mrjamiam Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Not another "oh my goodness, look at this prodigy" video. She apparently did her own 2016 challenge (although I sincerely doubt she's ever heard of ours) and recorded progress. I thought 1) pretty decent progress in a year, 2) hey, it's a young person taking interest in the guitar (and getting new gear!), and 3) and she's (mostly) playing rock! Pretty brave to show the actual level of proficiency, I think. I shy away from playing anything that I think someone else will hear if I'm not pretty confident that I'll do it at least to my minimum standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTMN Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Very happy young guitar player. I watch her cover of the Ghost tune and she exhibits happiness in her playing and that makes it all worthwhile. Thanks for posting. I see she has a new guitar too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gino Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 I think that's pretty darn good for one year!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murkat Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 The smiles of accomplishment around October / November, Priceless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass Guy Dave Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 This is beyond awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhuber Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Wow that's progress. I can hear the conversation now. Dad the Strat pickups aren't hot enough for the heavy riffs... Dad this guitar does not stay in tune when I hit the tremolo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjamiam Posted March 19, 2017 Author Share Posted March 19, 2017 1 hour ago, dhuber said: Wow that's progress. I can hear the conversation now. Dad the Strat pickups aren't hot enough for the heavy riffs... Dad this guitar does not stay in tune when I hit the tremolo... Well, she said in her post with the video that she was 22 when she started and sometimes was working too much to practice every day, so I'm guessing that she's probably funding her own GAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montelovesco Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Wow... After practicing for a year I was all about Dylan stuff - and Puff, the magic D.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathman Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 That is really awesome. I hope lots of other kids see it. The joy of work, practice, and learning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Things I noticed: - She was using her pinky almost from the first: she doesn't have to try to relearn like a lot of us do - improvement in picking hand fluidity...she was *atrocious* at first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadroller Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 And to see her music tastes bring in the classics... It was wonderful to see her progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northfield Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Very cool video. my daughter has been taking lessons for about a year, and it's interesting to see some similarities between her progress and the girl in the videos progress. Even a lot of the same songs. I hadn't thought much about which songs she's been working on, but I guess they must be standard for beginners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrettyMcgee Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Right there. Sweep picking by Nov. I hadn't even heard of sweep picking until several years in. It took another few years before I actually saw someone use it, and how it was applied. Great video. And proof how difficult vibrato and intonation really are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bennyboy-UK Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Intonation? You know what that's for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 2 hours ago, Bennyboy-UK said: Intonation? You know what that's for! Well, she's *got* one of those! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTMN Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 She is taking a stronger edge. I might have to get her in the Dean Fold and get her to an Open House. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixesandsevens Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 On 3/19/2017 at 11:36 AM, mrjamiam said: Not another "oh my goodness, look at this prodigy" video. She apparently did her own 2016 challenge (although I sincerely doubt she's ever heard of ours) and recorded progress. I thought 1) pretty decent progress in a year, 2) hey, it's a young person taking interest in the guitar (and getting new gear!), and 3) and she's (mostly) playing rock! Pretty brave to show the actual level of proficiency, I think. I shy away from playing anything that I think someone else will hear if I'm not pretty confident that I'll do it at least to my minimum standard. I feel like this response is (a) sadly common and (b) rooted in the way we perceive our lack of progress. If we're self conscious about not being better, we shy away from this. If we're excited by our progress, we rejoice. One useful metaphor from computing is the difference between wall-time (how much time has elapsed on the clock since we started) and cpu-time (how much time the job actually spent running and not waiting around to run). For example, on a busy computer I might run a command that takes 1 minute to return, but really only spent 15s actually running on the processor. The rest of it is waiting for the stars to align (I/O, scheduling, etc.) for it's chance to run. After almost 30 years playing guitar I feel like I should be able to play some fast VH or Vai style runs, but I never put in the cpu-time. As a result, I'm sort of embarrassed that I'm not better than I am after the amount of wall-time that's elapsed. But truthfully, the last 20 years probably amount to the same cpu-time as the first two years. In collecting my thoughts to write this post, I realized that (for me) when real effort is involved, I tend to be less likely to be proud. Like, it's cool to show off when stuff is effortless but somehow if I had to work hard at it, I'm more likely to be embarrassed that it wasn't easier. Stupid brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 On 24/03/2017 at 3:54 AM, Northfield said: Very cool video. my daughter has been taking lessons for about a year, and it's interesting to see some similarities between her progress and the girl in the videos progress. Even a lot of the same songs. I hadn't thought much about which songs she's been working on, but I guess they must be standard for beginners. I bet your daughter has greater tone judging by the masterpieces she has available to her. I still remember her picking up the prototype Maverick, declaring she was going to practice, and walking upstairs. I thought "Wow! How cool is that!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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