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Eddie Van Halen Guitar T Shirt . Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was a Dutch-American musician, songwriter, producer, and inventor. He was the main songwriter and lead guitarist of the American rock band Van Halen, which he co-founded in 1972 with his brother, drummer Alex Van Halen, bassist Mark Stone, and singer David Lee Roth. He was well known for popularizing the tapping guitar solo technique, allowing rapid arpeggios to be played with two hands on the fretboard. In 2012, he was voted number one in a Guitar World magazine reader’s poll for “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”
Eddie Van Halen Guitar T Shirt . Born in Amsterdam,[2] Netherlands, Edward Lodewijk van Halen was the son of Jan van Halen and Eugenia van Halen (née van Beers). Jan was a Dutch clarinetist, saxophonist, and pianist, and Eugenia was an Indo (Eurasian) from Rangkasbitung on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).[3][4] The family eventually resettled in Nijmegen.
Eddie Van Halen Guitar T Shirt . In 1962, the Van Halen family moved from the Netherlands to the United States settling in Pasadena, California.[4] Eddie and his older brother, Alex Van Halen were naturalized as U.S. citizens.[6] The brothers learned to play the piano as children starting at the age of six.[7][8] They commuted from Pasadena to San Pedro to study with an elderly piano teacher, Stasys Kalvaitis.
Eddie Van Halen Guitar T Shirt . Eddie revealed in an interview that he had never been able to read music;[10] instead, he learned from watching and listening. For example, during recitals of Bach or Mozart, he would improvise. From 1964 through 1967, he won first place in the annual piano competition held at Long Beach City College.[9] Afterward, the judges would comment that he had an interesting interpretation of the classical piece. His view was, “What? I thought I was playing it correctly!” However, according to one interview, playing the piano did not prove to be challenging or interesting to him.[11] Consequently, while Alex began playing the guitar, Eddie bought a drum kit for himself; however, after he heard Alex’s performance of The Surfaris‘ drum solo in the song “Wipe Out“, he decided to switch instruments and began learning how to play the electric guitar.[11] According to him, as a teen, he would often practice while walking around at home with his guitar strapped on or sitting in his room for hours with the door locked.
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