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8 year old The Mini Band guitarist Zoe Thomson

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 2 years 10 months ago

Zoe Thomson, from Thatcham, Berkshire, shows off her developing prowess during a play-along to a guitar track from Finnish symphonic metal band Stratovarius.

During the short clip the 8-year-old jams to the group's notoriously difficult composition Stratosphere with a furious precision that belies her age. (The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9044263/Eight-year-old-guitar-wizard-takes-internet-by-storm.html)

YouTube Description:

This is work in progress, playing along to the original track. Its not finished! Join Zoe's bands facebook page here http://www.facebook.com/TheMiniBand and her music video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76TapKZ4_zM

Zoe is from the UK and is taught at http://www.letsplayrock.comOriginally by Stratovarius

5 Comments

EvilDeathBee

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If this doesn't require the *metal tag, I don't know what does

siftbot

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Invocations (metal) cannot be called by EvilDeathBee because EvilDeathBee is not privileged - sorry.

ZappaDanMan

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*promote Awesome, shredding the neck like Vivaldi. She's got good strength in her pinky finger for those hamer on/pull offs at such a young age.

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, January 27th, 2012 12:56pm PST - promote requested by ZappaDanMan.