Van halen jump series#

Or maybe thetuner the tech was using was off. Maybe theguitar was in tune with itself, but just tuned wrong. So the strings could be playing anything really. Vrenna: Something mustвЂ™ve happened to EddieвЂ™s guitar tuning.Maybe he banged the headstock or the whammy bar threw it out of tune.And when guitars go out of tune, they do it randomly, not in nice evensemitones. In other words: Eddie knows his guitar is out of tune, keeps playing out of spite. ThatвЂ™s the only reasonable explanation that I can come upwith. And heвЂ™sthe kind of guy who would keep playing it to make a point, to his techor whoever. EddieвЂ™s a pretty ornery guy,not the most pleasant human being that IвЂ™ve ever worked for. Because everythingelse is in : Dave did an outstanding job of staying in throughoutthe song, the bass was still in, even the drums are tuned to thekeyboards, it was clearly just the guitar. Forwhatever bizarre reason, he decided to keep playing. Totman: Eddie didnвЂ™t change or swap out the guitar. In other words: EddieвЂ™s playing to a backing track thatвЂ™s out of tune with the rest of the instruments. Inthe beginning of the video, you can tell heвЂ™s trying to see if heвЂ™s intune or not, he didnвЂ™t really know what was going on, but the train hadalready left the tracks. But itвЂ™s the backing track thatвЂ™s out of tune, not Eddie. Something changed, it wasnвЂ™t like someone mistakenly flipped aswitch. Maybethey introduced a new piece of gear to the equation and it was asituation of, letвЂ™s match everything to 48k so we get the best possiblequality. Janes: EdddieвЂ™s playing to what the files should be and hisguitars are probably perfectly in tune, and the whole band could be intune but all of a sudden this track is introduced and itвЂ™s chaos. In other words: No way it was the keyboards. It wasEddieвЂ™s guitar that was out of tune. Pitch bend wheels are usuallyspring loaded so if the pitch wheel was bumped, it wouldвЂ™ve returned tothe null position. Some think thereвЂ™s a live keyboard player off stage.Again, one would have had to go into the programming functions of theMIDI keyboards to change the tuning. I cannot believe any of their techs wouldhave done that. If they wereusing ProTools, someone would have had to go into the menus andmanually changed that info. If acomputer was playing back a prerecorded session, that session - and thesample rate - would have been made and saved previously.

Van halen jump series#

Plus, what it would take for the backing tracks, or livekeyboards, to go out of tune, would be a series of events. I found another liveperformance of вЂњJumpвЂќ from a few nights later, then played along withboth performances on a piano and both nights the keyboards were thesame. But live,they play it in C sharp, up a semitone (bands will often change the keyof a song to make it easier to sing every night). First, the original song is in the key of C. Or what Randy Jackson would call вЂњa little pitchy.вЂќД¬hris Vrenna (keyboardist): I believe the synth track wasplaying fine. In other words: Eddie played a guitar that was sharp. I even confirmed with the Van Halencamp, it was all Eddie. Ed isactually playing that part, recorded into ProTools, and with ProTools,if you want something to play back at a different sampling rate, itwonвЂ™t allow it in that session, you have to set up a whole new session.Plus, the keyboard guy on their tour is one of the most together guys Iknow, so it simply wouldnвЂ™t happen. A lot of people on the netare saying it was a sample rate issue, thatвЂ™s impossible. Hetypically has one in E, a half step off, for a couple of songs, and hewas either handed that one or he grabbed it. All of EddieвЂ™s guitars, except one, are tuned to E flat. Lonnie Totman (guitar tech): It was 100 percent a guitarissue. In other words: The sample was played a wee-bit fast. I donвЂ™t think it hadanything to do with the guitar side. ThereвЂ™s nothing you can do at that point. If you know the song вЂњJumpвЂќ and hear it on the youtubeclip, you could tell right away that it sounds a little higher andfaster. What happens isthat it transposes a pitch shift so all of a sudden, itвЂ™s playing threesteps higher. In this case, I think itвЂ™s already been proven that a masterclock source was at 48k, a higher quality playback. is adigital recording off a computer and normally played at a sample rateof 44.1k. Clayton Janes (playback tech):I think itвЂ™s a complete backing track issue.