EDDIE VAN HALEN: Official Guitar Method

Learn the chords a minor, a minor flat six, and G with precise fingerings and barring, apply palm muting, and practice the string-picking pattern (5-4-2-3-1) at half speed.

Master Eddie Van Halen's eruption guitar solo techniques, including pick slides, artificial harmonics, fast bends, palm muting, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and syncopated string movements.

Explore Eddie Van Halen's ain't talkin' 'bout love through three basic chords—A minor, A minor flat six, and G—emphasizing palm muting, pedal tones, harmonics, slides, and dynamic lead fills.

Learn the basic guitar structure of runnin' with the devil, including one- and three-finger major chords (C, D, G, A, E) with palm muting, slides, rakes, and harmonics.

Explore Eddie Van Halen's signature guitar style in Somebody Get Me a Doctor, featuring half-step down tuning to E flat, EVH Wolfgang with plexi distortion and echo delay.

Learn the main riff and verse rhythms using A5, D5, E5, B5, C5 power chords, palm muting, tremolo bar, slides, pull-offs, and harmonics.

Learn the signature Van Halen tone and rhythm for everybody wants some, including tremolo bar dives, palm-muted pedal tones, pinch and artificial harmonics, and rapid d5/e5 rhythm patterns.

Romeo Delight blends tapping, vibrato, and pedal tones in Eddie Van Halen’s style. Learn the Carl Martin plexi tone with chorus and echo, open and barred chord shapes, and harmonics.

Master unchained in drop d tuning with sixth string down, using palm-mute riffs, pedal tones, harmonics, and Van Halen plexi, chorus, flanger, and echo; cover verse, bridge, and solo technique.

Explore Eddie Van Halen's Panama with a Van Halen tone setup, learning the main intro chords, palm-muted pedal tones, power chords, harmonics, and a legendary lead solo in half-time sections.

Master the Hot for Teacher intro tapping technique with an easy two-phrase lesson that guides two-handed tapping, slides, hammer-ons, pulls, and vibrato across the strings.

Deliver Eddie Van Halen’s eruption guitar solo techniques through instructional phrases, featuring artificial harmonics, tapping, rapid bends, slides, tremolo dives, palm muting, and delay effects.