7 year old Lead Guitar Player 3 yr old sister: Green Manalishi by Peter Green - Judas Priest version

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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[mattpedroscottjamie]

you could do with a stronger vocalist but with age he will grow into it



[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@mattpedroscottjamie If we could find a lead vocalist that could sing and wanted to be in his band, we would be totally into it. However, let us know if his singing on our new Van Halen song is an improvement. We would like to add a singer, so let us know if you hear of one that is about 9 years old and lives in Southern California.

[88krupp]

great,a family that bangs together, stays together  The anti Osmands

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@88krupp Thank you!

[musicluva33]

Amazing, talented family!

[kidsTeachGuitar2kids]

@musicluva33 Thank you!!!

[spacialkritur]

This is really awesome! Your family rocks! me likes :D ...Keep RNR alive!...my best wishes to you..

[timmytheimpaler]

KEEP THESE KIDS ROCKING! Don't let them fall into rap crap or dance pop or anything like that. if these kids keep rocking, they could 1 day save rock and roll.

[musicfamily]

Pure born talent!!!

[mybrothersfault]

Heck yeah!!!