http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKcKt0D0oYg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG4YIm5c8Ig
Anyone want to buy a nice ES-347?
I think I’ll have to throw in the towel as well MT…what a future for this young lady 
I wish I started playing at 6 instead od 26 
..ah well…
sigh
I’ve seen these vids before on the TPDRI forum (telecaster forum) and it’s been discussed a lot there … these kids if they stick with it could be great.
The funny thing with guitar is that 80%+ of players don’t know how to read music and have a very basic understanding of theory … these kid fall in here. They can copy a finger placement that their guitar player dad showed them and have the time to play ad nauseam. Ask her to play happy birthday off the cuff … bet she can’t. If this isn’t the case, where are all of these great prodigy guitar players?? I’ve seen vids like these for many years now.
If I understand it correctly that is kind of what the Suzuki method is all about. People learn to talk and later they learn to read write, and make poetry. for music it’s mimic, read, and then perhaps create.
What a difference a year makes.
And here she is at 6…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=PERIk4IPKmk
Look at those tiny fingers go!
She may be one of the one who stick it out.
Here she is at 9:
Good picking hand going on there and strong bar chording.
Yep, sure. It’s the “licks and tricks” syndrome.
Of course, I had no real understanding of the theory at her age, either - not that you don’t develop your ear and intuition as you play, and that’s fundamental. But when you start that early with the technical skill, the rest can come later. I suspect that it’s life factors as much as musical considerations that determine whether the whiz kid becomes an adult prodigy. And some percentage of them do.
There’s a young uilleann piper here who came to our sessions for a while. And like the young lady, he was a human tape recorder. He could memorize settings from his teacher or from recordings, and play them back with remarkable skill. But change the setting slightly, or expect him to learn a tune on the fly, or play a common folk tune, and he was lost. He was also clearly under a lot of parental pressure to perform. I haven’t seen him for a while, and I expect he’ll either re-emerge one day as a great player, or move on to other things.
No.
If it was not for your effort, no effort would happen.
Be joyful of your part in this amazement!
It’s not a contest for us each .. it is a contest for us all.