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9-Year-Old Boy Wows Ellen DeGeneres With 'Sweet Child O' Mine' Guitar Solo

Ellen DeGeneres often brings talented kids to her show to showcase the things they do best, whether it be knowing every presidential fact or the musical stylings of Sophia Grace and Rosie.

When up-and-coming cartoonist Keef Knight has a traumatic run-in with the police, he begins to see the world in an entirely new way.

The latest tot to grace the show is 9-year-old guitar prodigy Taj Farrant from Australia, who nailed Slash's wild guitar solo in the Guns N' Roses hit, "Sweet Child O' Mine."

Decked in a hat, dreadlocks and a jean jacket, he sat down with DeGeneres to chat, where he revealed that he's only been playing for about two years and didn't play any instruments before. "All I did really was play video games on the PS4 and that was it," he explained. 

 “My dad took me to an AC/DC concert two and a half years ago, and I was on my pop’s shoulders and I said ‘I want to do that for the rest of my life,'" he said of the moment he knew that he wanted to learn guitar.

He also casually mentioned that he can play any song after "a few tries," and explained the art of guitar faces. "Every note makes a different emotion for the face, and sometimes I start crying because the music takes over me."

Watch below.

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