User:Giantchicken/Andrew J. Rodriguez

Andrew founded Elctrikchair after graduating from his Denver high school in 2003 while simoultaneously earning a place on the academic honor roll.

Andrew writes, composes arranges and performs original metal tunes for EC. Rodriguez leads EC on guitar and vocals. Andrew's powerful voice defines EC's trademark death growls, progressive clean vocal variations and swaggar laden stage articulations. He is a master of tremolo picking techniques, pinch harmonics, guitar tapping, flemenco, classical and jazz styles, swing rhythms, chords, scales and progressions, arpeggios, slurs, slides, string bending, vibrato, palm muting, sweep picking and percussion effect rakes.

Andrew's exceptional talents combine to place him among the most highly regarded guitarists in the world today.

But it doesn't end there, Rodriguez is a first-rate music recording engineer, exceptional marketing and promotions manager and EC's worldwide media publicist. Rodriguez is a senior at the University of Kansas.