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An eight-year-old can play along with "Stratosphere" by Swedish Finnish power metal band Stratovarius and you can't? What are you doing with your life?

Time for your Adorable Singing/Playing Youngster of the Day! This one gamely sings Tom Lehrer's song about the Periodic Table of the Elements. She misses a few, but damn if this isn't a chemist in the making.

This is Jaxon Smith. He is six years old! He's already committed a significant amount of his young life to the drums, and can already accompany the Foo Fighters track "Pretender."

Good lord, he can play the banjo like a demon AND he's got a sick model of the Millennium Falcon in the background. BRB, need to go home and re-evaluate my life.

German children covering a Rammstein song. Good lord, the youngest can keep a pretty steady beat.

Or is that Ginger Baker's lad?

...because there's NO WAY I could play a steady beat with a year of practice, let alone a year of living.

This kid is only four years old, and his rhythm and beats are impeccable. Maybe when he learns to read and write, he can be an even better lyricist!

All you need to make a beat is bang two sticks together. A child could do it (confidential to percussionists: we're not really serious. Please don't sue for libel). YouTube performers Wax and Herbal T took this idea to its logical conclusion and made a rap song using sounds from Herbal T's toddler son's playground session.

The kid who said of Thom Yorke "I don't think he's got any friends" is a sharp little guy.