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Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: LazyNinja on February 16, 2007, 08:36:22 PM: Im learning Eruption now.. about 1/4 so far but really sloppy. Just wondering how many of you guys here can play it. Great tune!
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on February 16, 2007, 08:39:56 PM: I can fake my way through it! haha.
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on February 16, 2007, 08:42:55 PM: I can play it, but still don't like it. PDT_008
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: BloodMountain on February 16, 2007, 09:32:56 PM: no way. i can't even shred. i suck. i play guitar because it's $%&#ing fun, i love riffage, i love writing riffs and playing with my bro (drummer), and finally, the awesome CRUSHING TONE!

BM
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: maverickf1jockey on February 16, 2007, 09:46:54 PM: I toyed with doing a sequel 'Erection - a sudden rush of blood to the head' but it was too long. :wink:
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: 99_not_out on February 16, 2007, 09:47:52 PM: I wish!
I looked at the tab once ... something like 64 notes per bar?
If I could play that well tho I sure as hell wouldn't be doing what i do for a living at the mo :)
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: apmaman on February 16, 2007, 09:50:43 PM: i can do the tapping part, but its sloppy as hell. Then again ive only been playing just under 2 years. I will eventually be able to, one day it shall be mines!
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: LazyNinja on February 16, 2007, 10:00:23 PM: I got pretty good at the midlle bit and the ascending bit of the tapping now. The beginning is hard imo. Doesnt help I'm playing it on a baseball bat LP neck either :lol:
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: noodleplugerine on February 17, 2007, 12:26:03 AM: Not tried but with the practice reckon I could get it.
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: Muso on February 17, 2007, 12:45:02 AM: It was great back in the days but I have no ambition to play it, I've never heard anyone come close apart from dweezil zappa, covering tunes like thus is so hard
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on February 17, 2007, 01:48:58 AM: Even Chris Oliva (savatage) didn't do it verbatim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B96HqItPiP0

VH tribute band Atomic Punks do it ok - Russ Parish on guitar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K37KPgFQsC4
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: Antag on February 17, 2007, 08:39:23 AM: Learning the tapping part was almost a rite of passage for those of us that were teens in the 80s :)

At what point does "I can fake my way through it" become "Pfft! As if!"? If I'm honest with myself I'm probably closer to the latter these days... :(
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: Doctor X on February 17, 2007, 11:33:13 AM: I can't do any tapping at all and EVH is not my cup of tea. I'd love to be able to play it though. Tapping would add so many other possibilies to my playing if I had the patience to learn how. Check out this fella for instance, a jazz-tapping take on a Beatles song!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZTyfKseZE
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: Philly Q on February 17, 2007, 12:02:01 PM: Quote from: Antag
Learning the tapping part was almost a rite of passage for those of us that were teens in the 80s :)

Except those of us who were incredibly lazy (and still are :( ).

I can manage a couple of bars of tapping, that's about it...
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: Bainzy on February 17, 2007, 01:22:58 PM: I can kindof play it but I've never heard anyone else do it like the record, even EVH live - there's just so much going on gear wise on that track that you can't really replicate that sound.
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on February 17, 2007, 04:11:37 PM: Interesting Eruption trivia:

The original transcprition for Eruption that appeared in Guitar Player magazine was transcribed by ... Steve Vai!
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: Bird on February 17, 2007, 05:03:13 PM: Quote from: TwilightOdyssey
Interesting Eruption trivia:

The original transcprition for Eruption that appeared in Guitar Player magazine was transcribed by ... Steve Vai!

As well as Spanish Fly. I've still got them around here somewhere.
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: MDV on February 17, 2007, 05:12:59 PM: http://guitar.about.com/cs/guitartab/qt/solo_eruption.htm

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Apparently, the recording of "Eruption" happened spontaneously... it wasn't even supposed to be a track on the album. Eddie Valen Halen was warming up at the recording studio early one day, when producer Ted Templeman overheard the guitarist. Templeman loved what he heard, and demanded that they record the solo. Eddie quickly recorded one take of "Eruption", and they ended up putting it on the album. Says Eddie: "I didn't even play it right. There's a mistake at the top end of it. To this day, whenever I hear it I always think, "Man, I could've played it better."

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Apparently even Eddie cant play it right :lol:
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: matteo on February 17, 2007, 06:37:52 PM: does anyone have accurate tab source for it?
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: 99_not_out on February 17, 2007, 07:11:39 PM: Quote from: matteo
does anyone have accurate tab source for it?

http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/v/van_halen/eruption-tab.shtml

I can't play it so dunno if its right, but it claims to be transcribed from Guitar Player magazine so should be sound :)
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: Muzzzz on February 18, 2007, 09:16:49 AM: I don't really dig EVH's technique, and personally, I think that there's too much show and not enough substance in a lot of his solos. (Please don't hate me!)

(Although I am currently working on Yngwie's Black Star, so who am I to talk :D )

Having said that, he has the greatest tone anyone has ever gotten from a guitar, and he is/was a true pioneer in guitar technique.
Title: Eruption, can you play it?
Post by: matteo on February 18, 2007, 01:02:48 PM: thanx dude