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

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

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[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!

[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

[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!

[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 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]

@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?