Yngwie/eddie van halen

[lightnbrassy]

Hello, my name is Gene, and this is my very first post. I am primarily interested in learning old time music on the mando, yet as a casual listener I have always enjoyed the guitar heroes.

My question is - has anyone noodled any Yngwie or Van Halen licks on the mando? Particularly with Yngwie, I notice that he plays a lot of his stuff at or above the 12th, which puts him into mandolin territory.

I have tried to transcribe guitar tab, but it is frustrating. It is much easier to find tab than actual sheet music, which I can read (for the most part).

I'm not sure if this post belongs on this thread or the electric section. Interested in any response. Thanks.

Gene

[ShaneJ]

Try this. (http://www.cmt.com/news/articles/1534233/20060613/roth_david_lee.jhtml?headlines=true)

[lightnbrassy]

I saw this a long time ago and enjoyed sampling the songs on CMT. This is only my third post, and I may well be banned from Mandolincafe for making this observation - that the banjo was given the ultimate VH solo, and not our mandolin http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif . I am talking about Eruption.

Dave looked uncomfortable onstage. Instead of "Jump", they should have done "Ice Cream Man", a song that Diamond traditionally opened playing on an acoustic guitar - a Davesickle (imagine a popsicle-shaped, pink acoustic guitar that he actually used for this one song).

I don't really want to try Eddie's solos on an acoustic mandolin, yet the chorded riffs from their earlier albums are very appetizing. I just wanted to see if anyone picked up or transcribed any of these riffs. Maybe I should learn more about the guitar fretboard, so I can transcribe the music better to the mando.

[Santiago]

VH's Eruption might be fun on Mando. Can you improvise a picking version of tapping?

[lightnbrassy]

I wonder the same thing. After all, there is a wonderful version played in the violin. It is on YouTube, and it is awesome! Awesome! And awesome once more!

I think Eddie's rhythm playing would be more interesting on the mando than trying to play his solos. The hard part, for me, is transcribing guitar to mandolin. I received a Baby Taylor guitar as a gift last weekend, so perhaps soon I will be able to make more sense of it. I can fairly read sheet music with the guitar (but not like the mandolin) but do not know the chords yet.

[Rayburn]

Hello, my name is Gene, and this is my very first post. I am primarily interested in learning old time music on the mando, yet as a casual listener I have always enjoyed the guitar heroes.

My question is - has anyone noodled any Yngwie or Van Halen licks on the mando? Particularly with Yngwie, I notice that he plays a lot of his stuff at or above the 12th, which puts him into mandolin territory.

I have tried to transcribe guitar tab, but it is frustrating. It is much easier to find tab than actual sheet music, which I can read (for the most part).

I'm not sure if this post belongs on this thread or the electric section. Interested in any response. Thanks.

Gene
My suggestion would be to somehow "acquire" a copy of Guitar Pro 5 and a Guitar Pro transcription of the song. Once you do that you can actually get the program to tranacribe into mandolin for you by changing the settings of the program. It will also give you a midi that you can noodle around with to adjust it to your liking if you don't like the way it was tabbed.

[Eugene]

Greetings other-Gene. Look up mandolinist Maestro Alex Gregory. His playing isn't so clean as the '80s metal masters of wank guitar, but it's in similar vein, is great fun, and comes with an appealing tongue-in-cheek sensibility. It's also evidence that mandolin doesn't need to transcribe guitar to be convincing in that style.

[mandopete]

Anthony Hannigan has some nice mando noodlin in the style of Eddie Van Halen on the Music Moose website. I've never heard anyone, even Chris Thile, try that on the mandolin.

Check out the beginning of this video. (http://www.musicmoose.org/content/view/103/32/)

[Mike Beatty]

Recently in a mandolin class I was taking, I mentioned "Eruption" and the instrunctor played a few measures of it, complete with tapping.
Sounded pretty good.

[strings]

Here is Anthony doing some of what you were discussing.
http://one.revver.com/watch/189899

[Santiago]

You really need to go electric to do the tapping right. I've been playing it acoustically without the tapping. It sounds better but it's less authentic (and, of course, I'm not anywhere near as fast as Anthony). Had the pleasure of meeting both Mr. Malmsteen and Mr. VH about 23 years ago.

[ira]

hey strings- that was killer stuff- who is anthony?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[keith_rowan]

anthony is anthony hannigan, mandolinist from hickory project, and he has a bunch of mandolin lessons on musicmoose.org (free lessons for several instruments) -
nfi
just a fan and trying to learn, found his stuff helpful so far, now if my mandolin would just stop messin with me
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