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The keyboard part was performed on an Oberheim OB-Xa. We finished all vocals that afternoon and mixed it that evening.' Dave wrote the lyrics that afternoon in the backseat of his Mercury convertible.

We recut it once in one take for sonic reasons. 'Engineer Donn Landee and Ed put the track down alone in the middle of the night. Ted Templeman recalls that 'Jump' was recorded at Eddie Van Halen's newly constructed home studio. 'Jump' has a moderate common time tempo of 129 beats per minute. Roth later told Musician magazine that Hostler was 'probably the most responsible for how it came out.' The song is set in the key of C major, with the guitar solo in the key of B♭ minor. Roth bounced this suggestion off Hostler who agreed it was good however, instead of describing a potential suicide, the lyrics were written as an ontological invitation to action, life and love. Roth thought that one of the onlookers at such an event would inevitably yell 'go ahead and jump'.

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To come up with a lyric for it, he remembered seeing a TV news report the night before about a suicidal jumper. Riding around in the back of his 1951 Mercury, with band roadie Larry Hostler driving, Roth listened repeatedly to the tune. In 1983, producer Ted Templeman asked Roth to listen to the unused song idea. The synth line was written circa 1981 by Eddie Van Halen, but it was rejected by the other members of the band. 'Jump' was one of the few Van Halen songs originally recorded by Roth that Sammy Hagar would perform live during his tenures with the band. In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked 'Jump' at number 177 on its updated list of the ' 500 Greatest Songs of All Time'. David Lee Roth dedicated the song to martial artist Benny 'The Jet' Urquidez, of whom he was a student.

The song differs from earlier Van Halen songs in that it is driven by a keyboard riff, although the song does contain a guitar solo. It is Van Halen's most successful single, reaching number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was released in December 1983 as the lead single from their album 1984. ' Jump' is a song by American rock band Van Halen.

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