Slooshy. Love it 😎 Kinda chewy, too.

A great analysis, thanks!

Thank you once again, Martin. Listening to you is pure pleasure...

I just finished watching the YT upload of Van Halen live at US Festival, 29MAY83. Two hours of pure VH at the height of their power. Edward Van Halen is an irreplaceable musical icon. They were simply fucking amazing.

LOVED this one Martin! Really well done.

Wish you'd a been my music teacher!

not sure if you mentioned it and I missed it, but he does the behind-the-bridge plinks DURING the choruses also. every other repetition has it on the sustained D triad. he also does it on the sustained chord after the solo in Feel Your Love Tonight.

Liked! Great channel for informed Van Halen stuff!

First comment! 😝🤘🏻🇺🇸🎸

They already are out of business wtf

Thanks Martin for the great tips and lesson 😊

Damn, I miss EVH! The World was a little brighter knowing we might hear some new music, or see them again in concert. Those days are gone. Miss u bro!

Great workouts

another thing I notice is that your volume doesn't fade in as slowly as Ed's seems to. I wonder if that means he's using a diff potentiometer setup or just less gain. ?

So, the tone is really spot on and works for most VH 1 and 2 tunes, I'd say. So, if you merely LISTEN w/o watching, some of those licks/riffs sound a TAD bit different but that's just because your hands and not built the exact same but also your attack will be slightly different and even playing it correctly can come down to tiiiny little things. But I am of the camp that tone = combo of amp/guitar/effects. Style = brain controlling hands. Reason it doesn't sound exactly like VH is cuz.... you're not Ed. Not to say you are not good but that's just the way it works. If I got on Brian May's rig, I could sound really close because I've played tons of his solos and stuff already. Same with Ed's rig. But I wouldn't sound EXACTLY like them. But point is, if you dont have a good sound to start with, then you'll have good notes but a poor result. Ed had this massively cool tone, detuned B string for massively in-tune power chords on the A string AND blazing riffs and a super creative approach. All of it combined to blow some minds in 1977 and 78. Interesting vid!!

also, just removing lots of 1 to 3k with an eq (say oh up to 4db) can improve your tone towards an Ed tone. His sound wasn't so midrangy like Boston or many other Marshall users. The was a kind of sponginess when he turned it all the way up but it SEEMS to me like it definitely has to be two amps one going into another. He had so much high end that it does sound almost like an amp being fed into a PA system. But not quite that harsh on the highs. What's really strange is how there's a video about how he got the sounds on the early VH albums when we had like 35 years to ask him specifically. Is there no interview where he just spills the beans? That's a REALLY great results you have there. You have that high harmonic thing and not so much mids but not a scooped mid sound either. It's definitely like 95% there. You only needed more reverb on the right speaker! :)

Evh didn't have real speed

Nice explanation of how they sounded like they came from California to me (over in East Lincolnshire when I first heard them). Bright sunshine in the songs (and DLR's blonde hair). But they were driving right in a V8 too!

I love this, I’m trying to learn left handed guitar after paying right handed for over 30 years, all of these tips are perfect things to master from square one as I can’t hardly do a darn thing left handed.

Excellent advice and remember if it starts to Hurt, Stop and rest. Thanks Great video Martin

You sir, are a Sound Scientist! I think you're the perfect guy for this challenge I've been thinking about for a long time. I've often wondered how close a sound scientist like you to come to his tone using only.... ready for it?... Using only a Positive Grid Spark 40. How close could you come? Hopefully you take up the challenge. YOU ARE AMAZING!

Good stuff. A few other "Ed-isms" I notice - bouncing the same riff back and forth between octaves (usually start high and then repeat one lower). Also, his fast runs were often not of any particular scale or mode - he just did the same sequence on each string. Which normally would sound off, but if you do it super-fast and make sure your start and end notes are "good", the stuff in the middle just kind of flies by. And his tap harmonics are pretty signature.

Has any one told you that you look like Richard Wright from Pink Floyd? 😂

Awesome video. It really did inspire awe. If it's wasn't 1am I would be inspired to start trying these techniques RIGHT NOW... but it will have to wait until tomorrow 😢

Carpal tunnel can be caused with continued flexion of the wrist which places pressure on the median nerve on the palm side of the wrist. Resulting in tingling and numbness. It has nothing to do with blood flow.

I practice Eruption all the time to play like Eddie.

Not to be too much wanker, yet that great angled pick sound still changes my sound/feel. I gotta play more !

You just had to bring up pinky and third, didn't you? Good stuff.

Will there ever be another guitarist who can write tastiness like this ever again

Bloody bangin vid again Martin, as always!

EVH was so unique! 🎸👑

Eddie powered his amps with a high end power conditioner that included varible voltage control. He cranked his amps up loud and starved them for voltage by setting the varible voltage to just under 100 volts.

Inspirational and heartfelt. Makes me want to go practice right now! Thank you!

Sweet thank you…pentatonics are getting a bit boring.

The Spanish Fly phrase is the same phrase as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly theme 😊

GREAT VIDEO. WHICH GUITAR IS THAT ONE?

This is gold!

The importance of stretching and strengthening cannot be overstated. Last year i learned the intro to Hot For Teacher and developed painful tendinitis in my index finger that has never fully healed. The strength required to do those hammer ons with fingers stretched to the limit is no joke. Taking it slowly and limiting my practice sessions would probably have prevented my injury.

Thanks so much, I was a guitarist in the eighties and trying to get back into it now, wondering how I'm ever going to get my speed back. Perfect advice at the perfect time! Thanks so much! Paul Sanders

The man is back! Lets go, Martin!

Tapped harmonic piece at the end is so so good. Very melodic

I could not watch until the end. You made me grab my guitar. That's a good thing. Subbed. Cheers. P.S. London and Milton Keynes raised. I am a Kiwi now though. We escaped the wicked witch's axe and legged it out of Blighty. We flew actually, but point being that the accent is familiar. It works for me. Stay calm and none of the hype that gets my blood pressure up.

Awesome 👌🤟

Great clip! I'll share an experience I had that you may dig: I sat in Zeke Clark's Minneapolis hotel room, (after mentioning we'd drove 8 hours in 'The Scamp From Hell' and he freaked telling me all the guys had gone down to the parkade to take pix with it - I'd Van Halenized the entire interior - and I'd asked about seats not in the nose bleeds and he invited me up), in July of 88, the night before the Monsters of Rock show. When we walked in the room I saw the 1984 and 5150 guitars on the bed. He sat in a chair and asked me to hand him a guitar. I handed him the 5150 and I sat on the end of the bed with the 84. I was amazed to find a shallow rout behind the Floyd so he could pull sharp but also _how sloppy and loose_ the wang bar was! We'd barely played 5 minutes and Ed called and sounded irate so I had to bail. Because I am a tool, I put the VH logo and autograph embossed pick _back on the pick tape_ on the lower bout. I'll regret that bit of honesty the rest of my life. Those ethics have screwed me more then once! 😂 But I did get some good karma the next day when a security guard saw me standing beside the front row in the red shoes, pants and tee that I'd Van Halenized. "You're the biggest fan I've seen on this tour!!" He handed me a sky blue pick that Mikey had tossed. More surprising, earlier in the show, dressed like a fool, a guy saw my Aftershow pass and, because I had Zeke's Crew pass, I swapped the little "After Show" circle for a big, diamond shape laminated pass that had by initials written on it at the top! What are the odds of that?! Was a great 38 hours I'll never forget. 👌

Amazing mate 👍

Excellent!

Great lesson! Stretching before playing is So So important. I'm guilty of picking up guitar and then playing for 20 30 minutes flat out. I'm in my late 40s now and I can tell you my hands get really painful if I don't stretch.

Thanks for the insights...explains why the song Spanish Fly sounds the way it does. Thank you 👍

I've posted a summary below of what causes CTS, and I dont think it has anything to do with blood flow... it's a form of repetitive strain injury. Warming up your hands may help in limiting the chances of developing CTS, or it may not. I'm not criticising you... just posting accurate information. Summary. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a painful disorder of the hand caused by pressure on nerves that run through the wrist. Anything that aggravates and inflames the tendons can cause carpal tunnel syndrome, including repetitive hand movements, pregnancy, and arthritis.