Originally Posted by: gmixstudiosi be damned I cant get to grips with the widdling style of say van halen
Edward has a wonderful style. :)
His rhythm playing typically consists of triad chords intersperced with ornamental notes, melodic riffs and single note lines connecting the chords.
Lots of palm muting variations & isolating certain strings of a chord.
His lead playing typical consists of diatonic mode (dorian & phrygian) notes inside the normal pentatonic box shapes. He also uses those triad chord shapes and inversions in a linear manner (all stretched out on one string) in order to do his legendary tapping technique.
Lots of hammer-on, pull-off sliping and sliding, alternated with tremolo picking. Have you ever noticed that
Eruption is essentially a brief overview of most of his lead techniques? :)
FWIW - to my knowledge Ed very rarely uses harmonic minor. There are a couple of licks in
Little Dreamer explicitly using it, but other than those not so much.
I will try to put together an EVH style tutorial. For now look at:
Rhythm riffing with triads:
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=148http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=733Speed licks:
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=213Tapping:
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=13http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=15http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=16http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=21Also look at this intro video. It has a few EVH-isms.
http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=11614
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