nothing to do with guitars, amps, pedals and every other bit of garb marketing teams dream up.
You need to write a song called, "Falling down stairs in outer space" . Seriously, that is a thing now. Satch had Flying in a blue dream, just sayin'.......
Your one of the best teachers out there. Turning 50 tomorrow , Eddie was a genus. I could pick up satraini riffs easer than eddies sense of timing , phrasing, rhythm. Thanks for your hard work
Dave, thank you for the umpteenth time. Your such a kickass player and teacher! I had the good fortune of having my dad retire at March AFB in '72 so my early teen years were in SoCal and by '75 I was addicted to guitar and as fate would have it a buddy's uncle told us about this band he saw called Mammoth in LA and said remember the name Van Halen cause this guy Eddie will blow the world away! R.I.P. to arguably the greatest ever and thanks for another trip down memory lane🤘
So my neighbors are going to love what I learned-elephants in my house. Lol, very nice tribute, David. I appreciated how you showed so much reverence in this lesson. 🤘
It’s hard to lose our musical idols and as we get older, we will eventually lose them all. It’s tough. Randy Rhoads was a tough one for me, Marley, Cobain, Stevie Ray, Jeff Healey, Layne Staley, Chester, the list goes on. And now EVH. Yes it’s sad but thanks to people like you David, we are reminded of our past and present hero’s and forgotten bands. They may be gone but you keep their spirit alive in every vid. Long live the king! RIP Eddie 🤘🤘
I’m sure we can all relate to the shock and loss you’re feeling. This was one of the toughest losses for me. He was a superhero of my childhood and even if you never meet these people they have profound impacts on your life. Eddie never ever disappointed with the material he produced. Incredible icon. We’ll never see his like again.
"like throwing candy into his music" that's a great metaphor for how he used them. to me, it always felt like his use of harmonics was like a garnish to a fine meal.
,,,,,,,,tnx,,,,,,,for this in-depth vid,,,,,,our hero has left......my love for the guitar was cemented with the moment I heard running,,,!..😯...78.......we watch your vids close,,,,our teacher in youtubeland........peace,pat.land o' lakes,wi.....
Great video bro! He was the reason I picked up the guitar too! Sitting on the floor in Lexington, KY as a kid and watching the 'JUMP' video debut on MTV... Damn! My first album was 1984 and I bought it on my seventh birthday. I still have it! Hopefully with Eddie's passing it will bring back a passion for the electric guitar in music. Great job once again bro!
Thank you for the EVH lessons on harmonics. I too like many others are struggling. I can't think of a better tribute for the musician than to study the music. Thank you for using your knowledge to break it down. Please examine EVH rhythm. You are a outstanding instructor.
Thank you for these gems. Thank Edward. I bought the Black n White EVH guitar recently and then the next week he was gone. I had been going over what I partly learned years ago but making a better effort. All this info helps. It is the best electric guitar knowledge as far as I can tell. It makes the instrument a playground. It makes you smile then it makes you think of the master. Edward. Great video and lesson.
Great rant! So informative! I was 15 when Van Halen debut album came out and music hasn’t been the same since. He was the last great rock guitarist. He was the right hand of G-d and Hendrix was the left hand. As brilliant as they come and taken from us too soon.
Thanks for this, brother. Been a tough month. Love your lessons - you're a great guitar player and not pretentious about it whatsoever. The Star Wars swag is a plus too haha.
My first concert ever as a kid was Van Halen and AC/DC when they played at the Day on the Green in 78'. So many of my friends who played guitar went ape shit over Eddie, and while I did as well, the phenomena was so huge at that time that I shied away from learning more than a few of his solos. But I never shied away from the techniques, precision, and *especially his amazing sense of rhythm* because that would have been a huge failure on my part. R.I.P Eddie!
@@katrinkasanfranciscobayare7364 : Yea, they were so fun! One of my favorites was we'd all been up all night, so when we got there I fell asleep on the field and slept through the first band or two, but woke up to the most amazing guitar playing I'd ever heard. When I stood up I saw this tiny blonde dude with a polka-dot flying V tearing up the entire stadium. Only time I got to see Randy, but I won't ever forget that day.
Wow that is so awesome you got to go. My dad wouldn’t let me go to Day On The Green because I was too young 😕. 78 and 77 with Zeppelin are probably the 2 most historic ones.
Another tip to getting harmonics to just "Jump" out of the guitar is to use a graphic or parametric eq to boost 800hz frequencies... this will bring out the "even-order" (or 2nd order) harmonics. You don't need to get into Dimebag Darrell or Stryper territory... but you'll find that boosting those frequencies really helps those harmonics to pop.
I just ran across this and am LOVING it !! HEY did anyone else notice how the picture frame in the background went from FAIR WARNING to VHII ?? Nice but I CAUGHT you ha ha !!! This is my new favorite TH-cam channel
I didn't know of your channel and luck of the draw or mighty van halen it showed up in my feed and i checked this video out and jumped over 2 your videos and glad I found you and already hit the subscribe button Ty for this van halen video brother and look forward to your other videos rock on bro and R.I.P EDWARD VAN HALEN
Would've loved to see you play that tapped harmonic intro to "Mean Street", especially the very beginning where EVH alternates slapping the fretboard with his pick hand thumb and fingers.
Dude, you are amazing! Just the best teacher ever! Wish you were there when I was a kid. You know it all so well and so humbly and are still such a fan yourself even though you are a master of the guitar!
Great lesson, nice job. Anyone notice the Fair Warning cover on the wall change to VH II, to VH I and then on to 5150 through this video ? Or am I up too late ?
Why is it that so many guys want to show all these little tricks but, they say I'm a step down or drop D or drop C and never show how to do it, a lot of people don't know what the hell your talking about.
Can you make an EVH video lesson on showing a lot of different Harmonics he used in Van halen songs to have examples of the songs he used the harmonics
Thank you very much for this analysis. Eddie's open harmonics have until now been a little bit of a mystery to me. He used them so melodically. I was not prepared for his passing as you said and it took me a few days to be able to function again. So this is nice to take a closer look at the great things he did.
Wonderful video. Very clever how you put this together and your choices are impeccable. Love when you said "its like he was throwing candy from his music" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it really was!!! Love this David!!! Keep rocking bro!!🤘😎👍
Edward was my obsession during my teenaged years, actually from 12 years of age onward. I swear, every pick scrape, harmonic, flange (how bout that flange pick scrape at the end of Bottom's up!), pull off, mute, etc. is embedded in my DNA. I remember that off the cuff, unaccompanied solo at the beginning of Fools, blowing my mind. You could HEAR the strength in his left hand, the way he squeezed out these flurries of notes. Always will be the KING!
2022 and still hard to believe every is gone. His playing was so influential on me and so many others. He gave me so many ideas to draw upon and the inspiration to take what he did and try to make my own version. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's pure crap, but I love doing it, and without Eddie, I'm not sure I would have ever picked up a guitar. RIP eddie van halen.
I really appreciate people who one can tell are truly lovers of something. I can tell you really loved Eddie, and that's really touching. Thanks for your lessons, I've gotten a lot out of them. RIP to another legend.
"Throwing candy" to the listener is the best description of EVH harmonics I have ever heard! Nice!
It hit me very hard as well Dave. Still in disbelief. You're right to us it was like Superman died. What a sad day and such a loss.
Since the news of Eddie passing I have read, watched and learned about a true American legend. Years ago I read 3 books about Eddie and the band which gave me a perspective on the early rise to prominence. Still so many things to read, watch and listen to that I enjoy but in a way it just reminds me of what we all lost. The pain is real and we all feel the loss. I bought a EVH guitar which I had wanted for about 2 years but put off. Now was the time. It seemed only right to have one produced before he passed. A run that he had a say in what was produced. Some may think that is not important but if you feel it is then it is. Keep the legend with us! Thanks for the EVH content!
Great video . My roommate and I were going through a bunch of eddies music . He was such an awesome chord guy as well . Just simply the best for a long time . He will live forever ! Thanks again for the great video . David you are an awesome player and instructor. Glad to have found this channel . Keep on rocking
Thank you so much for doing everything that you do on TH-cam! I hope you know how much you are appreciated in the guitar community keep up the great work!!
Ed’s ability to fill holes with harmonics is legend. Lots of root, fifths and sus notes. Always appreciated.
I just found 3 days again, the brass pick Ed gave me. I have a story of going up to to 5150 21 years ago for 2 days. Hung out with AL and Ed.
The elephant trick was always so cool. I remember a video on VHS I had in the 90’s of Curt Mitchell showing a tapped harmonic section during the chorus of Dance the Night Away. It was a single line tapped on the B and A chords and it was so hard for me to learn. Slapping the chords for the breakdown wasn’t too bad but I’ll always remember that “impossible” for me line. I’ll have to track it down after I work on your lesson and see if it’s still as hard as I remember. Great video.
Incredible rant Dave!!! Love that dance the night away intro. Man rip ed.
Everyone knew Eddie was sick but I thought he was just keeping his head low and just taking it easy. I came in my house and my wife of 30 years came up to me with a weird look and said "I don't know how to tell you this," I was like "What?" "Eddie Van Halen died today". I felt sick. I felt my stomach drop and I felt like I was going to throw up. My wife knows I've been an EVH freak even before we got together. She hugged me and in the shock of it all I started crying. I couldn't believe it, I still can't. Awesome lesson today, Thank you! R.I.P. to The King!!!!
Brother, my wife woke me up crying and I couldn't listen to a note without crying. We lost a King
I love this. First riff I got deep with after Eddie passed was Top Jimmy. The one area I’ve been laser focused on was his use of stretch licks: Ice Cream Man, The Full Bug, Beat It, etc.
who got a chill with the brilliant Top Jimmy intro?!
You're one of my favorite teachers, I can't play EVH but man I love his playing. I've been at it for 45 years. Thank you sir!
Top notch lesson, David! It pays tribute to mighty Eddie, thank you!
Love Eddie and David Brewster for sharing...
Thanks for the great video man💕
Awesome Dave. In A Simple Rhyme is a great tune from WACF also. Some cool bridges on that album.
Saw them 3 times. Greatest rock band ever.
Total shock, I still can't believe he's gone.
I like how you changed album covers on the wall behind you throughout the video. Eddie is king, the greatest to ever pick up the instrument.
Awesome in depth analysis! Thanks very much for putting this together! Love the Em pentatonic on the 7th & 12th fret thing - never saw / heard it that way :-)
btw it's not D7 without an F# being present, sounds / feels more like a Dm7 to my old ears
Oh, and that strat's gorgeous!
Eddie figured out so much of what you could pull out of the neck of his guitars and he always said it was because at first he couldn't afford all the effect's everyone else had so it forced him to be creative, i don't know if he was suggesting that anyone could have done it because he used to say if i could do it anybody can but when i first heard him in 78 i was thinking hell i didn't even know a guitar could make that sound, to say Eddie Van Halen was virtuoso is a big understatement, that guy was scary good, he almost made me hang it up but what he was doing was and still is so dam interesting i just had to try and figure at least some of it out, i think everyone that heard him that played went dam what the hell is that i got to get a guitar and see if i can do it, influence to the max.
Do Brad Gillis. Master of the whammy bar-harmonics-feedback. :-)
I especially love when E.V.H. WOULD DO HIS TRIGGER SOUND...JAMES SCOTT NICHOLSON,ONTARIO, CANADA
Word up. This has been on my mind for awhile. Thanks for enumerating them
I played more than ever the week he died and probably drank to much but man i have never played better than that week..King Edward will never be topped.He lived life his way and was real.
Great vid man! More on the king please!!!
Really digging your channel.
TOP JIMMY!!!!!! OOOOOOOHHHHH, JIMMAAAAYYYYYY.....
Anybody else notice that the Van Halen record in the frame to the left changed three different times?
I heard Sammy Hagar say this years ago about Eddie ."Edward is an alien from a planet where everyone plays guitar 🎸 just as natural as we shake hands casually
These techniques are great. But, Eddie’s genius and longevity will be measured with his “songwriting,” his out of this world chord progressions and rhythm playing, especially on albums no. 7, 8, and 9.
Top jimmy,
I hear you, where have all the good times gone, has some nice accidentals. If you can call them that.
Eddie was the man.
RIP Eddie, You will truly be missed.
The horse trick!
Great lesson!
awesome. subbed
Eddie was the Leonardo Davinci of guitar. A genius way ahead of his time.
Agreed
Along with Brian May as Sir Isaac Newton. They knew something we didn't about Starfleet.
Great analogy.
No, that was Jimmy Page, Eddie is the J.Bach of modern Guitar.
@@mrnorbotron3308 Actually He was Amadeus and not Bach. Bach was more mellow compared to Amadeus.
This is how pay tribute to EVH. Thank you.
I was just thinking the same exact thing.
First time I have ever cried for someone I didn't personally know... still tough. Man, you did a great job on this lesson, thank you very much. Channel is awesome.
Me too Brother, we lost an amazing one here
Me too.... It was a kick in the gut man.....
Me too. I felt like I knew him.
Same!
@@PatrickAustin At the risk of sounding melodramatic, it genuinely feels like a family member passed. It still randomly hits me and I'm sure many, many others. Take Care All and Stay Safe & Stay Frosty VH brothers from another mothers \m/
"THERE WILL BE NO OTHER "
" LONG LIVE KING EDWARD "
The intro to Women in love is also a great example on how he used tapped harmonics with chords n triads I'm surprised you didn't mention it. Great in depth lesson. ROCK ON DAVE ! 👊 👍 🎸 😎
P.S. I just started taking guitar lessons in 1978, I was 11 yrs old n VH1 Emerged. The rest is history. I want to thank him for making me the guitar player I am today. He will always be my favorite guitar player of all time. I am truly going to miss him.
Saw Van Halen back then opening for Black Sabbath
I'm from the SF Bay Area we used to have
Day on the Green concerts.
Van Halen performed 1978
Aberdeen April 1978!!🎸🎸🎸
Dave Lee Roth said "Its our first Uk tour...we are a virgin band"..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In Dutch, we would say:
De beste Rock n Roll-jamsessie ooit vindt nu in de hemel plaats.
Eindelijk in Jezus Armen, Eddie!
🍃🕊🍃
Translated in English:
The best Rock n Roll jam session ever is going on right now in heaven.
Finally in Jesus Arms, Eddie!
🍃🕊🍃
What a lovely humble man that was happiest when he made others happy!
Eddie just being himself and not trying to impress anybody ended up impressing everyone.
His beautiful smile let us know we were going to be in for a little bit of fun.
I will hold good memories close to my heart!
Knuffels & Zoentjes,
Hugs & Kisses,
from your Dutch friend, Katrinka,
San Francisco Bay Area🌺🌴
I will miss you Eddie, always💞
@Cymro 65
I appreciate your message.
Thank you and have a great day.
A very beautiful post! Thanks for those great heartfelt words.
@@jimmyboy131
Thank you Jimmy❤
@@katrinkasanfranciscobayare7364 You're welcome. ❤
like everyone here i grew up wanting to play like Eddie and never really could, best I could manage was a note for note copy but could never really pull off sounding like him even after 30 years of playing. Vai said this best about Eddie Van Halen...
“I could never play like him,” Vai admits. “I never really tried. Only an idiot competes with Eddie Van Halen.
in another article he says Eddie would visit him after he was done Roth and one day he just picked up my Guitar which was all setup for me, levels, pedels etc and the moment he started playing, Vai said, it sounded 100% Edward and he then knew Eddies tone was all in his fingers.....had nothing to do with guitars, amps, pedals and every other bit of garb marketing teams dream up.
Never realized Top Jimmy was an altered tuning,definitely going to dive into this one ,thanks for this!
Cause you never tried playing it b4!
"he was throwing candy" i love that, its so appropriate, also i loved his tremolo style so much and vibrato!
You need to write a song called, "Falling down stairs in outer space" . Seriously, that is a thing now. Satch had Flying in a blue dream, just sayin'.......
Your one of the best teachers out there. Turning 50 tomorrow , Eddie was a genus. I could pick up satraini riffs easer than eddies sense of timing , phrasing, rhythm. Thanks for your hard work
Satriani would say the same thing
Thank you! No one ever talks about all of his use of harmonics! This was fantastic! Thank you once again. Oh and Top Jimmy was awesome!
Two other examples of Harmonics Masters I highly recommend: Mattias Eklundh and Bill Frisell.
Great great great Rant, David. Long live the King.
Dave, thank you for the umpteenth time. Your such a kickass player and teacher! I had the good fortune of having my dad retire at March AFB in '72 so my early teen years were in SoCal and by '75 I was addicted to guitar and as fate would have it a buddy's uncle told us about this band he saw called Mammoth in LA and said remember the name Van Halen cause this guy Eddie will blow the world away! R.I.P. to arguably the greatest ever and thanks for another trip down memory lane🤘
Karate chop side of the hand is a technical term
Like he said... I'm just Eddie!
Had no idea that's how he tuned for Top Jimmy. I've never seen anyone play it, thank you!!
I'm still crying and my name is not Jamie......sorry for the pun.... but I am crying....still and forever.
So my neighbors are going to love what I learned-elephants in my house. Lol, very nice tribute, David. I appreciated how you showed so much reverence in this lesson. 🤘
So much flavor in his music. He did change the way the guitar was played. Great job . RIP EVH.
I love how during different portions of the video you have a different framed album cover hanging on the wall....so cool.
Ed is going to live on for a very long time Dave. Thanks for doing your part with all your hard work....
It’s hard to lose our musical idols and as we get older, we will eventually lose them all. It’s tough. Randy Rhoads was a tough one for me, Marley, Cobain, Stevie Ray, Jeff Healey, Layne Staley, Chester, the list goes on. And now EVH.
Yes it’s sad but thanks to people like you David, we are reminded of our past and present hero’s and forgotten bands. They may be gone but you keep their spirit alive in every vid.
Long live the king! RIP Eddie 🤘🤘
I’m sure we can all relate to the shock and loss you’re feeling. This was one of the toughest losses for me. He was a superhero of my childhood and even if you never meet these people they have profound impacts on your life. Eddie never ever disappointed with the material he produced. Incredible icon. We’ll never see his like again.
"like throwing candy into his music" that's a great metaphor for how he used them. to me, it always felt like his use of harmonics was like a garnish to a fine meal.
,,,,,,,,tnx,,,,,,,for this in-depth vid,,,,,,our hero has left......my love for the guitar was cemented with the moment I heard running,,,!..😯...78.......we watch your vids close,,,,our teacher in youtubeland........peace,pat.land o' lakes,wi.....
Great video bro! He was the reason I picked up the guitar too! Sitting on the floor in Lexington, KY as a kid and watching the 'JUMP' video debut on MTV... Damn! My first album was 1984 and I bought it on my seventh birthday. I still have it!
Hopefully with Eddie's passing it will bring back a passion for the electric guitar in music. Great job once again bro!
Beautifully done Dave. Super glad you waited a few weeks to get to this one. RIff in Power to one of the most influential guitars players to do it.
Such a great topic for EVH! Thank you
Thank you for the EVH lessons on harmonics. I too like many others are struggling. I can't think of a better tribute for the musician than to study the music. Thank you for using your knowledge to break it down. Please examine EVH rhythm. You are a outstanding instructor.
Thank you for these gems. Thank Edward. I bought the Black n White EVH guitar recently and then the next week he was gone. I had been going over what I partly learned years ago but making a better effort. All this info helps. It is the best electric guitar knowledge as far as I can tell. It makes the instrument a playground. It makes you smile then it makes you think of the master. Edward. Great video and lesson.
Great rant! So informative! I was 15 when Van Halen debut album came out and music hasn’t been the same since. He was the last great rock guitarist. He was the right hand of G-d and Hendrix was the left hand. As brilliant as they come and taken from us too soon.
Thank you for this. I was hoping you would settle for once and for all what and where the famous harmonics are played in 'On Fire'...
Thanks for this, brother. Been a tough month. Love your lessons - you're a great guitar player and not pretentious about it whatsoever. The Star Wars swag is a plus too haha.
My first concert ever as a kid was Van Halen and AC/DC when they played at the Day on the Green in 78'. So many of my friends who played guitar went ape shit over Eddie, and while I did as well, the phenomena was so huge at that time that I shied away from learning more than a few of his solos. But I never shied away from the techniques, precision, and *especially his amazing sense of rhythm* because that would have been a huge failure on my part. R.I.P Eddie!
I loved those Day on the Green concerts used to cut school for the ones during the week.
@@katrinkasanfranciscobayare7364 : Yea, they were so fun! One of my favorites was we'd all been up all night, so when we got there I fell asleep on the field and slept through the first band or two, but woke up to the most amazing guitar playing I'd ever heard. When I stood up I saw this tiny blonde dude with a polka-dot flying V tearing up the entire stadium. Only time I got to see Randy, but I won't ever forget that day.
@@aylbdrmadison1051
Love it!
@@aylbdrmadison1051
Loved seeing Eddie and the guys perform.
Peter Frampton was great as well
Wow that is so awesome you got to go. My dad wouldn’t let me go to Day On The Green because I was too young 😕. 78 and 77 with Zeppelin are probably the 2 most historic ones.
Wish Mr. Brewster was my teacher..😊🙌🇵🇷
you sir are a master instructor. beautiful tribute to the GOAT. i'd never have expected to be enthralled by a 30 minute video on harmonics :)
Another tip to getting harmonics to just "Jump" out of the guitar is to use a graphic or parametric eq to boost 800hz frequencies... this will bring out the "even-order" (or 2nd order) harmonics. You don't need to get into Dimebag Darrell or Stryper territory... but you'll find that boosting those frequencies really helps those harmonics to pop.
I just ran across this and am LOVING it !! HEY did anyone else notice how the picture frame in the background went from FAIR WARNING to VHII ?? Nice but I CAUGHT you ha ha !!!
This is my new favorite TH-cam channel
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,,,,,,P.S...........I'm sooooo glad,,,we have the epic dive bomb in the song tattoo........with mr,V.H. pointing at us....😐
I didn't know of your channel and luck of the draw or mighty van halen it showed up in my feed and i checked this video out and jumped over 2 your videos and glad I found you and already hit the subscribe button Ty for this van halen video brother and look forward to your other videos rock on bro and R.I.P EDWARD VAN HALEN
Thanks for expressing how upsetting Eddie's passing was for you too. It also really affected me.
Would've loved to see you play that tapped harmonic intro to "Mean Street", especially the very beginning where EVH alternates slapping the fretboard with his pick hand thumb and fingers.
Eddie a true innovator, genius and legend.
RIP
Dude, you are amazing! Just the best teacher ever! Wish you were there when I was a kid. You know it all so well and so humbly and are still such a fan yourself even though you are a master of the guitar!
Good lesson here still looking for someone to focus on his bad ass rythym guitar playing and superb timing RIP 5150
EVH... 😭 You're so right. He was a real life superhero. F those stupid Marvel movies.
Thank you for the instruction. You've already taught me a bunch. 🤘😎
Your so right!! He is/was a genius truly miss EVH but so glad he left us his masterpiece. Thanks
Great video again. I'm laughing at 'Karate-chop side of my hand' though!
Great lesson, nice job. Anyone notice the Fair Warning cover on the wall change to VH II, to VH I and then on to 5150 through this video ? Or am I up too late ?
Fantastic and informative video my friend , excellent work !!
Why is it that so many guys want to show all these little tricks but, they say I'm a step down or drop D or drop C and never show how to do it, a lot of people don't know what the hell your talking about.
Fantastic lesson 👍 Eddie was such an incredible innovator ✌
Can you make an EVH video lesson on showing a lot of different Harmonics he used in Van halen songs to have examples of the songs he used the harmonics
Thank you very much for this analysis. Eddie's open harmonics have until now been a little bit of a mystery to me. He used them so melodically. I was not prepared for his passing as you said and it took me a few days to be able to function again. So this is nice to take a closer look at the great things he did.
Wonderful video. Very clever how you put this together and your choices are impeccable. Love when you said "its like he was throwing candy from his music" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it really was!!! Love this David!!! Keep rocking bro!!🤘😎👍
Edward was my obsession during my teenaged years, actually from 12 years of age onward.
I swear, every pick scrape, harmonic, flange (how bout that flange pick scrape at the end of
Bottom's up!), pull off, mute, etc. is embedded in my DNA.
I remember that off the cuff, unaccompanied solo at the beginning of Fools, blowing my mind.
You could HEAR the strength in his left hand, the way he squeezed out these flurries of notes.
Always will be the KING!
Another excellent lesson, but harmonics just never came naturally to me.
2022 and still hard to believe every is gone. His playing was so influential on me and so many others. He gave me so many ideas to draw upon and the inspiration to take what he did and try to make my own version. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's pure crap, but I love doing it, and without Eddie, I'm not sure I would have ever picked up a guitar. RIP eddie van halen.