4. Ring True
"For me harmonics is the most pure sound available to a guitarist." for Edge harmonics is more than a decorative gimmick, in his hands becomes the building blocks of melodies. The exercises above show his classic clock chimes in "11 O´Clock Tic Toc" and the lilting harmonic-laden "Sunday Bloody Sunday" chorus melody.
5. Don´t expect, suggest.
"I tend to isolate chords down to two or three notes," Edge confesses. "Adam is in charge of chord sequences because I haven´t played a proper chord in years."
6. Slide down the surface of things.
A restless quest for innovation has led Edge to experiment with every note generating device available from EBow to the Fernandes Sustainer guitar,and although he´s not a slide player in the purist sense, the bottleneck has found its place in his arsenal of articulation.
7. Arp-Edge-iate your chords
Perhaps the number one Edge lick of all-time is the intro from 1983's breakthrough hit "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
Another Edge-y arpeggiation approachare the ones that recall such early U2 favourites as "Gloria" and "An Cat Dubh".
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