Bruce Bouillet, David T Chastain, Greg Leon, Vinnie Vincent string skipping licks, scale sequencing, arpeggios lessons

"Respect the Wind" off of the Twister soundtrack (end credits) is his masterpiece in my opinion. That and "For the love of God" are the reasons I play guitar

Nobody more deserving of the extra attention long live the KING R.I.P. Edward you are sorely missed 🤘👏

That slide emulating lick is so cool. Reminds me of the kind of magic tricks Jeff Beck is doing with his strat!

The first two licks show the early Clapton influence in EVH’s playing. The 3rd lick is similar to his playing in “Finish What Ya Started”. 🤘🏻

I was have trouble with that little country lick. Terrific lesson ....👍🏻

Thx. I have watched that vid. So many times. Eddie looked like he was having a fun jam.

Right on David...Thank u...

You are a great teacher David. 🎓

What I like about your videos is they are not only informative it's refreshing seeing informative videos with a guy that don't have a million dollars worth of amps , guitars, pedals ,processor's and etc. behind him .

Thanks B🐓for bringing this up for us. It just hit me again 😭. I'll never really get over it.

Loved "Better Off Dead", but hated the fact that the tremolo bar was on the upper right horn on the guitar. First time I ever heard a VH song in a movie was in some Matt Dillon movie called "Over The Edge" (1979).

You can tell Eddie loved playing the guitar so much

Thank You. Eddie’s passion for the instrument shines thru in everything he did.

I sat and rewound that video a billion times and could not hear the open string cheers I can die in peace now great vids man

The guitar Eddie was playing was Dave Leslie’s from the band Baby Animals, who is a phenomenal player in his own right. Eddie’s playing along with bassist Eddie Parise. Baby Animals toured with Van Halen in the early 90’s.

Wow I’m 50 years old and I’ve been a fan since my cousin took me to a Van Halen concert in 1979 in Atlanta and life went on following them and became just a everyday stuff. Fast forward till I read the book and a huge impulse of Eddie and Van Halen and I’m all in. I hope he knows on the lives he changed and inspired. Huge impact on wanting to learn more like I’m a student and I’ve got so much incredible stuff I’m learning like he left for us to gather and learn!!!

It's amazing how when you ...Dave.. play Eddie .. it comes out still sounding like Eddie.

Eddie didn’t have a light touch...he really attacked the guitar and dug in almost all the time...great stuff Dave...rock on my brother!!!!

Awesome job Dave.

Thanks for the tribute to Eddie!

Really appreciate you taking the time to do these video lessons, man! Keep up the good work. RIP EVH!

Always love your lessons David but the VH stuff you've done is stupendous..... When he died there was enormous KZfaq content.... Some of it was up there with yours.... Like Ben Eller's..... Phil X..... Shuttup and play guitar.... And the audio interview with him by Guitar World journalist after their first tour (3rd on the bill! ) so probably 1979?...and he chats away strumming an old strat unplugged and licks pour out of him.... Lots from albums 2 3 and 4!!.... And there's this lovely warm sounding talkative dude...infectious laughter... Then he plays both the solos from Cream's Crossroads!!!.... His playing was a gift.... I love playing along to some of those huge riffs but, man, his hands and soul were wired differently!!

Love that you put 5150 up. That album deserves more attention.

Another great lesson David. Thank you!

We always new he was special but if I live to be 100 we still find gems in his work that we’re unnoticed- it’s truly amazing the work he was able to put out in just the first 3-4 releases - and wait there is MORE? Lol

That third lick (before the bonus lick) reminded me of the bridge/solo in Finish What Ya Started. Thank you for the video.

Exceptional lesson !!! 😎

Yet another great lesson. Thanks, David.

That out-of-character bluesy thing you mention in the start reminds me of SRV. Too cool.

Miss the King !! R.I.P. Eddie !!

Great stuff, Dave! R.I.P. EVH.

Awesome video as usual. Outside the box idea too, Dave. Love it!

You're cool dude. I enjoy these every once I get the chance/time to check out. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Man your video about the King are very masterclass thanks 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻

Time to break out the EVH 5150 striped series or maybe not ………………… ~ great lesson as usual 👍🇬🇧😆

Great breakdown 👍Ed showed Slowhand’s blues influence in some of his playing

You're the man, Dave!

Yes!! More van halen

great episode for the goat

Absolutely love your vids. The research you do is so valuable and will be until time indefinite. Thanks, man, sincerely.

Fantastic lesson, Dave, thanks so much, I too came from the EVH school and really appreciate you going outside the box to highlight a different aspect of his playing---Im familiar with that YT video and his playing is so laid back and still so smoking, great job, cheers!

Never seen that footage, what a gem. Great stuff!

You hit the nail on the head. Everyone knew Eddie via his legendary place in music history. The big fans were devastated because of what he meant to them. I feel like I lost a big brother who was also a band mate.

EVH mentioned - gotta like!

i find these "untypical"Eddie v Halen licks quite refreshing in their "normallity"....already tried and stored for future use....:-) Thanks.... and yes i can understand for how you feel about Eddies early passing away.......been there with other people i still miss...it doesn't quite go "away".....it's the price of getting older.....

Eddie was one of a kind. He made me want to play, and I did. 25 years later, and I still bang away from time to time. There is some solace that Wolf is out there doing his own thing. He said that he had to learn on his own, because his Dad was "Eddie Van Halen", and that he had to start from scratch. Mammoth WVH is a killer record.

Killer lesson bro.. I'm glad I got these licks in my vocabulary now. Thanks David! R.I.P Eddie.

Great video... I love when Eddie would play Cream/Clapton songs, he just nail that shit in a VH way!

So much fun to view these vids

He started doing chicken pickin from that hybrid pull off phrase or at least I heard it first on 84 with the Holdsworth influence. You hear it on drop dead legs, pleasure dome and some tracks on balance and VH3. It’s really neat and thank you for covering this lick! It’s one of the coolest from that video!!

Dave! Great job as always! The first "blues" lick is a variation of the Fools intro lick. The bonus lick is straight up Allen Holdsworth until he pull off to the open string. Funny that other than the chicken picking technique, you hear all these licks on the Van Halen 3 album. There is so much noodling and long songs on that album, you hear a lot of what Eddie wouldn't normally do. VH 3 was really a Eddie Van Halen solo album and you hear some of these new licks on that album. Love it bro!

Ah,the Eruption book is in my pile to read, but the British version that came out October

I love watching that video over and over again even with a strat you can tell it's Eddie. Keep up the great work. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

The hybrid pull off lick is similar to part of the interlude section in Light Up The Sky.

I’m 66 years old and getting back into playing. Bucket listed some lead guitar riff I’m learning. Taking lessons . I love your channel, skills and content . You are musicologist and I’m older so you might be really famous. Either way love the channel.

Even the Minions loved Eddie

Oh, yeah, man, the guitar playing hamburger. My buddies and I learned that song for our garage band because of that moment. Great lesson, Dave, always a win with EVH.

I can't imagine being able to decide to learn some Eddie Van Halen licks haha! They sound really great. ❤️

share your pain about him leaving. stuck in this loop of disbelief and endless trying to self-soothe by emulating his playing style. you've inspired me to go deeper into his licks. thanks bro'

Awesome lesson dude! Truly brilliant channel too thank you for your work! There are moments in some of these licks that remind me of those early Richie Sambora solos. He doesn’t seem to get talked about as much as other 80’s players but he still has some seriously mean licks. Some other players I’ve haven’t noticed you included yet would be John Frusciante, Dave Navarro, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, Peter Green... a bit more leftfield but Steve Hillage is also another phenomenal, influential old player who seems to be quite under the radar

Awesome content and lesson! I suspect you’ll delivering more videos on other riffs from the VH backstage video

Thanks for the lesson! Side note: The Strat is my favorite sounding instrument out of the ones you use for these lessons. The black Les Paul sounds fine, the Taylor sounds cool, but that old HSS Strat has the TONE!

FOREVER - THE KING!

I second the Eruption book. I'm about 1/3 of the way through and loving it. A good book to follow up with after this one is the Ted Templeman bio, another great read. That first lick is very John Lee Hooker like, with an Eddie vibe added. Keep up the good work David!

Apart from the Finish What Ya Started solo… that third riff reminded me that, Ed had been hanging and jamming with Albert Lee. I remember jams and gigs with Albert around the early Musicman days. Awesome video man👌

legend of 1900? really, that is the greatest film no one knows of almost gave me an existential crisis! i will look in to that, also, star fleet is awesome!

"Baby Animals Painless 1992" you tube video Dave letterman show 1st line he says is that they were touring with VH '92. thats who Eddie was jaming with.

David, hey would love to see a 30 min-1 hour warm up technique building routine video from you.

The "kinda country ending" lick is totally Clapton! I know EVH said he lost interest in EC's playing after Cream, but that's clearly a nod to his '70s stuff.

Yea man, not been a good year with the passing of Eddie, Dusty, & Leslie. So sad man!

Ed is jamming with Baby Animals

kewl.

Awesome licks ! IM INSPIRED TO PLAY MORE AN BETTER

Can you do a video on the evh jamming in '83 video. He had some favorite licks littered all over that video. Pure gold

I wonder if it was the same when Hendrix died? How guitar players felt. Props on the vid!

And the starfleet album !!!

It’s a shame they only released 1 album in the last 15 years. They slowed down album releases so much after the 90’s

I've been playing professionally for almost 40 years. There are a lot of great players with great technique on YT, but I really like your sound and feel. I'd like to hear you play something of your own.

Have you heard the demos of Eddie Jamming with Kiss? They are on youtube ;) very cool stuff!

This is the good sh!# right here!

Hey David, love the lessons you do and the artists you cover. One item that I have noticed is the video samples that have licks volume is super low when compared to your audio. Just a note, fix if you see fit. Thanks again for doing all the Van Halen material!! I spent much of my youth learning this stuff by ear. Much easier with a teacher like you.

He grabs that B and smears it into C. Yep. That's our Eddie.

Dave - What year and model is your has strat. Looks fabulous. Fantastic channel.

Unbelievably cool!!! 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁 🎸👑🎸👑🎸👑

My understanding is Dweezil posted the video & that bass player is basically playing Mean Street

I think Eddie was listening to a bit of SRV at this time

_"With everything going on in this world."_ I know what you mean. But it's important to remember that media by it's very nature seeks out all of the bad and terrible things that happen, while the everyday good that people do and the many more acts of compassion happen so much more often that they are not considered newsworthy for the very reason they occur far more often. And that was just media before the internet, witch has it's own problems that are still relatively new to humanity and also massively exacerbates the feeling of being oppressed by everything that's going on. I'm certainly not saying things aren't extra crazy at this time in our history, but it's good to remember that most of humanity just want us all to have peace and prosperity (I believe we could too, it's just a matter of societal maturity). Those people just aren't making the news anywhere near as often as those who create problems, so it's easy to feel like things are even worse than they are. So whatever your "side" or beliefs people, things are not as bad as the media we are all slammed by would have us believe. Hang in there everyone. Humanity has been through worse and still kept evolving and becoming more mature over time. I wish you all my fellow Earthlings peace and prosperity. ^-^

Can I get a link to that guitar solo of Eddie's?

EVH 🤘🤘

Sounds very SRV like.

can you possibly do a video on Vinnie VIncent; Mark St. John; or Jeff Young?

👍

did you prefer Eddie or Randy?

Great video s ! You look and seem very familiar to me , have you ever spent any time in Macon Georgia ?

I suspect these uncharacteristic licks are drawn from Van Halens extensive repetoir of covers from their bar band days. There's another video where he plays Whole Lotta Love's solo note for note towards the last year's of his life.

What is your own things on the guitar ?

EVH is the king… that’s why he gets all the vids. I wouldn’t be here without him either… here’s a link to the video your talking about. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j752lMmgurHZk4U.html To me it looks like a wine red strat.

Does anyone have the video or know where on KZfaq????

by '92, Ed was pulling up on 'Get Up' and 'Summer Nights' for what, 6 years?