Two-hand tapping is one of Eddie Van Halen’s most iconic and enduring electric guitar innovations, but – as he acknowledged himself – it wasn’t something he invented from the ground-up. Instead, the ...

When the Extreme guitarist finally met his hero in 1991, Eddie handed him his guitar — and proved he’d been reading his ...

Bettencourt set the scene with Guitar World, recalling, “The first time I met Eddie I was working on Dweezil Zappa’s album [1991’s Confessions], and he handed me his guitar and said, ‘You’ve gotta ...

Jimmy Page wasn’t just flying by the seat of his pants when he quickly formed Led Zeppelin. Page had a plan for the debut album, and he executed it brilliantly. His intricately planned approach to the ...

What are tapped harmonics: A guitar technique where you tap directly over fretwire to create bell-like tones, often one octave higher than the fretted note. Eddie’s unique style: He popularized using ...

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Eddie Van Halen has been hailed as the “Hendrix of his generation.” As the co-founder of the legendary Van Halen, the guitarist popularized the “tapping” technique. Wolfgang Van Halen knows his dad ...

Tapped harmonics have been used by guitarists in many styles over the decades, from acoustic through to rock. Notable fans of this technique include Nuno Bettencourt, Michael Hedges, Jeff Beck, Tuck ...

Nuno Bettencourt recalled how Eddie Van Halen told him to stop playing “silly stuff” when they first met. The pair encountered each other around 1991, while the Extreme guitarist was working on ...

Eddie Van Halen had enough impact on the guitar community for a couple of different lifetimes, but he knew enough to realise when he hit the musical jackpot.