How To Play Van Halen Unchained on Guitar - Rhythm and Lead Parts!

[@Big_Uncle_Randy]

AWESOME LESSON !!!..The best one on Unchained I've watched so far!!

[@BrettPapa]

Awesome! Glad you liked it! More VH lessons on the way.

[@NiceChristianMan]

You Mister know exactly what you're doing!!!! The syncopated pre-chorus section is correct!!! Seen so many other channels attempt to break it down but they are wrong. Some interpretations are sad and lame.... Yours is spot on. Bravo!!!!!!!! The tab I was even using to teach a student of mine was wrong........

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks Jeff! It helps so much now that there are so many isolated guitar tracks out there.

[@gsanchezal]

Amazing lesson Brett!!!! Thank you so Much !!!! Tons of bless for you this new year!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for tuning in!

[@dlawsonlawson1582]

I love that strat you must love it too you’ve been playing it for years. Rock on papa

[@BrettPapa]

I do!

[@alexfeinstein640]

ABSOLUTELY THE BEST UNCHAINED AND SOMEBODY GET ME A DOCTOR EVER DONE NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, you are incredible sir.... this man puts all others TO SHAME !!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Haha thanks! Appreciate that!

[@isMike999]

ONE of MY top 5 songs for sure...GREAT tone on this badboy Bret.....

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks! Thanks for watching!

[@doubled5383]

Yeah-heah, hey, hey, hey, welcome, welcome, welcome! Love those intro words!

[@BrettPapa]

Haha!

[@zmaninpgh]

Thanks for having the patience to take your time on your videos some people just rush through it but you’re real meticulous in you’re teaching. Thank you very much!

[@BrettPapa]

You are welcome Don!

[@scoobystap3159]

This and Panama are such awesome lessons Brett. They are the very BEST! Thank you.

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks so much! Thanks for watching!

[@ApeLikeCreature]

Your EVK lessons are my favorite! Thank you!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Thank ya! Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!

[@philliphendon4991]

I love it! That old VH never gets old. I may be in the minority but Fair Warning is my favorite VH album. It has such a great groove to it.

[@BrettPapa]

For sure!

[@jamesstewart1794]

So, it's basically a fair warning pedal. Love it.

[@BrettPapa]

Yep! And it is awesome!

[@davidt9841]

Great job, Brett! Fair Warning has ALWAYS been at the top of my VH favorites. Love That Album! Watching and listening to you break this down just reminded me, once again, of the Brilliance of EVH!!! I’m glad we got to enjoy his immense contribution to music while he was here with us!

[@BrettPapa]

For sure! Thanks for watching David!

[@brownsfan7753]

Love your lessons!! VH has always been my favorite band!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks! More coming soon!

[@007merc]

I learn from you. You slow it down and tell us exactly what to do. Unlike some people just play it and think everyone can get it. I have picked up on a lott from you man thanks a lot.

[@BrettPapa]

You are welcome Andy! Thanks for watching!

[@JeffRevell]

I used my AnyTune to slow this down to 30% and there are only 5 mutes on the first one with the next two getting 4 muted hits on the D. I love this program for really getting into the nitty-gritty of things. Thanks for the awesome breakdown.

[@megnadh]

Brett delivered on his promise again !!!! you rock brother !!

[@BrettPapa]

No you rock!

[@loricostello1314]

@@BrettPapa h.

[@troyalcorn9459]

Great lesson Brett EVH is so good thanks for the lesson

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing Troy!

[@cheechchong2521]

allthough that dive you did with the gray was awesome!!

[@BrettPapa]

Lol!

[@chuckaudio3191]

"Unchained" is the best VH song. No wait, "Dance the Night Away". Umm... uh... "Aint Talkin Bout Love". Oh yeah... they're all the best!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Pretty much haha!

[@ciaobello]

@BrettPapa please coming soon solo lesson of mine all mine another level up solo ;)

[@williamallen7386]

I'm The One is definitely the best VH ever, but they're all friggin awesome!

[@royharper9472]

Dang man, studio looks killer. Of course you are spot on!! GREAT JOB

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks Roy!

[@jeffdodge8571]

YOUR THE REASON WHY I WANTED TO START PLAYING AGAIN. YOUR THE BEST MAN. KEEP GOIN.

[@BrettPapa]

Awesome! Thanks Jeff!

[@funkymonk80]

Your videos are great! And I love that strat!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks Keith! Glad you like them!

[@r.llynch4124]

lovin the accurate lessons papa keep rockin

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks man!

[@GTX1123]

Eddie's jazz influences from his father are in this and many other songs. He loved jazz style syncopation, down beat and up beat in his right hand rhythms. In the intro he's slightly ahead of the beat when it goes to the double stop that resolves into the C at the end of the main riff, but when the vocals come in, he's no longer ahead of it but right in sync w the vocals.

[@Thee.Instigator]

Nice. Kickass

[@rolandjgutierrez7737]

wow papa you teach this now I know I'm going to learn this tune..

[@BrettPapa]

Awesome! Thanks for checking it out!

[@DavidD-l3o]

Great lesson MR P thank you bro...one of top 5 best V. H. Songs ⚡💥⚡🔥⚡💥🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👍✌️😎

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@qua7771]

I always wondered where Ed came up with this stuff. I recall Alex saying that when he went out on Friday nights, Ed would be sitting on the edge of his bed with a six pack practicing. When Alex got home Ed would still be there. At party's people mention finding Ed somewhere practicing without an amp. I guess if that's all you do all the time, your going to get good.

[@BrettPapa]

Yep! My cousins grew up in Pasadena and said they saw it with their own eyes. He always had a guitar in his hands.

[@qua7771]

@@BrettPapa Eddie said ideas would come to him from no where. It would make since to have a guitar handy to take advantage of those epiphanies.

[@johnwalsh2016]

Gorgeous guitar!!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@jakemf1]

Love that guitar-killer

[@autocrow]

Nice! You have the ultimate rig and tone Brett!

[@BrettPapa]

Thank ya sir!

[@mojodojo5533]

The tone is spot on. Pedal mania!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@wagdaddy1231]

@@BrettPapa I would really like SPECIFIC info on the brown sound...you nailed it & I have the MXR Distortion, the EVH phaser & for this song I also have the EVH Flanger, but there is no info for settings....just saying "There is a button for this song"-does that mean only hit that button or hit the pedal and where should the other 4 knobs be set at?

[@m.h.6143]

Master Van Halen is smiling!!!!!!! Great job Brett!!!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Thank ya!

[@jimwalsh6941]

Outstanding! Great tutorial of an absolutely awesome song!

[@BrettPapa]

Thank ya Jim!

[@uelisgold]

Thanks Papastache, Awesome lesson.

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@TheGuitarBreakdown]

Alright you win! That tone is DIALED IN !!! Seriously ... forget our talk ... no need to get the Soldano. lol. And great teaching as always!

[@BrettPapa]

No I still need that amp lol!

[@davidhoward8951]

Papa I love you guitar man you're a great teacher too and just as cool as you want to be right on

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks David!

[@caleshtcincredibles]

Maestro Brett you have Eddie's tone nailed ! Love it

[@BrettPapa]

Thank ya!

[@victorjbarker]

I'm fucking stoked to play this song. it's always been one of my favorites and never thought I'd be able to play it. thank you! killer lesson and killer tone!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@dausblack2585]

Hey Brett,This is before ya got frankie.Still sounds killer,but I bet ya wish you had it at the time,I don't own one,but I watched your panama lesson.Awesome my friend.you're a very good teacher man,keep it up,it takes a special person.Thanks again.

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks so much! More VH coming soon.

[@thomasmiccolis9051]

GREAT JOB! Try upstroke to start song & 4 chunks only on the first time (3 on all of the rest). It’s a song FULL of very subtle techniques but when you find them it all just clicks!

[@BrettPapa]

Yep! Thanks for watching!

[@Jamko1970]

Bad Ass! Great lesson!! Dig it!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@RubinSkifflehorse]

Sounds great! Great finger tone!!!!! What humbucker have you got in there!? Yes I know I won't sound as awesome as that with the pickup alone!!!! Thanks!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Lol! It is a Lollar Imperial Low Wind.

[@galaxygooner1998]

Come on Brett, give me a RIFF! One RIFF, coming up!!

[@BrettPapa]

Lol good one!

[@nickforbus378]

Awesome Tone!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks Nick!

[@AllanGildea]

Fabulous tone Brett. I love the look of your strat! A beast!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@rioace3953]

@@BrettPapa do you slave that bottom head with the top to get that 3:27 goosebumps?

[@ericksuarezb.5994]

absolutely awesome !!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Glad you liked it!

[@steveelling9604]

Outstanding work, BP! The isolation track of this song makes by brain hurt. All the extra EVH harmonics, raking and percussion that he throws in, and parts of it are off the beat. It's hard enough just to figure out the notes!

[@BrettPapa]

Haha he is the man! I feel ya!

[@GerryRocks64]

Cool! Love fair warning, my first vh album ! Rock on bro.! You do a great job!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks Gerry! I'm gonna make my way through most of this album.

[@tfrost33elkhunter]

Papa!!! You’re the best! One question though!!! What the hell was in the water out there in Cali during the mid 70’s- 80’s. Sheesus! Van Halen, Lynch, DeMartini, the list goes on! Ooooff! So good!

[@BrettPapa]

I know crazy!! So much good stuff.

[@GuyNarnarian]

Dude these series kicks ass. Keep em' coming. Thinking about selling (or trading) my TC Flashback v1 for the Echoplex delay or even the MXR Carbon copy. I basically leave it right now (if using) on a one repeat tape echo anyway at that was a "tone print". I just feel like analog sounds better for everything, you can probably dial it in to do some slapback or more trippy delays anyway. Tone sounds great man, I wish I had these lessons when I was 16.

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks man! Get the Echoplex for sure! Smokes the others and I've had them all.

[@FernandoOliveira1979]

NOW i understand the slant humbucker you put in your strato.

[@BrettPapa]

Yep it’s a thing for sure!

[@TheGgreen100]

I noticed you moved the volume knob to the 2nd pot slot. My man! Best thing you can do to a Strat next to putting a humbucker in the bridge. I'm surprised I don't see this mod more often.

[@BrettPapa]

For sure!

[@eljefeguapobarbon]

Hell Yeah. Good stuff.

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@AngelMartinez-qs3cf]

Thank you for posting this. This is just about the best tutorial on the song! Thank you for telling us the pedals you use with the song. Authentic EVH sound!! I got a question. You have any tabs for this song?

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks Angel! No tabs honestly with my schedule I don't have time to do tabs.

[@ipguyman108]

Just found your videos, love how you explain and demo. It really clicks for me..! What type of wood is the body you are using? Thanks, And I will be following you mister..😊

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks! It is an alder body.

[@BotsWeekendCovers]

Nice job man and thank you for the help :) Subbed!

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing! Thanks for the sub!

[@cheechchong2521]

hey papa! hell with all the other guitars! thats the best, and I know that's your baby! great lesson too! have a good one! later

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks man! I do love that guitar!

[@r.llynch4124]

EVH...the GOAT

[@BrettPapa]

Yes sir!

[@MrShelby7000]

Man Thank you so much for that lesson it was great however you forgot To include that last drum of the mystery chord

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@dausblack2585]

Hendrix & Eddie would be proud PAPA.

[@BrettPapa]

Ahhh thanks man!

[@ApeLikeCreature]

It's like the Kracken came out of that Shell Pink Strat...BEAST TONE!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Lol!

[@mechagenkigaijin]

i would like to see a video on how to play Mean Street especially the intro.

[@BrettPapa]

I plan on doing that song however I can't make any promises on that intro lol!

[@bluesdude1194]

Brett how about “hear about it later” , a request from England 😁

[@BrettPapa]

Coming soon!

[@atomicfriendo]

Hi Brett, Great video. For your next lesson could you please explain the madness of "Sinner's Swing"? It's probably the most underrated =vh= song out there!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks! That one is on my list as well.

[@followingnazarene]

You actually sound like him. Most youtuber don‘t

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@danveca8304]

"I think I need to tighten the nut" = Bingo! Trick is to unclamp, slack strings so no tension on nut, then loosen nut slightly and make sure it's firmly seated against the fingerboard while you crank it down. = No more tuning issues.

[@BrettPapa]

Yeah I fixed it. Works perfect now.

[@travelbyrocket]

Brett, not sure if you discussed the recording chain after the amp. Are you going to the UA OX - "really got me" setting ?

[@BrettPapa]

No plugged into the OX but no preset was used. 412 cabs one of axis 57 and the other straight on. Effects were in post.

[@andrewmaher8409]

Thank you! (…Subscribed)

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks for the sub Andrew!

[@jimmyrumsey8049]

Please for my birthday Jan 31st do a lesson on shadows of life by Dokken please!!! Off of album dicfuncktional George Lynch is Amazing same kind of guy like Eddie thanks Brett Pappa rock on Rockn Rumsey!!!

[@tomflynn2912]

Brett, did you put that HB in your strat yourself? Beautiful guitar!

[@BrettPapa]

Yes. A buddy and I did it. I love that thing!

[@douglaschristine8387]

" Get the thumb skin and the pick to hit the string at the same time. " Hell I can't even do a pinch harmonic!

[@nothingheretowatch7371]

Lol i know the struggle 😟

[@007merc]

Bret do a guitar lesson on Cabo Wabo please

[@BrettPapa]

Great tune. Just finishing up a couple of projects then I'll be back doing a bunch more VH lessons.

[@007merc]

@@BrettPapa thanks man

[@franksantos7163]

Fresh out of his mooma's basement 🤣..love it

[@douglaschristine8387]

Hey Brett, I was watching one of your golden oldies Disturbed. At the end of the song intro you let out this blood curling scream and I busted up laughing. Check it out, it's their first hit song to see how stupid you use to get,lol.

[@BrettPapa]

Lol. Fun times.

[@bryanpowers4698]

Did you modify pickguard yourself for the slant humbucker?

[@BrettPapa]

Yes

[@bryanpowers4698]

@@BrettPapa what model bridge pickup do you have in it? Sounds really good

[@pestilenes]

Wow! What kind of fender model is that??

[@BrettPapa]

It is a Bill Nash 60's style Strat with a Fender sticker on it haha! I have been trying to get Fender to build one for years!

[@mikeburstein1146]

"Hear About It Later" and SGMAD PLEASE???

[@BrettPapa]

Coming soon!

[@JohnPaulPagano]

Good stuff. You play it well and correctly, but unless I’m hallucinating you’re *saying* something wrong. It’s five mutes ONLY the first time EVH plays the riff during each 8-measure cycle: every other time it’s four mutes. That first chord going to the sus-4 is slightly different in rhythm from the rest to accommodate the fifth mute. Right? Let me know if I’m on crack, but that’s what I hear. It’s one of those great Eddie details that makes listening to Van Halen pay dividends long after you thought you’d caught it all.

[@BrettPapa]

Hmmmm you could be right. Check out the isolated track. It really helps you hear exactly what's going on.

[@ArtwithElijah]

Is drop D roughly 70 Hertz?

[@paulmcgo1089]

Any friend of van Halen is a friend of mine

[@BrettPapa]

Haha!

[@TheGhostThatLivesInTheAttic]

What gauge and brand of strings are on your Strat? Thanks!

[@BrettPapa]

Elixir 9's

[@TheGhostThatLivesInTheAttic]

@@BrettPapa Thanks!

[@brian69frmovale76]

"Nothing stays the same..."

[@BrettPapa]

Haha

[@GERMAUG]

the mic of the bridge is an??

[@joaquinguerra7217]

Can you play white lion little fighter a tutorial please

[@BrettPapa]

Great tune. Not sure I could pull that one off lol! I will see what I can do.

[@kendrix76]

👍

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@mikeburstein1146]

what are your settings on the Flanger?

[@BrettPapa]

There is a button on the pedal for this song.

[@mikeburstein1146]

@@BrettPapa I have a Helix Brett. When you do a video for “Hear About it Later” will you tell us your flanger settings please? Thanx

[@Beelzebubba2823]

Hey Papa u have a new subscriber!!!! What an awesome lesson. This was enlightening. Can u do any King diamond songs???? U fuckin rock Pops. Thank u for this lesson. This will keep me out of trouble. I have better stuff to devote my time too.

[@BrettPapa]

Awesome! Thanks for the sub! You are welcome!

[@robertlewisclarkiii1124]

👍👍👌👌😎😎

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@Win7ermu7e]

Eddie didn't use distortion. Ever. Just gain and Marshalls on 11.

[@BrettPapa]

For the most part yes. Depends on the era though. All that early stuff had an EQ as a boost though which was a huge part of the sound. A MXR 10 band and also how he biased the amp made a big difference on the tone and the amount of saturation that the amp got. .

[@dens9116]

PAPASTACHE

[@BrettPapa]

Wooohooo!

[@dnottis]

Alright who's in Brett's body?? I need to unsubscribe to this FAKER!!! lol I never thought I'd see that strat chugging in drop d. Nice job man!

[@BrettPapa]

Lol! this is actually my favorite kind of music!

[@iamcyberpunk68]

play it any slower and i will all a sleep

[@carloslozada470]

Too slow

[@BrettPapa]

Okay thanks

[@somerville_official8120]

Thanks for uploading! If you have a minute, we tried our hand at an Eddie Van Halen tribute video. As fellow music fans, we'd love if you'd take a listen. It's on our page. Don't go too hard on us :)