The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
EDDIE VAN HALENYou only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
More Eddie Van Halen Quotes
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Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.
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I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I’m not your average bear. I – what’s the word? I’m not – normal.
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I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that’s when I started getting my own style.
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I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!
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Everything comes to me while I’m sitting on the pot.
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When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
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I’m just a normal schmo like anyone else.
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I boil the strings so they stretch.
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I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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I’m writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he’s working with. You shouldn’t be able to listen to something and say, ‘So-and-so produced this album.
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I’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.
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