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Eddie Van Halen Guitar Lessons.

Eddie Vanhalen is one of the most influential guitar players of all time.

He was one of the first to incorporate, two hand taping into his playing and he single handily changed the sound of rock guitar in the late seventies with the release of Vanhalen One, in 1978.

Featuring David Lee Roth on lead vocals, Michael Anthony on Bass and Eddie’s brother Alex VanHalen on drums.

Oddly enough, Edward started playing the drums first and then switched to guitar and his brother Alex became the drummer.

Vanhalen one features songs such as, Ain’t Talkin Bout Love, Runnin With The Devil, You Really Got Me and Atomic Punk.

Van Halen Guitar Lessons…

It wasn’t long after the album was released that everybody was in search of Eddie Van Halen guitar lessons.

Eruption an instrumental guitar solo on the album, was the song every guitar player aspired to play.

It is difficult to be sure exactly how many people he inspired, how many people after hearing his playing decided to learn how to play guitar.

We will never know, but my guess is in the thousands if not more.

Even today, almost 34 years after the solo was recorded, guitar players around the world are still trying to learn Eruption.

It’s kind of hard to believe the impact Eddie Vanhalen has had, on the guitar community as a whole around the world.

Above this article I share with you an Eddie Van Halen guitar lesson.

I walk you through the intro riff to “You Really Got Me!”

The main riff is based around a A chord and a G chord with single note fills.

The intro to the solo contains some Chuck Berry style riffs, with two hand tapping, wide bends and vibrato.

Considering the music scene of the late seventies, these guys took hard rock into a whole other direction and raised the bar for guitar players all around the world.

This album may have even led to the phrase “shredders” describing players who could play lighting fast and shred up and down the fret board.

In this picture you can see Eddie playing one of his early custom strat style guitars.

He made them out of several different guitar necks and bodies and then custom wound the pick-ups to suit the sound he was searching for.

In the early days Eddie played a Marshall Plexi with a variac to get his much sought after brown sound he often referred to.

Since then, he has released a signature line of Amplifiers first with Peavey.

The Peavey 5150 and the 5150 II. And most recently the 5150 III made by Fender.

Fender is now also producing his Wolfgang signature guitars.

For more information about EVH gear you can visit Ed’s site here.

But, before you go make sure you check out the Eddie Vanhalen guitar lessons.

Note:

To learn the guitar solo to “You Really Got Me,” you will have to subscribe to access the private lesson section of the website.

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