you gotta be kiddin'

blew my mind
look out Jimmy Page

Awright...that's amazing and unbelievably depressing. Oh man...I think I've got things in my 'fridge older than him and he's eclipsed just about anything and everything I can do on a guitar. Hats off kid. Pretty amazing stuff.

What an awesome little dude that is!

Unbelievable but the kid looks like he wants to go play a video instead.

Crazy. You know how much you would have to drill a kid to get em to play that? Unless he's really really gifted, his father must've drilled him to tears.

This kid ain't kiddin
His profile says he's 15 then, and been playing since 12.

This kinda stuff makes me feel really really bad about my chances in the music world.

Ok... who started this thread?..... :mad:

ZoSo what's your point?... GT is going to the CNN very soon bro...

I can almost hear it... "today a misterious series of worldwide suicides took place, no clue of the motiffs but all the victims are in fact somehow related... all of them used to be part of some cult... GT they called it, information on the web says it's a guitar learning site but investigation stills going as we speak"

I'm going to my room and sob for a while... maybe 3 days or so... :(

I'm with you Polansky.

Originally Posted by: polanskyOk... who started this thread?..... :mad:

ZoSo what's your point?... GT is going to the CNN very soon bro...

I can almost hear it... "today a misterious series of worldwide suicides took place, no clue of the motiffs but all the victims are in fact somehow related... all of them used to be part of some cult... GT they called it, information on the web says it's a guitar learning site but investigation stills going as we speak"

I'm going to my room and sob for a while... maybe 3 days or so... :(

I can delete it?? maybe he has that aging disease only in reverse and he is really 43

Originally Posted by: z0s0_jpI can delete it?? maybe he has that aging disease only in reverse and he is really 43

For my own sake, I hope so.

How much time does he has to practice?... he has to go to school, do homework, clean his room... damn... being a kid is hard bro... :D

But let's face it, he does rock.

Cheers for the kid and hope he keeps playing.

STAY AWAY FROM YOUTUBE.....

If the "starway kid" wasn't enough...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx8q9Gzpcy8


Somebody send this kids to their bedrooms.

shoot me now.

AAAARRRGGGGGHHH!

Is there something in the water where these kids live? Jeez. Alright, excuse while I go and smack my head off the desk for a few minutes....fwap....fwap...fwap...

not fair :mad:

Originally Posted by: polanskyHow much time does he has to practice?... he has to go to school, do homework, clean his room... damn... being a kid is hard bro... :D

But let's face it, he does rock.

Cheers for the kid and hope he keeps playing.[/QUOTE]

hmm... from >this thread< in January of 2003:

Originally Posted by: LordathestringsAfter 6 months, I'd had my own guitar for about three weeks, and I was driving the rest of my family crazy while I played for five hours a day. I was in high school at the time, and I had a morning paper route, so I was basicaly getting by on about four hours of sleep a day. I don't remember what I was playing at the time, but if you check out the Top 10 charts circa 1968, you can see that I had a lot to try for!

... and from >this thread< the following December:
[QUOTE=Lordathestrings]Back in '68, when I bought my first guitar, I played every possible minute of every day.

I played when I first woke up. I played after I got home from my morning paper route, before I went to school. I played when I came home for lunch. I played when I came home from school. I played before doing my homework. I played instead of doing my homework. I played until bedtime. I played after bedtime. I played until my fingers bled. I played until I had calouses over blood blisters on my fingertips....

35 years later, I play maybe 4 hours a week, but I still love it! :D

When a kid gets the fever, playing becomes something that gets done any time you're not doing something else. Sometimes instead of other things. As you get older, it becomes much harder to obsess on something like playing guitar. You have less ability to put other things aside, and a lot less support from other people when you shirk your responsibilities in favour of playing.

Originally Posted by: Lordathestrings
When a kid gets the fever, playing becomes something that gets done any time you're not doing something else. Sometimes instead of other things. As you get older, it becomes much harder to obsess on something like playing guitar. You have less ability to put other things aside, and a lot less support from other people when you shirk your responsibilities in favour of playing.

Agree 100%, my boss asked me one day that if I would stop working if I became a millionare (talking bout winning lotto or something like that), my answer was, dayjob quitting maybe for a while, but I would take a few months/years to devote only to music, getting my playing down and maybe take serious lessons (GIT sort of thing perhaps).

As you get older you get so little time to practice and perfecting your playing... damn bro... even just to play... when I was a kid I had my band and we got to practice once a week as long as 6-7 hrs, now that we are back toghether is being 5 weeks and still haven't got the chance to get toghether to start getting our gig down.

Guess sometimes will is not enough.

Originally Posted by: grizzlymintThis kinda stuff makes me feel really really bad about my chances in the music world.

Technical ability rarely outshine song-writing ability in the musicworld. Just listen to the radio... You'll be ok :D

Originally Posted by: clewniiTechnical ability rarely outshine song-writing ability in the musicworld. Just listen to the radio... You'll be ok :D

Guess that makes me feel a little better.... I will say, you don't see many kids that are prodigies writing music. Or I haven't anyways. So score 1 for composition ability.

On the note of not finding time to play as you get older: Even when I've been extremely busy, I find time to play. I sacrifice a lot of good sleep time to play guitar. And I don't care. Its not because I want to be a virtuoso or because I feel I need to get better, but because I want to. You can sleep anytime. You can't play guitar anytime. So thats what I choose to do. Playing music>Good nights sleep. I don't like it when people tell me they've been too busy to play. Thats silly. You obviously don't wanna play that bad if you haven't found time. Either that, or you need to loosen up your schedule a bit. In fact, I've written and recorded pretty much all my songs up to this point at ridiculous hours of the night. Don't know why, but inspiration seems to come at crazy hours for me.

We have a very short time on Earth. I've chose to use that time to its fullest extent. I'll sleep when I die.

And thats my take on that situation.