Stray Kids' Seungmin Worked On His Guitar Skills For Nine Months And Here Is The Result

During the first episode of Stray Kids‘ new YouTube series [SKZ SONG CAMP] Howl In Harmony, members I.N, Han, and Seungmin came together to make music, meat, and memories. At the very beginning of the show, STAYs were met with a very exciting surprise – Seungmin playing the guitar!

Last October, Seungmin mentioned during a video call that he was starting to learn how to play and sometime in the future he would perform for everyone.

seungmin said he's learning guitar nowadays and op asked if they/stays can see it later and he said he will show stays and told op to look forward to it ❤️ pic.twitter.com/oEqhudvU1h

— 멈뭄미 🍀 (@hwangseungs) October 19, 2020

The next month, Seungmin made an appearance in Hyunjin‘s livestream carrying a guitar case on his back! This made STAYs even more excited, as it was one of the first times they had seen him with the instrument.

seungmin saying he’s learning guitar is one thing but actually seeing him with one is something else… i hope he gets chance to showcase his skills soon!! pic.twitter.com/Tg7g0QVW8p

— stray kids loops (@skzIoops) November 7, 2020

Less than two weeks later, Seungmin did a short acoustic cover of D.O‘s That’s Okay on his own live stream while singing along! STAYs couldn’t believe how fast he was improving.

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Stray Kids Seungmin did a acoustic cover of queen 괜괜이😍 Ah I need a full cover🥺#도경수 #디오 #DO (D.O.) #DohKyungSoo @weareoneEXO pic.twitter.com/Rl1WeSnHpJ

— Melody (@mintchocoboys) November 19, 2020

Then in December during the fourth episode of SKZ-TALKER GO! Season 2, Seungmin tried playing That’s Okay once again. Although he was a little nervous, Changbin encouraged him to keep going and continue playing!

is this a dream???? we really got seungmin playing guitar & changbin singing to D.O’s That’s Okay…..😭😭😭 my heart 😭❤️😭❤️ pic.twitter.com/86DND0RFPS

— 댕꾸 ◡̈ (@SEUNGM1NE) December 22, 2020

but seungmin kept making mistakes on guitar & changbin was just “dont give up u can do it!” then the caption was like “binnie hyung, the one who keep 00z self-esteem” 😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/1e3p87K5gS

— 댕꾸 ◡̈ (@SEUNGM1NE) December 22, 2020

For a long time after that, there weren’t many update videos regarding Seungmin’s progress. However, on July 5, eagle-eyed STAYs noticed that the teaser for the [SKZ SONG CAMP] Howl In Harmony included a shot of Seungmin’s hand strumming a guitar!

the piano & guitar seems like I.N & Seungmin 😭🤍 pic.twitter.com/eTvhFKUOzd

— 댕꾸 ◡̈ (@SEUNGM1NE) July 5, 2021

Once the entire episode was released, STAYs were overjoyed to see that the introduction was a 30 second solo clip of Seungmin playing 11:11 by Taeyeon! Not only had his skills gotten even better, but Seungmin’s confidence truly shined through in his performance!