Guitarists: Prepare to be disheartened

[Ermz]

https://home.comcast.net/~davidsole/8-year_old_virtuoso.wmv

mm, preteen shred.

 

[narcoleptic haze]

HOLY SHIT!! That's amazing.

 

[Anarkissed]

What the fruit *is disheartened*

 

[R0l0]

you could totally see the jealously on the other guy's face

 

[rissy]

omgosh. 8 years old. That Racer X song.

 

[burton]

GOOD FUCKIN' LORD. This kid's only eight? That's how old I was when I STARTED playing. I'm 15 (and a half >_>) now and I'm STILL not even REMOTELY close to being that good. *Sigh.* I guess I could use this as inspiration.

 

[Moonstruck]

Life's not fair. I would like to hear him play in 20 years.

 

[Botfly]

damn, if I had a video, I'd show his ass out. I'm only 6 and I can do MUCH better IMHO.

 

[[onyx]]

He does indeed have skill. The fact is that he's 8, so he's basically just reciting notes. I didn't feel any passion from his playing, but if he stays with it I'm sure he'll come to understand what he's doing. I just hope he appreciates it, because if you don't you might as well not play. I've been playing piano for 20 years, and I remember what it was like to recite notes.

 

[Ermz]

Yeah, his improvisation is stale and lifeless, but that's fair enough. You can tell most of his development came from strict theory adherence. I hope he uses his gift later on to create inspirational, yet technical music - not monotonous wankery like Malmsteen and such.

 

[Heavenscent]

Man, that really, really sucked.

 

[affinityband]

he is amazing and i would seriously aplaud him, but what would his creative abilitys be like. jealous of his skill obviously, but i doubt his mind would be able to conjure up something orginal as hes a sort of...machine.

 

[JoeVice]

thats fucking insane...he is born with a gift and obviously had a good teacher...i'm not a big fan of what he was playing, but fuck...he is 8 years old...

 

[spigot]

I'm a year and two months old and I can already type and I jerk off daily.

 

[fuscous]

I thought he only plays some patterns quite fast. But look a his fingers. And the tapping. He is totally talented: i hope he will make metal when hes grown up

 

[deliverance]

hmm, the fat midget is a good guitar player. you can tell the goofy bassist was jealous. the only thing that disheartened me was when the cam zoomed in, and i found out that the child wasn't wearing a red miami dolphins cap.

 

[OGM]

Bah, he probably has that Gary Coleman thing and is actually 30 years old.

 

[shantideva]

i thought he was wearing a red miami dolphins cap for a second too, but i wasn't disappointed at all when i found out otherwise.

gotta hand it to the kid. he's probably the only person in his class that can play such unlistenable music. i bet he joins G3 though and Petrucci molests him.

 

[Kenneth R.]

racer x is terrible. the future looks dark for this one

turned to the dark side, he has.

i'm not disheartened because i know i'm just average at guitar, but i throw in all i've got (expressionally)

 

[Man In Black]

He certaintly has talent, but all that mindless wankery is boring and unispired as hell.
I'd be much more impressed if he started spouting off some blues licks ala Clapton on Bluesbreakers.