Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Easter Clark]

[cbclark4]

How did Super Junior miss this kid?

[Confused Canadian]

[Shimokitazawa]

So, who are you?

And does the Korean kid do rock'n roll or not?

I see a talented kid who does only esoteric acousitic tunes.

tell him to take some risks with his playing. He's going to have to "put himself out there", so to speak.

So what?

[Underwaterbob]

Meh..

When I was 23 or so I had been playing for around 7 years and met some sixteen year old who'd been playing for about six months and could noodle circles around me.

Yes, he's talented.

I was humbled at the time but eventually realized that talent is relative and largely unappreciated anyway.

[Confused Canadian]

[Harpeau]

This kids incredible!! I like his version of "A Whiter Shade of Pale". Very effectiv harmonics! He'll go far!

[robot]

I wasn't too impressed with the overhyped video in the OP -- he's a good player, but needs some time for his talent to grow.

His original song, however, shows that he possesses feeling and a budding creativity, which sets him apart from a whack of prodigies here and abroad who've spent oodles of hours honing their technical skills, but possess nothing deeper.

[igotthisguitar]

NWNC - Sure he's good, but still a little choppy on his changes (likely from trying to be too much of a mini hot-dog). Still he certainly knows his scales & shows impressive skill with harmonics.

Kind of a young Bruce ( ya can't say ) Cock-burn.


Frankly i've just one word to explain such a young phenomenon:









REINCARNATION

[Kimchi Cowboy]

Frankly, I'm surprised and disappointed by all the responses along the lines of, "Oh, yeah, he's good, BUT...!" Did you not notice that he's ELEVEN!?! Did you also not notice that the guitar itself is practically as big as he is?

For the past four years, once a week, after school, I've been teaching beginner's guitar to small groups of elementary / middle school aged kids. Many of them choose to play 3/4 sized guitars, which really helps, as most kids have a tough time getting their little hands and fingers around the neck and fretboard just to play basic chords - "C" and "F" are always troublesome! We get up to playing simple songs like "Country Roads", "You Are My Sunshine" (do they ever LOVE those songs!). 1/2 of them struggle just to keep up, to get to the right chord before it's time to switch to the next one, or even to stay in time with the rest of the group.

In short, it's a pretty chaotic scene.

Every class generally has one or two kids that "pick it up" pretty quickly and can really get the feel for basic / intermediate strumming patterns, changing chords smoothly, or maybe running basic scales (which is pretty much as far as I go with them - it's a "fun club", after all).

But every once in a while I get to teach a really exceptional kid about *gasp!* barre chords!

Right hand fingerpicking technique? Yeah, right.

The kid in those videos is beyond awesome.

The End.

[Shimokitazawa]