General Music Chat

This 9 year old is OK, but if she can't carry around her own Marshal stack to a gig and set it up, what's the big deal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ZLs9fQuaY

Now, don't get all twisted up and snarky, Slack.... but one can't help noticing that you sure spend a lot of time cruising Youtube checking out young female Asian musicians. Just sayin'.

Not a lot of soul there, but yeah, she sure has chops. It'd be interesting to see what kind of musician she develops into.

"Now, don't get all twisted up and snarky, Slack.... but one can't help noticing that you sure spend a lot of time cruising Youtube checking out young female Asian musicians. Just sayin'. "

I would expect nothing less from the liberal mind. Just sayin

I also saw another of her videos when she was/is 10 shredding. Far better a year later, at least I believe that is her. Good stuff, but I prefer the fusion drummers that I usually follow. They work with the Japanese cream of the crop.
I do like watching some of the guitar player kids, others are too intimidating. Like this one. 10 million views to her credit.

https://www.youtube.com/user/malabar777

Did you see the group of 9 year old musicians that formed Japans #1 child rock group? Scary stuff. The guitar player/ front man/ singer is pretty good. One of them claims that he started playing at two years old.

I think that when the head pops out at birth they ask them "What instrument do you want to play?" I am fascinated with Japans musicians at every age. We go play ball or tag or other meaningless things as kids. They study music.

yeah...it's a totally different culture. that's for sure. it's sad that our's places so little value on nurturing creativity and that at every turn there are more cuts to funding for the arts. and less and less money is being spent on it in our schools.

our priorities are kind of screwed up there.

yeah...it's a totally different culture. that's for sure. it's sad that our's places so little value on nurturing creativity and that at every turn there are more cuts to funding for the arts. and less and less money is being spent on it in our schools.

our priorities are kind of screwed up there.

That is somewhat of a a misconception. There are no "arts" foundations in Japan that helped any of the musicians that I have posted. Those two drummers that I like so much, Senri and Kanade, didn't go to any arts school, and neither did any of the other musicians that I am aware of. Instead in their stories of how they became drummers, they said they showed an interest in their instruments as toddlers and their fathers worked their asses off to hire professional drummers to teach them. They hired the very best they could find in all of Japan, and it shows. No pissed away tax dollars there. Every Japanese musician that I followed I looked into their musical history. None of them got a free ride on the Japanese taxpayer. They paid out of pocket themselves, as a family thing.

The problem with taxpayer funded "free" it is treated as "free". When you have to work for it you work at it. Those are the proper"family first" priorities in their culture and it pays off big.

i'd bet that most of those musicians that you posted all benefited from the excellent arts and music education they received at school.

and public education here isn't a "freebie" here as we pay for it w our tax dollars. (as they do in Japan). do you believe that kids who are/were exposed to music and arts programs here were/are getting a free ride or abusing the system and wasting your tax dollars?

the question here is whether or not you believe arts and music is an important and worthwhile part of a child's education... or do you believe that making sure our children have access to music programs in school is "pissing away our tax dollars".

i'm going w the former.

"the question here is whether or not you believe arts and music is an important and worthwhile part of a child's education... or do you believe that making sure our children have access to music programs in school is "pissing away our tax dollars". "

Funding the arts always gets us a great returns for our tax dollars. Such as the "Piss Christ" art. Christ in a bottle of piss, wow!! Now that's art! That's one example we got for our tax dollars.