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- It Depends Blog's
Review of "Beethoven On Speed" CD
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- By Andrew Stanfield,
It Depends Blog
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- Beethoven on Speed
Bought an interesting CD over the weekend, Beethoven on Speed by
the artist subsequently known as The Great Kat.
I first heard it years and years ago from a guy I worked with in
Bossier. I liked classical music and he liked metal and let me
hear this mesh of the two. The Great Kat is a Juilliard trained
gal who plays guitar at an unbelievably fast pace. In only
thirty-five minutes she rips through several classical standards
(including Beethoven’s Fifth twice) in addition to some ‘tunes’
of her own.
She is obviously a woman of incredible skill, but I think she
would agree that the ability to play music faster doesn’t mean
you play it better. I wonder if the mind-blinding speed masks
her true talent and ear. My favorite piece on the album (yes, I
wrote album like I was stuck in time warp and I don’t care) is
‘Beethoven Mosh,’ which is the Fifth with a grinding, powerful
guitar riff that’s slow but insistent and crackling with power.
I could listen to that all day every day.
posted by Andrew Stanfield at 7:23 PM
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