You’re top 3 KZfaq guitarists for me, man. Thanks for everything you do

Freak...this is a perfect example of Eddie's "falling down the stairs and landing on your feet" style...i too had to practice at half speed and work my way up....took me about a week...its ALL feel....great job my brother!!!

Wow that was excellent. Ed's phrasing just stumps me a lot of the time. It's those blues based off the cuff phrases that are just so hard to imitate.

OH MY GOD! This is by far the best tutorial I´ve ever seen! You rock! And you´re for sure a guitar freak! Thank you SO much!

i wished every guitar player on youtube that makes lesson videos would explain solos as good as you do man! thanks a lot for this!

Really REALLY cool and helpful use of reduced speed playback with each section. Your lessons are the best. THANK YOU!!

Probably one of the best lesson formats I've seen so far. Broken down into sections with the tabs and played at several speeds. No need to walk through each note individually

This is probably one of the best guitar instructionals I've seen ever.

This is one solo I never geeked out on but now Ill be able to!!! Ive always love the riff at 4:40, I cant believe its only a few notes! I never knew what he was doing there. Great Video!

VERY well explained...I used to play this 15ish years ago and have long since forgotten it. I started re-learning it yesterday and this video saved me so much time. Thank you!

My man you're the smoothest player, you could go on tour with van Halen

Great, great video. So many transcription of this solo that may be accurate, but get stuck somewhere on the page. With these really ‘bizzy’ phrases, you really gotta’ see and hear someone making the notes fit where they belong - and you are the Grand Poo-Bah of that, my friend! THANK YOU for this lesson!!!

Still one of my favorite players here , it´s always good to watch your videos .

I love the breakdown you provide! Great job

OMG bro!...you just keep on smoking these solo"s...you"re an amazing player and the best guitar teacher ever! Keep it coming bro! Cheers!

Awesome stuff! Thanks as always... I've been listening to this for ... 35 years (gah!!) and never really noticed there was no whammy on the tune, which aligns with the Flying V usage. It also speaks to the power of the music video, with the scene of Edward soloing on the Frankenstrat while walking on the tables in the library.

I always get happy when I see you posted a new lesson cause' I know it's going to be great....! Thanks for all those videos and the effort you put into them

Gotta admit bro, best solo lesson Ive ever seen. 1st night and I'm half way to playing it.

its wild how this song still sounds good slowed down lmao

Thanks for all your great videos much appreciated

I’ve watched KZfaq tutorials for guitar solos for years. You are honestly the one who taught the best out of them all. You went in depth about everything and that’s something I really do appreciate. So thank you.

One of my all time favourite songs and solos, great job as always man 🤘🏼

On this video, alone, you picked up a new sub... can't wait to see more videos from you, brotha!

Man,your lessons and teaching,top shelf

I like the way you teach PDX. Simply Great.

PDX...you ARE are Freak (I MEAN THAT RESPECTFULLY) A freak of nature. Your attention to detail is off the charts. I love it! This is my therapy for now....to process our loss. It’s weird to be so affected by the loss of the great EVH. But like you, I’m devastated and I feel hallow. To not think about it, I’m going to throw myself into getting as good as I possibly can at playing like King Edward. Please continue to make these instructional. There’s a whole new generation that will never get a chance to see EVH live and in person. I know you did and I saw them more times than I can remember. Hard to believe he’s gone😥 Now I’ll try and play his music until I’m gone. Thank you!🤘🏽🎸

Thank you Laurie and Thank you Dave. I have been working on this solo for a couple weeks, and have been wishing you would dow this one for us. Thank you again for your hard work! Chris alias Bob

Thanks for breaking it down man. I’ve always thought this solo was so difficult to play until I watched this. Thanks!

Excellent teaching approach 👏 Thanks!!

you are the best man. i love your videos you have the best van halen tutorials, and i seriously appreciate it since all i play is VH :)

So clean! You're awesome! And the lesson is very well presented!

Best instructional vid on KZfaq. Every guitar tutorial should emulate this one.

Wow - you really have a talent for breaking songs down. I love the way you approached this song by slowing it down. Such an approach really has helped my playing recently and I honestly have you to thank for that. I've been playing for many years and really have just been mumbling my way through the solo. You make the hard look simple - not an easy thing to do. Kudos!

Amazing tone. And I love your shirt it’s awesome! Thanks for this I’m on this part of the song and this is the best video for the solo c: !!

Awesome tutorial as always PDX Guitar Freak 🤘

Since putting down the bad stuff and picking up my instrument again your videos have played a key part in my refound love of music and playing guitar, and I have also grown A LOT as a guitar player from you and a very few others peoples channels. Rock on dude and thanks!

Excellent playing and explanation. Really well done. playing that solo was a dream of mine and now you help me achieve that. THANKS! You have great skills

EVH the best ever !

All about the phrasing indeed. Great great lesson.

I like when you do the full, then half speed then break down. It really helps the ear in the whole context and transitional points.

One some ukrainian Van Halen's fan very grateful to you. Thanks.

I would love to have a beer with this guy! best VH lessons online, watched this video every time I go to play this

One of my top five greatest solos of all time to me.

Recently purchased a 2020 EVH Wolfgang Eddie Van Halen USA Signature. Great video to break it in with. Thanks for the time you put in on this to pull it off 🤘😎👍🎸

This is so perfect and spot on, thank you! Hair or no hair, you have the best instruction for Van Halen leads! ;-)

Thanks for this!

Thanx for this great video !!!

Great!! Many thanks! 👍🏼🤘🏻😎

Great tone

Thank you for this

Damn brother mad props really great informative video and detailed thanks for the upload👍

Thanks mate I used pieces of this lesson for my cover of this solo on my channel, greatly appreciated. Phrasing in this thing is a killer

I was helpful. Thank you. From Japan.

Excellent lesson!

Great lesson!

Epic solo that you rarely see done right. I salute you.

thanks again dude, that was tasty for sure and the guitar was definitely a nice touch cool

another great lesson dude

Special thanks to Laurie McKittrick and Gary Bishop for their recent donations to the channel (Laurie also made the request for this solo). You rock! Want to learn the intro solo? I have a lesson here on KZfaq on how to play that too (link in the video description) :)

great job! learnt cowboys from hell solo from you and now this. love the comedy in your other videos too!

PDX Guitar Freak is the sh*t!!!

Killed it

KILLER DUDE Very close but you did the most important thing adding your own spice

Sweeeeet! Thank you...!!!

You are an extremely good guitar teacher

You have mad skills my brother.

sweet, thanks for this!

AWESOME FREAK, JUST AWESOME!!

it sounds so fkn good at half-speed, so groovy

It’s nice to know that I don’t have to completely ear stuff thanks to badasses like you

Great lesson dude if you could please make a lesson for solo big trouble off the eat em up and smile lesson there is none on youtube and it's a great solo your cover and lesson is so good and the tab really helps thanks a lot man

Very fitting you did this on a V as did Ed on the recording.

Love the flying V! nice touch to the video since we know eddie recorded this song with 58' v!

Correction . 10 seconds later you showed your face. Thankyou now I know the lead. Without your knowledge I would spend forever to learn it. Thankyou for your great wisdom!

Just subscribed

Wow amazing lesson , very detailed Can we get some symphony x lessons Subscribed

Hey that lead was near perfect. Now I know how its played. Dont be afraid to show your face Great Musician

Dave. Awesome. I like the wigless

Great work! Will you do the solo for 'Best of Both Worlds'?

YESS excellent video lesson/cover here man!! Been following for nearly a decade since I saw your original round and round" cover video back in freshman year, time fucking flies part of my playing truly grew up" with these types of videos of yours! Big change up from the afro wig I'd normally expect to see in your videos tho ;) * BIG request for your next and or future lesson cover videos! * How about wingers "seventeen" solo cover/tutorial?! * Rebs approach to tapping always takes the cake for me! Sure he came after evh randy George lynch etc etc but I bet you will agree with my that reb was the first to make his tapping solo licks sound like super fluid legato runs! As a kid and now if I was just listening and couldn't see his hands I would have thought it's just legato! * Your breakdowns and talking in between takes is beyond helpful and useful, not enough people value stuff like this over a plain tablature. * Anyways, thanks for all the videos dude!! You rock!🤘 Really hope you see this, one day I will have your chops and wicked guitar collection to choose from too haha * cheers from Niagara falls Canada! 🙏🤘 - Adam

One of my favorite Van Halen solos Dave ! Flows so smooth with Eddie's fiery touch! I had no idea the song was played on a flying V ! Awesome !!!! 👍

Super🎸

Slowing it down was a Great way to teach the lead.

dude luv your lesson do u have the patch for that tone on a pod 500 x

Best one I've seen!

Once again excellent excellent guitar lesson I never miss them! I know Eddie has doesn’t stick to any particular scale besides pentatonic and blues but does he use any modes or just add notes?Also do you think you could do his guitar solo from Live Without A Net or is that too long?I would love to make a contribution to your channel for all your lessons & your time you put into these!

Sections would sound like octave clefs Section One - Treble clef then Treble clef 8vb (scratches in Treble clef 8vb) Section Two - Treble clef Section Three - Treble clef Section Four - Bass clef Section Five - Bass clef 8va Section Six - Bass clef 8va Section Seven - Treble clef Section Eight - Treble clef Section Nine - Treble clef 8vb

Im 64 and have seen alot of demos, this was a great lesson, are you still doing lessons on line like this 1? Anyway that was awesome.

Bro… you’re legit.

Nice. Looks like your tabs seem to be more accurate than songsterr!

Bro you must do "Beat It" & "Jump"...please. I see you probably know them both. #Excellent

I just pulled out my September 1990 Guitar magazine to start learning this solo and PDX posts a timely how to! I just got through the on Fire solo (another EVH head-turner). Any change you can share your Helix/pedalboard set-up for the EVH stuff?

Is it just me or does this song sound like some smokey blues club version all slowed down? Pretty damn cool.

Dang, you can shred

*me too distracted my the intro solo background*

Hey Dave, How much do you charge to do a solos. I would like to support you for more Van Halen. Do you have a website? Bob

Damn dude you play this better then EVH himself 😆

Are you playing that all from memory? Should I learn pentatonic scales first ? I am a rhythm guitar player. I just can’t figure out how you know where to put your fingers so fast. What would be the fastest way that I can learn how to play that

I have the tab to this but even till this day, I can't ever seem to get the timing right because some of it is slightly off beat and I'm a percussive player...ugh

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