God Bless you and thanks for the music.
Happy Birthday, Eddie Van Halen!
January 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
EVH Gear from NAMM 2012 (Video & Photos)
January 24, 2012 Leave a Comment
A look at the latest EVH guitars & gear for all who could not attend the 2012 EVH Showcase at NAMM in California last weekend. Several EVH artists arrived on the third floor of the Anaheim Convention Center for an autograph signing on Friday. The following day, Van Halen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen stopped by [...]
Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles Schools (VIDEO)
January 13, 2012 Leave a Comment
From HuffingtonPost.com: Class is now in session at the school of rock. Eddie Van Halen just donated 75 of his own personal guitars to the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, a national organization that promotes music education for children. In a statement, the guitarist simply explained, “Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble [...]
Van Halen – King of Gazzarri’s
December 31, 2011 Leave a Comment
Happy Holidays
December 24, 2011 178 Comments
Eddie Van Halen Auctions Guitar For Charity
December 23, 2011 66 Comments
Eddie Van Halen is donating one of his guitars to raise money for the charity Drop In The Bucket, a Los Angeles based water charity that constructs wells and sanitation systems at large rural schools in sub-Saharan Africa.. This is not just any guitar – This is one of the first Wolfgang guitars ever produced [...]
Excerpt from Edward Van Halen: A Definitive Biography
December 15, 2011 137 Comments
. Here’s a 4-page excerpt from the new book on Eddie Van Halen entitled, Edward Van Halen: A Definitive Biography. CHAPTER 14 Public Relations The Diver Down tour, nicknamed the “Hide Your Sheep Tour,” was the biggest tour of its kind to date with over 170 tons of equipment required to put on the stage [...]
Videos: Creation of the EVH Brand & EVH 5150 III Design
December 13, 2011 34 Comments
EVH Factory Tour
December 7, 2011 73 Comments
Hitler Reacts to an Eddie Van Halen Guitar Challenge
December 6, 2011 94 Comments
How to Fake it Like Eddie Van Halen: Symmetrical Scales
December 5, 2011 56 Comments
From Gibson.com:
Symmetrical scales are one of the most fun – and easiest to wrap your head around – ways of making harmonically interesting music without having to spend 10 years at music school (although if you can afford to spend 10 years at music school, please do, then tell me all about it so I may live vicariously though you, ’cos that sounds rad!). Two very well known exponents of the symmetrical scale are Eddie Van Halen and Dimebag Darrell. Darrell was quite open about borrowing the idea from Eddie, whose most famous example of the technique can be heard on his solo to “Ice Cream Man” from Van Halen’s self-titled debut. Eddie’s “Ice Cream Man” solo starts in the key of the song but quickly evolves into a bizarre, out-there-sounding tumble through cascading note flurries.
So what is a symmetrical scale, and how does it help you to rock? Well, it’s simply a “fake” scale made up
