My son and his guitar

Kid is sick.

Very few still reach that level these days.

You should be proud!

wow...I bought a guitar once....

LOL... Yeah... Right.

Some people are born as a natural talent when it comes to dexterity and how quickly they pick up on musical knowledge and ability.

Fact is, there is a million people just like the OP's kid. And there are millions of people just like you, who could play for a hundred years every day, and never amount to anything.

P.S. - With the amount of information available to people nowadays, concerning technique and theory, it's NOT any surprise that people learn to do various things MUCH more quickly and readily than they did in your day, old timer.

There's a million people out there who are able to play (in two years) what took Eddie Van Halen 10 years to perfect.

And that is a fact... Jack.

Yeah my cous8ns son who's 12 got a guitar a year ago and an play crazy good

As good as this

Weird how they pick up so fast

He can hear a song one time and play that song

Amazing! If that's truly two years at guitar...simply amazing.

BREADKING!

my son plays the piano like Ludovico

very impressive for only 2 years for sure. do embryonic journey next.

Very good! Remember writing credits = royalty checks forever!

Two years hmm and maybe 8 hours practice every day for 2 years or your son in gifted in ways the mere mortal wishes. Any way he is great and if he keeps on playing at the rate he is going he could officially become one of the very special guitar gods like Clapton Hendricks Page Vaughn Moorse Van Halen Alman Beck Gilmore and King.

Great taste in music!

He has amazing talent!! You have every reason to be proud of him! I really enjoyed it!

been playing off/on for 25+ years, and this kid is probably better than me : ).....I stopped my finger/speed exercieses fairly early on and settled into strumming chords/melodies mostly...

he hit a little clunker or two in there, but we all do that, and all in all it was frigging fantastic....and the more he practices the less of those clunkers there will be....it really was awesome tell him nice job!

for the negative-commenting mouth-breathers that are doubting this kid's progress in just 2 years....it's pretty simple

1) kid has a passion for it

2) kid has a natural knack/skill for it

due to #1 and #2 above, practicing is not "work" for this kid....it's pure joy....that's how he got so good so fast......when you were playing video games, this kid was on his guitar, when you were looking at porn online, this kid was on his guitar, when you were busy virtue-signaling via some asinine tik-tok video, this kid was on his guitar.....when you were busy gobbling down tide pods, this kid was on his guitar....etc...you get the idea

Congratulations! He is going to be rich as long has he has a musical instrument. A lot of guitar players pick up the violin easy too if he ever wanted to go that way.

Holy crap!!!
How many GLP accounts do you have?




I'm probably talking to another 'catch phrasey' bot.

I started playing in my 30's...I think too late to play like your son plays. Two kids and probably much less talent doesn't help.

I still enjoy playing, but your son has the talent to go places. No matter what, he will enjoy this gift for the rest of his life!

THANK YOU! I wanted to express the same thing but didn’t want to bash the kid if indeed he did do it. 23 years under the axe here and I’m scratching my head at this one.

Very talented player.

If too many people is the real issue, then it would be easier to simply start culling people like you...

Fun fact....Steve Vai went without playing guitar (IIRC, it was like 6 weeks or something) and fasted before recording "For the Love of God" and what you hear is a single take after not playing or eating. I'll never forget the first time I heard it after the album just came out...I was blown away.

If your kid can play "Cliffs of Dover", he'll be able to handle "For the Love of God". Another great Vai track for him to learn is "Beautiful Surrender".

for the Sunday crowd.

He is Terrific and you deserve to be Proud!

Best to you both and 5 big fat stars

Thanks for all the comments :)
Tomorrow he will join his first
outdoor concert ever ...
I think I'm more nervous than he is :)

I’m 62…play keyboards,guitar & bass
I’m jealous…he’s awesome for 2 yrs!
EJ’s stuff is not easy

Kids great OP, no doubt.

Question? If he's been playing for two years, how come this is the only video you posted? Surely you have older ones showing his progression over time...no?

How about posting a few of those as well? I too have played for about 40 years, and although I am not saying this is impossible, but this is a tough to believe story and if true...extremely rare. I mean, for all we know you just made it all up and grabbed a video of a kid off of YouTube and are just LARPing.

Has no private recordings, but he has a youtube account that shows the beginning. Fredrikfb.