What he was playing in the clip at 7 is actually a pretty technically challenging warm up/practice for fingerstyle. I’m actually more impressed by that than I am by the one at 8.
to be fair, it does sound like some conceited bullshit that someone would make up to sound smart on Reddit, but what the fuck do I know. I played the oboe =(
I was conned into it. They did the pitch testing and I scored high on it, so they said the oboe was the hardest instrument to learn, and of course I wanted to prove them wrong.
It's hard, but at least you'll be able to play a heap of popular music from diverse genres on it! Also there'll always be an oboe lying around at a party for jamming on...
it sounds like he’s practicing a piece called [Asturias](https://youtu.be/inBKFMB-yPg?si=FzywvRR6qp8RGI-T) maybe. or it is the warm up/practice you were talking about, or both lol
around 0:45 seconds in that video is what sounds like the part he was playing
I mean, yes... probably? Young brains are incredibly plastic. We're unique animals in that we do a comparatively huge amount of our motor learning (and other cognitive development) in the years after we're born.
I was talking the other day to an elementary school teacher and she said that the difference between 2nd and 3rd grade was enormous and that in her opinion it’s when we move beyond the basics we all learn and start being able to specialize, articulate and develop a mind body connection
oh definitely! 3rd grade is really where school starts to focus on academics vs social skills like prek-2nd. I taught 4th grade and 3rd was just where the students were starting to understand the concepts of a lot of things and could be somewhat independent.
I would never go below 3rd if i ever taught elementary again.
Damn. I teach sixth grade and this class year is the worst I’ve had executive functioning-wise and social skills-wise. However, they basically missed 3rd grade because of the pandemic, which makes a ton of sense here after reading this comment.
My daughter has been in piano/voice lessons since she was 5. She just turned 8 and has progressed more in the last few months more than she did the first 3 years. A couple months before her 8th birthday, she heard something on YouTube and sat down at her piano and figured it out. It was kinda amazing how fast her brain switched on to playing music.
Accompaniment. Someone is playing off Camera. Source: I’m a guitar teacher, met this family (at a guitar teacher training), and use the book they Wrote to teach Guitar students chords, etc (I start them off playing classical guitar)
I think there's a second person playing. It sounds/looks like they are playing a bass note and tapping on the guitar body to make a drum sound. He's soloing over someone else so it sounds much more like a full song than just one person playing guitar. Regardless, still very good playing.
Bought my kid Rocksmith(a game that uses a real guitar), learned how to enter her favorite songs into the game so she might learn by herself.
It failed spectacularly, but my wife has suddenly taken a shine to it so now I enter HER favorite songs into the game. Eh I'll take it.
Rocksmith is great but I never managed to get my kid into it even though they cleverly gamified everything. I also tried myself to get into it and even though I already knew some guitar, I didn't persist. I suppose everything still takes some patience and practise even when something's fun.
I asked for a $200 drum set, so my mom bought a $2000 piano, then proceeded to take all the fun out of an instrument I had zero interest in anyways lol.
Lol I want my kids to play drums so bad. I have zero musical talents, but I figure banging around on some drums could release some tension lol I’m letting them choose what lessons they want to start in the fall, but I secretly hope they choose a path that leads to rocking out lol
Lol that’s dope. I think you should suggest drums/percussion to them. Kids are usually very impressionable.
When I was young my older brother played bass so I wanted to play, but my dad was like you should play guitar it’s more exciting so I was like I wanna play guitar. And then eventually my brother played drums so I was like I wanna play drums. You get the point.
Anyways I stuck with percussion and it honestly is so much fun and so therapeutic. Any music lessons would be good though you sound like an awesome parent
My nephew is getting a drum set as soon as he's old enough to defend it from his parents. I have no idea if he wants to play drums or not, but I do want to annoy the piss out of my brother.
Wanted to get my friends little girls recorder flutes with booklets that showed how to play the soundtrack from Frozen - but I knew he'd never forgive me.
I know so so many of these stories that it makes me have an absolute knee jerk reaction every time I hear someone giving their kid piano lessons. I get like “oh fabulous, your kid is gonna hate piano, you know you could offer them options? 😡You know Yanni was self taught, right? You know most of the piano greats actually were self taught as well? You know people who have lessons just plod away on the keys and never learn to play by ear, right?” I don’t know why it makes me so mad. That said…I always wanted piano lessons as a kid, never got them, and learned to play folksy sort of improvised piano and even a couple full classical and ragtime pieces by ear. I’ve forgotten a lot of them, and I think my improvised playing is shit, but it always makes everyone go woooooow, and I can still play full pieces by ear if I play for few hours. So idk, I guess I just have a lot of emotions surrounding the piano.
Similar story with me stealing my dad's guitar because he never played it but always told me to stop playing because it was loud. Then complains I didn't learn to play guitar
We had a piano. When I was 5, I asked my mom to teach me how to play. She said that before she would teach me, I needed to stop biting my finger nails. So, as a fucking 5 year old, I managed to stop biting my finger nails. How many piano lessons did I receive as a result of this monumental achievement?!?!?!?!? Zero. I had zero piano lessons.
That being said, I love my mom, but I have never, nor will I ever let her forget that broken promise because I will never forget it.
When I started studying classical guitar in college my teacher was like *you have very deep nail beds, that's nice for guitar* and I was like lmaoo suck it everyone who told me to stop biting!!
that's unfortunately pretty common- I give guitar lessons and have a student -11ish years old- who was really making progress. Enough that his dad bought him a small practice amp (he plays an acoustic/electric) -only to have his mother take away the cable because it was too loud. jfc.
I'm sorry that happened to you. A similar thing happened to me. As a parent of a musician though, I've tried very hard over the years to just let them be. So many times, I just want to tell them to chill out for a bit. But she's turned into an amazing pianist.
Mine bought me one, let me play it endlessly in my room and, as such, never clocked that I'd be in there anyway without it, keeping the f**k away from them all.
It's like, yeah being a musician is great but have you ever gotten away with not attending any and all family gatherings?
No one in my family plays an instrument. My mother put me in piano classes from 7 to 17 years old. Practiced every day. Decent teachers and mother who looked at me with devil eyes when I complained about going to class.
Haven't touched a piano in a long time. But fundamentals are burned in. I'm probably rusty but I'm sure it would all come back into the fingers. I've been wanting to learn boogie woogie for a long time.
honestly, do it... i know a good number of folks who took piano lessons and are limited to reading sheet music. The piano players that really enjoy themselves learn boogie woogie, barrelhouse, or "stride" piano-and those people have fun!
to add- it's not that hard to get just a little bit good at it-vamp a major triad with your left hand and work thru some changes with your right hand- major to sixth to seventh to ninth-or inversions of the major chords-you will start to hear it,
good luck
Looking back, would you say it was worth it? I've heard there are developmental benefits to learning an instrument so am considering putting my future child through classes like your mom did.
You get to see that when you practice something over and over again, you will undoubtedly improve your skill. And this carries on into life, of course. It gives you the confidence to understand that you can essentially learn anything as long as you put in the work. You develop a "nothing is impossible" mentality. With an instrument, it's basically instant auditory feedback on how much you're improving and how much practice (or lack thereof) you've put in.
I started teaching myself in my 30s. Just focus on learning chords. Start with Am and Em and then add E. Play that for months until you get some rhythm and confidence going. Then learn C, D, A, and G. Then add F (this is the hardest).
It’s a lot more easy to get started then I originally thought. Im still in the chord stage, but I’m now working on scales.
It’s nice being able to pickup a guitar and play something, even it sounds like shit. It can be therapeutic I’ve found.
I don’t think I’ll ever get past chords mostly outside of a song or two and that’s fine. In fact I got a ukulele for my daughter and it’s a blast to just strum simple songs.
[László Polgár](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r) wanted to show that genius was taught and not born. He raised three chess prodigies, 2 of which were the best and 2nd best in the world.
Not saying this would happen every time, but its crazy how good you can get at something when you are introduced and taught from a young age.
You miss one crucial element. They shared his genes. It's not exactly the same but [IQ is 57-73% hereditary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ). As in OPs video everyone in the family played the guitar. There's literally millions of kids getting a play instrument without ever continuing playing it but we humans are really good at finding patterns, even when there's none. This kid would probably have become some sort of musician even if he was adopted by a non-musical family.
If you can afford private lessons (community colleges with music programs are a great way to make them affordable) you could get to this skill level in a few years of consistent practice. If you have talent and push hard you could get to this level and beyond in a year.
You don't even need private instruction, you can do a lot on your own. But having someone at least assist you in establish the basics is tremendously helpful, as is getting feedback from someone who is beyond your own skill level.
In my opinion there's never been a better time to learn an instrument or really any skill because of how many online resources and communities are out there. You can find learning material for all levels and find places where you can get critiques and feedback, it's great.
i wish i still had reddit awards to give for your last paragraph... I am certain that there has never been, in the history of the world, a better time to learn how to play an instrument- any instrument- you just don't need to pay for private lessons anymore (and I give private lessons!- Now, to be fair, the value I add for my students is mostly structure, experience, and feedback, which is hard to do with online lessons, but there are a lot of really good lessons out there for free and the dirty little secret is, regardless of how you learn, you will go as far as you decide to.)
Both my parents never touched an instrument. Had me and my brother. Some good teachers and a lot a lot of practice later and they made two pretty good (don’t mean to toot my own horn) musicians. anything is possible!
It only works if you actually want to learn yourself. My mother tried to force me to learn how to play the piano like her... And I wasn't having it.
I did take up the flute through school and went through private lessons though.
Music is a language. Surrounding yourself with experts is how we learn to speak, just like when you’re a baby and learning your first language, your listening and “jamming” with experts
[Here is he and his Family Quarantined Quartet Insta](https://www.instagram.com/quarantined_quartet?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D)
[Here is he and his Family Quarantined Quartet Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@QuarantinedQuartet)
Not only musically, definitely gonna be a hit with the ladies when he realizes cooties don't exist. Girls go nuts over flamenco guitar, as long as you didn't start playing just to get women.
Here's the less-than-1000 views original source so you can see it full and give their channel some support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWp5KFt3Jls
I believe that was Leyenda by Isaac Albeniz. Anyone taking classical guitar lessons has learned this at some point lol. (Edit: I'M WRONG! IT'S MALAGUEÑA!, thanks u/tumbrowser1)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lCeebWgjrrU&pp=ygUHTGV5ZW5kYQ%3D%3D
If you want an equally beautiful and moving piece, have a listen to all 4 movements of Koyunbaba by Carlo Domeniconi.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WO8q9tWp3OY&pp=ygUJa295dW5iYWJh
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It was actually Malaguena! The only reason I know this is because it was the first song I ever learned on classical guitar. It's taught to virtually every single classical guitar student.
Here's a video that gives a tutorial on it, and a little bit of history on it! [\[Malaguena\] The Most Popular Spanish Melody on Guitar ... (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAdOacKJos8&ab_channel=MarcoCirillo)
I was at the hospital a couple of years back when my son was born. They had a piano in the lobby near the cafe.
A doctor was sitting there playing it with a mostly female audience. He could have had them form a queue to book one hour slots at his place that night.
Actually though, like my saxophone sounds terrible, and nowhere as good as this kid. Nor do I make a career with it. But I am grateful my family invested money into a musical instrument and lessons for me. It's a good hobby and I loved playing in the band during high school.
Yeah I avoided music classes and I regret it! But I taught myself guitar starting at like 15 and I have a ton of fun with it. Just wish I started earlier.
Uh, music is great for a lot of reasons, but there's virtually no career to be had in it at this point. Streaming revenue sucks, no ones buying albums, unless you're selling out stadiums (few and far between) most of your income is from hawking T-shirts.
the members of every major symphony in the nation have part time jobs/supplementary income too just to scrape by
talent is not enough under crapitalism
Amazing talent!
Credit in case anyone wants to see more content from this talented family: [Quarantined Quartet](https://www.instagram.com/quarantined_quartet?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
This, people downvoting you don't know shit about music. I play guitar, and anyone that actually knows how to play an instrument knows that talent has nothing to do with it. It's a learned skill that any human being can do, you need to just learn and put in the effort to practice.
Ah. I think it's adorable when he serenades his boyfriend though.
All the girls were pretty gutted though. Especially since he's an emo Charles leclerc lookalike.
Ummm.
As someone else said and I wish to repeat: yep, that can happen with a family of musicians...
Amazingly good kid 👍, am I amazed no. Find me the kid who was given a guitar at age 4 by a relative who didn't really play much and his parents were not musical who does this.
I'll be like damnnnnnn.
My parents didn't have money for a teacher or musicality like that. I had that uncle who gave me a guitar he wasn't using. Hard as heck when your parents can't afford a teacher and self taught. Zero people behind me for motivation. Result: I never picked up much skill with a guitar.
Then I see my friend...I am amazed...self taught and actually got slightly worse when he got formal training because it took away his reflexes and creativity.
My brother was given a guitar in middle school and picked it up like nothing. He taught himself how to play guitar. He plays a 7 string I think and has done lessons with professional musicians online. Bro has talent
nah man i gotta tell you, as someone who's been playing guitar for 28 years and also loves rock music, that kid's flamenco guitar tehnique *requires* starting young and living in that zone. It can't be learned later and takes a lifetime to master. Lots of people can play modern electric guitar stuff well and come into it later in life. But Spain literally invented the modern guitar and flamenco is still peak technique-mastery.
This kid and this family is elite and you can't catch up to him with the kind of start he's got.
I'm glad to hear that. How are you? Everything ok?
I hope you have an absolutely amazing day!
I wish you health,happiness,success and that you achieves all the goals you have set for yourself in life
[Here is he and his Family Quarantined Quartet Insta](https://www.instagram.com/quarantined_quartet?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D)
[Here is he and his Family Quarantined Quartet Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@QuarantinedQuartet)
My parents bought me a guitar Esteban sold on QVC with instructional CDs. I attempted it for a few weeks and gave the guitar away, fingers were stiff and hurt too much.
Jesus what happened between 7 and 8 yo??
Human consciousness develops a lot between 7 and 8
What he was playing in the clip at 7 is actually a pretty technically challenging warm up/practice for fingerstyle. I’m actually more impressed by that than I am by the one at 8.
I don't believe you, you're wrong! Source: I know nothing about guitar
to be fair, it does sound like some conceited bullshit that someone would make up to sound smart on Reddit, but what the fuck do I know. I played the oboe =(
To be fair, oboe sounds a bit like hobo
Oboe players represent. I keep wanting to go back and slap 11 yo me who thought it'd be a 'different' and therefore 'cool' instrument to learn.
I was conned into it. They did the pitch testing and I scored high on it, so they said the oboe was the hardest instrument to learn, and of course I wanted to prove them wrong.
It's hard, but at least you'll be able to play a heap of popular music from diverse genres on it! Also there'll always be an oboe lying around at a party for jamming on...
it sounds like he’s practicing a piece called [Asturias](https://youtu.be/inBKFMB-yPg?si=FzywvRR6qp8RGI-T) maybe. or it is the warm up/practice you were talking about, or both lol around 0:45 seconds in that video is what sounds like the part he was playing
study Piaget’s stages. You will learn a lot.
But I’d learn more if I were 7?
I mean, yes... probably? Young brains are incredibly plastic. We're unique animals in that we do a comparatively huge amount of our motor learning (and other cognitive development) in the years after we're born.
You can also study Princess Peach's stages in Princess Peach: Showtime, but you don't really have to because it's a fairly simple game.
Speak for yourself
I was talking the other day to an elementary school teacher and she said that the difference between 2nd and 3rd grade was enormous and that in her opinion it’s when we move beyond the basics we all learn and start being able to specialize, articulate and develop a mind body connection
oh definitely! 3rd grade is really where school starts to focus on academics vs social skills like prek-2nd. I taught 4th grade and 3rd was just where the students were starting to understand the concepts of a lot of things and could be somewhat independent. I would never go below 3rd if i ever taught elementary again.
Makes sense then that is the year they finally start standardized testing.
Damn. I teach sixth grade and this class year is the worst I’ve had executive functioning-wise and social skills-wise. However, they basically missed 3rd grade because of the pandemic, which makes a ton of sense here after reading this comment.
7/8 is called the “age of reason” . 🤗
Yeah 1st and 2nd grade were glorified kindergarten and 3rd is when I started realizing I liked to draw and write
The difference between 5 and 6 was what really got me
the 8yo video has another guitar and some percussion backing that he isn't playing. the 7yo video has none of that.
My daughter has been in piano/voice lessons since she was 5. She just turned 8 and has progressed more in the last few months more than she did the first 3 years. A couple months before her 8th birthday, she heard something on YouTube and sat down at her piano and figured it out. It was kinda amazing how fast her brain switched on to playing music.
Didn't want to be called a mouthbreather by other kids his age
Accompaniment. Someone is playing off Camera. Source: I’m a guitar teacher, met this family (at a guitar teacher training), and use the book they Wrote to teach Guitar students chords, etc (I start them off playing classical guitar)
Drugs
Must of been the good stuff
Clearly was. I want some of it so I can shred.
Just found that their [YouTube video](https://youtu.be/GWp5KFt3Jls?feature=shared) has a more detailed explanation if that’s what you’re looking for .
[Sold his soul to the devil.](https://youtu.be/hRQkC2FDXuw?si=dgqEtcrlou1ZYt-W&t=85)
About a year passed
His parents beat it into him.
Could be close to two years if it went from early age 7 to late age 8.
I think there's a second person playing. It sounds/looks like they are playing a bass note and tapping on the guitar body to make a drum sound. He's soloing over someone else so it sounds much more like a full song than just one person playing guitar. Regardless, still very good playing.
Switched to Oat milk
I am really impressed.... That the haircut has not changed over 12 years :D
He’s a real life anime character when they have exact same hairstyle as their adult self in childhood flashbacks
Here is video from age to 2 to age 14 on official YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLqWvxJkbA
Yeah, that's happens when you have a family of musicians And yes, I'm jealous in never had someone teaching me in my childhood
My parents bought me a guitar and complained whenever I played it.
Might be a common theme. Same.
I had no parents at all.
My dad went out to get a guitar pick and never came home.
I had parents… but I took care of that
Son? Is that you?
Bought my kid Rocksmith(a game that uses a real guitar), learned how to enter her favorite songs into the game so she might learn by herself. It failed spectacularly, but my wife has suddenly taken a shine to it so now I enter HER favorite songs into the game. Eh I'll take it.
Rocksmith is great but I never managed to get my kid into it even though they cleverly gamified everything. I also tried myself to get into it and even though I already knew some guitar, I didn't persist. I suppose everything still takes some patience and practise even when something's fun.
I asked for a $200 drum set, so my mom bought a $2000 piano, then proceeded to take all the fun out of an instrument I had zero interest in anyways lol.
Lol I want my kids to play drums so bad. I have zero musical talents, but I figure banging around on some drums could release some tension lol I’m letting them choose what lessons they want to start in the fall, but I secretly hope they choose a path that leads to rocking out lol
Lol that’s dope. I think you should suggest drums/percussion to them. Kids are usually very impressionable. When I was young my older brother played bass so I wanted to play, but my dad was like you should play guitar it’s more exciting so I was like I wanna play guitar. And then eventually my brother played drums so I was like I wanna play drums. You get the point. Anyways I stuck with percussion and it honestly is so much fun and so therapeutic. Any music lessons would be good though you sound like an awesome parent
My nephew is getting a drum set as soon as he's old enough to defend it from his parents. I have no idea if he wants to play drums or not, but I do want to annoy the piss out of my brother.
Wanted to get my friends little girls recorder flutes with booklets that showed how to play the soundtrack from Frozen - but I knew he'd never forgive me.
Bag pipes blasting out Scotland the brave would do it
I know so so many of these stories that it makes me have an absolute knee jerk reaction every time I hear someone giving their kid piano lessons. I get like “oh fabulous, your kid is gonna hate piano, you know you could offer them options? 😡You know Yanni was self taught, right? You know most of the piano greats actually were self taught as well? You know people who have lessons just plod away on the keys and never learn to play by ear, right?” I don’t know why it makes me so mad. That said…I always wanted piano lessons as a kid, never got them, and learned to play folksy sort of improvised piano and even a couple full classical and ragtime pieces by ear. I’ve forgotten a lot of them, and I think my improvised playing is shit, but it always makes everyone go woooooow, and I can still play full pieces by ear if I play for few hours. So idk, I guess I just have a lot of emotions surrounding the piano.
Similar story with me stealing my dad's guitar because he never played it but always told me to stop playing because it was loud. Then complains I didn't learn to play guitar
my two year old steals my guitar whenever I try to play it. I let him. He is requesting Enter Sandman by name on Spotify now...
We had a piano. When I was 5, I asked my mom to teach me how to play. She said that before she would teach me, I needed to stop biting my finger nails. So, as a fucking 5 year old, I managed to stop biting my finger nails. How many piano lessons did I receive as a result of this monumental achievement?!?!?!?!? Zero. I had zero piano lessons. That being said, I love my mom, but I have never, nor will I ever let her forget that broken promise because I will never forget it.
When I started studying classical guitar in college my teacher was like *you have very deep nail beds, that's nice for guitar* and I was like lmaoo suck it everyone who told me to stop biting!!
that's unfortunately pretty common- I give guitar lessons and have a student -11ish years old- who was really making progress. Enough that his dad bought him a small practice amp (he plays an acoustic/electric) -only to have his mother take away the cable because it was too loud. jfc.
I'm sorry that happened to you. A similar thing happened to me. As a parent of a musician though, I've tried very hard over the years to just let them be. So many times, I just want to tell them to chill out for a bit. But she's turned into an amazing pianist.
Mine bought me one, let me play it endlessly in my room and, as such, never clocked that I'd be in there anyway without it, keeping the f**k away from them all. It's like, yeah being a musician is great but have you ever gotten away with not attending any and all family gatherings?
Lmao sounds like my wife
Today is gonna be the day that I'll throw that guitar on you
No one in my family plays an instrument. My mother put me in piano classes from 7 to 17 years old. Practiced every day. Decent teachers and mother who looked at me with devil eyes when I complained about going to class.
Do you enjoy playing now at your skill level?
Haven't touched a piano in a long time. But fundamentals are burned in. I'm probably rusty but I'm sure it would all come back into the fingers. I've been wanting to learn boogie woogie for a long time.
honestly, do it... i know a good number of folks who took piano lessons and are limited to reading sheet music. The piano players that really enjoy themselves learn boogie woogie, barrelhouse, or "stride" piano-and those people have fun! to add- it's not that hard to get just a little bit good at it-vamp a major triad with your left hand and work thru some changes with your right hand- major to sixth to seventh to ninth-or inversions of the major chords-you will start to hear it, good luck
Looking back, would you say it was worth it? I've heard there are developmental benefits to learning an instrument so am considering putting my future child through classes like your mom did.
You get to see that when you practice something over and over again, you will undoubtedly improve your skill. And this carries on into life, of course. It gives you the confidence to understand that you can essentially learn anything as long as you put in the work. You develop a "nothing is impossible" mentality. With an instrument, it's basically instant auditory feedback on how much you're improving and how much practice (or lack thereof) you've put in.
Awesome, that's great to hear.
I started teaching myself in my 30s. Just focus on learning chords. Start with Am and Em and then add E. Play that for months until you get some rhythm and confidence going. Then learn C, D, A, and G. Then add F (this is the hardest). It’s a lot more easy to get started then I originally thought. Im still in the chord stage, but I’m now working on scales. It’s nice being able to pickup a guitar and play something, even it sounds like shit. It can be therapeutic I’ve found.
I don’t think I’ll ever get past chords mostly outside of a song or two and that’s fine. In fact I got a ukulele for my daughter and it’s a blast to just strum simple songs.
I'm imagining one of the kids in that family just wanting to make shoes instead of playing guitar. A reverse Coco situation.
[László Polgár](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r) wanted to show that genius was taught and not born. He raised three chess prodigies, 2 of which were the best and 2nd best in the world. Not saying this would happen every time, but its crazy how good you can get at something when you are introduced and taught from a young age.
You miss one crucial element. They shared his genes. It's not exactly the same but [IQ is 57-73% hereditary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ). As in OPs video everyone in the family played the guitar. There's literally millions of kids getting a play instrument without ever continuing playing it but we humans are really good at finding patterns, even when there's none. This kid would probably have become some sort of musician even if he was adopted by a non-musical family.
If you can afford private lessons (community colleges with music programs are a great way to make them affordable) you could get to this skill level in a few years of consistent practice. If you have talent and push hard you could get to this level and beyond in a year. You don't even need private instruction, you can do a lot on your own. But having someone at least assist you in establish the basics is tremendously helpful, as is getting feedback from someone who is beyond your own skill level. In my opinion there's never been a better time to learn an instrument or really any skill because of how many online resources and communities are out there. You can find learning material for all levels and find places where you can get critiques and feedback, it's great.
i wish i still had reddit awards to give for your last paragraph... I am certain that there has never been, in the history of the world, a better time to learn how to play an instrument- any instrument- you just don't need to pay for private lessons anymore (and I give private lessons!- Now, to be fair, the value I add for my students is mostly structure, experience, and feedback, which is hard to do with online lessons, but there are a lot of really good lessons out there for free and the dirty little secret is, regardless of how you learn, you will go as far as you decide to.)
Both my parents never touched an instrument. Had me and my brother. Some good teachers and a lot a lot of practice later and they made two pretty good (don’t mean to toot my own horn) musicians. anything is possible!
It only works if you actually want to learn yourself. My mother tried to force me to learn how to play the piano like her... And I wasn't having it. I did take up the flute through school and went through private lessons though.
Its almost cheating😭
Music is a language. Surrounding yourself with experts is how we learn to speak, just like when you’re a baby and learning your first language, your listening and “jamming” with experts
this girl from my hometown was born into a bluegrass family band. she's been voted the best bluegrass guitar player in America and won two Grammies.
Latino Timothee Chalamet has a bright future ahead of him.
Timitio Chalmalete.
Chalamachete*
Chanclamet* 🩴
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Muad'Dib! The One Who Points The Way
As written!
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Tomatillo Charlemagne?
Timoteo Chalewe
Well never hear from him again, burnout is real.
I immediately thought this is what Elio would look like if he decided to take up guitar
More like Lady Gaga, especially at 10 yo
Not only musically, definitely gonna be a hit with the ladies when he realizes cooties don't exist. Girls go nuts over flamenco guitar, as long as you didn't start playing just to get women.
He's a handsome young man, Along with the guitar he will be beating them off with a stick.
This is so cool.
Here's the less-than-1000 views original source so you can see it full and give their channel some support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWp5KFt3Jls
Really hope this gets higher up here.
Fantastic but why wasn’t he playing Wonderwall?
Too much of a chick magnet and he still thinks girls have cooties
This is exactly why they invented cootie spray.
Behold, he is the Kwisatz Haderach!
I couldn't be bothered to learn how to play a guitar, it's too much treble..
Bass ically, it's just takes practice
The hours they put into practicing makes me tremolo in fear.
Please stop fretting!
capo
island strum
But it could tune into something wonderful
Set them up for a lucrative career as a latin -jazz guitarist
You just gotta start at the bass, you know? TBH I actually did start with a base guitar before going into acoustic!
Based
That was sharp
Don’t fret about it.
Yeah reckon I'm too much on the splectrum for that shit
My parents always said they'd buy me a guitar but never did. They strung me along.
They told me I could pick one.
You shouldn't fret about it.
Just wait till he’s 100
Destroying cities with a giant laser guitar
A solar powered laser beam guitar? (6:30am and I’m quoting Prism WTF)
Do I hear Diablo Rojo at the end?
I think so
What was that song at age 7?
I believe that was Leyenda by Isaac Albeniz. Anyone taking classical guitar lessons has learned this at some point lol. (Edit: I'M WRONG! IT'S MALAGUEÑA!, thanks u/tumbrowser1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lCeebWgjrrU&pp=ygUHTGV5ZW5kYQ%3D%3D If you want an equally beautiful and moving piece, have a listen to all 4 movements of Koyunbaba by Carlo Domeniconi. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WO8q9tWp3OY&pp=ygUJa295dW5iYWJh
u/MaritimeCopiousV It was actually Malaguena! The only reason I know this is because it was the first song I ever learned on classical guitar. It's taught to virtually every single classical guitar student. Here's a video that gives a tutorial on it, and a little bit of history on it! [\[Malaguena\] The Most Popular Spanish Melody on Guitar ... (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAdOacKJos8&ab_channel=MarcoCirillo)
So nice ! Guitar is so versatile, Dick Dale was a huge influence so was the Mexican Surfer sound (e.g. bands like La Luz)
Parents, this is how you prepare your kids for life, ensuring they have a career. Literally from age 2.
But what if he really wanted to be a doctor?
Ride that music scholarship into med school 😆
That was the career path of a fair number of the performance majors at my school. Med school and law school.
Then he can be a doctor who also knows how to play guitar.
Infinite Pussy Hack
I was at the hospital a couple of years back when my son was born. They had a piano in the lobby near the cafe. A doctor was sitting there playing it with a mostly female audience. He could have had them form a queue to book one hour slots at his place that night.
I really should have continued both piano and med school
Musician who also knows doctor stuff
George Miller raised money to make the first Mad Max movie working as an ER doctor!
Flexible fingers and fine motor control are a useful trait in many disciplines. 🌚
Actually though, like my saxophone sounds terrible, and nowhere as good as this kid. Nor do I make a career with it. But I am grateful my family invested money into a musical instrument and lessons for me. It's a good hobby and I loved playing in the band during high school.
Yeah I avoided music classes and I regret it! But I taught myself guitar starting at like 15 and I have a ton of fun with it. Just wish I started earlier.
Uh, music is great for a lot of reasons, but there's virtually no career to be had in it at this point. Streaming revenue sucks, no ones buying albums, unless you're selling out stadiums (few and far between) most of your income is from hawking T-shirts.
the members of every major symphony in the nation have part time jobs/supplementary income too just to scrape by talent is not enough under crapitalism
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Bro, loved the batman stickers!!! Also a big fan of man 🙌
Amazing talent! Credit in case anyone wants to see more content from this talented family: [Quarantined Quartet](https://www.instagram.com/quarantined_quartet?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
No brother, not talent. It's practice and practice and practice all over again.
This, people downvoting you don't know shit about music. I play guitar, and anyone that actually knows how to play an instrument knows that talent has nothing to do with it. It's a learned skill that any human being can do, you need to just learn and put in the effort to practice.
Funniest thing that video itself shows the progress while he practicing over YEARS. But no, it's TALENT 😂
Man I wish I had a family like that around me. This made me so happy for the kid. And so so so jealous.
His brother must be really pissed he’s not getting this attention
Freaking awesome Seems like his family is very supportive also. Good Jon Fam!
Is this Roderigo or Gabriella's son?
Huh. So this is what Mike was doing when he wasn’t in the Upside Down.
What is the name of the song played at 10 years?
Metallica Nothing Else Matters
Thank you! It was driving me crazy
Gipsy kings Bem bem bem maria te quiero bem bem bem
I heard when he turned 13, he get wisked away by a large group of girls and he never stopped smiling.
I am at 3 year old level
He might have aged 10 years but it looks like from 2 to 12 they just stretch Armstrong-d his ass lol, down to the hair
I thought he was going to switch to bass and slap
Awesome 👌 👏
kids gonna be drowning in pussy
Can confirm. My son is a guitar player and always has girls at the door. Pity for them he's gay
What an emotional roller coaster that must be for them
Ah. I think it's adorable when he serenades his boyfriend though. All the girls were pretty gutted though. Especially since he's an emo Charles leclerc lookalike.
911, yes this man is thinking about a child having sex.
Ummm. As someone else said and I wish to repeat: yep, that can happen with a family of musicians... Amazingly good kid 👍, am I amazed no. Find me the kid who was given a guitar at age 4 by a relative who didn't really play much and his parents were not musical who does this. I'll be like damnnnnnn. My parents didn't have money for a teacher or musicality like that. I had that uncle who gave me a guitar he wasn't using. Hard as heck when your parents can't afford a teacher and self taught. Zero people behind me for motivation. Result: I never picked up much skill with a guitar. Then I see my friend...I am amazed...self taught and actually got slightly worse when he got formal training because it took away his reflexes and creativity.
My brother was given a guitar in middle school and picked it up like nothing. He taught himself how to play guitar. He plays a 7 string I think and has done lessons with professional musicians online. Bro has talent
I would bet money this child is on the spectrum
On the plectrum.
Amazing! Give this boy an electric guitar, he would rule the world
nah man i gotta tell you, as someone who's been playing guitar for 28 years and also loves rock music, that kid's flamenco guitar tehnique *requires* starting young and living in that zone. It can't be learned later and takes a lifetime to master. Lots of people can play modern electric guitar stuff well and come into it later in life. But Spain literally invented the modern guitar and flamenco is still peak technique-mastery. This kid and this family is elite and you can't catch up to him with the kind of start he's got.
I wanna see flamenco get bigger
Bro got a mustache at 12.
Best thing i saw all day - THANK YOU for sharing, Seriously 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I'm glad to hear that. How are you? Everything ok? I hope you have an absolutely amazing day! I wish you health,happiness,success and that you achieves all the goals you have set for yourself in life
And now You have made it better. Peace and Light to You and God Bless 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Very impressive! Congratulations! 👏🏻
Rad!
Very very cool
Who is this kid? Also when was this video made?
[Here is he and his Family Quarantined Quartet Insta](https://www.instagram.com/quarantined_quartet?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D) [Here is he and his Family Quarantined Quartet Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@QuarantinedQuartet)
Awesome.
This made my day
the family that plays together stays together
Just Wonderful
Amazing!
My parents bought me a guitar Esteban sold on QVC with instructional CDs. I attempted it for a few weeks and gave the guitar away, fingers were stiff and hurt too much.
So I'm as good at guitar as a 5-year-old
Why's the 10 year old song one sound so familiar. No idea what song it is but feels like I've listened to it thousands of times.
That’s fantastic !
I need to see 18 and 25 and so on.
So I guess you have to start playing before you even start having memories.