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I showed some interest in music playing visuals early on. It was the time of MS-DOS and I would grab frames from the game Space Quest by Sierra that had some aliens playing music -inspired by popular Star Wars scene. I would animate those frames in BASIC following notes, or more like beeps because it was before the time of sound waves. It kind of worked.

We recently posted a video of the final solo in the guitar duel from the movie Crossroads called Eugene’s Trick Bag.  The actor Ralph Macchio learned to mimick the movements for the movie in a very convincing way, but it was actually played by Steve Vai. For this video, I got the tab from Songsterr and synced the original audio, and generated the animation with iPracticeMyMusic. While making the video I noticed that the solo was tabbed using fingerings that didn’t seem right, for a moment I was unsure on which fingers and positions to use.