As an ER nurse and former firefighter/paramedic, you learn to look for the good in bad situations or you won’t survive. That’s what I’ve done since the death of Eddie Van Halen. I had not played much guitar at all in the past couple of months, but after hearing of EVH’s passing, I’ve had a renewed interest and motivation to play guitar. Thank you, Eddie, for that and for everything you did for the guitar world. There will never be another like you.
. Before this site, I was a halfway decent guitar player but was missing a lot of things and had next to no theory knowledge. Now, after being here a while and understanding things a little better, I can see and listen to guitar parts I once thought would be impossible to learn and pickup patterns, etc that I was never able to do before. Like right now, I’m looking at Jeff Loomis’ solo to Nevermore’s The River Dragon Has Come, which is ridiculously fast, but I was able to pick it up and recognize the arpeggios and patterns. Yay me!