Can anyone tell me what song this lick comes from? It is in episode 6 of Cracking the Code.
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Troy’s examples in that section come from 3 different songs:
You Really Got Me (13:20)
Panama (13:29)
Romeo Delight (14:07)
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Thank you so much!! It was the Panama one - so awesome!!
Dude, I love all of the crazy references in here. Perry Mason, Hee Haw, Sanford N Son… lmfao 
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It’s funny that Troy mentions the elastic guitar strap. Because I was actually thinking about getting one. Buckethead uses one to do all of his weird robot dance moves. I was gonna try some robot dance guitar moves with one.
Oh god stay away from the elastic. I can’t believe how long I suffered under that thing without even thinking to try a standard strap. Digs into your traps like a piano wire and makes it impossible to get a consistent guitar height.
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Hi @Troy, I know there is a lot of legato in this EVH phrase, but the picking doesn’t seem trivial to me at that speed - there are a few isolated notes on a string here and there. Do you have a guess as to how Eddie played this, or do you remember how you used to pick it?
Thanks 
PS: These early episodes were so cool!!!
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Some folks went into immense detail about this on the Metropolous forum, which seems to have a very high concentration of EVH fans
http://forum.metropoulos.net/viewtopic.php?t=35369
wjamflan seems to have the right of it
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@tommo I think @frylock has mentioned this before but Eddie looks like Albert Lee to me - supinated crosspicking tendencies. If you do it right, theses middle finger pick grips can naturally lead that way because the downstroke is extensiony and the upstroke is extensiony plus deviation.
In practice it doesn’t matter that much because you’re mostly picking only two fast notes at a time. So you could do that with stringhopping if you wanted to and it will be fine, most people can do two fast inefficient movements back to back - like tapping on a desk, for example.
It’s only for things like the Hang 'Em High intro where continuous arbitrary string switches are necessary, and he does a great job with that.
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Very cool thread. And the point people are making about the lick’s origin in Cream’s “Sitting on top of the world” is interesting. Eddie has made no secret of how much influence Cream-era Clapton had on him.