even if it isn't perfect, the sheer effort put in by this man is astounding. First of all, having the guts to up in front of a high school talent show and do it. Second, ABSOLUTELY KILLING IT!
most of the guitar strums just sound like he is mimicing the sound from the speakers until it kicks in at 3:27 with the metal, that when it really sounds like he is actually playing it
Yeah, it was probably just the pressure that made him choke some of the notes. He did good, probably better now too. I wish him luck and hope he makes a name for himself one day
for ONE kid to play a solo which involves two highly skilled guitarists this well is just brilliant. he blends the switches perfectly! 5:26 blew my mind. i hope elliott goes on to great things.
@@getarplayer5958 endurance wise its a professional song bro. Love metallica btw that's all I played growing up now that is where you gotta have 2 guitars and thats what we used to do is play all there songs one play rhythm and I play solo
Takes balls in general! Playing any piece on any instrument in front of a crowd is really nerv wracking, even easy stuff you've been practicing for hours everyday for months. It's like your body becomes hyper aware of everything you see, touch, and think and start to second guess yourself 😅 This was well performed, just kept moving past the mistakes.
I’ve watched a lot of guitar based talent shows with kids playing and he misses some notes for sure but holy shit he’s incredible at such a young age and no one covers this song in talent shows and one of the best solos of all time. This videos and kid kicks ass for so many reasons.
I spent the first 5 years of my playing days learning this solo. After playing it in several local classic rock cover bands, I got pretty darn close to the original recording. Several people told me I played it better than any other player they had ever seen. If they only knew the HOURS I spent practicing it…they’d understand why. BTW, playing the entire solo by yourself CORRECTLY will wear your fingers out! 😮
@@williamsuper213 dude, I know right. Just saw them live, too bad Gary died before I got to see them, but even after all these years, they are still wickedly great at playing. I do with that Bob and Allen got more credit.
I gigged drums for years. Mostly with southern rock bands. Jammed Skynyrd so much I can't take to hear it anymore. This kid is good. He was really nervous. He has the chops. He's better than Dave Hlubek, who did the free Bird solo on the molly Hatchet live album.
It would have helped him if he had a pedal for switching to lead. Doing that in front of a crowd would make me nervous too. Plus, he's playing in front of people he has to attend school with. They like it too. That's an adrenaline rush.
@@qua7771 He's doing southern rock....Skynyrd. They don't use pedals and that bullshit. Search every Skynyrd vid on Earth. You find one of them using a pedal. They don't believe in that crap.
@@petezereeeah This kid's sound man isn't going to boost the solo signal for him. Besides, hes playing through a Line 6. Of course Skynyrd didn't use pedals that didn't exist in that era.
Holy camoly. Dunno why this showed up in my recommended feed but glad it did. Was almost jumping up and down willing him to keep shredding away. So impressed!! Even with minor errors he kept going, kept his flow. Epic!!! 👍👍👍
He did an awesome job, when you can play this 95% of the way without missing a note and missing one every now and then, that is some insane talent for a kid at this age, it is insane!
Great job Eric! One of my all time favorites. Saw the classic Lynryd Skynryd lineup in Philly back in June 77 a few months before the crash. What an incredible live band. 90,000 plus at the old JFK Stadium. Actually found audio of the show on CZcams.
Dude you got me rockin' out on my lunch break, love this song, way to go, you tackled a song most are afraid to try, hats off to you keep up the good work and keep on rockin'! 🤘
On the record "Pronounced", that's Allen Collins playing the lead by himself at the end. However, Gary Rossington is playing the slide. When Steve Gaines joined the band, and they were playing live, he would jump in an double lead with Allen at the end while Gary played rhythm. Amazing guitarists, all. Too, maybe we ought to give a shout out to Leon Wilkeson. Some of the bass runs he did on 'Free Bird' on the "One More From The Road" albumn just shreds it.
But on the studio album "Pronounced", I believe Ed played bass on Freebird according to a number of internet posts. In the live performances, I think Ed played slide guitar along side Gary on Freebird.
Hell yes, when I saw the line 6 I knew this shit was gonna have heart, lol this is exactly like so many talent shows circa 2009 fucking memory lane here y'all. \mm/
even if it isn't perfect, the sheer effort put in by this man is astounding. First of all, having the guts to up in front of a high school talent show and do it. Second, ABSOLUTELY KILLING IT!
most of the guitar strums just sound like he is mimicing the sound from the speakers until it kicks in at 3:27 with the metal, that when it really sounds like he is actually playing it
Keep in mind the actual free bird guitar part is done with two guitars
This actually middle school, he's in eighth grade in this video.
@@kon0212 honestly, that just makes it cooler
Yeah, it was probably just the pressure that made him choke some of the notes. He did good, probably better now too. I wish him luck and hope he makes a name for himself one day
for ONE kid to play a solo which involves two highly skilled guitarists this well is just brilliant. he blends the switches perfectly! 5:26 blew my mind. i hope elliott goes on to great things.
only one person plays the solo and its just the same licks over and over again its not to hard
@@getarplayer5958 endurance wise its a professional song bro. Love metallica btw that's all I played growing up now that is where you gotta have 2 guitars and thats what we used to do is play all there songs one play rhythm and I play solo
No one uses a slide on this song..idk i guess they can not throw it off and transition to solo
@@getarplayer5958 What kind of guitar do you play with?
@@longshot398 rn all I got is a strat but its all I need tbh
imagine this kid shredding with few more years of playing under his belt. 🤯
Do you even know what guitar shredding is? This is NOT shredding. Obviously not many real musicians on the comments
@@albertbeaney2580 🤓
@@albertbeaney2580 I think by shredding he just meant it like "rocking the guitar". I am a "real musician" and that's how I use the term mostly
@@albertbeaney2580 🤓
@@albertbeaney2580 🤓🤓🤓
THE official song of driving 120 on the freeway at 3 AM 😎👍
With no lights on of course
@@Vuxification and a few road bumps not worth questioning
with liquid courage in you veins
Blackout drunk
120?
*Laughs in german
More like clipped bird
The dad shirt, neon shorts, and OG chuck taylors. All topped off with the 2000s cut and Gibson. MAN OF CLASS🫖😎
this guy FUCKS 100%
How tf do you get 1700 likes and no replies
Here’s one
Love his fit tho
@Justarandomwierdo so true
yeah
By the looks of your profile pick you are too
I wish that solo could last for an eternity.
this solo it what I imagine Heaven sounds like
@@elijahcrosby786 this solo is what the heaven sounds like.
Train wreck
it does
@@ableism4047 No, heaven is like this solo.
The clown up next knew she wasn’t gonna win💀
Oh it’s literally a clown 💀💀
Line 6 amps are nice man underrated for sure. I wonder if that guitar is a Gibson or epiphone les paul
He messed this solo up bad but still did a great job on it. I mean the solo is like 7 minutes long or more
@@obi-wankenobi8446 I'm not
@@obi-wankenobi8446 th are you reading
I was deadass expecting him to play chords through the solo 😂😂
Same here man 🤣🤣🤦
Simply guitar definitely didn't teach him this
That would have been an Andy Kaufman level bit holy shit
not with that guitar
@@saber_editzz yo i just read that🤣🤣😭😭😂
as a guitarist I can confirm he’s shredding
As a fellow guitarist I can double confirm he's shredding
As someone who doesnt play guitar, I can confirm he is shredding
As a bassist, yes, he shreds
As a drummer, he truly is shredding
As a shitty guitarist, I can confirm he is shredding.
man mike from stranger things can really shred
I think he's in a band called calpurnia so you might be right
Bro I didn’t wanna be the one to say it
lmao is he actually finn
😐
😐
See even this kid gets it. Which part of this solo you dont understand!!! I'm in love with you!
LOL I GOT THE REFERENCE
BAHAHA
Can someone tell me the reference, I wanna feel included 😀
Bro was shredding!!!!!!
That took balls considering it's high school
Takes balls in general!
Playing any piece on any instrument in front of a crowd is really nerv wracking, even easy stuff you've been practicing for hours everyday for months.
It's like your body becomes hyper aware of everything you see, touch, and think and start to second guess yourself 😅
This was well performed, just kept moving past the mistakes.
@@Crouton- that's why a lot of people smoke a little bit of weed before a performance
@@Crouton- Thanks..Actually, I played it in 8th grade
@@EGarza-gv7myYou did good man, that was incredible
I’ve watched a lot of guitar based talent shows with kids playing and he misses some notes for sure but holy shit he’s incredible at such a young age and no one covers this song in talent shows and one of the best solos of all time.
This videos and kid kicks ass for so many reasons.
I spent the first 5 years of my playing days learning this solo. After playing it in several local classic rock cover bands, I got pretty darn close to the original recording. Several people told me I played it better than any other player they had ever seen.
If they only knew the HOURS I spent practicing it…they’d understand why. BTW, playing the entire solo by yourself CORRECTLY will wear your fingers out! 😮
It’ll give mfs carpel tunnel
I want to see it in CZcams
I haven’t played guitar in 11 years. I haven’t played the solo to Freebird since 2002.
@@guitarcomet5 muscle memory kicks in
@@CaioteDoMorgas …within 30 seconds, pain in the tips of your fingers kicks in. 😫
The crowd had no clue what they just witnessed
Nor could they clap in time, the easiest way to throw someone off is hearing stuff out of time
@@randomcoffeetable777 that was driving me insane
Great job! To think Allen Collins wrote this solo when he was 17!
he what now???
@@travismann5099 he wrote the solo at the age 17
I know Gary wrote the slide part when he was in highschool
@@rockyrhoads8763 What an amazing band!
@@williamsuper213 dude, I know right. Just saw them live, too bad Gary died before I got to see them, but even after all these years, they are still wickedly great at playing. I do with that Bob and Allen got more credit.
i swear, I already love this song, but to hear a kid my age play it so well almost brought me to tears, he's ridiculously good
fun fact: he was 13 when he played this. hes a senior this year
@@zekezein-eldin5024Jesus loves you!
@@awesome346 what
Glad to hear young people appreciate great music.
Wouldn't be a true talent show without the audience members clapping off tempo and cheering at the wrong moments
I gigged drums for years. Mostly with southern rock bands. Jammed Skynyrd so much I can't take to hear it anymore. This kid is good. He was really nervous. He has the chops. He's better than Dave Hlubek, who did the free Bird solo on the molly Hatchet live album.
Yeah you could hear the nerves in his playing. But as you said he had some serious chops. Hope he keeps developing
It would have helped him if he had a pedal for switching to lead. Doing that in front of a crowd would make me nervous too. Plus, he's playing in front of people he has to attend school with. They like it too. That's an adrenaline rush.
@@qua7771 He's doing southern rock....Skynyrd. They don't use pedals and that bullshit. Search every Skynyrd vid on Earth. You find one of them using a pedal. They don't believe in that crap.
I'd gig with this kid any day!
@@petezereeeah This kid's sound man isn't going to boost the solo signal for him. Besides, hes playing through a Line 6.
Of course Skynyrd didn't use pedals that didn't exist in that era.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that he won. Very talented teen.
How the hell did he cover two guitars simultaneously? WTF!! You go kid!!!
i was playing with a backing track
@@nathes998 Oh. Lol. Should’ve assumed that. Regardless fantastic job :-)
@@nathes998 Do you have a youtube channel? this is amazing! [el'sda2].
change your name to niko slow
Holy camoly. Dunno why this showed up in my recommended feed but glad it did. Was almost jumping up and down willing him to keep shredding away. So impressed!! Even with minor errors he kept going, kept his flow. Epic!!! 👍👍👍
Thanks!
I know everyone here was waiting for the solo
I love how well he dances in time with the "music"... BRAVO!!
I found this while looking up freebird, was not disappointed
A man of culture! Must’ve won 🥇 this one
Killed it
Dude is talented af
It’s so much easier going on stage with a whole band behind you to be nervous with you, I couldn’t imagine doing this alone
The organizers made a good decision in putting this guy at the end as a grand finale
All these years later and the music is still loved. Test of time? Nice piece of work, young man.
He did an awesome job, when you can play this 95% of the way without missing a note and missing one every now and then, that is some insane talent for a kid at this age, it is insane!
this guy is the definition of texas
Great job Eric! One of my all time favorites. Saw the classic Lynryd Skynryd lineup in Philly back in June 77 a few months before the crash. What an incredible live band. 90,000 plus at the old JFK Stadium. Actually found audio of the show on CZcams.
Dude you got me rockin' out on my lunch break, love this song, way to go, you tackled a song most are afraid to try, hats off to you keep up the good work and keep on rockin'! 🤘
On the record "Pronounced", that's Allen Collins playing the lead by himself at the end. However, Gary Rossington is playing the slide. When Steve Gaines joined the band, and they were playing live, he would jump in an double lead with Allen at the end while Gary played rhythm. Amazing guitarists, all. Too, maybe we ought to give a shout out to Leon Wilkeson. Some of the bass runs he did on 'Free Bird' on the "One More From The Road" albumn just shreds it.
Don't forget Ed King. He accompanied Allen
@@jmac03191961 That's so true. I should have mentioned Ed, too. My bad.
But on the studio album "Pronounced", I believe Ed played bass on Freebird according to a number of internet posts. In the live performances, I think Ed played slide guitar along side Gary on Freebird.
How about Elliot from Galveston?!
@@scotthunt2479I think a 1974 version ed plays a few solo licks. Never seen him play slide.
The amount of talent in this kid is insane. I bet he could get the Golden Buzzer in America's Got Talent with this solo alone!
Whoa Dude!!!! Picked a hard but excellent song to play and he rocked!!!
Excellent!
You better have one this talent show!
He threed it
Won. Lol
Hell yes, when I saw the line 6 I knew this shit was gonna have heart, lol this is exactly like so many talent shows circa 2009 fucking memory lane here y'all. \mm/
AWESOME!!!!
"What that finger do?"
"Witness."
The fact any mortal man is capable of even making something close to as good as Lynyrd Skynyrd really says something about talent, huh?
If u can play this solo on this level in front of an audience than u can play the solo perfectly when u are with just friends
I mean hes definitely just inexperienced its a hard solo. Give him a few more years and he definitely will be incredible.
I did my mime act right after this man I killed it too.
I hope you won.
@@darksu6947 no bro i hope the kid in the video won like bro look at how he was playing that
@@popperroux He was joking you fucking idiot hahahaha
@@dylannnnnnnnn no
That was incredible.. The real Lynyrd Skynyrd will live forever through our younger generations.. I love ❤️ it!!!
I love that someone yelled out "Free Bird!". lol Every show by any artist it is yelled out.
haha fr
I give this young man an "A" for effort and he will only get better..
Well Done 🎸✌️👍
One of my favorite solos. You looked like you were having fun!
That had to be one of the greatest moments in his life 🤘🏻
you can smoke coming out of his fingers 🔥🔥🔥
i love this song im so glad young ppl still love it
You are amazing, and your parents must be amazing as well!!!!
This gave me literal goosebumps. GREAT JOB DUDE!!!!
Even Elliot tries to plug his guitar into the headphone jack!
This gave me goosebumps fr! Amazing!!!
Good enough to get me he chills, there is pasión there, I love ir
I don't play guitar, but this much talent seems nearly impossible. I hope he goes on to do incredible things and continues absolutely killing it!
Be honest bro, it was good but it wasn’t unbelievable
@@es0x I don't play guitar so it was just really impressive to me, that was my honest reaction bc I didn't know how much he had to do to play that
@@bigglesworthe2793 I mean if this is “nearly impossible” talent I wonder how much talent the guy who made the original song had 🤯
@@es0x I mean it's still impressive, idk why you're arguing abt it but all I was trying to say is that he has a lot of talent 🤷
@@es0x It was the fact he was playing both guitars at once
brilliant
This is so fire!! Long live Lynyrd Skynyrd, long live rock & roll!!!
Finally a talent show worth my time
thanks!
The absolute best guitar solo of ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!! RIP Gary Rossington 🙏🏽
So my question is what do you yell WHILE someone is playing Free Bird?
KEEP PLAYING FREE BIRD!
“WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!” is what you hell during Freebird
Yeeeeeeeah. You killed it bro! Nice work
more people need to be like this man. brilliant.
Great job, Elliot!
Bro definitely knew he was killing it
Wow that's is amazing! Such talent omg that's wild and he's still so young. Good for you man, you'll do good things in life!
I can feel the amount of pressure this guy was in even before it began 💀
The slightly out of sync claps pissed me off so much 💀
Great job young Man keep working thank you God Bless ❤❤❤❤❤
Elliot, you are the man.
this is actual talent
That was awesome dude! I wanna learn the song but instead I'm here watching you play it instead lol
I love Free Bird at Talent Shows.
this is beautiful
My mans pulled that off wearing turquoise shorts. What a king.
not enough credit goes towards them turquoise shorts
the guitar and amp cant handle this kid god damn hes got some talent
Having played in school talent shows, this is great
On this day Elliot became the coolest kid in school. Congratulations.
Rock on young man!
Keep up the Great work 👍 👏 💪 🙌 Very glad that younguns are playing Guitar 🎸 so Music will never die
Honestly he killed the solo amazing so much efforts before performing this on stage🕊️🔥🙌🏻
Nailed It down hard buddy..Great job.
Balls of steel
LOL
As a person who identifies as a guitar, i can confirm that he's freeing my bird
when she solos on my bird till im free
What a legend
Great crowd
Dang this is crazy he’s so good at it too I am amazed and this is a legendary moment haha
Kids whole can shread need more praise and support as this is a invaluable skill
Rock-on!
It’s amazing
At the beginning I was hooked. The second I realized he was playing the Allen Collins part. Good job, man. Darn good job!!!
BROOOO how was he allowed to play so loud!!!! epic!
4:32 holy crickey this guy is insane.
That was more than enough to make his dad proud
YEAAAAAAAH
yesssssss