Okay, just a few comments...

1.  It may be hard to believe, but some of us have a life .  I didn't even see this post until this morning.

2.  Though I agree that Metal is very easy, the song you posted is about the furthest thing from Metal you can get.

3.  Sounds like you're having a lot of fun with your new tremolo.  It is a blast to play with and that's what it's all about (forget everything you know about the Hokey Pokey).

Here are some other whammy tricks to play with/learn/master...

Flutter

Basically, you hit a note and slap your whammy bar lightly.  You're pressing the whammy bar down and letting it snap back.  This will cause it to bounce back and forth very quickly causing your notes to get a strange "grrrrrrrrr" overtone.  This may be easier for you if you put the whammy bar pointing straight to the back of the guitar.  You can just pick a note, and quickly slap the bar with your picking hand.

Lizard Down the Throat

That's what Satriani calls it anyway.  You'll slide a note (make sure it's a note you want to hear) up the neck to a note you want to eventually hit.  As you slide the first note, you will depress the whammy bar so the note, though sliding up, isn't changing.  As soon as you get to the final note, you let up on the whammy bar to express the final note.  You'll get this really cool "r-r-r-r-r-r" as you slide up because the bar is bending the note smoothly and your note is creasing one fret at a time.  Then, you get a cool "weeee" sound from releasing your bar to hit the final note.  When you master this, you'll want to hit it fast and smooth.  It will make ears do a double-take.

Screech Dive

This one is tough to find, but once you find it, you'll use it all over the place like so many of the whammy masters.  There are two ways to do this.  The easiest way is to lay your fretting hand across the strings around the neck pickup.  You're looking for the harmonics that hit there (you'll want to use, at least, two fingers so the harmonics are a little "sloppy").  You will strike all the strings so they all ring that really high harmonic, then you will quickly depress your whammy.  You will get a really cool, almost eagle-like screech that dives as you depress the bar.  Also, you will get some really odd sympathetic, dissonant harmonics that ring with the strings are you depress the bar.

The other way to achieve this is to use the blade of your picking hand to hit those harmonics.  You will reach under the neck, in front of the body with your picking hand to grab the whammy bar.  This way is tougher, but is more visually stunning.

There are more that I'm sure others can explain, but these are the first three off the top of my head.

Here's a friend of mine by the name of Ponco Satrio.  He's a fantastic guitar player and the absolute nicest guy on the planet.  Here are some free lessons on the Whammy bar.  He's Indonesian so some of these lessons are not in English.  Still, you can see the techniques he's using very clearly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrGuDghdsD8 (start this one about 2 minutes in for the Flutter technique)

If you just want some basic guitar lessons, he's got a metric, cubic, butt-ton of them on line:  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=ponco+satrio&aq=f

Interesting.

"Mommy.. Is that man killing his guitar?"

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I feel it really could have used a bit of smoke on the water and maybe a pig squeel.

Holy Christ.. who's strangling the cat?

humor is not a common sense

Metal is easy?? That's loaded statement. What exactly do you call Metal. There are tons of sub-genres of Metal out there, you know?

Reading this post and all of its replies really put a smile on my face today.

Thanks, I needed that!

Wow I'm new to this fourm . I've been playing guitar for thirty years , I think I've heard better tries from 8 year old who never played at all .

I kept listening to see if this guy would at least try to redeem himself . But no chance . If this is ou first time here definatly skip this . Its not worth your ears !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry... Butt-Metal is right! it sounds like something coming from your  butt.

I don't know if "Butt Metal" does this justice for a title....

perhaps "Dog Caught In A Leg-Hold Trap" would suit it better..?

You should be a bit more humble! haha!....Dude check out Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, Dimebag Darrell and ofcourse Eddie Van Halen.....theyre some of the best at it....by the way....That was NOT metal...and there is Tons of metal out there that is not easy.....To say that Metal is easy is way too much of a generalization....Funny too....guitar is NEVER that cut and dry haha!

Ouch!  Ok, so it's pretty funny.  I'll give you that. 

To those of you who are confused why people don't get that this is just a joke: 

I have been a musician and home recordist for 20 years.  Along the way I've had people hand me cassettes, CD's, and send me mp3 files to listen and critique.  Sadly, many of them have been poor quality.  Not horrible like this post, but they weren't jokes, they were real.

However, some recordings have been remarkably similar to this post AND WERE COMPLETELY SERIOUS.   Yes, that's right.  Some people do in fact sound like that AND want people to tell them it sounds good.

They usually come with the same disclaimers (which I'm sure were part of the joke) about being done quickly, and at home (not in a real studio), and done "by myself", and being rough drafts, etc.

And on the internet, well let's face it, there is quite a vast sea of crap that sounds a lot like this recording, as far as production and main instrument quality go.  In every genre.  Go to acidplanet.com   Yikes.  There is some garbage stinking up that site.

So some people actually think they can play, and want people to tell them it sounds good, even when it's complete trash.

After being bombarded by this low level of proficiency, some people lash out and give honest critique, even if mean spirited.  Which is exactly what someone needs if they really do sound like that.  They won't get better if people blow smoke up their @$$ and tell them they sound good.

Without knowing someone, it's tough to know whether they are serious or joking.

So the combination of these two things is what makes this thread one of the funniest things I've read in a while.

And regarding the comparison to posting a video called "driving is easy" showing him driving then crashing into a tree, well ......  that's so completely different that it's ridiculous.  Nobody does things like that expecting to be taken seriously.  But people do record really bad "music" and expect to be taken seriously.  One is obvious, the other is (sadly) sometimes hard to tell.

Thanks for a real good laugh though.

Dude, that SUCKS!!! Looks like someone needs some serious practice. Save the crap mp3 post for your myspace page!

I think what we've got here is a brand new genre.

I mean it's got to be just as valid as Rap Gangsta or hip hop.

It's probably even very healthy for you.  Imagine the dance floor with everybody rolling around on the floor laughing uncontrollably for 3 minutes.

Thats the shizzle ma nizzle!