I think Green-Tinted Sixties Mind by Mr. Big could be on that list too. Like Eruption or Thunderstruck it's one of those cool-sounding licks, that actually require just some feel for the rhythm and the groove. If you manage to get your fingers synchronized, it is really not that hard but sounds and looks awesome!
I wouldn't call it exactly easy just because of all the bending. Knowing what to play is not that hard, it's just the bending. And you can't play the solo convincingly it you don't keep up that endurance level of bending ALL the time. At least that's how it is for me.
Eruption is actually difficult. The only part that is easy is the tapping section. Everything else takes practice. I finally nailed the full eruption solo today and I’ve never felt more accomplished.
First thing on guitar I learned was the tapping part I skipped smoke on the water only reason because people kept telling me no that I couldn’t do it but here we ate I agree the tapping is easy just takes time to learn that speed and keep up with it but the whole solo noooo way not a peace of cake at all
lmao im just restarting playing guitar. all i can play is happy b day, smoke on the water n the riff for iron man by black sabbath lmfao. also i'm starting on a 12 string so this gonna be hard as fuck
The Freebird solo isn't just one guitar. There's three going at it. That's what makes it spectacular. For people who are just learning, the last thing they wanna hear is " this is easy or it isn't hard " just show them how it's done and with practice it gets easier. But you are very good. Thanks for sharing.
I played Freebird in several bands throughout my time in local classic rock bands. By the time I was in my mid 20s (playing for 10 years) I learned all the licks, but developing the strength and stamina to play the entire solo by myself took several more years. By the time I was 35, I had several people approach me saying I played it better than anyone they’ve ever seen. I guess that means it took me 20 years to play it all the way through during a 3-1/2 hour set of 35+ songs. When I played in a band with a second guitar player, they always wanted to play some parts of it…until they heard me doing it right. Then they backed down and let me do it…so it must not be “easy”….lol
@@expertarcher8542 Allen Collins starts and holds the solo in one piece. Steve Gains was the second guitarist and he starts playing later (if you listen, for example, to Live at the Fox Theater - Version 1976, you'll notice it at 7:48. OBS: not talking about this period in this video. Hope u understand). The third and final guitar for the solo is by Gary Rossington and basically he's doing the rhythm. It is worth remembering that in the studio version, Allen plays one guitar on top of the other.
@@expertarcher8542indeed three guitarist, Allen Collins - starts and holds the solo Steve Gaines - joins playing the solo later with Allen Ed King- former guitarist in the band before Steve joined in, Gary Rossington- lead slide guitar/rhythm when the guitar solo started
Freebird is like a rap freestyle. It’s not impressive because it takes the time to learn it, it’s impressive because someone clearly thought it up in the moment while jamming and it sounds great.
No but, he is a very good Guitar or the best player ever and he is teaching everybody. I am playing E-Guitar because he is the best teacher and he did it for us for his Community.
Need 3 guitars a bassist drummer and piano then some weed beer and glue A 1958 Gibson Explorer which is at least $1 million so yeah your gonna need a lot
Why are you even here gen Y? Did the big red wiggles car break down or something? Harry Potter not working out for you? You paid for nothing and got no friends!
Timestamped riffs: 1:59 part of the solo from Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd (he goes on about that one for a while) 4:07 Eruption - Van Halen 5:53 Thunderstruck - AC/DC 7:47 not a riff, just a whammy bar dive (like the end of Cemetery Gates by Pantera, or any power metal solo)
powergamer6 I guess it depends if you just want the list of what he considers not as hard as it sounds, or the explanation; which is the whole point of the video. If you just want the list, why bother timestamping it?
That’s the most famous part, and also the part that people that are non guitarist or even guitarist will probably expect to hear when they ask for eruption….
I feel like Crazy Train is definitely one of the first tapping licks everyone learns but it scares everyone off because of the last shred at the end of the solo
One of my older bands learned free bird before a big show and inevitably someone shouted “play free bird” and we did. People were pretty mind blown and it really isn’t that hard of a song. Just very long. Also, another pretty easy double tapping lick is the beginning of the crazy train solo. That was my first tapping lick.
Just a quick note on the Eruption tapping pattern; Eddie isn't tapping a simple triplet pattern on each triad (as 95% of guitarist do, including myself for years). What he does is tap and then pull off on the 'highest' note on each shape [w/ right index finger] while his left index finger holds the 'lowest' note, THEN hammers and pulls off on the 'middle' note on each shape [w/ left ring or pinky finger]. This actually gives a 4 note repeating pattern [high-low-middle-low] instead of a triplet [high-middle-low]. With the combination of the delay and the speed he's changing shapes on the record it can trick the ear into sounding like a 'triplet' tap without delay. It's actually a little weird to play at first, but you can definitely hear a difference. Props to anyone trying their hand at Eruption! ;o)
@@programmer1840 I've seen some people on UA-cam play it like that, but they never talk about it. They just play it like they assume that everyone taps it like that. I first notice it the VH I transcription book (Hal Leonard or Cherry Lane; can't recall the publisher).
Followed by that great version of You Really Got Me! What a perfect introduction to a band, great guitar solo, then a killer version of a song you already know. It's just a shame they went pop after that.
As someone who started guitar three days ago and doesn’t even know how to read notes, trust me I struggled on it for those first three days but can do it quite well now
I fly kites man! I’m topgun. I’m gonna be in the new movie someday! You watch me! I’m gonna come back and buy this town! My key will be on the type writer soon.
A riff that never fails to impress a crowd is *smoke on the water* . Trust me, although it looks quite intimidating to most guitar players, it's actually very simple when you get the hang of it, and it's even more impressive to play in front of a crowd!
@@sneal1313 dude that comeback is so weak I had to reply to this dumb section of comments. Besides how do you know this guy can't shred. What if he plays a different stile of music like classical or does not even play guitar and instead plays some weird shit.
This is so absolutely important for young musicians. When I was teaching myself electric guitar as a teen (pre UA-cam) all I saw was tabs that seemed like completely random fingers and strings. I never understood how patterns are linked together to actually learn these rather than just hard memorization note by note. This are downright impossible if you're just staring at the tablature and see numbers everywhere.
I'm convinced its impossible. My great grandfather was a guitar god. He had mastered such legendary songs as "Smells like teen spirit" but when he attenpted smoke ons the water. He had a heart attack.
I actually got asked to play freebird just the other day by a plonker. I started playing Blackbird and he said "no man, thats not it" so I started playing High flying bird."No. man, that's not it". So I then said "sorry man, guess I don't know that one". I need to learn more songs with the word bird in the title.
“Ever wonder why so many people pick up the guitar to learn how to play but don’t?” Uhhh because it’s not an instantly gratifying video game? It’s dedication people, learn it. I’m so sick of these damn ads.
Ugh, I hate all those fucking predatory ads, or rather "teaching corporations". And I promise you the people that fall victim to them, will still never learn a thing, just like I predicted all the comments to this video would be the typical -You say it's easy, but I'll stick to learning green day or some stupid shit like that.
I love it! Watched three of your videos in a row on a night when coworkers saw me carry my guitar into the restaurant. Of course I was assaulted with the usual... can you play this? Will you play me that? I ain't a jukebox people! I love that you debunk the stuff everybody... even us guitarists think is hard. I love also that you point out the easy sounding stuff that really is. If I play my original stuff for a non musician they are so not impressed. I don't know many who can follow it. Even just hanging out in the box. There are so many nuances that make a piece ones own that simple is anything but. I love watching you explore that! Keep it up!
@@steelwarrior105 Yeah I know :D you can hear each note being picked in the recording. What I'm saying is, sure it's okay when people use legato to play it, but it will sound weak to my ears. (unless their hammer ons and pull offs sound as good as their picking, in which case, holy heck they must have strong fingers)
4:40 one of my martial arts students, a 7 year old girl, had a cut on her middle finger. I was giving her a bandaid and I told her to give me her finger. She held all of her fingers out, so I couldn't get the bandaid around the finger that was cut. So I told her to curl her other fingers back. She curled her middle finger back with it and made a fist, and was giving me this look of dread. So I told her "ok, it doesn't mean anything right now, just stick your middle finger up so I can put the bandaid on it."
The Eruption tapping isnt very difficult, but its a serious feat to be able to play the rest of it accurately. Myself included, most people look at the tab and try one of the picking licks, then try some fast 2 note or 3 note pattern and tell themselves "I mean, that basically sounds right" and it really doesnt.
best comment here....to play it all like evh is rare I have only heard it done once or twice Theres a reason hes top 10 rock guitarists all time on every list
Agree! I saw the thumbnail and thought he was going to try saying the WHOLE of eruption is easy! Just figuring out the notes is a nightmare, let alone the phrasing 😂
Swampy Bogard - agreed, I want to see him play the entire solo because its so easy for him. Its very hard to nail that solo. This guy is really arrogant.
He didn't do the tapping correctly either, he skipped the Emaj triad. the 5-9-12 tap to the 5-8-13 tap part on the ascension. If you follow the chords of the arpeggiated tapping you can tell he doesn't have eruption learned correct. its either learned by ear. or just plain wrong. idk how this video can be taken serious
Im so glad to stumble across your channel! I just picked up my first guitar coming from the realm of production and engineering. Theres definitely a lot of stigma in the guitar community, but just wanted to say thanks for making quality hilarious videos!
eruption is actually about highly advanced technique and strength and a very unique approach to playing. you don't just play eruption you have to take time out of your life to study the techniques he used to get the sounds he got in that piece of music. it's not just guitar playing it's next level technique muting hammerons and pull-offs special techniques that have their own special sounds.
When I was younger and first played Guitar Hero, I ran into Freebird having never played it before. By the 5 minute mark I was all like "WHAT THE HELL?! LET ME OFF THIS CRAZY THING!" It's not hard, but it DOES. NOT. END.
Great video! However, Angus picks live during Thunderstruck, or at least he did when I saw them. You can hear him picking on the live albums during the intro. The only time I think he didn't was for the music video.
“ If it was so easy , then why didn’t you do it?” I love that quote when it comes to song writing cause writing good songs is hard , even if they are easy to play!
Cool Idea! There are lots of them, for example, everyone plays wrong the intro guitar chords of Runnin With The Devil by Van Halen. It's not that hard, just an example of misconceived guitar playing^^
Freebird Solo is a few ancient blues licks put together he just broke it down to its simplest form for noobs and (cough) drummers lol. You do realize he does shit like this on purpose to troll the trolls. It took me to see him on other channels to realize that A. He has a dry sense of humor and a closet wise ass and B. He is way too thorough and detail oriented to let things fall through the cracks. Now I have to watch every vid and comments as people lose their shit lol. I could be wrong but like my ex used to say "your such a know it all" So it must be true. Lol.
My point is, to claim that something isnt hard to do and then not be able to show that it isnt hard to do, by doing it yourself, makes for a failure video.
These are a great safeswitch when you're playing for non-guitar player friends. If they're getting bored and not giving you any attention, time to surprise everyone with the intro of Eruption, followed by Thunderstruck! When everyone's in the ecstasy of an eargasm, finish it off with the harmonic dive bomb trick, instant respect! Then you can even play Mary Had a Little Lamb they won't ever dare to look away.
On the freebird solo licks, the first bend gives me trouble. First I was leaving the finger on the bended fret and it sounded wrong because the note was still ringing. Then I watched again and saw you take the finger off straight after the bend to kill the note. With me, pulling my finger off the bended string makes it ring out open. I guess it's technique and practice. I got the notes down and im already happy with what I have learnt, but I am slowing it down to get used to the positions and the bend, and quietening the string after the bend. Then with time I will speed up. I noticed the second freebird lick you sweep down the 3 strings. This is coordination I need to get used to, matching the fret hand with the sweep speed. Awesome stuff though. I've learned a few things in this video Thanks
I love the shot at 7:16 when you throw the "Music is Win" sign during "Thunderstruck". Your logo on the monitor behind you helps reinforce the scene. Keep the videos coming.
Phew. Good thing non-guitar-playing folks don't watch your videos. You MUST NOT give it away like this! What if the girls (or guys, or whatever your preference) you want to impress, actually saw this and now knew it is NOT ALL THAT DIFFICULT? Seriously - as (mostly) always, I enjoyed watching your video, keep up the good work and motivate the folks who picked up a guitar and may be doubting, if this is for them... "Speed ain't witchcraft - just practice"
Great video! When you started the into piece to Freebird, I was liking that too, lol wish you’d shown more of that. But yep thanks for showing those licks!!
Eddie Van Halen's first serious instrument was piano (he even won some regional teenage piano contest), which is perhaps why two-handed tapping came naturally to him. Nobody told him you're not supposed to be doing that... ;) One of the first recorded examples of tapping in rock, BTW, is Steve Hackett in Genesis's "The Return Of The Giant Hogweed".
It kills me when people say that"s not how its played! There are 12 notes is a chromatic scale and only 5 in a pentatontic. So there are multiple places on the guitar to get the same tone (Note) that maybe more comfortable for you the player to achieve the same sound. That doesn't make it wrong.
When I saw the title I immediatly knew the eruption tab part would be included, I play it all the time if people ask to play something really cool and most of the time it leaves them Godsmacked. xD
A friend of ours used to yell Play free bird at gigs as a joke. So we did it. Then he tried to find another song to yell out. He chose Sugar Sugar by the Archies, thinking we would never do that. After a break, during which someone had put some hip hop on the jukebox, my drummer and bass player started playing along with the jukebox. I joined in and started singing the lyrics to Sugar Sugar on top of it. I wish I had it on video. It was glorious.
Glad I'm not the only one who was bothered by that. I literally wanted to reach through the screen and slap him. Talking smack and then playing it wrong what the fuck?
So when angus raises his pick hand high with thundur hamer on thundur i was there at the ball breacker tour in the Memphis pyramid it was totally awesome and most of all the greatist concert ive ever been to
What are some more licks people think sound hard but actually aren't?
One, metallica
Ain't talkin bout love
How about the solo on Extreme's 'Get The Funk Out?'
I think Green-Tinted Sixties Mind by Mr. Big could be on that list too. Like Eruption or Thunderstruck it's one of those cool-sounding licks, that actually require just some feel for the rhythm and the groove. If you manage to get your fingers synchronized, it is really not that hard but sounds and looks awesome!
Byob
I think what makes the free bird solo hard is that it's like 57 hours long
And half of it is insane bends
Yep. It's definitely an endurance solo.
Truth... My fingers were not ready to learn Freebird when I gave it a go. Took a lot of endurance exercise.
I wouldn't call it exactly easy just because of all the bending. Knowing what to play is not that hard, it's just the bending. And you can't play the solo convincingly it you don't keep up that endurance level of bending ALL the time. At least that's how it is for me.
Yeah, it's got very repetitive patterns and licks so it's relatively simple but it goes on for quite a while so it gets tiresome.
Eruption is actually difficult. The only part that is easy is the tapping section. Everything else takes practice. I finally nailed the full eruption solo today and I’ve never felt more accomplished.
The licks, not the solo.
and yet the tapping part is the only part that impresses non-players
The tapping part is still kinda tough though but still definitely the easiest part of the song
First thing on guitar I learned was the tapping part I skipped smoke on the water only reason because people kept telling me no that I couldn’t do it but here we ate I agree the tapping is easy just takes time to learn that speed and keep up with it but the whole solo noooo way not a peace of cake at all
@Coon Pooch k
yeah... easy... *cries in smoke on the water*
John Reiff sameeeee brooo
John Reiff Can I play these drop D barre chords?
sweet child of mine
lmao im just restarting playing guitar. all i can play is happy b day, smoke on the water n the riff for iron man by black sabbath lmfao. also i'm starting on a 12 string so this gonna be hard as fuck
😂😂😂
The Freebird solo isn't just one guitar. There's three going at it. That's what makes it spectacular. For people who are just learning, the last thing they wanna hear is " this is easy or it isn't hard " just show them how it's done and with practice it gets easier. But you are very good. Thanks for sharing.
I played Freebird in several bands throughout my time in local classic rock bands. By the time I was in my mid 20s (playing for 10 years) I learned all the licks, but developing the strength and stamina to play the entire solo by myself took several more years. By the time I was 35, I had several people approach me saying I played it better than anyone they’ve ever seen. I guess that means it took me 20 years to play it all the way through during a 3-1/2 hour set of 35+ songs. When I played in a band with a second guitar player, they always wanted to play some parts of it…until they heard me doing it right. Then they backed down and let me do it…so it must not be “easy”….lol
I thought the free bird solo was 2 guitars and they played the same exact thing.
@@expertarcher8542 Allen Collins starts and holds the solo in one piece. Steve Gains was the second guitarist and he starts playing later (if you listen, for example, to Live at the Fox Theater - Version 1976, you'll notice it at 7:48. OBS: not talking about this period in this video. Hope u understand). The third and final guitar for the solo is by Gary Rossington and basically he's doing the rhythm. It is worth remembering that in the studio version, Allen plays one guitar on top of the other.
@@marcoseduardodasilvabergam545 thank you for clarifying. I don’t know where I heard that it was only 2 guitars
@@expertarcher8542indeed three guitarist,
Allen Collins - starts and holds the solo
Steve Gaines - joins playing the solo later with Allen
Ed King- former guitarist in the band before Steve joined in,
Gary Rossington- lead slide guitar/rhythm when the guitar solo started
"Its easy if you know natural harmonics"
Me, the very next second on youtoube: "how to do natural harmonics"
Same
Lightly lay finger across strings on 5th, 7th, or 12th frets without pressing, then strum
You spelled UA-cam wrong
@@deanhanks4195 3.9th fret also
@@joestevenson5568 and 4th!
Freebird is like a rap freestyle. It’s not impressive because it takes the time to learn it, it’s impressive because someone clearly thought it up in the moment while jamming and it sounds great.
rap freestyles are as impressive as speeches or debates
@@tonyisnotdeadrap freestyles are pretty impressive, it requires good imagination and speech to make a good and catchy one
I can’t listen to that thunderstruck lick without my mind pretending to hear drunk sounding Aussies going “Uh-ah, uh-ah ah ah ah uh!!”
Not Aussie but I'll sing it with you. "Uh-ah, u-ah ah ah ah uh!." "THUNDER STRUCK! YEAH YEAH YEAH!"
Jonathan Stamper sane
same for me, even when im playing it lol
Same lol
SAME
Pretty sure he’s just flexing
You would say that
@@waynesmith8608 but is he wrong?
Yes
But can he play stairway to heaven? 😂😂
No but, he is a very good Guitar or the best player ever and he is teaching everybody. I am playing E-Guitar because he is the best teacher and he did it for us for his Community.
When someone asks for Freebird, I say "Sure!" and then play "Sweet Home Alabama". A lot of times they don't notice the difference.
I saw "E" (Mark of the Eels) do that very thing opening for Tori Amos.
Lol
Lol true, i play “simple man” though for a better mind fuck effect
RandomGuitarNote I think simple man solo is better
R.J. Ronquillo Guitar 😂😂 the funny part is it’s not fucking sweet home Alabama 😂 it’s simple man. All you people are dumb
0:40 Freebird
4:05 Eruption
5:50 Thunderstruck
7:45 Whammy bar stuff
4:22 One (metallica)
He looks like he’s wearing a crown. If you see it, you can’t unsee it. Haha.
I hate you
What he said
This comment has 69 likes, nice
I think he deserves one lol
Mr Crown wearing man to, idk somebody...
Some drunk: "Play FREE BIRD!!!"
Solo guitarist on stage: "Um, ok. I need a couple more guitarist up here with me..."
Need 3 guitars a bassist drummer and piano then some weed beer and glue
A 1958 Gibson Explorer which is at least $1 million so yeah your gonna need a lot
“Everybody just stay here we might be a while”
*No, The wibbily ibbly dibbly part!*
Why are you even here gen Y?
Did the big red wiggles car break down or something?
Harry Potter not working out for you?
You paid for nothing and got no friends!
@@dreyn7780 ?????
Hey, something real has just happened! The yellow wiggle fell down while on stage! Let’s go!
@@dreyn7780 Its called Money for Nothing for a reason, stupid boomer
@@dreyn7780 ????????
Do an opposite video. "Licks that sound easy but are ridiculously hard" lol
overdub?
@Yuporn Fukadong isn't that just second guitar playing?
Smoke on the water
Yours is no disgrace
Mr Brightside. It’s way harder than you’d think
Timestamped riffs:
1:59 part of the solo from Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd (he goes on about that one for a while)
4:07 Eruption - Van Halen
5:53 Thunderstruck - AC/DC
7:47 not a riff, just a whammy bar dive (like the end of Cemetery Gates by Pantera, or any power metal solo)
Yey it's you again. Thank you for also timestamping the other video.
Thank you for saving me 10 minutes. Time is a precious commodity
your a legend
powergamer6
I guess it depends if you just want the list of what he considers not as hard as it sounds, or the explanation; which is the whole point of the video.
If you just want the list, why bother timestamping it?
You are the real music is win!!
Eruption isn’t hard.
Plays the single most easy part of the entire song.
That’s the whole point
I know the beginning of eruption. Aka the A power chord at the beggining of the song
That’s the most famous part, and also the part that people that are non guitarist or even guitarist will probably expect to hear when they ask for eruption….
Yeah, but it's also probably the most well known part of the song
This series is legendary licks, not solos.
4:15 "This is the first tapping lick that really any guitar player learns..."
NUH UH MINE WAS ON--
4:22
...Oh.
crazy train :D
What do you mean crazy train ?
@@aerot.m8976 it was my first tapping solo
Nice
mine was eruption
Legendary Lil Wayne Riffs You Think Are Easy (but aren't)
Sad but true. He plays so wrong, itˋs tremendously hard to get his playing right
Unironically difficult to be that trash
Killjoy he taught eddie van halen Steve vai randy rhoades and dimebag darrell how to play guitar
Killjoy the classic lil Wayne comment
This is the first time in quite a while I heard anyone mention Lil Wayne. I don’t think he’s relevant anymore lol
"Freebird solo is not hard" proceeds to attempt to play it and sounds nothing like the song.
That's where he lost me too.
Lmfao. Was thinking the same thing.
its simple man
@@FirstLast-vv6lv mama told me, when i was young
I thought it was just me... There's no Freebird at all
“This is the first lick that really any guitarist learns” *cries in Crazy Train*
Crazy train is pretty Hard for me ngl
My first riff that I actually learned was "In the Belly of a Shark" because drop D is my favorite tuning
I feel like Crazy Train is definitely one of the first tapping licks everyone learns but it scares everyone off because of the last shred at the end of the solo
@@onnikokkonen1901 pero más difícil es tocarlo exactamente igual, llevo un año perfeccionando ese solo y apenas lo logré hace una semana
it’s okay man, the first riff i learned was brain stew
One of my older bands learned free bird before a big show and inevitably someone shouted “play free bird” and we did. People were pretty mind blown and it really isn’t that hard of a song. Just very long.
Also, another pretty easy double tapping lick is the beginning of the crazy train solo. That was my first tapping lick.
Same here
Crazy train was my first as well
7:53 Hiroshima during WWII
Haha yes 😂
omg I’m Japanese but I still find still funny as hell LOL
Damn
Just a quick note on the Eruption tapping pattern; Eddie isn't tapping a simple triplet pattern on each triad (as 95% of guitarist do, including myself for years). What he does is tap and then pull off on the 'highest' note on each shape [w/ right index finger] while his left index finger holds the 'lowest' note, THEN hammers and pulls off on the 'middle' note on each shape [w/ left ring or pinky finger]. This actually gives a 4 note repeating pattern [high-low-middle-low] instead of a triplet [high-middle-low]. With the combination of the delay and the speed he's changing shapes on the record it can trick the ear into sounding like a 'triplet' tap without delay. It's actually a little weird to play at first, but you can definitely hear a difference. Props to anyone trying their hand at Eruption! ;o)
danh5150 Eddie is the king after all 🤘🤷🏻♂️
danh5150 i thought its high low middle, not high low middle low or high middle low
Are there any videos showing this? All the UA-cam videos seem to be showing it the 'wrong' way, using triplets.
@@programmer1840 I've seen some people on UA-cam play it like that, but they never talk about it. They just play it like they assume that everyone taps it like that. I first notice it the VH I transcription book (Hal Leonard or Cherry Lane; can't recall the publisher).
Honestly no matter if it’s easier than we think, I will never forget the first time I heard Eruption. I will forever be blown away
Followed by that great version of You Really Got Me!
What a perfect introduction to a band, great guitar solo, then a killer version of a song you already know. It's just a shame they went pop after that.
8:52 imagine not being able to get harmonics on all frets
This meme was made by the bass gang
From my knowledge, any basic guitar you have can only have harmonics on like 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 etc.
Peyton Wilson 2, 3, 15, 16,
Imagine having to fret a string to get a separate note.
This post was made by the harp gang.
@@jbisch272 depends on how good your pickups are. Singles dont do much, my emgs dont get 2 or 3
Someone explain me the joke
They are really not that hard.
Me: *Failling to play Seven Nation Army*
Howowoaoaoao
As someone who started guitar three days ago and doesn’t even know how to read notes, trust me I struggled on it for those first three days but can do it quite well now
Lxrd Kami thank you I will try my best
Like...Me trying to perfect Metallica one opening solo.
I fly kites man! I’m topgun.
I’m gonna be in the new movie someday! You watch me! I’m gonna come back and buy this town! My key will be on the type writer soon.
Your pick hand raised into the air as tribute to the gods or rock is the only acceptable way to play thunderstruck, change my mind.
Thunderstruck is played with alternate picking *drops mic
@@gremlin9870 not live it isn't
@@brettski3152 in the music video it's played with hammer on pull offs. In original recording it's alternate picked
Even live Angus picks it... I've personally seen him do it 5 times. Just sounds wrong with hammer-ons.
@@06AngusSG you're all dumb asses just enjoy the fucking licks
A riff that never fails to impress a crowd is *smoke on the water* . Trust me, although it looks quite intimidating to most guitar players, it's actually very simple when you get the hang of it, and it's even more impressive to play in front of a crowd!
Very impressive, now do it all again on a 12 string acoustic.
make the string action very high
With a Floyd Rose
Or on my telecaster(It has .012s and sky high action)
Omg epico. Slap like now if you want him to do this challenge
12 string acoustic whammy bar
my gf shall never watch this video
Omg.
Haha my thoughts exactly
A guitarist? With a GIRLFRIEND??? What is this madness?!?
@@alexbeattiemusic Guitars get the girls, everyone knows that
More like at least GIRLFRIENDS if you plan on being nice to them pal.
haha can’t get confused by scales if you never learned them 😎
trent.exe damn right my dude
Ladarius Johnson It’s a joke buddy, relax
Pathetic.
Geez 1967 Shelby
YOU sound like the bitch.
You always chime in on other people's conversations?
@@ladariusjohnson709 u cant even shred bro
@@sneal1313 dude that comeback is so weak I had to reply to this dumb section of comments. Besides how do you know this guy can't shred. What if he plays a different stile of music like classical or does not even play guitar and instead plays some weird shit.
This is so absolutely important for young musicians. When I was teaching myself electric guitar as a teen (pre UA-cam) all I saw was tabs that seemed like completely random fingers and strings. I never understood how patterns are linked together to actually learn these rather than just hard memorization note by note. This are downright impossible if you're just staring at the tablature and see numbers everywhere.
"this is so easy!"
My finger: what the...?
I just bought the Spider-Man outfit!
I’m now making webs and fighting crime right here!
7:13 made me sub
Tried the last trick, whammie bar immediately snapped
Pain
In
The Ass
When u said Eruption tapping is the first tapping solo anyone learns, I was like haha my first was Metallica One. Then u said or either... )
lol same
Paschendale by iron maiden was my first attempt at tapping
My first tapping attempt was Winter Madness.
I didnt even want to learn tapping. I wanted to learn One) eventhough solo in general was too hard for me
Yeah same here lmao
Legendary licks to try out in a guitar store to impress those employed there.
Is it just me or could anyone else hear the “thunder, Ahh ah ah ah ah ah ahhha” at 6:30
Eruption is actually the hardest song to play on guitar
The live version with all of the whammy dives and tremolo picking and
Maybe for you. Just keep practicing and you'll be laughing at yourself for saying that one day
Not just the tapping part
The whole 10 minutes of eruption live
Tapping a triad on one string is the easiest thing you can do on guitar
@Ayda Sh you know eruption isn’t just tapping right?
@Ayda Sh but he said whammy dives and tremolo picking which isn’t in the tapping part
How about a 'licks/riffs that sound easy but aren't' video?
For me pretty much any John Mayer song.. Especially when trying to play and sing.
*everything Pat Metheny plays*
@Mehmet Bozkurt Beating Around The Bush
@@notmozart8866 Ehhh, not that hard for a solo especially if you have a Wah
I'd definitely add Snow by RHCP on that list
But can you play the intro to smoke on the water?
I'm convinced its impossible. My great grandfather was a guitar god. He had mastered such legendary songs as "Smells like teen spirit" but when he attenpted smoke ons the water. He had a heart attack.
please stop lads. they're old and unfunny.
well, the funny thing is that 90% of you fucktards out there, plays it wrong.... this comment is just sad
Daniel wildlife R/whoooosh
@@danielschyttelvik6104 dude the joke is that it's an easy riff. Dont be mean.
I actually got asked to play freebird just the other day by a plonker. I started playing Blackbird and he said "no man, thats not it" so I started playing High flying bird."No. man, that's not it". So I then said "sorry man, guess I don't know that one". I need to learn more songs with the word bird in the title.
Surfin' Bird
“Ever wonder why so many people pick up the guitar to learn how to play but don’t?”
Uhhh because it’s not an instantly gratifying video game? It’s dedication people, learn it. I’m so sick of these damn ads.
Brandon Cooper I know right like fender play and shit it’s so annoying
rocksmith baby lol
The Last Petik oh I Rocksmithed for a little bit (Steam winter sale), and it has some really great tools, but excitement can run out on that too
Yup. Takes years of.practice to play something like fade to black all the way through. But video games do help hand eye coordination.
Ugh, I hate all those fucking predatory ads, or rather "teaching corporations". And I promise you the people that fall victim to them, will still never learn a thing, just like I predicted all the comments to this video would be the typical -You say it's easy, but I'll stick to learning green day or some stupid shit like that.
Insert Li'l Wayne joke
Dew doodo do dew. Dew doodo do dew.
4:45 I doubt it was coffee that Eddie was taking to get that effect haha, Awesome video!
I laughed really, really loudly at "no, the wibbly dibbly dibbly part" lolol
I love it! Watched three of your videos in a row on a night when coworkers saw me carry my guitar into the restaurant. Of course I was assaulted with the usual... can you play this? Will you play me that? I ain't a jukebox people! I love that you debunk the stuff everybody... even us guitarists think is hard. I love also that you point out the easy sounding stuff that really is. If I play my original stuff for a non musician they are so not impressed. I don't know many who can follow it. Even just hanging out in the box. There are so many nuances that make a piece ones own that simple is anything but. I love watching you explore that! Keep it up!
One of the funniest people to watch for guitar stuff, he just always makes it exciting 😂
When did Steven Crowder start playing guitar?
Change my mind
Steven Crowder is better than literally all of us at guitar Change My Mind
@Thomas Sowell it's a meme and they call it a ROYALE WITH CHEESE
When Chuck Norris told him to play Freebird
change my mind: he doesn't look like Crowder
Thunderstruck with legato doesn't sound right, ya know? I feel like there's a lack of that "bite" in the notes, and it sounds a tad less energetic.
Akshay Ravi Kumar nah
He just does it for looks, it wasnt strict legato on the record
@@steelwarrior105 Yeah I know :D you can hear each note being picked in the recording. What I'm saying is, sure it's okay when people use legato to play it, but it will sound weak to my ears. (unless their hammer ons and pull offs sound as good as their picking, in which case, holy heck they must have strong fingers)
Oh trust me if you play it live one hand is the way to go
niko nikogovic haha yeah i can picture that xD
7:52 Fuel live with an orchestra and Kirk being badass colorized 1999
I did "seven nation army" two weeks after first trying a guitar, and it blew my mom's mind.
Our moms are always our biggest fans
@@belle-jg7jj mine told me there's no future in music, and that I should give up on my dreams.......
@@brianwalendy3735 my mom told me that I sucked at guitar :(
And I do suck
The only hard thing about the free bird solo for me is playing the whole 10 year long solo
I love the new word! "Guitarsenal" Definition: super-amazing-nuts, songs/riffs you can play on the guitar.
God your setup is literally my dream
4:40 one of my martial arts students, a 7 year old girl, had a cut on her middle finger. I was giving her a bandaid and I told her to give me her finger. She held all of her fingers out, so I couldn't get the bandaid around the finger that was cut. So I told her to curl her other fingers back. She curled her middle finger back with it and made a fist, and was giving me this look of dread. So I told her "ok, it doesn't mean anything right now, just stick your middle finger up so I can put the bandaid on it."
Bloody hell, that's adorable.
So she flipped you a free bird?
I love how innocent young kids are, won't find that in my dumb generation.
Dumb fucking kid stories, almost as unbearable as having to look at pictures of someone’s kids that they insist on showing you.
@@Bravo-Too-Much just don't fucking read it lol
"What's that internet troll? It's picked?" LOL! Totally relate. I got that in a bunch of comments too. Great vid!
We guitarists make the weirdest faces when we are really rocking out
It's only weird if you practice in the mirror.
Pull a Carlos Santana
Oh my God I been watching your videos all morning, you are a genius your videos are great you’ve got nothing on Rick Beato, you have a new subscriber
The Eruption tapping isnt very difficult, but its a serious feat to be able to play the rest of it accurately. Myself included, most people look at the tab and try one of the picking licks, then try some fast 2 note or 3 note pattern and tell themselves "I mean, that basically sounds right" and it really doesnt.
best comment here....to play it all like evh is rare I have only heard it done once or twice Theres a reason hes top 10 rock guitarists all time on every list
Agree! I saw the thumbnail and thought he was going to try saying the WHOLE of eruption is easy! Just figuring out the notes is a nightmare, let alone the phrasing 😂
Swampy Bogard - agreed, I want to see him play the entire solo because its so easy for him. Its very hard to nail that solo. This guy is really arrogant.
He didn't do the tapping correctly either, he skipped the Emaj triad. the 5-9-12 tap to the 5-8-13 tap part on the ascension. If you follow the chords of the arpeggiated tapping you can tell he doesn't have eruption learned correct. its either learned by ear. or just plain wrong. idk how this video can be taken serious
Im so glad to stumble across your channel! I just picked up my first guitar coming from the realm of production and engineering. Theres definitely a lot of stigma in the guitar community, but just wanted to say thanks for making quality hilarious videos!
Have you heard the expression it's easy when you know how..
eruption is actually about highly advanced technique and strength and a very unique approach to playing. you don't just play eruption you have to take time out of your life to study the techniques he used to get the sounds he got in that piece of music. it's not just guitar playing it's next level technique muting hammerons and pull-offs special techniques that have their own special sounds.
was expecting to see the intro to Sweet Child O' Mine
I can play all songs try the song one by Metallica
Wanna see a drunken longhair play the intro on acoustic in a basement?
When I was younger and first played Guitar Hero, I ran into Freebird having never played it before. By the 5 minute mark I was all like "WHAT THE HELL?! LET ME OFF THIS CRAZY THING!"
It's not hard, but it DOES. NOT. END.
Great video! However, Angus picks live during Thunderstruck, or at least he did when I saw them. You can hear him picking on the live albums during the intro. The only time I think he didn't was for the music video.
“ If it was so easy , then why didn’t you do it?”
I love that quote when it comes to song writing cause writing good songs is hard , even if they are easy to play!
Sweet vid. Now do the opposite, songs that sound easy but are actually really hard.
Cool Idea! There are lots of them, for example, everyone plays wrong the intro guitar chords of Runnin With The Devil by Van Halen. It's not that hard, just an example of misconceived guitar playing^^
UP!!!
I see many master of puppers riff mistakes in vids
Moonlight Sonata
RHCP would defenitly be on therr
Wow! If you could actually get Freebird to sound like Freebird, now that would be cool!
Dad EO funny how he said its easy but cant even do it himself
@@Diego-fp7kd right. His freebird literally doesnt even sound like freebird. What a hack
I agree. I was waiting for something to sound anything like Freebird, but it never happened.
Freebird Solo is a few ancient blues licks put together he just broke it down to its simplest form for noobs and (cough) drummers lol. You do realize he does shit like this on purpose to troll the trolls. It took me to see him on other channels to realize that A. He has a dry sense of humor and a closet wise ass and B. He is way too thorough and detail oriented to let things fall through the cracks. Now I have to watch every vid and comments as people lose their shit lol. I could be wrong but like my ex used to say "your such a know it all" So it must be true. Lol.
My point is, to claim that something isnt hard to do and then not be able to show that it isnt hard to do, by doing it yourself, makes for a failure video.
These are a great safeswitch when you're playing for non-guitar player friends. If they're getting bored and not giving you any attention, time to surprise everyone with the intro of Eruption, followed by Thunderstruck! When everyone's in the ecstasy of an eargasm, finish it off with the harmonic dive bomb trick, instant respect! Then you can even play Mary Had a Little Lamb they won't ever dare to look away.
Haha! :D
Love this Video! Thank You for being AWESOME!!
5:14 "it's just a matter of getting it up to speed and, switching, putting your fingers in the right place" Ha ha!
9:13... I’m pretty sure that if I do it to my whammy bar, my guitar will never be in tune again lol
He has locking tuners on his guitar i think you can get them installed
ayyyy viva la vida is like my favorite album ever
How TF was that the Free Bird solo?
That was the iconic lick....done in the wrong key
@@V2ULTRAKill yep probably because Skynyrd are youtube blockers like Zeppelin and AC/DC
On the freebird solo licks, the first bend gives me trouble. First I was leaving the finger on the bended fret and it sounded wrong because the note was still ringing.
Then I watched again and saw you take the finger off straight after the bend to kill the note. With me, pulling my finger off the bended string makes it ring out open.
I guess it's technique and practice. I got the notes down and im already happy with what I have learnt, but I am slowing it down to get used to the positions and the bend, and quietening the string after the bend. Then with time I will speed up.
I noticed the second freebird lick you sweep down the 3 strings. This is coordination I need to get used to, matching the fret hand with the sweep speed.
Awesome stuff though. I've learned a few things in this video
Thanks
Keep your fingers close to the strings and release the note after the bend but keep your finger on the string to mute it.
That guitar probably costs more than my car....
I don't have a car
@@terraria7042 It probably cost more than your bicycle then 😁
I love the shot at 7:16 when you throw the "Music is Win" sign during "Thunderstruck". Your logo on the monitor behind you helps reinforce the scene. Keep the videos coming.
Totally laughed out loud at that moment. Music is Win is win.
You're new here, aren't you? It's the horns, man. \m/
@@flyboy2099 I know it's the horns. With the logo behind his head it looks like he is trying to flash a gang sign.
Phew. Good thing non-guitar-playing folks don't watch your videos.
You MUST NOT give it away like this! What if the girls (or guys, or whatever your preference) you want to impress, actually saw this and now knew it is NOT ALL THAT DIFFICULT?
Seriously - as (mostly) always, I enjoyed watching your video, keep up the good work and motivate the folks who picked up a guitar and may be doubting, if this is for them...
"Speed ain't witchcraft - just practice"
Lol, girls don't get impressed by guitar playing. Want to impress them? Learn to sing and play some chord-only songs while singing.
Its witchcraft to the musically challenged. The = me
@@Walamonga1313 lol man they do if you can play some basic fingerstyle on an acoustic but not so much when it comes to shredding on an electric.
I can't play guitar
If you want girls just learn to sing. Learning some piano doesn't hurt either.
Great video! When you started the into piece to Freebird, I was liking that too, lol wish you’d shown more of that. But yep thanks for showing those licks!!
When people think of Eruption they think of the easiest part of the entire solo
Your modern rock techniques course is great I highly recommended if you want to learn some of those tricks
SWEET TONE DUDE
Eddie Van Halen's first serious instrument was piano (he even won some regional teenage piano contest), which is perhaps why two-handed tapping came naturally to him. Nobody told him you're not supposed to be doing that... ;) One of the first recorded examples of tapping in rock, BTW, is Steve Hackett in Genesis's "The Return Of The Giant Hogweed".
It kills me when people say that"s not how its played! There are 12 notes is a chromatic scale and only 5 in a pentatontic. So there are multiple places on the guitar to get the same tone (Note) that maybe more comfortable for you the player to achieve the same sound. That doesn't make it wrong.
"if you don't have a whammy bar it may be impossible"
ruban neilson has a thing or two to say
8:47
Me after I listen to pantera once:
LMAO yes
He expects me to be able to just watch his hands doing the Freebird lick, however slowly, and know what the hell he's doing. Oh, bless your heart.
That was the riff to Simple Man not Freebird (the "lick" b4 you went into the "iggly wiggly" solo part LOL).
Lol you got trolled.
Everyone knows simple man
7:47 imagine combining that with crazy train by Ozzy Osbourne 🤯. Using at the start before the main riff
just admit..you made the video to "impress" your Mom and show how clean you're keeping the basement.
He lives in his house, with his wife and kid. Ya done goofed
@@christiangarcia3140 r/whooosh
Besides, my basement is t nearly that clean and neat, so I'm still impressed. Now I absolutely hope his mom sees this.
@@christiangarcia3140 kid?
@@christiangarcia3140 that's a big basement
Someone always asks for Free Bird. You troll them and play Simple Man. I’m lovin it.
“So learn it this way, it’s better”
When I saw the title I immediatly knew the eruption tab part would be included, I play it all the time if people ask to play something really cool and most of the time it leaves them Godsmacked. xD
I learned white stripes 1 cord riff yesterday. Time to learn eruption lmao
A friend of ours used to yell Play free bird at gigs as a joke. So we did it. Then he tried to find another song to yell out. He chose Sugar Sugar by the Archies, thinking we would never do that. After a break, during which someone had put some hip hop on the jukebox, my drummer and bass player started playing along with the jukebox. I joined in and started singing the lyrics to Sugar Sugar on top of it. I wish I had it on video. It was glorious.
I like how this guy can be so profession yet have that kid stoke
Freebird solo is played in g minor pentatonic though?
G major pentatonic (or Em pentatonic)
the chords behind the freebird solo are g, bflat, and c. the entire solo is in g minor not e
jwamk that’s what I’m saying, it just didn’t sound right when he started playing it at the 12th fret I was rattled
Literally none of those licks are in Free Bird.
@@mpsd208 both licks are, just not in e minor
Okay, I love this channel, but what about the F to C to D? I’m going to have to go to counseling after having heard G, D/F#, Em played twice in a row.
Same.
Excatly
This guy fucked up the intro to freebyrd and is totally arrogant about it. Cringe... Lol
Glad I'm not the only one who was bothered by that. I literally wanted to reach through the screen and slap him. Talking smack and then playing it wrong what the fuck?
So when angus raises his pick hand high with thundur hamer on thundur i was there at the ball breacker tour in the Memphis pyramid it was totally awesome and most of all the greatist concert ive ever been to