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GUITAR TRICKS NAMES THE GREAT KAT "SIX OF MUSIC'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN GUITARISTS"
  -Guitar TricksGUITAR TRICKS NAMES THE GREAT KAT "SIX OF MUSIC'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN GUITARISTS"! "Guitar virtuoso The Great Kat is 'girl power' at its raunchiest. Thrash metal guitarist who's been dubbed one of the fastest on the planet. Kat's finger-bleeding speed has to be heard to be believed. She's mind-boggingly fast. Here's a short clip of Kat playing guitar and violin on 'The Flight of the Bumblebee'. Her first live performance left the entire audience with mouths agape, shocked that a woman could play faster than practically any guy in the world." - Guitar Tricks
 
GUITAR TRICKS NAMES THE GREAT KAT "SIX OF MUSIC'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN GUITARISTS"! "Guitar virtuoso The Great Kat is 'girl power' at its raunchiest. Thrash metal guitarist who's been dubbed one of the fastest on the planet. Kat's finger-bleeding speed has to be heard to be believed. She's mind-boggingly fast. Here's a short clip of Kat playing guitar and violin on 'The Flight of the Bumblebee'. Her first live performance left the entire audience with mouths agape, shocked that a woman could play faster than practically any guy in the world." - Guitar Tricks
Six of Music's Most Influential Women Guitarists
GUITAR TRICKS NAMES THE GREAT KAT "SIX OF MUSIC'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN GUITARISTS"! "Guitar virtuoso The Great Kat is 'girl power' at its raunchiest. Thrash metal guitarist who's been dubbed one of the fastest on the planet. Kat's finger-bleeding speed has to be heard to be believed. She's mind-boggingly fast. Here's a short clip of Kat playing guitar and violin on 'The Flight of the Bumblebee'. Her first live performance left the entire audience with mouths agape, shocked that a woman could play faster than practically any guy in the world." - Guitar TricksGUITAR TRICKS NAMES THE GREAT KAT "SIX OF MUSIC'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN GUITARISTS"! "Guitar virtuoso The Great Kat is 'girl power' at its raunchiest. Thrash metal guitarist who's been dubbed one of the fastest on the planet. Kat's finger-bleeding speed has to be heard to be believed. She's mind-boggingly fast. Here's a short clip of Kat playing guitar and violin on 'The Flight of the Bumblebee'. Her first live performance left the entire audience with mouths agape, shocked that a woman could play faster than practically any guy in the world." - Guitar Tricks
THE GREAT KAT

Guitar virtuoso The Great Kat is "girl power" at its raunchiest. The self-proclaimed "High Priestess of Shred Guitar" and "reincarnation of Beethoven" is a thrash metal guitarist who's been dubbed one of the fastest on the planet. Guitar One named her to their list of Top 10 Fastest Shredders of All Time, the lone female among fretboard wizards like Buckethead and Yngwie Malmsteen.

Kat's finger-bleeding speed has to be heard to be believed. She's mind-boggingly fast. Check her out on "Metal Messiah." If that's a little too over the top for you, here's a short clip of Kat playing guitar and violin on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Flight of the Bumblebee"  from his opera, The Tale of Tsar Saltan.

The Great Kat is the stage name of Katherine Thomas, who was born in Swindon, England. After her family moved to Long Island, Katherine began studying music, taking up piano at age seven and violin at nine. She won a scholarship to Juilliard and studied classical music, but upon graduating with honors, took up heavy metal guitar, donned a dominatrix getup, and retooled herself as The Great Kat.

Kat took her violin solos from Paganini, Sarasate, Vivaldi and others and adapted them for shred guitar. Her first live performance left the entire audience with mouths agape, shocked that a woman could play faster than practically any guy in the world.

Kat's advice to becoming a virtuoso? "Practice," she tells Rock Eyez. "Work your butt off. Be aggressive, competitive, vicious, and unrelenting."
 
 

 
 
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