Capriccio No.24, from Paganini

I don't know if somebody here can play this, but certainly I can't. Hope you enjoy!

i can play most of it on electric guitar from my wanky shredding days but i suppose tha doesn't really count

I'm playing it like everyday as a study on my flute and it's not so bad... But for violin, that's a different story.

It's hell for a violin (in Paganini style)! I'll post the score soon, so you can defy yourselves.

I love this piece! In the Neoclassical style it's insanely awesome (provided you can play it)

if you mean neoclassical by yngwie you are a strange person. All yngwie does thats classical is play harmonic minor and steal licks from bach an paganini. The only real neoclassical guitarist im aware of was Randy Rhoads, he actually could play classical guitar. [/rant]

if you mean neoclassical by yngwie you are a strange person. All yngwie does thats classical is play harmonic minor and steal licks from bach an paganini. The only real neoclassical guitarist im aware of was Randy Rhoads, he actually could play classical guitar. [/rant]

Did I say Yngwie? Nope, Yngwie is not the only neoclassical dude out there. I'm mean neoclassical as in the sense that you play it with the strings tuned down a whole. With reverb and delay, That's how I play electric.

sorry, i'd never heard the word neoclassical used in that context. to me, the neoclassical movement was people like yngwie, vinnie moore, george bellasd, so on. and while the were very technically accomplished, theres not a great deal of classical music involved.

sorry, i'd never heard the word neoclassical used in that context. to me, the neoclassical movement was people like yngwie, vinnie moore, george bellasd, so on. and while the were very technically accomplished, theres not a great deal of classical music involved.

Actually, there's tons of classical music involved, Ravel was Neoclassical, Rodrigo was somewhat neoclassical, and there are tons more. Even John Williams could be considered a neoclassical-esque. Neoclassical is also used to describe music like Beethoven's 5th being played by a rock band and such.

The score:

Caprice No.24.pdf

but hey, other caprices are great too, like umm. for flute i would prefer.. #1, #5, #9 oh great one. and probably.. #..18. How bout Violin Arthur or anybody else?

but hey, other caprices are great too, like umm. for flute i would prefer.. #1, #5, #9 oh great one. and probably.. #..18. How bout Violin Arthur or anybody else?

Holy cow, you can play the 1st on flute?! :P

I can only place these pieces with the guitar. It is fairly easy with the classical guitar, at least easier than fro the violin. I do have a young friend who is accomplished in performing a few of these gems.

His 5th Caprice is a great song to learn on guitar. Very easy once you get the hang of it.

Hey one question about Paganini's #5, umm just how fast does the allegro go? i no it says 138, but cant it go slower? u see on Violin.. im sure u just have to move fingers, but on flute u have to breath too! and it's really hard going at that speed. Not possible to play unless if u take out some notes, but thats not good cuz im using this for an Audition to University! Help!

To Will Kirk: Yes I can play it, is it hard? well it is, but once you get the positioning of your lips, no biggy lol

-James-

I'm playing it like everyday as a study on my flute and it's not so bad... But for violin, that's a different story.

Talk about the string crossing and 10ths!

To Pizza1512, ya I know eh? crazy stuff. For flute, nightmare, you gota do you LIP SLIPS up and down and up and down until it starts to bleed..which is a bit nasty, happend once those, too much practise? no, i think its more of NOT enough

To Will Kirk: Yes I can play it, is it hard? well it is, but once you get the positioning of your lips, no biggy lol

-James-

On guitar it's one of the easier caprices. It follows a 32nd note pattern up and down, I just thought that would be one of the more difficult things to do on flute. I guess that proves my lack of knowledge about woodwind instruments:P

The fifth is meant to be the fastest piece of music ever written, performance notes aren't static (unfortunately) but I believe the record is held by recordings.

As for other caprices, #8 is amazing.

And as for neoclassical, to label only yngwie in that category?!? Yngwie, in my eyes is a master, misunderstood by a lot (quite rightly, I should add, it's hard to understand him and I don't blame anyone for saying they do and he's scraggy, because it means they don't) his style of neoclassical is taking Bach and Paganini and adding the harmonic minor shredding he loves to do, and to my ears I think a lot of it sounds amazing. Once you truley get into his music, you can hear the extremely subtle differences in the tunes he plays that other fans and I have confirmed, non-existant to someone who doesn't know his music inside out, which is why someone saying "it all sounds the same", is also right, to an extent, through what they CAN know of it.

Anyway off that explanation, can you poste the 24th for flute, I think that'd sound very interesting, how do you arrange the chord parts though?

Wow, thx. Umm, how about the number 9? I love it!