Found out Eddie passed away today 10/6/20. It was such an honor to have experienced his art in my lifetime. I'll always feel a certain void now that he's gone but his music will live on. Thanks for everyone who visited this video on this dark day. It reminds me how big of an impact he made on all of us.

And now he's gone. Rest in peace, Eddie!

Don't forget my jaw is dropped down a half step.

Love your modest, unassuming, friendly style.

"and that's when i knew he was an alien" he's gone home RIP eddie

I still remember how shocked I was when I learned 35 years ago that Cathedral was played on a guitar.

Eddie Van halen = Genius..innovator and pioneer..

The man was truly the Mozart of his time. Creativity on the guitar that no one else possessed. RIP to the GOAT.

Eddie really is another Voodoo Child. Hell, he even chopped the strings down with the edge of his hand.

these vids are the best, I like how it's not just licks from songs u actually show us the techniques

I am watching this at 6 am just before I go to the grind!! This is the only time I had to watch your video! I can hardly wait to get home and try out these ideas! I have a pedal board with a flanger, delay, OD/distortion and a phaser pedal! You have made me a very happy woman! Thx! You're amazing and I can't thank you enough!!!

EXCELLENT TEACHER! Able to play proficiently and explain clearly.

R.I.P. Eddie, One of the Guitar Greats! Great Lesson keeping it rocking!

Van Halen I think spawned 1,000,000 guitar players I think he probably would still be listed as the best guitar player around and VH 1 & 2 were 40 freaking years ago

Wow. This is THE best guitar lesson I’ve ever seen and heard on YT.

I like how he explains things. He's easy to follow. Nice work.

I keep coming back to this, greatest tutorial on the net, very well explained as well as demonstrated, so very well done AND some of the very best guitar sounds! Thanks so much for this.

Thanks for all the great tips. I really enjoy the fact that you're so humble as well...

My jaw dropped when you started playing Panama. Id love to see a full cover, that tone you had there was fantastic to me

Really cool man. You cover a LOT of techniques and it's cool that you're straight up in your descriptions without putting on airs. I like the terminology as well. Nice playing dude.

Great video.👍

Thanks for the upload!

This is fantastic my man! Great job

Excellent tutorial, man! Great stuff in here!

This is what a lot of people didn't realize, including myself, that his "brown sound" really came down to his style of playing and his hands on the guitar. Eddie will forever be the best guitarist ever. He may not have the technical chops as say Vai or Satriani, but he doesn't need to be. His style was attitude with in your face guitar playing back then and just his innate ability to play. Great video. Thanks

Great lesson thanks for this.

Just the video i needed, keep up the great work!

These technique videos are very and I mean VERY helpful!!! Thank you for the hard work you put in to these videos man. Bravo!

We miss you, Ed 🙏🏼❤️ Thank you for pursuing your passion and following your dreams 👏🏼

This man explains things in a language that radiates with me, thank you man!!!

RIP this guitar legend. He was an amazing player that really showed me what crazy things you can do on an electric. I hope we see his like again

Eddie inspired many to play guitar and caused a few to give it up as well ! Rip my all time favorite 👍🏻

Very nice bag of tricks. Amazing! Thank You.

60 yrs old with classical guitar background. EVH sealed a switch to electric guitar and remains biggest fretboard influence. Great video.

Very informative, detailed and fun to watch. I'm Learning heaps. Thanks so much. You are very skilled.

20:11 "thats when i knew he was an Alien" FELL ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING - funniest thing i ever heard on youtube!

Your series right here, is what its all about man.. applying great techniques to yourself...great stuff maaan.

Another great video!!

Fantastic lesson! Thanks, Alex

MAN, THIS IS AWESOME!

I'm a huge EVH fan , thanks for the great lesson, lots of good info there, I learned a lot !! thanks''

I saw a smirk when you hit that first artificial harmonic

THANK YOU!!!

One of the best Guitar teaching videos in the net. Congrats + two thumbs up

Greatest of all time. Inspired more people and changed guitar forever.

Great series!

I’m REALLY enjoying your videos

Great video!

love these, really wish you would do more

Very, very pedagocial tutorials, all of a sudden I can do totally OK tap harmonics! Thank's and keep up the good work!

Excellent show ! subscribed!

Kudos on the legato credit :) I love EVH, but Joe's the legato king... Great video!

You are great at explaining stuff. You don't talk too much and demonstrate right away. Great video

incredible lesson. Thank you! \m/

Great video, didn't know that much went into making those sounds!

I am amazed by how much you can do, and how humble you are about it. Just great. 👍

I just wanted to drop in and throw you some major praise. I find your method of instruction and explanation highly effective and engaging. A real guitarist's guitarist! Subscribed!

The harmonic slide and cathedral effect will be added to my arsenal now. Thanks mate 😎

great techniques! great video!

The first time I listened to Eruption, which was when VH's first album came out... I know I am old... I was absolutely blown away. I was a kid at the time and after hearing that I thought to myself, man I need to learn how to play the guitar. So I picked it up and I still don't know how to play eruption, but I did learn several other of EVH's riffs and licks and that helped me a lot in my playing ability. What I love about EVH is his ability to inject a kind of "swing" in his playing that gave him a unique style. His tapping technique was actually not new at the time, but he took it to a new level. His tone was actually pretty basic when you look back on it now since it was just a PAF pickup running through a Marshal with all knobs turned to "11". But he figured out that getting that tone which allowed him to achieve the sound he wanted was not easy with an 100 Watt Amp that would blow your head off and a pickup that would squeal like crazy at that volume. So he threw a variac to lower the volume without affecting the distorted tone and he placed the pickup in melted surfboard wax to prevent it from squealing and the rest is history. I have often heard that the tone of the guitar affects how you play and the more I play the guitar the more I believe that statement. I personally think that EVH had an idea of what he wanted to achieve, but as he set out to achieve it by modifying his tone from the guitar/amp/effects that it modified how he played as well and so it caused his playing to exponentially increase in style and technique that was different from what others were doing at the time. Similar to Jimi Hendrix and what he was doing in the 60's and early 70's. Just my 2 cents.

This is a great video. Thanks.

Great vid!

"And that's when I knew he was an alien"... GLORIOUS!!! I learned more from this single video than years of trying to learn from others!!!

This is why EVH is my favorite guitarist. Look at all these fun and unique techniques you really can’t find anywhere else.

nice teaching method.I'm gonna watch ALL of "em!

watching the full video now that i have time. very informative. And wow impressed with the sounds you get from that guitar. Assuming the stock pickups are still in there and it shows what a good player can do. I have the guitar so always nice to see it played by someone good so i can stop blaming my equipment lol.

Great Teacher, awesome techniques well explained, Art of Guitar Yes mon

Eddie was definitely the last founding father of rock guitar in our era, he brought a futuristic rock guitar sound to the 70s music world that was very different to Clapton and Hendrix of the 60s. The whammy bar and artificial harmonic effects was two of his signature sounds, along with the digital sound effects of the flanger, delay and others. He paved the way for all the 80s rock guitar slingers who more or less tried to perfect his sound and techniques especially his shredding sound which a lot of 80s rock guitarists perfected to an extreme level. His shredding technique wasn't perfect but you knew where he was trying to go with it. He had other signature sounds and techniques which all in all gave us a futuristic sci-fi rock guitar sound of sophistication and artistic creativity. It makes me wonder if there's any more uncharted rock guitar territory that needs founding? Maybe the rock guitar feedback sustain sound still needs exploring? I know Eddie did a little bit on the intro of the song "Everybody wants some" I wish he had of done way more of the feedback sustain technique, I think that would of blown all our brains out period!! It's such a beautiful sound and technique if you know how to apply it effectively in rock music. I don't think Eddie ever realized how much impact and ground breaking new rock guitar sounds he had brought to the world stage of guitar music 🤔 Rest in peace and love Eddie ❤️ 🎸

YES,thank you

This dude is everywhere. Bravo!

awesome as always rock on

excellent tutorial. thank you!

Nice coverage on the topic.

I like how you work in the riff/lick, then tweak it by encouraging the viewer to experiment with the method. I believe this is superior to simply teaching the song/solo. You take this approach in many of your videos. Well done.

it's fun to watch videos like this and see the things in my style that I've already found, and see when famous guitarists have used them. like tap harmonics! and to see new and strange things like that volume swell business, that was cool! educational, and entertaining!

Iv'e watched a few of your videos tonight. You have a natural talent. well done.

Great tips man!!! 🎸🎶🤘

It took me staring for a minute to understand the pickups on that guitar. Alot of thought behind that placement.badass

Great stuff Man Hat's off.

great player and teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess you could say that muted rake strum REALLY GOT ME

Awesome post!

the "eruption motif," also sounds like what he played in his solo breaks in "I'm the one," especially the second solo break.

very good!!!!Tks

pretty awesome on the tips!

that last tech is huge for this player. thanks

I love watching your videos. you are the best teacher by far. slow and methodical.

You’re a great teacher

Thank you so much! Subscriber forever! The most interesting 🎸 tutor video I've ever seen!!!😀

Eddie Van Halen's guitar solo in live without a net is one of my favorites, I like Joe Satriani and Steve also, but you can't take away the influence Eddie must have had on them

Great video man💯🔥 RIP EVH

This video really conveys what a creative and deeply innovative player Eddie is. I've grown so tired of everyone referring to his chops as merely "a bag of tricks" because it's such a hater's mentality. It's not just that he mastered a bunch of little tricks, it's how effortlessly he incorporated them into his music and how fluid and fiery his playing was. So much excitement, expression and emotional content in his guitar work.

Good instructional technique and explanation. I find it even more important than technical ability when instructional videos. You have both. 👍🏻

Thank You Man, you Rock!!!

Thankyou so much your content is so reliable I appreciate the time you took to do this ! RIP EDDIE

nice lesson

You are one of the best instructors I've ever seen Great Job.

Good stuff man. Makes a monster manageable. Appreciate the respect for ed too.

not only did king ed come up with all those tricks but he successfully utilized them as integral parts of actual songs.

RIP, Eddie. May your great works live forever.