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American - Musician August 20, 1966 - December 8, 2004

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

Dimebag Darrell

Day Music Chill You

Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy.

Dimebag Darrell

Me Mirror Water Man

The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!

Dimebag Darrell

Me Man Done Always

I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.

Dimebag Darrell

Love Me Time Inspire

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

Dimebag Darrell

Work Learning Me School

I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

Dimebag Darrell

Face Kiss School Paint

As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!

Dimebag Darrell

Good Your Rhythm Far

Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.

Dimebag Darrell

Heart Soul New Things Your

If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you.

Dimebag Darrell

You Bad Enough Always

Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself.

Dimebag Darrell

Yourself People You Dream

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I'm still the same cat I always was.

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Always Same Cat Still

I'm not gonna say it's all done, 'cause it ain't ever all done.

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Done Say Cause Ever

My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.

Dimebag Darrell

Brother Writing Own Heroes

To me, a sure-fire way to get in a rut is by sitting around playing by yourself for too long. You've gotta get out there and jam, man! You don't have to necessarily be in a band, all you've gotta have are a couple of buds who play too. They don't have to be guitarists either; jamming with a bassist or a drummer is cool.

Dimebag Darrell

Me Yourself Cool Man

With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjoy doing what you're doing. There's obviously gonna be highs and lows, and the trick to it is to be able to maintain composure and stay high even when you're in the lows. That way, when you hit the highs ,it'll be twice as killer.

Dimebag Darrell

Yourself You Enjoy Way

'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.

Dimebag Darrell

Broken Sound Check Riff

To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.

Dimebag Darrell

Rose Real Left Hand

Sometimes it's cool to play major third and minor third diads back-to-back, or a minor third followed by a root/fifth diad - whatever combo sounds good.

Dimebag Darrell

Good Cool Sometimes Play

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

Dimebag Darrell

Rejection Hard Cheeks Go

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

Dimebag Darrell

Think Bored Musicians Over

To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!

Dimebag Darrell

Me Time Great Guitar

Washburn built me the guitar that changed my life.

Dimebag Darrell

Life Me My Life Guitar

The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.

Dimebag Darrell

Brother Time School Crazy

When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.

Dimebag Darrell

Sometimes Two Bring Just

My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.

Dimebag Darrell

Bridge Down Push Always

I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!

Dimebag Darrell

Food Got Venezuela Poisoning

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