When Metal Meets Beethoven: Classical Composer Reacts to Tina S. | The Daily Doug (Episode 354) 

Many people underestimate how well Metal and Classical go together. I'm fully convinced that people like Tchaikovsky, Prokovief and Vivaldi would've been rock stars if they'd been alive today.

hey Doug! thank you for having reacted to this video of my little protected Tina. I had the chance to teach her electric guitar from 13 to 18 years old, and also filmed and produced all these videos at that time in my studio. I must say that she never disappointed me, what a prodigy she was... a small precision concerning this version, it is an arrangement made by the incredible Italian guitarist, Michele "DrViossy" Vioni, who was kind enough to let us use his version. in any case, thank you for your various reaction videos that I watch very often! see ya. Renaud

TINA S 's TEACHER SAID : " hey Doug! thank you for having reacted to this video of my little protected Tina. I had the chance to teach her electric guitar from 13 to 18 years old, and also filmed and produced all these videos at that time in my studio. I must say that she never disappointed me, what a prodigy she was... a small precision concerning this version, it is an arrangement made by the incredible Italian guitarist, Michele "DrViossy" Vioni, who was kind enough to let us use his version. in any case, thank you for your various reaction videos that I watch very often! see ya." Renaud LOUIS-SERVAIS;

Tina S's cover of Steve Vai's "For the Love of God" is absolutely transcendent.

Thanks for doing my request Doug. Pretty phenomenal. Thanks for all the technical background. I discovered her back in 2016. Blew my mind.

All of Tina's guitar covers have a combined total of 250 Million views. Other notables - For the Love of God, Through the Fire and Flames, Tornado of Souls, Comfortably Numb, Altitudes, The Loner, Eruption, Arpeggios From Hell

Doug, about the dynamics: the technique she uses - known as "tapping" - needs amplification and high compression. So the dynamic range is very reduced, "every note has the same volume". You can not apply that on an acoustic guitar, that would be too soft. The magic of tapping is in the high speed you can play. Pieces like the 3rd movement of Moonlight fits perfectly to that.

Her version of Gary Moore's The Loner is pretty stunning. Just as beautiful as the original.

No! No! No! It's impossible. WOW! What a great transposition. What a great performance. Fluid play, touch without brutality. And did you see how fast she hits the strings? Breathtaking. She comes from another world! Yngwie is in trouble. Thank you Mark. Thank you, Master Helvering.

Beethoven really shook things up. He was all like, "oh I'm supposed to put a recapitulation of theme A here? Nah. I'm gonna put an oboe cadenza here instead."

Holy f*ckballs!!! Absolutely loved that. Also having played guitar for near 20 years, how humbling. What a player. The dedication to nail it that cleanly is mind-blowing

Tina's cover of Steve Vai , for the love of God, shows her impeccable skills on the weary bar, timing and precision. It's a must see reaction. This is why she was considered one of the world's best at age 15

Beethoven would love it!

I remember when I first saw her do "For The Love of God" by Vai. Wonderful talent

Tina S is a freak of nature. Mastered the guitar at 17 years old. Check out: LOVEBITES "Frozen Serenade" ( Live in Tokyo 2021 )

This version, this entire piece, this guitar playing is the most furious of them all. I've watched this over a million times. Tina we miss you all. Love 💞

Usually this piece represents one of the highest levels of technicality, precision, and endurance that most musicians strive to achieve on their respective instruments whenever the attempt is made to learn it. What I've always loved about Tina S's cover is how she looks almost bored while playing it, like it's too easy for her 🤣 Absolute LEGEND.

Doug, you really must give Uli Jon Roth a try - he was the guitarist in Scorpions in the 70s when they were very experimental. He very much influenced Yngwie and he plays several classical pieces live, including the Four Seasons.

She is back again: SpinTwice❤

Japan's Lovebites "Winds of Transylvania" utilizes Beethoven's 5th. A must listen. All female heavy metal band.

Face it man, Beethoven was writing heavy metal guitar solos almost his whole life. 😂

KILLER! She doesn't even look at the fretboard. She is the personification of the adage 'don't practice until you get it right - practice until you CAN'T get it wrong!'

Tina was 17 when this was recorded.

Just love the electric Guitar set in a classic position on the knee (with a foot stool no doubt). The left hand is like a dancing spider 👏👏

I love the "what the hell is happening" look on people's faces the first time they experience her playing. She started learning classical guitar at age six (which you can tell by how she holds the guitar in this vid). She was 17 when this was recorded. I love her little smile at the end, where it looks like she didn’t even break a sweat, as if she's saying: "And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how it's done". Crazy tapping, hammer ons, pulloffs, bends, harmonics and mad flat picking. Ya gotta wonder what Ludwig would say if he came back and watched this. Aside from everything else, this is a master class in guitar techniques. I tried tapping along, to the bits where she is tapping, just trying to match the rhythm and not even trying to land on the strings and failed miserably. I think I'll take up the tuba.

This was the last video Tina s. uploaded. It's like she said "I win" and went home with her trophy. If you're doing a female musicians week, you need look no further than Japan. I don't know what they're doing over there, but it's working.

Yngwie Malmsteen and Ritchie Blackmore Plays Beethoven too!!! on guitar.... and on Piano: Rick Wakeman with his Beethoven Pathetique

She's amazing. Her rendition of Steve Vai's For the Love of God is absolutely mind blowing. Btw, please do Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb.

She needs to be signed up like now. She would fit in a symphonic power Metal band perfectly. 🤘🏻 Tina can show Yngwie how it's done.

Yeah man, Tina S was in my recommended vids back in 2016 playing Altitudes and was blown away by her technical ability at such a young age...Brilliant!!!

Another great reaction Doug! This girl is unbelievable!

Thanks Doug. Great analysis, as usual, with lots of little details that make all the difference.

In this page : Renaud LS (Tina S's teacher Renaud LOUIS-SERVAIS) comments : "hey Doug! thank you for having reacted to this video of my little protected Tina. I had the chance to teach her electric guitar from 13 to 18 years old, and also filmed and produced all these videos at that time in my studio. I must say that she never disappointed me, what a prodigy she was... a small precision concerning this version, it is an arrangement made by the incredible Italian guitarist, Michele "DrViossy" Vioni, who was kind enough to let us use his version. in any case, thank you for your various reaction videos that I watch very often! see ya." Renaud

I remember I brought this one up a while ago - glad you got to it, even if someone else pointed you to it!

Tina S does Dr Viossy's arrangement with supreme skill! If you get the chance, check out Dr. Viossy's rendition and you'll see just how well she did!

This was amazing playing by Tina. Dr. Viossy's version is great also. She plays an incredible Yngwie also. Your analysis of the 3rd movement was incredible also. A lot of insight into Beethoven. Doug. It would be nice if you could include Rachel Flowers in the future either her playing ELP on organ or piano or Frank Zappa on guitar live with his son. Thanks

Certainly an amazing guitar player. I wonder what Beethoven would have thought of this. Fantastic is what I think. ❤️🤘🎸🇦🇺

I'm a classically trained pianist and my favorite Beetoveen sonatas to play are all 3 movements of Moonlight, Pathetique, and Waldstein. Moonlight 3rd movement is a fun one to play, it's challenging to play but not as difficult as say the 3rd movement of Waldstein. I will say that the piece gets physically hard to play towards the end when I haven't been practicing it much. It certainly requires endurance.

Unreal what the mind and body can do 🙂

Beethoven absolutely is "Metal" ~ as it was - back then ~ His music at the time was groundbreaking... Very much "Harder" than most anything else being produced at the time...

It's a good job we had you to talk us through this one Doug, because I wasn't sure what was happening. My fingers hurt just watching.

There is a recording by Dr. Viossy of the same piece. I think he (or his band) recorded the backing track.

Dr. Viossy created this arrangement, and his version has a bit more of the dynamics that you were talking about this version missing. You would like his channel, I think, because he has a lot of classical pieces arranged for guitar...Mozart, Bach, and many others.

OMG! Tina S! how fun that you reviewed this one!

This is the kind of music I live for, I can’t think of anything more up my alley, honestly

She's absolutely amazing. That talent are very unique. I too wonder so much what happened to her.

we must give the credit to Dr.Viossy. He the one who arranges it!

That is so hard to do on guitar. I have been riffing for over 40 + yrs and this is amazing to me. She was wired for music at birth. She is only 17! I am 62 AND I COULD NOT KEEP UP WITH THIS NO MATTER HOW MUCH I PRACTICE! I can play some Becker and some Malmsteen but BEETHOVEN? No way!

The first movement is my favorite song of all time. I find this performance of the 3rd movement impressive.

Thank you for such a wonderful explanation. Your segment on "ABA" made it easier to understand.

I've watched this several times, gives me goosebumps every time. Catch the "Mona Lisa" smile at the end.

On top of all this she makes it look so easy...

Doug, I was one of the many that asked you to react to this. Loved your analysis. I believe her teacher included the backing track to help the audience know that she's keeping a steady tempo throughout. You'll also notice that she doesn't look at the fret board very often. If you want to see/hear her covers that have a lot more feel/emotion in them I would suggest For the Love of God, The Loner, and Altitudes. If I remember correctly you reacted to Steve Vai performing For the Love of God. I believe you will enjoy Tina's version. She adds her own style to it so its not a note for note cover. If you choose to not react to Tina anymore, I hope you watch her covers for your own enjoyment. I just realized that even though I've been watching your reactions for awhile now, I haven't subscribed. I have taken care of that issue. Subscribed. Let's get you pass the 200k mark.

Nobody can touch Tina s 🤘🤘🎸💯

What I also love about LVB is his big, dissonant chords.

Wonderful! It reminds me a french guitarist, Patrick Rondat, same virtuosity with Vivaldi, amazing!

OMG that impressive!!! what an amazing talent.

Doug: It's a C sharp minor into a minor back. Me with zero musical experience: Ahh I see of course it is.

Just waiting for a phone box to land and Bill and Ted to jump out.

Thank you so much for doing this one! I had never heard this amazing performance before. If I can make a suggestion for something for you to listen to (not necessarily as a reaction video, but just because I think you would really enjoy it) is Blues in Elf by the Don Ellis Orchestra off his Tears of Joy album. The beginning of the piece is a version for the first movement of this, but in 3 2/3 / 4 time. It also features a string quartet, a great sax soli, and a solo on quarter tone trumpet.

I found your educated breakdown of Beethoven & Tina's work extremely fascinating. Thank You for that! Tina also covers Vivaldi's "Four Seasons: Summer".

For a Metal Monday (Moon day) it was only fitting to have a Moonlight sonata. Great vid. Thanks.

I love Tinas rendition of The Third Movement here, it is true to the original at the same time as it is pure metal. I recently went down the rabbit hole of RU-vid following the history of, and Who Began, Heavy Metal. Lot of debate between Black Sabbat and Judas Priest. Someone thow in some other bands and songs. "You Really Got Me" is the first song blah, blah, blah. I can only watch the selfproclaimed experts while shaking my head. Yea, Metal is a bit older then that, they just didn't have electrical guitars and distortion back then.

Its like the Left Hand has 6 fingers ! 🤣🤣😳👌👍

I was gobsmacked the first time that I heard this. I thought 'how can this be done?' Well it has been and it's brilliant - she is. I see that the first inversion of the flat II 'Neapolitan' chord has the same effect on you Doug as it does on me! Such a dirty chord.

The wonderful thing is that at your regular metal volume even Beethoven would probably have been able to hear it. :-)

Talking about Beethoven: In the late 60-ties, early 70-ties in the Netherlands there was a band called EKSEPTION. They had a big hit with a piece called "The 5th" , which was their 'version' of the first movement of Beethovens 5th symphony (obviously...). Their leader was Rick van der Linden (more or less the Dutch Keith Emerson). After that they also arranged a couple of pieces by J.S. Bach. Maybe, Doug, you could have a listen, just for fun...

The ‘Banya’ track ‘Moonlight’ produced for the rhythm game Pump it Up is also based on this movement but the main melody is altered quite a lot. They have a lot of EDM classical remixes

Loved your reaction! It might not be perfect, but it's her cover, a huge talent's, and damn good to watch and listen to!

A very qualified analysis

Totally amazing!

Hey Doug ! I just heard this an hour ago and totally mesmerizing, I couldn't look away. What I noticed also is no expressions as she plays, like yup i do this in my sleep. Imagine Tina and Yngwie Malmsteen jam ! Thanks for your videos doug ! PS: Listen to Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement) - Cover Ft. Cole Rolland... There are some amazing guitar players no one's ever heard of.

Love the choice to give the second theme a "half time" feel on the drums the first run through before going back to the more typical 2 and 4 on the backbeat as it repeats.

Beethoven was a Metalhead, the opening of the 5th Symphony is the first great metal riff in history.

Tina S is an amazing guitarist! To answer your question about dynamics on an electric guitar, you can roll the volume knob on the guitar. However, with this tempo, it would be more practical to employ a volume pedal (like the swell pedal on an organ).

fuck the nuances, this is masterclass.

Very impressive child virtuoso. Very happy you visited this. I believe she was only 17 at the time. Magical.

Hey Doug. Glad to see you discovered her. I would highly recommend "Max Ostro" when it comes to young talents. He got signed at JTC Guitar and you should listen his Jazz/Groove kinda stuff. That kid really leaves me speechless man.

Been a huge fan of Tina for years (I discovered her in...2018 I think), and this is one of her best performances. I've always said, if Beethoven were composing today, he'd be a metalhead of the highest order. It is fun to speculate as to what a talent like that would do with modern influences and technology (as for the instruments themselves, I think these would be pretty familiar to ol' Ludwig). I expect his band would be some vein of progressive deathcore, with midrange harsh vocals and off-the-charts technical virtuosity. But that's just a guess.

You must listen to Tina when she play Yngwe Malmsteen and Dream Theaters Best of times. Her technique is just amazing.

Wow, that was amazing! Reminds me a bit of Yngwie J Malmsteen, he was another for electrifying classical pieces.

Dr. Viossy (a.k.a. Michele Vioni) is an italian guitarist I've seen live many times with the band Mr. Pig and had a chat with Him a couple of times. On RU-vid there's his version of this piece of music and videos of his band which features as a singer the great Michele Luppi known also to be keyboard player in Whitesnake.

At the 13:40 mark I definitely agree with him it is definitely a George Costanza development

I'm left open-mouthed!!!

Definitely check out Uli Jon Roth's Symphony and on 7 string 36 fretted electric guitar. Incredibly well done. And a true innovator.

My fav band is 70s Kansas. Kerry Livgren on lead guitar, piano, synth, mellotron, etc. wrote all of the wonderful prog songs that are so fabulous. He never took music lessons, can't read or write music, but grew up from the crib listening to classical music, particularly the romantic era. And it has spilled over into his songwriting. In my opinion, he is the finest rock composer, orchestrator, lyricist, and multi instrumentalist ever. You really must listen to their first 8 albums. It's absolutely easy to hear which songs were written by Kerry and which by Steve Walsh. This was a remarkable live band - all 6 members great musicians and so tight! Play Kansas please!! Journey to Mariabronn, Belexes, Icarus Borne on Wings of Steel, The Pinnacle, Song for America, Lamplight Symphony, Incomudro, the entire Leftoverture album, Dust in the Wind, Hopelessly Human, Relentless, Hold On, Curtain of Iron, Crossfire. All great Livgren songs. It's no wonder that he is known as "the Maestro". Love your channel!

Out of this world!

Cheers for the react and break down - i know what she is doing, i just can't get my fingers to move that quick. her slides during her tapping is crazy good. Steve vai will always be my #1 guitarist, but Tina? dang girl.. best o luck in all ye do.

Fantastic Doug. I hope you will get to experience some Lovebites this week; I am sure you will totally geek out how they compose metal with classical sensibilities (& chops), not just metal covers of classical pieces. Recommended tracks that really highlight this: Edge of the World; Swan Song; Glory to the World.

Handle’s Passacaglia is amazing on electric guitar as well!!

Thanks Doug! Tina is a great cover artist. Very technical. And her cover of Steve Vai’s FOR THE LOVE OF GOD is sensational. If you enjoyed Tina S, you’ll love Sophie Lloyd! Sophie is a great original artist as well as a good cover artist.

I've heard of: 1)tickling the ivories 2)classical "Guitar" now, 3) welcome to Tina S World Wow!

A natural follow on from this would be Uli Jon Roth's Metamorphosis, his take on the entire Four Seasons with his electric 'Sky guitar'.

This lady is very good at playing the guitar. Very good. Beethoven wrote in ... 1801?! It's amazing. I admire that new generations still appreciate Beethoven, because he was magnificent, as Tina S show us. Go Tina.

I would recommend looking at Dr. Viossi’s video of this. It’s his arrangement, as she indicates in her video description.

Love the cap dude…I’m Scotsman and wear them a lot…my pops always called them “apple scrapples”..lol

Tina S truly shreds, as does Lisa X. Young female guitarists who rock are always interesting. I wish I had half of their talent! I wish he did one of her originals. Does she have some? I only know her from covers. Doug already knows the piece, but her rendition is awesome! He could have shredders every day, but technique does not necessarily imply quality. Michael Batio is stupidly talented, but much of his music is an example of how fast he can play.

A great choice. On the same lines I would like to recommend Dave Edmunds & Love Sculpture's version of Sabre Dance by Khachaturian dating from 1968.

Julliette V has some very original work in her albums. They're available on Bandcamp.

I have always felt that Beethoven was the heavy metal star of classical music.