BEGINNER GUITAR TIPS Edward Van Halen Showed Me!

My introduction to your talent was your Confessions album. To this day, it's still one of my favorites. Peace!

MEENNALS & HANNALS & SQUEELS forever more 😂😂

I don’t even play the guitar, and I like this.

Just found this channel... the legend Dweezil himself teaching guitar and telling stories, uh yeah, I'M IN, SUBSCRIBED!! Side note, I always tuned by the harmonics on the 3rd and 5th fret. You can really hear the modulation difference with some distortion. Never seen it done on the 12th and 7th, but I think I'll take Edward's and Dweezil's word on that one and check it out LOL

Hey Dweezil! Can you review again Lou Reeds' worst guitar solo in the history of rock music like you did in 1986 on MTV?

PAT METHENY ON EVH: Eddie is a great player and someone I always enjoy hearing. There was a time I went to VH shows as much as possible just to check him out. One time, I got to go back before a show and hear him warm up - which was absolutely mind blowing - he played more incredible music in that 30 minutes of warmup time than he did in the all the "VH shows" that I heard rolled together.

He is so creative - it would be great to hear him expand into other areas - especially now that "heavy metal" is about as dead as it could possibly be (who would have thought that that would happen in 1984?) Eddie is more like a jazz guy anyway to me - he is always searching for sounds and ideas it seems.”

On tuning the 2nd string: I will use the harmonic from the third string's 12th fret to tune the 2nd at the 8th fret to at least get the benefit of one harmonic in the mix.

Fantastic 🎸
Genetics helps too 😉loved your dad’s playing as well 🤩🎼

I remember tuning that way way back

Actually you shouldn't use the 4th fret harmonic to tune. It's slightly off from the B we use in 12 tone equal temperment; use the 7th fret harmonic on the low E instead

Beautiful memories 💓

@dweezil ​​⁠Garrett is a DA attorney in LA now. I remember you’d come over to our house in Studio City and I watched over you guys. I was 12 years old and just got my first electric guitar, your mom invited me to go and jam with your dad, amazing experience and he let me plug into his Marshall lol. Terry Bozzio was also in the band was around 76/77 I didn’t really know of Frank but since then I became a huge fan and got some cool bragging rights. 😅😅😅

DAMN Big D!!!!
Great story behind some SOLID guitar techniques man! Thanks from an old long hair bud...✌️

(brain elasticity) Hello Thank you for the channel. I have a request/suggestion. I am just starting to learn guitar at 59 years old I am doing this for brain elasticity. If you would break up cool famous solos into simple digestible chunks( we are all going to be beginners). We could use them as challenging brain puzzles. It would help us stay focused knowing that at the end we would know a solo and the guy showing us knows what the F he is doing.

wow you should have a lot more subscribers

Have you seen Junior's grades.

I've always used the 7th and 5th fret harmonics to tune. Just to be able to keep your hand in one position for an actual unison note rather than an octave match.

You can also play the 7th fret on the low E string to match to the open B string. You don't need to finger the 4th fret on the G.

Wonder if he still has that 5150 “Shamer”

I'm 53, been playing for 40 years, and Dweezil is a master guitar player. Only 2 people on earth, that I know of, that learned from Eddie directly. Dweezil and Wulfgang.

You can keep going with the harmonic tuning on the G/B....somewhat.
12th fret G open harmonic to the (fretted) 8th fret of the B. If your intonation is on...this is a great way to fine tune that slightly flat tuning he utilized on those 2 strings. Great video. I can't imagine the experiences you had with the people coming through your house.😎💯

if your reference note is off then everything is off. unless of course you have perfect pitch hearing.

It was neat seeing your version vs Eddie's.

The first was very Iommiish, where the latter was full on Eddie.

Thanks very very much Dear Mr Dweezil....!!!!!!!!!....i miss him so so much.....

Thanks man (me 61 pfff but yeahhh)

I have a hunch Eddie's work was actually your work. He was just an actor. You are the real deal. Regardless, terrific stuff you're doing here...

Sorry to break the bubble but no, tuning with harmonics is wrong, you should use frets instead. There is a difference at mathematical level: harmonics give you exact ratios, while frets give you powers of 2 to the n/12. However small, there is a difference between the two. The first gives you perfect tuning in one key only, the second gives you equal temperament, i.e. optimized tuning in all keys. Tuning with harmonics will give you good sounding chords in one key, and bad sounding chords in the other keys.

Dweezil I'm so incredibly envious that you were able to hang out and learn so much from Ed. You and I are the same age(I'm July of 69) and I can just imagine how excited you must hv been. That would hv been an experience never to forget.

No disrespect to Edward, but I like the version of the riff that you wrote for "My Mother is a Space Cadet" as a 12-year-old better.

@Dweezil Absolutely, he’s an interesting character😅 I’m digging your content. I was playing the strip back in the early 80s when Van Halen and Quiet Riot was around. It’s good to see you’re keeping that style alive.

Mister Zappa, you CAN use harmonics to tune the B-string, by playing the 7th fret harmonic on the bass string and the 12th fret harmonic on the B 👍

Nice.

This first-hand tutelage from Ed is priceless. Ed’s use of open strings, sweeping and wide stretches opened the multiverse to shredding and a whole new generation of incredible players! He is the Godfather and thanks Dweezil for sharing your experience and love! 🎸💙🔥🤘🏽🎶

That's neat, Dweezil! Thanks for sharing it.

DWEEZIL BOB LIVES!

Thank You. Interesting!

Please do a video on Allan Holdsworth and your experience meeting/playing with him!

Check out Dweezil on the Rick Beato show

Good stuff

WE SMILES TWICE!

I was taught to use the fifth and the 7th frets harmonics to tune. So 5th harmonic on the e and 7th in the a, same note. It’s higher pitched which is better I think.

@Dweezil The cool thing I remember is you had super long curly hair at 6 years old 😅 none of the other kids looked like that,

Thank you for this! 🤘

Casual M.33 name drop!

Dweezil Zappa is a guitar ace!
Btw I loved his baseball “Card” 😂 Gosh I can’t imagine what it must have been like having a musician as dad. I was literally the only musical person in my family. Although my mum showed my on those electric xylophone things of the 80s how to figure out a song. So I got obsessed with that and the neighbors had a piano and I asked if I could play. They had 6 kids (all older than me) so another one didn’t matter. And they were amazed how I instinctively did things. My neighbor gave me some tips and a I grew. My mum then said: “well luckily that’s one gene you have from your biological dad, he is a great musician. He could’ve gone place if he was willing to put in effort, but he didn’t do that in anything.”
Then at the end of Feb 80s 1988 my parents got me a synthesizer (that was my dream!) and I played that for 2 years and I was stuck in a rut. And so I decided in a whim to play guitar. Now that instrument just worked for my hands and mind. And I later figured out why it’s so much easier than keys, because it’s a symmetrical instrument. And now 34 years on I play both purely as a hobby or composing music, no longer live. But people like Dweezil, Satchel (Rus Parish) always inspire me to push on.

Thats so rad. Ed sittin down with a 12 year old n showin him stuff. Could you image? 12 and youre hero is in front of you playing

That was fantastic. More, please!!

Awesome video