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@Dooks-Fatberg
For some reason i'm on a massive Van Halen jag at the moment. I've set myself a project of learning Eruption properly. It's slow going but i'm getting there.
The way i'm doing it is starting at the beginning (duh) and learning each section reasonably accurately... then just having a wild swing and a miss at the rest of it for fun. I've pretty much got the first section down now complete with fake-out dive bomb done on the tuners. That's taken me about a week to get reliably repeatable.
Then there's the big chords into the really high 17th fret Am pentatonic bit with some whoop-whoop whammy bar stuff. That's gonna be tough to pull off on a Tele. I think that goes into the tremolo picking bit. That's pretty east tbh. Just need to make sure I hit a few key bits on the way down.
Then there's the 5th fret Am chuggy bit with lots of random little widdle-widdle hammer ons popping out all over the place. I think i've kinda got most of that already. Then it's the tapping bit. Yikes.
The tapping bit is gonna be fun. I've never really done any tapping other than ironically and ineptly to annoy my indie/folky/punky band mates. I don't really have the muscle memory or hand strength at the moment but it's coming. Slowly. In terms of patterns it's actually dead simple. It's all one picking pattern and all on one string. It's just matter of remember the moves and keeping it going... both of which are beyond me at the moment. It starts so well then just sort of falls apart as my memory and stamina fail.
Video evidence will be provided when I reckon i've reached my limit.