Monday, May 12, 2008

Yet Another 8-Year-Old Who Sold His Soul To The Devil

Once again, YouTube has a video of a kid who is probably better at guitar than you. This time it's 8-Year-Old Yuto Miyazawa who displays his ability to mimic Eric Clapton and Black Sabbath
in this video. Wired has a little story on this kid and a lead into how if the amount of people who play Guitar Hero (over 14 million people own it, so probably +20 million have played it) actually played real guitars that music would be better off.

I've actually had this conversation with a friend of mine (who played bass in a band we were in back in the day) about if we had played our real instruments (guitar and bass) as much as we had played Rock Band over a two week period that we could have probably written an entire album...but I digress.

As you watch this video (below), you may notice the same thing I saw...this kid seems to simply be playing notes that sound dead and lifeless. Now, I know the kid is only 8 years old and is still playing some fairly difficult guitar riffs, but they sound like he's playing them with no soul, that they're just notes, which leaves me to only one conclusion: Yuto has sold his soul to the devil in order to play this well at such a young age...that or his father sold it for him in order to become the next Stage Dad/Mom.

Granted he'll be able to rip like none-other in a few years and we'll all be left sitting at our computers watching a 12 year old who can play guitar better than we could ever hope to, which will just leave us feeling empty inside...but until then, just enjoy the video and start practicing...or become a DJ.

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