Ice Cream Man (Lesson) - Van Halen

[@CCB6939]

it's been awhile since u did a Van Halen song. Never knew Dave played acoustic on this.. you are always the encyclopedia of music knowledge!!! Thanks James

[@bobtoman7423]

Awesome....once again! You just made me a very happy camper learning this. Love the t-shirt!

[@hayesch1]

You are the best. Taught me so many tunes through the years. God bless! Thanks for the knowledge share.

[@Henncat69]

This is perfect. Exactly what I wanted to learn the song. Great video!

[@charlesdodimead4580]

Hey Man, I love your videos! I watched and played along to a lot of them and there are still WAY more to go. I know you prefer to keep the subject matter to guitar, but I just had to tell you how much I appreciate what you do. You play all the songs I love. It's like you pull your playlist right out of my head! I grew up listening to all my parents records, and my older brother played guitar and that's what got me into music. Your videos have kept me playin :-D. Keep on rocking dude and thanks for all the great uploads!

[@pooner61]

All these years looking at music videos and tutorials on You tube and finally discovered your “other” channel here. :)

[@mattdowns3953]

Always great. Thanks James.

[@Beachbumartist]

I didn't know Dave even played guitar. Great lesson man, thanks for your time once again.

[@gordonflaim8762]

Love it, amazing, can't get enough of your open and alternate string tuning lately. Thank you

[@platanthera7648]

You're holding my dream guitar!

[@dannyv7595]

Good shit man, keep it up

[@ethancorrell8145]

Love your guitar man

[@Iknowthelaw13]

Dave also played acoustic, as well as wrote the music for and obviously lyrics/vocals for Stay Frosty, a fantastic song off the 2012 record.

[@mathieubaker1548]

Excellent lesson!

[@CraigRadala]

Great job!

[@ou8126]

Oh my my, Ice cream man!👍🏼👀🎸🎍🍞🍨🍧🍦🍡🍭

[@lorenzodegani6971]

GRANDE SPLENDIDO OKEYYYY

[@denniswright7320]

WOW! SPOT ON singing.

[@looking_33]

???

[@illiillliliilliilliilillli6244]

It’s Dave

[@tobycleo]

Any Jim Croce Fans in room??

[@williamandbarbaramiller6546]

Still play Bad Bad Leroy Brown and Don't mess around with Jim in all my sets. Still gets everyone dancing

[@crisprtalk6963]

Man I could go for a bomb pop!

[@johnf6288]

Nice,

[@tmurphy1000]

You really should be playing this shirtless.

[@josephnutter6231]

Yep

[@johnyox9515]

Finally somebody did right! Thank you sir.

[@tomshaug]

Tons of fun, thank you

[@QuintensMusicBox]

What tuning do you use mate? seems like your A-string is tuned up to an a sharp

[@jamesjames9275]

I just tuned to recording.

[@skid9227]

Seems like at one point he said turned to OPEN E but then stepped down one.

[@juggernaut007ful]

@@jamesjames9275 What are you tuning each string to? Thanks

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

good one I knew Dave did a few of the acoustic driven parts with that standard Boogie woogie kinda run..☺️ like watching live Bad Company and realizing that Paul Rogers does a lot of acoustic too.

[@mimoochodom2684]

Why do some bands down tune half a step? Is there an advantage?

[@rcoveyduc]

For guitars, it's a heavier sound with distortion. For singers, I've heard it makes things a little easier.

[@billydelacruz1500]

mimoocho dom Les strain on vocals

[@jamesjames9275]

For guitar players, it becomes a lot easier to bend strings.

[@chordchaser]

All those things stated here and it’s a darker sound. Heavier rock bands use it all the time, they love that gates of hell podium.

[@Donjuan459]

Purely to make vocals easier. Dave has low range

[@Nickpaflas]

Man, Diamond Dave VH was a lot of fun. Van Hagar, not so much.

[@tobycleo]

I like sammy very fine songwriter

[@johnyox9515]

I've watched atleast 20 lessons on this song and every one of them were wrong. The open tuning is the key. No pun intended.

[@daveklain4683]

I think this is the 1st Van Halen song ever?

[@jamesjames9275]

No.

[@Psychicbluefire]

it is from the Van Halen 1 album