DIMEBAGS SECRET TRICK FOR DIME SQUEALS

[@dans2576]

In 2000 I met Dimebag after a gig in Manchester and asked him specifically about this. He was really kind and told me how to get the harmonic etc. Wish he’d mentioned the wah, might’ve saved me 20 years of grief 😂

[@bigmike9527]

LMAO a secret is a secret and who wants to be easily copied

[@russellzauner]

@@bigmike9527 Dimebag Darrell - Randall Clinic - 06-03-1993 Full Lengh video 1,848,029 views Apr 9, 2012 Dime gets the question and gives the squeal lesson at 26m25s

[@OfficialFatLip]

the JP way is over rated, difficult to set up and expensive..try Dime's crybaby from hell dude, Dime told me he was working on this since the mid 80s

[@brettlambert703]

I was at that gig!!!! Didn't meet Dime tho 😢

[@GrantWeddle]

He didnt need the wah, bro. He was straight up randall and pure awesomeness.

[@dantheman2907]

I learnt how to do the Dime Squeals from a Guitar World interview with Dime way back in the day. I remember him talking about how he often just had the wah on for leads - not to wah with, but to have it sit in a specific range and really focus the tone. Exactly the way you've used it here.

[@Ryo7_7]

Me too. Dime's my favorite guitarist that I've learned from and coming from the same state. 🤘🏾

[@elancaster3989]

I read that article in middle school,cool... Apperantly were old as fuck now.

[@luigizanellato2959]

Is that the Guitar World with Dime and his Trendkill camo guitar? Riffer madness I think. Awesome shit!

[@Jackson666fan]

Yeah dimes stoner logic made it very easy for me to understand

[@randynelson9961]

Dime's old Riffer Madness articles in Guitar World! I learned Drop D tuning from one of those articles.

[@donVisiore]

New series: Ola explaining shit. :-D

[@amaan22006]

YES!!!!!!!!

[@Staminist-MMF-80]

Ola cocking shit, yea

[@DominicAirola]

I'm waiting for Ola taking shit

[@replicated]

@@DominicAirola doesn't he take enough of our shit? haha

[@Breaker197]

This absolutely needs to be a thing!

[@schotzfired]

Just started listening to pantera and as a guitar player I really admire your effort in keeping dime’s legacy alive

[@VapnFagan]

I wonder if a fixed wah pedal (Fulltone WahFull or CryBaby Qzone) would work better for something like this? kick it on for leads, kick it off when done. The controls on a fixed wah pedal will allow you to dial in the perfect tone to hit those high notes rather than having to use you foot to rock back n fourth...

[@Staminist-MMF-80]

Tell this to Kirk... 😏

[@OlaEnglund]

Or just an EQ pedal in general would work, just boost the hi mids and scoop the rest

[@superkillrobot]

If you listen closely though, especially on the recording, the wah sweep is very noticeable, and very much a part of what makes those harmonics scream. I feel using an EQ pedal wouldn't give you the same deep scoop up into those higher registers you hear. The greatness of that lick is definitely the sum of all it's parts. An EQ pedal may 'work' better, but would it sound better?

[@Ottophil]

@@superkillrobot did you just try to correct ola on his own channel? Lol

[@andrewreichert15]

On my boss ms3 I have a wah toe down setting assigned to a foot switch so if I want that extra high end to do the squeals I just press it instead of kicking on the wah and risk not turning it off haha

[@musicsucks6969]

Holy Shit, I am so inspired to make videos again! Thank you Ola!

[@joe99173122]

Came to the comments hoping I'd see this! Was not disappointed.

[@MetalZoned]

great job dude

[@beetojerrin9992]

You should make more videos, man!!!!

[@kayzgamez]

When the wah kicks and you get the perfect scream it just makes the hair on your neck stand straight up and send chills down your spine

[@TheTomarild]

It’s also impossible to do Dime squeals without a proper Squeal face.

[@n7warlock22]

While cock-ing the wah...lol

[@DavePowell666]

That's the real secret. 😆

[@russellzauner]

@@DavePowell666 you can see his face Dimebag Darrell - Randall Clinic - 06-03-1993 Full Lengh video 1,848,029 views Apr 9, 2012 Dime gets the question and gives the squeal lesson at 26m25s

[@bunny_the_lifeguard9789]

@@n7warlock22 HAH! :D

[@ambrooks5]

It’s absolutely necessary lol

[@Pain0nRye]

I seriously love how much Ola just shouts out smaller channels. Another reason why we love you brOla

[@rpf23543]

I love your new style of content!! Back to the roots, more guitar related, less drama. Thanks Ola!!!!!

[@devoncutmore]

Dimebag shows how to squeal and what he uses to get those long notes. I learned this in 2005 straight from the man himself. The video is probably still online. It was for young guitar or guitar magazine. It originally was a DVD in a magazine I think or they released it after he died. Also an overdrive pedal helps with the wah wah pedal. Awesome guitar collection and playing!

[@Ramenmamenbobenstein]

Must've been 04

[@tsalagi78]

Today will be the day that there are more people simultaneously doing the dime squeal than any other day in history 🥲🤘🏽🤘🏽everyone should film it and get it edited all together 💀

[@jsd1982]

I think the key here is actually feedback into the pickups and strings, like a sustainer pickup does. You can't do this when playing/recording silently in headphones. It has to be acoustically loud in the room with the pickups and strings resonating with the feedback note from the high gain amp.

[@RedSheap]

Also muting. All other strings except the G need to be totally dead with left hand muting

[@majesticpbjcat7707]

@@creamwobbly pickuppery?

[@russellzauner]

@@RedSheap yep, exactly as Dime says Dimebag Darrell - Randall Clinic - 06-03-1993 Full Lengh video 1,848,029 views Apr 9, 2012 Dime gets the question and gives the squeal lesson at 26m25s

[@patientmental875]

You can do it in headphones

[@alfredosierra2612]

​@@patientmental875definitely, I've just done it on headphones with a Boss GT8

[@JasonVladimir]

Watching Miss Kayla Kent has inspired me to learn this! Thanks for sharing!

[@SaiyanCherry]

That “HAH!” @ 2:32 legit caught me off guard and got me😩 love the videos! I actually was thinking about buying my very first Dimebag guitar but I have no clue what to get

[@randalljones4370]

great clip... I love that Dimebag was so frequency-astute to target and narrow the guitar's output with a simple wah. Another example of how the most elegant answer is METAL !!!

[@Apprentice_of_the_Leonine]

He had a sixth sense about some things. In 1995, when Pantera were prepping for the Trendkill sessions, they had a bad result from testing a tape machine out to record. There was a horrendous low-end hum buzz all over the test recording, and Dime was the one that walked in and said "hey, I wonder if it's that 50,000 watt power line running under the studio", or something to that effect.

[@austinfailz]

The wah, particularly that one, is also adding a huge boost to the front end of the amp or whatever it is you are using for your distorted sound.

[@Chaos_Smoker]

In the damageplan video in japan that dimebag speaks about this, but he just said that if you wanna nail the squeal will cost you money, hopefully dimebag wah is very affordable at least for me. Just awesome

[@napalmjayhee]

No one does it like Dime but same goes to Alexi Laiho as well. So rare to hear anyone be iconic with these simple techniques.

[@pan1k]

Dirty sock is also a required item to hit those 1st or 0 fret squeals xD

[@ninjaneer1974]

Fantastic!!! Good to know. Never would've thunk it. Props to Ola for giving the guy a shoutout and link to his page! metal.

[@paulsaunders1165]

Ola I would really appreciate a mention of my friend Nicky Sims from London UK she passed away recently and was a big fan of your channel and I will miss watching the Sunday show with her from now on, thanks keep up the good work Paul

[@solarreflexz]

HAHAHA I laughed so hard at 2:31 😂😂Nicely done Ola!

[@Dilldough.]

His neighbors must think he’s being abducted by aliens.

[@nemrac2883]

I needed this. The technique is so unique and my whammy bar thanks you!!

[@Boristhaspydr]

Of course this would come up as we're getting ready to go pay our respects to Dime and Vinnie :D

[@Silvabulletproduction8337]

Active pickups and high gain is also very important,no one ever mentions that…..great video,that wah techniques pretty interesting I might try it !🤘

[@ShaunNeilGuitar]

Super stoked I'm getting my Dime Razorback Union Jack limited edition tomorrow 😄 going to be saving this video for then!

[@masonkertson9774]

I’ve been actually doing this for months now!! I had no idea dime did that too, but I discovers that it really helps the note sustain longer, and sounds hella clean

[@BurntSquirrel]

Dime actually made a lesson video on how he does the squeals.

[@medieval_flail]

He didn't mention the wah pedal lol

[@msteele0]

WOW! I did not know this. AWESOME trick.

[@sosdeboss6664]

The look in your eyes when you droping the DiveBombs is the execly face when im doing it. Im just addicted to that Töne :D

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

VERY cool. Going to grab my Morley!

[@rayrobinson2074]

I've had a Morley Wha since the 80's that I won't part with. Makes a great overdrive and tone control besides the obvious Wha function, but I'm pretty sure the real trick is opening your mouth just right when you pull the note up.

[@claudevieaul1465]

That cocked ("HA!") wah works a bit like a compressor that way too, as those specific frequencies hit the amp that much harder. Michael Schenker uses it the same way to get some more sustain (but without the squeals 😀)

[@darkmtxdarkmtx]

@@claudevieaul1465 loved that HA

[@JonYadonJr]

Badass Ola!!! Love me some tasty whammy tricks! Sounds amazing! :-)

[@DRock8040]

Ola! I love that you love Dime as much as I do! Love your channel!!🤘🤘

[@bradzillarocks]

My favorite Dime squeal is the beginning of "Light Comes Out of Black". Sounded like his guitar was screaming for its life.

[@DomicidalCovers]

Very interesting trick! I may or may not have done this before yeeeeeaars ago without thinking about it, but it does make perfect sense now! Just going to point out something else to anyone who doesn't know, he also didn't have very low action either, so to anyone who thinks they need crazy low action to be able to play Pantera easier...well, this is even more testament to how great he was haha. The high action will help keep the note too as it won't "fret out" as early when the action lowers even more from pushing the bridge back👍 Thanks for that Ola, and Music Sucks!

[@Cthulhu_Awaken]

Nice tip and nice seeing you here man!

[@DomicidalCovers]

@@Cthulhu_Awaken ha No worries man, you too! /,,/

[@alexarchibald5321]

This just blew my mind. Can't wait to try

[@gszuntz]

Incredible. The wha gives a sustain information

[@connorcostello7404]

I'm guessing its the wah pedal. Figured this out a while ago and it blew my mind

[@friedrudibega6384]

It would help with the freqs

[@silverpairaducks]

in 1994

[@floridianthrasher5426]

I thought it was a whammy pedal

[@connorcostello7404]

@@floridianthrasher5426 the wah pedal effects the tone but the whammy peda effects the pitch. I don’t know why it works exactly but if you listen to your guitar with the wah pedal on it sounds a little extra distorted kind of. I think it’s that little extra that lets those high harmonics ring out

[@floridianthrasher5426]

@@connorcostello7404 yeah

[@jessecommins4499]

My Wah-Wah pedal that I ordered literally just arrived in the door and of course I’m gonna annoy the missus trying this out!

[@CrushingAxes]

Cool dude! I always wanted to know about those squeals, it's definitely some different technique! Coffee is ready here! Watching now!

[@robertjaramillo4822]

Thanx Ola great video 👍🏻

[@willx6394]

You're a bloody legend

[@harrisonfjord8356]

God damn that dime sound gives me goosebumps! 🤍

[@buhimoth]

woaaaaaaaaaaaaah the difference was mind blowing! My brain is melting right now! I need to try this asap!

[@JakobStrand]

ME and my brother was watching this video and we were so amazed! I recently had my birthday and my brother got me an expression pedal so I can squeal like Dime! Thanks Ola bro!

[@NoCantsAllowed]

Of COURSE! NICE! Now I gots ta trys its! Thanks

[@DarrenWaters75]

He used the wah for some and he used the whammy pedal as well for those really high squeals.

[@AndyDion]

Very cool and you can wah sweep into the squeal!

[@R2R3Lockingnut]

🤟🏼😎

[@AndyDion]

@@R2R3Lockingnut In Dime we trust! R2

[@edurockforever]

FunFact: The songs Dime use the Wammy pedal such as Becoming and Suicide Note Pt II on live performance, was actually made for one of his guitar techniques on backstage. So Dime could perform freely around the stage without get stuck on the pedals. Now I believe the same trick was made when he did those squeals on Cemetary Gates that's why after all these years most of the people couldn't find out the "secret" behind that! 😃

[@desensitizedtv9862]

It's like Dime has been resurrected. I hear it in that squeal.

[@johndude2726]

Ha! Thanks, Ola! You're a legend

[@JohnnyLane1974]

I would really love to see a video review of this ML model you're playing right now in this video that would be killer!!!!

[@kevinguerrero3685]

Daaaam!!! tankius soy much! 🤘🤯

[@rynoriffs1984]

Love from Australia Ola! 🇦🇺🤘🏼

[@MarekRox3]

Great content man! My son and I love watching your channel. I used to have a Dimebag Washburn, which I got from being inspired by Dimebag. My next guitar is going to be a 7 string Solar guitar 🤘

[@neztlac8254]

Finally, his video is going to get so much more attention hell yeah !

[@gregorysleeth1792]

Thank you OLA

[@revelationequation4518]

My tuner was designed to ignore other sounds and those screams made it quit working lol. Thanks for the lesson Ola. I am the biggest Dimebag fan in the world. He does have his own line of pedals if anyone needed to hear that tip. They're called Cry Baby From Hell.

[@8KilgoreTrout4]

I just started using a DAVA pick that is black plastic with a metal tip and the black plastic actually has a little bit of flexibility. Yeah I’m going through strings much faster now but the metal tones and squeals are so much easier and clearer.

[@CowboyfromHell76]

In 2004 I hung out with Dimebag at an Arlington, TX. Strip club. He put his arm around my shoulder and said I was his brother. 😂 I love this!

[@DudeSmokedd]

the wah the reverb and some delay and a lot of disto...you got the squeal

[@danielsantini4580]

A fresh breeze of a Dime squeal done right is like a fresh cup of coffee ☕️ in the morning 😶‍🌫️😊🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@briannelson8373]

I think just about all the leads on CFH were laid down with the wah in a fixed position. I had read that a long time ago in an interview with Terry Date or Dime, can't remember. They just moved the wah until it sounded the hottest. Another great example of that tone is John Sykes' leads on the 1987 Whitesnake album.

[@mrchoptop5482]

You can hear him back off the wah towards the end of the track such amazing technique

I'm gonna try 😁😉👌thanks for the tips

[@armandobravo4L]

My dad in the next room: W T H

[@coreyboyd3094]

"cocking Ha!" Yes I laughed out loud

[@dragtr0n]

DIME was a literal DEITY. Playing guitar for so long never even thought of doing a pinch harmonic using wah and he did it way before what a legend!

[@BenHeien]

Isn’t it an artificial? Pinch uses the thumb near the pickups, this is hardly touching a string over a fret.

[@HypotenusLuvTriangle]

ROFLOL!!! I just spit out my drink with the "caulking the frequencies" laugh edit.

[@jakeqwaninne8502]

on the really high squeels ,he would do exactly what you said to do , but he also used the whammy pedal to sweep up 1 octave higher, you can even hear it with headphones

[@Squiddy97]

I've been doing that for years because I haven't got a booster in my pedal chain which what I had assumed Dime was using. There ya go. 🤙

[@hellreiser6663]

Awesome💪🤘

[@tommacmillan8831]

this is much easier if you have Morley wah or another kind that doesn't need to be clicked on and off. I remember trying this years ago but my main problem was just hitting the harmonic in the wrong place or getting string noise from adjacent strings. I now tend to hit harmonics in the mattias eklundh style i.e. just smacking the harmonic with the bar slightly depressed (slacker strings are easier to hit) which takes some practice but sounds cleaner to me.

[@Targon999]

Omg i love you ola 😍

[@mateosguitarland6601]

Outstanding,. Shred 4 life!!!!

[@Colton-yb4sr]

Nice Job!

[@TheB4ttleSc4rred]

Loving the Dog hair cam!

[@alexlozano1722]

Exactly, i stumbled upon the same trick when i was just jamming, even better when dime used a whammy pedal for example the solo he did when he was with damageplan

[@Martyr9991]

Well my guess of why this works would be that the wah funnels your sound through a specific frequency and when you need to force feedback, having one frequency reproduced is just what feedback wants.

[@davisgouvea]

WOW! Greaaaat!

[@davestafford7301]

Yo bro your guitar is amazing, I also collect the Dimebag Dean error ML's is that from the dean Factory or was that custom-made by somebody that thing is amazing

[@malegria9641]

May that beautiful, beautiful man rest in peace. Gone too soon.

[@philofdeath69]

Well, on 3 vulgar videos from hell, you can see Grady turning up the volume of some equipment at maximum, when Dime make your squeals. Once the squeal are done, Grady turn down again. (Maybe it's a Delay or boost, I don't know) the point is, there's a lot of secrets behind the Dime tone and Squeals, but using the Wah pedal it's a really good tip. Thanks Ola ! Cheers and listen to my band, Faces of Death, Brazilian Thrash Metal

[@silverpairaducks]

i think it was a delay

[@p3dron3tto]

caraio cuzão altas somzera!

[@philofdeath69]

@@p3dron3tto opaaaaaaaa, kraiiii

[@Staminist-MMF-80]

Yes, Dime knew exactly what he wanted and how to get to it. I was always wondering, as a kid, why was he so aggressive with his volume knob on the guitar when he could of used a gate. Yeah, I know NOW 😁

[@mattguerrero6524]

It was that rackmount flanger doubler

[@FRANANGELICOONA]

Very cool

[@xentrixkiller6692]

Sweet! 👌

[@prato4338]

bro i've been trying to dime squeal for months and this video showed me how to in 3 minutes

[@dji76ehdi]

It's pretty badass that those kind of squeals are named after Dime

[@Chris_Schumann]

Awesome I'll try it

[@somersby64]

Good to see that the JP Wah can do more than keep a monitor from falling

[@famfa6368]

1:20 sounds like sw r2d2

[@gabrielraphaelofficial]

Dime also used the whammy pedal to appear as if he pulled the tone even higher, no secret to all this, he was doing it since the 80s when I met him and his bro.. love your videos man...def the most clear to watch

[@ShreddingSkin]

I do the same thing, but I have the wah running all the time, the Camo Dime one specifically because you can really fine tune the EQ, Dial out the mids on your amp a little bit, and on the pedal have it cocked all the way forward, on the range selector have it in position 1 all the way at the front, and the get some chugs going while you dial in the EQ and Fine Tuning on the pedal till it doesnt sound like its really a wah. That is what ive found to be my solution with the least amount of dancing around the pedals, that and the cocking function on my wah all out of whack so its just full bore all the time. However I need to try out one of the new black camo ones, maybe you should too

[@CMM5300]

I personally always pre dip my bar and pick the note hard while touching the harmonic with fret hand.... ect The extra attack helps give the harmonic some sustain. I know it's not his way but it works for me.

[@Snoopaloop1981]

now that you mention the wah I wont be able to unhear it when I listen to them because you totally can hear the treble boost lol

[@skylinrg]

I've seen Alexi Laiho do that with his KH wah too

[@Mesatallic]

That’s so high pitched the puppy was cowering in the corner with paws over it’s ears! 🐶

[@3000KTM]

dime used a digitech whammy pedal , its how the squels on becoming were made . hed step on it for every squel . i read it from him in a magazine back in the 90s