Which heavy metal guitarist are you

Van Halen were so full of energy and we were falling to pieces. It was difficult for us, the band was going through a funny stage and it felt like the end. But I liked having Van Halen with us. Eddie became a great friend of mine on that tour. I used to get together with him every night in my room or his. And I went more with that approach on that album. There were also some jazz influences in places.

I like jazz guitar players, and I liked to play some jazzy things in the early days when we first started. And there was a track that was just a blues jam The title sort of gives it away, really! We enjoy a bit of nodding It was a jam and we made it into a song. Metallica have that. They sound like a band. For me, it has to have feel. Darrell Lance Abbott laid the groove, screamed the blues and changed heavy metal forever. His penchant for the lead work of rock and metal giants such as Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads was combined with his own unique take on the humble pentatonic scale.

Although favouring extreme techniques such as wide, aggressive vibrato, whammy bar antics and huge squealing harmonics, Dimebag was always in control of his sound; no mean feat when dealing with large amounts of distortion and boosted treble. The natural harmonic in bar 1 and the first pinched harmonic in bar 3 should be the same pitch. The whammy bar bend into bar 2 is a three-semitone dip. Rhoads came from a classical guitar background and loved the sound of diminished arpeggios and scale runs.

Use the right fingers and this diminished 7th arpeggio is much easier to play. Justin Bieber. More than A Grammy Award. An MTV Award. An American Music Award. A Billboard Music Award. New York. Los Angeles. My secret affair. My nude photos. My DUI. My public fight. A panther. An owl. A parrot. A dolphin. Losing people. Nothing scares me. Hit something. He picks with two fingers and his thumb and I think he gets this extra strength out of it, whilst always being precision tight.

And Kirk is the master of the memorable solo. I wanted to play it note for note but might have missed a few off! Melting these two styles together but keeping their separate strengths is just the ultimate in synergy.