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my 11 year old blows me away sometimes on piano. He's been taking lessons for about 6 months now. Not because he can play Für Elise note for note (he can do that for the first part of it, picked up by ear) or because he can do clean scales at 240bpm. What amazes me is that he sits down and just starts noodling. Playing blue notes in his own derivations of what he's heard. I hear bits of Steely Dan, Miles Davis, Eric Clapton, Scott Joplin, and Beethoven. He's taking what he's heard since before birth and is synthesizing it into his own stuff. Without prompting from me or his teacher (his teacher prefers that he read the music, although she does put up with his ramblings).
I would be plenty happy to never hear some young kid playing Pachabel's Canon or another copped SRV lick. Now someone playing SVR licks on banjo...that might be interesting.
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