Whats The Hardest EVH move on the guitar?

[ThrillsNSpills]

For the Ed heads on guitar.

For me it's the descending part during the solo on One Foot Out the Door.
Of course, all the leads on those albums were masterpieces. That one's got me stumped. I'll get it though at some point.
Do you have any that tripped you up?

[Don Corleone]

When I was first learning Ed solos the stretch at the start of the Ice Cream Man solo used to be a bugger.

[famac]

I think that decending pull offs with a bunch of whammy

[Nitro Express]

The funk slapping on Meanstreets was a bitch for me to get down. I still could do it better. I've never heard anyone do it as well as Ed himself. That's why he made the big bucks.

[tjvhou812]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
The funk slapping on Meanstreets was a bitch for me to get down. I still could do it better. I've never heard anyone do it as well as Ed himself. That's why he made the big bucks.

i agree bro

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by Don Corleone
When I was first learning Ed solos the stretch at the start of the Ice Cream Man solo used to be a bugger.

If at first you don't succeed cheat and use two hands...

[academic punk]

His tone.

The acrobatics are one thing (and I think among the most impressive is in I'm The One), but making it sound as full and clean - AND IDENTIFIABLE - is another.

[DaLeeRo]

Mean Street's intro is absolutely the hardest....

could anyone tell me how he plays that or could you just tell me where i can find guidelines to this song?

[Nitro Express]

I never could figure that one out until the internet. I even watched the dude do it live but could figure what the hell he was doing out.

I bought that book that has all of Ed's old Guitar World interviews in it and Ed explains how he does it but his explanation is vague.

Then when Van Halen websites were popping up all over the place in the late 90's, I surfed them majorly. One one of these sites "I don't even remember which" someone started a How to play Meanstreets thred. People threw in enough good information that I was able to finally figure it out pretty good.

You basically tap the high and low E strings together or funck slap them with both hands in the rythum you hear on the intro. You have to do it hard as hell to get them to ring out. The tecnique is simple, doing it right is hard as hell. Keep working on it because when you first try doing it, it sounds like shit.

[zeronumber]

Getting my effect chain to sound like Eddies rig for "unchained"...

Still don't know how to model the flanger or delay just yet.

[Nitro Express]

Every flanger is different. Flangers can drive you mad, you can play with those little knobs for hours and feel like you have accomplished nothing.

[zeronumber]

Tell me about it...
That's why I mostly stick with chorus effects with delay when I go to tackle a VH song....

it sounds nice, and has plenty of sustain.

[ThrillsNSpills]

Mean Street is alternating with the right hand tapping the low E and the top 2 strings on the 12th fret and a percussive slap (hitting no notes) with the left hand on the strings.

[Big Troubles]

Intro to Meanstreets. Lead in Jump. (for me anyways) Outta Love again. House of Pain. Drop dead Legs.

[UGS]

I find the tapped harmonics right after the slapping on Mean Street even harder than the slapping. He does it so effortlessly. It reminds me more of what a piano player goes through, having to have two hands in the right place on the instrument. It's one thing to get your picking hand to the right string, it's another to be at the right place on the neck.