Jimmy the kid!

BluesBop Harry

Someone posted this at manoucheries;
Enjoy!

V-dub

Yay! Love seeing more young jimmy. He is so great

What is he chewing on? Performance-enhancing gum?

Bob Holo

You know, watching this it seems that - sure - his musical chops and left hand technique improved as he grew up... (and as his fingers grew but look at that right hand technique. He had that nailed very young. Not only is the form good - but (and maybe this is just me seeing what I want to see) but it essentially "looks like" Jimmy's right hand technique today. Looking at the segment from about 2:17 to 2:24... that run - totally Jimmy's right hand... which sort of underscores the importance of mastering right hand technique. You can be a little kid with a handful of well practiced licks - but if you can bring a monster right hand into the equation - it takes you up a level or two.

Elliot

Yes, yes....

However I wouldn't say this was a kid with a bunch of licks so much as a kid with whole songs memorized and made to perform them until he could chew gum and play at the same time and barely pay attention to what he was doing!

djangology

However I wouldn't say this was a kid with a bunch of licks so much as a kid with whole songs memorized and made to perform them until he could chew gum and play at the same time and barely pay attention to what he was doing!

play it again or else you don't get any more gum!!

Phil

See what kids could accomplish before there were video games and cell phones!

Bob Holo

Hah hah... yes - and looking back it sort of reminds me of my youth - only it was the saxophone. I grew up in a family where you were pretty much required to choose an instrument in first grade, and then start doing these competitions. By the time I hit maybe fourth or fifth grade, I could play this really complex stuff - fast - and with decent dynamics etc... but to be honest about it - I wasn't much of a saxophone player or musician. It was essentially my video game and indeed I was made to practice till I could flawlessly reproduce whichever piece was required for the competition without giving it much thought (no bubble gum though - at least not while playing) and the reward was a medal or plaque or certificate or whatever and that gave me status at school. Music had very little to do with it... beating kids from other schools did. In that sense, it was more or less a sport. But I don't regret it - because somehow it made me love music... I just wish all those hundreds (thousands?) of hours of practice had been on a guitar.

Unknown

Oh yeeeeeeeees!
Génial! :P
Thank you so much!!!