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elfsSo, there's this video going around: It's quite amazing, actually; a little ten-year-old girl from Japan playing all three parts of a Kansas song on a Yamaha Electone, rocking out the house as she does. Apparently, Yamaha runs this as a competition and she completely swept it this year.
I wanted to show the video to Kouryou-chan, so I put it up on mplayer and the girl was maybe four bars into the piece when Kouryou-chan said, "That's Carry On My Wayward Son!"
And I looked at my eight-year-old daughter and wondered where in the heck she had gotten a headful of Kansas. She explained, "I played that song in Guitar Hero!"
You see, that's what GH is for. It's something you give to your kids so they'll absorb at least a small playlist of the music you and I listened to when we were young, so we'll at least have a common reference of music to discuss when we're in the car together. The grownups control the radio, so it'll always be tuned to the oldies station, and every once in a while the kids'll be able to say, "Hey, that's Immigrant Song! I recognize that!"
[Hat Tip to Vodou_Chile]
I wanted to show the video to Kouryou-chan, so I put it up on mplayer and the girl was maybe four bars into the piece when Kouryou-chan said, "That's Carry On My Wayward Son!"
And I looked at my eight-year-old daughter and wondered where in the heck she had gotten a headful of Kansas. She explained, "I played that song in Guitar Hero!"
You see, that's what GH is for. It's something you give to your kids so they'll absorb at least a small playlist of the music you and I listened to when we were young, so we'll at least have a common reference of music to discuss when we're in the car together. The grownups control the radio, so it'll always be tuned to the oldies station, and every once in a while the kids'll be able to say, "Hey, that's Immigrant Song! I recognize that!"
[Hat Tip to Vodou_Chile]
