Thanks Jay! I don't make a dime off this, so it's great to hear people appreciate it. For me, it's all about doing my part to keep the music I love alive. :)

Hey thanks Dave, if I can do it, so can you bro! :)

Hey thanks man, I'm hoping to start posting more... forgot how much fun this is. Also, thanks for coming back ! :)

Hey man, thanks for the kinds words! :)

Hey thanks Jason! Let's rock!

Thanks Tony!!! :)

Thanks bro! :)

Hey thanks man! It's been a while! :)

Hey thanks bro, I'm digging it more and more over time :)

Hey thanks man, and I totally agree... I love every part of the song. It's proof you don't need to tune your guitar down super low and play Slayer inspired riffs to sound bad ass. It's all in the attitude and the groove. Classic =VH= just can't be beat! :)

Thanks bro! ... and yes, busy with the band as in family ;)

Hey bro, thank you for the nice comment. As for the tone, I'm not sure what advice to give other than... 1) don't use too much distortion.. finding the right balance is important; 2) use it a little bit of phaser for the classic early EVH coloring (in front of the amp).

Thank you. I'll ty

Thank you, phaser is the point, but a very little bit, indeed.

Hey thanks bro, and I'll take that into consideration! :) Rock on!

Hey thanks man! Your channel kicks ass! I'm subbed now!

Wicked cool! Let's keep in touch. Thank you!

Me too! There are a lot of videos out there attempting to teach a thing, and I can tell by listening to them that what they're trying to do is pretty far off. So I really REALLY appreciate the folks that do it right. Also, great video production. Your levels, voice, etc come across great and you don't have a bunch of BS at the start to either try to pimp something or to practice their stand-up comedy act. Rock on!

Hey thanks bro. As for those two guitars, I'm not sure which to recommend. I have not played the 5150 version, but I believe the neck may be different. I actually sold my EVH Striped recently, to make room for another guitar. There was nothing wrong with it though... I just made a commitment to my wife that I wouldn't buy any more guitars unless I sold one first LOL. I absolutely love the Wolfgang pickups too.. I still have them on two other guitars.

ice cream man probably best for stretching, that 12-16-19 stretch pretty hard, if you never train smth like that

I suspect he was just winging it :)

Hey man, you must be referring to Section 3. The note choices (except that 18th fret note) do all fit within the Mixolydian scale so I can see what you are saying. I obviously ended up just saying A Dorian plus the major third... it's been so long since I did this lesson, but I'm thinking the rationale was the the rhythm notes underneath were more minor scale appropriate. Either way, thanks for mentioning that. In the end, I'm sure Eddie would say to us both "what are you talking about?" :)

@@PDXguitarfreak Paul Gilbert refers to the scale in question as mixolydian #9. The very last lick is a great example of it, with the C moving up to C#. You hear it a lot in country/bluegrass music as well as boogie-woogie style riffs like Pride and Joy and even Daytripper. Great job on the solo and vid, keep 'em coming.

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The coolest thing about Van Halen is solos like this one and the solo off so this is love as well as the solo in Panama and the Outro solo drop dead legs are ones Where Ed does not elect to use many tapping lines except for those tasteful taps he does off a bent note, As well as the fact that every time Van Halen is doing a crazy bend he’s never pulling up on the bar because his bar was bolted to the wood Versus a floating bar such that you can only push the bar down. These little subtle aspects of his playing would make him so original. His monster bends and his fluid legato are often confused with some of the parlor tricks which tapping in solos and bar abuse can often be considered by lesser players. The thing is that when he does tap wicked stuff like Spanish fly people can’t touch it. That’s why I really don’t like Most players tapping interpretations of Van Halen solos because a lot of time they just sound like tapped arpeggios that are obvious. For example Randy Rhodes tapping in solos never impressed me at all Because it was never off the cuff and always seemed like some classical étude using Tapping is a sort of a look at me doing this trick. It would be much cooler if he simply played the arpeggios on different strings when going for those very arranged sounding solos. If you’re gonna tap arpeggios in solos that are very predictable it just sounds kind of corny despite the fact that he’s a great players too

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