RIP Eddie Van Halen. Hope to see you in heaven one day. I gotta say leokimvideo, I used to watch your videos when I was younger, and ever since then I see you in every comment section of random videos everywhere.
I know you were just making a joke but to clarify he was saying he was basically using the fingers on his right hand as if they were the fingers on his left hand.
Obviously he adapted what he saw Page do. Page may or may not have seen/heard what those earlier jazz players did but it seems pretty clear from this that EVH’s expansion of the technique was autonomous.
When I first heard "Eruption" it blew my mind at a time when I was being classically trained on guitar. I figured out what Eddie was doing and played the style on my little Yamaha acoustic guitar with nylon strings which is harder than using an electric guitar. Mrs. Shine was my teacher and 60 something years old at the time (circa 1981.) She was just starting to teach us Flamenco but Eddie's style also blew Mrs. Shine's mind. I brought into class a boombox the next day and played Eruption for her. I showed and explained how Eddie used his left index finger as a bar while tapping the strings with his right hand while moving up the neck with his left finger as a bar. She was so impressed with the performance by Eddie but more impressed that I figured it out on my own. After that, I got straight As in Mrs. Shines guitar class at Mayport Jr. High, Florida. Best to Eddie... love you. Gordon
Randy’s Rhoads I know very humble guitar player! There were musicians that said that when they complimented him on his guitar playing he blushed! He never had a bad thing to say about anyone! Even if deep down he might have thought that his style might have been better! Great man!
A reporter once asked him where he got his gift for music. Edward said it was no gift, I worked my ass off for years practicing in my room while all my friends were out having fun. This was my favorite line from EVH.
Glad he mentioned Jimmy Page, cuz even a guy like Eddie gets motivation from ppl before him. Eddie just combined various techniques... man he’s crazy cool
i think thats the masterpiece of newer artists. they take what theyve heard and combined them in a way that defines them. im not talking about pop music or just the newer rock that sounds all samey. im talking about the ones who grind out their own techniques and have a certain tone that makes them stand out from everyone else.
Several musical legends have passed away in the last few years, but Eddie was, to me, THE LEGEND of legends. I’m still having a hard time comprehending that this person, who was beyond important to rock music, is now gone. He was a true musical genius. Decades from now, younger people will hear his music somewhere, and you’ll be able to say, “I was there! I lived at the same time as Eddie Van Halen.” Some of you will even be able to say, “I met him! I got to see him perform, in person!” I know he was just a person. I don’t mean to deify him, but how cool is it to know that you spent decades living in the same time as him? It’s a wild thing to me. I don’t really know why. I never even met him. He just had such a huge impact on me, as a guitarist, myself. I genuinely am crushed that he’s gone. I’m very thankful for all of the music and knowledge he left us.
@FloodyBoy Randal Oh really? Then how did he play it live back in the day dumbass? You sound like you are putting Eddie down for A being a Rock musician and you think pop music is better or two just an asshat.
EVH: Starts playing 'A' Me: *adds 30 more frets and 10 strings to my guitar, completes Machine learning and neural networking course, programmes a robot to learn from video and then wake up from dream
Rusty Viper ; He died of drinking COLT 45 Malt Liquor Smoking Cancer Sticks but getting back to the Guitar actually At the Miami Pop Concert, Non other than Jimi Hendrix did Taping but Eddie took it to a Nother LEVEL.....
Tears in my eyes. The undisputed king of rock guitar, gone from us just over a year now. Thankfully his pioneering music, solos, and ideals, will live on with us forever. RIP EVH
He originated a whole new style of guitar playing-melodic,dynamic,explosive and exceptional in every way and next to Hendrix is probably the most influential guitar hero in history.
@@d.a.w.975 I agree with both statements I certainly wouldn't claim that Hendrix was technically the best, rather that he was hugely influential (more so in terms of overall sound than his actual playing, 99% of people influenced by Jimi play nothing like he did) Hendrix wasn't even doing all original and unique stuff, other people had messed with feedback and fuzzed out guitars, he was just the first person to bring all those elements together into a single package (and many would say that Robin Trower outright did it better) With regard to Ed, he didn't just make Jimi sound like old news, he made everyone sound like old news
Actually Eddie is a way more influential musician and guitarist than Hendrix, with all due respect to Hendrix that still is an amazing guitar player. Eddie Van Halen is in the same floor of Mozart and Beethoven in terms of influence and musicianship, and I am not joking.
@@kikepistolas5878 I agree. One person that bugs me on UA-cam is Music is Win who practically worships Hendrix and says he's objectively the best guitar player.. like, how? Totally disregarding other legends like Steve Vai, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and of course Eddie. Plus so many more. So many were so influential in their own right and technically amazing, with I believing Eddie to be the most technically gifted.
The tapping thing is just a drop in the ocean really.For me,there isn't a single rock guitarist who have been a game changer like Eddie and influencing so many guitar player for the last 40 years. Eddie's the king,period. Hi from France :)
Eddie Van Halen was a true rock legend,even at 60 he could still play just fast as ever, such hard loss for the man who influenced so many rock bands, and those to come,R.I.P. thanks for the music you left for us to remember you by😢💔🎸
Yes, absolutely!. It's well documented that way before EVH other legendary guitarists were doing tapping. Steve Hackett from Genesis in 1971 was doing it on songs like 'The Musical Box' and 'The Return of the Giant Hogweed'.
@@MrMick50 he got it from Jimmy Page, he straight up references Heartbreaker in the video Steve was totally doing it before him though As was Ace Frehley
Eddie was a guitar god in the flesh man. To think he was totally unprepared, was just fucking around demonstrating a technique and played like that off the top of his head, at age 60, 30-40 years past his prime, is incredible. I miss him to this day.
ua-cam.com/video/f_T1QjkEcH0/v-deo.html this what tapping guys cant play at all. But danger: its the biggest rock band in the world: AC/DC. Dont believe it?
A toast to one of the greatest musicians of all time. An inventor of sound in uncharted waters. Part of my youth is gone now. His music will live forever.
Eddie certainly brought the tapping technique to the masses, but he did not invent it. Players such as Steve Hackette, Frank Zappa and Jeff Back were doing it more than a decade before.
Nah. Fernando Sor (1778-1839) wrote a piece around 1824, Fantasy 5 opus 16 (a theme with variations), where he instructs to play the 8th variaton with left hand only. In other words: tap it without the use of the right hand. And he probably wasn't the first either. Hammering/tapping is probably as old as the plucked string instruments themselves.
SANCTUARY correct billy gibbons of zztop also in the very early 70s before VH was around. Edward only made it better known! look up the clip of billy sheehan called i thank you.
Our neighbor’s kid who has been playing for 2 years, can now play Eruption, so it Kinda knocked the shine off that EVH solo for me. The kid can’t play Roy Clark’s acoustic version of Malagueña, though. I think Roy was better than EVH.
Eddie didn't invent tapping - guitarists have been tapping for years before Eddie even picked up a guitar. In an early interview Eddie actually said he saw Genesis guitarist Steve Hacket tapping and that's where he got it from.
+gøran Kvehaugen You're onto something. But I think Steve doesn't tap on the Selling England track...... However, listening to Eddie's own words. He was/is the Prog Rock guy, and the last record he bought was a Peter Gabriel album.. Putting the dots together, it's rather easy to guess how he was indeed listening to Genesis, and with that he MUST be aware of both songs, Cinema Show and Supper's Ready, where Steve tapped beautifully, and likely inspired Eddie in the process..... As for all other people's wild claims here, tapping was used a lot earlier already. I am not even sure if one can call it an invention per say. It's a technique that evolved over the many many decades, or say hundreds of years. Eddie deserves some credit in the technique's history too. He was the very first, who brought it onto the center stage of metal rock. Eruption was exactly what the song title says, it literally erupted and shook the landscape, back in the days of it's release.
Huge pts for being the only middle aged rocker who doesn't try to look like they're still 23yrs old. Cool Dad chic plus well spoken. I'm impressed mister Van Halen.
That sounds like gender/social construction to me. I am actually 23 so it's a little too late for brainwashing now. Can I behave like a 23 year old when I turn 24? What about 30? When does is start to be unacceptable?
Why don't you explain it to me then? It's not that I don't get it, it's just that I opt not to conform and wear a suit in 90 degrees Farenheit. What's wrong with a simple t shirt and jeans? Somehow it makes me a rebel? Give me a break.
@@markrodgers2976 Yes he does, and right now, today, he plays better than everyone on the that list, he would completely blow each one of them off the stage, and I love all of the players listed.
@@0sumgamezzz435 Nope, sorry. Beck over-plays, constantly adding all sorts of goofy, self-indulgent fretboard gymnastics that doesn't serve the song. As for blowing the other guys off the stage, I actually saw Beck w/ SRV in Atlanta back in the 80's, and Beck didn't blow anyone off the stage, especially not SRV. There's a reason Clapton's and Page's careers went into hyperspace, when the average rock fan couldn't name a single Beck song, or even album title.
I love when people try to take away from Ed’s contributions to tapping. Do you know what they called “tapping” before EVH? It wasn’t called anything because nobody was doing it like he was. They literally didn’t have a name for it until EVH made it popular and everyone wanted to learn the technique. Nobody cared until he made it cool. Deal with it.
It was called a "hammer on" and "pull off" but it only hit one note higher than the root. Eddie basically said, "why not hammer on/pull off several notes higher and create a melody? You got more than one finger available." And thus, tapping.
Tapping has existed in some form or another for centuries. Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) utilized similar techniques on the violin, striking the string with a bouncing bow articulated by left-hand pizzicato. Paganini considered himself a better guitarist than violinist, and in fact wrote several compositions for guitar, most famously the "Grand Sonata for Violin and Guitar." His guitar compositions are rarely performed in modern times, though his violin compositions enjoy multiple performances. Some musicologists believe he wrote his 37 violin sonatas on guitar and then transcribed them for violin. Well known to frequent taverns, Paganini was likely exposed to gypsy guitar techniques from Romani, "gypsies." He preferred playing his guitar for tavern customers instead of audiences.
good lord we got a Google genius. You didn't watch the video obviously. he didn't invent tapping he profected it and actually made music tapping instead of random ass noises like *click click lip pop* of whoever the fuck you said.
I've watched so many different videos of him playing, and I'm always jealous of how he can just DO those things. No effort, no thinking ahead, just making the guitar do exactly what he wants, when he wants, because he's Eddie Van Halen.
I heard an interview with him the morning on my NPR station and he said one of the reasons why he worked so hard to develop his tapping technique was because he couldn't afford the specialized equipment other guitarists had to get the sound he wanted. Had to work with what he had, which wasn't much at all.
while i do agree that calling him a liying fucktard, is uncalled for. saying "top 5 best of all time" is just blatantly ignorant. there's no such thing as "top 5 best guitarists of all time" you may be able to argue that he's ONE of the top guitarists of all time, but best? and numbered? spare me. every player is different, while there are certainly ways to measure skill in the beginner to intermediate phase of playing, at all becomes absolutely subjective when you reach a certain point of mastery. i could mention 10 guitarists at the top of my head, who i consider to be far superior in technique on a multitude of levels. step down.
As someone who has a LITTLE bit of knowledge about playing (I play myself, nothing like this but I can work my way around the fretboard) it's always mesmerizing to see someone talking so technically and then immediately go into play mode. It's like the spirit of rock just possesses him to use as a vessel of face-melting potential, and the point that really drives it home is going from playing to speaking again because you can tell he needed a minute to recollect his thoughts. It's like his brain just emptied the minute he started playing and all he could think about was the guitar
Each person has a distinct sound when they play the guitar 🎸..if you just heard the guitar but couldn't see which artist was playing.., you would know it was Eddie Van Halen.
Tone comes from the fingers, so you would be correct. I can play many songs note for note, but due to my light touch, string gauge and my own style, I stopped trying to emulate others long ago. Most people associate my sound with Joe Satriani, but I never tried to emulate him either, and I aint that damn good! Good, but not Satriani, Vai or EVH good lol
I have been a VH fan for a long time (52 yrs young!) and EVH did not invent tapping. All of the techniques had already been around for years, he used them and improved on them to embellish and eventually create his signature sound. In the end, Eddie just used them in ways that most others had not, popularized them and took them to the next level. And then Steve Vai took them to outer space somewhere LOL
I love how was trying to say something and then he just got carried away, lost in the music, and it took him a second to remember where he was. That's a man who loves what he does right there, and when inspiration strikes sometimes you just gotta let it take you
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen. A badass name befitting of badass talent. It must be damn hard to be humble when you're that damn good. I grew up with these guys and I never once knew Eddie, nor Alex, to ever be cocky. Competitive, yes, but not cocky. As far as I know, E. V. H. always seemed to be fueled not by the millions he earned, but by the love of music and the passion to please his fans. Yes, he had his demons and flaws, but we all do too. Now, after hearing about the death of Tom Petty, I am VERY disheartened by the fact that one of these days, when NONE of us expect it, this world will be minus one more awe-inspiring musician. I would give nearly anything within my power to go back to the early 1980s to see Van Halen in their prime again just one more time... one more live concert. But now thinking on it, I know just how lucky I am to have lived it, to have experienced it AND to have this amazing ability to access modern technology like the internet which allows us to watch old footage of a bygone era, then smile and say, "I was there". I think it's wonderful that as long as we have technology like this and as long as there are new generations around to listen, our heroes will not be forgotten and will live on to inspire those who come long after we are gone. I remember mowing neighbors' yards all summer to save up and buy their 1984 album on cassette when it came out. I wore the tape out and had to buy another one. I'm in my 40s now and still have that second cassette. I pop it in once in a while and have a listen.
Kilroy was here I'm in my 40s now too and I second everything you said. Van Halen was THE band for me growing up. I saw them in concert more times than any other.
I was backstage on the 5150 tour in SLC Utah. My uncle ran a security company, and my only caveat was "stay out of the way". During the famous guitar solo I was sitting on the steps maybe 15' to his left. I'd seen him before, so his mastery of the instrument was no surprise. It was the look of joy on his face as he played that I'll never forget. He was the best to ever do it, a once in a lifetime musician and I 'm grateful to have had the opportunity to witness it for myself several times. He never gets credit for his songwriting skill. There are those who can make a decent attempt to copy him, but to cut it from whole cloth is another story. I sure miss him. For all his prowess he kept making the same glaring mistake. He'd put a Marlboro in his mouth and set it ablaze. Had he not done that he'd still be onstage with Wolfie and his brother. 😢(Give me that A chord again. It's far better than mine)
Robert Rogers there's another longer interview someplace in which his claims are a bit different. He even claims in it that they had to invent tablature to annotate what he was doing. 🤔 Unless he is about 300 years older than he looks I doubt that. The man is a guitar God and an innovator. I rank him right up there with the best. Perhaps he just doesn't communicate well. 😎👌
He says here that he invented it for himself basically, not that he was the first ever person to do it. I.e. he didn't learn it from someone else, that's all.
I love how in the first 25 seconds he explicitly says he didnt invent taping and never claimed to, yet you see people commenting "Ackulally, he didn't invent it, I'm so smart look at this wikipedia copy and paste hurr durr." We get it. This is UA-cam and this is clickbait
Finger tapping has been used in blue grass and country music for decades before Eddie was even born.... it was never used as a lead or main instrumental application until Eddie, but it preceded his actual existence by several decades... and he absolutely deserves every bit of credit for mastering all the methods and innovations surrounding the techniques he sprang on the world... He literally changed the face of rock guitar single handedly moreso than and since Hendrix.
@anthony hilkey Eddie didn't invent it, but, like many others, he came up with it on his own. Meaning, he, like many others I'm sure, had never seen anyone else tap so therefore had no reference for it. It came together in his mind while exploring the guitar.
@@waltermorrison200 There are video clips of blue grass bands back in the 30s and 40s playing music and there are musicians where if you watch in the background behind those at the front of the stage, there are players finger tapping all day long... I understand your wanting to somehow defend your idol till death, but there's nothing to defend... I went to a huge Bluegrass Festival out in N. Carolina in 1974, and there were 4 acoustic mini stages out there and then the main stage, and THAT was the first time I myself ever saw the finger tapping going on, and it was on ACOUSTIC instruments... There's no doubt in my mind Eddie saw it being done somewhere and he took it to unreachable levels for other players... Again, HE BY HIMSELF brought that method and spin off methods and tricks to the forefront of guitar playing... Did Eddie tell you that he came up with it on his own? I don't believe that for a second... He happened across it somewhere in his travels and took it and never looked back...Kudos for trying to defend him tho... He doesn't need it.
I guess you never heard of Micheal Hedges then. He was a wizard at the tapping technique and used an acoustic guitar on most of his recordings. The fact that many artists still claim him to be in the top 20 greatest guitarists in history more than 30 years since his death should tell you that Mr. Van Halen wasn't the one that perfected tapping.
Which is true. Even in the early days, Ed never claimed to invent it. He'd seen Page do it in the Heartbreaker solo in a very limited way and Billy Gibbons had done it in a very limited way. Lots of folks have done it before him, but no one in rock EVER did it like he did until the copycats followed.
We were lucky to witness the "Hendrix" of the Boomer/Gen X generation. Edward took Hendrix' influence and kicked the door wide open. Edward was just 10 years older than me. I have been a fan since 1978 when I was 12 and delivering newspapers after school while he at 21 was recording "Van Halen." I knew back then that his gifts were history in the making. Thank Edward for your passion, soul and fire. And the US, the Netherlands and Indonesia are all very proud of the Van Halen family. RIP Edward.
The title is misleading. Not only Eddie did not invent tapping, but in this video he even says that he never claimed it. On the Italian side we had Vittorio Camardese, playing two hand tapping on his guitar back in the 50s. There were several other jazz guitar players that experimented with tapping guitar way before Eddie did. I believe it is important to celebrate Eddie and how important he still is to music, but it is just as important not to forget the musicians who came before him.
R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen you did change my life and made changes on my mind when I was 13 years old and you brought me to new ideas with your great guitar sound love you from the bottom of my heart your music your guitar will alway be with me and you'll be always in my heart until I go from this life thank you. All my condolences to Eddie's family and fans from a fan from the 70s to today from the bottom of my Aztec heart love all rock fans like me God bless you all.🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🎸 🎸 🎸 🎸
That was so hilariously awesomely entertaining I can't stop laughing! Eddie, nonchalant as can be and simply trrying to demonstrate a few "simple" concepts blows everybody's mind in like 30 seconds. EVH - still The King!
Never mind his tapping (which was great of course) but I have more love of how he played riffs, the percussive accents, the dynamic variance and the power he got out of otherwise basic riffs was truly amazing. There are a LOT of shredding kids on the internet now and while technically they are incredible, it is the subtleties that make a player stand out from the pack and also their ability to make techniques there own. EVH did all this
RIP Eddie
:(
RIP
Yeah so sad. This guy is a Legend
Whoa is this actually you
Whaaat?
No matter how many times I see him do that I am still amazed by it.
Because like you it’s simple
Nice. (Quoting your same stupid comment on videos of players who you envy that are way better than you)
Because no one quite sounds like Eddie when they do it(tapping).
Watch ichika nito, I double dare you. He’s a master
Same
Eddie : So if I'm playing an A
*PROCEEDS TO MELT EVERYONE'S FACE OFF WITH HIS SHREDDING*
Eddie: *facemelting solo*
Eddie immediately after: "uhh-"
In A*
@@nathanmaxwell1195 he realized he shredded too much in order for people to understand it
He was playing IN A
I think he meant "playing in A" as in, in the key of A.
1:51
-"So if I'm playing an A"...
*proceeds by erradicating life on earth*
This had me rolling thank you
How many people think he really said "An a", it's *in A*, that's the note he's playing IN.
@@idaxius_ 👀 don't see what you're talking about... 😂
@@idaxius_ he said AN a and then proceeded to play AN a chord
He said if i’m playing IN A. He solo’s with the A chord as the Root.
Such a sad loss, Eddie is one of the last great guitar playing innovators. Influenced countless numbers of other players.
RIP Eddie Van Halen. Hope to see you in heaven one day.
I gotta say leokimvideo, I used to watch your videos when I was younger, and ever since then I see you in every comment section of random videos everywhere.
There is Brian May, don't you forget about that
In fact everyone who learned to play after 77/78 was influenced in some way by Eddie...There is not escaping that fact.
Thank god you never used the word “influencer”
I was just thinking that earlier today, there’s not many ubiquitously influential innovator guitar legends left.
Eddie: “I never claimed that I did invent tapping.”
Title: How Eddie Van Halen Invented Tapping
Illusion:100
I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT 🤣🤣
To be fair, Eddie didn't title the video.
But he;s not responsible for the title to the video.
Well he said he invented it for himself.
Eddie: "so if im playing an A"
*plays eruption*
Jacob Hernandez bwahhhhhhh !!!!
Aruption
He actually says if I’m playing IN a
The old man got rhythm
Stanley Jordan.. is way more advanced..He invented real tapping not this rock shredding crap..
Eddie Van Halen: "The finger is just an extension of the hand"
People: "OMG" 🥰🥰🥰
RIP Edward. You left an incredible heritage to all the guitar loving people in the world.
I know you were just making a joke but to clarify he was saying he was basically using the fingers on his right hand as if they were the fingers on his left hand.
Yea that means if you gottem use em like 🙄like would you mop one handed and half ass mop the floor or are ya gonna use both hands and clean the floor?
Well I guess I've been doing it wrong this whole time.
Eddie mopped the floors of arenas all over the world and did a thorough job of mopping!
How Eddie Van Halen popularized tapping.
There. I fixed it.
Glad to see not everyone is buying the bullsh!t. Read my comment.
John Helfer he literally said that he didn’t
He's referring to "How Eddie Van Halen Invented Tapping."
Obviously he adapted what he saw Page do. Page may or may not have seen/heard what those earlier jazz players did but it seems pretty clear from this that EVH’s expansion of the technique was autonomous.
Right! Just like Michael Jackson didn't invent the Moonwalk either.
Such a sad loss. Rest in Peace Van Halen. You were a legend.
He inspired me to play guitar
Legends never die. F
Are* not were.
Yes, losing this man was a loss but is EVH was gift to the world and his legacy will live in forever. RIP
He was, he is, and forever will be a legend
Why my A doesn't sound like that?
ctyuang 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
...My A's sound like bees.
He’s in Eb tuning
ctyuang because you're not EDDIE
Because YOU dont play an A with 9 fingers
i miss him so much man. he’s literally the reason i wanted to play guitar in the first place. he will always be the greatest in my book.
he was a major influence when I started playing guitar in my teens
"So if im playing an A"
**proceeds to play the whole alphabet**
Lol
I'm pretty sure he said "playing in A"
"In A" as in playing in the key of A.
What's with your profile picture
Who's in ur profile.pic
When I first heard "Eruption" it blew my mind at a time when I was being classically trained on guitar. I figured out what Eddie was doing and played the style on my little Yamaha acoustic guitar with nylon strings which is harder than using an electric guitar. Mrs. Shine was my teacher and 60 something years old at the time (circa 1981.) She was just starting to teach us Flamenco but Eddie's style also blew Mrs. Shine's mind. I brought into class a boombox the next day and played Eruption for her. I showed and explained how Eddie used his left index finger as a bar while tapping the strings with his right hand while moving up the neck with his left finger as a bar. She was so impressed with the performance by Eddie but more impressed that I figured it out on my own. After that, I got straight As in Mrs. Shines guitar class at Mayport Jr. High, Florida. Best to Eddie... love you. Gordon
Randy’s Rhoads I know very humble guitar player! There were musicians that said that when they complimented him on his guitar playing he blushed! He never had a bad thing to say about anyone! Even if deep down he might have thought that his style might have been better! Great man!
Cool story bro
Wow!!! This is a Great story!! thanks 😂
"So if I'm playing an A..." *plays all the letters*
Eddie: * Starts demonstrating *
Eddie: So then-
Crowd: WHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
"so if I'm playing an A" proceeds to shred effortlessly
TannerLewis the dream...
my A doesnt sound that good.
"Uhh..."
Great call dude...like it’s nothing, just an everyday, commonplace ability to shred like that.
the man is a genius musician, his precision is unbeaten
A reporter once asked him where he got his gift for music. Edward said it was no gift, I worked my ass off for years practicing in my room while all my friends were out having fun. This was my favorite line from EVH.
Glad he mentioned Jimmy Page, cuz even a guy like Eddie gets motivation from ppl before him. Eddie just combined various techniques... man he’s crazy cool
Didn’t you die at the prison of elders?
i think thats the masterpiece of newer artists. they take what theyve heard and combined them in a way that defines them. im not talking about pop music or just the newer rock that sounds all samey. im talking about the ones who grind out their own techniques and have a certain tone that makes them stand out from everyone else.
@Sebastian
Riddle me this, Batman. Who fucking asked?
@@spacedetective_ - Riddle me this, asshole............He's right.
@Sebastian Dumb remark. Jimmy was a trailblazer and Eddie knows that.
1:52 "So if I'm playing an A"
Proceeds to access the fourth dimension.
RIP Eddie.
There is 4th dimension it is time
@@gackspop9723 the 4th dimension is something you can't explain with words. But music can help describe your feelings there - john frusciante
LMAO!!!
He was the man
Several musical legends have passed away in the last few years, but Eddie was, to me, THE LEGEND of legends. I’m still having a hard time comprehending that this person, who was beyond important to rock music, is now gone. He was a true musical genius. Decades from now, younger people will hear his music somewhere, and you’ll be able to say, “I was there! I lived at the same time as Eddie Van Halen.” Some of you will even be able to say, “I met him! I got to see him perform, in person!” I know he was just a person. I don’t mean to deify him, but how cool is it to know that you spent decades living in the same time as him? It’s a wild thing to me. I don’t really know why. I never even met him. He just had such a huge impact on me, as a guitarist, myself. I genuinely am crushed that he’s gone. I’m very thankful for all of the music and knowledge he left us.
I saw him live and it was an amazing experience.
How you play an A: *plucks A string/plays A chord*
How EVH plays an A: 1:54
That was classic.
It was nice to hear EVH say that he didn't invent tapping.
Yes he has gentle yet masculine voice.
He didn't invent drinking either but he made a career out of that too!
It's cool to know that EVH, is modest about he's not the first one to do Tapping, he has Hendrix modesty.....
Matt White He is when he’s sober.
He has literally never said he invented it. But nobody ever heard it until they heard him, and certainly nobody ever did it like he does.
"So, if I'm playing an A..."
*causes another ice age by melting all the heads in the room*
"So if I'm playing an A..." *invents best solo since decades*
AHAHAHAHAHA WOW
He says if I’m playing IN a
@FloodyBoy Randal Oh really? Then how did he play it live back in the day dumbass? You sound like you are putting Eddie down for A being a Rock musician and you think pop music is better or two just an asshat.
FloodyBoy Randal
he played it live in 1970s
@FloodyBoy Randal Actually...that's not accurate. You can find Pasadena gig recordings of him playing various versions of Eruption in 1976. Live.
RIP Edward. You left an incredible heritage to all the guitar loving people in the world.
EVH: Starts playing 'A'
Me: *adds 30 more frets and 10 strings to my guitar, completes Machine learning and neural networking course, programmes a robot to learn from video and then wake up from dream
“So if I’m playing an A”
Proceeds to play every other note on the fret board.
I think he meant "playing in A" as in, in the key of A.
I forgot he got old , I still think 1984 was about 10 years ago. Rest in piece Eddie. A true master.
He died from a talent overdose. All these years caught up with him.
Fuckin Nice!!!
@Ran Man dude was old, he put out countless bangers and was just living life. . . Quit bein an asshole
Smoker
Not sure if that’s a compliment or an insult but okay?
Rusty Viper ; He died of drinking COLT 45 Malt Liquor Smoking Cancer Sticks but getting back to the Guitar actually At the Miami Pop Concert, Non other than Jimi Hendrix did Taping but Eddie took it to a Nother LEVEL.....
1:52 *Eddie Van Halen's "A Chord"*
Its an A man
HACKETT Create technic guitar tAPPING
@@tomoharuyara9908 an a barre chord but he didn't barre it
Lol
@@axlsangil2131 so you mean an a power chord with just the root and the fifth lol
Tears in my eyes. The undisputed king of rock guitar, gone from us just over a year now. Thankfully his pioneering music, solos, and ideals, will live on with us forever. RIP EVH
He originated a whole new style of guitar playing-melodic,dynamic,explosive and exceptional in every way and next to Hendrix is probably the most influential guitar hero in history.
People often say "guitar soloing can be divided into pre and post Hendrix"
It's just as true for Ed
he said he never invited tapping and it's true.
Vittorio did invented tapping in 65's by using acoustic guitar..
@@d.a.w.975 I agree with both statements
I certainly wouldn't claim that Hendrix was technically the best, rather that he was hugely influential (more so in terms of overall sound than his actual playing, 99% of people influenced by Jimi play nothing like he did)
Hendrix wasn't even doing all original and unique stuff, other people had messed with feedback and fuzzed out guitars, he was just the first person to bring all those elements together into a single package (and many would say that Robin Trower outright did it better)
With regard to Ed, he didn't just make Jimi sound like old news, he made everyone sound like old news
Actually Eddie is a way more influential musician and guitarist than Hendrix, with all due respect to Hendrix that still is an amazing guitar player. Eddie Van Halen is in the same floor of Mozart and Beethoven in terms of influence and musicianship, and I am not joking.
@@kikepistolas5878 I agree. One person that bugs me on UA-cam is Music is Win who practically worships Hendrix and says he's objectively the best guitar player.. like, how? Totally disregarding other legends like Steve Vai, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and of course Eddie. Plus so many more. So many were so influential in their own right and technically amazing, with I believing Eddie to be the most technically gifted.
Poor eddie he’s trying to talk but the people can’t handle his guitar voodoo and yell right after he’s trying to explain what he played, rip
Yeah, if he didn't want to be interrupted by applause then he should have been so great.
when is cheering yelling?
@@Excitable101 it's a joke
you’ve been the biggest inspiration to millions Eddie. Rest well.
How dare do people have the audacity to even think about disliking sucha video, this type of talent is simply unfathomable
Man said "so if I play an A" *does epic solo*
He said "so if I play *in* A", as in the key of A
I know that it’s a joke
The tapping thing is just a drop in the ocean really.For me,there isn't a single rock guitarist who have been a game changer like Eddie and influencing so many guitar player for the last 40 years. Eddie's the king,period. Hi from France :)
Eddie: taps one note with both hands
Crowd: OmFg HoW DoEs He Do ThAt!!!
Let's keep in mind not everyone in that room plays guitar 😂😂
To people who don't play guitar it's an amazing sound.
To people who play guitar, it’s an amazing sound.
Me
You
His humleness is absolutely beautiful. RIP Eddie! Youre a Legend!
Eddie Van Halen was a true rock legend,even at 60 he could still play just fast as ever, such hard loss for the man who influenced so many rock bands, and those to come,R.I.P. thanks for the music you left for us to remember you by😢💔🎸
The video should be titled "How Eddie Van Halen innovated tapping".
Yes, absolutely!. It's well documented that way before EVH other legendary guitarists were doing tapping. Steve Hackett from Genesis in 1971 was doing it on songs like 'The Musical Box' and 'The Return of the Giant Hogweed'.
Last time i checked Roy Smeck was doing this on a ukulele in the 1930s and 40s.
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Hackett was also tappin' that Bertinelli broad. lol
It is
He didn't invent tapping, he "PIONEERED" it.
He got tapping from Steve Hackett of genesis
@@MrMick50 Genesis Live 1972 The Return of Giant Hogweed Popshop
@TBALLZ_973 And one of his friends Terry Kilgore showed him a few things.
@@MrMick50 look up Roy Smeck
@@MrMick50 he got it from Jimmy Page, he straight up references Heartbreaker in the video
Steve was totally doing it before him though
As was Ace Frehley
Eddie was a guitar god in the flesh man. To think he was totally unprepared, was just fucking around demonstrating a technique and played like that off the top of his head, at age 60, 30-40 years past his prime, is incredible. I miss him to this day.
Can’t believe he’s gone 2020 has taken it too far RIP king
It was Marty McFly.
You know that knew sound you lookin for? Well LISTEN TO THIS!
Exactly
ua-cam.com/video/f_T1QjkEcH0/v-deo.html this what tapping guys cant play at all. But danger: its the biggest rock band in the world: AC/DC. Dont believe it?
The best stage performance ever. In history.
Wow what an original joke. Did you invent that joke like tapping?
My chord book never taught me to play an A like that!
your chord book isnt eddie van halen
Rock ain't got no rules ;)
Degarmo Tate
That should be the first commandment if rock
AMEN
It's a barre chord on the 5th fret my dude
Dont ever play by the book son play by the soul n heart
And he always gives a smile for all fans. Awesome!!!
EV:
“So I’m just kinda doing this no big deal..”
Me holding my guitar watching the video:
☹️🎸
Me: Who the f is this old guy talking about how Eddie Van Halen invented tapping?
Me seconds later: Oh.
Did u not recognise that legendary face?
@@mr.random987 I didn't recognize him either... And I listen to his riffs every now and then 😂😂
I had no idea who he was either and I’m a very casual fan.
m marco 😂😂😂
No women from the 80s would not recognize the face no matter how old
A toast to one of the greatest musicians of all time. An inventor of sound in uncharted waters. Part of my youth is gone now. His music will live forever.
Eddie has such a recognizable sound, everytime I hear a lick similar to this I think of Eddie.
He was truthful ..he didnt invent it.
RIP. Ed.
he just invented music with it. rip eddie.
Eddie certainly brought the tapping technique to the masses, but he did not invent it.
Players such as Steve Hackette, Frank Zappa and Jeff Back were doing it more than a decade before.
Thats literally what he daid in this interview lol, no need to preach the choir.
It was done before even those were doing it.
It was around in Europe in the 1950's.
Nah. Fernando Sor (1778-1839) wrote a piece around 1824, Fantasy 5 opus 16 (a theme with variations), where he instructs to play the 8th variaton with left hand only. In other words: tap it without the use of the right hand. And he probably wasn't the first either. Hammering/tapping is probably as old as the plucked string instruments themselves.
SANCTUARY correct billy gibbons of zztop also in the very early 70s before VH was around. Edward only made it better known! look up the clip of billy sheehan called i thank you.
and Roy Smeck before them, and maybe others before Smeck...
RIP Eddie Van Halen
💜🥺
Forever on our hearts and your music
“A little piece like Eruption”
You absolute legend
Our neighbor’s kid who has been playing for 2 years, can now play Eruption, so it Kinda knocked the shine off that EVH solo for me. The kid can’t play Roy Clark’s acoustic version of Malagueña, though. I think Roy was better than EVH.
He seem to possess 2 amazing talents. He was an phenomenal & innovative guitarist but also seemed amazingly down to earth.
The Van Halen boys will go into history as some of the most talented musicians to ever grace our ears.
Are you older than the Van Halen Boys?
Alex is the most overlooked Badass drummer!
When I was young I used to air drum to Alex drumming on the OU812 album.Great album...every song is great!!!
I just came here to see the same comment posted 80 thousand times.
Mark McQuillan it’s only, 79,000 Stop exaggerating
Mark McQuillan same here. I knew there’d be the same.
You got that right Mark! How many morons can't read OR listen to an interview?
Click bait title, he didn't invent it he just took it to another level. He is one of many links in the long chain line of great guitarist.
Eddie didn't invent tapping - guitarists have been tapping for years before Eddie even picked up a guitar. In an early interview Eddie actually said he saw Genesis guitarist Steve Hacket tapping and that's where he got it from.
+gøran Kvehaugen You're onto something. But I think Steve doesn't tap on the Selling England track...... However, listening to Eddie's own words. He was/is the Prog Rock guy, and the last record he bought was a Peter Gabriel album.. Putting the dots together, it's rather easy to guess how he was indeed listening to Genesis, and with that he MUST be aware of both songs, Cinema Show and Supper's Ready, where Steve tapped beautifully, and likely inspired Eddie in the process..... As for all other people's wild claims here, tapping was used a lot earlier already. I am not even sure if one can call it an invention per say. It's a technique that evolved over the many many decades, or say hundreds of years. Eddie deserves some credit in the technique's history too. He was the very first, who brought it onto the center stage of metal rock. Eruption was exactly what the song title says, it literally erupted and shook the landscape, back in the days of it's release.
embarrassing, how could I have overlooked that SE part. Ty for the pointer :)
+schlugg nursery Cryme is the album you are looking for, he used the tapping alot there, 2 years bofure SEBTP (sorry about my english)
***** its a great song, Gabriel sang there with all his soul
an AMAZING album ! the return of the giant hogweed is a great example of Hackett's tapping
Huge pts for being the only middle aged rocker who doesn't try to look like they're still 23yrs old. Cool Dad chic plus well spoken. I'm impressed mister Van Halen.
"Trying to look like they're 23 years old?" Music is meant to do the talking not looks, so they can look however they want to.
@@jolteon43Sure. That is what what we call dressing according to your age.
That sounds like gender/social construction to me. I am actually 23 so it's a little too late for brainwashing now. Can I behave like a 23 year old when I turn 24? What about 30? When does is start to be unacceptable?
+jolteon43, You're clearly too young to get it. You'll get it when you get to that age, believe me.
Why don't you explain it to me then? It's not that I don't get it, it's just that I opt not to conform and wear a suit in 90 degrees Farenheit. What's wrong with a simple t shirt and jeans? Somehow it makes me a rebel? Give me a break.
One of the top 5 rock guitarists who ever lived. IMO
Yes With Hendrix SRV Page and Clapton
Beck has to be there.
@@0sumgamezzz435 No, Beck definitely doesn't.
@@markrodgers2976 Yes he does, and right now, today, he plays better than everyone on the that list, he would completely blow each one of them off the stage, and I love all of the players listed.
@@0sumgamezzz435 Nope, sorry. Beck over-plays, constantly adding all sorts of goofy, self-indulgent fretboard gymnastics that doesn't serve the song. As for blowing the other guys off the stage, I actually saw Beck w/ SRV in Atlanta back in the 80's, and Beck didn't blow anyone off the stage, especially not SRV. There's a reason Clapton's and Page's careers went into hyperspace, when the average rock fan couldn't name a single Beck song, or even album title.
"I didn't invent tapping"
*How Eddie Van Halen Invented Tapping*
why is he so humble. i thought he was an arrogant sack of lard but he seems cool
THE TRUTH SYNDICATE you may be thinking of Yngwie Malmsteen. lol
THE TRUTH SYNDICATE he is an arrogant sack of lard when he's not on camera.
I think maybe you're thinking of David Lee Roth. Lol.
I figure since hes probably been asked this question many times... he most likely has a routine answer.. but who knows.
You are deceived.
stay tuned and see how Yngwie invented barre chords
How yngwie invented arpeggios on guitar lol
LOL
I love when people try to take away from Ed’s contributions to tapping. Do you know what they called “tapping” before EVH? It wasn’t called anything because nobody was doing it like he was. They literally didn’t have a name for it until EVH made it popular and everyone wanted to learn the technique. Nobody cared until he made it cool. Deal with it.
Exactly!
It was called a "hammer on" and "pull off" but it only hit one note higher than the root. Eddie basically said, "why not hammer on/pull off several notes higher and create a melody? You got more than one finger available." And thus, tapping.
Definitely one of a kind. I will listen to Van Halen for the rest of my life.
Me to my guitar: "Next time the A should sound like this"
Tapping has existed in some form or another for centuries. Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) utilized similar techniques on the violin, striking the string with a bouncing bow articulated by left-hand pizzicato. Paganini considered himself a better guitarist than violinist, and in fact wrote several compositions for guitar, most famously the "Grand Sonata for Violin and Guitar." His guitar compositions are rarely performed in modern times, though his violin compositions enjoy multiple performances. Some musicologists believe he wrote his 37 violin sonatas on guitar and then transcribed them for violin. Well known to frequent taverns, Paganini was likely exposed to gypsy guitar techniques from Romani, "gypsies." He preferred playing his guitar for tavern customers instead of audiences.
you are a nerd
good lord we got a Google genius. You didn't watch the video obviously. he didn't invent tapping he profected it and actually made music tapping instead of random ass noises like *click click lip pop* of whoever the fuck you said.
m.ua-cam.com/video/RcQYt7xvA8M/v-deo.html
Roy Smeck
I forget the movie but it's about him selling his soul to the devil. It's an amazing movie and does a great job illustrating everything you said.
@@esoteric6178 the devil's violinist
Wrestling invented tapping
I've watched so many different videos of him playing, and I'm always jealous of how he can just DO those things. No effort, no thinking ahead, just making the guitar do exactly what he wants, when he wants, because he's Eddie Van Halen.
I heard an interview with him the morning on my NPR station and he said one of the reasons why he worked so hard to develop his tapping technique was because he couldn't afford the specialized equipment other guitarists had to get the sound he wanted. Had to work with what he had, which wasn't much at all.
Turns out his father was a musician. So of course they couldn't afford it!
Title: How Eddie Van Halen invented Tapping
Eddie: I never claimed I invented tapping
Let's face it...Eddie's the fuckin' man!
D Targa Dude can jam for sure.
while i do agree that calling him a liying fucktard, is uncalled for. saying "top 5 best of all time" is just blatantly ignorant. there's no such thing as "top 5 best guitarists of all time" you may be able to argue that he's ONE of the top guitarists of all time, but best? and numbered? spare me. every player is different, while there are certainly ways to measure skill in the beginner to intermediate phase of playing, at all becomes absolutely subjective when you reach a certain point of mastery. i could mention 10 guitarists at the top of my head, who i consider to be far superior in technique on a multitude of levels. step down.
As someone who has a LITTLE bit of knowledge about playing (I play myself, nothing like this but I can work my way around the fretboard) it's always mesmerizing to see someone talking so technically and then immediately go into play mode. It's like the spirit of rock just possesses him to use as a vessel of face-melting potential, and the point that really drives it home is going from playing to speaking again because you can tell he needed a minute to recollect his thoughts. It's like his brain just emptied the minute he started playing and all he could think about was the guitar
The world lost an icon. Definitely put a dent in our music universe. RIP EVH
Each person has a distinct sound when they play the guitar 🎸..if you just heard the guitar but couldn't see which artist was playing.., you would know it was Eddie Van Halen.
Tone comes from the fingers, so you would be correct. I can play many songs note for note, but due to my light touch, string gauge and my own style, I stopped trying to emulate others long ago. Most people associate my sound with Joe Satriani, but I never tried to emulate him either, and I aint that damn good! Good, but not Satriani, Vai or EVH good lol
You're both geniuses. Wow, two in one thread...
@Dafyd Maddz Afterward, everyone just gave up doing guitar solos.
I have been a VH fan for a long time (52 yrs young!) and EVH did not invent tapping. All of the techniques had already been around for years, he used them and improved on them to embellish and eventually create his signature sound. In the end, Eddie just used them in ways that most others had not, popularized them and took them to the next level. And then Steve Vai took them to outer space somewhere LOL
I love how was trying to say something and then he just got carried away, lost in the music, and it took him a second to remember where he was. That's a man who loves what he does right there, and when inspiration strikes sometimes you just gotta let it take you
2:15 “uh.”
Spat my drink out when he did that lol
Eddie : "I just moved the nut."
Random fingerstyle guitarists : "Isn't that called capo?"
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen. A badass name befitting of badass talent. It must be damn hard to be humble when you're that damn good. I grew up with these guys and I never once knew Eddie, nor Alex, to ever be cocky. Competitive, yes, but not cocky. As far as I know, E. V. H. always seemed to be fueled not by the millions he earned, but by the love of music and the passion to please his fans. Yes, he had his demons and flaws, but we all do too. Now, after hearing about the death of Tom Petty, I am VERY disheartened by the fact that one of these days, when NONE of us expect it, this world will be minus one more awe-inspiring musician. I would give nearly anything within my power to go back to the early 1980s to see Van Halen in their prime again just one more time... one more live concert. But now thinking on it, I know just how lucky I am to have lived it, to have experienced it AND to have this amazing ability to access modern technology like the internet which allows us to watch old footage of a bygone era, then smile and say, "I was there". I think it's wonderful that as long as we have technology like this and as long as there are new generations around to listen, our heroes will not be forgotten and will live on to inspire those who come long after we are gone. I remember mowing neighbors' yards all summer to save up and buy their 1984 album on cassette when it came out. I wore the tape out and had to buy another one. I'm in my 40s now and still have that second cassette. I pop it in once in a while and have a listen.
Kilroy was here I'm in my 40s now too and I second everything you said. Van Halen was THE band for me growing up. I saw them in concert more times than any other.
Amen to that.
I was backstage on the 5150 tour in SLC Utah. My uncle ran a security company, and my only caveat was "stay out of the way". During the famous guitar solo I was sitting on the steps maybe 15' to his left. I'd seen him before, so his mastery of the instrument was no surprise. It was the look of joy on his face as he played that I'll never forget. He was the best to ever do it, a once in a lifetime musician and I 'm grateful to have had the opportunity to witness it for myself several times. He never gets credit for his songwriting skill. There are those who can make a decent attempt to copy him, but to cut it from whole cloth is another story. I sure miss him.
For all his prowess he kept making the same glaring mistake. He'd put a Marlboro in his mouth and set it ablaze. Had he not done that he'd still be onstage with Wolfie and his brother. 😢(Give me that A chord again. It's far better than mine)
Why all the thumbs down? The video seems to be mistitled. Van Halen never claims to have invented tapping and at the outset he says as much.
Robert Rogers there's another longer interview someplace in which his claims are a bit different. He even claims in it that they had to invent tablature to annotate what he was doing. 🤔 Unless he is about 300 years older than he looks I doubt that. The man is a guitar God and an innovator. I rank him right up there with the best. Perhaps he just doesn't communicate well. 😎👌
He says here that he invented it for himself basically, not that he was the first ever person to do it. I.e. he didn't learn it from someone else, that's all.
You answered your own question.
I love how in the first 25 seconds he explicitly says he didnt invent taping and never claimed to, yet you see people commenting "Ackulally, he didn't invent it, I'm so smart look at this wikipedia copy and paste hurr durr." We get it. This is UA-cam and this is clickbait
Blame the fool who uploaded the video and named it "How Eddie Van Halen Invented Tapping".
Did you see the title of the video? Sounds like you're doing exactly what you accuse others of doing.
Most people don't actually watch anything just find titles they can make negative comments about. I think this was actually an intelligence test.
R.I.P Eddie, you inspired generations of guitarists and will continue to 🎸
Finger tapping has been used in blue grass and country music for decades before Eddie was even born.... it was never used as a lead or main instrumental application until Eddie, but it preceded his actual existence by several decades... and he absolutely deserves every bit of credit for mastering all the methods and innovations surrounding the techniques he sprang on the world... He literally changed the face of rock guitar single handedly moreso than and since Hendrix.
@anthony hilkey
Eddie didn't invent it, but, like many others, he came up with it on his own. Meaning, he, like many others I'm sure, had never seen anyone else tap so therefore had no reference for it. It came together in his mind while exploring the guitar.
@@waltermorrison200 There are video clips of blue grass bands back in the 30s and 40s playing music and there are musicians where if you watch in the background behind those at the front of the stage, there are players finger tapping all day long... I understand your wanting to somehow defend your idol till death, but there's nothing to defend... I went to a huge Bluegrass Festival out in N. Carolina in 1974, and there were 4 acoustic mini stages out there and then the main stage, and THAT was the first time I myself ever saw the finger tapping going on, and it was on ACOUSTIC instruments... There's no doubt in my mind Eddie saw it being done somewhere and he took it to unreachable levels for other players... Again, HE BY HIMSELF brought that method and spin off methods and tricks to the forefront of guitar playing... Did Eddie tell you that he came up with it on his own? I don't believe that for a second... He happened across it somewhere in his travels and took it and never looked back...Kudos for trying to defend him tho... He doesn't need it.
He didn't "invent" fret tapping, but he PERFECTED it!!
I guess you never heard of Micheal Hedges then. He was a wizard at the tapping technique and used an acoustic guitar on most of his recordings. The fact that many artists still claim him to be in the top 20 greatest guitarists in history more than 30 years since his death should tell you that Mr. Van Halen wasn't the one that perfected tapping.
@Ray Marshall Steve Hackett!
@@gregdcross They forget about Stanley Jordan, also.
Ed claims here he didn't invite that
Well Thomas... that's the dumbest thing I've read all day... HE DID NOT INVENT IT NOR DID THE GUY WHO HE SAW DO IT THAT INSPIRED HIM TO TAP...
Which is true. Even in the early days, Ed never claimed to invent it. He'd seen Page do it in the Heartbreaker solo in a very limited way and Billy Gibbons had done it in a very limited way. Lots of folks have done it before him, but no one in rock EVER did it like he did until the copycats followed.
crakula666 I saw Rory Gallagher doing it in the 60s.
He didn't invite it, and he certainly didn't invent it, either.
Frank Zappa did it in 1972 Roxy and Elsewhere live album.The song Trouble Everyday He used his pick though, on the high notes.
We were lucky to witness the "Hendrix" of the Boomer/Gen X generation. Edward took Hendrix' influence and kicked the door wide open.
Edward was just 10 years older than me.
I have been a fan since 1978 when I was 12 and delivering newspapers after school while he at 21 was recording "Van Halen." I knew back then that his gifts were history in the making.
Thank Edward for your passion, soul and fire.
And the US, the Netherlands and Indonesia are all very proud of the Van Halen family.
RIP Edward.
Same...I'm just ten years younger than Mr. Van Halen
The title is misleading. Not only Eddie did not invent tapping, but in this video he even says that he never claimed it. On the Italian side we had Vittorio Camardese, playing two hand tapping on his guitar back in the 50s. There were several other jazz guitar players that experimented with tapping guitar way before Eddie did. I believe it is important to celebrate Eddie and how important he still is to music, but it is just as important not to forget the musicians who came before him.
Love EVH but watched Steve Hackett effortlessly tap on the solo of “Supper’s ready”in ‘72
Also in The Musical Box, 1971
Fr bro
About 8 minutes in to the 23 minute song incase anyone was wondering.
Dancing with a moonlight knight too
FACTS
How in Gods name could anyone not like this? Certainly they’re not guitar players. He was such an innovator in the guitar world. God bless him. 🙏❤️
R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen you did change my life and made changes on my mind when I was 13 years old and you brought me to new ideas with your great guitar sound love you from the bottom of my heart your music your guitar will alway be with me and you'll be always in my heart until I go from this life thank you.
All my condolences to Eddie's family and fans from a fan from the 70s to today from the bottom of my Aztec heart love all rock fans like me God bless you all.🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🎸 🎸 🎸 🎸
No matter how many times I hear eruption it still gives me chills, thank you Eddie.
That was so hilariously awesomely entertaining I can't stop laughing! Eddie, nonchalant as can be and simply trrying to demonstrate a few "simple" concepts blows everybody's mind in like 30 seconds. EVH - still The King!
Eddie will always be number one on my list of guitar greats.. I still get the chills....🤘🎸
Rest In Peace Sir Edward, you most certainly brought a tremendous amount of your amazing musical gift to 'The Game'. 🖤
Never mind his tapping (which was great of course) but I have more love of how he played riffs, the percussive accents, the dynamic variance and the power he got out of otherwise basic riffs was truly amazing. There are a LOT of shredding kids on the internet now and while technically they are incredible, it is the subtleties that make a player stand out from the pack and also their ability to make techniques there own. EVH did all this