17-Year-Old Tina S Shreds Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata
French guitar virtuosa Tina S is back with a heavy metal arrangement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Third Movement. The piece was arranged for electric guitar by Dr. Viossy.
Now 17, Tina has been demonstrating her impressive guitar skills in videos since she was eight. Her previous videos have included performances of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets,” Jason Becker’s “Altitudes” and DragonForce’s “Through the Fire and Flames.”
As always, she is playing her Vigier Excalibur Custom guitar. She was taught and filmed by her guitar instructor, Renaud Louis-Servais.
You can view more of Tina’s videos on her YouTube channel.
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Christopher Scapelliti is editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine, the world’s longest-running guitar magazine, founded in 1967. In his extensive career, he has authored in-depth interviews with such guitarists as Pete Townshend, Slash, Billy Corgan, Jack White, Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren, and audio professionals including Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott. He is the co-author of Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, a founding editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine, and a former editor with Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Maximum Guitar. Apart from guitars, he maintains a collection of more than 30 vintage analog synthesizers.
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