Kid Nails Tom Sawyer on Drums
 

I see this every day at my local Drums R Us, but it's not too bad, I guess. (probably a Q)

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Pfffft. If this kid wants me to be impressed, let's see him nail YYZ.







:D

Maybe we can put him in a band with all the little kid guitar shredders that Dane knows.

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That brings a big smile to my face. Kid's good! **** that kid. :')

Can't see the OP video.

Rather watch him work his way through this, particularly with the foot cam.

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Well he missed a couple beats toward the end so he sucks. :)

Great job!! Such talent at that age!

He missed quite a bit in both videos. He's really "heavy handed" and didn't roll well in YYZ. His timing was very suspect throughout both videos as well. I was not impressed.

Now, before you guys rail on me, I have heard young kids recently that can actually play without being forced. At my daughter's talent show in November, one of the 6 year old's brought his entire kit and played War Pigs, which is a really difficult song, regardless of age, because of the "swing" and ghost notes. That kid absolutely nailed it. I was blown away. Of course, his dad is a TV composer but still, he rocked.

Now we've gone from local Guitar Centers to elementary school talent shows.

:p

Either he isn't coordinated enough yet or something cause his kick timing is very sloppy lol.

Personally, I think that any parent that puts their kid on YouTube with an attempt to "impress" people are dicks.

There is nothing natural about this kid's playing. He's not hearing it and he's not feeling it. IMO, it's embarrassing.

Todd Marinovich.

may sound corny.....but I think it's cool the way he randomly gets this sideways smile on his face while he's playing. kinda like......"yeah this is good".

Agreed. And I don't know much about child prodigies, because neither of my kids are anywhere close to being that in any area... but in comparing him to my kids who are both learning instruments currently... this kid is a freaking prodigy.

The kid's story is pretty interesting if you go to his website. Self taught, basically, with parents who aren't musicians. He now has an instructor, but he taught himself from 2-4 years old or something.

welcome to the Justin Bieber generation. lol If only I was in a band full of white people and beautiful hair lol

He's not even close to being a prodigy.

No offense to you personally or to anyone else in this thread but good grief, you people are very easily impressed.

The kid might be a "prodigy" if he was playing in perfect time to Buddy Rich or Billy Cobham, if he understood dynamics (which he clearly doesn't) and if he was actually composing as opposed to just trying to copy songs, which, IMO, he fails considerably.

He's 6 years old (sorry 7 in that video, but other videos when he was 6). Most 6 year olds can't tie their shoes.

I also said "in comparison to my kids he's a freaking prodigy." I realize that you're probably exposed to much more talented people in your line of work... but I find the kids' drumming to be amazing.

It's all good, Dude. It's hard for me to comment on this subject without sounding like an arse.

There's a real difference between being "taught" how to play an instrument as opposed to it being natural. While this kid can copy fairly well, I just don't hear a "natural" ability. It's also my opinion that anyone can learn how to play an instrument, especially drums, with piano being the most important of them all.

There are millions upon millions of kids and adults that can play anything with sheet music in front of them, which helps to make them a "well rounded" person, but it doesn't make them "special" in terms of a musical gift unless they go way beyond the wrote memorization and actually create, improvise or compose.

And while I agree that he's further along than most 6 or 7 or 8 year olds, if you remove the age, there's just not much there.

The whole point was that the kid was 6 or 7 years old. You can't remove the age from the analysis.

Maybe you can't but I can.

There's a falsehood about music that exists in society that says that the longer someone plays an instrument, the more proficient they become. I find that to be incredibly false. Most people hit a point and never, ever ascend technically or musically.

Just because a 7 year old can kind of play along with a few songs doesn't automatically mean that he'll be twice as good at age 14 or three times as good at age 21 or four times as good at age 28. The mere fact that he didn't strive for better performances uploaded to YouTube lead me to believe that he doesn't hear what he should be hearing and instead, is "showing off".

Blech.