6 Slick Whammy Bar Tricks

[@skin_e_guy]

you gotta flick it to get the cricket

[@Chillerson]

Anshumaan Purohit lol

[@RoscoeBleach]

Anshumaan Purohit ahaahwdh

[@rintymo9918]

Anshumaan Purohit lol stevie t right??

[@skin_e_guy]

Rintymo yes!!

[@seizaisalone]

Anshumaan Purohit FLICK TO GET THE CRICKET hahahahaha i love stevie t so much im just happy there is another stevie t fan!!!!

[@PostCrusifixion]

my poor stratocaster cant handle such pasion and love for whammy bar

[@tad9258]

Give it a hug.

[@luppy1925]

PostCrusifixion show him more affection

[@warningchimes24]

Spinetta!?

[@c.e.f4916]

You can make a standard fender term system float. If you still want a tense bar leave all the springs in. If you want a lighter bar take a spring out. Then you will see two screws holding the system into the guitar(not on the actual bridge but the other plate that the springs come off of). Loosing these screws a couple of turns and test the bar. If it comes out of tune tighten the screws one turn till you can use the bar and maintain tuning. The bridge should still be floating if you don't put the screws too tight. I was able to do this to a squire and it still stays in tune even when I'm doing some Van Halen whammy stuff. You won't get as much back movement as you would with a Floyd rose but your bridge will be floating enough to do some simple back facing bar tricks (like the ruler one).

[@Dslasher99]

PostCrusifixion more like _Passion And Warfare_

[@CrysisMusic]

Legend has it he has to stop the notes he plays or they will ring out for all eternity

[@ramij9672]

Crysis Music Sustainiac?

[@h_3853]

delay and reverb work magic my friend. maybe a compressor too.

[@ChristianBrock-sh9ev]

Whats the actual purest most vanilla way to get long sustain?

[@clammaster4]

He's on a PRS , these things are deadly

[@SlyHikari03]

@@ChristianBrock-sh9evcompression.

[@bikinipuncake724]

T H I C C pinch harmonics!

[@jimmyjohnspizza3666]

T H I C C 😩😩😩

[@Brad-rj9uk]

my amp broke so now I have to Metallica on acoustic

[@beefcake852]

Ah poor man

[@Retrograde.official]

😂

[@noahreive1868]

rip

[@splashboy3790]

If you have a powered speaker with an aux input, that'll work temporarily with a converter

[@MetallicAGirl14]

Brad That’s so sad😭😭

[@raserapps8230]

A few months back my brother bought me a Kirk Hammett Cry Baby Wah pedal. In my mind I thought it was going to be easy to use and I’d sound awesome. I had no idea what I was doing or how the pedal even worked. Got frustrated, felt a bit like a cry baby myself and put it back in the box. About a week later I decided to try again but with a bit of help. found your video on wah pedal tricks, and suddenly the planets all aligned perfectly and I saw clarity. Next time my brother came over I melted his face. Mr Hammett himself would have been impressed with my awesomeness. I doubt I’d have got through that without your guidance. And here I am, about to become a new level of awesome with my whammy bar. Thanks 😊

[@cynicalcan9589]

9 people have a fender whammy bar...

[@yuihirasawa7548]

Red Billy not true

[@miguelharo3992]

Red Billy try pulling back on it lol

[@lincolnlee6042]

I floated mine and put lock tunners and it does the same thing that a Floyd Rose does

[@eyeout]

Lincoln Lee does it bend the low e down more than an octave? Mine didn’t.

[@lincolnlee6042]

Eyeout I’m not sure, I have never tested it, it’ll be a week before I can let you know because my strat is at my moms house and I’m at my dad house.

[@RAMMSSHADOW]

do you even dimebag bro

[@AirGuitar]

don't think he does...

[@aloser7230]

Nobody does

[@Sir-Thrash]

Impossible

[@boseifrit5480]

3 words: Cemetary gates ending

[@cofedafoax5912]

Nah I think I still have my head

[@johnmarquez333]

That's my favorite of your guitars. I know you've said the green single-cut is your favorite, so if you ever tire of that sexy red beast, I'll take it, thank you! ;-)

[@zenroid21]

And if you get tired of it, I'll take it as well!

[@AshishSinghPaL777]

Umm...then, I'll take any guitar any one of you is tired of....🙄

[@rickvanpol3833]

Great lesson! Could you maybe do a lesson on how to tune with a floyd rose, or change strings, that kind of stuff. My next guitar will have a floyd rose but I don't have any experience with it yet...

[@Freddielovefootball]

Dimebag was the king of squeals and pinch harmonics

[@iwantabikenow3773]

Greatest fucking guitar tone mam. Dimebag was amazing.

[@pretzyy655]

Fredrik Johansson Getcha Pull off that Horse Squeal

[@pretzyy655]

Metal Morphine Getcha Pull off that shit \m/

[@wolfpackq2321]

Fred J squelies give me feelies

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

agree sad he was murdered by the freak it would have been amazing to meet and jam with him

[@csn-audio]

Now I just need a guitar with a floyd :D

[@martyfriedman2672]

Christian N. Gibson Les Paul Shred

[@john6422]

Christian N. get a kahler

[@jeejee0013]

Christian N. Any floating bridge Schecter ever

[@seanoconnor5730]

Marty Friedman I've never seen a Les Paul with a tremolo bar.

[@damienwaychester1527]

Dean MLX

[@xLesPaulx92]

Great video, Tyler. The timing couldn't have been better as I got my Floyd Rose-equipped Schecter guitar just two weeks ago. Already having tons of fun with the whammy bar!

[@MusicisWin]

Wield it with pride, good sir.

[@jman2102001]

Which one?

[@xLesPaulx92]

Xclusivity Schecter Blackjack SLS C1 FRS in Blue-Burst color!

[@jman2102001]

Bart Rock The blue-green burst? I have the avenger body of that one. It's dope.

[@xLesPaulx92]

Xclusivity No, mine is blue and black. But yours sounds nice too!

[@Atibu]

Nice ! My guitar is out of tune just by watching this.

[@Bongz.14]

🤣🤣😂

[@BrafeMan]

I really love using my whammy bar, but I rarely do those ones you did at the beginning haha. I usually make it bend two semitones down or up, at most. Also, I don't usually tremor the notes on the fret board, I end up bending the notes too high lol, also if I do those huge push-ins with the bar, usually a string "pings" and I have to re-tune it after sometimes. I just tremor most of my notes by just finger-noting on the frets and using the bar to do the vibrato

[@lukee_v]

dat sustain doe

[@bryanjamesbecneliii3157]

Dude, it's insane

[@wolfpackq2321]

Mustafa Adaoglu so it still sounds good

[@yvan2218]

The second one is basically Slayer. Nice.

[@bobaIina]

It's a trick. Nice

[@GammaFZ]

69 likes. Nice

[@franticfrancis9710]

RIP My 1981 Strat with a six screw trem and no locking tuners with 9 gauge strings. You will be remembered.

[@v.4730]

Nice approach to some of the classic uses .. Well done and explained so that the younger ax players can grab a hold and put to use.

[@lukefisher9877]

Its ok if you don't have a Floyd Rose........You just really need one :)

[@lukefisher9877]

maybe ;)

[@boseifrit5480]

I know. I've been lowkey watching an ibanez floyd at my small local store

[@jasonladd3682]

@@boseifrit5480 did you get it?

[@boseifrit5480]

@@jasonladd3682 nope😢

[@austin.g204]

Bo Shredd Steve t

[@lucaguitarplayer]

you are the best teacher I ever had. Youb learned me how to sweep picking and now this lesson. Your lessons are precisely and actually clear thanks also to the shots taken in the correct way. I even don't know what to say if not just thanks... for all teacher

[@nathanshervheim4611]

I have a Les Paul... why am I here?

[@boseifrit5480]

Mods

[@jacklalor3672]

I have a tele soooo

[@GabrielCastroVozViolao]

Bigsby b7?

[@lapinus]

@@jacklalor3672 butter scotch toan ok

[@austin.g204]

I have a bc rich without a Floyd rose

[@paolo-1283]

The slurring technique actually is quite the most musical of all the whammy bar tricks, if you listen to Jeff Beck, Vinnie Moore, early Andy Timmons and Steve Lukather the way they use it is beautiful kinda soulful too.. Steve Lukather calls it "scooping the notes" and Michael Caswell (RIP) a teacher from Lick Library perfectly demonstrates it.

[@AbiRizky]

I don't know why am I even watching this video. I don't even play the guitar, or any musical instrument for that matter.

[@eyeout]

Abi Rizky Russian Bot!

[@frankcarlson2900]

How bout now?

[@jaheemwebber2944]

same 😂

[@cringykid5736]

How bout now

[@UmerIrfanMir]

Noob

[@raserapps8230]

Number 1. This is the way. I bought a preowned ESP that should have had a pretty decent original Floyd Rose but the last owner had swapped it for a really cheap copy before selling it. Plus side is I got the guitar cheap and it has active EMG pickups, downside is the tremolo was poop and had all sorts of issues. So for about 6 months of owning the guitar it has been blocked off like a hard tail. This week I finally got my act together and bought a new full locking tremolo system. I finished fitting everything tonight, and tomorrow I will be cleaning up the fretboard and fitting some new slinky pinky’s and will finally be able to swing on that bar. Harmonic divebombs are first on the menu for tomorrow. Thank you

[@gemizu4874]

Whatever jason becker or marty friedman does at the end of Go Off sounds amazing, The little squeaks before the pick attack sounds so cool and gives the harmonic and huge sound

[@aabrams7813]

1:21 I like to call "Summoning the Demons"

[@jakemoll]

I don't know why I'm watching this, I decked my tremolo

[@tad9258]

Noooooooo

[@jakemoll]

I prefer it decked - I never used it anyway, and the tuning stability is much better now.

[@ll200094]

Jake Moll i also think it's much better when the tremolo is decked

[@awonderingoneil206]

@@ll200094 You could just clean it regularly and get a tremolo wedge for the floyd to restring it in 10 minutes. My floyd is always in tune because of this, I'd mention to the tremolo is on my self build guitar.

[@airconditioningunit9777]

Imagine doing a galloping riff and doing the neighing trick, would be amazing to hear before a cover of the 4 horsemen with that as the intro

[@Rozq]

That was freaking gorgeous.

[@amnesian4064]

the nut is near the g string

[@nehemiahzo_]

The nut is touching the g string

[@ctrl_shift_enter6816]

the nut has penatrated the g string

[@krang07]

Eddy Van Halen`s elephant sound is a good one too. With volume down, hit two dissonant harmonics, bend whammy bar down and as you raise the bar back up, use the volume pot to bring in the sound. You must not mute any ringing strings while you lower the bar, hit the harmonics then raise the bar back up while turning up the volume knob, even past the return point. Eddy shows this in one of his backstage video clips while on tour back in the 90s.

[@frankroger1551]

the only bad thing about some of these videos is he doesn't tell you the settings of his pedals or amp, other then that he's great

[@zackfraser8924]

Somebody watched John Petrucci's video

[@aguyinasuit7268]

And Steve Terreberry

[@izheya1448]

aguyinasuit ya he's got one you play guitar

[@joesatch899]

Srevie T. is quite good !! But he acts like a clown..

[@adakhochalai]

Stevie T's video came first!! then petruchis watched him then this guy watched them!

[@joseutrera19]

Zack Fraser how did you know

[@pottergeist]

1:20 the harmonic is still ringing to this day

[@sc687]

The flick came from Brad Gillis in Night Ranger and used more Effectively by the Great Andy LaRocque from King Diamond.

[@stefanpalicki3538]

i like the way that steve vai does flutters, where he like, plays a note and slides his hand on the whammy bar until it slips off

[@teabagayb3890]

2:30 the NUT of the guitar because theyre the THICCest ones

[@EdgeLord-js4vf]

been tryna figure out one specific trick that was hard for me to explain but your video has it. thanks for the bloodmoon whammy bar trick

[@mattrussell5098]

happened to the "race car sound" you know the beginning sound to Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue

[@AugustMullerVMusic]

how have I not subscribed yet? My bad dude. I've been a long-time fan.

[@peterfroloff]

Eddie Van Halen, invented most of these. Rest in Peace to a fucking legend

[@jamiewhite2971]

just bought this exact guitar but without the floyd, prs has its own bridge that isn’t bad though it goes all the way down and a little up

[@shankhashubhradatta3947]

But how do you get that sustain???

[@Bss_-eo9dn]

Shankha Ibanez SSD A little bit of delay I believe.

[@shankhashubhradatta3947]

Danny Keil yes distortion and delay, Child. 😂

[@LuciFernato]

Shankha Ibanez SSD try active pickups they have little longer sustain

[@simpletown323]

You can get fernandez guitars or install Fernandez sustsin pickups that use the pickups to artificially sustain notes indefinitely

[@shankhashubhradatta3947]

simpletown323 yea that's okay, but a Fernandez or a Sustainiac will give an infinite sustain, that will never fade. But the one here has a good amount of sustain and also it decays naturally and slowly (you get that organic feel, instead of the infinite sustain that just maintains itself artificially).

[@RanterInShades]

Swellness!! I've been wanting to expand on my whammy trickery.

[@hellrazorofficial9178]

5:28 works bith ways push/ bounce off of it....or pull up/out and let slip out fingers. Bar in front or back position like shown here.

[@aleksisvladislaws.1770]

01:14 .. it's like Eric Johnson Cliffs of Dover in some part of intro solo.. *- *

[@rsone6945]

My Gibson Les Paul doesn't have a whammy bar but it's already out of tune just because it's a Les Paul. I definitely can't do any of those tricks on my Strat without having to retune often. But I have 6 Ibanez axes with double locking floating trems. Which is perfect...an Ibanez for each of the 6 whammy bar tricks.

[@joshuaft1]

cool video, you should clean your fretboard though

[@Rick_Cleland]

How dare you!! Never touch another man's Rhubarb!!

[@joshuaft1]

***** ooops

[@jeremiahis]

Searched ‘whammy bar techniques’, yours was the first video, I learned some new stuff and found exactly what I was looking for (ruler slam) - thanks!

[@LuciFernato]

70 people got a fender whammy bar

[@leochinchillaa]

why is everyone saying whammy bar don't you mean bridge?

[@fungus2116]

A floated strat works just fine

[@TorturedSouls]

Me

[@MadDogHoek23]

I hear a lot of Jeff Becks style in some of those techniques. Love it

[@jt-silva1162]

I can't do the reverse ruler slam. I've recently changed my strings and before I was able to do it but I don't know what happened.

[@SnooSnoo503]

Christ, I tried to say the title and my furniture started floating

[@tobbson570]

That is a cool guitar! Im getting a ESP ltd mh-1000 with a Floyd in about two months

[@Robynloveshred]

Awesome, Thanks for teaching and sharing.Any suggestions on how to learn to read music? I'm almost 65 and never learned to read music.

[@michaeltaylors2456]

Brad Gillis ( Night ranger ) did the first ruler flick whammy trick that I heard

[@JoeR203]

The "Reverse ruler" just creates the same "Flutter" sound Brad Gillis has been doing since the 80s.

[@MarcsVlogVids]

How do you get the whammy bar to defy gravity? Mine either swivels when loose or at the wrong angle when all the way tight.

[@beemelonhead1]

Used to have an all black Mexi Frankenstrat with a Floyd Rose that I thought was cool so I bought it.. This was in my early playing days and thought it was too much up keep and maintenance (bc I didn't understand how it worked at the time) so I sold it. Now looking back ten yrs later I wish I would've kept it bc it was really a beautiful set up. I live in KCMO so if anyone has a recollection of this guitar and wants to sell it back let me know haha!

[@kaidenbarnes6748]

Oh how far you've come ❣

[@RobGADV]

Two questions -- what about the regular bridge on my PRS SE custom 24? And... how about the Bigsby on my Gretsch 5622T?

[@guitarfreekin]

Listen to vai for the flutters, he does it in for the love of God and blue powder. Really cool how he does them and how he uses them musically

[@hyperbiscuit2284]

I wonder what a tri-tone dive bomb would sound like.

[@megalopolis4]

Hey guys, what do you call 5:52 technique? I’m searching for some information about it online but I’ve never got the right keyword. In Japanese we call it something like “cricket trick” but I don’t think it’s a real English name.

[@SlyHikari03]

Whammy bar flutter?

[@DuffDrum]

The tone you are getting is great!!!

[@jadenharrison]

At 4:52 didn’t Steve Vai use that lick in crossroads at the guitar battle part?

[@grounded279]

That tone is the most wonderful,thing I’ve ever heard

[@LOWINESIBWAANGRANAUsiwara]

Hi bro. Just ask. How to doing the wrabbling sounds. Use whammy bar.. What's its sound used to produce it.. How's to do & what's the type guitar effect used.. Maybe overdrive, distortion, fuzz or etc

[@PsyJaye]

nice moves & really cool techniques - how about sharing the chain & suggest the tones(i.e., overdrive, reverb/delay, etc & I'm not asking for a complete rig run down but some where between the F Rose caveat & ....) to better help the student duplicate the moves - thx ~ J

[@vichulapichula4343]

Thank for your video, it's the only one in youtube (my opinion) that explain very well the techniques

[@alphawolfawa437]

FL, volume pedal, delay, and tons of reverb. ambient dreams xD

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

Question: can you use a whammy pedal and pitch shift pedal to get same results and also for pinch harmonics?

[@skin_e_guy]

Yes, on paper you can. But you’ll never have the same dexterity on a foot pedal that you’ll have on a whammy bar.

[@joshgrant824]

I should’ve bought that prs when I had the chance. It played amazing

[@jananpatel9030]

I bought a cheap guitar + amp setup for around 100 bucks so maybe that's the issue. However, your guitar seems to get louder on the amp, where as my guitar gets quieter so the sound doesn't last as long? How can I fix this?

[@ronsandhu5983]

Cool video Tyler, time to clean up that fingerboard though ! LOL

[@middhuncv8212]

Ron Sandhu

[@TheJedi1980]

Would a Schaller/Washburn vintage steel tremolo with roller saddles, set up with 5 springs, floating with 1/2 step up be similar to a Floyd Rose system?

[@Taylerlrox]

I have accidentally done the "Ruler Slam" on my Gretsch hollow body hahaha, it surprised me and my friend who were jamming.

[@ubda1]

And now it's out of tune, :-)

[@Taylerlrox]

Nut'nbeatsaclassic I didn't hit it hard at all, there was no change that I noticed, just the odd vibrato effect.

[@pencil42_43]

I appreciate that you acknowledge those who are watching in the future.

[@Raiders757]

I have to second Michael Taylors. Brad Gillis brought the so called "ruler flick" to the mainstream back in the early 80s. Back then it was called the "Cricket" and could be achieved by pulling the bar back as demonstrated in this video, or if using a tighter bar, in the forward position

[@Spiumes]

If I do the 1st trick I lost a lot of volume when I go to the high.. how could I fix that? (I'm French so I hope my English is not so bad...).

[@ALLMETAL1970]

I swear as soon as i get my guitar im gonna whammy first

[@xabuinternauta]

your videos are awesome, OH MY GOD!

[@BadRonald1]

Didn't Brad Gillis come up with that floating flutter sound ? I noticed a lot of these methods are some of the same as Ed has done. You didn't mention the Elephant roar. It sounds cool when Ed of course does it. (well not anymore but...

[@Vermillionumbrella]

+Music is Win love ur work

[@JayZeeeeeeee]

Fuck you

[@BoogProductionsYT]

just got my prs se custom 24 red and i’m super exited to try this

[@ollinisula4978]

Why wont my floyd rose make the slurry sounds? Should I adjust the springs or?

[@evanlewis9313]

2:05 - 2:25 Bad Horsie, Steve Vai lol

[@aguitarist2246]

The tone is strong with this one.

[@karenlouis3127]

that is amazing playing on that slurring the pentatonic scale

[@Guisk8POA]

MIW you are the best channel in youtube omg

[@Peabea94]

Thx bro, i was looking for this ruler reversal thingy and now im sure that i need a strat! Lol

[@sexandskateandrocknroll4741]

Jason Becker, Joe Satriani and Dimebag Darrell are my top 3 favorite whammy guitarists

[@TMK8908]

I mainly do the flutter and slurs all the time especially the slurs/spurs in my lead playing

[@jacksonsmith6742]

Charles Caswell always shreds with the reverse ruler

[@Guitarmachine115]

Does it matter which settings you use

[@berhaultkevin]

love your sound, thanks for the tricks

[@SethisaSloth]

Is the reverse ruler slam at all bad for the bridge? feels like the kind of thing that might be

[@cody1064]

How do you do the thing where herman li flings his guitar up in through the fire and flames

[@blostca]

3:54 this was so badass