How To Play The Top 7 U2 Guitar Licks (Sound Like The Edge)

[@MusoraOfficial]

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[@kristianduff7775]

The Edge is a poet on strings and a sound pioneer.

[@jdemarco]

The great thing about Edge is that while not being very technical, he has developed his own unique style, instantly recognizable, which is not any easy thing to accomplish, especially when there is a vast number of guitarists around today...

[@todayandtomorrow360]

Agreed. People dog on him because he does not thrash like a 1970's hair band. We all can bend strings. He mastered his own style we do not hear anywhere else, even the U2 copycats.

[@jdemarco]

@@todayandtomorrow360 Exactly. There is much more to guitar than how many notes per second you can play...

[@jamesh7123]

What a great lesson. Amazing how Edge got so much from so little. You explain it so well. Saw them live in concert many times back in the day. Fantastic band.

[@oreally8605]

The Edge is a very detailed player. It's all about the details. You could put Steve Vai and Joe Satriani in a room together and you wouldn't know who's playing- but the Edge? Detailed. Totally unique...

[@fawder1014]

No you would definitely know who is playing between Vai and Satch

[@leamanc]

The stocking cap makes the lesson complete.

[@harrysargeant979]

Love it or hate it. U2 are one of the biggest live bands of all time- your tone must be crazy to be able to fill stadiums on your own by only playing a few notes

[@adriangaushausindahaus20]

Great video...i think it shows edge is not just a musician but an artist and the guitar is not just an instrument but a tool. And like good art the deeper you dig the more gold you find

[@frankoconnor3613]

Well said! Just because he couldn't play like Eddie Van Halen doesn't mean shit. Edge is a great guitarist & songwriter & singer too!

[@craigshackleton1652]

Until the end of the world is a fun one to learn. Particularly if you have a 40watt Marshall and a Les Paul that you can play loud in the garage.

[@whssy]

That's for sure my favourite U2 song to play. First time the Edge showed us what he could do at a more technical level - yet still, as ever, only doing so because it worked within the confines of the band's overall sound.

[@michaelgeoghan3340]

Thank you so much for showing me the basics to the Edge's play and delay sound ,it's really good to get to learn from yourself, I would love if you could put up more stuff, loved this post, Michael..

[@eliotube]

This is the worst Edge tutorial on the internet. Check out @U2GuitarTutorials

[@kyle_wagner_music]

Thanks, great selection of U2 guitar riffs, very clearly presented!

[@TimothyHuffGuitar]

Great video!!! I always have loved U2's sound and the tempo of their music!

[@johnsguitarmusicanddemos]

I definitely love it when people can play single coil guitars and make good sounds out of them. It helps to be a good guitar player. This sound great!

[@spinkscapes775]

You did The Fly as well. Underappreciated riff to start that song. One of the more rockier songs in Edge's repertoire.

[@markrobinson8410]

First u2 lesson i have ever seen. Good job.

[@franalbano]

Amazing lesson, thanks! I also like the riffs of Last Night on Earth and Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me

[@nickp1548]

Excellent vid. First tutorial where I've seen 'the fly' demonstrated as it actually sounds. Thank you!

[@d3w4yn3]

This was fun, and you make it seem so easy that I just might be able to play this myself! GLORIOUS!!!

[@jeffreysurette1901]

Mastering delay is just as important as anything else in being a guitarist, I've always loved the edge, for his stand out, lead tones,.. high pitched and relèvent to Bono's singing. Much like Keith Richards with Mick Jagger.!❤❤.🎉😮

[@robertsguitarsandgear]

Three great riffs, well-presented, thanks very much.

[@Pulse2AM]

Thanks for the lesson. I think he uses a dotted 1/8th delay and a 1/4 note delay, stereo delay. Don't quote me I read about it many years ago.

[@declanfitzpatrick8268]

He doesn't play the 9 on the D string during the main riff of Pride. He mutes it with his second finger for the first postion and with the tip of his index finger for the second position. Along with the muted E string, It helps to get the "choppy" sound that is a major feature of the rhythm of the song. Also, the first repeat on the delay should be almost as the same volume as the actual note he plays.

[@lucp252]

Thanks you explained the riffs really well I’ve struggled with others showing the same riffs but you showed them clearly. Are the full songs with the solos also on your site? Cheers

[@feedu2000]

Marvellous. Thanks! Do more U2 videos!

[@2009shahidc]

Nice vid and great tutorial as well...I like your tpne as well

[@elizabethlikins4287]

I LOVE Adam’s riff in the faster tempo version of I’LL GO CRAZY! It sounds like the Edge is playing same pattern (but different notes) on lead guitar. The musicianship on this song is mind- boggling & so joyful, better than drugs!!! 😂😂😂😅😅😅❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@garycann5297]

Thanks for the video, great for someone like me just starting out.

[@albertn9549]

Thanks, amazing lessons.

[@jimmymedina5674]

Its so great brother. Thanks for this good staff and licks ..thanks for teaching...always take care..i wish i can have a guitar like that.. Be coz i have no money to buy...From which country you from...anyway..keep up your good work..GOD BLESS

[@andrewmuelleranantababaji8073]

Could you please tell is setting on EHX memory man please figuring out how you dailed could take years

[@juana1483]

The Edge would never be considered a "Rock God," because his stuff is easy enough to be accessible to most of us. Definitely not complex or hard, but he carved out his own sound that is easily recognizable.

[@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078]

I wouldn’t categorize myself as a huge U2 fan. I enjoy some of their songs. But I never got the overwhelming cacophony of hate for these guys. Obviously Bono can be obnoxious with his rhetoric. But setting that aside, I think they’re a really good band. I don’t get why so many people detest them.

[@elizabethlikins4287]

I love the band, all players such a great& magical combination of talent! Then I became annoyed with Bono being so politically active in America (not HIS country!) As Americans, we have grown divided, intolerant, almost hateful to opposing views. So I realized that Bono, being the richest rockstar in the world, could easily just play & sing, & enjoy an opulent lifestyle. Instead, he chooses to HELP OTHERS! He crusades for aids victims, for human equality, he helps save people’s lives! And he is a really great vocalist, songwriter, musician! So I am dropping my judgements & intolerance by the wayside, and saluting Bono for all his humanitarian work, while being the lead vocalist in the most successful rocknroll band in the world! Thank you Bono!❤❤❤❤

[@Pulse2AM]

@@elizabethlikins4287 Bono has lived in NY for along time as far as I know. Of course he has several homes.

[@alexbeccu]

Very happy u guys did this video ❤️

[@TeleCS]

Awesome mate. How did you get your drive sound?

[@nelsondeazevedoaraujo4090]

Amazing! Thank you so much!

[@johntaylor3711]

Top 7 1) electric co 2) 11 o’clock tick tock 3) Gloria 4) Another time another place 5) Bullet the blue sky 6) Out of control 7) Pride

[@U2FanSanFran]

What about Streets and ISHFWILF?

[@user-ym3ld5ut7b]

Electric Co is an all-time great song!

[@user-ym3ld5ut7b]

@@U2FanSanFran ishfwilf might be one of their worst popular song.

[@richprimo3494]

Great video. Loved seeing I Will Follow! My song would be One Tree Hill.

[@ConglomerationCat]

Bear in mind too that Edge, especially on the early material is tuned down to E Flat from concert pitch.

[@aujax1]

very nice video but edge most frequently uses the bridge/middle pickup position rather than the neck position. this (along with the top boost channel, herdim pick and the right delay) gives the guitar that “chimey” tone.

[@jamesh7123]

Off the top of my head are a couple of songs. Mysterious ways has a great riff and I love the Bo Diddley riff on Desire.

[@frankoconnor3613]

Mysterious Ways has the best effects the Edge used imo...amazing guitar sound on that 1!

[@mcaharris]

Another really simple but full sounding riff from The Edge is Elevation. Super boring and empty without the effects but incredibly big and great sounding once you add them.

[@LitchfieldParkFamily]

These songs are great! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🎸🎸🎸

[@HelersonLage73]

To sounds like U2, you need to dial your delay as "dotted eighth delay"

[@elizabethlikins4287]

Wow! Replies can be so rude! No matter, if there’s any discrepancies, I think your guitar work sounds GREAT, and I really enjoyed this video!

[@dektrimusic]

Haters gonna hate, no matter what =(

[@birdsong2552]

The Egde often plays on position 4 of the pickup selector of his Strat. Try it, you will hear it immediately.

[@gvn2fly96]

You need the solo from the live version of WOWY from rattle and hum and the solo from silver and gold

[@U2FanSanFran]

It’s all about the dotted 8th delay with the 1/4 note delays… awesome video

[@19grand]

Love em.

[@stevehealy7504]

Brilliant

[@lkgguitar3382]

Such an amazing lesson! Videos like this are a really great jumping off point if you want to get int a band but they have a huge catalogue and you don’t really know where to start!

[@keithjack38]

Cool!!

[@nikitacalvus]

The opening of Where the Streets Have No Name is certainly not in 4/4, man (as is actually clear from the animation while you play it, since the second and third chords don't start at the beginning of their bar as rhey should). It's in 6/4.

[@thomaspessato6454]

Trick: reverse your pick and use the texture to sound even more like Edge's tune. Use herdim picks.

[@thomasrobinson182]

What tuning are you using?

[@MusoraOfficial]

Hey Thomas! I'm just in standard tuning the whole video - EADGBE - Kent

[@philipgroark6174]

Many of their tunes are tuned down. Bad and Streets come to mind.

[@rambleon2011]

1:45 Pinball Wizard

[@H-RutherfordHill]

But what if I can’t grow a mustache like that? Can I still learn guitar?!

[@bradybritto]

Nice 👍

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

And if you don't have any of these fancy shmancy pedals? I've got a Roland micro cube and it's got one delay effect, that'll have to do I guess...

[@eamoncondon3816]

You’re in the wrong pickup position. You need to be in 2nd position.

[@nicolaspozo4536]

Hahahaha. Neck position? Wtf. Worst edge video I've ever seen.

[@jasonsim5566]

@@nicolaspozo4536 and the delay settings seem kinda off a lot of the time. And he doesn’t use the pick correctly. Even tho this is described as a “how to sound like the edge” video it’s more of a “edge uses delay, here are the tabs, I didnt listen to any of these delay songs in the last decade so I literally have no clue how the rhythm goes” LMAO

[@friedrudibega6384]

Big fan of minimalism.

[@charityp.madamba1664]

Andy Summers = Flanger Edge = Delay

[@MedalionDS9]

Always great that is U2... never let the haters shit on their legacy and influence they have... their most modern stuff however is up for debate

[@frankoconnor3613]

Agree...we are always proud of U2 here in their home town Dublin. Haters & fools will have their ignorant opinions on them, but their songs / albums up until around the Pop albumwere just great & still sound good to this day.

[@EchotonesMusic]

You don't have to play where the streets have no name with palmute. And use the second pickup position to play it.

[@adilsonfraga2123]

The Edge 🎸❤❤🇧🇷🇧🇷❤❤🎸

[@whssy]

This video proves how pivotal it is to the U2 sound that they play as a band. Without a great bassline this stuff sounds very bland.

[@bradtaylor255]

Because the guitar tones aren't anywhere near what they should be, that's why. If it's setup and played right, it sounds mega full

[@elizabethlikins4287]

Adam Clayton’s bass parts are EVERYTHING! His basslines DRIVE the songs, and he plays more like a lead guitarist. He relies on lots of midrange and distortion. Adam is brilliant & my favorite in U2. But all 4 players are such a once-in-a- lifetime MAGICAL combination! I LOVE U2 !!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@trulyvanvan]

I will follow sounds like bleed it out by linkin park

[@kristianduff7775]

How have that backwards

[@FrancescoFerrara81]

The delay must be set to dotted 8 for most of the licks of the edge, or all this would not work.

[@stephen1562]

Do you have to try to look like him to sound like him?

[@johnng5016]

do you have to wear the Edge toque as well? 😂

[@guitarreo]

There's so many info on youtube and the internet about edge's sound and play... but it seems you decided to do it on your own. Bad choice.. maybe for the general viewers this video could be right. But there's a huge group of edge's sound fans and that are having so fun with it.. Definetively, this is NOT a good U2/edge playing video.

[@Lars.H.Pedersen]

Sorry. The delay settings is way off.

[@stephen_donnan]

By not using the plectrum in the way that the Edge does, literally invalidates your premise.

[@benk7457]

Love what you have done here, But downplaying the importance of using the right guitar and not using the pic sideways really compromised your credibility in my view. The Edge has such a profound attention to detail in getting his sound so perfect, to teach it to others with any less emphasis on the precise detail seems really wrong to me.

[@joenagle2595]

Stick with the day job buddy ❤️...nice hat though

[@patricknelson1471]

they are not that bad

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[@elizabethlikins4287]

What?!?!?!?

[@jasonsteiner6865]

In God's Country!

[@JormaX]

The Edge writes riff's that make your eyes wet...

[@elizabethlikins4287]

YES he DOES!!!

[@madeiraforte]

Kkkkkkk. No no no

[@uncleted3961]

Why didn’t you get the delay correct to demonstrate? Like your ‘Where the streets..’ sound is terrible.

[@andromaks]

i mean, its a good thing to showcase great u2 riffs, but man do some prep work, you have all the tools but its so off, couldnt listen after an advice to palm mute on streets , use multiple delays, herdim pick,close amp and pedlas settings etc, you could do a great showcase but you did an okay one, gl next

[@oldhawkins]

Right off the bat,the 'Pride' riff strumming pattern is all wrong. I won't go any further on that fact alone.

[@NearlyEdge]

Yep, nowhere near. It's constant 16ths. This is too literal, trying to play the rhythm with your right hand rather than the subtle use of both hands.

[@jordijulia2996]

Agree, this is all wrong. Check out @U2 Guitar Tutorials for something that is at least near the real sound🙂✌️

[@michaeldean7220]

When is your perfect video going up?

[@oldhawkins]

@@michaeldean7220 If one purports to be a teacher of something,I should think accuracy would be needed.

[@hellomiami4012]

Agreed. Not even close

[@babyBmaj]

this host is soft AF, and the video just lacks any useful "tips" or "directions" for dialing in these songs and tones. Big Fail!

[@igorm8110]

Dude, loose the moustache, Miami Vice is long gone 🤣

[@CC-ff7ft]

He seems to play the same cords in most their songs.

[@whssy]

Over 90% of popular music (a figure I plucked from a hat) uses the same chords.

[@Exitin7]

Good video , but u talk so much . Kinda stoped watching it

[@patricknelson1471]

they are not nickelback

[@shrednoob5233]

You are not fooling anyone jared dines.

[@spanishpeaches2930]

Should have been called The Delay , not The Edge.

[@eliotube]

Wow, this is THE worst video I've seen on the Edge's sound. Wrong guitar, wrong pickups, wrong pickup selected, wrong EQ, RIGHT pick and chose NOT to use it! He doesn't even dial in the proper delay time!!! And no mention of the dotted eight delay. I had to stop watching during Streets when he turned on the delay. Totally incorrect. Unbelievable. I am really stunned. If there are people here who actually want to learn how to get the Edge's sound check out @U2GuitarTutorials on youtube.