This Kid is Amazing!

It's amazing what kids can learn to do when they don't spend all day playing video games.

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kids can rock!

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lewis, i totally agree on jerry chang. guitar player mag did the tab for canon in D (his version) a few years back. i wish i had it
 
This is fun to watch and rare, but it's clearly the product of memorization and practice as opposed to guitar playing ability. I don't see much aptitude or skill to play clean. It's still cool though!!
 
tigisfat said:
This is fun to watch and rare, but it's clearly the product of memorization and practice as opposed to guitar playing ability. I don't see much aptitude or skill to play clean. It's still cool though!!
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That's precisely the way I learned to play the organ beginning when I was six: memorization and sheer repetitive practice... :engel016:

By the time I was fourteen, I had become an accomplished sight reader and was taking private tutoring with the aim of becoming a concert organist.

I continued studying and advancing through tutoring until my early twenties. Had I not been attacked by a patient and lost the use of three fingers on my right (dominant) hand, I've no doubt I'd have accomplished my long term goals.

Although my dream was crushed, I continue to invest at least two hours a day of practice on my customized Conn Artiste three manual organ. :ernae:
 
I agree with ya Bill. That is one of the best way to get started. Growing up with several friends playing drums, 6-string & bass, and piano/organ that started out that way young (8-12 if I remember right) and grew into being able to draw their own line so to speak, I picked up a little bit by memorization but I never could get my fumble fingers to work for me.
They always accused me of having dyslexic fingers! :d I can sight-read pretty much anything you set in front of me and see & hear it in my mind but be darned if I can make the sound come out on either keyboard or strings. Turned out okay though. I was the one that kept the equipment running. Give me a tube amp and I'll make it sing...Just don't ask me to feed it any notes!
 
tigisfat said:
This is fun to watch and rare, but it's clearly the product of memorization and practice as opposed to guitar playing ability. I don't see much aptitude or skill to play clean. It's still cool though!!
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name one - even just one - of the great guitarists who didn't learn by repetition. you can't name a single great musician on any instrument that didn't learn that way. from beethoven and mozart down to jimi hendrix and randy rhoades, all have mentioned the countless hours of practice, which is....repetition. better to learn it on an actual instrument than all these foolish people who play "guitar hero". i see plenty of aptitude and the skill is being developed. at the age of 8 or 9 those hands are pretty small to be working a 22 fret neck with the dexterity they are able to manage. i doubt they can stretch more than 5 or 6 frets at their age.
 
cheezyflier said:
i see plenty of aptitude and the skill is being developed. at the age of 8 or 9 those hands are pretty small to be working a 22 fret neck with the dexterity they are able to manage. i doubt they can stretch more than 5 or 6 frets at their age.
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Those clips are several years old by now. He turned twelve in September, 2008.

There are currently over 160 video clips on his youTube page featuring this young man...

http://www.youtube.com/user/jwcfree

"I used to not have tabs for the music that I played in my videos. I just listen and pick them up directly from the sound source in videos available on the internet. However, recently, I have started playing with original tabs whenever they are available to me by courtesy of the authors.

My old guitar is custom made by Selma to fit my body size, and on it, Thomas Leeb wrote "Keep on grooving to my friend." As of Jan. 1st, 2009 Lakewood acts as sponsor for my guitar officially.
 
i don't see anything wrong with using tab. when i played, i used it when i could, although back then there was no internet so you had to pay for it. most of the time i learned to play a song by repeatedly playing to the album or cassette until i figured the whole thing out. i see that jung has the custom guitar you mentioned in your post, but miyazawa plays the full size randy roades v which is longer than he is, and the full size les paul which prolly weighs as much as he does ( LoL ) i think these kids, and others like them deserve props for workin so hard at something other than a video game.
thanks for posting the link, i am going to check that out next :wave:
 
While you're there, be sure to listen the the four original compositions he's already done... :ernae:
 
A touch of the "August Rush"

Doesn't matter who or what the performance is - music of that calibre gets into your soul faster than a 45.
 
Folks, forget it!
Tigisfat is badmouthing everything. F-14s, guitar playing kids etc....
Just ignore him.
I'm playing the piano since 39 years and of course you have to learn it that way.
 
cheezyflier said:
name one - even just one - of the great guitarists who didn't learn by repetition. you can't name a single great musician on any instrument that didn't learn that way.
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ummm, I never said that practice was bad. Who are you talking to?:help:




There is a difference between learning to play guitar and learning to play one song really well on guitar. You can teach a little kid to play one song and make them play until they can go through the motions. There's been plenty of whiz kids just like him; and when it all settles they find out that these kids are nearly enslaved by their parents. There are lots of little kids with amazing talents; we can all probably name one we knew. Was the one you knew highly publicized? It's likely that any famous little kid is famous because their parents wanted them to be.

I won't spend a minute performing research on how many videos he has, but that's cool if he's that young and can paly that many things.
 
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