Eddie Van Halen was the master of shredding, but he was capable of so much more as well, says Testament’s longtime guitarist ...

The guitarist says Eddie's quickfire lesson is “burned into” his mind and reveals an important aspect of Van Halen's ...

Eddie was lauded for the speed, fluidity, and melodicism of his playing, as well as the two-handed tapping technique he perfected. The guitarist and his brother, drummer Alex Van Halen ...

Zappa was set to perform Runnin’ With the Devil at his middle school talent show, and was struggling with his guitar. Then, ...

When you watch Eddie Van Halen within the context of the physical capabilities of the piano, suddenly, his technique not only makes sense. One could reasonably expect this approach from someone ...

Eddie figured that was always part of Van Halen’s appeal underneath the hammer-ons and flashy flair anyhow. “They are in a funny way very basic as I am, they’re no frills really, except that I do ...

One man particularly skilled at this was Eddie Van Halen ... If he was bold enough to pilfer techniques others had used before him and make them his own, Van Halen sure as hell wasn’t afraid to offer ...

So dazzled was an entire generation of Eddie Van Halen's shred acrobatics ... Plini’s first foray with the technique is on Still Life. For the Aussie, selective picking has become a way to ...

The key to that new sound was the late, great Eddie Van Halen, whose innovative two-handed ‘tapping’ technique made him the most influential ... And at their best (with Roth), Van Halen ruled. Below, ...

As a teenager, he started playing “Spanish guitar” – that’s what everybody called acoustic guitars before electric guitars were invented. One day, while he picked the strings with his right hand as ...