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Rockschool Grade Pieces Van Halen ‘Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love’ Van Halen SONG TITLE: AIN’T TALKIN’ ‘BOUT LOVE ALBUM: VAN HALEN RELEASED: 1978 LABEL: WARNER BROTHERS GENRE: CLASSIC ROCK PERSONNEL: EDDIE VAN HALEN (GTR) DAVID LEE ROTH (VOX) MICHAEL ANTHONY (BASS) ALEX VAN HALEN (DRUMS) UK CHART PEAK: N/A US CHART PEAK: N/A BACKGROUND INFO of the Genesis song, ‘The Return Of The Giant Hogweed’ from the 1971 album Nursey Cryme and The main riff to ‘Aint Talkin’ Bout Love’ is based on Jeff Beck used tapped notes to create a yodelling muted Am, F and G arpeggios. The guitar is treated sound. Van Halen has stated he got the idea from with a slow flanger effect. This formed part of Eddie watching Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page play his Van Halen’s so-called ‘Brown Sound’ which helps unaccompanied solo in ‘Heartbreaker’. Page played make the riff even more distinctive. This riff forms a hammer-on and pull-off lick that made use of the backbone for the whole song: all the other sections open strings. Van Halen worked out that he could are essentially variations of this basic idea. transpose the pattern elsewhere on the neck by using his picking hand to help with the stretch. THE BIGGER PICTURE RECOMMENDED LISTENING It’s impossible to understate the impact had Eddie Van Halen on rock guitar playing. Apart from Jimi Van Halen is full of astonishing guitar playing. Hendrix, no one has influenced more guitarists than ‘Eruption’ is explosive from start to finish, including Van Halen. His exciting, flamboyant style, spear- the famous triplet tapping pattern, and is one of the headed by his amazing two-handed tapping technique most famous guitar tracks of all time. ‘I’m The One’ is second to none: Van Halen and Van Halen II are is a high tempo boogie, while the cover of the Kinks’ considered essential listening for everyone serious song ‘You Really Got Me’ features yet more guitar about the guitar. pyrotechnics. The follow up 1979’s, Van Halen II features the nylon string cadenza ‘Spanish Fly’, which is the acoustic cousin of ‘Eruption’. ‘Outta NOTES Love Again’ features pinched harmonics in the riff and a tasteful solo that’s a perfect example of Van Although he’s credited for popularising the often- Halen’s impeccable phrasing. 1984’s album, 1984, saw emulated tapping technique, Eddie Van Halen the band take a more poppy direction, but Eddie’s would be the first to admit he didn’t invent it. Steve outstanding playing can still be heard on the frenetic Hackett can be heard tapping arpeggios at the start ‘Hot For Teacher’ and the massive hit ‘Jump’. Hot Rock Guitar Grade 3 Grade Rock Guitar Hot 5 Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love Van Halen Words & Music by David Lee Roth, Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen & Michael Anthony 139 Classic Rock q = Am F G5 œ œ œ & 4 . œ œ œ œ œ . œ œ œ œ PMœ œ œ 0 1 3 T 1 1 3 2 2 A . 2 . B 0 3 2 3 . 3 . Am G Am G œ œ ‰ œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ & œ œ j œ œ œ œ œ œ œ j œ œ œ œ œ œ PMœ œ œ œ œ PMœ œ œ œ PMœ œ œ PMœ PMœ œ œ PMœ T 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 A 2 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 3 2 3 B 0 3 0 0 3 0 [3] Am F G5 Am F G5 œ œ œ œ œ œ . œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ . & œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ PMœ PMœ œ PMœ PMœ œ 1 3 1 3 T 1 1 3 1 1 3 2 2 A . 2 2 . B 0 3 2 3 0 3 2 3 . 3 3 . 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The title was changed by the record ‘Paranoid’ was the first single from the 1970 company as it was considered inappropriate in light of album of the same name. It starts with a distinctive the ongoing Vietnam war. This is why the figure on guitar riff based on an E5 powerchord and the the front cover of the album is clearly a ‘War Pig’. minor pentatonic scale before moving into chugging One interesting quirk of guitarist Tony Iommi’s eighth-note powerchords for the majority of the style is that he prefers to play powerchords on the song. The interesting guitar tone in the solo is the lowest two strings of the guitar (the fifth and sixth sound of a ring modulator effect. It may be simple, strings) regardless of how high they are. This means but ‘Paranoid’ netted Black Sabbath their highest ever he often plays above the 12th fret, even when it chart position and initiated their rise to superstardom. might seem more logical to play one string higher. This approach yields a thick, full tone that can’t be duplicated on the thinner strings. THE BIGGER PICTURE Black Sabbath’s sound evolved from the blues to the RECOMMENDED LISTENING powerful sound that became the blueprint of today’s modern metal. Megadeth and Metallica constantly ‘Evil Woman’ from Sabbath’s debut album Black reference Black Sabbath as an influence, while Alice in Sabbath shows off Iommi’s Clapton-influenced lead Chains and Soundgarden clearly owe a debt to them. style. The title track, is perhaps the first recorded Grunge icon, Kurt Cobain name-checked Sabbath example of the heavy metal genre. It makes use of the when describing Nirvana’s sound. dark sounding tritone (b5) interval combined with a heavy, distorted sound, which, while commonplace in metal nowadays, was groundbreaking in the late NOTES 60s. Some of Tony Iommi’s best riffs can be found on 1973’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. 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