Edward Van Halen's Guitars

especially his two-handed Van Halens Guitar approach to “fingertapping,” a technique in which Van Halen uses the fingers of his right hand to fret notes on the neck of the guitar, which allows him to phrase passages very rapidly without the limitations of a pick. But he is also an exceptional rhythm player and songwriter whose vanhalensguitar.com playing encompasses a wide range of styles — as we’ll see in our list of the Top 10 Eddie Van Halen Guitar Solos.

When rock music fans first Van Halens Guitar sale heard Eddie Van Halen’s radical, innovative tapping technique at the end of “Eruption,” many mistakenly thought that they were hearing a synthesizer. You patented a “musical instrument support.” What is that? That patent came out of a technique I used when playing the guitar’s fingerboard: laying it flat, using both of my hands at the same time. To do this I needed the fingerboard to face upward like the keyboard of a piano. The device I patented enabled me to do that. It also comes in very handy for lap steel players.