14 Yr Old Shreds Van Halen's - Eruption

[Ocklawaha]

Move over Jimi Hendrix, a new ruler of all things guitar has landed.

Age 14

http://www.youtube.com/v/rV6SmY04WdE?hl=en_US

Younger

http://www.youtube.com/v/ovmGnNuyUAE?version=3&hl=en_US

Much Younger (she can barely reach around the neck of the instrument).

http://www.youtube.com/v/6ILbTttLyvY?hl=en_US

[marksjax]

Incredible!

[Ocklawaha]

I'm really shocked more haven't commented, this girl is 'Jimi Hendrix' all over again. She actually restores my faith in humanity. Several musicians that saw this video said they'd put their equipment up for sale!

[InnerCityPressure]

This is really impressive...

but she is not even approaching Jimi Hendrix.  Players like Hendrix are notable because of creativity and innovation.  A cover of "Eruption" is not the type of thing that makes me want to sell my gear and give up.  There are ten 16 year olds in every guitar store that can play that solo.  Those guys will never make it on technical skill alone.  The ones who we hear about will be creating the next thing, not playing the last thing.

[Ocklawaha]

So you learned to play by creating your own music? We have heard one song by her at this age, it seems a little silly that we should assume she hasn't spent hours playing her own song, maybe she has.

This little gal is 14 and she does this effortless not even looking at the instrument throughout the piece. She might not be Hendrix yet, but at the rate she is going she could be. I think she has the stuff to be great.

[ronchamblin]

Impressive even now.  At this early stage, no one knows to what heights this young girl will go, as the young mind, flexible and malleable, absorbs quickly and easily new skills and learning, forming within it the critical new structures from which greater skills and creativity can emerge.  How can we know the end. 

I occasionally marvel at the speed at which some young people learn, the quickness of their responses to stimuli, and am impressed at how some, those who are able, and tuning in for the moment, engage the environment with amazing flexibility, an attribute which seems to dissipate as one grows older.  Of course, there is benefit and value in having an old, rather fixed brain too, which holds fast to habits.  So one might conclude that both the young and the old are needed in an environment to guard against drifts to undesirable extremes.

[Dog Walker]

She plays with the same stone face that all of the great guitarists do.  Watch Truck sometimes.  All of their expressive emotion is coming out of their fingers.

Awesome!

[InnerCityPressure]

So you learned to play by creating your own music? We have heard one song by her at this age, it seems a little silly that we should assume she hasn't spent hours playing her own song, maybe she has.

This little gal is 14 and she does this effortless not even looking at the instrument throughout the piece. She might not be Hendrix yet, but at the rate she is going she could be. I think she has the stuff to be great.

Absolutely not.  That's why I started by saying how impressive she was.  I'm just pointing out that a cover solo is not the thing that blows me away.  I am more blown away by creativity than technical skill.  Case in point, the last young female musicians that made me want to quit music wrote this at 14 and 16:

http://www.youtube.com/v/PC57z-oDPLs

[InnerCityPressure]

FYI - First Aid Kit first gained notoriety by covering songs by Fleet Foxes.  They weren't very impressive to me until they displayed the skill to write their own high quality material.

[JeffreyS]

Bad ass indeed

[Seraphs]

Incredible!  Man does she have a future in music!

[Ocklawaha]

FYI - First Aid Kit first gained notoriety by covering songs by Fleet Foxes.  They weren't very impressive to me until they displayed the skill to write their own high quality material.

The peddle steel guitar just kills it for me, I've always thought that Country Music will stunt your growth!    I did however enjoy the music video's photographic images being that it was filmed in Joshua Tree National Park, about 25 minutes from my desert cabin in Landers.

Otherwise, we really don't know what this young girl is playing during her 'alone time,' she might indeed become one of the worlds greatest.

[spuwho]

How many songs did Liberace write? Van Cliburn? Virgil Fox?

Virgil Fox was considered a master at the pipe organ, people were aghast at how he would "translate" classics by Bach.

So Eddie brought tap harmonization to the masses and now some number of 14 or 16 year old have learned how to do it.

When I was a kid, if you could play the riffs to "Smoke on the Water" you were a stud and ready to be in a band. So Eruption is the new benchmark for kids to play guitar, so? Neal Schon of Journey was ripping out some riffs in Santana when he was 15. He went on to write a lot of songs with various people.

So Tina has good technique and clearly has an ear for the strings.

Some people are creators, some just translators, some are gifted with both. Some have skills in both.

Let her develop and hopefully she won't be displayed as some kind of freak on these talent shows.

I just saw Eddie last play of Eruption (or what remains of it) on YouTube from a concert 2 weeks ago. He seemed more fascinated with some new effects he can generate and spent too much time playing the same 2 chords. If he saw this video of Tina he would probably be shrugging his shoulders and saying "so what?"

[InnerCityPressure]

@Ock - I am not big on country...just good songwriting.  These girls were raised listening to 1970's country music in Sweden. I'll give them a pass if they keep writing songs with melodies like that.  Also, my Dad owns a little chunk of desert in Adelanto, about an hour from Landers.  He planned a desert cabin of his own.  Small world, indeed.

[BridgeTroll]

This is really impressive...

but she is not even approaching Jimi Hendrix.  Players like Hendrix are notable because of creativity and innovation.  A cover of "Eruption" is not the type of thing that makes me want to sell my gear and give up.  There are ten 16 year olds in every guitar store that can play that solo.  Those guys will never make it on technical skill alone.  The ones who we hear about will be creating the next thing, not playing the last thing.

Hendrix began by copying the guitar heros of his youth... as did eddie VH... and all the other guitar virtuoso's.  I'm just happy to see someone young actually playing a difficult solo.  Too much of what I hear now is heavily remastered, or sampled, or just plain bashing some chords.  Nearly all the "next good ones" began by copying the previous masters... my guess is ... you did too....