Fletcher (age 9) - Strings on Fire Contest - Herman Li

Fletcher listens to Chris Feener's awesome backtrack a few times & rips off an impromptu solo for the "Strings on Fire" contest with Herman Li of Dragonforce on PetrucciFever.
(keep in mind he really is only 9 years old!!!) Subscribe to his channel or check out www.fletcherbarton.com for more!!!!
& special thanks to Truth in Shredding, Laurie Monk, Shred Junior, Milan Polak, slimerandtheslob & burnedoutgolfer, without whom Fletcher would not have found this contest! Additional thanks to Strat-O-Blogster! Recorded on November 2, 2009 using a Flip Video camcorder.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 9 year old guitarist
• 9 year old composer
• fletcher
• talented young musician
• shred
• shredding
• Dragonforce
• Herman Li
• Strings on Fire
• guitar competition
• Chris Feener
• Feerner
• cool backingtrack
• lauriemonk
• PetruciFever

[BenitutuORstfu]

for those who still dont know hes not actually playing

[fletcherbarton]

@BenitutuORstfu actually, he is.... I can vouch for him, I'm his mom & I filmed this video of him playing.  He is age 11 now & still playing. check out his website for more.

Fletcher's mom =)

[XIADRENALINIX]

i apologise if this is legit........but iv been plaing for 6 years. i can tell you that this looks fake to me, i dont want to look like a hater just putting my opinion forward. theres a few areas in the song where the notes are pitched higher than they should be where he is playing.. also the needless swinging sems like it is only there to hide the fact that its fake. the more he moves around the less you can see the guitar.

[bigboy1010101able]

@XIADRENALINIX well it still doesnt sound that good but his parents probably forced him to play into greatness they will tell u he loves it and cant put it down i mean look at Jackson five they were incredible but were forced to practice. come on what 6 to 14 year old really has had enough life experiences to play real music sure they can practice forever and still never be as good as some of the best musicians because they really feel the music and thats all that matters

[XxJeremyTxX]

he's not even doing the vibratos right, like at 1:09. fake :(

[DiminishedTB]

Cmon son, you will play the guitar and be famous or we will kill you

[bigwill12555]

good for his age bad if he was any older

[o00reaper00o]

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MAYN

[drummin4InTheShadows]

@snowbladetaki yeah, i hate it when people think like that. im not trying to brag or anything but i beat my fastest friend by 40b.p.m. on double bass and hes been playing for double my time. the only thing is that i practice more at that daily

[DARKD3CIMATION]

the white jimi hendrix, mam u have a gifted soon keep him out off trouble and he will achive great things

[ProvokingYoVillian]

Idk, i wish it had more taste...those pinch harmonics were obnoxious. Like can u stop raping the pinch harmonics for like 5 seconds? And this is just my preference but i think they only sound good on the lower 4 strings, like anything on the b or the e is painful to listen to

[BenitutuORstfu]

@DaUnforgiven1 Thank you for that informative statement...