My 13 year old son playing For The Love of God...video...check it out!!!

He's 13 and has been playing pretty much excactly one year.. started May of last year.

I was doing an audio recording of him and thought, man I got to get this on video!!!! Here it is. It about 2 minutes long (4MB).

Dig this!!!

Man I was lucky if I could string 3 chords together at that age!

Great playing there, it's cool that you both have a common interest. My dad has no interest in music

I agree with Primativ... it's a wonderful thing to have common interests, not only that I imagine you incourage him a lot, which never fails to help.

Awesome playing!

Very cool. That kids gonna be famous one day.

he has been practising hard

Hey guys, thanks for checking it out. And, thanks for the kind words. He kid amazes me. I'm going to get some of him doing AC/DC shortly too. He can nail Agnus.

It was about a year ago that he watch School Of Rock. The next he came down to my music room and said, "dad do you know how to play Smoke On The RIVER?" I had all I could do to stop laughing. I said, "first of all it's Smoke On The WATER". lol

He practices all the time, he watches videos of Steve, and other lesson type videos on the Internet, plus gets a lot of tab. But, he does practice his butt off. I'm curious to see how he transforms this summer.

I've been teaching him stuff as he wants to learn and he just takes it from there. I've been trying to more formal type lessons to get him ready for jazz band in high school, but he's got another year and a half before that happens. But, I show him chords, chord building, scales, and how scales work against chords. But, he works it on his own. I'm pretty proud of him.

He plays in a band with Juniors in High School right now, and he just got out of 7th grade, man!!! ANd, yes I keep my eye on them all ;)

I took him to see Steve Vai back in April, it was a great experience for both of us.

And, yes it has been a great bonding experience, hopefully it last through his HS years :)

Thanks again.

Oh, if your interested, here's the whole vid. It's 8 minutes at about 12.5MB. I still can't believe he could play this solidly for 8 minutes! He does repeat himself a few time, but jeez...he's only been playing a year.

The full video

Wow!! That is amazing no matter how many years of playing ! Excuse me while I go practice now :o :D

That was incredible for having played the guitar for only one year, especially at that age. You must be proud gennation.

Way To Keep The World Rocking From Generation to Generation :D

Wow...one year? That is ridiculous! I can't even play like that after 10 years...a bit sloppy at points, but still better than I could do!

im 26 , been playin for bout 7 years , after waching this kid i think i just might run my guitar over with my jeep.

Well, it was quite fun to watch. :) Considering his age and the ammount of time he has been playing, he is damn good. Reminded me of me (not to sound arrogant). I started when I was 13 (I'm 15 now), and I remember such a time when all I could do was play guitar for hours (sometimes 8 at a time or more), just trying to figure out one song. It's kind of funny to look back on that now, and see something that would have taken me a week to learn back then, take me an hour now.

Point is, he is talented, but I want another video, this time no background music, and give the kid a Les Paul why don't ya? :cool: Just let the kid loose to see what he comes up with on his own. If he can hold something with no background music for 5 minutes, I will be highly impressed.

I just joined this website today, got the high-bandwidth $5 thing, nice deal, I think it needs a bit more life in here though. One thing I always like seeing is kids that make adults feel scared for whatever position they are in (in this case, guitar playing). Wonder if I should break out the video camera and record some messing around?

Luck to ya kid, ;)

RedZep

Right the next person who i hear (see) saying (typin) about havin problems playing guitar because of small hands i shall slap!!! one way or another

pretty good dude, keep it up, I'de actually like to hear him write a solo of his own, with alot of emotio invloved into it. Give the kid a decently good guitar too. He looks sorta goofy jamming crazy like that on a strat. LoL. yeah write something kid, I'd like to hear what happens then.

Heck with writing a solo, just come up with something engageing on the fly, that is a lot of fun. Luck to you kid.

Holy feck! That kid nailed that song. You gotta prodigy on your hands mister. I think someone deserves a JEM this Christmas. What effects is he using? That sounds just like Vai's tone.

hi im ian the 13 year old playing ftlog. thanks for all the replies. actually the tone that i get is just a crybaby with some reverb i got the tone on my line 6 spider 2 but in the video i used my dads POD. i have the gain bass and treble all the way up and the Mid all the way down.i play a 50 dollar guitar from a flea market with a stock tremolo it also has a humbucker at the bridge.soon ill have more videos.

Originally Posted by: Angus_-_younghi im ian the 13 year old playing ftlog. thanks for all the replies. actually the tone that i get is just a crybaby with some reverb i got the tone on my line 6 spider 2 but in the video i used my dads POD. i have the gain bass and treble all the way up and the Mid all the way down.i play a 50 dollar guitar from a flea market with a stock tremolo it also has a humbucker at the bridge.soon ill have more videos.

soon youll have more money. remember old jim when that happens.

seriously tho dude,

your 13. Even if your the god damn best guitarist in the world, playing covers, your not gonna get anywere. Write some music and solos and stuff. Get good at that too.

I guarentee you that if you can write good music, theres no doubt in my mind... You'll be big.