Eddie+Van+Halen

As you research your selected guitarist, you will need to note some specific information from his or her life and career. Include the following in your final writing: Details for your written assignment: ,
 * Introduction
 * Biography
 * Discography
 * Legacy
 * Conclusion

Your Name: Brian L.

Eddie Van Halen was a guitar genius, with a fast two handed signature sound which was perfected by him and attempted by many others after him, but never as well as Eddie. Rock and Roll was his group, Van Halens focus, and it was very popular and well accepted by the world.

Eddie Van Halen was born January 26, 1995 in Nijmegan, Netherlands, where he soon became an American immigrant with the rest of his family when they decided to come "The Land of the Free". He was brought up in California and cared for by his very musically talented family. He was carted to San Pedro with his brother for lessons in classical guitar. Eddie was very good at the piano, but he didn't read the music, he only watched the teachers hands and listened to the music being played. He would often be complemented by judges in his competitions that the liked his version of the famous composers piece, while poor Eddie thought he was playing the composition correctly! He soon quit taking lessons because the piano bored him. He bought a drum set for himself while his brother began playing guitar, when Eddie heard his brother, Alex, play a solo, Eddie became overwhelmingly jealous and decided to switch to guitar. He built his own guitar, which would later come to be known as the "Frankenstrat". After creating the band Genesis, they switched their name to Mammoth, before making one final change to it when it finally became Van Halen.

Two of the most important songs of Eddie Van Helns career would be "Eruption" and his solo in "Beat It". This is because in both of these songs it really demonstrates Eddie's musical talents. His two handed tapping created a fast paced beat to the sound in "Beat It", one of Micheal Jackson's most well known songs, but not many people know that Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen plays lead guitar.

Eddie Van Halen has left the music industry with guitar skills that he and only he could have realized are possible: Volume Swelling and Two-Handed Tapping. Van Halen has left an imprint on the music listeners, by making them have extremely high standards on who the nest tru "Guitar Genius" is, after Eddie Van Halen the true Master.

The most importantint thing I beleive I learend about Eddie Van Halen in the process of writing this Biography is that he exists. I'm not sure how I missed an amazing guitarist like Eddie Van Halen with such musical genius, he is the most involved and skillful guitarist I have ever heard.

Works Cited

Sources : Include the source information for all of the articles or web sites that were used to complete your project. Source information is found at the end of each article in iCONN.They should also be listed in alphabetical order by the first word of the source citation. sample: "Carol Kaye." //Contemporary Musicians//. Vol. 22. Detroit: Gale, 1998. //Gale Biography In Context//. Web. 8 Jan. 2012. "Selected Websites on Carol Kaye's Life and Works." //Gale Biography in Context//. Detroit: Gale, 2008. //Gale Biography In Context//. Web. 8 Jan. 2012.


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Guitarist Research Notes Table
//cells will expand as you enter your findings// || Death: Future || He and his brother, Alex, were brought to a classical piano teacher as children, Eddie never read the music, he created what he thought was the correct notes || Built his own guitar || > > Van Halen II (1979) > > Women and Children First (1980) > > Fair Warning (1981) > > Diver Down (1982) > > 1984 (1984) > > 5150 (1986) > > OU812 (1988) > > For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991) > > Balance (1995) > > Van Halen III (1998) > > A Different Kind of Truth (2012) || What do you like about his/her style? || Fast and very alive with emotions Fast tapping sound and volume swells of Eddie's guitar ||
 * ** Information Feature ** ||= **Your Findings**
 * The guitar style I am researching is: || two-handed t apping, natural and artificial h armonics , vibrato, and tremolo picking, combined with his rhythmic sensibility and melodic approach ||
 * The artist I am researching is: || Eddie VanHalen ||
 * This guitarist lived from __to__ ___ || **Born: **January 26, 1955 in Nijmegan, Netherlands
 * Define and describe the guitar style you are researching. || Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, ju mp blues, jazz, and go spel music , together with We stern music and country music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s.  ||
 * What kind of musical training did the guitarist have? || Self taught, before teaching his brother and his brother teaching Eddie ||
 * What types of music influenced this artist? || Rock and Roll and Blues ||
 * Name some musicians who influenced the guitarist you are researching. || Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page ||
 * Has this guitarist played more than one style? If so, what other styles? || Blues and Rock and Roll ||
 * What type of guitar does this musician play? || Electric Fat Strat, later called the "Frankenstrat" ||
 * What are some interesting facts about your guitarist’s childhood? || Originally drummer, he switched to guitar after hearing one of his brothers solos and become feverishly jealous of his skills on the guitar ||
 * What did this guitarist do before he became famous? || Played during lunch at an Elementary School
 * List two interesting facts about the guitarist’s life. || Switched instruments with brother and the instruments were the ones that they each played for the rest of their carrers
 * List two albums or songs your artist released, the dates they were released and why they are important. || * Van Halen (1978)
 * Who is playing this style of music today?
 * What legacy has this guitarist left to the world of music? || * Eighty million records sold
 * *Volume Swelling
 * Two-Handed tapping improvement ||