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- dbalaski, on 07/13/2008, -20/+321The ability to re-create on piano any song she hears once doesn't make her Mozart
I would say it makes her more a talented savant... gifted.
For instance Mozart was also a composer at an early age..
Don't get me wrong, I am impressed with her talent.
I think we should temper words used until justified . - goldfenix, on 07/13/2008, -3/+256Why is it that blind people get all the cool super powers?
- CarStan, on 07/13/2008, -4/+212But can she play "Through the Fire and Flames" at 100%?
- bozodaclown51, on 07/13/2008, -7/+167i cant get over how the audience cheers and gasps at the most random things
- Bggnz, on 07/13/2008, -2/+134At 5 years old i was still picking my nose while staring at tv's, ( sadly enough not much has changed ). This girl is amazing.
- greengarfield, on 07/13/2008, -6/+111that little girl is amazing! That said, could we stop comparing every young talented pianist to Mozart??? It's one thing to be a child prodigy, but from there to become the greatest composer ever in a 35 years life...
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -1/+97wait until she can reach the pedals and she will showcase her talent even more.
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -13/+108I don't understand how this is possible!
- MrJagil, on 07/13/2008, -3/+96But can she run crysis??
- Chordonblue, on 07/13/2008, -3/+86I had a friend who could do this. He was actually in Ripley's Believe It or Not because when he was 9 he had perfect pitch and could play 10 instruments at a virtuoso level. He ended up session playing with some of the best country and rock and roll bands in the U.S. To this day, I've never heard anyone play a keyboard solo AND hammer on a guitar solo at the same time. Amazing!
But it always seems that this level of genius is always weighed down by something and in his case it was diabetes. He took terrific care of himself, but eventually the disease caught up with him and he died 11 years ago at 32. He was my hero and mentor. Someday soon, this little girl will probably be that to other people as well. Good luck to her! - eatbeast, on 07/13/2008, -2/+63it sounds like the audience in wii tennis
- wraith313, on 07/13/2008, -8/+64This is a really dumb label for that girl. Here is why. All she is doing is playing what everybody else has already done. Mozart was great as a COMPOSER, not a player.
- Konstantino, on 07/12/2008, -3/+59It's things like this that make me wonder why some are born with such amazing talents? Sometimes it doesn't even seem possible.
- benjp2k1, on 07/13/2008, -7/+56I can't believe some of the posters on here. How can you not think this is amazing! First off, she's 5 years old and has NEVER taken lessons! How many 5 year olds do you know that can even play the piano without lessons, let alone as well as she can? And secondly, sure she's only copying what someone else has done - but she's doing it after hearing it once! I am sure after she has grown up she will be writing her own pieces, just give her some time. The most amazing part of the clip, IMO, was when she was playing the tune for Noh Sa Yeon's "Meeting" (a song she didn't even know).
Sorry for the rant - but she truly is amazing. It almost brought me to tears when she was singing and playing at the end. - migshark, on 07/13/2008, -0/+46Phonographic memory it seems. I Can't wait until her motor skills and limbs develop so she can be more accurate.
- sonnysavage, on 07/13/2008, -2/+46That's the comment I was going to make. The art of composing and ability to re-produce are two different things.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -8/+51She's probably an autistic savant. Too young to know at this age, but that's pretty much the only condition that could allow her to do that at such a young age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome
"something that almost all savants have in common is a remarkable memory: a memory that he describes as "exceedingly deep but very, very narrow" - MarrowMan, on 07/13/2008, -8/+46Wouldn't she be the new Beethoven? He was deaf after all. I dunno, seems like a better comparison to me.
- Regulator980, on 07/13/2008, -0/+36This is what she can develop into with enough training:
Derek Paravicini - The Human iPod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nIcPTm0dmo - insanebrain, on 07/13/2008, -1/+35That's the beauty of it :)
- markperia, on 07/13/2008, -6/+39wow there's a lot of ***** in digg today. She's a ***** blind 5 yr old pianist! When you were 5 what were you doing?
Ok, let's give the benefit of the doubt and say that *maybe* she was trained and they were lying about her being able to play after one listen, but that doesn't mean that what she was doing isn't amazing. And for those saying that she's autistic, that's still no reason to knock down the girl. Maybe she is autistic but she still has amazing talent.
I just can't believe how much of a jerk people here are. - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+27I have a pornographic memory.
- keithnoir, on 07/13/2008, -0/+23can she play guitar hero?
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+24You are calling a 5yr old BLIND girl ugly.....
What a ***** *****. - xerexes1, on 07/13/2008, -0/+22They do that on all Korean tv shows, from what I recall. I could never figure out what the correlation was among what someone said or did, and how the audience reacted. Obviously a cultural difference.
- allothersnsused, on 07/13/2008, -0/+21Yeah! That's so not fair! They get everything!
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+20I just happened to be picking my nose while reading your comment. :3
- kall, on 07/13/2008, -0/+19You should see a Starcraft tournament.
- fatTJ, on 07/13/2008, -2/+20She Survived A Japanese Game Show
- feoren, on 07/13/2008, -2/+19The brain is full of self-limiting factors, and things like what this girl and autistic savants do are very likely to be present in everyone's brain, but our brain cannot, or is not willing to, shut off the hundreds of other things going on at once. Only in people whose brains are damaged into ignoring the huge amounts of stimuli we have to process every second (causing autism or blindness) is this kind of focus possible, and selection just will not favor that kind of tradeoff. Brain technology may soon reach the point where we can temporarily shut off some parts of our brain and stimulate others to be able to do amazing feats like this. I don't mean to belittle her natural talent, but calling her the next Mozart because she can reproduce music is like calling a camera Michelangelo.
- imightbewrong, on 07/13/2008, -4/+21she's on the the right track
- JoeCool1986, on 07/13/2008, -1/+17I have to admit, I tried not to laugh, but I did. Cheers.
- Llanowar, on 07/13/2008, -8/+23But will she blend?
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+14"We aren't able to have babies"
GASP! - portis, on 07/13/2008, -1/+15Are you forgetting that she is only 5 years of age?
- atgmac, on 07/13/2008, -2/+16I can play music from memory after only hearing it a couple of times. Does that make me Mozart? No. I'm an awful composer as a matter of fact. I'm sure she'll be an excellent pianist when she's older but I doubt she will be an excellent composer.
- CriX, on 07/13/2008, -0/+14"to all our Youtube viewers..."
- bieber, on 07/13/2008, -0/+13Not really. There are lots of blind musicians, not many deaf at all...
- AmICoolNow, on 07/13/2008, -2/+15I think you mean, "Why do Asians get all the cool super powers?"
- CLYF, on 07/13/2008, -0/+13I heard not everyone can do this...
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+14She doesn't just play the piano.
She reproduces a complex multi-level harmony, while using two sets of the same instrument and two different sides of her body, by hearing it once.
Even people who know music wouldn't remember all the notes from a single listen.
Whistling or singing is not at all like playing an instrument. You can't whistle two notes at once and you can replicate rythm. The piano is a percussion instrument.
And you can't whistle the song she played. You can somewhat whistle the single level tune. It's humanely impossible to recreate the nuances and dual tones with a single mouth. You'd need two mouths and two pairs of lungs.
And there's a difference between having a natural hability to learn the piano with help and just plain figuring out a piano at age 3. - Upsizer, on 07/13/2008, -1/+13I wouldn't say doubt. I would say, however, that being an excellent pianist does not imply being a excellent composer.
- Barney255, on 07/13/2008, -1/+12that odd humour is why you don't have friends
- bmson, on 07/13/2008, -0/+11Such a cute little girl.
She will be come an incredibly talented when she's an adult.
The human brain is mind-blowing. - Overcyn, on 07/13/2008, -1/+12its never to far on digg
- ace429k, on 07/13/2008, -0/+10my roommate for a semester in college had aspergers. he used to forget how to flush the toilet.
pissed me off. - kaplanfx, on 07/13/2008, -0/+10well she has to hear it once first...
- FongoBongo, on 07/13/2008, -0/+10Go get cultured you ***** *****.
- supermanly, on 07/13/2008, -4/+13Makes you want to believe in humanity again
Fixed. - AndrewJC, on 07/13/2008, -0/+9Beethoven was born in 1770 and wasn't totally deaf until 1814. The fact that he was going deaf and people's concerns over the status of his abilities was the reason he wrote the 7th Symphony.
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