Chords for Wolfgang Van Halen SHREDS at Taylor Hawkins Memorial Concert!

Hey everybody, I'm Rick Beato.
So this past weekend, they had the Taylor Hawkins
benefit concert over in England.
All these friends of Taylor's got up on
stage and played.
There were some amazing performances.
One of them in particular I
was thinking about talking about and then I got an email this morning and I
want to read it to you.
And the email was titled, Was Wolfie a Little Too Perfect?
Rick, if you had a chance to see the video of the Taylor Hawkins tribute, it
was pretty amazing and as a huge EVH fan, seeing Wolfie play there was pretty
cool.
There's no shortage of players on YouTube that are happy to show off their
Eddie licks, but I can't recall one that had the exact same sound.
Watching Wolfie
and specifically his solo for How I Teach Your Girl, that sounded so good, but yet
too good?
_ Would it be possible for you to line up the guitar solos from the album
and the concert?
Love your channel and all your content.
Okay. _ _ _
_ Wolfgang Van Halen
started playing in Van Halen in 2006 when he was 15.
He's a multi
_ instrumentalist.
He plays every instrument incredibly well.
If you
listen to his new record, his _ project Mammoth _ WVH, where he played everything
and sang, it's a great record.
He's known for being able to play everything.
He's
played Hot for Teacher probably hundreds of times in Van Halen.
Okay, did you
notice that his vocals were exactly dead on?
Well, maybe it's because he's
sang the background vocals with Eddie when he was replacing Michael Anthony.
I
mean, this is, you know, he was in Van Halen.
He played Hot for Teacher on bass
with his uncle Alex many, many times.
The thing about it is that people are not
used to seeing him play these leads like that.
Well, if you go back on YouTube and
look around or on Instagram, you can find him playing Interruption.
There's a short
clip of it.
Here it [Bm] is.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [A#] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] Now, he's playing it and it sounds like his dad, right?
Well, of course it sounds like his dad.
He played guitar with his dad all the
time.
And there's something interesting about this that is _ unquantifiable about
Eddie Van Halen's style and it's his time feel.
And I think this is what the
guy that wrote to me, why he can't believe it sounds so much like Van Halen,
especially the lead playing.
It's Eddie's time feel.
Well, Wolfgang has this.
There's this whole nature versus nurture issue that I_
when I started my channel, I
made some videos about this.
The nature part is it genetically_
do people have
genetic abilities in music, for example, that make them natural players?
Well, yes.
Time feel is one thing.
You can improve your time feel, but some people just have
great time.
No question about it.
Some people have great natural dexterity and
have chops without having to do a lot.
They can just play things that other
people can't play.
Or they have unusually large stretches.
Paul Gilbert, Alan
Holdsworth, whoever.
They have huge hands.
They're easy for them to get around on.
Those are genetic things.
But instruments don't play themselves.
There's just
nothing you can do.
You can't take a pill.
You can't just be naturally gifted at
something and automatically play it.
It takes coordination.
It takes many years
of playing.
I mean, some people can learn really quickly.
Wolfgang is probably one
of those guys that can learn_
that did learn really quickly.
He started on the
drums.
His uncle gave him a few little lessons and everything.
But he's pretty
much self-taught.
And I'm sure his dad showed him things, too.
But he played in
the band.
And he was pro enough to play in the band when he was 15.
And he's a
fantastic _ player.
Not only that, I've gotten a chance to meet Wolfgang and
talk to him one time back in 2020.
And he's the nicest guy in the world.
On top
of being this incredibly great musician from this _ family dynasty, he's a super
great person.
Let's take a listen to what we're talking about here to his
performance on Hot for Teacher.
Hey, so this is Josh Green playing the drums on [C#m] here.
Yeah. _ _ _
_ _ Justin Hawkins [B] is singing. _
_ [Am] Low on bass. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ He has such great natural feel when he goes into the_ _ _ _ _
_ It sounds just like his dad.
Well, _ _ that's the thing that you just can't learn.
That's the part of it.
That's the nature part.
That's the genetic part of it.
Which is why he can nail that.
Let's [Am] listen to that.
Hey, you [A] guys.
_ _ [Am] _
I wonder what the teacher's gonna do with my lesson. _ _
_ _ _ _ Okay, that's Justin [G#] Hawkins there talking.
He has a YouTube channel, Justin Hawkins
Rides Again.
And he gave me a shout out last week or so about talking with him on
his channel. _
Justin, if you hear this, let's do it, [Am] man. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I'm feeling it. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
This is a super low.
_ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ Okay, this is a similar thing with Dave Grohl, right?
Dave Grohl is a phenomenal
rhythm player because he's a great drummer.
This is the thing.
I just did a
video on Phil Collins.
These guys that are drummers that go and play other
instruments, they have great time if they're great drummers.
It's no problem
keeping the groove like that. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Let's go to the solo next.
I think that's kind of what freaked this guy out that
wrote to me.
He couldn't believe how much it sounded like Eddie.
_ _ _ Wolfgang Van Halen! _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ Wolfgang, fantastic. _ _
That was really amazing.
That blew me away.
That was one of
the most fun parts of the whole tribute concert.
I just wanted to say something
about Taylor Hawkins.
I never did a video _ [F] after Taylor's passing.
He passed at
night.
And I didn't know what to talk about with the video.
I'm really glad that
these _ concerts have happened.
I had mentioned in one of my episodes that the
only person that I met from the Foo Fighters was Taylor Hawkins for 10
seconds.
I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony last _ in
Cleveland.
I did a live stream about it, but I never really made a video about it.
But before the show, Taylor and Dave came out and talked to people that were
hanging out in the front part of the auditorium there beforehand.
And I went
over to Taylor and I [N] just said, congratulations.
I shook his hand and that
was it.
_ That was it.
And he was incredibly nice.
I saw him talking to other people.
_ And it's hard to _ say anything that other people haven't said, especially people
that knew him.
And I don't feel like I have anything to add to the conversation
other than being a really big fan of his playing and his musicianship.
And his
musicianship went far beyond his drumming.
He was a huge music fan.
Listen
to him talk about any of his favorite bands like Queen.
His thing was about
music appreciation.
He just loved music.
He loved other bands.
He loved to play.
And you can hear that.
You see the great outpouring for him at this event.
That's all I wanted to say today.
Thanks so much for watching.
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