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Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen (born January 26, 1955 in Nijmegen, Netherlands) is one of the most influential guitarists of rock . His band bearing his last name: Van Halen. Edward Van Halen was born in 1955 in the Netherlands.His father, a professional saxophonist and clarinetist, brought him early in touch with music. When the family moved to the U.S. in 1962, he played the piano and began to learn the drums. Inspired by Jimi Hendrix and his idol Eric Clapton of the group Cream, he soon swapped with his brother, drummer Alex Van Halen, the instruments and learned guitar. Together they formed a band. When, later in high school, they were discovered by producer Ted Templeman. Their self-titled debut album caused a meteoric rise to the highest paid live band and Eddie Van Halen became overnight, one of the greatest guitarists. After the split with singer David Lee Roth, the band developed into a more song-oriented direction, although the guitar style of Van Halen was always first class. At this point, most of the influential Guitar magazine's frequently voted him the best guitarist in the world. The long-time alcoholic, chain-smoking Edward Van Halen has recovered in recent years by a tongue cancer disease and the implantation of an artificial hip. In spring 2007, Van Halen attended an alcohol rehab center with the result that the reunion tour could take place the following autumn. By Melanie Bradley
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You can't escape Eddie Van Halen's contributions to the collective guitar consciousness. From the top of the charts to movie and TV music to local guitar shop 'spoo' (see the real Frank Zappa Book for an explanation of this term), you'll find ample evidence of Edward's indelible mark. To the legions weaned on his playing, it's a given that Van Halen wrote the book on contemporary hard-rock guitar. But those who cut their teeth on late '60s and early '70s rock are also in Eddie's debt, he redefined the mechanics of heavy guitar just when screaming' solos had become a lost, even scorned, art. When Van Halen hit the scene, the tables turned almost overnight. It was more than okay to play hot, wild guitar on virtually any gig, it was expected. Eddie made it safe to play again!
Eddie Van Halen doing Tapping (2007)
When Ted Templeman in 1977 - supposedly just before deadline - submitted a demo of the band to the Guitar Player it turned the guitar world upside down. The second title of the tape, the 1:42 minutes long instrumental eruption, introduced a completely new guitar style: Until now a unplayable vibrato lever effect, extreme modulation effects and an incredible technique was heard, what the editors never heard before.
But the climax of the piece was at the end: an extremely fast play, all on one sound with no exchange rate and at this speed would not have been playable.
In their article the editors speculate on keyboard tricks, faster tape played over two or commingled guitars. Later, some guitarists like Randy Rhoads and Steve Vai have discovered the secret of this new technology, in 1982, Van Halen talked about his playing style on the guitar player. The tapping has become a hallmark of his style and has helped significantly that he is now often referred to as the most influential guitarist since Jimi Hendrix.
The expansion of the legato playing with the right hand, while it will not hit, but even hammering on a collar and then rolls on the picked up sound of the left hand, in rock music originally from Steve Hackett and subsequently by many rock guitarists practiceed, including Gary Moore, Brian May, Harvey Mandel, and Jimmy Webster. Eddie Van Halen integrated this technology into its consistent play. The best known is the so-called Van Halen has become a triplet, which is at the end to hear of eruption.
The Tapping by Eddie Van Halen has many facets and variations, such as the inclusion of open strings, or the tapped harmonics, which arise when one uses a sound and exactly one octave - hammering on the fret.
Van Halen is playing some riffs with all tapped harmonics, as he takes notes with his left hand and through the fence on the frets on the 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th or 12 Federation over the sound harmonics generated (see Aftershock). From long and tapped legato lines over several strings (see Jump) are part of his repertoire. Later, the technique was expanded by guitarists such as Steve Lynch or Jennifer Batten in which is not one finger, but all four fingers of his right hand used for tapping and could hit more notes per string (two hand tapping).
Tremolo
Eddie Van Halen was also innovative in the area of guitar technique. One of the main problems when using the tremolo was that the strings went out of tune very quickly, because mechanics gave way to the high load fluctuations due to the slackening and tightening of the strings. Therefore big vibrato actions could not be completed - at least not if it should follow a regular play. Eddie Van Halen built a blocker on his Fender Stratocaster - which he still played in the late 1970s - and directly on the saddle, between headstock and fingerboard, so that the voltage fluctuations don't arrived to the mechanics . This technology is absolutely groundbreaking and it is found as a basic concept in many Locking Tremolo systems of different manufacturers. This technical basis Van Halen integrated extreme forms of the use of tremolo in his style.
Van Halen CD's, DVD's, Downloads, LP's, and Blu-Rays
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Ou812
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Van
Halen (1978) Remastered
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1984
(1984) Remastered
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Van
Halen (1978) 
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Van
Halen Live: Right Here, Right Now (1992) 
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