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Eddie Van Halen "Eruption" on electric cello
Very awesome idea. At the risk of sounding callous though, I think he needs to work on it a bit more. The arpeggios from around -0:35 on are not precise. If you want to know what I mean, check http://www.videosift.com/video/Paganinis-Caprice-24-by-Heifetz
ok, so check this one actually: http://www.videosift.com/video/Some-insane-violin-skillz-part-slo-mo
Jason Becker Tribute
Tags changed from "cacophony, marty friedman" to "cacophony, marty friedman,paganini" by gold star member choggie.
14-year-old girl "shreds" classical guitar
"shred" may be more appropriate than we've given credit for.
She's playing Paganini's 24th Caprice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th_Caprice), widely considered one of the most difficult solo violin pieces ever written.
Most career violinists can't even begin to touch this piece. A 14-year-old pulling it off on any instrument is amazing. She was pretty much flawless.
Guitar Duel from Crossroads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson
The most widely known legend surrounding Robert Johnson says that he sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 61 and U.S. Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi in exchange for prowess in playing the guitar. Actually, the location Johnson made reference to is a short distance away from that intersection. The legend was told mainly by Son House, but finds no corroboration in any of Johnson's work, despite titles like "Me and the Devil Blues" and "Hellhound on My Trail". With this said, the song "Cross Road Blues" is both widely and loosely interpreted by many as a descriptive encounter of Johnson selling his soul. The older Tommy Johnson (no relation, although it is speculated that they were cousins), by contrast, also claimed to have sold his soul to the Devil. The story goes that if one would go to the crossroads a little before midnight and begin to play the guitar, a large black man would come up to the aspiring guitarist, retune his guitar and then hand it back. At this point (so the legend goes) the guitarist had sold his soul to become a virtuoso (A similar legend even surrounded virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini a century before.)