I read somewhere about a "dive bomb" guitar technique. Steve Vai does it. It has something to do with your tremelo bar. Is this the easiest technique with your tremelobar and how do you do it? Sorry if its been asked before.

wizard

yeah you just push the whammy bar towads the body of your guitar, so the pitch drops (dives).

Have a look at this

i just tried out some off your examples (except the pinch harmonic) I don't know, is that all there is to it? I just hit a note and then press the bar to the body? I already did that but didn't know they call it a "divebomb". Seems pretty basic i thought it was something special.

thanks for the info

yup, thats a divebomb. Search google, or this site, for 'whammy tricks' for more interesting stuff.

Divebomb? Isnt that where you strum a note and dip the trem arm so the strings slacken?

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just got to http://www.sputnikmusic.com/lesson.php?lessonid=184
I foudn it yesterday in class and it has a bunch of shit to do on whammy and it includes videos so you can see what the fuck the guy is trying to get across.

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hm i tried it out, good video's that cricket one sounds like nile or something.
Interesting stuff though, tried some, works better with much distortion.

thanks

crickets reminds me of Toxik and a bunch of their songs. One of the cooler and easier tricks is the pinch harmonic + fast whammying. It creates a really cool effect

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Grab a copy of Death's Leprosy. Rick Rozz uses his whammy bar more than any guitarist ive ever heard.
Also Kerry king uses nice bombs in Seasons. (Open B dive followed by 5th frett natural harmonic. Sounds wicked)

does kerry king uses spectacular divebombs in the albums "raining blood" or "divine intervention"? And so yes in which songs?
If you could say in wich songs on Seasons he uses that technique we could have an idea how wicked it sounds

You can also do dive bombs with natural harmonics and move the bar back towards the body or down.

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The song seasons in the abyss. First solo kerry bends a high note a couple of times then hits an open b and dives then hits a fifth fret natural harmonic and dives then pulls up. Bit of delay too gives more impact. But i can't stress enough about Rick Rozz's whammy bar action in Leprosy most whammy bar action you'll ever hear.

R.I.P. Chuck,godfather of metal.

thanks for the info, i am gonna check out that solo in seasons in the abyss right now

yeah. listen to angel of death. when the dueling guitar solos are about to finish. before dave does his thing...thats a perfect example of the dive bomb.

that shits hella sic. dive bombs i mean. a cool thing to do would be to drop it nice and slow and then hit the note again and jiggle you're hand. then do a classic slayer solo. improvised of course!

The oldest recording I've ever heard with a "dive bomb" was done by Jimmy Page on "For your life". Anyone know if it originated from somewhere else before that??

After hitting a open e and bombing, hit natural harmonics on the seventh frett,b and g strings while the bar is down then pull up on the bar and vibrato it. One of my favs.

I can dive bomb off my roof and into my pool!

lucky barstard if i tried to bomb dive from my roof to my pool id probably end up with broken legs or something

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There is no water in my pool.

hahahaha

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My grandma knows how to do the "dive bomb technique".

She actually did it once.

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my personal fav is doing the dive bomb while tapping

TOXIK REFERENCE

+1


Oh yeah and thanks for the url for that stuff too, I knew a few of those things, but some of it is news to me.

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arrr! ive found an older one...are you ready? afternoon delight. listen to the chorus. "sky rockets in flight. bbbeeeeuuuuwwwwwuuuueee!" thats the oldest one i can think of.

Haha that's a terrible song... but I don't think the dive got earlier than that...

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