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9 Year Old Beats Hardest Guitar Hero Song on Expert
Ben - GH3 - Through the Fire and Flames - 754K - 9 Years Old.
Dec 23, 2007 6:51 AM
Re: 9 Year Old Beats Hardest Guitar Hero Song on Expert
The hand of rock he gives at the end is just priceless.
Rock on kid. Rock on.
Rock on kid. Rock on.
By: tjbassoon
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Go outside and play. Talk to human beings. Gain social skills. OR: Learn to play actual guitar!!! For as much time as it certainly took this kid to perfect this fake guitar game, he could already be an awesome ACTUAL guitarist!! God I'm so mad right now and I don't know why...
By: GilZero
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Probably because in the time it took you to bemoan this child wasting his life you, realized you just wasted your own posting pointless comments in regard to digital detritus.
By: Purevil
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How do you know that this game might not be the thing that gets him interested in learning to play guitar for real?
This is the only type of game I see these kinds of comments on, and it's rather perplexing. I never see comments about someone's Half-Life 2 game that read like, "Geesh, why don't you get a REAL crowbar and learn how to repel an ACTUAL alien occupation? Gosh!" Or, "Put the flight simulator game away, and go out and learn to fly a REAL Su-27. Loser!"
This is the only type of game I see these kinds of comments on, and it's rather perplexing. I never see comments about someone's Half-Life 2 game that read like, "Geesh, why don't you get a REAL crowbar and learn how to repel an ACTUAL alien occupation? Gosh!" Or, "Put the flight simulator game away, and go out and learn to fly a REAL Su-27. Loser!"
By: JaysonAych
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Apparently games have reached the level of realism that imitating real world acts is no longer acceptable. They're too realistic to be allowed to imitate violent acts anymore, but they're also to realistic to imitate non-violent acts as well.
You gotta wonder, did people bitch at the kids playing Pong, calling them losers for not learning how to play REAL Ping Pong?
You gotta wonder, did people bitch at the kids playing Pong, calling them losers for not learning how to play REAL Ping Pong?
By: Maktaka
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Well - I am fairly certain that there's always been a certain amount of disapproval surrounding the amount of time 'those young-uns' spend playing video games. And that the "stop playing games and go outside for once" argument has been around since the time of 'computer space'.
By: unr4veled
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His finger dexterity is pretty advanced for a 9-year old, even one that plays games. I would bet he plays guitar or some other instrument already, even if it is at a rudimentary level. Clearly he has excellent rhythm.
By: tjbassoon
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Whether he has an excellent rhythm or not cannot be determined by this video. Please. Learning some videogame by heart isn't going to make you a musical genius.
By: mongojazz
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Obviously you've never played a game like Guitar Hero or DDR. Such games require the ability to understand and keep a rhythm, or else your timing would be off all the time.
By: MagicalC4Wombat
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I've played Counter-Strike. Does that make me an expert sniper now? Oh, I have an excellent rhythm as well - I've played Summer Games back in the day.
By: mongojazz
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And that is why America has no professional gaming ring. No one in South Korea tells all those obsessives who make hundreds of thousands of dollars playing video games as a job to "go outside" and "talk to human beings".
By: Stiver
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Actually, there is...
http://www.thecgs.com/
http://www.thecgs.com/
By: diryde
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i can bearly play the songs on GH3 on hard mode, i have to strategically use my star power when i'm about to lose the crowd, how does this kid do it ? lol
By: D3NIS
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FREAK
learn to play a real guitar and u ll gona be famous!
greetz blackbird
learn to play a real guitar and u ll gona be famous!
greetz blackbird
By: blackbirdkd
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Oh let the kid have his fun with his videogame....jeez.
I still think people who get mad at Guitar Hero are just pissed off that they suck at it.
I still think people who get mad at Guitar Hero are just pissed off that they suck at it.
By: TheHedgewolf
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I think the weirdest part is that the kid isn't Japanese
By: Mister28
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If that kid doesnt play guitar already, thats an incredible waste of talent.
By: shadowbot
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I wonder if he was doing "guitar face" while playing.
By: SnowWhiteEMT
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That's impressive. I couldn't get 95% on medium on this song, much less expert.
GilZero: in the time it took you to learn photoshop so you could enhance your avatar, you could have actual muscles. This game came out October 28. I think Herman Li spent a little more than two months getting this good.
mongojazz: You got it backwards. No one said the kid was a musical genius or an excellent guitarist because he did this. Wombat just pointed out that he *already* has excellent rhythm, ie, a pre-existing trait that helps him excel at this. Listen to the strum bar clicks from ~0:28 to ~0:49. Keeping those sixteenths rock steady at about 160 bpm has nothing to do with rote memorization and everything to do with rhythm.
On a less didactic note, why do you get upset by this (or annoyed, or whatever you want to call it) enough to go out of your way to criticize this kid? He's NINE, it's not like he was going to do anything else productive.
Most of the complaints that I've seen about the Guitar Hero games seem to come from musicians who are offended or threatened by the games, but that's just ridiculous. It's fun, and as has been pointed out, it's about as similar to the creative process as your standard FPS is to real life. Get over your insecurity, you can still use your Taylor to pick up freshmen.
The audio desyncs, so it's off by almost a quarter note by the end. Distracting.
GilZero: in the time it took you to learn photoshop so you could enhance your avatar, you could have actual muscles. This game came out October 28. I think Herman Li spent a little more than two months getting this good.
mongojazz: You got it backwards. No one said the kid was a musical genius or an excellent guitarist because he did this. Wombat just pointed out that he *already* has excellent rhythm, ie, a pre-existing trait that helps him excel at this. Listen to the strum bar clicks from ~0:28 to ~0:49. Keeping those sixteenths rock steady at about 160 bpm has nothing to do with rote memorization and everything to do with rhythm.
On a less didactic note, why do you get upset by this (or annoyed, or whatever you want to call it) enough to go out of your way to criticize this kid? He's NINE, it's not like he was going to do anything else productive.
Most of the complaints that I've seen about the Guitar Hero games seem to come from musicians who are offended or threatened by the games, but that's just ridiculous. It's fun, and as has been pointed out, it's about as similar to the creative process as your standard FPS is to real life. Get over your insecurity, you can still use your Taylor to pick up freshmen.
The audio desyncs, so it's off by almost a quarter note by the end. Distracting.
By: Grampa
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I will retract nothing that I said. My cousins and their friends that play these games a lot are all robots and have underdeveloped personalities. When I have kids, they can play an hour a day and that's it. Why? Because I want them to grow up to be full, interesting individuals.
Seriously -- think about how much TIME this kid had to sit on his ass and stare at the TV screen to get that song down. Mind boggling. And, by the way, I LIKE Guitar Hero. It's a fun game. BULLS ON PARADE rocks.
Think about this kid telling stories to his grandkids about his childhood: "Oh, you should've seen it, Timmy. First I hit the yellow button, then I hit the red button. Then I hit the red button AND the yellow button at the same time."
When are they going to make Xylophone Hero?
Seriously -- think about how much TIME this kid had to sit on his ass and stare at the TV screen to get that song down. Mind boggling. And, by the way, I LIKE Guitar Hero. It's a fun game. BULLS ON PARADE rocks.
Think about this kid telling stories to his grandkids about his childhood: "Oh, you should've seen it, Timmy. First I hit the yellow button, then I hit the red button. Then I hit the red button AND the yellow button at the same time."
When are they going to make Xylophone Hero?
By: GilZero
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How about just let a kid have his fun, you can see the smile on his face, it's much more "productive" than you spewing forth all of your negativity.
By: diryde
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I don't believe that most of the disapproval of guitar hero by musicians is based on jealousy or a disrespect of the skill and time they developed playing the game.
I believe it stems from the frustration in knowing that excellent players of guitar hero have demonstrated an enhanced abilities in dexterity and rhythym. Two skills that are "going wasted" mimicking hair metal, when they could be going to a more creative pursuit like real music. A pursuit that would allow the development of these skills, as well as, creativity and a sense of art.
I used to feel like that too, but then I remembered how much time I spent learning MK fatalities, getting all the Megaman upgrades, etc... However, none of those things had real life counterparts which would have been more rewarding in the grand scheme.
I believe it stems from the frustration in knowing that excellent players of guitar hero have demonstrated an enhanced abilities in dexterity and rhythym. Two skills that are "going wasted" mimicking hair metal, when they could be going to a more creative pursuit like real music. A pursuit that would allow the development of these skills, as well as, creativity and a sense of art.
I used to feel like that too, but then I remembered how much time I spent learning MK fatalities, getting all the Megaman upgrades, etc... However, none of those things had real life counterparts which would have been more rewarding in the grand scheme.
By: splendic
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Saying that playing guitar is more rewarding in the grand scheme than Guitar Hero is simply an opinion. There's always somebody that can say there's something a person could be doing that's better than what they're currently doing, but guess what? He's a kid, and it's a free country. He could be out mowing the lawn instead of playing real guitar. he could be reading a novel instead of mowing the lawn. He could be learning quantum physics instead of reading novels. It's your own opinion about whether the skills are being wasted, because you are thinking of yourself in his shoes. And you really have no idea whether he plays guitar in the first place.
And that's not even a hair band, it's Avanged Sevenfold.
I say kudos to him for doing something that most people wouldn't have been able to do. I could play that game for five years and wouldn't be able to match that.
And that's not even a hair band, it's Avanged Sevenfold.
I say kudos to him for doing something that most people wouldn't have been able to do. I could play that game for five years and wouldn't be able to match that.
By: diryde
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The kid was having fun. That is what is important, not a critque about Video games becoming the pillar of societys downfall. There's nothing wrong with being good at what you like to do especially when it will be something different come next year.
By: closetpan
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The kid was having fun. That is what is important, not a critque about Video games becoming the pillar of societys downfall. There's nothing wrong with being good at what you like to do especially when it will be something different come next year.
By: closetpan
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The kid was having fun. That is what is important, not a critque about Video games becoming the pillar of societys downfall. There's nothing wrong with being good at what you like to do especially when it will be something different come next year.
By: closetpan
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to everyone hating on the fact kids shouldnt be playing that much video games and should get friends:
he says he did it better at his friends house. which imo should mean he has at least 1 more than every single spelling bee champion. and those trying to play the intellectual practicality card, how many times are you going to use 'aggiornamento' in real life? (yes i watch pysch)
in all honesty, how many parents would like a successful musician teaching their kids social skills? (think rock stars, pop stars, and rap stars)
he says he did it better at his friends house. which imo should mean he has at least 1 more than every single spelling bee champion. and those trying to play the intellectual practicality card, how many times are you going to use 'aggiornamento' in real life? (yes i watch pysch)
in all honesty, how many parents would like a successful musician teaching their kids social skills? (think rock stars, pop stars, and rap stars)
By: ma23
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Does anyone know what kind of fish swims into view in the fish tank at 2:39?
By: Sharpie237
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God. For the amount of time it took him to learn this song he could have tried to learn how to play shitty versions of Oasis songs but lose focus and get stoned instead, right? Quit stroking your lost dreams, dudes, and let the kid have fun. I'm pretty sure that at age nine I was discovering scrambled playboy channel and the psychoactive effects of overdosing on albuterol while rocking Streets of Rage, and I turned out OK.
By: Wondahboy
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People should realize that playing guitar hero is nothing like playing a real guitar. Its just a button pushing rythm game. And who says this kid spends all his time playing this game? Maybe he's just a fast learner. It happens, you know. Not all people who are good at games have no social lives.
By: Rockman
