Every now and then Australia produces an outstanding artist. Vale Barry Humphries, keep listening to this bloke, one of the best. From a very very proud old Aussie.

He seems to never be the least bit bored, giving all he has to each performance.

I’ve read so many comments throughout my life saying “this makes me want to give up playing…” These artists spend their lives working on creating a magnificent product to help inspire you to greatness yourself. Take it from Tommy’s own words. You are capable of greatness, never stop surprising yourself and keep working very hard. Tommy says he plays to inspire others to play better. Appreciate his work and keep going my friends. God bless us all 🙏 Keep your heads up and never quit going!

What a breathtakingly beautiful other-worldly rendition of ‘Over The Rainbow’. Such a talent, what a gift to us all is Tommy Emanuel...

He is such an amazing guitarist! A real international treasure.

Those harmonics he hits with his right hand are so difficult as is, but the speed he does it at is unreal. Amazing

He is realy the best guitar player who gives you also the story when he plays the guitar. He makes the guitar a emotional instrument!

Whatever instrument one plays it’s all about having something to say - thank you Tommy, from the first to the last note, totally gripping 😊

This is impossible. Tommy is once in a lifetime. You can’t stop it; your jaw will hit the floor. And he is an incredibly beautiful person as well. All we can do is just sit back and take it all in. Too good to believe.

I've been lucky enough to meet Tommy 3 times after his concerts.... once in my Home town of Toowoomba in Australia 20+ yrs ago. He's a really nice guy, and I wouldn't play like I do today if it was not for having met him. He's a national/world treasure. thank you Tommy.

There were and are a lot of great guitarists and of course there are always a small handful of those who stand well above the rest but then occasionally, every once in a very great while, their shows up one who sit on his own cloud and and is a Master among masters. A Grand Master. Tommy Emmanuel is a Grand Master.

@mrkkitson

2 ай бұрын

Indeed... The best of the best!

@mathewhale3581

Ай бұрын

Certified GM

@mrkkitson

Ай бұрын

There is a reason Chet Atkins bestowed 'Certified Guitar Player' on Tommy...

@geofchurch7367

Ай бұрын

Tommy is just the greatest.

Absolutely beautiful Tommy. Thank you for sharing your gift to the world. God Bless you. People like you bring so much sense and peace and hope to a world that has lost sight of the things that really matter.

I have my own version which I play with equal passion, but, alas, only about 20% of his talent. Still, the important thing is to play.

This is an alien from space in the form of a man. His guitar too is an alien that could transform likewise. For one thousand years I guarantee I can never be like him, alien.

Tommy is the undisputed master of the guitar. God bless Chet who inspired him to become what he is.

Everything he plays is magical

This guy just keeps getting better!

First 18 seconds sounded like a piano solo! Brilliant!

Indeed. I've seen him twice and every time it's a blowout performance by a masterful entertainer, USING a guitar to perform. :-)

@bristleconepinus2378

2 ай бұрын

Tommy is such a master I could die to that music.

Maestro.

A 1000 years from now Tommy will still be remembered as the best guitar player ever and this song will prove that. How is it possible that ANYONE can get that much feeling from 6 strings and 10 fingers? Tommy, when are you coming back to South Florida?

A true master. MESMERIZING

If this isn't beautiful then I don't know what is.

Can you imagine a rendition of this with Tommy on guitar and Eva Cassidy at vocals. RIP Eva

I love this song....thank you Tommy

A rare genius at acoustic guitar. Heartfelt.

@GusMitchell-mh7pl

9 күн бұрын

Have you listened to his brother Phil? He is about the same, but on electric.

Excellent. Love all his harmonics.

Thanks for sharing. Tommy is a legend 🙏🏻👍🏻

Thank you Dale for the superb video and sound for this rendition of Tommy's tribute to keep hopes and dreams alive - this is one the best there is, truly moving.

Discovered him later in his career and am astonished at his creativity and playing ability. Beautiful piece here. Can eveb see Dorothy and her three pals

@Haiang-kv3mo

2 ай бұрын

Âm thanh đẹp quá!!

So beautiful 🎶💖🌷

Just beautiful ; thank you Sir...................

I want to see this wild man and Tim Henderson together that would be so awesome that would be some kind of Millennium event

Beautiful!

Always something good from Tommy. Did arrangement for orchestra minus bridge.

Years on my eyes😰

He makes unbelievable sounds come out of a guitar. Somewhere between a piano and a harp !

This is a miracle. Like a great composer, he is taking a simplistic popular melody and making a full-size suite of it. Bravo.

Calm and soothing...veru wonderful Performance

very fantasic

Bello/Magnifico.😮😮😮😮😮😮🥵

❤❤❤спасибо🙏💕🙏💕❤❤❤ привет из Сибири🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

It’s game over man!

You should check out Tommy and his brother Phil doing Rondo A La Turke.

Wow I didn't know he could play the harp too

Tommy always leaves me speechless!

Really!? Just, WOW!! ❤😮😅

Great video to start your channel. Tommy is suburb here, as usual. A little more detail as to the timestamp would be very useful for future viewers.

Impressive technique in the service of deep feelings

Wow!

The man is an absolute magician! 😊😊😊

Just great 🍀💛🪄🙏

Magic

I want to play half as good as him when I grow up.

Perfect!

Beautiful... 👍

WOW.

As perfect as I think it gets. I wonder if he thinks he has ever played it better.

freakin beautiful

I cant believe his mastery of artificial harmonics. Just putting a few of these together is very difficult, but he does fast runs, appegios and blends in natural harmonics and normally sounded notes. I think i only heard one bad note in the whole thing and that was only sightly muted. Wow!

amazing

Cada nota la interpreta para ser escuchada.dar lo mejor así lo percibimos. Grandioso lo que hace.

טומי עימנו אל.❤

Such respect for his audience and from his audience. I was not at this show, but the one I was at in Akron, OH was magical.

@chrisfleischman3371

Ай бұрын

Magical- that is the right word….

Tommy E, you are a six string master😊

Приветствую вас Томми вы мастер слушать и слушать приятно вас.

И инструмент, и музыкант высшего класса.

🌹🌹❤🌹🌹

Sounds like a harp is many places. Ethereal.

Dale, was this from his show in Portland a couple years ago.

@DaleChumbleyVancouverWARealtor

2 ай бұрын

It was from his show last week here in Portland.

Well he’s enjoying it 😂

👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👍

Wow. The technique and tastefulness… reminds me of Horowitz. Is this standard tuning?

@DaleChumbleyVancouverWARealtor

2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if he had it tuned differently?

@ytnsanw

2 ай бұрын

Pretty sure it's standard. Definitely the low E is E, and the shapes he's hitting would suggest that all other strings are standard too. He just makes it sound better than most...

Оскар этому джентльмену!

the guitar goes for a smoke break after each song

I hate guitars sometimes because when I hear a guitarist like this, I just want to give up 🙁

@stevebroady5539

2 ай бұрын

Hang in, man!

@calvinmeade3755

2 ай бұрын

I know how you feel! However, he IS better than 99.9999999999999999% of all guitar players that ever EXISTED! I wouldn't be too hard on myself.

@theresaronningallen8520

2 ай бұрын

Could not have said it better!

@StevesSlideandJazz

2 ай бұрын

You must practice 40 hours a day!

@senti7965

2 ай бұрын

If you really want something to achieve, you have to be a passion on it. Practice and patience is the virtue

На русской гитаре ?

Ja

Far too much talent in one package. So unfair. 😢

I don't think he's playing in the key of C. Definitely some kind of off tuning. This guy is fantastic

@tecentral7564

Ай бұрын

Standard tuning but lower :)

@JuddWheeler-jp7so

Ай бұрын

@@tecentral7564 wow

Hybrid picking I want to learn it.....

Great guitarist but I can't like any video with the crappy sound that comes from a telephone. My ears grew up with quality sound systems and this ain't it.

Recorded with a potato apparently.

Tommy is fantastic, your sound quality isn’t...

Great playing as usual from Tommy and good picture quality but terrible sound quality on this recording, with way to much stage reverberation. I assume it was done using a mobile phone, which are not designed for this purpose, as is clearly evident. I get tired of the low quality aspects of these types of recordings and wish KZread had a policy of not allowing them on their platform.

@tecentral7564

2 ай бұрын

Just don’t watch them then. Nobody’s forcing you

@donjohnstone3707

2 ай бұрын

@@tecentral7564 How is anyone to know what quality issues there might be on a KZread video if they don't watch at least some of it? Try switching your brain on before commenting.

@JIsaacMardis

2 ай бұрын

Ahhh yes, I too wish that there was a policy that only professionally recorded 4K Dolby-certified recordings were allowed to be shared with the masses, and everything else was banned, citizen journalism be damned. How dare some average Joe try to share something with other people despite not having the latest recording equipment 🙄

@donjohnstone3707

2 ай бұрын

@@JIsaacMardis Glad you agree with me. I'll pass your comment on to KZread.

@donjohnstone3707

Ай бұрын

@@whenisasnakeatail4933 There are plenty of recordings on KZread, from very poor quality through to very high quality. People who put up music video posts should know where their videos sit on the quality spectrum. If they are honest they will admit when a particular video of theirs has poor picture and/or sound quality. It doesn't show much respect for someone's music when a poor quality recording of it is posted on public media platforms.

He Is playing with his head n Not his hands. The Amazon acoustic guitar sounds real real bad, Just a bunch of irritating noise. Tommy Go home

Yeah he’s a good player…. But think he murdered this one. Far to much decoration and a little bit to far up his own backside. Pity he couldn’t sing

Фантастика игры

Bravo da capo

Beautiful!