21 thoughts on “14-year-old plays Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption””
Well, now I feel like a shitty guitar player.
Much respect indeed! I second that WOW! with all caps and exclamation point added.
Woah. She is awesome.
Good grief, that was outstanding. I need to, uh, practice.
Great technician… but technical ability is only 1% of story. I saw no emotion in her face at all, and feeling what you’re playing is the other (more important) 99%.
Emotion is worthless, which is why most guitar players don’t show any.
Whoa – nicely done!
To be blunt…Holy CRAP! she is good.
wow, i can only imagine how she plays when she’s not bored. frickin’ astounding.
Having seen VH front row in 2008 at Staples, she might actually play it better than EVH after his decades of drinking.
Only half kidding.
How Eddie played it live in ’78:
Not everybody expresses emotion in the same way. So congratulations for being a psychic and figuring out what she’s feeling from looking at her YouTube video. You must be truly exceptional.
I’m with you, I’m not feeling it (and the look on her face has nothing to do with it one way or another), but then, I’m not sure I was feeling the original either.
Getting the technique down takes focus. Once one has the technique down, there is more room for expression.
My 15yo son is in love.
Trowerfan has it right. Let’s see the emotion behind the musician.
Maybe that’s what emotion looks like for her. Or maybe she was nervous about being recorded.
Kid plays like a boss and somebody will bitch about what they think is missing. Asswipes.
It’s guitar, not interpretive dance.
Amen – I can’t agree enough with that last line. Showmanship is important, but without technique it’s worthless.
Many performance musicians internalize their emotions, then again, many truly lousy musicians are all about emotion… it helps hides their lack of ability.
Well, one can say the reverse is perfectly valid as well, even more so? We can have even more technical play – a robotic guitar player will do much much better technique, ins’t it? But the soul – we don’t know how to “implement” 😉
So, you closed your eyes and just listened. “No emotion” was clearly evident, right? Clearly she could never do well in an air-guitar contest, and if she couldn’t do well in an air-guitar contest, we should just dismiss her talents? You have to be kidding me
Well, now I feel like a shitty guitar player.
Much respect indeed! I second that WOW! with all caps and exclamation point added.
Woah. She is awesome.
Good grief, that was outstanding. I need to, uh, practice.
Great technician… but technical ability is only 1% of story. I saw no emotion in her face at all, and feeling what you’re playing is the other (more important) 99%.
Emotion is worthless, which is why most guitar players don’t show any.
Whoa – nicely done!
To be blunt…Holy CRAP! she is good.
wow, i can only imagine how she plays when she’s not bored. frickin’ astounding.
Having seen VH front row in 2008 at Staples, she might actually play it better than EVH after his decades of drinking.
Only half kidding.
How Eddie played it live in ’78:
Not everybody expresses emotion in the same way. So congratulations for being a psychic and figuring out what she’s feeling from looking at her YouTube video. You must be truly exceptional.
I’m with you, I’m not feeling it (and the look on her face has nothing to do with it one way or another), but then, I’m not sure I was feeling the original either.
Getting the technique down takes focus. Once one has the technique down, there is more room for expression.
My 15yo son is in love.
Trowerfan has it right. Let’s see the emotion behind the musician.
Maybe that’s what emotion looks like for her. Or maybe she was nervous about being recorded.
Kid plays like a boss and somebody will bitch about what they think is missing. Asswipes.
It’s guitar, not interpretive dance.
Amen – I can’t agree enough with that last line. Showmanship is important, but without technique it’s worthless.
Many performance musicians internalize their emotions, then again, many truly lousy musicians are all about emotion… it helps hides their lack of ability.
Well, one can say the reverse is perfectly valid as well, even more so? We can have even more technical play – a robotic guitar player will do much much better technique, ins’t it? But the soul – we don’t know how to “implement” 😉
So, you closed your eyes and just listened. “No emotion” was clearly evident, right? Clearly she could never do well in an air-guitar contest, and if she couldn’t do well in an air-guitar contest, we should just dismiss her talents? You have to be kidding me