This Van Halen Lick Will Transform Your Guitar Playing 

jeffery podrug That's a really kind comment Jeffery! Thank you so much! I'm really glad that you like my attitude towards teaching and learning from me. :)

jeffery podrug my friend it all seems difficult ,at certain stages trust you will learn it my suggestion learn.your scales an fretboard recognition .don't pay to much attention to what everyone else is playing rather understand what you just played being familiar with your scales will help .good luck to you,and keep the faith .cb

Not being able to read music is not as big a handicap as you'd think, some of the most famous player in the world can't read music, although it does help to be able to, it's not essential when you are just starting out on guitar, especially as there is an absolute tonne of great vids on youtube to help you, my two places to try first would be the justin sandercoe's channel, and the 'Your Guitar Sage' channel, both have great tuition videos for beginner's. As I say, learning to read music is a good skill to have, but when you are beginning, it may just confuse you, I have been playing for 20 years and I still can't read standard notation much above what I learned at school, but what little I do know helps me figure out melodies from tablature when I haven't got the audio, and if you do want to learn to read music, there are also tutorials for that on youtube too, and if you ever want to learn classical guitar pieces, it is invaluable.

You can still teach yourself theory without learning to read sheet music. Learning chords, scales, and how to play over a key center is way more important than reading. Although I do read.

I could read music in high school. Can't now. Use your ear. I'm at the point where I can just 'pick the notes' as I solo....enough time/practice will show you, but you have to listen. see the shapes on the fretboard, memorize them, learn the notes and the theory that connects them. You would be surprised how many scale shapes simply interchange depending on the key/mode.

Haha! Right! We did everything by ear at tempo which was great practice. That is smart but funny that you were slowing it down with your finger. I love that! That is such a thrasher move!. It would change the pitch though! I had a low end turn table so i didn't worry about messing it up. It was more that my records were full of hiss from micro scratches of me lifting the needle in the same place. In '84 I went to Musician's Institute and in a little practice room Jennifer Batten pulled out some stuff that was digitally recorded on a little unit and slowed it down with the notes statying at the right pitch! It was like being on Star Trek! The first time I heard the end of Eruption going into You Really Got Me, I was so mesmerized that I walked into a pole at school knocking my head on it. It kept ringing like a gong but I ignored it, quickly got up and went over to the kid with the boom box. If I was driving I would've crashed. hearing the fret board tapping part on eruption creates a HUGE desire to experience what it feels like to play that even a little...and I'm a bassist. The same is true at different levels regarding a million other parts of songs. Because of that, though, I believe the best way to start learning music is to explore what you want and try to "find" the thing on your instrument. It's weird thing about this kid, Eddie, guitarists of that era and their tone. In some ways, regarding his tone, it doesn't seem like it was something he cultivated through expression and taste or whatever. It was as though there was an actual objective thing a few of those guys, like Blackmore, Schenker, Gary Moore... kept getting closer to, but he got closer to the bull's eye than anyone. He recorded that first album on a guitar that he made from discarded parts that the Fender shop was going to throw away and that he added that voltage knob to adjust the actual volume while keeping the volume knob on 10. Where ever a guitarist got hooked on that album, a very enthusiastic band formed around him.

True, we used to have to listen to records and play along. Tedious, but it improved our ears with respect to music.

Back in my day we walked 4 miles to school and....

First time I heard van Halen was in a bar.....You Really Got Me was playing. I knew it from the Kinks. So I thought pretty heavy version this.....with all the little notes and thingies in between. Than came the solo, I was like "wtf".....this is ffing brilliant....for a short while the Kinks got some magical proportions in my head. That magic shifted position when someone was so kind to point out it was a band called van Halen. After that I listened to a lot of their stuff.... mindboggling for me as someone just starting to play.... I love Eddie's groove, that blues funky rock thing that makes you sink into the music so easily ...

@@mindcontrol67 We did and that was in the winter months in the U.P. of mich.

He changed the world of guitar playing forever. He's onw if rare pioneers.

X3 xd

Ya mean Montrose - Bad Motor Scooter? Lol. Crüe stole that from them

A bit of Eruption mixed in too.

@@LanningKann yep!

It's a dive. And it's exactly what Mick Mars did on the intro to Kick Start My Heart. Open D, A, and E dives, but because of the tuning it's C, G, and D

1:24. 2:13

Well done catching that. As soon as I read the comment I heard the solo.

Now I have to watch Nightmare on Elm Street 3 because you mentioned that song

Funny you put it that way, it’s actually the ascending lick in the “Into the fire” solo is where I made an EVH connection myself! I actually use more when playing improv EVH than I use it when trying to replicate Lynch’s playing 😂

Sondre Emil Mick Mars (Motley guitarist) is awesome!

Lmao same here

Haha me too!

Sameee

Where is this lick in the song?

Cameron Cooper love your videos. Your are a magnificent guitar player . I have a question . Can you play the sequence only striking the first note and use hammer ons or is it necessary to alternate pick the first string ?

Cameron Cooper sure and this is even why i follow you on almost every video ... you are the down to heart guy that can really play the guitar ... you know , we can ask you things with no worry to be threated bad ...you will have success and big live stages soon , i feel i know ... rembember of us then ;)

Good Amp side manner here.

Cameron Cooper thanks so much for all the great videos would love to hear your take on little fighter buy white lion I really think that's an amazing guitar solo and would love to hear you play it

MDV 123 I'll check it out. Never listened to White Lion

NCASO Thank you so much! :)

Cameron Cooper wich Amp are use it?

it was good huh. ❤

:08 to :16 over and over

I did

Yep same

Slowed it down and repeated to get it down. Damn thats a badass blues run.

Sonny 6String That's no problem, you're very welcome. Thanks for getting in touch. :)

Thanks a lot Edward! Wishing you and your family a very happy Christmas also :)

cast390 You're welcome. :)

That's so kind of you thanks so much! Really appreciate it! :)

@@CameronCooper Absolutely and Thank You for sharing this blistering example of what can be done with triplets! 😎 I used to know how to play Spanish fly...but i never sat down to methodically examine in detail the runs or scale structure of the song. Keep on doing what you do, perhaps you can do some examples of Eddie Van Halen's riffs and licks for future lessons? 🎸

I've never watched Badlands chugs once and it's constantly in my recommended, RU-vid wants to be woke so badly they promote a channel of an obese man killing himself

its a sign that you should pick up a 6 string :)

I had internet when I started playing and this still describes me. Learn it, play it, fuhget

Pete Catalano Thank you Pete! ;)

Jim B Really kind of you Jim! Thank you very much! It's great to hear that you can play an eclectic range of instruments too that's fantastic. It might surprise you to know that I have never had a formal music lesson in my entire life. I barely know basic theory, I just know my keys and which ones are relative to each other. My progression has come from trial and error and learning lots of little things by ear and transferring them to my playing. That probably explains why my teaching is a little weird to some. Thank you again. Really appreciate it! :)

it does exist

fabrizio peretti there is a thr100 but it's not the same as the thr10x it does not have any of the effects or different tones.

Roger Philabaum right you mean not the same amp models.. that's true

fabrizio peretti right. So it does not exist.

@@rogerphilabaum4563 well that was rather condescending, Roger. Apologize

Nanika he did play it legato 🤔

You're welcome

GuitarPlusOne Thanks a lot :)

Me too , I've been playing by ear all my life and now I'm 53 and have started watching these videos and seeing different runs and things, its absolutely amazing how good so many kids are these days, this kid / man is insanely good

Michael Conti Thank you Michael. :)

Michael Conti

Just change the vid speed!

@@EdKidgell Yeah I could, but then I have to click on the cog wheel, select the speed. That's too much work lol.

FlopsyGuitarBunny - drink a few red bull vodka and you'll be faster.

Never worship another man bro. NEVER. That’s beta sh** nah just kidding 😂👋

You're very welcome sir! Thanks a lot for the kind words! :)

GATvsGAT I'm just using a Yamaha thr10x :)

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