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Special Mail Bag Lesson - July,
2009
The JFRocks way back machine & a Van Halen
Classic
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Van Halen's "Big Trouble" JFRocks Guitar Lesson - circa 2004 By special request. |
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Intro Intro section. With fingers. Mild over drive.
E_2-3-2-0____3-2-0_______3_________________
Main Riff ending
into verse. E________________________________________ Verse sections Very straight forward. V.H. goes back into the main riff between sections here.
Bridge section. Similar to verse with different feel toward the end. Vocals: So dry your eyes.
E_______________________________________ E_______________________________________ E_2_2_______________________________________________4h_4h_4h___ Back into main riff for a chorus then verse then chorus etc etc. etc. Back around for a bridge etc etc. Except end the 2nd bridge on an F# chord not a B like the 1st one.
Break and solo sections. Some serious V.H. jamming here. Very cool stuff including some sections similar to Eruption in places. Well worth learning. This part was hard to hear on the recording but this is a good 98%
approximation of what is going on. Be very loose and liberal with your hand
slides. There are a lot of hand slides which made it sound mushy when
slowed on the mp3. But what is tabbed below matched nicely. So embellish
at will. But again what is written will flow beautifully. E_______________________________________ E______________________________________________ E_______________________________________ E_______________________________________ Slight change up and lead into solo. E_________________________________________________ E_____________________________________________________ E_________________________________________________ E_____________________________________________________ Solo MRX phase 90 throughout. This is Phaser central. This solo moves super fast on the CD. It has a definite feel to it that you need to keep. Its very easy to keep the groove when the rhythm is playing however. Also the ~~ vibratos are super heavy vibratos. Made even heavier by the Phaser. LOL. This solo rocks. Have fun with it. It was not easy to decipher but we did our best to pick out each little note from our slowed audio. And if you play along with mp3 after you get it down it works really well. I strongly believe V.H. improved this whole solo. Its so trademark V.H. and uses all the scale forms and things he loves that if he did work it out rather than just improv it then it only took him 3 minutes to figure it out. LOL. Either way, its a mind blowing solo I think and well worth your time to
learn. E______________________________________________________________ This is done very fast. E__________3__________3________________________________________ E_12______12_____12_____________________________________________________ To get these to sound right you want to do something similar to what goes
on in Spanish Fly. You want to hammer on the first set on the 2nd string
and pick the next set on the 1st string. If you have to you can hammer on
all of them. No biggie but it might lose some of that V.H. flair doing it
that way. Do what's best for you. E________________________15_17_19_________15_17_19_______ E__________15_17_17____15____________________ This little section is what I call close enough. Its very subtle so I
tabbed it as best I could. Watch the bent notes. Only half steps or so.
E______________________________________________________________ You want to bend these as indicated and release the bend slowly both with the whammy bar and by actually releasing the bend. Sort of a whining dive bomb effect. If you do not have a whammy bar or believe that there is no whammy in
this solo period then simply bend and release incrementally. Bend up 1.5
steps then release to 1 step then release fully. I'm simply using the
whammy bar to do the 1st release. Which is a common V.H. trick anyway used
in countless tunes from the DLR era.
E____________________________________________________________________________________________ Flick the bar to cause it to vibrate and create a fluttering sound.
Its optional of course but it is there. Again if you don't have a whammy
bar you can't do the flutter so just skip it all together and give the note
a little bit of vibrato. E________________________________________ Back into riffing section from the pre solo section. Very similar stuff. At the end do what is below starting with the chord hit. The chords below go E to D. The trill is over the D chord. E___________________________________ Final scale down of the solo break section. A little tricky watch the tab closely. This was a bear to figure out. We had to slow the thing down to like 1/3 speed. This is a good representation of it. Notice some notes are picked, some are slid into and some are hammer ons or pull offs. It needs to flow together. I give you two versions here. The first version is the harder of the two and is more true to how Ed plays these types of patterns. This is a scale that V.H. loves and uses it often, you've seen this scale before in scale down endings and sections of solos etc. Version 1: More true to V.H. form. Note the 14th fret 4th string that is in ITALIC is hammered onto from nowhere really but it gives a pull off effect doing this. You can also end on the 9th fret 4th string in this version also if you want to. Be sure to note that some of these are picked and some are hammered on or pulled off which is indicated by dashes. This is ESSENTIAL to getting the feel of this correct. The final note in this should be slightly bent and released with super
heavy vibrato. E____14_10-12____10___________________________________________________ Or as an secondary option way to do version 1 above. E____14_10-12____10___________________________________________________ Version 2: The same thing really but just an easier way to pull it off. Still true to V.H. but the slide down from the 11th fret to 9th fret on the 3rd string is probably not how Ed would do it. But you can if you want to and it will still sound just fine. Be sure to note that some of these are picked and some are hammered on or pulled off which is indicated by dashes. This is ESSENTIAL to getting the feel of this correct. The final note in this should be slightly bent and released with super
heavy vibrato. E____14_10-12____10___________________________________________________ The song goes on and on with the main riff etc. It ends with the part I call the bridge. But it ends like the 2nd Bridge of the song which means the song ends with an F# chord, not a B chord like the 1st bridge we did.
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