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In this Oh Pretty Woman guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this great cover song by Van Halen note-for-note.
The tuning is Eb standard tuning Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb.
Eddie created a great arrangement for this Roy Orbison classic. Van Halen really made this song their own and it resulted in a HUGE hit for them at the time.
The riffs are catchy and so fun to play. Nothing is overly difficult here either. So for those of you who have always wanted to play some Van Halen but didn't quite have the technical chops to do so, here is your chance!
I will take you through each riff in the order that each appears on the original recording.
Have fun with this one! R.I.P. King Eddie!
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I'm getting a guitar but don't exactly know what to begin with or get. I want a kind of folk blues acoustic guitar sound like leadbelly's, but also want an electric guitar. into the punk rock/grunge, rough type. I love and want both as equal. whatever you think, based on experience. you know. all open suggestions are appreciated.
I'm a beginner, 3 months in, I know barre chords, I am also able to sing and play as well,
but I'm not able to play a song just by looking up for it's chords, even tho I learned them.
So far, almost all songs I learned how to play, I learned by watching youtube tutorials where they showed me strumming patterns and when to change chords. Otherwise I'm not capable of figuring out that by myself (just by looking at song lyrics and chords above them(Exception is Knockin' on Heaven's Door, that song is pretty easy tho)).
So these are my problems in short:
- Don't know when to change chords
- Can't determine tempo of a song by myself
- Don't know how to make up/determine strumming pattern for songs, individually
I don't want to keep "Learning by heart" I want to know and understand it, so I could be able to figure these things out by myself, not with help of an app or yt tutorials.
This has been bugging me for a month now, and I haven't been learning anything new, cause I can't pass this barier, I keep relistening songs over and over again trying to nail it, but still unable to figure it out.
A few years ago, I decided to finally take the plunge and purchase my first concert classical guitar. After years of playing "student models" (some of which still cost upwards of $3500), I wanted to get a true concert level classical by my favorite maker.
For years I had wanted to cedar double-top classical guitar by the Canadian guitar builder, Fritz Mueller. With a price tag of just under $10,000 and an 18 month wait, I knew I wanted to protect the guitar as much as possible once it arrived. Fritz recommended me to keep the guitar around 50% percent humidity.
So as the date for the guitar's arrival was nearing, I started searching for a good guitar humidity control solution. I had already been through all of the various in case humidification methods, and had the finish of my most high end acoustic damaged by them.
So from my internet research, I came upon the Musik Tent by Origineer Design, which at that time was in it's early stages. I received my first Musik Tent and immediately put it to use storing my new concert classical and my main electric guitar, a Fender Eric Johnson strat.
Once assembled, just one container of distilled water would last me about 8 months. I just simply never thought about it. By habit, I would always check the provided hygrometer to see if any adjustments needed to be made when I was grabbing one of the guitars to practice, but other than slightly shortening or lengthening the filament (takes about 3 seconds), I could just forget about it.
Besides the Fritz Mueller classical being kept at an optimal level of humidity, something else happened that I wasn't expecting. My strat, which typically needed a new setup with every seasonal change, seemed to hold it's setup much better. Living in that Musik Tent controlled environment (except while I was playing it), made the instrument much more stable. I now get it fixed up about once a year and that is all I need.
So with the success I had with my first Musik Tent, you can see my YouTube review of it from 2016 here, I was thrilled when they came out with a bigger freestanding version. So about 4 years after my first Musik Tent, I got another one! The reason I wanted a bigger one was because, I like to keep the concert classical in it's case since I have a lot of rescue dogs in my house and they are always running wild and bumping into things. So the newer, larger Musik Tent allowed me to put not only the classical case in the tent, but also a couple of valuable electrics as well.
The newer Musik Tent also comes with a better hygromter, and everything all around has been upgraded. I did have a bit of trouble assembling the tent and needed to get my brother to help me, but after that, it has stayed very stable ever since.
So if you have valuable instruments, or at the very least, want to stop having to pay to get a new setup for your guitar a few times a year, I highly recommend finding a good humidity control solution, especially if you live in parts of the country that have times of the year where the humidity is very high, or times when the weather gets very cold, and the indoor heating takes the humidity down to very damaging levels for musical instruments.
The Musik Tent is the best choice for me because of it's ease of use and the price. Humidification cabinets can run into the many thousands of dollars which is just not possible for most people. The Musik Tent instrument humidor solved those issues for me at a very very reasonable price. 🙂
