Me playing Paganini's 16th Caprice on Electric Guitar

[greg]

I finally was able to play it through without stopping!
I just whipped out my mp3 player and started playing. I do make some mistakes, i hate it- sometimes you can play through just fine (like at the guitar store i played through the really chromatic part around the middle at the right speed, here i slow it down or i mess up) but other times you can't.

Anyways, this is definetely the hardest thing I've ever played for guitar. The technique needed to translate this piece exactly from the violin guitar is completely un-guitar like, so I have to do some crazy junk. If you don't believe me, just go ahead and play it. 
Yeah, I'd rather play through a song by Yngwie Malmsteen or Michael Angelo Batio, it'd be a lot easier than this, lol.



try this link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/45641620/V002.WAV.html

[The Mad Hatter]

Ah, come on! For a Rapidshare, I expect all 24 caprices!

(seriously, though, well done for effort, whatever else about it)

[The Mad Hatter]

Ok, good fingerwork. Maybe a little too fast for clarity and technique, but nice work all the same.

What kind of mp3 player do you have, by the way?

[greg]

thanks for listening, Mad Hatter! 
the funny thing is, my mp3 player doesn't even say which brand it is... i'm dead serious. It's black, though. I like black 


oh, here's me goofing around as always:

http://rapidshare.com/files/45643831/V003.WAV.html

i'm not actually playing anything, but if you go to a guitar store and you hear something like this, you'll know it's me, lol

[greg]

Ah, come on! For a Rapidshare, I expect all 24 caprices!

now that is a dangerous though i had....
(shudder)
technically it'd be impossible though..... unless i used an octave doubling pedal which i don't have (i played around with one today, they're sooooooooo sweet!) and i retuned my guitar.

Also........ hm, on the 5th caprice somehow he uses notes that are out of the range of the violin and guitar, i completely don't understand what's going on there 

i need to change the title to 16th caprice

[The Mad Hatter]

thanks for listening, Mad Hatter! 
the funny thing is, my mp3 player doesn't even say which brand it is... i'm dead serious. It's black, though. I like black 

It's not this one, is it?

[greg]

It's not this one, is it?

no, it's much more low-tech, lol

[The Mad Hatter]

no, it's much more low-tech, lol

Heh, thought that was about as low as it got, these days.

You realise the hand isn't part of it, right?

[greg]

Heh, thought that was about as low as it got, these days.

You realise the hand isn't part of it, right?

oh, well...... it's smaller
i can't find an image anywhere
and i don't have a camera that i can use

[greg]

btw, i wonder why there is never anyone online around this time? 7 pm Sunday, do people actually do stuff at this time? maybe they eat dinner? or maybe they go somewhere?

[Mozart]

You play electric guitar and you can't score a babe? Must be the lack of drugs.


Over all it was good, I heard the mess up, but its too quick, guitars suck. It sounds 1000590t67809474^ix times better on violin and you can actually comprehend whats going on. Try doing one of the slower ones.

[greg]

You play electric guitar and you can't score a babe? Must be the lack of drugs.

i know what you mean..... if instead of playing for an audience in Guitar Center that was made up of grownup, i played for an audience that had a bunch of girls my age, yeah, i could imagine, lol.... i'd need a stick for protection

but when you spend almost all of your after-school time at home playing guitar/listening to music/on the computer and all your school time only associating with guy friends, it's not rare to bring a girl home to play guitar for her. But yeah, when they hear about that they think it's cool 

Over all it was good, I heard the mess up, but its too quick, guitars suck. It sounds 1000590t67809474^ix times better on violin and you can actually comprehend whats going on. Try doing one of the slower ones.

yeah, it was really meant just to show what i'm working on. After going through it a couple more times, i did some of the parts better than the recording. It does sound better on the violin, of course, because it was written for the violin. I don't think Metallica would sound good on the violin, lol

i think i will try doing some of the other ones...... probably the 24th caprice especially.

[greg]

you know what i wanted to do......
in my improvisation, show off how sweet Shostakovich's scale sounds on the guitar, especially on the high E like this:
E F G G# A# B C# D

[Justin Ignaz Franz Bieber]

I finally was able to play it through without stopping!
I just whipped out my mp3 player and started playing. I do make some mistakes, i hate it- sometimes you can play through just fine (like at the guitar store i played through the really chromatic part around the middle at the right speed, here i slow it down or i mess up) but other times you can't.

Anyways, this is definetely the hardest thing I've ever played for guitar. The technique needed to translate this piece exactly from the violin guitar is completely un-guitar like, so I have to do some crazy junk. If you don't believe me, just go ahead and play it. 

i can understand that. the 'fingerboard' on a violin is much smaller. that was pretty cool 

[greg]

what other caprice(s) does everyone think i should do?

i can understand that. the 'fingerboard' on a violin is much smaller. that was pretty cool 

ooooooooh the stretches!!! in this one section it's crazy 6-12, 13-19 
i don't think i can even do it standing up