Ep69 Eruption Tapping | How Does It Work?

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

Musictheoryforguitar, Guitar, Guitarscales, Performing Arts, Guitarmusictheory, Music, Guitarlessons, Arts, Guitarchords, Guitartheory

4.6 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this free guitar lesson, I demonstrate part of the instrumental track, “Eruption,” that is featured on the very first Van Halen record and performed by Eddie Van Halen. I explain how the finger tapping technique works, how the tapping uses arpeggios, and how those arpeggios create a chord progression that features modal interchange and harmonic minor. I also discuss how I dial in an Eruption tone and my reverb, delay, and phaser settings.

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0:00.0	In episode 69 of the guitar music theory podcast, I analyze the finger tapping section in
0:06.1	eruption by Van Halen. Greetings guitar engineers welcome Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your
0:26.6	host Desi Cerna. Well today we are going to take a look at a portion of
0:31.5	eruption by Van Halen in tribute to the now late great Eddie
0:37.0	van haland. I'm going to talk about the finger tapping technique. I'm going to talk about
0:42.3	what's happening musically, including how the tap notes are based on arpeggios, which are based on chords, which form chord progressions.
0:50.0	There's other elements to discuss as well, such as harmonic minor and modal interchange.
0:55.0	Before we get into the juicy details, let me direct all of my podcast
1:00.4	listeners over to my website guitar music theory
1:03.0	dot com answer the questions I ask you about your playing
1:06.4	and I'll send you free custom video instruction calibrated to your current level.
1:11.2	I'll show you how to get your playing skills in order and understand how music works
1:15.8	regardless of whether you're a beginner or advanced player. Go to guitar music
1:20.3	theory.com you can click on a link in the podcast show notes.
1:25.0	All right, so we are ready to dive in here and just to refresh your memory on what
1:37.1	eruption sounds like. Sounds like this. All right, and then it goes on. So, and there's other parts to this solo. This is an instrumental guitar solo track that's featured on the first Van Halen
2:05.6	album that was released in 1978. I am just going to be focusing on the
2:10.3	finger tapping portion which is the most famous part,
2:15.2	and was Eddie Van Halen's signature technique,
2:18.7	and it's something that it is an innovative technique that he popularized because it had never been used to this
2:27.0	extent at least prior to his use of it.
2:30.8	An eruption was kind of the introduction of finger tapping, the official introduction of
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