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Van Halen style guitar lessons are an excellent opportunity to learn how to play the electric guitar in a melodic hard rock idiom in depth and with all its nuances. To learn guitar in the rock idiom, a good guitar teacher should never have the slightest problem demonstrating how to play the guitar like Eddie Van Halen as his right hand tapping techniques were the biggest quantum leap on electric guitar since Hendrix, so you could hardly ignore them.
Co-ordination has to be evenly balanced and it is more like playing a piano than a guitar when you tap, but with practise, it is like any other guitar technique. Remember what it felt like when you first tried to bend, pitch and vibrato at the same time?
Everything is possible and within your scope, if you are ready to try hard. Guitar sessions with faster learning processes are Mizarollis trade mark. If you like Eddie Van Halen and Stanley Jordan then your in the right place! |
The innovative tapping sound invented by Eddie is demonstrated step by step and featured. If you are a fan of melodic and hard rock music, it is hardly surprising
you admire Eddies rhythmic sense too, as it has
influenced generations of musicians. Eddie was actually a classical piano player so his sense of orchestration was developed to a high level. Hence the classical sound influencing the Van Halen guitar trade mark. |
In these sessions, John Mizarolli highlights the most important parts which make it possible to attain similar sound status to this guitar legend. The most distinctive components and mechanics of his style are explained clearly. In the late 70s, these tapping techniques used to be a well guarded secret.
No one could tell exactly what Eddie Van Halen was doing to produce this amazing neoclassical vibe on an electric guitar. |
The use of natural and artificial harmonics, two-handed tapping and tremolo picking are demonstrated by John. Van Halen tuition means blisters on your right hand too! It was not so long ago that nobody knew what was behind this arpeggiated original sound.
Many people tried to work it out unsuccessfully, but when guitarists decided they wanted to know what was going technically, Eddies secret had no chance to remain hidden. Now every kid and his dad know how to tap. |
Nowadays, musicians do not have to go through the ordeal of working out the details of this original style on their own. Basic tapping is a simple technique even for a beginner. Use this technical knowledge and incorporate it into your embellishments. A more experienced guitarist than you can obviously perform more sophisticated and flashier tapping techniques which involve 4-finger left and right hand runs.
John is a pioneer and also goes one step beyond the original pioneer by being able to improvise guitar tapping, as you can hear if your speakers are on! Stanley Jordan was also an amazing tap guitarist who progressed this guitar technique into jazz using polychordal harmony. Tapping was actually done on classical guitar pieces as early as 1953 but obviously Eddie Van Halen popularized and communicated the technique in a modern rock idiom. |
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