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Title: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: 280plus on January 12, 2011, 02:55:28 PM: Safe for work but not old, still trying to get it, guitar players. =(

:lol:

http://www.tvkim.com/watch/326/kims-picks-north-korean-girl-guitarist
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Post by: AZRedhawk44 on January 12, 2011, 03:01:15 PM: Poor little girl.

Probably the daughter of some party official that's had a guitar glued to her hands and locked in a room in a compound for the last 12 months straight to learn a VERY small repertoire to incredible brilliance.

Her fingers must have hurt so much.

You can't play like that without very demanding practice. Children don't have that kind of discipline in the face of pain.

I'd actually call this child abuse.
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 12, 2011, 03:15:09 PM: i'm not so sure no barney and wonderpets she would have a lot of free time. i've seen some obsessed lil ones
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Post by: AJ Dual on January 12, 2011, 03:16:36 PM: NORTH KOREA IS BEST KOREA!

NORTH KOREA SAWDUST NOODLES BETTER THAN ANY SAWDUST NOODLE IN WORLD!
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: Scout26 on January 12, 2011, 04:07:43 PM: Meh, call me when she learns to play the oboe....
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: 280plus on January 12, 2011, 06:15:29 PM: Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on January 12, 2011, 03:01:15 PM

I'd actually call this child abuse.
Except she looks awfully happy and proud of herself. Especially at the end. More likely she's a prodigy. It happens. ;)
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 12, 2011, 06:19:22 PM: yup i've seen lil ones find some one thing and devote themselves to it. especially if they get praise /attention/rewarded for it.
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Post by: 280plus on January 12, 2011, 09:43:54 PM: The real test will come when she's about 16. Will she continue on the guitar or give it up for boys? That happens too. ;)
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Post by: Doggy Daddy on January 12, 2011, 10:56:15 PM: I'm impressed.

DD
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Post by: CNYCacher on January 12, 2011, 11:11:40 PM: Seen on the same site:

http://www.tvkim.com/watch/656/kims-picks-skeet-shooting-with-golf-balls
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: 41magsnub on January 12, 2011, 11:13:46 PM: Quote from: 280plus on January 12, 2011, 06:15:29 PM
Except she looks awfully happy and proud of herself. Especially at the end. More likely she's a prodigy. It happens. ;)

She's probably happy that she gets a piece of bread for doing such a good job.
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Post by: RoadKingLarry on January 13, 2011, 06:23:23 AM: Impressive.

Anyone knwo what the piece is she was playing? I'm oddly drawn to it.
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: Harold Tuttle on January 13, 2011, 11:03:32 AM: at NattyG, we did a story on North Korea/DMZ and a buddy brought back footage of the guided cultural tour they were given

there was one part that was a concert from expressionless robotic children on guitars

they were note precise but passionless
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: 280plus on January 13, 2011, 12:02:53 PM: Quote from: Harold Tuttle on January 13, 2011, 11:03:32 AM
at NattyG, we did a story on North Korea/DMZ and a buddy brought back footage of the guided cultural tour they were given

there was one part that was a concert from expressionless robotic children on guitars

they were note precise but passionless
Sounds a lot like 95% of the Hartt students I know. Playback machines. ;)

To me, she seems to be enjoying herself. Like in the way she's bouncing her head back and forth during the rythymic part. I'm just not seeing a robot here.
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Post by: CNYCacher on January 13, 2011, 12:20:22 PM: Quote from: 280plus on January 13, 2011, 12:02:53 PM
Sounds a lot like 95% of the Hartt students I know. Playback machines. ;)

To me, she seems to be enjoying herself. Like in the way she's bouncing her head back and forth during the rythymic part. I'm just not seeing a robot here.

They added the happy head bobbing in ver. 2.0
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: 280plus on January 13, 2011, 01:27:08 PM: Ohhhh, I was not aware of that. ;)

:laugh:

I have seen kids as young as that play that well before. One that comes to mind was 7 when I saw him but he had a suitable sized guitar. Both his parents were musicians so he was pretty well exposed since birth. Probably before birth if you take the yuppie parents factor into consideration. =D

I suspect she's using a full sized guitar for the sound that wil come out of it vs a child size.
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 13, 2011, 01:45:53 PM: i've paid to hear worse

they were note precise but ~~passionless~~ inscrutable

god bless the kid i wouldn't send a surly pitbull to live in north korea
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: 280plus on January 13, 2011, 01:56:56 PM: Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 13, 2011, 01:45:53 PM
god bless the kid i wouldn't send a surly pitbull to live in north korea
Nor South Korea for that matter. :P
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Post by: cordex on January 14, 2011, 02:16:41 PM: Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 12, 2011, 06:19:22 PM
yup i've seen lil ones find some one thing and devote themselves to it. especially if they get praise /attention/rewarded for it.
Right. As with North Korea's other cultural achievements, I'm certain this one was accomplished purely through positive reinforcement and the exceptional freedom to choose one's own destiny.
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 14, 2011, 02:26:28 PM: how free is a kid that age to pick her own destiny? here, there , or anywhere else?
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Post by: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on January 14, 2011, 05:58:24 PM: Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 14, 2011, 02:26:28 PM
how free is a kid that age to pick her own destiny? here, there , or anywhere else?
Win. :lol:
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 14, 2011, 06:07:33 PM: cheerleading gymnastics tennis golf swimming i've seen it all. i remember tiger woods on carson as a real young un. she can't help being korean nor can she help xenophobes reacting to that
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: 280plus on January 14, 2011, 06:14:30 PM: No but she sure can play that there gitfiddle... ;)
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Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 14, 2011, 06:22:48 PM: no lie! remember jonny lang? and that voice on top of the chops?
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Post by: MicroBalrog on January 14, 2011, 07:41:05 PM: I'm with C&SDaddy in this case.

It is not possible to teach a child to play an instrument - piano, guitar, violin - like that without some pretty harsh discipline, in North Korea or in America.

Whether we should be doing that is a question for another thread.
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 14, 2011, 08:08:03 PM: jonny lang at 15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHhDY2zmcg
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Post by: Tuco on January 14, 2011, 08:21:40 PM: I am impressed.
The little lady is indeed playing with much passion and rhythm, playing through the occasional muted note and minor flub with aplomb.
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Post by: geronimotwo on January 15, 2011, 11:09:09 AM: yup, time to burn it. i was just feeling good about my own playing as(in my forties) i am nearly able to wrap my fingers around "blackbird". lol.
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: 280plus on January 15, 2011, 01:15:14 PM: Yep, some people get it right away, some never do, like you I'm somwhere in the middle. ;)
Title: Re: Guitar players, burn your guitars!!!!
Post by: geronimotwo on January 16, 2011, 09:05:43 AM: sadly, most of my skills came before i was twenty. not a lot of real improvement since, just an expanding playlist. as a parent i am wondering how far to push my kids to practice. leaving it up to them means it will be nearly never.
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Post by: 280plus on January 16, 2011, 10:02:44 AM: Yea, true. With kids it's like anything else. They'll do it if they want to but if they don't good luck. I believe most musicians who started young and kept with it did so because they enjoyed it for one reason or another. I never forced any of my kids to play. Really, if they're not going to practice on their own ther's no sense to it. Not to mention the expense that ends up going into another dead end. After about the third time my oldest dropped his latest fad I started to become a little less enthusiastic about spending a lot of money on them. I drew the line at hockey. NFW was I spending THAT kind of money just so he could lose interest 3 months later. :laugh: