Incredible electric guitar- Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata

[Camilo]

https://youtu.be/o6rBK0BqL2w

Published on Aug 17, 2016

Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement) Ludwig van Beethoven, arranged for electric guitar by Dr.Viossy, played by Tina S (17 y.o).

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w

[Fanna]

Yes, I will take this one to the Heavy Metal thread, please and thank you.

[DeDukshyn]

I was about to say ... "that's not Moonlight Sonata", but I see this is the third movement

I have seen that girl cover Malmsteen, Vai, and Becker almost effortlessly -- she is definitely amazing!

[Satori]

Wow! She is gifted.

[dim]

I wonder what's so incredible about it.
I can't hear any music out of it, i do hear a lot of notes but nothing else.
It sounds mechanical, sterile, lifeless like a MIDI arrangment.
I understand it might be impressive, especially to all those still getting exited with faster higher longer etc over-achieving hunt,
but essentially is just dead notes in the air that nobody will remember tomorrow.

Furthermore, my feeling is whatever Beethoven had to say in that piece
said it in the 1st movement, the rest is just virtuosic fillings to complete the sonata format
in order to be presentable to the audiences of that era.

[WhiteLove]

Thanks, she is incredible!! I just listened to her cover of Steve Vai's "For The Love of God" and I think she managed to get every single tone of the original in there, amazing musician!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nJi8iSpzq9I

[Ewan]

I was mesmerised by her hands, how did a 17 yr old get so good. Hendrix is back on earth?

[gord]

A couple of observations on her playing and some of the comments here.

Yow! Yeah, she's damn good, enough so to get me to watch a few of her other videos, most of which seem to be recorded practice sessions played along with existing recordings. It's probably why some of it comes off as lifeless and mechanical to some. She seems bored at times and there are very few smiles.

Hands! Yes, watch the hands of any musician like this. Does not matter what instrument [edit: should have said does not matter what style of music]. Very efficient motion here. "The hands are the cutting edge of the mind."

She's young. See what happens when she begins to break the rules.

[jaybee]

Posted by Ewan (here)
I was mesmerised by her hands, how did a 17 yr old get so good. Hendrix is back on earth?

yes I'm wow - how could she move her fingers so fast -- getting all the notes she wanted all the time --

I was also mesmerized by her (often subtle) facial expressions -
and those moments when a musician hits total harmony with the vibration -
and they show something on their face like ecstasy that almost hurts - for a split second -

.

[Sean]

Posted by dim (here)
I wonder what's so incredible about it.
I can't hear any music out of it, i do hear a lot of notes but nothing else.
It sounds mechanical, sterile, lifeless like a MIDI arrangment.
I understand it might be impressive, especially to all those still getting exited with faster higher longer etc over-achieving hunt,
but essentially is just dead notes in the air that nobody will remember tomorrow.

Furthermore, my feeling is whatever Beethoven had to say in that piece
said it in the 1st movement, the rest is just virtuosic fillings to complete the sonata format
in order to be presentable to the audiences of that era.

Ok. Let's see a video of YOU playing guitar


*crickets

[Orph]

She did a great job. Wish the background music was either toned down a few notches or left out completely. It was covering up her playing.

[WhiteLove]

@Camilo, very inspiring, I needed this kind of music inspiration right now, thank you so much!!

Also, in the playing she does in 'For The Love of God', there are moments of her playing that she handles the guitar similar to the way the guitar legend Shawn Lane handled it late in his career, the playing falls into this temporary flow of tones that have the exact velocity and the exact relationships and the exact lengths exactly at the right timing, to temporarily cause a very epic guitar vibe that you can play over and over and it remains epic. So this girl I think will grow into a similar type of guitar legend!