Mean Street Van Halen This is an attempt at transcribing Mean Streets off Van Halen's Fair Warning. I've gotten the gyst of it (I think), but the intro isn't exactly correct. Call this a cry for help. If you know of a better way to do it, please e-mail The fade-in riff is a percussive guitar version of a 'paradiddle' (that's what my drummer says, anyway). This is pretty close to what he is doing. All notes are tapped harmonics, produced by momentarily ramming your finger onto the string right (azchords.com)