11 year old girl is most likely a lot better than you

[rottingcorpse]

i absolutely love videos like these. makes me remember when i was young and hungry.

we should all be thankful young people are playing guitar at all.

 

[Anonymous]

Good for these young kids! I still wanna hack my way through playing some guitar anyway, though...

Steve

 

[Halen]

i absolutely love videos like these. makes me remember when i was young and hungry.

we should all be thankful young people are playing guitar at all.

Indeed.

It's been a growing wave from the late 90s to today, kids wanting to be "producers" and create electronic music vs. learning an instrument. Learning the fretboard vs how to push a button are worlds apart.

I tip my hat to those kids who are committed to becoming better players.

 

[bbaug14]

i absolutely love videos like these. makes me remember when i was young and hungry.

we should all be thankful young people are playing guitar at all.

Indeed.

It's been a growing wave from the late 90s to today, kids wanting to be "producers" and create electronic music vs. learning an instrument. Learning the fretboard vs how to push a button are worlds apart.

I tip my hat to those kids who are committed to becoming better players.

I guess I sort of agree, but I started playing guitar, and continue to play, because of music/artists that inspired me on an emotional level.

Being technically proficient is all well and good of course, but if all you're doing at the end of the day is hammering through well rehearsed speed drills, etc. to show how good you are, well... then you're missing the point. Playing an instrument is as much or more about envoking feeling and soul in yourself (and others) as it is anything else.

Too many times I watch these videos of people thrashing through notes and it's honestly as entertaining as watching seniors play bingo. Sometimes less is a lot more when it comes with soul, and that comes from the artist being passionate about what they are playing rather than running through scales. To each their own I suppose.

 

[sytharnia1560]

sorry snowflake
this ain't 'clickbait'
it's a guitar revolution and you are on the waaaaambulance

nah mate I play my guitar why you clearly are to busy enjoying watching little girls...some one needs to seek help

 

[Rock Bodom]

If it was a band with 11 year olds knocking an AC/DC tune out of the park, it would be so much more entertaining. Much like grown-up bands.

Not a knock on her talent, grown up talented players are just as boring.

 

[controlled_voltage]

sorry snowflake
this ain't 'clickbait'
it's a guitar revolution and you are on the waaaaambulance

nah mate I play my guitar why you clearly are to busy enjoying watching little girls...some one needs to seek help

Oh look another cuntard trolling in the thread
I doubt you'd make it thru 30 seconds of the first video posted even if you had the tab
Oh and by the way since you're so interested in my sexual proclivities I actually like older women is your crusty cunted mom available for a quick fisting?
Cheerio "mate"

 

[sahlomonic]

It's impressive if you enjoy playing that sounds like a room full of typewriters.

LOL so true. Speed playing never impressed me to be honest. About as impressive as a Godsmack riff, but who am I to judge...

 

[Oblivion DC]

Those little girls are good and if they stick with it I'm sure they'll get better but there's a shit ton of bad technique on display too. Bad vibrato is a pet peeve of mine and that first video just screamed "no feeling". I'm sure she'll be killing it by the time she's 16 and develops some hand strength but as is, I'm only slightly impressed.

 

[Chester Nimitz]

Where do you go when you peak at 11 ...?

 

[maddnotez]

Their skills are impressive and it is great that they are so good when they are so young (as it gets more difficult to learn the older you are). On the other hand, to me it doesn't matter if you can shred or cover anything you like - if you cannot write songs, then it doesn't mean anything.

Mostly I'm worried what kind of childhood these kids have. Not necessarily the guitar shred kids, but I mean those Chinese three-year-olds who can play piano like a champ. That can only be the result of constant drilling by the parents.

Agreed on all accounts but it's amazing to be that good at 10 or 11 and chances are they will be writing good music in the future.

 

[SpiderWars]

I think it's awesome. Both because of the age and gender. I guess I don't get the criticism of an 11 yr old because she doesn't have great vibrato or feel? She's 11 years old.

The smile at 0:19 says it all.

 

[Oblivion DC]

I think it's awesome. Both because of the age and gender. I guess I don't get the criticism of an 11 yr old because she doesn't have great vibrato or feel? She's 11 years old.

The smile at 0:19 says it all.

The criticism of the young lady's vibrato only came about because the original poster was going off about how amazing she was and how everyone else should just quit playing because reasons. She's very good for an 11 year old kid. She will get better with time. She's not "amazing" right at this point in time.

 

[Anonymous]

Q: How many guitar players does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Eight. One to actually screw in the light bulb and seven to stand around with their arms folded over the chests saying how they could have done it better.

Steve

 

[supersonic]

I'm surprised to see such a sweet looking little girl playing angry teenage/raging hormones music. Tone is horrible, I'm not about to quit. I'd like to see her play something more fitting and musical.

 

[shredi knight]

as if that wasn't enough
this girl is 10
eat em and smile

...........And then register as a sex offender (after your 20 year stay in prison, of course).

Hey twisted perverted minded fucktard you are the fucking sicko for even thinking that was a sordid reference other than dlr's backhanded smack at van Halen with his debut solo album.
First day new brain?
Idiot cunt stick
What a fucking shit heel comment from a cunt troll on the internet
FUCK OFF AND DIE ASAP TROLL TWAT

Jesus Christ, really? Lighten up Francis, it was a joke.

If you didn't think it was funny, fine (I'm the first to admit I have a warped sense of humor), but your response was laughably immature. If you can't express yourself without swearing every other word and name calling, then you either must be in the same age group as the girls in the videos you posted, or just really need to grow up.


Regardless, if you got that upset over what I posted, then you are probably far too thin skinned for this forum.



Thanks.

You're pal, Shredi.

 

[bbaug14]

I thought it was funny... but, I've been here awhile.

 

[GOHOINC]

Guitar shredding is so boring.

I'd much rather listen to stuff that evokes feeling.

I agree. Im super impressed that these young kids and the level of speed and technical talent they show. At the same time I get nothing from it and am not the least bit motivated to do anything remotely close to that or even try because there is no feeling or creativity behind it. Even the source material from Kiko, I have no desire to listen to because of the same reason.

This super fast shreddy stuff sounds like binary to me, its only on or off. I much prefer the feeling of bending to a note and the space that gets filled with a more fluid playing style. Guys that can hit the right note when they arent technically in the right position just sound so much better to me. If these kids can pick up that and add it to what they are already doing, they would be unstoppable and really get people interested I think.

I might also add that I have never been able to dig on the Lynch either...

 

[sytharnia1560]

nah mate I play my guitar why you clearly are to busy enjoying watching little girls...some one needs to seek help

Oh look another cuntard trolling in the thread
I doubt you'd make it thru 30 seconds of the first video posted even if you had the tab
Oh and by the way since you're so interested in my sexual proclivities I actually like older women is your crusty cunted mom available for a quick fisting?
Cheerio "mate"[/quote]

oh it makes total sense now. You are obviously what about 6 or 7 ? ... so watching 10/11 yr olds is a total turn on for you seeing as you like older women

 

[mooncobra]

I think we are seeing an inevitable and natural paradigm shift in techniques and skills like we did with uli jon roth/michael schemker in 1973, EVH in 1978 and then with yngwie in 1984 [just as EVH started resting on his laurels]then the onslaught of the mike varney shrapnel stable was unleashed.

This is not to say that super high tech guitar was limited to these schools and genres only.
There were/are other constants and outstanding technique driven players in jazz and in the outer fringes like holdsworth,eric johnson,steve morse.shawn lane and dimeola while the shrapnel genre exploded.

Seeing these young ladies amass this super high level of technique and accuracy as well as related music theory knowledge at such a young age leads me to believe that when they hit their teens something HUGE will happen as it did with the aft mentioned giants.

There will be a breakthrough with new techniques and the song writing and "soul" content will flourish and it will be a lot more than just insane display of super high tech guitar playing.

The impetuous for this thread started with me listening to this incredible album,which for a "shredder" album is pretty 'soulful' and dynamic imo.

When the album finished the first video I posted popped up on youtube.

Coincidentally I watched the 2 videos below earlier in the night and was really underwhelmed and slightly bored/disappointed with the overall playing which is coming from the "old school".

all music is great if it moves you and ymmv,i'm just kinda shell shocked that a 10/11/17 year olds can be so fucking insanely shredded up like that !

so you think these girls are going to change the face of music in the near future, that they are going to do something HUGE?