lol

this made me chuckle

Remember the century likes😁

Yeah...

Good one I'm taking it.

HA! Really? I hadn't heard that. That's a great way that Vai chose to describe Emmanuel's playing. Who could disagree.

The other being Jeff Beck

@@jamesbonee3102 or maybe Frank...

When he plays two parts simultaneously it's a sort of magic. He is of the best that ever lived and I'm privileged to know it

@@jamesbonee3102 The joke is that he plays as if he is two guitarists at once :)

I saw him Friday in Albany NY for the 2nd time. He blows me away every time, whether I hear him live or on KZfaq. I'm a semi professional trumpet player (which to me means that I get paid to play gigs in the greater east coast area where I live) but if I had half of his technique/dedication to his instrument and TALENT, then maybe I'd be 1/32nd as good as he is. Unless I hear differently I think he's the most accomplished player on any instrument ever??????

Tommy is the greatest individual musician that I have ever had the good fortune to see play live. A gift from God.

02 O2's CRAFT's Holy shit dude nice catch :D thanks!

Amen. Seen him 5-6 times and plan on going again this year. Then I go home and burn my guitars in the fireplace.

Funny stuff

😂😂😂

0:00 and 0:25

..sure is.

Yes.

Truth

for a talented and tasty musician! I know a lot who play longer than him and sounding like a brick fall from a loader... The taste starts at the very beginning!

bet he never heard of switch, ps4 or ps5, or xbox or he was a gamer once...lol

That's the thing, it's technically profound but also really tasteful. That's not a common combination.

You just described what l was feeling, in my heart. I never really listened to him...till now. Fantastic!!

well said

It makes me tear up every time I hear it. I will say, though, the mix/tonality is just out of this world. It takes a lot to make even the best players in the world sound this good

Agreed.

nice

Sam Greco huge respect to you! sir.

Keep on enjoying the music my friend! Music is life! ;)

Agreed !

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I'm so sorry for your loss, and love this story

Ti capisco!

Hi Adam langston, yesterday we turned off the machines, and my mother left us. I'm now using the sublime beauty of this to help me heal too. They're gone, but they will always be with us. Thank you Tommy.

May his soul rest in peace ...

sorry for you loss pal, may his soul rest in peace

outstanding!!!

Yeah but he should probably change his diet to slow down the insanely rapid aging.

stolen comment

If he puts his mind to it he'll really do well i think !!

Maybe he should come up with some own stuff, though. Up his creative game a little, don't you think? If he read this and followed this simple but essential advice, he might really have a bright future ahead of him... I'll keep my fingers crossed for you little buddy.

+roman14032 Yup, He says he practices everyday, as being guitarist is his "job", I guess he plays over 6 or 7h daily ..

***** i gota get me some of that stuff

+roman14032 To him....natural as breathing.

Lifetime of experience, there is not secret. You can't come up with chords and ideas like those in one day

+chris kozub kmsl!! it'll do it to you

Words can't describe it.

Ha! Me too! Saw him in SanFrancisco. He broke a string, fixed it telling funny stories all the time...... Stretched it and picked up where he left off! A guy I'd love to have a beer with.

Yeah! It's a nice beginning... IoI

I'm 66 and been playing since I was 11. One of my strings sounds the same.

@@newstart49 IoI do you remember which one?

Check out Chet Atkin's performance on song "Malaguena". He lifted this from Chet (which should be celebrated).

Wow say no more.

@@NytronX Dude. Been around a LOT longer than Chet.

Tap harmonics. They are hard to nail since it involves taping the string very delicately with your index and combine it with a pluck of your index. This guy does it like nothing all over the fretboard.

@@fixxxer602 I learned this piece. it isn't just tap harmonics but you need to alternate between harmonics and regular notes to create the cascading effect (in the intro he uses a tap harmonic with his thumb and index finger then uses his ring finger to play the alternate notes on the first and second strings)

Just like a master painter who can see all the colors, Tommy can see all the notes, notes I'd have never even thought of.

@@robertf6344 What a profound insight!

We are a flawed species lol, Tommy confirms that we occasionally do magnificent things.

One of his inspirations as well as mine, and one of our shared old teachers, Don Andrews, contributed to his style... Don's style is much the same. I hope you're still around Don. You have a great student in Tommy... He took it to another level.

Truth!

You said moist

The sounds in that guitar is like the heaven is angelical i don’t know 🎶🙏👏 woow

Don’t, it’s a scam

Great meaning!

Absolutely dude!

Well said. I experience that when I play for people. It's the greatest feeling in the world. It's Divine. Anything you put 10,000 plus into, takes you to a different level.

You’re wrong. The Guitar listens to Tommy.

and tommy listened to chet.

Don't forget blues

@@frederikandersen8402 blues is for beginners to learn how to improvise and later (eventually) become a decent jazz musician xD Learn the pentatonic scales and you are good to go for blues.

@@fabianb4893 then later on when you can actually play it becomes hard again to do it tastefully.

@@lukaskuipers7791 yeah but this occurs to any types of music, my initial point stands, blues is simplistic even compared to rock.

True story

He payed with chet on a number of occasions and was anointed as a guiter god by chett himself haha or something along those lines of a guitar god which tommy wwould have loved as chett was his idol growing up and even as an adult.

Ben Dover i taught him how to play.

Well said. Have a listen to amazing grace to and angelina

Completely agree with you. I've known Tommy very recently, and I'm impressed by the way he plays the guitar. I have always admired Knopfler, and his particular way of playing the guitar, making It talk. I recognize that the ability to make the guitar sings, with multiple nuances similar to the human voice, I have only seen in Tommy.

Love this guy. I found out about him from when he played with Jesse Cook who is stellar too!

What's your favorite song

nice! i noticed last week he as almost at 100000 and realized i never sub'd how silly of me. I think I was 99,826 lol

Eva Cassidy’s makes me weep when I’ve had a few!

Thanks for sharing this amazing cover of Eva. This is 1 of my favorites. You play this song as if all angels falll as rian of the sky.

no Israel Kamakawiwo'ole is by far the best ever. this is good but doesn't hold up to His Uke

DIDSBIAK R "Cover of Eva Cassidy". You're funny.

He's a dickhead

THE DUKE. How?

@@vinnothelizard you have a serious personality management problem. Get your head checked.

@@darwinrisdon7141 and you're a MONGOL

Indeed a gentleman and good to his fans. He even gave me a hug. : )

I was thinking exactly the same, this man is an absolute genius, I've been playing guitar for 45 years and I feel like a beginner in comparison

Only excuse is they have the sound off. And they're blind. I've listened to him play this so many times when I'm down and it ALWAYS brings my mood up and then I get lost in the genius of his playing.

Pure jealousy. Some people can’t stand someone having the amount of skill to be on this level.

everyone here is wrong, they're all misclicks :)

I'm PRETTY sure the dislikes are people with fat fingers haha

Listen to his Waltzing Matilda!

I can't wait to die and be born again with this God given gift. I will be happy with half the gift.

i believe we're all potentially a gift from god to humanity . tommy has found his gifting and worked his arse off to bless us .what an example of inspiration and hope for us all to find our gift and give it away to humanity out of our abundance .

I can only agree with you

He is the best acoustic guitar player without question. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7eYeKacyt7Rg30.html

Don’t, it’s a scam

I agree. This brand of music will last as long as earth is here. Because no matter how advanced we become, hard work and passion applied to something will bring forth true beauty.

wow wow, who commenting!

te gusta mucho la guitarra, por los visto?? :D

GRANDE SARAH!!!

Woah!

+Abir Tarafdar Funnily enough he doesn't! He's just a freak of nature

+Harry Morris agreed!

Yep!

+King Matt ...My mom always said; "Some people's taste is all in their mouths."

an untrained ear or just a negative person

Oh, youth. You try playing at 1/10th of Tommy's abilities, then we can talk.

IMightBeJesus69 "We can talk" I'm sorry, at any moment I said i'm better than him, I could wish to be as good as him, but if some day I get it, should I stop there? Nop, If some day i become as good as him, i'll keep practising to be better yet! Talk whit you? Why would i like to talk whit you? you sound selfish and conceited, I don't like to talk whit this kind of people. So just let me keep practicing ;)

Edgar Marcus best response my axe brother!

im-possible

이세현 possible, my friend n.n

soundcloud.com/user-522969505/lewis-clark-songs-tommy-emmanuel-edm-remix-by-dz

Its true, Lucas!

it's unbelievable

That's not all, he does much more harmonics throughout the whole song hahah

@@fredericovilar7289 I know hahahahaha He`s amazing!

Me too!

Yep. I've been known to do that too.

I think T. Emmanuel's playing has that effect on a lot of people.

I've done that with a few TE songs. Also with Martin Taylor's "I Got Rythym" and more recently Molly Tuttle's "Take The Journey".

I get misty EVERY time I hear it. Especially live I needed a crying towel.

Don’t, it’s a scam.

😍💞

Well - he is like the kind of wine that gets better with age. There are … other kinds as well …🤢

Henry Dunn Please take a look at Tommy's Fingerstyle Milestones instructional set! We've had great feedback from players who swear that they never thought they would be able to fingerpick but was able to using those lessons. It was a labour of love, specifically made for people like you. Good luck! TE Admin

Tommy Emmanuel

Tommy Emmanuel I just purchased the set with the CD and download

Tommy Emmanuel I've been going through Tommy's Fingerstyle Milestones set. I am up to video #35 and this morning it finally sunk in as to what I was supposed to be doing. One of my problems is that I have developed a LOT of bad habits trying to teach myself to finger-pick over the past 50 years and they are tough to break. But it is starting to make sense. I have a LOOOOOG way to go yet but I can now see the light thanks to Tommy's instructions. I purchased the download plus the DVD. I haven't received the DVD yet but it should be here any day If anyone is serious about learning Tommy's style I highly recommend they buy this.

+Lars Olsen Hi Lars. I have found and watched a lot of the videos on KZfaq. I even found a way to save on my computer some of the better videos so I can refer back to them. You can't do this with Google Chrome but the Firefox browser has an add-on that will allowing the saving of KZfaq videos. The most help that I have had is with Tommy's "Fingerstyle Milestones" I am now up to about 45 videos out of 95. I am into the really hard part now and that is trying to pick with the first 3 fingers independent of the thumb. Two days ago I finally did it for the first time. But the next day I could NOT do it when I practiced that day. I finally gave up for the day, I just wasn't in the right frame of mind. A couple of times I've hit a wall so to speak and had to stop trying for a day or two. Then when I go back to what I was trying it finally sinks into my head and then into my fingers. I can't wait until I practice today as I practice 4 and sometimes 5 times a day. Granted there will only be one Tommy but this is something that I have always wanted to achieve ever since I bought my Gretsch Country Gentleman. I have always been a fan of Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. The first time I ever heard of Tommy Emmanuel was when Chet Atkins mentioned his name on a record that I had of Chet and Les Paul. They were "clowning around" naming their favorite guitar players and Chet named Tommy. I thought at the time I had better check this guy out if Chet thinks that much of him. Some times it's very slow going but I feel I am making progress and having a ball doing it. So as long as my wife's ears can stand it it's onward and upwards. When I die they will probably have to pry my 1964 Silvertone Jaguar out of my hands so they can close the casket lid. I sold the Country Gentleman a long time ago and now down to only 2 guitars but my favorite is the 1964 Silvertone as that was my first electric I bought from my nephew in about 1967 for $50. It still to this day sounds great even with almost 70 year old arthritic fingers picking it... LOL

Eighty-five people * Tommy best)

Nice words mate😊

+Anonymous I know you're joking, but Tommy would never ever want any body to do that. He just wants the world to love playing, no matter at what level. I'm a crap player and, at 71, I will be a crap player for the rest of my life, but he inspired me to keep on trying, no matter what. I get joy out of any tiny improvement.

Even though some other people got offended and took what you said way too seriously, I think that was hilarious!

+Anonymous Tommy would say : "buy a new one, and get to work".

+Anonymous Tommy would say : "buy a new one, and get to work".

+Anonymous Cant people see hes taking the piss..

I like that,GOD bless you.

Santana :D???? He´s not even nearly one of the best.

Santana really sucks

Santana??? No way! Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Hendrix, Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, ALL are better than Santana in my opinion. I could name more. He's not even in my top 25.

Let's not forget Stevie Ray Vaughn