Mean Street - Van Halen Guitar Cover
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- I've recorded all guitars in this video, and used the original isolated tracks from the rest of the band.
This is one of the trickiest songs by Van Halen, in big part because of the intro (very fast percussive tapping and harmonics), the swing in the rhythm of the solo part, the big bend at the beginning of the solo, etc... All trademarks of Eddie's fantastic playing!
I attempted to recreate his tone by using Mercuriall Spark amp simulation, plus an Impulse Response by Ownhammer (loaded via Scuffham S-Gear), and a lot of EQ to boost mids and highs. All of that is shown at the end of the video. The guitar is an original 1987 Kramer Baretta with a Gibson Tim Shaw humbucker pickup.
Hope you enjoy it!
BRILLIANT....... One of the greatest , coolest modern rock guitar songs ever wrote and played... Shows how brilliant EVH was.... so many brilliant sounding riffs created.
Totally agree! Thanks,
I've watched 20 other people try to play this. Lots of good ones, but yours is best by far! Great job!
Wow, thanks!
Pure awesomeness
Thanks Scotty! I am really baffled about the spike in traffic this video had this week, and I have no idea why. Can I ask how did you find this?
@@doctor7music91 It showed up on my home page and I haven't done any searches for Van Halen at all. RUclips is screwy, but in this case it was a good screwy, Rock on bro
Fantastic
Thank you very much sir!
Dude. So glad you included the riff behind the solo. That is badass.
Haha, you are very welcome! Cheers
Wicked!!
Thanks!
Probably the best cover of Mean Streets that I've heard....
Awesome job, perfect!!
Thanks a lot! It really means to me. Cheers!
Bravo. A performance standout.
Many thanks!
There will never be another player with that composition, timing, tone, melody. I thought VH 111 was overplayed though. Fair W was the pinnacle and will never be topped.
Agreed!
Very good my friend!
Thank you! Cheers!
Amazing performance! Doc-7, you are an incredibly versatile guitarrist. Thanks for your music !!
Thank you brother! Hope everything is well down there and thanks for checking this out. Saludos!
One of my favorite riffs from the king , nice job bro
btw sweet Kramer too 🤘🏻
R.I.P. EVH
Thanks mate, I love that guitar!
Damn that was great man...... ROCKED IT!!
Thanks Todd! This Kramer guitar used to belong to another Todd, who sadly passed away, so my hope was partially to make that Todd proud.
excellent. subscription and thumbs up well earned. 🤟
Thanks a lot! Much appreciated… cheers!
Very nice job. Interesting fingering you used. It's not how Eddie does it, but it's more efficient, and you managed to make it sound right.
Yes, from what I have seen from him live (more recent versions), it’s more like the typical pentatonic shape followed by the semitone bend, but when I do it that way, it just doesn’t sound like the original recording? It sounds less fluid… but with this fingering I get much closer to the sound, and it is actually easier as well. I know that Eddie many times had to re learn his own early solos (like Beat it), so maybe he indeed played the way I did in the recording? Who knows… Thanks for checking it out, and good spot!
That was really good haha.
Thanks brother. Cheers!
WTF? Dude that was almost perfect 🤘
Thanks mate! Cheers
Great job! Congratulations!
Muito obrigado Romis, valeu!
Truly epic, man
Subbed 🤟
Awesome, thanks!
Pretty bad ass. Great everything.
Thanks Hank! Much appreciated.
Most excellent 👌 👏 👍 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks mate!
Great cover! the way you tap the strings with your fingers just like eddie did
Thanks Ron, cheers!
We’ll do e Sir❤️🔥🤘
Thanks Andrew, cheers!
Awesome
Thanks!
🤯
Thanks!
Doc 7 - Outstanding! One of the closest performances I've seen on YT and your tone is amazing. So let me ask, I also use S-Gear and get some good tones, but no where near what you are getting. How are you linking or integrating the Mercuriall and EQ with the S-Gear? I have a tone of IR's but guess I missed some info on how to incorporate outside simulations. If not too complicated, would appreciate some insight or link to some additional info. Thanks man!
Hi there, and thanks for the kind words! I absolutely love S-Gear and it is my favourite amp-sim out there, by far. However, although I can get some really good Marshall tones with it, they are not that close to the tone as Mercuriall Spark. But also, I think the cabs that come with Spark are not that good either, so I turn them off and use S-Gear to load the IR's, which in my case, I use one of the Ownhammer 4x12 from the Studio Mix Collection (OH 412 MAR M-CB-75 T2 Studio-Vintage). The key I think is in the added EQ. Lot's of high and mid boosts, and for the playing and feel, you need to play hard! As you can see from the screenshots, I have added an EQ on the "amps channel" but then I also have another EQ on the buss channel via iZotope Ozone4. Hope this helps.
Nice
Thanks Fandango, glad you liked it.
Wow, masterful rendition!
Thanks!
amazin' to watch, how good does one have to be, to even come up with stuff like this? thx 4 da video.
There is a reason why Eddie was and still is called the king! Thank you for the lovely words and for watching. I am a big fan and made other renditions of his work (Beat it, I am the one, Panama, etc.), so if you can, please check them out! Cheers,
👌🎸
Thanks!
No guitarist plays this better than Jacob Durap. Hands down.
You mean Deraps? He is pretty good but you should also check Jim Gaustad.
What a killer cover! Spot on! Great playing and tone.
Thanks man, much appreciated!
Great cover! Wish I could've heard more of the guitar in the mix despite your cover being true to the original.
Thanks Arthur, yes, I tried to stay as close as possible to the original recording.
😲💣
Thank you Thomas! Cheers,
fluid
Thanks!
Not bad, pretty good
Thank you!
Wow
Thanks mate!
o0 Yeah Nice Video my friend !! :D i wish you a lovely day see you soon :D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you my friend!
At 3:58 the rhythm chord is what? I’m trying to figure it out. Anyone know?
Is it just g,d from the 5-7th fret with the low e
Chords wise is C and D, with the bass being in A (played with the 6th string on the fifth fret). The chords are only played with a bar in the 5th and 7th fret on the 4th and 3rd strings simultaneously. Hope this helps!
@@doctor7music91wow! Thanks for replying. Means alot!
Very cool cover. What model is your guitar I have the same one in red and I can’t figure it out?
Thanks, it’s a Kramer Baretta from 1987.
Sounds dead on
Thanks mate! Merry Christmas
Ed would be proud.
I don't understand why everyone calls it "Mean Streets" its singular , Street not Streets .....just dsyin ..
Indeed. It always bothers me when people, especially serious fans pronounce or spell it wrong. He did a nice job working out all the guitar parts. I doubt I could ever do that.
Thanks for letting me know... Just fixed that. Cheers!
GREAT PERFORMANCE❗😍
PLZ MY VAN HALEN TOO👍😊🎸
Glad you liked it!
This is not as good as the comments make it seem. He’s ahead of the beat half the time, behind it the rest. While it’s solid, it’s not “the best cover of Mean Street (not “Streets” by the way)”.
Thanks for your review, but I don’t know who said it was the best cover of Mean Street? Certainly it was not me! But I will try to keep improving. Cheers,
See, the hardest EVH songs can only be accomplished on a Kramer. If you use anything else, you cannot quite get there. I’m not talking just about the sound. I’m talking about an unknown element that makes it so you can get it just right.
Well, I don’t necessarily agree. I think a single humbucker in the bridge and a Floyd is all that is needed and there are many guitars out there that would work well. Thanks for the comment and for listening. Hope you enjoyed it, cheers!
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I’m _half_ kidding because I got into VH when I was very young. Jump grabbed me, but 5150 blew my mind. I went out and spent all of the money I saved up on a couple of Kramers, thinking they were the same as Ed’s and Sam’s. Being so young, it didn’t occur to me that there’s were not what was sold in store, especially Ed’s. Those two are what I still play today. (One of them doesn’t even have a Floyd on it 😂).
Tangentially, after Ed went forward and left Kramer behind, and eventually made his own brand, I still hear something different. I know 99.9999992% of people feel that what he ended up making something way way way superior, there’s still a sound that I like better with his old guitars. I guess my ear was conditioned at that age to love what I heard on 5150 and OU812.
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I have a question for you that’s way off-topic; during the 5150 tour Sammy played a lot of guitar. Especially so Ed could play his keyboards live. Over time, Sam was allowed to play guitar less and less. All the way to a point where Sam could only play guitar on his solo part of the concert for “Eagles Fly”. They got to that point where the keyboard/piano songs were backing tracks. Something that back on the 5150 tour Al criticized heavily other bands that did that. Why do you suppose they went there? Did Sammy want to just be out there with only a microphone the whole time? Or did Eddie not want Sammy playing guitar anymore so he’d be the only one? It’s hard for me to imagine Sammy wanting to put his guitar away completely. What’s your opinion as to why that ended up happening?
@@foley15136 hahaha, for me, the live show of that album totally blew my mind!! New Haven Live Without a Net… nothing will ever beat that: the energy, tones, song craft. I still see young me mesmerised in front of the TV watching that VHS over and over.
@@foley15136 good question and I’m afraid of not knowing the answer. Maybe Sam felt more freedom by not playing the guitar and the monitoring system was better then, so they could just play to the click and use backing tracks. Sammy still is a decent player and I am sure he could have kept playing, and I don’t think Eddie ever saw Sammy as a competitor, lol.
The hardest song is Spanish Fly
I will give it a try…
That was not good, it was great.
Ha! Thanks mate!