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Joel Morrison

Joel Morrison born on the 06/12/1993 is a Youtube Guitarist/Singer/songwriter/performer from Doncaster, England. His style of music can range from Classically influenced pieces to heavy metal. He has done numerous guitar covers of classical compositions such as Mozart's Turkish March and Bach's BWV1041 Allegro.

His YouTube page can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/JoelMorrisonA7X

Early Life

Through secondary school (North Doncaster Technology College) Joel started up his own band with his best friend Jake Needham (Bass), Girlfriend at the time Channing Bull (Singer), Friend Joshua Taylor (Guitarist) and friend McAllister Mcintyre (Drummer). Although the band went through numerous name changes, they started with Dark Sanity, Performed with Metamoria and ended with A for Aftermath. Their musical influences ranged from Heavy metal bands such as Nightwish, Children of Bodom and Metallica.

Whilst in Secondary school Joel performed with his band for the school at a Harrogate school. They played Nothing else matters by Metallica and class this as their first "real" live performance despite playing live in talent contests at their own school.

Musical Career

Although Joel's musical career hasn't kicked of yet he has over 2800 subscribers on YouTube and makes an average of 200 pound a month from YouTube. ￼The most visited video of his is one of his friends singing with a busker, but one of Joel's Avenged Sevenfold's has gained quite a lot of views aswell.

Joel sometimes can be seen in the city of York busking, playing classical pieces and some of his own compositions either alone or with a friend. Normally in the summer months due to weather. Joel however does not busk in Doncaster, this is due to him not having a licence to do so and doesn't think you should need a licence.

Musical Style and Equipment

Joel's musical style is mainly heavy metal, progressive metal and Neo Classical metal. He uses a Black star Series One 100 6L6 Amp Head with a guitar Cab he made himself. The tone he produces comes from mainly his Ibanez Egen 8 Herman Li Signature which he upgraded himself with DiMarzio Pick Ups and a genuine Edge tremolo system. This guitar is tuned in the standard E formation. His other well used guitar is an Ibanez Iron Label series packed with DiMarzio pickups which is tuned in the Drop C formation. He also has another guitar which he rarely uses, this is a Dean O Flame Dime bag Darrell Signature packed with EMG Pickups and a boost switch. He states "I rarely use the guitar but I cant sell it as it means so much to me, my Dad bought me it when I started to get good at guitar". Joel also owns a practice amp which is a Line 6 Spider 4 75 Watt. He uses this for the different effects it offers but has used it live twice in the past. He has started using a Digi Tech Drop pedal which allows him to drop the tuning of his guitars without actually changing the tuning.

Personal Life

Joel is currently Engaged to his partner Kyle, they have been together for 6 years but knew each other in School. They both have a taste in music as Kyle used to sing. They both have different musical tastes.