Q. How many guitarists does it take, to change a light bulb? 10.. A. One to *actually* change the light bulb, and 9 to say 'I could have done it better' 😝
Toxic community of bedroom guitarists who have never played with a live band thinking that they could do better than a band who has sold millions of records and are famous worldwide lol. But they can shred like Malmsteen so therefore they are better 😅
That's incredible, I just listened to this album today for the first time after many years, Bad is one of my U2 favorites and I had no idea what made their sound so special ! Thanks for your video.
yeah, just bcs this guy cannot use it properly... just listen to Edge, you'll see. But of course this is interesting video and for those who doesnt realise on what is their music based on... it is cool
Yes! It’s a special delay where it’s just not doing eighth notes so you are hearing the note repeated while you are playing another note, I think it’s something like a dotted eighth note (my music theory is shabby) but it’s basically a delay that fills in the spaces between the notes you are actually playing. Rob does a great tutorial on this exactly how he is doing the delay.
The Edge is the most under-rated guitarist of all time. Yes he wasn't playing with great technical proficiency but I have yet to find a guitarist accurately replicate him perfectly. I have heard pretty much every other guitarist replicated perfectly over the years.
You did it again! Edge has a finesse about him that is very hard to reproduce. Just that tiny ‘diddy’ gave me chills it sounded amazing! Thanks for the awesome guitar lesson!!!
You're playing the riff with an eighth note delay and your doubling the strokes the delay is supposed to take. That sounds awful. Edge uses a dotted eighth note delay on Bad. Strike one down note, the delay plays back the note alone etc.
The Edge also created this use of delay. The video should maybe be titled, “The effect The Edge from U2 created”. It’s easy in 2022 to look back and minimize these things but he was an absolute pioneer when it comes to creating signature sounds.
That’s such a great song. It reminds me of my days on college. I’d sit in my dorm room in the fraternity house and just jam out to old school U2 and look out the window watching all the girls heading to their classes. Damn, I miss those days. Damn, I miss my youth.
@@cm1133 Many of us hear music that sends us back to our school/college days. I used to look at girls passing from my boarding school dormitory, and miss those great days too.
@@barrymitchell6444 That’s exactly what I was thinking. When I am told to go to my happy place, my happy place is sitting in my dorm at the sigma phi epsilon house at the University of Alabama watching the girls go bye, back in the day when my biggest worry was whether or not I was going to go to my 8 o’clock class the next day. I miss my days in college more than any other time in my life. Back in college, this country was not the fucked up place it is now, and everyone I knew was still very much alive!
Sounds like something you’d hear in a corporate slideshow video about how they’re innovative and strategically synergies strategy’s to optimize workflow
One of my very first pedals was a dual digital delay pedal, and I remember playing this riff correctly for the first time and feeling like "Woohoo!" Such a great song, and in my top 3 favorite U2 songs.
Literally the FIRST thing I did when I got my first echoplex in the early 70s(along with every other guitarist of the day) . Not exactly a groundbreaking discovery by Mr. EDGY GUY👍
@@c.s.mcleod7383 they sell for ridiculous prices these days. They were somewhat labor intensive as they used tape cartridges (cost $7 back then) and there were record- heads you needed to clean with a q-tip/solution on occasion. They were also rather large. 😎. I'm guessing Steve Miller used one on The Joker slide guitar part along with his wah pedal. A very cool sound at the time.
Edge is brilliant whether you like U2 or not it’s hard to deny. I still can’t get enough of that delay heavy main riff to Where The Streets Have No Name.
@@aaronkristo858 people can choose any way to make art. art is just a vision in someone's head, and some people think of more efficient ways to make it than others. guitar playing isn't about shredding or being a technique wizard, it's about making music, just like any instrument.
@@guitareater6975 I understand that. But I also know when someone is using effects as a crutch to repeatedly mask their subpar proficiency on their instrument.
@@aaronkristo858 what you don't seem to understand is that most of his delay riffs can't be replicated without delay. this implies that it is more of an artistic choice than a crutch. he's not trying to replicate the talent of other guitarists, he's going for his own vision.
This actually shows why you need to be an expert-level tinkerer and have a natural feel for tempo match to play like Edge. If the delay setting is even a little bit off there is none of the awesome resonance he achieves. Also the picking needs to be extremely precise.
@@zachary963 I'm just going to give it to you because I've managed to make it many decades into life without ever having the icky sensation of selecting a song from their catalogue - for reals!!!! They really do make.me feel that ill. 🤮 It can't have been memorable to many others because you're the only one so far, but I'll suspend judgement in the interest of avoiding audi-arrhoea
The Dead Milkmen! One of the BEST bands EVER!!!! I heard them first in 1986 from a friend who made a copy of the Big Lizard in My Backyard album. YAY! Dean's Dream kicks ass.
You get the point across. 13k likes 👍🏻 I think it’s important to note that Unforgettable Fire marked the Edges embrace of a rack rig. Bad was not played through a pedal at all. He was playing in stereo through 2 TC Electronic 2290’s, Eventide harmonizers, and more. So an analog delay will merely get you in the ball park. Digital foot pedal technology has become quite advanced an plug ins on DAWs etc however. Anything from War on back is totally in the wheel house of Memory Man analog delay. He’s not my cup of tea, he did contribute to guitarists moving to stereo rack rigs. Gilmour more so. Bob Bradshaw was the guy everyone sought out. Edge took minimalism a long way.
Awesome love the added tab. Man killer strat. Your playing is perfect You have a great mental clarity. You have a great dedication. You really should write some riffs of your own you have a great knowledge of what works. It's something you have to keep working on all the time it takes the masters years but I have no doubt you can do the same. I love effects based rock like this. I really love Tool and A perfect circles heavy effects ladened metal.
I think you need to adjust the delay speed and mix bc that sounds like garbage.
thats what i thought haha
I thought i was the only one who heard it 😂
@@Haha-Jim nor had I before I looked it up to see if it truly sounded this bad...the song nails the delay (unlike this guy) but it still sucks
@CrackedCrandon you're weird
@CrackedCrandon I am
Delay time and mix/level seems a bit off?
More than a bit. This sounds like shit lmao
Edge is using a different setup for every song. Means a delay tuned exactly for that specific song. There’s a YT, where his tech is telling that.
This is a clickbate
@@on10n64 yeah, but can you do this bro?
His being informative to people who just started it's disrespectful
this was to show the principle, not perfectly emulating The Edge
“Bad” is my favorite U2 song
Such a powerful song. Have a special place in my heart for U2
Q. How many guitarists does it take, to change a light bulb? 10..
A. One to *actually* change the light bulb, and 9 to say 'I could have done it better' 😝
The whole Internet guitar community in two sentences. In the end it just gets annoying and toxic 🤷🏼♂️
Toxic community of bedroom guitarists who have never played with a live band thinking that they could do better than a band who has sold millions of records and are famous worldwide lol. But they can shred like Malmsteen so therefore they are better 😅
Dave Evans has more pedals than Lance Armstrong. 😂
The song "Bad" has such deep meaning! Thank you for the lesson!
Where The Streets Have No Name is jist iconic as well.
Yes this song is magic.
so many great songs
That's incredible, I just listened to this album today for the first time after many years, Bad is one of my U2 favorites and I had no idea what made their sound so special ! Thanks for your video.
(and thanks also to YT recommendation algorithm, I guess using RUclips music instead of Spotify helps a lot LOL)
You look a lot like Ken Shamrock.
Agreed.
I was gonna say John Wesley Shipp
Little Sean Penn too
Haha yeah it's like ken and Jordan had a baby (now that men can get pregnant)
@@identifiesas65.wheresmyche95 🤣🤣
He's just like a proud kid who discovered new things in every video 😅
Ahahahha “creative use of the delay pedal” uses the least groundbreaking pattern ever.
@@fjbills 😂😂😂
@@alal6964 Or maybe this is peak “EDGE” creativity, and it all suddenly makes sense now.
Plays like one too
He holds the guitar like a proud kid that's never held a guitar in his life, plays like it too.......
It was better to me without the delay pedal
yeah, just bcs this guy cannot use it properly... just listen to Edge, you'll see. But of course this is interesting video and for those who doesnt realise on what is their music based on... it is cool
He played it too fast or the delay is not set up right
This dude is a clown he holds the guitar like it's the first time he's ever touched one, plays like it too.
Edge does it better than this guy. This guy wasn't playing the delay properly.
Dotted 8s. Love it
Finger painting IS what you do when you are BAD WITH YOUR HANDS!!!
Haha ok, whatever the fuck that means.
@@ningilly It mostly only means something for The Edge, a career of pedals instead of solos
@@bend3rbot pedantic much ?
“The Edge.” Those U2 guys take themselves waaay to seriously.
He was 17 when he got that nickname in high-school lol
@@kalelvigil1510 exactly lol it was because the shape of his face
@@kalelvigil1510 Mount Temple in Donnycarney.
between 1985-1990 and probably beyond, this band defined a generation, and that guitarist influenced most serious guitarists for the next ten years.
They don't take themselves that seriously at all, read about the PopMart Tour
Rob Scallon “Rain”
Yes
Check out "Big Sur Moon" by Buckethead if you like that
Yes! It’s a special delay where it’s just not doing eighth notes so you are hearing the note repeated while you are playing another note, I think it’s something like a dotted eighth note (my music theory is shabby) but it’s basically a delay that fills in the spaces between the notes you are actually playing. Rob does a great tutorial on this exactly how he is doing the delay.
The delay pedal makes your guitar echo like "dah ah ah ah.."
All i could hear was peter griffin's laugh 🤣
Dude is a straight up goober.
Such a sense of altitude in his music
I know it sounds way off from the actual song but it honestly sounds kinda good, has it's own ring to it
Bad from Wide Awake in America will always make my spine tingle.
The Edge is the most under-rated guitarist of all time. Yes he wasn't playing with great technical proficiency but I have yet to find a guitarist accurately replicate him perfectly. I have heard pretty much every other guitarist replicated perfectly over the years.
Hahaha no I’d say he’s rated exactly right
Nothing fancy and services a purpose in his band
Still gives me goosebumps,,
he didn't make a living out of a delay pedal, he made a living from performing good songs that people wanted to listen to.
Amazing difference. Edge is truly underrated
His intro to “I Will Follow” is epic.
Watch Bill Baileys catastrophic effects pedal failure at a U2 concert😂😂😂
The Edge is amazing!!!!
First person ive ever seen with dead milkmen memorabilia
It sounds so similar to the Microsoft flight simulator 2020 theme
So true!
anyone else thought this was gonna be where the streets have no name or just me?
Now I understand why I dislike U2.
You did it again! Edge has a finesse about him that is very hard to reproduce. Just that tiny ‘diddy’ gave me chills it sounded amazing! Thanks for the awesome guitar lesson!!!
The Edge is awesome 😎🎸
You're playing the riff with an eighth note delay and your doubling the strokes the delay is supposed to take. That sounds awful. Edge uses a dotted eighth note delay on Bad. Strike one down note, the delay plays back the note alone etc.
It's two delays not one..both different ms
The Edge also created this use of delay. The video should maybe be titled, “The effect The Edge from U2 created”. It’s easy in 2022 to look back and minimize these things but he was an absolute pioneer when it comes to creating signature sounds.
The art is to make much while doing little. But that little is perfection.
The Edge uses in this song two delays in series
Bad es una de las tres, cuatro mejores canciones de U2.
Love me some u2
That’s such a great song. It reminds me of my days on college. I’d sit in my dorm room in the fraternity house and just jam out to old school U2 and look out the window watching all the girls heading to their classes. Damn, I miss those days. Damn, I miss my youth.
Creepy
@@louisvuittondonvg9040 Like Im the only heterosexual male that has ever sat and watched girls go by.
@@cm1133 Many of us hear music that sends us back to our school/college days. I used to look at girls passing from my boarding school dormitory, and miss those great days too.
@@louisvuittondonvg9040 Creepy?
You appear to have bad school memories, and didn't look at girls much?!!
@@barrymitchell6444 That’s exactly what I was thinking. When I am told to go to my happy place, my happy place is sitting in my dorm at the sigma phi epsilon house at the University of Alabama watching the girls go bye, back in the day when my biggest worry was whether or not I was going to go to my 8 o’clock class the next day. I miss my days in college more than any other time in my life. Back in college, this country was not the fucked up place it is now, and everyone I knew was still very much alive!
It’s also because of the use of a Rickenbacker guitar. Not to many Rock bands use/used them. They sound very unique.
That’s my favourite U2 riff and song! Class….
Sounds like something you’d hear in a corporate slideshow video about how they’re innovative and strategically synergies strategy’s to optimize workflow
The bpms sound off
Totally original sound
You know Immediately...The Edge
My favorite song by U2
Incredible choice for your example, nicely done too.
Just wanted to point out that cool DM shirt in the background, you've got some good taste!
One of the greatest songs of all the time!
The unforgettable Fire album.
Can’t forget it if you’ve never heard of it.
Damn man!! wasnt expecting for this to be this good of a cover, hats off ;))
The Edge uses tech as part of the guitar, a sound unique to him and he keeps things minimalistic and all the better for it.
Sounds better without the delay pedal
Ahh there's always one 🙄
@@ianjones2731 two in this one
@@ianjones2731 make it three
@@ibex1451 3 tone deaf randoms...got it 👍
@@ianjones2731 not liking the delay = tone deaf. ok buddy have a good one 👍
Good choice.
Yeah if he could play worth a shit and knew how to set the delay right and did something about that garbage tone.
One of my very first pedals was a dual digital delay pedal, and I remember playing this riff correctly for the first time and feeling like "Woohoo!" Such a great song, and in my top 3 favorite U2 songs.
Gotta love those 16th notes!
One of the best Guitarist 🎸 of my Time.
Street's have no name is the most beautiful hopeful intro I've ever heard in myife til this day
I really get goosebumps on hearing this tune ❤❤❤
He's got a pedal for every song
Oooh, there's a Meme to be made out of that observational gem!!
Literally the FIRST thing I did when I got my first echoplex in the early 70s(along with every other guitarist of the day) . Not exactly a groundbreaking discovery by Mr. EDGY GUY👍
And yet, he’s a world renowned guitarist and you’re a nobody on RUclips.
Echoplex......1st heard that word on a 1970 Steve Miller album.
@@c.s.mcleod7383 they sell for ridiculous prices these days. They were somewhat labor intensive as they used tape cartridges (cost $7 back then) and there were record- heads you needed to clean with a q-tip/solution on occasion. They were also rather large. 😎. I'm guessing Steve Miller used one on The Joker slide guitar part along with his wah pedal. A very cool sound at the time.
Edge is brilliant whether you like U2 or not it’s hard to deny. I still can’t get enough of that delay heavy main riff to Where The Streets Have No Name.
Is it supposed to sound like that?! Lol
its not
No..... It's not.. errrrrrt FAIL. 🚫
Nope lol
The U2 sound originated 🎸🇬🇬❤️
In Elevation too the bass came in later and it was pure magic
Never cared for U2
I loathe U2
They're awful
They are THE poster boys that define "over-rated".
This delay effect is one of the core reasons I despise them!! All corporate videos and Christian music sounds like this junk .
W H A T ? ? ? ?
RUFKMRN ?
you may also like "Terbang Tenggelam" and "Pertempuran Hati". live version on youtube..
It's all about the sound & technique
Beautiful guitar! Love the brush gold metal
The Edge uses delay like a crutch like Kirk Hammett uses a wah pedal.
Work smarter not harder
@@guitareater6975 Nope. Just plain lazy.
@@aaronkristo858 people can choose any way to make art. art is just a vision in someone's head, and some people think of more efficient ways to make it than others. guitar playing isn't about shredding or being a technique wizard, it's about making music, just like any instrument.
@@guitareater6975 I understand that. But I also know when someone is using effects as a crutch to repeatedly mask their subpar proficiency on their instrument.
@@aaronkristo858 what you don't seem to understand is that most of his delay riffs can't be replicated without delay. this implies that it is more of an artistic choice than a crutch. he's not trying to replicate the talent of other guitarists, he's going for his own vision.
This actually shows why you need to be an expert-level tinkerer and have a natural feel for tempo match to play like Edge. If the delay setting is even a little bit off there is none of the awesome resonance he achieves. Also the picking needs to be extremely precise.
So good. Almost shit myself when I heard it the first time.
DID YOU KNOW:
That The Edge created a strumming pattern that many Christian guitarists use to this day🎸☝🙂
Another reason to sledge the edge
Haha spot-on
We're still waiting for him to do a solo!!! Bwaaàhahahahaaaa!
@@bend3rbot Bullet the Blue Sky? Powerful and unique solo.
@@zachary963 I'm just going to give it to you because I've managed to make it many decades into life without ever having the icky sensation of selecting a song from their catalogue - for reals!!!! They really do make.me feel that ill. 🤮 It can't have been memorable to many others because you're the only one so far, but I'll suspend judgement in the interest of avoiding audi-arrhoea
The point is CREATIVITY AND A GOOD EAR!
Dead milkmen shirt is the best part of this video
My favorite U2 song as well. It's been like that for over 15 years. It was love at first listen.
Great Milkmen T in the background!
Edge uses the textured part of the pick also, clever
Now
I can sleep peacefully
Edge Is a Genius
The Dead Milkmen t shirt 🔥🔥🔥
The real skill in the Edge's delay is getting the repeat time right!
People are being pretty harsh, it’s not meant to be a shred video - nice demo :)
Yeah, but every comment makes the video get more views so I kind of get the last laugh… kind of.
It is distinctive. Thanks for the info.
love that album
U2? Nope, not me!
One song in spanish with that effect is "Signos" by Soda Stereo
Dear Mama Edge had quite an imagination when she filled out baby Edge's birth certificate lololol
So simple, but so smart.
he is not technically gifted but yeah he has insane creativity which makea U2 music great.
Huge difference...Great album btw.
Unforgettable Fire is incredible to me I love this info
The Dead Milkmen! One of the BEST bands EVER!!!! I heard them first in 1986 from a friend who made a copy of the Big Lizard in My Backyard album. YAY! Dean's Dream kicks ass.
“Bitchin Camaro” from the album “Big Lizard in My Backyard” was a song my room mate in college loved because he drove a Camaro.
You get the point across. 13k likes 👍🏻 I think it’s important to note that Unforgettable Fire marked the Edges embrace of a rack rig. Bad was not played through a pedal at all. He was playing in stereo through 2 TC Electronic 2290’s, Eventide harmonizers, and more. So an analog delay will merely get you in the ball park. Digital foot pedal technology has become quite advanced an plug ins on DAWs etc however. Anything from War on back is totally in the wheel house of Memory Man analog delay. He’s not my cup of tea, he did contribute to guitarists moving to stereo rack rigs. Gilmour more so. Bob Bradshaw was the guy everyone sought out. Edge took minimalism a long way.
Bad was the whole reason I bought my delay peddle in 1989😂
"Edge" gets way to much credit.
The edge is a wizard
Gotta like for the dead milkmen
Bro you can’t even play in time… those delay trails were brutal
Bro you can’t even bother to understand that his timing is fine.
@@SG-qx1fg no it isn't. Its a decent attempt but he is way off
@@SG-qx1fg HE'S PLAYING OFFTIME, NOT CORRECTLY. EDGE DOES IT CORRECTLY.
Can you do for reverb ?? Great content subscribed
Awesome love the added tab. Man killer strat. Your playing is perfect
You have a great mental clarity. You have a great dedication. You really should write some riffs of your own you have a great knowledge of what works. It's something you have to keep working on all the time it takes the masters years but I have no doubt you can do the same. I love effects based rock like this. I really love Tool and A perfect circles heavy effects ladened metal.
Dotted eighth delay is always nice. Except in this vid 😂