Part 2: 7 year old Guitar Player & 3 yr old singer on Fleetwood Mac song Green Manalishi

Yes - this really is our family playing all of the music you hear with a real drummer from Finland. There are no digital effects, no computer pitch changes or timing manipulation used in the production of this video.
Our son began playing guitar at age 6 in January 2010 after receiving a 3/4 scale guitar for Christmas, and he 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.
We considered a drum machine for practices, but instead searched YouTube for a drummer.

We ended up being extremely fortunate to find a very good drummer living in Finland.
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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[TheFiddlah]

This is one the best rock videos on the tube!  LOVE IT! Thank you so much for sharing.. * both thumbs up of course with an 'incredible' reaction from me! * Rock on and peace~!

John

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@TheFiddlah Thank you! We appreciate all of the positive comments!!!

[MetalGuruMessiah]

How well these kids ROCK! LOL! Love it.

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@MetalGuruMessiah Thank you! We have had a blast making these videos!

[2reasons4belive]

lol this is so amazing

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@2reasons4belive Thank you! I was actually quite surprised at how quickly my son became skilled at the guitar and also how my daughter was able to sing with good timing and didn't even need me to cue her when the vocals needed to start for her verse.

[valion75]

5*****!!!

\m/

[MCguit88]

Too cool!!!

[fleshlumpeater9]

Kids can Rock...:D

[666noft]

This is how I'm gonna raise my children!!!!! :D

[pianistboy2000]

This is an amazing musician family!

[TheStormtrooper94]

The Concorde :D



[dokkcrue71]

Totally Cool !!!

[FraggleLocke]

Oh my word - this is awesome - well done guys!! :)