# Brandon "Taz" Niederauer, Child Guitarist

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandon-taz-niederauer-child-guitarist/805359>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 26, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandon-taz-niederauer-child-guitarist/805359 "2017-12-26T22:54:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandon-taz-niederauer-child-guitarist/805359/1 "2017-12-26T22:54:36Z")

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I wouldn’t call this kid a prodigy per se, that usually seems to apply to classical music and technique, but he can play hella blues. He was on the Ellen show when he was ten, here’s him being featured at a concert in NYC with Mono Neon at Ghostnote.

Pretty cool stuff. And he’s already mastered the obligatory guitar faces.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Huj1JG4jUYE/maxresdefault.jpg "Brandon "TAZ" Niederauer, MonoNeon, Ghost-Note in NYC at THE DROM") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huj1JG4jUYE)

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandon-taz-niederauer-child-guitarist/805359/2 "2017-12-26T22:59:53Z")

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Oh, and I just threw my guitar out the window, and get off my lawn!

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**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandon-taz-niederauer-child-guitarist/805359/3 "2017-12-27T18:36:31Z")

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Real good at what he’d doing.

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> And he’s already mastered the obligatory guitar faces.

Old-man faces.

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> and get off my lawn!

Haha, he’ll be saying that with one of those faces!

Again, great talent. I’d like to see more.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandon-taz-niederauer-child-guitarist/805359/4 "2017-12-27T20:02:18Z")

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I love the fact that he is improvising.

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandon-taz-niederauer-child-guitarist/805359/5 "2017-12-27T23:40:55Z")

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> [@WordMan](#):
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> I love the fact that he is improvising.

That band he is playing with is super solid, especially the bass player and the drummer.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandon-taz-niederauer-child-guitarist/805359/6 "2017-12-27T23:52:34Z")

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> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#):
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> That band he is playing with is super solid, especially the bass player and the drummer.

Yeah, I picked that out 😉

My point is that the kid is looking to say something, not replicate something.