CNN: 12 Year Old Sets Guitar Hero World Record

I feel bad for laughing at a 12 year old but, seriously, COME ON.
ulysses1904says...

(Ranting Geezer Alert)

I'm 50 and my father gave me his guitar when I was 11 and I taught myself how to play it, through MUCH trial and error. I saved up for Rolling Stones sheet music, which I later figured out had to have been interpreted by some jazz musician, with Honky Tonk Woman in the key of A-flat and other bizarre treatments. Even when I spent 2 minutes getting my fingers in the right position for these chords (like Eb7aug, jeez) it sounded nothing like the record. I almost gave up because I thought it was me that was wrong.

But I persevered and finally figured out the sheet music was wrong and I considered rewriting it and sending it to the publisher with my corrections. After a few years they came out with an updated versions of the Stones songbook, with the songs transcribed by an actual rock guitarist but I didn't care at that point.

I've been playing guitar and piano ever since. It's nice to be able to do something that doesn't rely on electricity, batteries or the Internet.

So when I see this news bit about some "prodigy" who "never expected to ever break a world record for something that was, like, kind of important" I just gotta, like, you know, roll my eyes. And stuff.

(End Ranting Geezer Alert)

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