If This doesn't Bring a Smile to Your Face...You're Dead...

Bill Farnham · 07-28-2010, 07:48 PM

Watch this all the way thru...

Incredible 4-year-old drummer. [VIDEO]

~Bill

CDarklock · 07-28-2010, 08:57 PM

I'm glad I watched to the end.

There is this absolutely TERRIBLE practice in Japan of creating virtuoso performers who hate music. It's called the Suzuki method. They take tiny little children, and they make them practice, and practice, and practice, until it's all easy for them.

They grow up hating music. They detest it. It's the trigger for them, which brings back all the abuse they suffered to make them practice so much. They can never enjoy music. They prefer a life of silence.

And as someone who loves music, from Tchaikovsky to Bach to Ice Cube to Judas Priest to Lady Gaga, I find that to be the greatest of all sins. To deprive a human being of the means to enjoy music.

For the first two minutes of this video, I was horrified.

And then I saw the joy on the child's face.

That's the moment, there. About 2:25 into the video, you start to see that this isn't force or coercion. The concern for approval melts away, and you see that this child LOVES what he does.

The last minute or so is much less disturbing.

And yes, I smiled.

Thanks, Bill.

Kay King · 07-28-2010, 09:08 PM

What a cool kid - he was having fun and has a great rhythm!

MissTerraK · 07-28-2010, 09:24 PM

That was truly awesome!!

It's to bad he's so young, I've always sort of had a thing for drummers.

Terra

Patrician · 07-28-2010, 09:37 PM

Incredibly cute - little guy really has soul!

Thanks Bill.

Tina Golden · 07-28-2010, 09:40 PM

At last, I can finally tell someone "great share".

That was awesome and I really like the song, anyway...lol. Little dude was having a blast.

Tina

Bill Farnham · 07-28-2010, 09:45 PM

I'm glad some of you enjoyed it as much as I did.

[Sidebar]

I was debating posting this on the main forum with the subject line "Here's Why You Suck at Internet Marketing", but I rarely start threads there due to the constant animosity towards OPs. (Oh, and that title would have made me a ton of new friends

)

The body of the thread would have been the comparison of a person with talent who does it for the love of what he's doing vs people who over-think things and get caught up in 'paralysis by analysis'.

I'm betting this kid never read an ebook, got on a guru's mailing list, joined a bluefart forum for drummers, and host of other things that keep people from doing what they are cut out to do vs what they've been told will work out for them.

We all have talents and those with the highest talents for any given vocation rise to the top. All the education in the world would not have gotten this child to the point where he can play that good if he wasn't blessed with such raw talent from birth.

But then I thought I would share this vid with my friends here and they would get an uplifting experience out of it as I most assuredly did and I also wouldn't have to receive all the grief from trying to get people to understand the simple principle that talent equals success almost universally.

Again, I'm glad some of you enjoyed it as much as I did.

~Bill

ThomM · 07-28-2010, 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

That was truly awesome!!

It's to bad he's so young, I've always sort of had a thing for drummers.

Terra

Miss Terra you embarrass me, I played percussion for over 40 years

CD I could tell he was into from the beginning.
The serious look in the beginning was from him trying to hear the song and get over the 'playing in front of people' jitters.

straightenersale · 07-28-2010, 10:42 PM

I really like the song

MikeAmbrosio · 07-28-2010, 10:45 PM

Fantastic.

My first drum set I got when I was about 5. And I promptly poked my sticks through the heads

Didn't play again until I turned 33, but man I love it.

You can tell this kid was having a blast.

Bill Farnham · 07-29-2010, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

My first drum set I got when I was about 5. And I promptly poked my sticks through the heads

Dang Mike, I don't think Keith Moon even did that...

MissTerraK · 07-29-2010, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThomM

Miss Terra you embarrass me, I played percussion for over 40 years

I knew I liked you! LOL!

It's all good, my hubby was/is a drummer too! And I'm still kinda stuck on him even after all these years!

Terra

alexbbbh · 07-29-2010, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Farnham

Watch this all the way thru...

Incredible 4-year-old drummer. [VIDEO]

~Bill

Bill, catchy title..made me click..

Nice video. nothing like a 4 year old santa claus to pump some rock into your veins.

KevinTorrence · 07-29-2010, 03:25 PM

So...

Have you guys seen or heard of Jonah?

He LOVES to drum and plays tons of covers on YouTube which lead to:

-being invited to a show and played with KISS (during sound testing before a big show of theirs)

-receiving a massive set of cymbals from Zildjian

-recieving a custom set of drums from SJC Drums

-and being sponsored by VicFirth sticks, Evans heads, and more

...oh, and he's 5 years old!

YouTube - Van Halen - You Really Got Me, Drum...

Here's his site:

Jonah Rocks - 4 year old drummer

This little kid already has it made in the music biz I'd say...

Jacqueline Smith · 07-29-2010, 03:32 PM

What a cutie!!!!! Unbelievable talent!

CDarkloack....I'm glad I'm not the only one opposed to the Suzuki Method.....unfortunately, it's still very popular. It's like the teaching swimming method where they just throw the kids in the pool and are in awe when the child makes it to the surface.....it's called survival people!!!!! Sadly the effect it has on these kids doesn't come out until much later on in life. At that point, parents choose to blame the way their kids are on the choices the kids made instead of looking at the role they may have played early on.

Sorry....got off on a bit of a rant there!

ELVISTHEPELVIS · 07-29-2010, 03:39 PM

Wow, I wonder if he wants to start a band.
Although playing gigs would be hard because of his early bed time.

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