AMAZING BLUES GUITAR!!! MUST SEE!! 

I've been playing 45 years and after watching any Tommy Emmanuel video I KNOW I'm still a newbie - he's just incredible.

The arm endurance is real

Pyromaniac

When asked about Repetitive Strain Syndrome, he replied to the effect if a guitarist suffers from repetitive stain syndrome they aren't paying right so should go back to basics.

these people are exceptional! dont compare yourself to others, there is always someone who puts the cherry on top of another cherry

Me neither, and I've seen Tommy live before.

unreal,, i dont hear it,,, i feel it.

Hey Chrlie Barber ! I'm a Fla/Ga Barber ! GGGGrandson of Moses Edward Barber / first Cattle Barron in The New World , Moses went in to Fla 1820s and hunted Spanish Cattle and had the lions share pf the beef contract to the confederate Army ! take er easy ....

Agree. Saw him live with James Morrison in Newcastle Australia once. Incredible. His brother Phil also very good. A band that they used to play in called Goldrush was awesome to see too.

Lmfao !!!!

oh yeah better than jimi and stevie and eric yeah yeah no he really isn't just stop

OpinionatedMonk my puppy has seen him 12 times and he still sees pretty well.i've seen him like 30 times and i can still kinda,see stuff.

I F EE L

OpinionatedMonk 6kk7

1scott921 movie in tom and jerry

Pardon my grammar , but I think you get the point.

Tommy Emmanuel is pretty famous, playing about 300 sold-out shows every year.

Tommy has VERY big strong hands and fingers. YOU can see it, and hear it all through this. His hand volume thru the guitar reminds me of SRV, both with similar hands, and gut feelings for rhythm, Guthrie Govan has no hope here, even though he is a way better shredder.He is too thin in the hands to really crank animal volume like I mentioned above.

Good point CARAT ... God-given talent & hard work as well.

hi I have been playing guitar for the past 30 years. clapton, hendrix, etc etc can play guitar dont get me wrong but they never played the chet atkins style with great effect base rythem and melody finger picking with the added acoustic drum beat of the acoustic. Tommy emmanuel takes it to another level beyond these guys, 1 of the greats.

right! lol. good talk buddy. always there for u

thx. i knew i could count on you

im not crazy lol

@@troyburriss4449 sus

I think Somewhere in between he adds SRV tribute to it

He actually plays two songs. The first is "Guitar Boogie" by Arthur Smith, then halfway through, he switched to "Stevie's Blues." He says it's his "attempt" to pay homage to SRV.

you should here his brother!

Jeffory Richardson says: "he switched to "Stevie's Blues." He says it's his "attempt" to pay homage to SRV..." == That explains a lot to me. I was like, "Wait a minute, didn't I hear this somewhere?" lol

Tommy Emmanuel butchers Jimi and Stevie Ray combined lol

shayne s OI OI OI

Ok ozzy.

Producing? You mean duplicating.

*Replicating. You can thank American for producing and creating all popular music enjoyed the world over. Because the blues is the tree trunk from which the branches and leaves stem...

that's the best comment I've seen so far! :D

Gökhan Güher n

Gökhan Güher, ohhhh yessss!

Come with me if u want to live

As long as they can run a government better than your generation, who cares what kind of music they like?

What You say? What government you mean?

55 years old and I think I know what music is - this is virtuoso playing but it's not music to my ears, it's twaddle, trying to impersonate music.

Arthur Steele What a crock of shit - !! - I wonder if 'you' can play like that - ???

Missing the point Carlos. This piece is brilliant technically, but lousy musically. If your musical tastes are governed by technique rather than emotion, then what can I say?

+Carjack Malone "Originally shot by "falkrik" Sorry dude. It's a great vid, I had to share it." 4.6 million views later... maybe Falkrik could have uploaded it himself x.x whatever... live blues video's are the best tho! all the people screaming brings me more in the blues grooves!

+DUCK NANA :D

+DUCK NANA Yep!

if you playin good enough :-d

hi! what's his name? thanks!

Wow!super.

Mark Maysey f

Have you listened to Angelina, Haba Na Haba, or anything from his CD titled The Colonel and the Government (2013)or Little By Little (2011). Good music and it does not sound dated. He can play anything he likes, without a ton of effects and distortion.

Everyone has their own taste in music. However, I don't think you have listened to the two recordings I mentioned. There are no pyrotechnics in either one, just some beautiful music. Take care.

That's too bad, there are a couple of good tunes on them both. Everyone's taste in music is different of course. I could say I find Lenny Breau's playing to be very cerebral and lacking in soul. There is sometimes a lack of dynamics in his playing, but that would be nitpicking and maybe I have not spent enough time listening to him. Rolling Stone rated the top 100 guitar players of all time and neither Tommy or Lenny made the list. I guess according to the experts, we are both wrong. Chet Atkins liked them both enough to play shows with them. I have played with a lot of guitar players, and none of them would call Tommy or Lenny mediocre. I was a piano major (dumb move) and I could barely make it through the first few measures of any piece I was playing without my instructor stopping me and finding something wrong with at least one note I was playing. But she still liked my playing overall. I am glad she did not call my playing mediocre. I would hate to put all of that work into being mediocre.

I appreciate your opinion, but you know what they say about those. Oscar Peterson is one if my favorite players, but I have ran in to people who will tell me they don't like or appreciate his playing. But, they are not arrogant enough to call it mediocre. You must be one heck of a guitarist to offer up that critique. I would live to hear you play sometime.

Love to hear you play.

They'd just give you the guitar for free for sure lol.

its blue, use your ears!

Villiam Melin That's funny cause the comment was intended to be tongue in cheek. Maybe you should use your brain jackass!

Okay, I was just trying to ctxh that up, but if you're that kind of guy so fine, i wont bother you.

Villiam Melin That kind of guy? Mate, look at your words: "its blue, use your ears!". I'm unsure what "I was just trying to ctxh that up" actually means, but don't expect me to believe you were trying to be helpful. I wouldn't have replied like that if I didn't find it a bit rude.

mrbsred1 Jesus you need to lighten up

"Less" is what guitarists like me play."More" is what guitarists like Tommy play:-)

Less = Wes. As in Montgomery.

sure he did, but doing job of whole band on one instrument is another story :)

Roger Steinbrink More=Moore As in Vinnie :-)

True...when it comes to "Silent Night..." This is guitar boogie dude you don't play "less." Check out How Deep Is Your Love Emmanuel if you want less.

metroshifter Same here, searching fast acoustic blues was a mistake.... :D

fuckin idiots

Either they don't know the first thing about playing guitar , or they think they can play better , which I'm sure most can't.

Yeah trolls don't like stuff they cant play

Anyone who knows music and guitar can see the mastery in ALL styles of playing.Ive been trolled and visited their channel. and found them to be awful players in some cases..In essence i don't mind getting a few tips from Jeff beck but trolls have a nerve even jimi hendrix gets trolled ?? i dunno nothing like a rant from the uninformed

Maybe the best on acustic guitar

+michael collums Y'know, there's a feature called 'Reply'.

I've never heard of him but I can definitely say that he is one of the best blues guitar players alive !

+John Betterton Tommy Emmanuel. Check out his other video. He does Beatles Medleys that can turn you on your head.

+John Betterton Robert Johnson. Educate yourself on real blues.

You know? If you keep playing, the callouses go away after a few years. I had pretty hard rough callouses the first 3 years I played. There was a strip of ugly hard tissue on the outer edge of my forefinger from playing a ton barre chords. Then one I day I noticed they just weren't there anymore. It's a rare day, when I don't play at least an hour of guitar, but nothing ever hurts. The skin on my finger tips seems a bit thicker than anywhere else, but that's about it. I've met quite a few other guitarists with the same thing. I don't know why it is, but they go away.

***** Yeah, they go away... fingers just build resistance... I guess??

Keith Hall If they ( the fingers ) hurt from playin' 8-10 hours a day... try 'super glue' .... I swear I have done this for a 'gig'.... I got it from George Thorogood.... but he's bad to the bone!

I gave all my guitars away. And up-ed my Prozac dose.

Lis Spir

+Mehdi Saad If Tommy were Stephen Hawking, EVH would be an elementary science teacher in comparison.

+Dan L actually Eddie Van Halen was influenced by Jimi Hendrix

Mehdi Saad Who wasn't influenced by Hendrix? He completely changed music as we know it. Being influenced by something or someone great does you make you great. EVH just spews scale runs out at fast speeds and people who know little to nothing about music think he's great.

+Dan L I was influenced by Ace Frehley from KISS

Mehdi Saad Seriously? Or are you trolling? Frehley is one of the notoriously overrated guitarists who was a member of possibly the most overrated band.

lol.

+geefender you upload a video then mate lmao

+stan .grondas Stan, I am older than this man and have learned more is a coupla hours of him talking about his philosophy, his focus on tone and voicings, his fingerstylings, his mantra of how he got from age 12 to 60+. He made me love it more and inspired me to dust off some nice axes, used while watching TV. Noodling......while I noodled he applied himself and that is why it is hard to watch his profieciency and his upbeat attitude, I think we all dreamed at one time to rise above the couch and boob tube......

Cutmasterchard..it's SHOW BUSINESS.....based on blues....

AndMusicForAll Of course it has blues in it.It is a 1 4 5 progression ,blues is in lots of music even rockabilly.

AndMusicForAll aND you do??

What is your point exactly?

AndMusicForAll it has of course blues elements, and dont' forget: the blues got a baby and they named it rock'n roll.

LOL

Man, Tommy Emmanuel is the best on acustic guitar

Blues on crystal meth maybe?

What you're looking for is "Depressing hill billy tries to play blues"

you are a fucking idiot,you have NO idea what blues are and how difficult they are to play correctly. so go have another can of loudmouth moron,and join your buddies woopin in the front row.

Give that banjo to Tommy and he'll shred it too !

Kudos to Tommy, no doubt. He is a singular talent and has soul to go w his speed and technique. BUT still I prefer Mississippi John Hurt or Skip James. Blues to the bone. "I'm built for comfort, not for speed" Willie Dixon wrote for Wolf.

Little did you know, four years later, he would be our president😔

Oh yeaahh .He can. Phew! Didnt realize I wasn't breathing till it ended.

George Christofi​​ I dont think so. The blues has its origin in the black soul music during times of slavery. The only time they came together to give vent to their anguish and agony. You are confusing it with _bluegrass_ which has its origin in medieval Celtic and English folk songs and ballads

Why bring black and white into it for fuck sake.

LHudson ART/LIFTS You've got a point there.

nandu menon It's all is all I can say.

+Michael Browne It has emotion and soul.. You clearly don't know TOMMY lol don't judge.

+Turboz this guy is an amazing guitar player one of The best but that's not the BLUES

Just because it isn't slow does not mean it isn't blues. His playing SRV style blues.

Your starring at it baby

Michael Browne oh he could slow it down sure. But who'd want him to?