Unquestionably, he's a prodigy.

Not a 'reality', talent, breakfast or talk show watcher, I wasn't aware of him until a day or so ago William MG.

Not that I'd even try to understand [u]how[/u] it works, I don't think anyone can or does other than [u]it just is[/u]. The puzzling aspect if you look at how he was playing even just a year in at just eight years of age, is [u]how[/u] he could play like that without comprehensive theoretical schooling and technical knowledge of what he was doing, let alone without [u]many[/u] years to assimilate it and hone those skills?

OK he's ten now, but even [u]if[/u] he being formally taught from seven years of age when apparently he first picked up a guitar, a year on at eight years of age how he could comprehend the theory let alone maintain the concentration, and importantly understand, and assimilate it -at seven remember, when ordinarily it would take a well above average intelligence highly motivated late adolescent or adult with some degree of musical aptitude several years to accomplish the level of conjunctive knowledge, motor skill and understanding of how it all pieces together musically to perform as he did and does. It'd make rational sense if he was fourteen or fifteen having been taught guitar since he was four or five...but "what the?".

For sure some individuals can certainly have an exceptionally high degree of natural aptitude at a thing which makes them exceptional [u]as they learn and develop over time[/u] as in your anaolgy, e.g. Rossi on a motorcycle, Hartmann in a Bf 109, but that's definitely different from this which one might equate with the same freakish mysterious inate ability witnessed of Amira Willighagen aged nine.