by The Midnight Special » 13 Sep 2013, 23:33
She is great! A lot of us probably had a guitar at that age and were picking out most of those songs on them. I know I was. But I couldn't play them anywhere near as completely as she does though, apart from maybe Apache. Certainly not The Savage. I suppose she does have the advantage of backing tracks, professional quality guitars (easier to play as well as better sounding) and YouTube for guidance, as well as an adult in the background who is obviously a key player in her development as a guitarist. She has the long spindly fingers, a la Robert Johnson, which are made for playing guitar, that very few people have. But still, Christ! I don't kid myself that even if i had all those things (except maybe the fingers) I would have been as good as her - I definitely wouldn't. I bet she'd be be even better if she didn't have long fingernails .
More power to her !
And I agree with the previous post. Just playing shadows covers, and similar, would be bad for her, in my view. She could develop her own style in any number of genres of music and make music of her own, write original songs, possibly sing them, and have a fulfilling music career. I wouldn't want her to stay an old fart all her musical life, like me!