what i didnt get...

That and the fact that Eugene had a harmonizer on that to get the high "A" note! LOL! Did I mention 21-fret Telecaster??? Vai should have just had one of the guitars that I have - a Washburn 29-fret EC-29. When I learned "Eugene's Trick Bag" many years ago, I used that guitar and it's one of the only guitars that you can really use for something like that... Anyway, Steve playing the 22 fret Charvel may have been able to reach that but I think that was the whole crux of the drama to begin with. Eugene had the "winning boy's magic"! I was suprised to see Jack Butler not rip off that "A" harmonic minor scale at the end (Even though it's him playing those parts). The first time I saw the movie, I figured he'd break a string or something to lose the battle...


Mandalorians: Capture By Design - Kill By Necessity

His will had been broken. Everything goes downhill fast from there.

Well (forget the harmonizer part added for the movie), in theory the way Eugene played the high note with a 21-fret guitar is the high E string was pull down and fretted against the neck-pickup.

If you see Steve (Jack Butler) in the first attempt at the note, he pulls his finger down to try and do that also but his finger just slips offs, so out of frustration and knowing Eugene did it without a tremolo, he tries his hardest to bend that note. And eventually gives up and concedes.