{"id":3815,"date":"2020-10-26T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vancouverguitarlessons.net\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2020-10-26T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:37:29","slug":"rip-eddie-van-halen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/26\/rip-eddie-van-halen\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Eddie Van Halen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>RIP Eddie Van Halen<\/h2>\n<p>Eddie Van Halen has passed away from a long battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>His contributions to modern rock music go unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>I will run down just a few of his innovations off the top of my head and in the video below I will give some musical examples of his genius.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a small list:<\/p>\n<p>-put a humbucking pickup in a Strat style guitar which combined Fender and Gibson which had never been done<\/p>\n<p>-popularized tapping and other unorthodox techniques<\/p>\n<p>-used a variac to lower voltage to his stock Marshall amp allowing more power tube tone contributing to his &#8220;brown sound&#8221; as he called it<\/p>\n<p>-helped design the locking tremolo system and used tremolo bar in new and innovative ways<\/p>\n<p>-popularized symmetrical scales in rock guitar<\/p>\n<p>-brought virtuosity to rock guitar playing with his speed and finesse on guitar<\/p>\n<p>Please check out the video below for more expansion on Eddie&#8217;s playing technique.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eddie Van Halen, RIP Maestro\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b1p6VOh6n7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP Eddie Van Halen Eddie Van Halen has passed away from a long battle with cancer. His contributions to modern rock music go unchallenged. I will run down just a few of his innovations off the top of my head and in the video below I will give some musical examples of his genius. Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,52,53,94,95,221,223,224,225,259,327,331,333,334,350,352,353,354],"class_list":["post-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar-lessons","tag-burnaby-guitar-lessons","tag-burnaby-guitar-teacher","tag-burnaby-guitar-tutor","tag-eddie-van-halen-tribute","tag-edward-van-halen-rip","tag-north-vancouver-guitar-classes","tag-north-vancouver-guitar-lessons","tag-north-vancouver-guitar-teacher","tag-north-vancouver-guitar-tutor","tag-rip-eddie-van-halen","tag-vancouver-guitar-classes","tag-vancouver-guitar-lessons","tag-vancouver-guitar-teacher","tag-vancouver-guitar-tutor","tag-west-vancouver-guitar-class","tag-west-vancouver-guitar-lessons","tag-west-vancouver-guitar-teacher","tag-west-vancouver-guitar-tutor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}