how to play "Drop Dead Legs" on guitar by Van Halen | rhythm guitar lesson 

Thanks so much for posting this, Andy. I've worked on this song for quite a while (and yeah, I've been knowingly cheating with the bar on that 3 Ds lick, guilty as charged!), but I never could seem to get the funk part sequencing right, so this will really help me work on that and give me some more of those licks in my quiver. For me, that funk section and his solo are just amazing - it just makes the song, and it's one of my very favourite VH songs with a really deep, classically Eddie, jazzy groove. Andy, what is your overall satisfaction with the Kemper and taking the plunge to digital modelling? Sounds like you may have gotten it recently? Would you do it all over again? By way of my context or backdrop in asking, I'm reasonably well set up on my pedalboard and tube amp mainly for David Gilmour/Floyd tones and also for EVH tones with a good array of MXR EVH pedals, a Boss OC-3 Super Octave pedal, and the Wampler Pinnacle overdrive pedal, and recently including a brand new Eventide H9 for those great EVH H910 and H3000 MicroPitch tone thickeners into a Marshall JVM 210H, but I've been toying with the idea of selling off my older Mesa TransAtlantic TA-30 (all-tube) amp and cab that I don't really use anymore, and making room physically and financially for a Kemper. I'm a bit torn in that the Mesa does nice VOX AC-30 and Fender Tweed amp modes (separate channel circuits based on each of those), and so part of me thinks to keep the amp for those rare times I want my amp to sound like that, but then again, I keep thinking the Kemper may be able to emulate all of those (plus a lot more). Yours sounds great, by the way!!! Thanks again!

Damn this guy is good.

@@markverwyst6249 yep! Lol.

Yes. All the time. He’s outstanding.

Damn Andy, I stumbled on to this I would love to build you a guitar, any kind you want. No bull as I do build them. All you would have to do is teach me how to solo

Yeah, he's so far beyond me it's sad. Everytime I watch, I think I should get rid of my guitars.

9 out of 10 times

@@stevef4010 haha, I feel you!!!

Every time Dylan. Superb player & even better teacher.

@ you can do it give it a go

I agree. Shredders are so boring and so eighties. If you can't play a song properly with feel...then it ain't music.

Yeah, some of those riffs go back to Mammoth days,, classic young EVH

Thanks Albert. I put a huge amount of time and effort into making these videos. I like to keep them free for those that can't afford it, but if you can, please support what I do. Cheers, Andy www.shutupandplay.ca/donate.html

just send him $5. I don't every single time I learn a tune from Andy but should. How much would a proper lesson at a shop cost...$50/hour? These tutorials are as good as a lesson can POSSIBLY BE. A bargian. With 945 likes x $5 Andy would be covered and most likely happy. $5 guys, how many people trhpow away $12 for a 1/2 glass of wine and pee it out in 30minutes :)

@@7soulcraft7 Or $50 .. I've been benefiting from these tutorials for a few years now and have learned more than a few songs. Also, I never have to question their accuracy. a couple donations of $50 over all that time is a drop in the bucket compared to what any teacher would charge ....except with Andy, he's here on demand and stays as long as I need. But how cool is it that even 5 bucks is doable ? Sorry to get political but, I think its a good example of what a free market would actually look like if government quit meddling in matters beyond its intended purpose.

Truth! Lol!

Most def! I've lost track of the replays learning this from you.

I'm glad I'm not the only one in my 50's getting back into the deep dive of the guitar. It's so great to have these resources available. I wish I had youtube etc in my 20's!

@@edt9666 Same here!! Couldn't AFFORD all the "toys" I have now then! LOL! Gibby, PRS, Schecter, Marshal...strings, cords and now we have RU-vid!! These kids don't know how good they have it! LOL.

@@edt9666 I'm 64 and I still love to play stuff like this. It never gets old and I never get to old for it.

This song (as well as many other VH songs) is goddamned brilliant!

Drop dead legs..

best tune on the album, along with top jimmy

I WORE THIS TAPE OUT BACK THEN

You know Upon further review......it was EVH that didn't play this on a Floyd....that is what is incredible

That's why everybody refers to him as "THE KING" because he is .

He has such a cool, laid back teaching style

No.

Your wrong about that

Yes he was .

Eddie played as naturally as a fish knows how to swim. Everybody else, no matter how good, had to LEARN how to play, and while Eddie of course had to learn, too, he had a natural talent for it that was just its own thing entirely.

Yep. But don't forget Jimi, man. Without Jimi there might not have been an EVH

Yes, unbelievable how perfect it sounds without the rest of the band

Nobody to this very day can touch Edwards rhythm awesomeness and swing .

This guy is the best

Maybe a Roman 🤣 - as a note, it wasn't me

Probably the guy that plays the riff with the whammy bar instead of the bend.

@@remyr5749 ha ha ha... Great Idea 👍😅

@Desiree Hall 1984 was with Roth

Guaranteed it was a fat finger miss that meant to hit the up

His name is Andy & you can find out more info on him & his channel above in the video info.

That’s eddies real genius that often gets overlooked. Nobody ever wrote more groovy tunes than Eddie.... no one

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