Talk:Caprice No. 5 (Paganini)

God, this is one of the worst articles I've seen on Wikipedia. It's definitely written by a guitarist who doesn't know the history of this piece.

First, it's foremost a violin piece--duh. It hasn't been attempted in its entirety on the guitar until Elliot Fisk did the entire 24 Caprice transcription for the classical guitar. The earlier electric guitar transcriptions never stayed true to the original piece and deviated quite substantially (maybe out of technical limitations of the guitar and the guitarist) from the original piece. Second, all of the bastardizations of the piece done by neo-classical rock guitarists explored the piece as a theme. I don't ever remember seeing it played in its original score. Third, although the piece has been played on the guitar in its entirety, no guitarist has been able to play it sufficiently as fast as a virtuoso violinist. This is a testament to the guitar's limitations at playing fast scales. Most guitarists finish this piece around 3 minutes. Elliot Fisk did it in under 2:50. For the Malmsteem nut-huggers, even Malmsteen was listening to Fisk's recording for months and stated in interviews that he was very interested in Fisk's recording and playing. So, on average, a very fast guitarist has played this piece around 2:50. For a violinist, Leonidas Kavakos played this piece in under 1:47. That's nearly a 40% increase in speed. So, although this piece has been played on the guitar, it just doesn't do it any justice. Finally, I've seen many mentions of this piece making an encore in Crossroads. That is not the case. The piece that was played in Crossroads has been inspired by the 5th, but it is in no way the 5th and doesn't even resemble the 5th musically. I will remove that section of the article.

Please, let's keep Wikipedia accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.200.125.28 (talk) 21:15, 11 March 2011 (UTC)