young kids to a new level...

[nanabush]

I don't care how messy some parts sound, what the hell!!

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[kelly_kelly]

It's definitely technically impressive despite the slips, but I would take more musical, if still imperfect, performances of more age appropriate repertoire any day:

[pianowolfi]

It's definitely technically impressive despite the slips, but I would take more musical, if still imperfect, performances of more age appropriate repertoire any day:

Aimi Kobayashi, the same person, a few years later:

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[pianowolfi]

....and earlier

[pianowolfi]

The title says "little" but here she's rather not so little anymore:

[pianowolfi]

Yuja Wang at under 12:

and more recently:

[littletune]

It's cool that kids can play so good!  Well it's also a little embarrassing if you're a 13year old and play like that Aimi at 3 (or even worse  ) but ok whatever.  it's cool anyway. 

[pianowolfi]

Check also this out:

The combination of one of Chopin's darkest pieces with this white skirt is really bizarre, but she still has a wonderfully natural approach to this music, I think. Whereas later...I don't know

[nyiregyhazi]

I don't care how messy some parts sound, what the hell!!

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This actually sickens me. How can a kid who clearly has some talent be getting such poor guidance? What kind of progress is he going to make, if he carries on like that? Why is he not being taught to play some simpler pieces to a high level? I'm not talking musical profundity, necessarily, but basic tonal control. While it actually annoys me that people always leap to assume to every prodigy is just an average kid who was badgered by their parents into practising, something about this makes me 99% sure his parents are actually encouraging him to play as fast as he can- rather than doing anything that might give him the chance to develop any sound fundamentals. Look at all the showpieces he scrapes through- yet not a single polished performance. Unless he gets a proper teacher, he'll never recover (from what is doubtless fuelled by parents who want to push him into the spotlight by making him to do things he is nowhere near ready for). Frankly, I suspect that they've destroyed his potential already.