Crazy Whammy Bar Tricks!

[@StevenSiroVai1]

There's another Vai pump, but that's a secret.

[@CameronCooper]

It took me over a year to realise you're actually him!! Thank you so much Steve!! We actually met on the EVO Experience on the 25th Anniversary of Passion and Warfare tour at the Manchester Ritz in 2016. Hopefully see you again if your tour the new Vai Gash album ;)

[@BenjaminStrums]

oh hey steve

[@sylverlight]

@@CameronCooper this guy isn't actually steve vai right?

[@CameronCooper]

@@sylverlight It took me a while to sus.

[@Dzeroed]

So was it actually him or not?

[@BenjDev]

Me: *watches this* Also me: *doesn't have a whammy bar*

[@lloydsarnowski6986]

Go out and buy a Digitech Whammy Pedal for about $199.00 Your guitar will never go out of tune. EVER. "Just friendly advice."

[@jamesmoses4066]

@@lloydsarnowski6986 a Floyd Rose will have the same effect, with the downside of never wanting to change your strings

[@AIexKilin]

Some of this are pull off whammy tricks, you can do them with behind the nut bending

[@jamesmoses4066]

I'd like to have my behind the nut bent as well

[@hristoacuna]

Les paul players traditional problem

[@erosyagoreifurbengtsson2481]

I was about to get disappointed at "kickstart my heart" but he played the riff thank God

[@2dazetake]

@@hefenzy Kinda like those comments you find on amazon products, you see the same type of comments popping up for a different items, even on different sites, I myself can't think of a time when I commented the same way twice,on a different channel with exactly the same words, can't say it's not possible though.🤣👍

[@scr2418]

He himself can't stop that 😂😂

[@Mafr0]

Damn it was tasty as hell!

[@patrickmichaels1362]

I was dissapointed that he played t. Also the motorcycle thing is ripped off from Montrose "Bad Motor Scooter"

[@piraetje675]

@@patrickmichaels1362 shut up Meg

[@YumeBasil]

8:15 Damn he moaned. *THAT'S DEDICATION*

[@CameronCooper]

Sometimes it just feels too good 😂😂😂

[@mustardpikachu3597]

@@CameronCooper sheesh crazy moan 😝

[@zachlee7945]

📸📸📸📸📸

[@_LYNCHPIN]

If I had to listen to only one guitarist on a deserted island, it would definitely be this dude. I'm just amazed by his flawless sound.

[@CameronCooper]

You're too kind mate

[@joyceracing99]

Same man, I've seen several whammy bar tutorial videos and none of them compared to this!

[@lucyferina]

Agreed that tone is killer, and as a drummer I really appreciate good guitar tone.

[@jamesmoses4066]

I miss my guitar 😭

[@dennisperin2989]

I am amazed at playing & Charvel. Crazy good sounding axe

[@peterpain6009]

Damn that tone is good

[@jazzram_]

Agree

[@guitarifuldexter6366]

Yeah! It’s amazing! 🤘🎸

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

Want a killer metal tone ? Check out the. MXR fullbore metal it kicks . They have reviews here on KZbin. I just got one from my local pawn shop . It sells for over a 100 bucks new. The guy wanted 65 I offered 45 and he let me have check it out. Cya bro☠️💀🤘

[@WaterproofSoap]

The one that I've never been able to nail correctly is Satriani's "Snake down the Throat" Grabbing a note, performing an upward glissando and diving the bar at the exact same rate...leaving a slightly wobbled pitch center, and the sound of percussive movement over the frets...Vai used it too.

[@CameronCooper]

I can do that! I didn't know about that trick when I made this video though. It's an okay trick but not sure where I'd use it

[@WaterproofSoap]

@@CameronCooper it certainly is niche and wouldn't be as interesting if used more often....maybe in tandem with some of that dissonant high end 'chirp' or 'warble' that a player like Jason Richardson would use for exotic whacky spice.

[@BrandonBames]

Never thought I'd be learning from somebody nearly half my age, but you're proof that inspiration can come from ANYWHERE. Thanks for all these videos man, you have a SICK style and I can't wait to see what you do!

[@donjoseph73]

I know it’s weird man. But if they got the skill I want I say fk I don’t care if there 8 😂 But ya it is weird!!

[@jimmcdougall9973]

Great video that speaks to my 80’s soul. If you think the names are silly... I’m 58 🤣 Thanks for the great channel and keeping EVH alive!

[@garyrodgers9715]

8:12 no one talking about that moan ahha

[@CameronCooper]

That one's for the ladies

[@juliougalde886]

LMAO

[@andy_ped8500]

HAHA I checked the comments only to see if someone else noticed aswell!

[@CameronCooper]

These were my favourite whammy bar tricks. Which other techniques should I talk about?

[@ChainsawChristmas]

Dimebag style squeals where he's catching the harmonic on the way up from depressing the bar

[@RockwithAbe]

Legato

[@CameronCooper]

@@ChainsawChristmas Thank you but they're easy, the video would be done in 20 seconds aha

[@altemu]

Arpeggios played with string skipping

[@RockwithAbe]

@@altemu like Paul Gilbert. Yes

[@matroid4996]

I was literally searching for a good whammy bar trick video last night and didn't find any I like. You couldn't have timed this any better

[@ISGguitar]

Dude, thanks for straight "how to" video without additional sh*t which usually only makes you to loose your time. Very clear, very fast and informative - 10/10. Thanks!

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Hi 👋

[@pointillist]

The swoop is essential. Also best explanation and demo of dive bomb usage out there. Exceptional video.

[@foley15136]

The dive bomb Eddie did in the solo from “Without You” is awesome!

[@ticktacks6281]

"the stwing" has my dying

[@paulmcneill4907]

Two River by Jeff Beck is a masterclass in trem use mixed with harmonics.

[@roryt9751]

That and Where Were You.

[@ShredSymphony]

Love getting the notifications that you posted a new video, your Van Halen videos are amazing 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@deesnuts2791]

This is a freaking great video, I've always wondered how those sounds were achieved. When I was a teenager, I was at some church thing when I heard some guy make this crazy sound come from his guitar, but by the time I looked to see what was up, all I saw was his hand move away from the whammy bar, damn it, I was too late. That was probably 35, maybe 36 years ago, but dude it's like you hit the rewind button on my memories and then gave me the remote... Thanks for that.

[@FBI-sr2eg]

Truly inspiring Mr. Dee Snuts

[@wesleyc.4937]

@@FBI-sr2eg "Looking up too late" has saved me many times; as well as the old "That's not mine" routine.

[@roryt9751]

Glad to hear you mention Jeff Beck, that guy’s tremolo arm technique is phenomenal.

[@Black-Viper75]

As a made in the 80s guitarist I really loved this video, Cameron. Brilliant, bro 🔥🔥🔥

[@jaykay0401]

You gotta do the dimebag one where you dip the bar, and flick the g string with your fretting hand, and while bringing the bar up, you quickly hit a harmonic with the fretting hand. Like 3rd fret. Or the satriani where you dip the bar with your fretting hand, and do a pinch harmonic on the way up, or the opposite, do a pinch harmonic, then dive.

[@fehmartinss]

This is called Squeel as far as I know

[@charthers8903]

You’re my favorite guitar wizard!

[@scottb1518]

I hit the like button even before watching this video

[@troyhenjamin1144]

@3:40 more commonly known as "crickets".Brad Gillis made them a staple in his playing. Well done Cameron. Nobody really teaches whammy techniques so it's great to see you doing this video.. cheers

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Troy

[@joebastian7533]

The piece from “for the love of god” in itself earned you another subscriber. Rock on🤘

[@Cymbaline713]

Joe Satriani's "Lizard down the throat" effect, from Ice 9: Play a note on the G string, low on the fingerboard, and while sliding the note up the fingerboard, slowly bring the bar down at the same rate so that the pitch stays the same as close as you can. When you get to the top of the fingerboard, slide back down while letting up on the bar in the same fashion.

[@Mark_13]

I was gonna mention this one as well! Vai does a great version of this on Flexible with a clean tone. Shows the true nature and intent of the effect.

[@chadwickhurlburt6529]

Yes. And btw, this is one of the harder ones to pull off correctly too. Takes some practice and demonstrates excellent control of the trem system.

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

@@chadwickhurlburt6529 I love things that are hard to do. Because when you finally get it I get a natural high it's awesome

[@Jasper0o0]

That was beautiful! The sound brought me back. I miss the 80’s & early 90’s.

[@stevenwoodruff2647]

A note to myself: yes, you have seen this video before and multi-level deja vu does exist.

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Steve

[@minkorrh]

When I was 17 I used to have this tiny little solid-state practice amp that was about 6x6 inches square. This is 1985. I could place the little amp on its edge at a 45 degree angle contacting the strings and it would immediately start to feed back, Then I could slide it up the strings and get the most realistic motorcycyle sound you can imagine....even better than Kickstart My Heart. I've built a couple of tiny solid state, 9V amps that would equate that little box I had, but none will do the feedback motorcycle.

[@dizzyred1390]

The best whammy bar tutorial period

[@tomasandersson2381]

30 years ago while been tuning the guitar using natural harmonics I ve got funny kina dive bomb sound. The idea is starting with 2 or more same notes on different strings and then change tension with bar. For example natural harmonics on 1st string 7 fret + 2nd string 5 fret (+ 3rd string 4 fret) and so on.. you ve got the idea.

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Tom

[@jrtme]

I am so glad you referenced the women solo. I recognized it right away. I love playing that solo. 😀

[@JLchevz]

That tone was amazing

[@adrianlee3497]

I first learned the importance of the whammy listening to Ritchie Blackmore abusing the heck out of it with Lady Double Dealer and Alice Cooper had a song called Cold Ethel where there was a heavy whammy solo and of course Jimi Hendrix. There's so many possibilities with a good whammy set up especially if the guitar is routed out underneath the tremelo system where you can pull up on it and turn it in a circular motion. As Dime would say Get yer pull! ;)

[@dieshpiraino2985]

I love your tone, vibrato and your whole playing. Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina

[@lnsurgentt]

when the tone is so good you moan lol 8:14

[@grandarchon6969]

Jason Becker did a lot of the "empty room" stuff. You can hear it especially on the first section of the song Opus Pocus.

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Hi 👋

[@johndemarchi-social-czars]

51 yo, grew up on VH. Well done!

[@kissarmysgtwrm4mccormick40]

Yes!!! Brad Gillis was amazing on the Ozzy live album I had doing all Sabbath!!!

[@maxkelter3561]

Interesting to see how those different sounds with the whammy are made. Tnx.

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Max

[@jelmeromero]

Cam, I finally pulled the trigger and bought the same purple Charvel pro mod. I kept watching your vids and that guitar just spoke to me. I'd never thought about a purple guitar but it's so beautiful and sexy. I'm loving the jb in it. The ebony fretboard brings out this silkiness to the tone. I also love the coil split built in. Such a versatile great guitar.

[@JedTaneo]

Me watching while holding a Les Paul copy.

[@NECRO-PLAGUE]

Get a bigsby

[@rickeymathis7672]

Need that Les Paul Custom bro...

[@chaos4316]

Slash’s main guitar was a Les Paul copy…

[@Geetargramps]

Oooh, ouch. Just bending and pull offs for you pal.

[@likhith-kumar.]

I don't even have a guitar 😢

[@jamesdalian8774]

This young man is way to cool for his years!! Keep it up, Cam, your a bad ass!!

[@JoeFic9997]

Great tips and great playing too !

[@zmetalsanctum]

as crazy as it sounds, Ive always wondered how to do that brrr sound right before doing a pinch dive. 1st thing you explain in the van halen style, always thought that sounded so cool. After so many years of playing, I thank you for finally explaining the part most dont at all!

[@SketchEtcher]

Excellent demonstration thanks so much!

[@AlexSaints-t2k]

Cant wait to get my Charvel, so excitedddd!!!

[@gabrieljohannson6777]

A true legend and humble too boot. 🤘.

[@garyeckel1656]

I like the Hendrix Dive on All Along The Watchtower...its just so "psychedelic"

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Gary

[@renevanderbruggen731]

thanks a lot Cameron 👍👍

[@benmansell]

One of the best vids out there. If not the best on this . Great little tutorial on the whammy . Thanks

[@rajatshrestha7415]

vu

[@FilipeVidalVideos]

Nice Tips /Tricks ! Best regards from Portugal !

[@radosawpendziaek7503]

Dammit you've got kickass left hand vibrato! 100% in control.

[@CameronCooper]

Thanks. Worked on it since the start pretty much.

[@Music20275]

I actually didn't listen to you, I was just admiring your tone, DAYUM!!

[@MizuRino]

One of the best videos regarding whammy bar tricks with real life solos! Awesome!

[@FrankyGotTheBill]

I have Jackson, Kramer and Charvel guitars and they have floyd roses as always so good call on the whammy bar.

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Frank

[@Mrchow19721]

Love the whammy bar tricks. I always played like Jake E Lee style (no bar) in my younger years made the guitar scream without the trem bar but know decided to mix both techniques together, Cool to see and learn a bit more of an area of expertise I never had experienced before.

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Hi 👋

[@queball830]

I getting a Jackson Dinky with a whammy this Saturday, can’t wait to rewatch this then

[@spkay31]

Really nice intro to lots of great whammy/floyd techniques. You cover a good bit of ground in a nice short video!

[@CameronCooper]

Glad you liked it! That was the goal. Cheers!

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Scott

[@gabrielshelwood3072]

Thank you🎸

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Gabriel

[@srhatfield]

A really great player who uses the bar a lot is Michael Lee Firkins. He makes it sound like he’s using a slide. It’s really cool!

[@autk]

Jeff Beck trick at the very end for the win! Great tips ..TU

[@vanhalen5625]

When he started kick start...i was so anticipating him to continue...and he did .lol

[@JohnMcKLV]

I just bought a Rickenbacker 12-string. Now I've realized it needs a floyd. Thank you!

[@sandeepsreehari9188]

A list of awesome tremolo tricks worth trying out right now. Thanks for the great video mate 👍👍

[@selmirhajdarbegovic706]

To me, you’re the best on the internet and probably the youngest such a good guitarist. I like your style. Cheers!!!

[@anthonyryan8528]

That's pure mad sounds your making cool out thanks for thd lesson 🙂

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Anthony

[@morten1]

It was great to see Prince started using guitars with whammy bar. And he used it well

[@unoefxz]

The "gargle" in America is called "cricketing" That is what Brad Gillis called it in Guitar Player Magazine

[@musicman9901]

or "fluttering", pretty sure Vai and a few others refer to it that way. The trick goes by a few names evidently.

[@shelendrakumar217]

You're just am..mazingly doing it

[@StONed-mb1iv]

The trick that I learned quickly by having a guitar with a FR tremelo system was taking it off......

[@Ibaneddie76]

So you now have a guitar with no strings?

[@StONed-mb1iv]

@@Ibaneddie76 I went to Bass.....

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

@@StONed-mb1iv MEGA LOL. I didn't like the Floyd I couldn't palm mute and gallop etc. So I got a charvel with a regular whammy

[@ThomasSmith-og3ke]

I have played with a whammy bar since I got my Univox double coil guitar when I was sixteen. I have played with wammy bar not noing the effects I was doing. My band members used to say what are you doing , and with a dumb look pn my face I'd say I don't know. At that time I was playing alot of soul music and I guess my body movment and holding the whammy gave me a crazy sound , especially on the slow tunes my best was Never Can Say Goobye

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Thomas

[@BenCoombs]

You certainly know how to use that wiggle stick!! Great video, cheers!!

[@ParanormalResponse]

I bought that guitar because of your vids using it. It is hands down my favorite guitar I have ever owned.

[@DaSeppii]

You have a really nice vibrato.

[@CameronCooper]

Thank you very much!

[@darrenwardell3079]

You would have loved to have lived in the 80’s my friend. Great tone and style🤘🏻

[@TheMidnightModder]

I'm glad you played some of Kickstart my Heart instead of just teasing us xD

[@jackschitt7783]

Great video! I've never seen these shown before. I don't remember where/how I learned them other than a few seminars Dimebag hosted and showed some of his tricks. I think I figured some of them out clowning around. Trem bar's cool! So many things can be done with it that almost no one does anymore.

[@sonofnun7803]

The best whammy tricks demo out there Thank you Next, can you show us a demo of your rig, in particular the amp, Cheers

[@Rockeiro70]

Thanks for explaining in detail 👍🏼 When just listening in a song many sound very similar and mostly You are not quite sure how to get the same effect. Very useful !!!

[@falseflag42]

Where is Reb Beach? In my view a brilliant user and amazing control.

[@unicodeunicorn3949]

Dude! Thank you for these! There's so many examples of tracks mentioned in here that I never could get my head around!!!

[@unicodeunicorn3949]

Definitely trying these out as soon as I get the chance! Any go to tricks to have the Charvel bar not loosen up though? :)

[@JesseLeeKing]

A great lesson as always and alot of people make stuff harder than it really is until they know the little trick to stuff. Which u explain it in great detail , yeah and ur playing the best charvel lol I have that same guitar well not the exact same one lol

[@metalman2943]

Bro was REALLY feeling that lick at 8:15 😭😭💀

[@CameronCooper]

The perils of a lapel microphone and trying to hold back a yawn. But I was feeling it, I think we all were if they made it that far aha

[@bhrriss]

Why am I watching this? I don’t even have a floyd guitar🤣😭

[@JC-11111]

It's not required to do a lot of this stuff. A properly floating Fender-style bridge can do some of these things. You obviously don't have the entire range of motion that a Floyd has but you can still do them and have them sound good.

[@guitarifuldexter6366]

@@JC-11111 I don’t even have one of those! 🤘🎸😅

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

Easy problem to fix. GO GET ONE ASAP 🤘

[@bhrriss]

@@enlightenedwarrior7119 got one;)

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

@@bhrriss freaking awesome bro. I saw your comment was 3 months ago lol. How ya like it? It took me awhile to get use to palm muting and doing fast picking the way it's designed . I made the bad mistake of not watching videos on how to set it up lol I cut all the strings at one time it was driving me crazy so I brought to someone to set it for me I got a Jackson with one on it. 🤘enjoy sir!!!

[@shaundomingue6509]

Excellent instruction! Great chops.

[@rockers2rockers616]

Cool...the only one I know, and always gets people to stop and listen, is to have some gain, turn the volume up on your amp but roll your guitar volume down. At fret 12 pluck both the low and high E harmonic at the same time then quickly roll on your volume to loud. Pause for a sec then slowly raise the trem bar. The sound is other worldly as the low E note tries to catch-up with the high E. It's a freaky trick that you can ride with a drum and bass behind you.

[@JesseLeeKing]

I have that same purple San dimas which I bought after seeing you with it. It's my first guitar with a floyd rose too because I e always used my American strat before that. Omg ty yesterday I spent all day doing whammy bar tricks so I ove the lessons. I was practicing off of rob Chapman's lesson yesterday. I ty so much for this lesson dude i love your playing.

[@PhilFeedback]

Great lesson video, my favorite example is definitely the Gary Moore Empty Rooms solo. 5:14

[@shaunlovett1565]

Cool lesson.. impressed

[@Za_wizzard]

1:34 that sounds like eddie van halen on live without a net eruption solo

[@thebestfrenchfry4096]

it does! the live without a net solo is truly a masterpiece!

[@Za_wizzard]

@@thebestfrenchfry4096 i know, best one ever

[@thebestfrenchfry4096]

@@Za_wizzard Yeah. Eddie truly nailed that solo.

[@t.sewell1513]

That tone is excellent!

[@WizardOfArc]

Dammit.... you’re making me want a Floyd rose again

[@raserapps8230]

Awesome description and explanation. Just saving a time stamp to try and learn something I could try implement in my own little lick. Sounds great. One problem I seem to have is the angle my bar sits at is pointing away too high from the body so when trying to hold it and pick, my hand is uncomfortably far from the strings for picking. I need a replacement bar with a better angle. I once had an Ibanez which had a bar that would sit so low and parallel to the body that it’d catch on the fine tuner’s on the tremolo. But having it lower was easier to pick comfortably while having the bar in my palm too! Thanks anyway l. Really helpful video 6:00

[@krr104]

I know this sweet trick where I never touch the whammy bar.

[@anthonyryan8528]

Pure cool man thank you for the lesson

[@crisrose521]

Eddie used the “ siren “ technique on DOA as well as the swell during the intro . And you missed a Brad Gillis trick in there he used as well as a technique Eddie used often during low E dive bombs but decent tutorial thank you 🙏

[@nastradame]

so did hendrix

[@seagullpoet]

Bought a G&L ‘Legacy’ guitar. Tremolo bar. Those tricks aren’t easy lol. You absolutely nailed Kickstart My Heart ! Fun video !

[@nikkmorse]

Camtastic as usual buddy 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼 (see what I did there 😁) nice stwings 😂