How To Play Eruption By Van Halen 

This is definitely the best most accurate lesson of eruption on RU-vid

BEST tutorial on ERUPTION I'VE seen and heard. When the tapping section starts, "EDDIE" taps the 14th fret (C#), releasing to 2nd fret, then hammer to 5th fret ( on the B string) and THEN continues with 9th fret to 2nd fret to 5th fret... 7 more times, before moving his tapping finger to the 10th fret. Listen to original, slow it down to 25% and you'll hear that 14th fret C# at the very beginning of the tapping section. "EDDIE" was LIGHTENING FAST & ACCURATE with VERY POWERFUL FINGERS!!!

Killer man! When you see old tabs back in the day it doesn’t represent it like you are putting all of this together. Thank you.

0:38 that shit put me in my place real quick😂

Joshua THE GOD Jones giving out guitar lessons!!?? Where the hell have I been? Smh 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎸

That tab synced to the album version is VERY helpful. Thank you! Your awesome as always

Your pick attack is so aggressive man. I love it. That's like 80% of the VH sound. Awesome stuff man. You're an animal lol!

Thanks Joshua! Hoping for tons of views and more subscribers! You always inspire me to try the complex stuff... ! Rock on! 🤘🎸

Thanks for this! I love that you simplified the most iconic coolest solo ever! I learned it once a almost perfect… 15 years ago but slightly changed over the years to my own thing. And I honestly wasn’t playing it right lol you rock brother 🤘🏼

This video has been out for one second but I can already tell this is a great analysis from a great player, thanks a lot!

I'm blow away every time I watch your videos, you make it look so effortless and easy. Mad skills!!!🔥🔥🔥

Thank you. For teaching us, for keeping his legacy alive, for the quality and detail you put in it. Great tone also.

Excellent Josh, excellent! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

seeing this upload from you made my day, closest tutorial for sure

When I’m ready to learn this I will definitely come here. Thank you for taking time to do this

I luv the fact that it's Eddie. BUT,you made it your own kiddo.Always an Innovator, never an imitator. God bless brother.Luv peace and chicken grease. lol. your killing it! Mom and eddie are proud. Again,God bless bro.

Wow!! You’re awesome!! Can’t imagine the practice and time it takes to play like this!!

Hey Josh just saw this. Looks like a great tutorial example of this incredible solo. Can’t wait to get home and give it a shot. Ty again

Good video I'll come back to it in another 4 years of playing when I can probably actually do it

Great job Joshua! You are a fantastic guitar player. Keep pursuing your dreams and making more Van Halen videos please.

Incredible. Very detailed and very accurate. Thanks man!

Good job JJ!

Sounds killer bro ! Listening to Eddie’s isolated track .. your playing and lesson is fucking absolutely 💯 👍 .. the rhythm of the licks are Amazing ! Thanks bro .

Man you off the cuff is close enough, you've got the feel, and nice and raw :-)

Freaking badass awesome job and very helpful lots of insight

great lesson !

The Man! ✌🏼

This is AWESOME REALLY AWESOME fantastic vid ❤❤❤❤

You're freaking awesome! 🔥🔥🔥

Great lesson brother!

I discovered evh's work because of you, thank you!

absolutely badass lesson

Thanks man...I've always wondered how his unorthodoxed method was done

Met this guy on Omegle before it sadly shut down hes amazing❤

Thank you! ...i have this saved. Not easy even for the best of the best!

Your the greatest thing to come to youtube tutorials

Sick man

Thanks, you cleared some things up for me....

Thank you! 😁

my high ass thought he was alex costa

Damn easier then I thought thanx kept getting caught up on pinch never did that well I will practice that move solid!!!!!!

AND Ur absolutely CORRECT about the "2nd Half" of the solo, starting just after the silence. The ATTACK has to be ACCURATE and CLEAN, otherwise it will sound MUDDY... and the "punch effect" will be LOST!! The point of that section was to catch the audience OFF GUARD! The ATTACK is like a SLAP in the "EARS" by "EDDIE" saying, "HEY... I'm not finished yet. KEEP LISTENING!" 😂 The man was BRILLIANT!!

Best.lesson.out there

"A Slide From Nowhere" Band name? 7 to the 5 pulloff on the 3 hammer on the 9 tap on the 25 or 6 to 4 skip to the Lou my darlin'! 🤣🤣🤣 This is AMAZING! It's amazing that you can slow it down to teach it. Brilliant! Where's your PayPal? 🤘🤘🤘🤘

You always remember where you were when you first heard this solo ❤😁 This is fantastic. Can I ask what sound set up you are using?

Amazing performance! Any practicing tips?

GODDAMN THE START WAS SICK I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO QUIT RN

You've' done a terrific job figuring this solo out man. Just one issue I have, and that's that when you teach it, your "slow down" examples aren't done to a steady tempo, you have a habit of getting choppy with your slow-downs and this has the result of causing the learner to not quite get it, after the break downs of the sections. This is especially relevant in section 5. We the learners need the slower example to be fluid and in tempo in order to really "visualize" and hear how it really goes. Sorry if this seems critical, I know you put a lot of effort into teaching this, and it's appreciated. I used to have the same passion as you do when figuring out solos when I was your age. As the person "figuring out" the solo, it's easier to conceptualize the whole thing in your own head-space while you're working on it, but then there comes a point after you've broken it down where you need to do that in a slower tempo. This is where imagination comes in for the learner...imagining what the whole or the section of the solo sounds like at a tempo slow enough to work on the skill aspect. Sorry about the rant. I realize no one ever does a perfect video all the time, so again, sorry about being critical.

Awesome

I want that guitar so bad! That’s the same one he played with in his 14 minute ERUPTION solo!

Luv ya man. How is the band doing?

great video, I like that you play at tempo then show us slow, i woud also like to hear the Phrase fast after showing us slow just to put it into context. Im not saying anything bad about you.. almost every tutorial does the same on you tube. Thanky You for this video

Just learned smoke on the water, think im ready for this

Hi Josh, I used to play Eruption but I haven't in a few years and I forgot some parts, but honestly I don't remember ever being able to replicate any kind of solo exactly note for note. I don't know how you feel but it's like my fingers either don't want to do or can't do some riffs. I played a lot of covers but all the solos were always 90% original and 10% me. Take care. Mike.

Nice

It's so fucking cool how bluesy the notes are played slowly.

He goes so slow unlike some people witch makes it easier to learn

More tutorials would be SICK

The quick flex he did before doing the actual solo My reaction was 😮‍💨 what a jerk..... Im subbing

On the tapping section, the hardest part is keeping the noise from the open G string muted. Some seem to say that you simply palm mute the lower strings with your right hand. But this introduces issues with string noise as you move your right hand up the neck. Then when you get far enough up the neck, too much pressure causes the lower strings to hit your neck pick-up and make more noise. It just seems to me that the actual tapping/left hand fretting is the easy part. The hard part is keeping all of the noise suppressed, but nobody ever addresses that in any detail…🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️...

Bro, could you teach us how you played flying high again on one of your cover videos

I'd love to know what the repeats on the delay are. And are you running a phase 90? Cause it sounds killer!!

Joshua Jones, incredibly close to Eddie but not as close as Deraps who is the closest player I have heard compared to peak van Halen in the late 70's, both in playing ability and sound.

how does this video have only 24k views today?

What about your guitar?’ Which model is this? Did you route the neck pickup??

I want that guitar so bad

Man, I just cannot palm mute and tremolo pick at the same time for the opening passage of the 2nd section. Any advice?

33:34

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I've been trying to learn that for ah when was 1980 again? I do like to use it for endurance, if I can't do it I'm out of shape.

Are you Johnny's kid?

Giving Pete Thorn a run for his money...

what was the rift at the start? could u tab it

There is no e flat on the first fast riff

OMG, that beautiful Spanky n loose , nice

Hold the pick like marty haha

Why do people only do half of eruption?

Joshua Jones, incredibly close to Eddie but not as close as Deraps who is the closest player I have heard compared to peak van Halen in the late 70's, both in playing ability and sound. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oseRAg8J0IE.html

Well done, mister 👍

Plz follow Mr. Brown (Carl brown) a big thanks to u too for this lesson, appreciate tht, wz helpful man, ^_^

wish this was p.o.v

I think you mean g string buddy not d string 😂

What the Fu I didn't understand a thing he's like do this do that ok you got it calm down

phenominal. subbed

Hey Josh just saw this. Looks like a great tutorial example of this incredible solo. Can’t wait to get home and give it a shot. Ty again

Hey Josh just saw this. Looks like a great tutorial example of this incredible solo. Can’t wait to get home and give it a shot. Ty again