Edward Van Halen - 'On Fire' (Solo Section) - The Lesson!

[jeffschroeder799]

Sounds great and you do a nice job of breaking it down slowly. Would love to see a slow break down of the 0:05 to 0:15 section of the video. You make it look easy, but I'm finding it really difficult to make it sound correct on my guitar. Thanks!

[lowiscw]

Thanks! Always wanted to learn to play that.

[loveguitars]

Excellent

[ginobasile]

Dear YoBroMan,

It's appreciated that you put this tutorial online, however, with all due respect, it is inaccurate. You're leaving out notes from the solo which make it sound choppy.

Also, your statement that the solo consists only of triplets is flawed. 6 of 8 measures of the solo contain 16th note patterns that show up on the 3rd beat of each of those measures. The missing notes come before each 4th triplet within the measure. The grace notes you speak of are the 16th note patterns, thanks!

[codyjt5150]

do you have any idea on what scale he's using here?

[YoBroMan]

@codyjt5150 This solo is really based on patterns. You could try to 'shoehorn' some theory into it to explain what he's doing, but that's not how he came up with this. Patterns, plain and simple...half step/whole step pattern, whole step/whole step pattern, half step/whole step, whole step/whole step, etc, etc, etc. Plus, after playing it for awhile, I'm sure he 'found' notes he liked better then others.

Yo!

[Jimeee25]

thankyou so much sir...I would be lost without you!! Gonna try mean streets next! Your a real good teacher, thanks again!

[chickabuka]

cant wait to spend my weekend working on this song, Thanks for the lesson Butchie G

[vox1003]

he actually plays 3 hammerons and picks three all up the neck

[01EVH]

Great lesson! Do you by chance have a lesson for " The Full Bug"?

Thanks

[YoBroMan]

That's a cool VH Tune, I'll add it to my ever growing list which includes, Vai, Satch, Dime, Rhoads... ;)

Yo!

[dmohr7]

hmm the only bit im confused with is mainly where umbering them do u do the slurs at which scales

[blndrckr]

And thanks for posting!!! awesome

[blndrckr]

Oh Geez ...how did u figure this out!!!???

[sixstringrocker71]

what model is your marshall and is it modded or are you running a od pedal. love your sound

[YoBroMan]

It's a JCM800 100watt head with 6550s in it, with a straight cab running 65 watt celestions and the cab has the back off so the sound can 'breath'.

For this vid there is the BOSS OD-1 circa 1982, Japanese version along the the MXR Phase 90, the scripted model.

Hope that answers your question!

Yo!

[dannyhood66]

@YoBroMan Thank you!. Man that lick has always kinda been faked i think..Even yngwie malmsteen "i cant spell", does something similar on that steeler album shrapnel records 1982 or early 80's whatever,..

We knew back then he got the idea from "on fire"..

[odgeUK]

@YoBroMan How is the JCM800 set up? Are you plugged into Volume I set to 10, with the overall volume reduced by the Master, and then with the Boss OD-1 on top for more gain? Or do you run the JCM800 fairly clean?

[YoBroMan]

@odgeUK It's a 1982 Marshall JCM 800 2203 with the original 6550s. A Marshall straight cab with 4 65 watt celestions, I have the back off so the sound can "breath". The preamp is on 10, Master on 1/4 (no kidding, it's that low), bass on 10, treble and presence on 8, middle on 6 1/2. Signal chain is guitar to overdrive to chorus to delay to MXR to microverb to high gain input on the amp. Overdrive is better than distortion, it cleans up better at lower volumes. Just my opinion.

Yo!

[odgeUK]

@odgeUK Thanks, yeah I agree, Overdrive much better than Distortion. Just wondered how much of the 'Gain' in this sound is added by the OD-1 as those Marshalls are pretty gainy already :) Sounds great.

[YoBroMan]

@odgeUK Since I play at a very low volume, it adds quite a bit of push. Which I like. But, when I roll back the guitar volume knob, it cleans up very nicely. Which I also really like. What's interesting is if I turn the amp up, I have to turn down the overdrive or it just 'squeals' out of control.

This JCM800 head sounds really good. I've played thru many and I have yet to find one that sounds like this one. I was just lucky.

Yo!

[dragnrider9]

id love to see a full body and neck picture of your guitar its awesome sounding also how do you get your tone????

[dragnrider9]

nice man i love this song and what kind of guitar do you use

[YoBroMan]

Back in 1981, after Eddie, the thing to do was to build your own. The body is from an old Aria Pro explorer guitar (no longer manufactured), the neck is from Charvel (same company in San Dimas, CA, where Ed got his guitar parts). They're now part of Jackson, no longer in CA. I have an original prototype Floyd Rose along with two humbuckers. I soldered everything myself and had to rig the neck to make it fit. In fact, the neck regularly shifts and I have to 'bump' it back in tune. LOL!

Yo!

[hyena667]

@YoBroMan Yo Bro Man, Awesome Chops & Phrasing! However Jackson/Charvel Is Still In Cali,!! The Jackson & Charvel Builders Have Thier Facility & Custom Shop @ Fender, in Corona, Ca!

[niel8308]

dude you kick ass on a whole other level!

[YoBroMan]

Thank you.  :-)

[Frenchy94600]

fuck yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah bro!.. man!!!!!!! awesome!

[VanHalenBand]

Thanks so much! You really went in depth about his delay and the slurring he did. Kinda hard at first but when you get it its good for practice.