I thought I would post some more details on the examples I played which Dweezil and I discussed in Ep. 23. so that anyone can easily follow along. For the first example I demonstrated from “Eruption”, here is an extract from my transcription covering the first repeated open string lick in that piece (note that all left hand fingers-Thumb, Index, Middle, Ring and Pinky are notated as well as the correct right hand picking directions-Up or Down). You’ll also see the correct tuning offset for “Eruption” listed on the first page:
Also, my friend in Germany and amazing player and all around musician Ed De Genaro did some amazingly detailed and helpful work on putting my “Eruption” transcription into the Soundslice format so that anyone can follow along with the original recording as my transcription plays along with it. You can also vary the playback at any speed and the transcription will follow at that speed as well.
I’d gotten a lot of requests for a Soundslice version of my transcription and Ed put in a lot of work to make it easy for anyone to follow. Ed is also a huge Frank fan and has helped Dweezil with a couple of technical things in the past. I think he’s a great candidate to be a guest on any part of this website…a musician well above my pay grade with a wealth of knowledge to share, so please do look him up online!
Fantastic! Allen. Thank you! I have a GW subscription, so I'm revisiting that issue. Thank you for the videos too!
I have the Peterson StroboStomp HD pedal and have been adjusting the intonation of my EVH Wolfgang USA using the EVH sweetened tuning. Thank you for clarifying to set the intonation using the chromatic setting, and then tune using the EVH sweetened tuning. Next string change, I'll setup this way.
Great to hear! Be sure to read the accompanying article on “Eruption” written by Guitar World’s transcription editor Jimmy Brown and also partly by me. There’s even more details in the article!
Very interesting Episode Allen, and a welcome surprise to the series. I have really enjoyed the RWTD Podcast over the last couple of years and look forward to every new episode. Several, I have revisited.
For those who would be interested, I'll attach a link to my dissertation. It maybe worth a glance and to checkout the bibliography. It's a good collection of research, and possibly a draft to a future publication:
Rock Guitar: Individuality, Creativity, and Musical Expression From Edward Van Halen to Guthrie Govan (1978-2021)
Yes indeed I am! I’m a Peterson endorsed artist and they had heard of my research on Ed’s tuning offsets using my Peterson strobe tuners and they approached me. Eventually, they created their “EVH” preset using the tuning offset that Ed’s last tech Tom Weber used on the Roth reunion tours. Tom and Matt Bruck gave those offsets to my pal writer Chris Gill who published them in the March 2016 issue of Guitar World and Peterson lifted those offsets specifically for the “EVH” preset. This was confirmed to me straight from Peterson. The “EVH” preset offset only relates to the Roth reunion tours and does not match any specific offset that Ed ever used prior to 2007 when the first Roth reunion tour commenced.
Dweezil - excellent episode, I really enjoyed this one. Allen - it was good to hear you being interviewed and for you to grace us with your knowledge and expertise.
Thanks very much Gareth! I’ve learned so much from others and that has helped me grow exponentially…hopefully I can help do the same for someone else as I continue to try to learn more from Ed and the smart players I’ve been lucky to learn from! Dweezil has created a great platform for all of us guitar playing Eddie fans and it was a real pleasure to chat with him and play some guitar too…Dweezil did a great job of editing it so that I sound a lot better than I am and I’m also grateful for that!
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I thought I would post some more details on the examples I played which Dweezil and I discussed in Ep. 23. so that anyone can easily follow along. For the first example I demonstrated from “Eruption”, here is an extract from my transcription covering the first repeated open string lick in that piece (note that all left hand fingers-Thumb, Index, Middle, Ring and Pinky are notated as well as the correct right hand picking directions-Up or Down). You’ll also see the correct tuning offset for “Eruption” listed on the first page:
1st string: Eb +12.7 cents
2nd string: Bb +12.9 cents
3rd string: Gb +14.6 cents
4th string: Db +15.0 cents
5th string: Ab +15.0 cents
6th string: Eb +12.7 cents
I’ve also done a play-through video lesson series for my entire transcription here:
https://youtu.be/vs2E_tPiCf4?si=o3LrVWxfGFegdAk0
https://youtu.be/Ost7AWzN0uY?si=DK-7aXqVPHbwc1SH
https://youtu.be/yss_nFgDXlE?si=ZFk7ZnMerXkoelhP
You can find my complete “Eruption” transcription in the February 2021 issue of Guitar World or you can download it from this link:
http://www.vhlinks.com/Eruption.pdf
Also, my friend in Germany and amazing player and all around musician Ed De Genaro did some amazingly detailed and helpful work on putting my “Eruption” transcription into the Soundslice format so that anyone can follow along with the original recording as my transcription plays along with it. You can also vary the playback at any speed and the transcription will follow at that speed as well.
https://www.soundslice.com/slices/YvtMc/
I’d gotten a lot of requests for a Soundslice version of my transcription and Ed put in a lot of work to make it easy for anyone to follow. Ed is also a huge Frank fan and has helped Dweezil with a couple of technical things in the past. I think he’s a great candidate to be a guest on any part of this website…a musician well above my pay grade with a wealth of knowledge to share, so please do look him up online!
Fantastic! Allen. Thank you! I have a GW subscription, so I'm revisiting that issue. Thank you for the videos too!
I have the Peterson StroboStomp HD pedal and have been adjusting the intonation of my EVH Wolfgang USA using the EVH sweetened tuning. Thank you for clarifying to set the intonation using the chromatic setting, and then tune using the EVH sweetened tuning. Next string change, I'll setup this way.
Great to hear! Be sure to read the accompanying article on “Eruption” written by Guitar World’s transcription editor Jimmy Brown and also partly by me. There’s even more details in the article!
I’m glad to know you are a Peterson user…you can download all of the Van Halen offsets that I have found directly to your Strobo Stomp HD. There is a video on my YouTube channel that shows you how to do it. For more information on Ed’s offsets, please read through my forum thread on the subject here: https://www.vhlinks.com/vbforums/threads/62695-Van-Halen-tunings-with-Peterson-strobe-tuner-reference
Very interesting Episode Allen, and a welcome surprise to the series. I have really enjoyed the RWTD Podcast over the last couple of years and look forward to every new episode. Several, I have revisited.
For those who would be interested, I'll attach a link to my dissertation. It maybe worth a glance and to checkout the bibliography. It's a good collection of research, and possibly a draft to a future publication:
Rock Guitar: Individuality, Creativity, and Musical Expression From Edward Van Halen to Guthrie Govan (1978-2021)
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qh4d3f0#main
Very cool Roxy! I’ll have to take more time to digest all that, but I appreciate the detail! I look forward to digging in further!
Allen's episode was awesome and should make it up to those whose episodes were less of a deep dive. Looking forward to Pete as well, great stuff.
Allen, are you familiar with the "EVH Sweetened" setting on the Peterson Strobo tuners? What group of songs do they align with ( if any)?
Yes indeed I am! I’m a Peterson endorsed artist and they had heard of my research on Ed’s tuning offsets using my Peterson strobe tuners and they approached me. Eventually, they created their “EVH” preset using the tuning offset that Ed’s last tech Tom Weber used on the Roth reunion tours. Tom and Matt Bruck gave those offsets to my pal writer Chris Gill who published them in the March 2016 issue of Guitar World and Peterson lifted those offsets specifically for the “EVH” preset. This was confirmed to me straight from Peterson. The “EVH” preset offset only relates to the Roth reunion tours and does not match any specific offset that Ed ever used prior to 2007 when the first Roth reunion tour commenced.
Fun interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbgI3J59ZZc
Dweezil - excellent episode, I really enjoyed this one. Allen - it was good to hear you being interviewed and for you to grace us with your knowledge and expertise.
Thanks very much Gareth! I’ve learned so much from others and that has helped me grow exponentially…hopefully I can help do the same for someone else as I continue to try to learn more from Ed and the smart players I’ve been lucky to learn from! Dweezil has created a great platform for all of us guitar playing Eddie fans and it was a real pleasure to chat with him and play some guitar too…Dweezil did a great job of editing it so that I sound a lot better than I am and I’m also grateful for that!