7 year old Lead Guitar Player California: Green Manalishi by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

Yes: this really is a 7 year old playing lead guitar. Our son began playing guitar at age 6 in 2010 on a 3/4 scale electric guitar and began taking guitar lessons for 30 minutes once a week. After about a year of lessons and practicing 4 or 5 days a week about 20 minutes each time, he became highly proficient and suddenly was playing complete songs that were advanced for a seven year old.

There are no digital effects, no computer pitch changes or timing manipulation used in the production of this video.

We ended up being extremely fortunate to find a very good drummer living in Finland by searching YouTube.
He was nice enough to re-record his drums for us with only his drum sound in the recording so that we could jam along with him by hearing just him on the drums and us on our guitars with our own sound. He soon suggested that we record our guitar and bass guitar parts on our home computer to see if we could put a song together. The recording collaboration was working out well, so we then decided to videotape our playing and produce a video.

My 7 year old son recorded all of his own guitar parts, and all of his playing shown in this video is his actual sound recorded through a USB input on our home computer. Our drummer did all of the video editing.

The recording and filming was done between March and May 2011. The video editing began in May and continued into June 2011.

The guitars are plugged through a B-52 AT-212 100 watt tube preamp for distortion using the line out jack plugged direct into our home computer through a FastTrack M-Audio USB, which costs less than $100 U.S. dollars. The bass has no effects and was recorded with a direct input into the M-Audio FastTrack connected to our home computer. ProTools for used for recording and mixing.

We hope you enjoy our international music collaboration!

If you like what we are doing, please share it with your friends and family.

The excellent setup on all of our guitars was performed by Hugh and Ben at 13th Street Guitars in Huntington Beach.

Thank you!

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[cmzangetsu1993]

Should a kid of that age be playing a $12K Replica of Randy Rhoads' first Gen Jackson Custom?

its good but I would have given him something smaller. Just saying.

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@cmzangetsu1993 Good question: his only two guitars are a 3/4 scale Ibanez Mikro that be bought new for $119 (at 6 years of age) and a $250 Epiphone SG (G400) that weighs 4.1 lbs (which he received at the age of 7). The Concorde was borrowed twice specifically for the one video to visually express our love of Randy Rhoads' incredible music. If you watch any of his other videos, you will see that he mostly plays the Epiphone G400.

[TTyuyTT]

This is awesome!! You're an awesome father with very very talented kids!! Big congrats!!

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@TTyuyTT Thank you! We love all of the positive comments!!!

[MrDus65]

really cool! and i'm really happy to see that some young boys have spirit of rock :) ! Carry on little rocker ! Keep rockin' !

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@MrDus65 Thank you! We are having a lot of fun rocking out!

[cmzangetsu1993]

@kidsTeachGuitar2kids Thanks for clearing things up.

[learoad]

top class players...top class production cheers tp

[AlanCutie18]

i verry enjoy this music :D

[brandonguthrie]

haha awesome!!

[Pokemeister1202]

awesome! how long has he been playing guitar for?