Busking Tommy Emmanuel

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Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:25 pm

You know what Daryl, looking at your video it is pretty obvious you have worked very hard at this tune, because you have to realize this is a real workout for your hands and your brain together.

You probably know this already but I will say it anyway, because it always applys and I do this myself with any tunes I am working on. So with the chance of stating the obvious......I pretty much learn a tune and there are often the odd few bits that just don't work as well as the rest at first and what I do is go through the tune and just play all the parts that I think are a bit sticky, I don't play the bits I can play, just the junctions and bars that are problems. I play into the problem bar and out of the problem bar over and over again. really slowly. I usually finish off playing all the way through, once, twice, or sometimes a lot more. I know you know this already, but if you think there are areas not so fluent this works for me.

I actually think you are well down the road with this tune. Keep up the good work! :)


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Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:39 pm

tombo1230 wrote:
You know what Daryl, looking at your video it is pretty obvious you have worked very hard at this tune, because you have to realize this is a real workout for your hands and your brain together.

You probably know this already but I will say it anyway, because it always applys and I do this myself with any tunes I am working on. So with the chance of stating the obvious......I pretty much learn a tune and there are often the odd few bits that just don't work as well as the rest at first and what I do is go through the tune and just play all the parts that I think are a bit sticky, I don't play the bits I can play, just the junctions and bars that are problems. I play into the problem bar and out of the problem bar over and over again. really slowly. I usually finish off playing all the way through, once, twice, or sometimes a lot more. I know you know this already, but if you think there are areas not so fluent this works for me.

I actually think you are well down the road with this tune. Keep up the good work! :)


Tom N.
Thanks for the input Tom. Been there. Done that. Tommy is just so damn difficult to master. After I think I've got all the rough spots polished, I attempt to record the entire thing....but damn if I don't find that all those polished spots (and there were lots and lots of spots) have all turned to rust again! :-( I know that just means that I haven't polished them completely. So out comes the tarnish remover again (and again). Like I said, a "work in progress". However, I believe (at least for myself) that any Tommy tune will ALWAYS be a work in progress. Thanks for listening.


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Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:43 am

Hi Daryl,,first I thought you were playing in the bathroom(qua sound)but then I realised you want that TE sound,,I really was impressed and I think you can be proud,for me it sounded just fine for this moment and I geuss you play it without the cam better..although the tune sounded familair I don't come up with the name/tittle.. if you not happy with some parts then I would take Tom's advice ,,slow slow slow and only the parts your not happy with (5milion X)..

Man I found it awesome and covering TE aint easy,,,did you know TE plays in his sleep!!!


Willem


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Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:10 am

Well I thought it was very well done! You played it quite smoothly, sounded very nice over here!

Would like to have the tab please! :) :) :)

Well done Daryl!

Ness


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Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:42 am

willem wrote:
Hi Daryl,,first I thought you were playing in the bathroom(qua sound)but then I realised you want that TE sound,,I really was impressed and I think you can be proud,for me it sounded just fine for this moment and I geuss you play it without the cam better..although the tune sounded familair I don't come up with the name/tittle.. if you not happy with some parts then I would take Tom's advice ,,slow slow slow and only the parts your not happy with (5milion X)..

Man I found it awesome and covering TE aint easy,,,did you know TE plays in his sleep!!!


Willem
Thanks Willem. Yes I was trying to approximate the reverb sound Tommy uses on this song (called "Blue Moon" BTW). I am quite please/proud that I can get 2 of the 4 parts going together although I still need to play it another 5 million times to maybe get it right.

I'm not surprised that TE plays in his sleep. I didn't know that!


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Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:50 am

nesh16041972 wrote:
Well I thought it was very well done! You played it quite smoothly, sounded very nice over here!

Would like to have the tab please! :) :) :)

Well done Daryl!

Ness
Thank you. I know I can play it better. Just wait and see! I've got to somehow learn to play more slowly when the camera is on.

Here is a site with lots of TE tabs: http://tommyemmanuel.wordpress.com/gitar-tabok/

Let me know if you can't get to the site. Also, I'd love to see you do some Tommy tunes. Maybe???


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Thu Sep 06, 2012 11:25 am

Hi Daryl,

No comments other than it sounded really good to me. Maybe a few million more attempts and you'll be where you want it. :laugh:

Keep at it.

Bob


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Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:01 pm

Daryl,

The way you play is why I listen to every word you tell me. I can't compliment you more than that. As I told you recently I went to see Tommy recently and came away in awe of what he can do. I'm feeling that you are pretty damn impressive also!

I reckon you need to edit your title on this thread and put something at the end like *NEW CONTENT* I missed this until now (Really dumb because a thread that is a couple months old doesn't generally resurface for no reason) but I missed it anyway. I'm sure many other have and you deserve to have everyone see your work here.


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Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:18 pm

tovo wrote:
Daryl,

The way you play is why I listen to every word you tell me. I can't compliment you more than that. As I told you recently I went to see Tommy recently and came away in awe of what he can do. I'm feeling that you are pretty damn impressive also!

I reckon you need to edit your title on this thread and put something at the end like *NEW CONTENT* I missed this until now (Really dumb because a thread that is a couple months old doesn't generally resurface for no reason) but I missed it anyway. I'm sure many other have and you deserve to have everyone see your work here.
WOW. Thank you! What a compliment. But like I've said all along I've very undisciplined and play just good enough for my ears. So please please please take anything I say (about technique etc.) with a large grain of salt.

Regarding *NEW CONTENT*: Unfortunately, I am unable to edit the title of this thread as I don't own it. Tom (tvarga) does. To get around the "missing new uploads" problem I had tried to upload my video to a new thread called "Busking Tommy Emmanuel's Blue Moon" but the busking uploaded pulled a FATAL ERROR on me. I reported the problem to support. I then tried the uploader again since the uploader was at least able to add "Tommy Emmanuel's Blue Moon" to the list of "bands". But when I "successfully" uploaded my video the uploader put the video in the "Busking Tommy Emmanuel" thread and not the thread I specified. :-(

Thank you again for the VERY kind words.


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Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:31 pm

Most excellent job Daryl, very nice !


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