Comments on: Jumpgate Resolved: Van Halen Guitar Sorta Absolved, Keyboard Detuned

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[...] Previously: the Great Van Halen Detuned Keyboard Incident. [...]

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Create Digital Music » Your Top 10 Music Tech CDM Stories of 2007 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:53:47 +0000

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By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:29:47 +0000

@Keith Handy

Good idea, but that’s assuming Eddie carries a slide in those clingy rocker pants.

By: Keith Handy

Keith Handy — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:44:11 +0000

I think the thing to do when you realize your guitar is not in agreement with the music, is to stop playing long sustained notes like that, and just start making spastic rhythmic noises. Or find a slide and do the “blues version”. If the crowd didn’t have a problem with everything being massively out of tune, I doubt they’d have a problem with a reinterpretation of the guitar part.

By: Iain

Iain — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:24:33 +0000

First there was the big dramatic and long synth intro, during which no one would have suspected the pitch/tempo change. Then the live playing came in and everything was off. What were the performers to do, wave their arms at the sound crew yelling “STOP” in front of a packed arena? No one knew what was happening. Was it a tuning problem, was it broken hardware? By the time they realized there was a problem it was too late and they had to forge ahead.

It couldn’t have happened to a better song. I consider “Jump” the song that ruined Van Halen’s street cred.

By: poorsod

poorsod — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:10:30 +0000

I like that the first tag on this post was ‘avant garde’. I don’t see Van Halen purposefully Going All Arty on us any time soon.

By: Ivan Smirnov

Ivan Smirnov — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:54:13 +0000

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By: flip

flip — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:02:40 +0000

JD: There are tuners in the bridge on that kind of setup, and they are capable of going more than a whole tone. The problem is that they are meant for fine tuning in cents…so when you crank on them (especially the heavy gauge ones) it shifts the pitch of all the strings, and not equally. Too bad he didn’t have one of those pedals that can pitch shift all over the place.

By: JD

JD — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:04:07 +0000

If Eddie didn’t have a locking nut on his guitar, he could have tuned to the backing track, then played normally. The first verse would’ve been kind of weird, but the rest of the song would’ve been fine.

By: Mibrilane

Mibrilane — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:46:53 +0000

I like “Greensborofier” for a 44.1 to 48 pitch effector name. Less damning of the group’s name and more about the singular incident.