By Gisha and Marko Jovanovic, Metal Serbia

 

 

The Great Kat - world's fastest guitar player
 

The Great Kat is known worldwide as an excellent guitar technician neoclassical / speed metal genre, frequent comparisons with Yngwie Malmsteen, but also for her S & M style clothing and high eccentricity. Portal MetalSerbia received a unique opportunity for an interview with the guitarist, we have left to preserve the authenticity of the English language, which you can read in its entirety below.

ATTENTION MetalSerbia.com and MY SERBIAN KAT SLAVES:

IT’S TIME TO GENIUSIZE with The Great Kat’s SHRED/CLASSICAL MUSIC!!!!!!!!, began addressing The Great Kat in her distinctive style.
 

You were recently featured on GuitarWorld's list of fastest guitarists at #5. What are your opinions on this award?

The Great Kat is GOD and the HIGH PRIESTESS OF GUITAR SHRED! The Great Kat is the ONLY VIOLIN/GUITAR VIRTUOSO since NICCOLO PAGANINI!!!

 

What made you choose the guitar and speed metal as a genre after a classical violin education?

After graduating from The Juilliard School as a violin soloist. I realized that CLASSICAL Music was DEAD and IMMEDIATELY needed to be UPDATED with popular music to REACH THE MASSES!! I discovered the electric guitar and speed metal. I quickly picked up the electric guitar and simply took my PAGANINI-STYLE violin technique (a special strong left-hand technique I learned at Juilliard) and transposed it to the guitar. I added STRONG accentings and attacks (which is used in BOTH METAL and BEETHOVEN’S MUSIC). Then I began transcribing EXACT Classical Music scores from Beethoven, Paganini, Bach, Rossini and more for the guitar and speed metal band and BECAME THE GREAT KAT GUITAR GODDESS!!!!


What are your opinions on being compared to Yngwie Malmsteen?

The Great Kat is the only HIGHLY-TRAINED CLASSICAL VIRTUOSO (Juilliard graduate on violin AND composition/theory!) who is CAPABLE of taking NOTE-FOR-NOTE EXACT CLASSICAL MUSIC SYMPHONIC SCORES and transcribing/arranging/editing them for Guitar, Violin, Band and Orchestra!!!!!

THAT’S why KAT RULES!!!!!!!!!!!


Why Beethoven?

BEETHOVEN’S MUSIC is the ONLY CLASSICAL MUSIC in history that combines POWER, TECHNIQUE, ENTHUSIASM, BRUTAL FORCE, VICIOUS ENERGY, GENIUS and BRILLIANT CONTRAPUNTAL COMPLEXITY!!!!! No other composer in history has BEETHOVEN’S PURE POWER, TECHNIQUE AND FORCE!!!!!!!!!!


Is there a new The Great Kat album that we can expect anytime soon?

 

The Great Kat’s HIGHLY-ACCLAIMED “BEETHOVEN SHREDS” CD was JUST RELEASED this month in EUROPE!!!!


What's it like to be a female shred guitar player in a male dominated genre?

GET DOWN AND LICK MY GODLY SPIKED HEELS, INFERIOR MALES!!!!!!!!!!

The Great Kat is THE ONLY FEMALE Shred Guitar GODDESS showcasing BLISTERING VIRTUOSO SHRED/CLASSICAL GUITAR TECHNIQUE in this PATHETIC Male-Chauvinist Guitar world!!!!!!!!!! That’s just ONE MORE REASON WHY THE GREAT KAT IS GOD!!!


Are you involved in any musical projects at the moment? What are your musical plans in the forthcoming period?

On the NEXT Great Kat Masterpiece Shred DVD/CD, I will be SHREDDING BEETHOVEN’S FAMOUS “LEONORE OVERTURE #3” from Beethoven’s opera “FIDELIO” (about a POWERFUL Woman SAVING her husband from torture and death)!!!!!! Also, featured on this upcoming Great Kat DVD/CD will be MOZART’S famous “THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO” OVERTURE and MORE BLISTERING PAGANINI showpieces for violin and guitar.

 

Thank you once again for this interview. Finally, do you have anything to say to your fans in Serbia?

To all my SERBIAN KAT SLAVES:
THE GREAT KAT IS THE REINCARNATION OF BEETHOVEN!!!!
SHRED ON!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interview conducted by Gisha and Marko Jovanovic