“Take Your Whiskey Home” second solo demo
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Here is a demo of the full 2nd solo from “Take Your Whiskey Home”. I’ll follow this with another walk-through video.
Complete TAB: imagizer.image...
There is a 325ms delay from the Echoplex on the entire solo.
That is a very tricky one, but you nailed it.
It's interesting to see how brilliant, yet off the wall, Ed's licks & phrasing were.
Thanks! He did have a set of licks that were unusual, but they were a finite bag of licks. Once you know them, it is relatively easy to figure out anything he played. The problem is that most people don’t really work hard enough to learn his licks correctly. I’ve been transcribing Van Halen music for decades and I work to gather all the available evidence to prove exactly how Eddie played what he played. For example, you can see my transcription of “Eruption” which appeared in the February 2021 issue of Guitar World. Mine is the only detailed and accurate transcription of that piece even though several attempts were made to figure it out over several decades. Please let me know if you have questions on any Van Halen piece…I do lessons and custom transcriptions as well!
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun Always loved that sax like, legato descending run at the 1:38 mark of the, So this is love?
solo.
And the seemingly simple ending climb, that ends the main "Mean street" solo, is never transcribed correctly.
I did see your Eruption tab in GW years back, and remembered your name from way back in the
CVH website days.
I thought to myself, Garbeaj did it, he hit the big time!
I remember when you got the white Explorer type guitar, you played in this vid, too.
@@julianschulz1620 You were there from the beginning of me being on the Internet! Believe it or not, I didn’t get a computer until 2008 and I didn’t get a cellphone until 2010! CVH and the MetroAmp forums were the first forums I’d ever participated in. I’m still friends with several of those guys to this day…”jimi, Doug Steele and Atlantica. I learned a lot from some smart people over the years and I like to think I may have helped some others learn a few things. It’s still great fun for me to keep transcribing the material correctly and share what I’ve learned and to learn from others as much as possible!
White is the best color for Explorer's...Love it...and the solo...That first lick after the solo at the two minute mark though...tasty as hell...
i would love to hear something YOU wrote alan
Thank you for the encouragement Tom! As much of a Van Halen fan as I am, my original music tends to be more folky…I co-write with an amazing female singer that I’ve worked with for decades and we’ve done our duo act off and on since 1997 and we occasionally do some full band shows of covers with a few originals. Now that I’m 52 with a 9 year old and a 6 year old and an amazing wife, I tend to work on transcribing Van Halen’s catalog and some other transcribing work. I also give more guitar lessons than ever, especially over Zoom.
But I’m really grateful for your interest in my original music…it’s nothing spectacular, but my singer has a great voice and she’s incredibly charismatic. She’s somewhat of a local legend here in Houston. She and blues firecracker Carolyn Wonderland started out together and I think of my music as a means to showcase her incredible voice and presence. I really should put some examples on my UA-cam channel…I neglect it because my own study of Edward has been so intense for so many decades and my own home life sort’ve takes over everything. But I receive your comment with the sincerest gratitude and I do take it as encouragement to put some of my originals out there! Thank you again so much for your comment…our mutual pal JD Simo has been a dear friend for years and he has also offered me encouragement as well. I’m not anywhere near the cocksman that you guys are and I’m floored that you checked out my little clip and completely gobsmacked at your considerate comment!
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun I saw the thing on the UTBN UA-cam channel where you were VERY harshly criticizing that guy in that Van Halen tribute band…
Where was THIS sweet kind polite guy who just responded to my comment at THAT moment Allen?
It’s ok to think negative things to yourself about what other people are doing, but to publicly attack them so viciously is a pretty bad choice.
There’s all kinds of music I severely dislike too, but you simply just CANNOT go around attacking people like you did…it just doesn’t work man.
The EVH catalog is not YOUR music Allen…yes you may have dedicated your whole life to studying it…but you had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of it.
Even if Eddie himself, who DID create it, bashed someone as strongly as you did for doing a bad EVH tribute band it would still be very awkward and tasteless…
but for someone who is just a FAN like yourself, to bash the guy that harshly is just totally unacceptable.
I don’t even know the guy, but you might want to seriously consider a heartfelt apology to him my friend.
@501chorusecho You are quite correct. I try to bear in mind that anyone that is on a stage or making money in any kind of way in the music business is performing a miracle and I should treat those that have done so as miracle workers. I honestly believe that.
I have devoted a lot of my life to transcribing Edward’s playing and I do get particularly riled when I see some players attempt to play his music in a tribute band without a solid basic understanding of his playing. This is why I’ve tried to help anyone in understanding how Eddie played what he played on a technical level. This is the part that gets missed so often by players and transcribers. There is the MAJOR component of pocket and soul that is well beyond the mechanics that I transcribe and teach, but I concentrate on helping people get the notes and articulations correct as a first step to getting deep into the timing and the soul. That guy and others are clearly lost on the mechanics and I was shocked that so many were commenting on how he sounded “exactly like Edward” or words to that effect and I overreacted to that. You are right…I didn’t need to go so hard.
What the UTBN people may have left out (I wasn’t aware they were commenting on me) is that I’ve given free private lessons to several tribute band players over the last ten years. I really want to help people in any way that I can who want to better comprehend Edward’s playing. I’m really sincere in this.
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun well....good talks man...see ya down the road allen.
in the future, just try to keep in mind that we all (including Eddie Van Halen, just ask him) are just a bunch of musical children when we compare ourselves to the Beatles.
if any of us need to be remind ourselves how to be humble at any point, just think about the fact that those 4 low income boys from liverpool that happened to write the most culturally, multi-generationally inclusive, important music the world has ever seen or will ever see, weren't even 30 years old when the band broke up.
Keep pumping out videos, please. You’re doing a great job.
Thanks! That is very much appreciated!
Thanks, Allen, for sharing these videos!🙏
Thank you for checking them out Robert! I hope these are helpful to anyone who really wants to learn how these things were actually played by Eddie!
Another favorite of mine. Thanks Allen!!
Thank you sir!
Sounds spot on Allen!
Thanks Connor! I can execute it a lot better, but this was a quick and dirty three-take try. I made this because Doug Steele and others on his “TYWH” second solo video are still totally confused on the “spread lick” even though I walked through the entire thing SLOWLY with no distortion. Hopefully this will help. I’m going to do an even slower walk-through shortly.
That kid is good! 🌴🌴🌴
Thanks buddy! I’m always fascinated at how Edward played to the strengths of the fixed bridge guitars like the Destroyer whenever he played them. It’s like he knows he has no wiggle stick, so he figured “I’m going to bend the hell out of these strings!”😂
indeed.@@AllenGarberGuitarFun
Very good playing !! almost the same as the original... any video or tabs for the first solo garbeaj ?
Thanks! It is note-for-note to the album because I transcribed it myself. The first solo is very simple and it was transcribed correctly in the official transcription book for the ‘Women and Children First’ album so if you have that you will have a correct transcription. The official transcription books are not accurate in general, but they did get some parts correct and the first solo from “Take Your Whiskey Home” is one of those parts that they got correct. You can get the book from Amazon here: a.co/d/85jwTQd I can transcribe the solo for you and it will be more detailed and accurate than the official book, but I charge $65 as a minimum for transcribing the solo and putting all of the important details into it such as the correct left hand fingering and right hand picking directions. Let me know if you want me to do it for you and I can send you my PayPal details and get your e-mail to send the completed solo transcription to you. Cheers!
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun Thank you very much for your fast reply, i have the same book here! (and many others.....) but you know... I want to see how others play it so I can have a second "playful" opinion, my reference players is jim, deraps and my ears at the slower speed on VH songs, Of course thank you for the willingness to take a lesson, but I'm not interested
@@Theofanis1000 No problem. I will say that the transcription book is 100% accurate for the first solo and if Jim Gaustad or Jacob Deraps are playing it any differently than the transcription book, they are playing it wrong. I’m currently finishing up some other full song transcriptions, but I can make a photocopy of the solo transcription from the book and notate all the details on it for you for free when I get a moment. If you send me your e-mail address I can send it to you when I get it done…
Rad!
Thanks very much! Be sure to follow along with my TAB here: imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/7974/mjr84F.jpg
And watch my half-speed play along with the original track: ua-cam.com/video/uTCU8A0DhAo/v-deo.html
And my explanation and demonstration for how to play the somewhat tricky “spread lick” from this solo here: ua-cam.com/video/uq9CSQDvh7k/v-deo.html
Awesome video Allen. I like knowing exactly how Eddie played it, even if it might take me longer to do it that way. Really enjoy these videos. Would be great to see you and Doug Steele do a breakdown of Spanish Fly, like you both did for Eruption. And if you provided Ed's note for note tabs for it; that would be icing on the cake! Thank you for your contributions.
Thanks very much indeed! I will say point blank that there will never be an accurate and playable transcription of “Spanish Fly”. I discussed this with Doug on one of our video chats on his channel recently, but basically “Spanish Fly” is loaded with so many mistakes that it is indeed impossible to notate all of them and be able to actually play the piece accurately as it was originally played on the album. I also discussed this with my friend Troy Grady of the ‘Cracking the Code’ series. It’s just a mess. The best that I can do is try to come up with a repeatable way to play what I believe he INTENDED to play, but that will be as good as it gets. I actually started learning “Spanish Fly” before I started working on “Eruption” back when I was 13 in 1985. Trust me when I say that there are no accurate transcriptions, online lessons or UA-cam covers of “Spanish Fly”. That includes my own. I always say that if a human being played it, it is always possible to learn it. But I truly believe it is impossible to accurately transcribe or play “Spanish Fly” as it was recorded on ‘Van Halen II’.
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun Thanks for the reply, Allen. I know if anyone can transcribe Spanish Fly or attempt it; you're definitely on the short list. Maybe this is one of those pieces of pure music mastery that we can imitate but never replicate and we'll just have to be happy with that. Look forward to more VH videos and your insight!
@@cscoioscscoios2768 I can give tips on it, but I can’t transcribe and play that many mistakes…it is just not possible!
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun Yeah I'd say producing an accurate transcription of the way he intended to play it is already good enough! The "mistakes" are then more about understanding the way he plays and getting the right feel! But this can't be done for sure without an accurate transcription of the way he was intended to play it first I think, you won't be able to make it sound right if you try to play the mistakes.
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun Oh by the way I'm curious, talking about understanding the way he plays, I can see you're holding the pick like he did, with three fingers and mostly between the thumb and middle finger. Have you developped this intentionally or have you learned the guitar like that inintentionnaly?
Do you still have a Super D in the bridge? If so, sounds great. Excellent playing
Thanks! Yep, I sure do! A then brand new DSD that I put in when I got the guitar along with a new and then slightly relic’ed DiMarzio nickel pickup cover!
Awesome. Big fan of your thread on that guitar
@@tjkong4381 Thanks man! It was a lot of fun learning about Ed’s Destroyer, the Holmes Destroyer and Destroyers in general while working on my own ‘75!
Allen I hope you're doing okay. I heard your area is going through a horrid drought!
Yes it is. Houston got a smattering of rain one day last week, but it’s been something like 90 days of no rain and triple digit temperatures. My lawn has been dead for months, so I save on paying my lawn guy!🤘🏻
Hang in there! Glad you're okay
@@bweeks8869 Thanks man!