How To Play Best Of Both Worlds By Van Halen - Mystery chords revealed

In this video I demonstrate how to play the main parts to the song Best Of Both Worlds by Van Halen. This was a popular track off the 1st album with Sammy Hagar titled 5150. In this lesson I go over the intro, verse and transition chords that blend the parts together. This song is a tricky and catchy piece of guitar work when you do a deep analysis of the chord voicings, picking techniques and fingerstyle techniques Eddie Van Halen implements in this song. Best Of Both Worlds is a fan favorite and was always a great number for the band to rock out on stage with. The Live Without A Net performance showcases a lot of cool variations that Eddie employed while playing this song and provides some valuable incite. I recommend watching that video as well. As always, thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the video. Please subscribe!

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[CAP]

This is the best breakdown of this song on the internet, PERIOD!
You are the
“Van Halen Breakdown Guy”😎
I will expect royalties if you change the name of your channel to this 💰😂

[kibscott]

Great song, the 5150 album always makes me think of summer and good times, if I remember right I wore out the cassette playing it so much when it first came out, yeah good times, thx Marty 🤘

[ThisOldGuy]

This is one of the song on the Live Without a Net tour they really seemed to have fun playing.🤘😎🎸

[roncollins]

Been playing this song for 20 yrs. Its interesting how meny people interpret it differently. Most tabs have it wrong like so meny Van Halen songs. I think your interpretation is spot on to my ears. Subscribed.

[rvk]

Oh man I was loving the Epiphone video but now...now we get a new lesson! Hell yeah Marty!!!

[MarkEdward-blcr]

Great job on the lesson Marty cool Joe Satriani model looks like you changed the front pickup to a DiMarzio always liked that JS 🤘👍

[barrymccociner]

So much going on and even some hiding . Great job decoding this song !

[kennethhoneycutt]

I love this song I'm glad you came back to. I'm more partial to the Hagar. Era of van halen thanks again marty

[ccaputa]

I don't know exactly why, but this song was always one of my favorites on this album. Probably just because it kicks ass and Sammy's vocal was in the zone.

[DeputyVanHalen]

Awesome lesson as always Marty. Thank you. Your dog is just hanging out, taking in all of the rad licks. 😁👍🏻

[nokomisnichols]

bro, fo I'm impressed by the intro of your improv.

[The_Macaroon]

Nice to see the KBS hanging out in the background.

[geoffreylowery]

Thanks Marty! Good rainy day down here to play with this

[rdmcfarland]

Great video! Thank you for taking the time to write everything out. Much appreciated! This will be fun!

[weslester]

Thanks! Definitely one of my favorites. Good lesson!!

[DANWRIGHTITIS]

Great class!! Getting to the NITTY GRITTY without the CHAFF!!
Yonks ago i my mum found me the OU812 ´Piano Vocal Book in a charity shop for a QUID . I didn´t get the notation - But it had ALL the chord shapes for WHEN IT´S LOVE - etc.
I learnt more from that book than the TAB version that i bought later.

[paulsanders]

I know people say it all the time, but your distorted tone is so rich and full. Can you go over how you achieve that tone some day?
Thanks!
Paul

[canyonproductions]

Thx for doin this lesson in Standard 😛. Im sittin around w my Tele and didnt wanna detune it just to learn this wacky riff. Great tone too

[andyracksthecams]

Thank you. Haven't played this for years but will do soon.

[andrewzenn]

I could never figure out what sounded good. Thanks. EVH is awesome.