Yeah, I had this! Lost in the sands of time now though!
However, I do remember some of the passages in the tab not being comfortable for me to play - either due to error/impossible fingering or me not being Guthrie Govan - probably the latter, so I disctinctly remmber re-fingering these to something more manageable (for me)
Dude, this has been my benchmark for decades. I always return to this every year or so but you know what? I never seem to get any better than back in 95 when I first learnt it.
Years of struggle. Refingering, relearning.
Little progress.
This DWPS version is excellent. Thankyou.
Never had issues with the fretting hand, only ever the picking, so this version is like the Word of God, for me!
Great work, thanks again
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By the way… if anyone wants to see what it looks like when you really sell your soul to the devil… here is Leonidas Kavakos playing Paganins 5th at an outragious speed.
The part you’ll recognize starts at 28 seconds.
Most violinists play it at 133… just a handful can play it at 160 (its denoted speed). Leonidas plays it at 180… which I think Paganini could also play it at.
In a film about learning the blues, it’s a Paganini shred piece that ultimately beats the devil!
I know! Totally ironic. But it was the '80s and neoclassical skillz were ‘better’.
Makes sense. I could see how movie audiences might have scratched their heads if it was a mournful Macchio string bend that takes down the sinewy and diabolical Vai!
lol. Well the story goes, Robert Johnson had a bit of the ‘devil’ in his playing. So Paganini is perfect for that. Vai even looks a bit like Paganini… they both have that gaunt Italian face and lanky physique.
There’s lotsa stuff online about Paganini and the devil. I know they made a movie about that as well… with David Garrett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCsVEsQlm7o I have lots of violinists in the family… so they love these stories, lol.
There must be a violin forum somewhere, where they’re analysing the amount of wrist flexion, shoulder medial rotation etc., and with their own Troy. ‘Let me just bolt this mobile phone on yer Strad’ 
lol, well… for those of you who have a few million dollars to spend… here’s the only playable Strativari guitar in existance:
The guys pretty damn good as well.
And of course there’s Marshall!
Marshall Harrison is my favorite guitarist. He is cool as hell too. 
Awesome Strativari video @hamsterman
He’s got an an amazing technique. I wish the sound was better on this.
It looks like he’s playing on a 3/4 sized guitar… or maybe he just has gigantic hands.
I cleared out the garage this weekend and found a transcription of Eugene’s Trick Bag in Total Guitar June 1999 (the band Reef on the cover) I could scan it a post it?
This isn’t the one I remember but might be worth sharing?
Only speeded up a touch.
From Steve Allsworth, Total Guitar, June 1999
“The only point of reference is the film itself and that plays almost a semitone shaper than concert pitch, making it sound even more devlishly difficult (it clocks around 160 bpm in the film) So for practical purposes we’ve transcribed it from the film’s original pitch of A minor”
Leonidas Kavakos is total badass, one of the best musicians of our times, given the Gramophone Award for Artist of the Year in 2014. Recently had the tremendous honor of performing Bach’s Chaconne from the second Partita for Solo Violin at Bach’s grave. His chops, obviously are phenomenal, and so is his knowledge and understanding of style. A true virtuoso.
Did Marshall know that he had a guitar for a chin? Lol
That’s so fast! Do you believe those string changes are even something to be concerned for violinists since the radius of the bridge/ fingerboard does not create a " plane of the strings" like in our beloved guitars.
Would be nice to ask a pro violinist. I know Troy Grady has mentioned this before and Andy Wood also states that on mandolin that radius is something familiar to him (although is a much more flat radius) and he even feels much more comfortable on Les Paul because of the bridge being more similar to that mandolin.
In general, the string changes are easier, but doing things like string skipping is tough on the violin.
But, one huge advantage with violins… is that a lot of the bow techniques/mechanics have been refined over centuries… but with alternate picking… we’ve only had a few decades… and much of what we learn is self-taught. People like Heifetz and Kavakos started the violin when they were in the cradle (I’m not joking)… and were often taught based upon generations of ‘best practices’
But I think if a child prodigy was taught by Troy from the age of 3… I’m sure he could play Paganini’s 5th at a ludicrous speed in no time.