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Start 'em on alto horns at 12 months?

Well, ya got trouble...

Kevin Hendrick wrote:Start 'em on alto horns at 12 months?

The word I thought of was ‘downsizing’. so we don’t disagree.

Klaus

Call me way old fashioned but I think its kinda sad---what's next? Teaching the kid Texas Hold'em perhaps?

JJ

TUBAD83 wrote:Call me way old fashioned but I think its kinda sad---what's next? Teaching the kid Texas Hold'em perhaps?

JJ

Kids do like games ... still, I wouldn't bet on it ...

I'd love to find out what other interests the kid develops as he grows, and whether or not he becomes a prodigy in other areas. This is fantastic, but he has a whole life ahead of him.

Exactly! I mean, his spatial skills and motor function skills are obviously WAY ahead of the curve. I don't think it's sad at all. I wonder what else he does and if he doesn't then he SHOULD. Even if he isn't deciding these shots for himself, just the ability to make such clean shots and to follow directions...wow.

The lesson for the tuba world, and musicians overall is this:

If you put the same amount of dedication, time and energy into another field as you will do (or have done) for music, your success would be assured. Few doctors have work as hard to learn their profession.

You will likely be more well rewarded financially and more respected professionally in any other field. After all, how many times have you heard another musician say something like, "Muscian-X is okay... but have you heard Musician-Y, he makes X sound like crap."

If any professional baseball player played with the accuracy of a major symphony musician, then Babe Ruth would be a footnote. Baseball rewards a 30% accuracy rate and a 40% accuracy rate is unheard of in these days. A 50% accurate musician can't even play in public.

One of the service band euphonium players told me about an incident that happened while flying commercially. He was standing in the front next to the cockpit and the pilot asked about his instrument, "It's a euphonium."

After he explained what he did, the pilot made a disparaging comment. Our euhphoniumist rose to the occassion; he said something like, "If I worked hard for three years, I could learn to fly this airplane well enough to do your job. If you practiced for ten hours a day for the rest of your life, you couldn't stand in front of the band I play with and perform a solo."

There's a moral here, figure it out for yourself.

Alex C wrote:The lesson for the tuba world, and musicians overall is this:

If you put the same amount of dedication, time and energy into another field as you will do (or have done) for music, your success would be assured. Few doctors have work as hard to learn their profession.

A 50% accurate musician can't even play in public.

This child is a toddler. It may be practice but it may also have a LOT to do with giftedness.

50% accurate in what? There more to accuracy in musicianship than in playing pool or hitting a ball/target. Maybe 100% on notes but the tone is so awful it makes my ears bleed

Just havin fun! Your points are worth noted.