8 year old playing gothrie govan's fives.

racefaceec90

i'm just off to burn my guitar now,she is fantastic  

 

markslade07

But can she play da bluez?

DrBob

Whereas my 8 yr old daughter is having trouble learning the intro to 'Ain't Talking Bout Love'.

I suspect she lacks focus..

oddball

My 18 month old boy hit my acoustic with a trowel this morning - genius in the making

Elx

Sweet

wibble

I liked her version of Scarified better...

Elx

I don't dare to watch this….still struggling with skipped arpeggios in Scarified, I am quitting if this girl can do it

DrJazzTap

As much as i wanted to be a grumpy old man about this (ok jealous old man), when i watched this first time around you can see in her face that's she's having a fun time. And to be honest, that's all that matters.

Megii

I love the way she plays with her head peering over the the top of the guitar body - it's so cute... 

Deijavoo

Wow.  I usually absolutely hate this sort of thing but as said above, how much fun does she look like she's having.  

frankus

Meh, I've a 4 year old who can play sevens... but who's counting

DannyP

She's got such an economical technique. Her vibrato sounds really controlled too and you can barely see her finger wiggling. Not my cup of tea but fun and impressive.

Evilmags

She is awesome. Ibanez signature on its way I suspect.

Blueingreen

Not remotely my kind of music, but stunningly good.  Love the way she's obviously enjoying it as well and her demeanour is absolutely charming.  Hope she can fulfil her potential as an adult - there are a lot of stories of childhood prodigies who either fail to develop and/or don't adjust well to adult life.  You immediately think, if she's that good at eight she's going to be a great artist when she grows up but unfortunately it's often not that simple.

frankus

If you read up on child prodigies - you'll see they've put in the hours early is all.

3 hours a day max is the commonly agreed max training per day. and 10,000 hours to make a master.. Mozart did it in less but then his Dad wrote the book on teaching kids music

If you read Bounce he identifies the risks that "child prodigies" encounter... for instance Mozart was surprising for his age but his music only really took off in his later compositions.

ROOG

Forgive me, for I didn't know what Scarified was.

So you might be able imagine I was a little more than surprised to hear the sounds coming from my headphones.

Absolutely Fabulous.  :0)

spacecadet

Meh, messy.
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Blueingreen

Never bought the 10,000 hours thing.  Some people just have freakish levels of talent, Mozart being one.  The hard work certainly helped and maybe he'd have been a nobody without the hot-housing from his dad, but the idea that just about anybody has the potential to be a Mozart if they get the training and put in the work never seemed remotely plausible to me.

frankus

Blueingreen said:

Never bought the 10,000 hours thing.  Some people just have freakish levels of talent, Mozart being one.  The hard work certainly helped and maybe he'd have been a nobody without the hot-housing from his dad, but the idea that just about anybody has the potential to be a Mozart if they get the training and put in the work never seemed remotely plausible to me.

That's interesting, what makes it implausible?

Elx

Blueingreen said:

Never bought the 10,000 hours thing.  Some people just have freakish levels of talent, Mozart being one.  The hard work certainly helped and maybe he'd have been a nobody without the hot-housing from his dad, but the idea that just about anybody has the potential to be a Mozart if they get the training and put in the work never seemed remotely plausible to me.

+1

My friend played Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca behind his back on an acoustic guitar with the highest imaginable action at the age of 12...He certainly didn't practice for 10,000 hours, just incredible talent and ability. Some achieve things easier than others...

Fretwired

frankus said:

Blueingreen said:

Never bought the 10,000 hours thing.  Some people just have freakish levels of talent, Mozart being one.  The hard work certainly helped and maybe he'd have been a nobody without the hot-housing from his dad, but the idea that just about anybody has the potential to be a Mozart if they get the training and put in the work never seemed remotely plausible to me.

That's interesting, what makes it implausible?

I know people who have studied hard at guitar and who are good but no more - and I'm talking serious study and proper teachers. And yet a friend of mine has a son who is set to be the next Steve Vai and he's basically self taught and certainly hasn't done the 10,000 hours of study which sounds a bit Daily Mail to me. He just has something - call it talent, skill .....

Here he is doing a product demo:



He's currently the lead guitarist in Code of silence.