The 27 people who gave this a "thumbs down" need to keep working on step #1 as they clearly have no control of their thumb. 👍

@Kapueira

5 жыл бұрын

lol you're damn right.

@Kapueira

4 жыл бұрын

They probably came to the wrong lesson, tried, couldn't get it and blamed the teacher. No one with a minimal musical knowledge would give this lesson a thumb down. This is already hard to get under your fingers... and Emmanuel explains it so easily. Go figure!!

@avanish2007

4 жыл бұрын

,😅

@chrishyne2167

4 жыл бұрын

Step one is the rule of thumb! 👍🏼

@snoop1204

4 жыл бұрын

Disliked cuz he put his pinky down and all those unnecessary lil movements 😞

*His thumb is so independent it left the house and started at business as an adolescent*

A free lesson of actual real value for an actual real Legend. Wonderful, thank you Tommy and Reverb.

No instrument fights back at you when you try to play it like the acoustic guitar does. Mastery of fingerstyle on an acoustic guitar displays strength, courage, determination and dedication of the highest degree. This man is a legend.

@MarcHalikas_surfercook

3 жыл бұрын

So true! The acoustic guitar (especially steel string) is a beast. You hafta string it, tune it, fret and pick it. I practice 90% of the time on acoustic then when picking up an electric it's like white lightening fast!

@lindsayheywood7195

2 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear you say that! I am just starting finger style on an acoustic guitar, and I seem to get the patterns fairly easily, but string buzz is my nemesis.

He looks so happy, this is what you call doing what you love

This video will get a smile on any guitarist's face; regardless of what situation he/she is in.

Summary: 1:22 - step 1. Thumb technique. Anchor down. Root on first beat. Palm muting 4:25 - step 2. Spell out the chord. 5:21 - step 3: Create rhythm with the chord 6:00 - step 4: Chord arpeggios Great lesson!

@gabriellacaroline3915

3 жыл бұрын

thanks.

Not only is he a glorious guitarist he’s an incredibly humble teacher. Could listen to him for hours

@BookerTDooku

2 жыл бұрын

He really is. Totally clear and accessible and I love how he drops in these little jokes and occasional flashes of mind blowing skill. Comes across as a really lovely guy as well as an absolutely legendary musician.

@NylonStrings83

Жыл бұрын

Quite rare for an Aussie

@wilwaren8571

Жыл бұрын

@@NylonStrings83 why is that ? =0 im curious as im european

@NylonStrings83

Жыл бұрын

@@wilwaren8571 Aussies are usualy very agressive people kindness and humbleness is a rare thing to see amongst aussies

@wilwaren8571

Жыл бұрын

@@NylonStrings83 woo ! thanks for the highlight ! now that u say it i do remember hearing also something like that ;o maybe the heat or sand has got something to do with it 🤣

I love this guy. What a gifted artist, as well as a very generous human being. This world is much the better for having him in it.

@gtrdude6

2 жыл бұрын

He's so genuine!

At some point Mr. Emmanuel graduated from national treasure to world treasure. Thank you so much for this!

@diannetempletongardner2558

5 жыл бұрын

Agree.. a world treasure...a joy to behold..and hear...just saw him...had no idea he had hearing issues...amazingly modest man. He changed his hearing aid batteries on stage...this is a great lesson..thank you Tommy for just being alive...and sharing your incredible genius with us. Angelina is my new challenge to learn. The kind of man we need in these very troubled times in this country.

He has such a soothing voice I could listen to him (and his guitar) all day

You lucky devils....ha, ha, ha...indeed. What a beautiful lesson.

One of the very best instructional videos on KZread. Absolutely no filler material and so clear and straightforward. Well done Tommy.

Thank you Tommy, really really appreciate you taking time to make these tutorials ! You’ve provided me with tremendous insight into learning finger-style acoustic guitar!

Thank you , so generous of you its a privilege to watch you play and spread your gift

I've seen him live twice. Fun, energetic, life-affirming shows, sometimes with additional incredible musicians.

ive practiced for hours on how to get this right, struggling hard but it just makes me respect tommy even more, amazing player and teacher

What a gift, a lesson by this legend (and awesome human being)

Love from Australia Tommy, youre a national treasure for sure! God keep you and those fingers safe!!!

I so appreciate how Tommy shares his knowledge with us on how to play guitar more effectively. I know that this lesson he gave here was simplistic to him. It is kind of like a calculus teacher having to teach basic algebra.

I love Tommy! He simplifies the steps so well. Now comes the hard part. Practicing SLOOOOWLY at first!

Not a single surplus word! Seven minutes of pure gold. Tommy Emmanuel is not just a great guitar player but a wonderful teacher too.

Tommy - you're magnificent ! Love your style, love your skill, love your sense of humor, love everything about you man ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in a way that is actually understandable.

Thank you reverb team. Pls continue it with Tommy Sir. God bless you.

Thanks Tommy for a great lesson. I've been at the first part of the lesson for about a week at 20 minutes a night. I can see and hear the difference. It's like anything else in life, what you put in is what you get out.

For being one of the world's best guitarists, you have such a passion for learning people like me.!! Thank you

Sense of humor of this guy is great. :-D Also if he says "it takes little time" it means a couple of months to 2 years, but if he says it means a lot of determination, then it means decades of practice and going for a lifetime journey.

Brilliant Artist, Teacher and Musical Genius!

Would love to see tabs with these videos! I've only been playing for about a year and a half or so, so I can pick up a few things but not everything. Reverb's videos have been such a great learning tool. They really do a great job of keeping you interested and moving along and expose you to things you might not be into yet

Haven't played in years but started again recently after seeing a Knopf video on fingerstyle. Was getting into a rut so this video came along just at the right time. Big thanks to Tommy and the folks at Reverb.

@enigmapublius1

5 жыл бұрын

oh for your information the same happened to me :) haven't touched the guitar for almost 5 years and (accidentaly because I couldn't sleep and I had to distract myself), after seeing a video of knofler playing the guitar I knew I should start playing again just for the fun so I'm here to learn some more

@TheBoomtown4

5 жыл бұрын

enigmapublius1 yep, same. Imagine if we had KZread when we were learning. It’s such an insane resource for guitar!

@yasmiiineee

4 жыл бұрын

Damn. Same. Actually picked up a guitar for the 1st time after watching Knopfler. I wish I had discovered him when I was a little bit younger but 22 isn't too old i guess...

Thank you sooo much Tommy! YOU are a living legend! Stay safe and healthy! 🙏🏾

So brilliantly explained...the sequencing of the skill is so often a barrier to developing the skill. Thanks so much for sharing

This lesson is just amazing. Thank you. I needed this.

Your love for the instrument always shows in your playing, and now I see it in your teaching. Thanks for sharing your gifts!

@thomasfontenot4881

4 жыл бұрын

I heard him say at a concert one time that it's about playing with and having passion for the guitar. He said he honestly would rather play with someone that sucks but has passion, instead of the opposite .

One of the best tutorial I've ever seen, thank you so much!.. It's help to get rhythm and practice for the right hand,..

Hea Tommy, you cant be beat. I have been to see you 4 times over the years at the Palatium in Tampa, great small venue. Cant wait to see you again. Thanks for the music.

Tommy, thanks for sharing... you're a legend mate!

Sir when I listen to you I feel heavenly,, nothing makes me so happy but your guitar.. Thank you so much sir 🙏 🙏 🙏

Best learning video EVEY!!! Just practice this and you get it. Thank you Tommy!

Truly wonderful video from an astonishing musician and master of acoustic guitar.

Steady thumbs up!!! Congrats for Reverb and Tommy, great mini lesson. Greetings from Spain!

That may be the simplest yet most comprehensive finger picking lesson you could have ever squeezed into seven minutes! Thanks Tommy.

What a legend, great video, clear instruction. Legend Tommy!

I know some of your musically friends in Sunderland, England who play in your style ... a brill way to play guitar and I'm learning! Thank you Tommy!

I have been a guitarist for 11 or so years, playing mainly rock, metal blues and a touch of jazz.. This is possibly the hardest thing to play I've ever attempted. Absolutely hats off to anyone who can do the arpeggios while keeping the bass notes going.

@hilariouslysuspicious6477

3 жыл бұрын

@chewy dude can u recommend some rock guitar solos for beginner like me. ?

@ChewyTheEwoK

3 жыл бұрын

@@hilariouslysuspicious6477 Hi mate, give green day's holiday a go :) great solo, and not too tricky!

@gtrdude6

2 жыл бұрын

I have played guitar for 30 + years and I am struggling with this style. I will say this, I have kept at it and I'm starting to get the hang of it. It has taken some time and lots of practice. I wanted to learn it after hearing Tommy and being BLOWN away.

@Anteksanteri

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the hats. I had been doing fingerstyle for about 7 years so it took me like 4 hours to learn the thumb technique when I tried a month back.

@stairfall12345678900

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely a thing you have to learn when you're younger. Fingerstyle is the first way I learned to play guitar when I was 17--I remember only spending an hour or two a day and it only took a week to for me to nail down Travis picking. Fast forward 8 years when I tried to learn how to use a pick. I tried and tried for a month and could not get it, and to this day it still feels very unnatural and I make tons of mistakes.

This always sounds like it's more complicated than it looks. Thank you for the simple explanation. That was awesome. 🙂👍

Thank you for this little guitar lesson Tommy.

This way of teaching has gotten me further than other video or techniques in the last year or two. Thank. You. Tommy.

God pls protect this angel at all cost

Tommy is the man!

you are such a good teacher, tommy! thanks for the exposition.

Thank you Tommy for these very helpful exercises.

Awesome! I wanna try this soon. I often play fingerstyle, which I learned when I was studying classical guitar, but that's obviously way different than playing these types of rhythms with a pick on your thumb. As comfortable as I am with how I play, this more rhythmic style is pretty foreign to my fingers and I am excited to take on the challenge and learn something new!

For someone so talented and famous he is so down to earth! Not only a great guitarist but seems like a great guy also!

@colinpoole7653

2 жыл бұрын

For god to take time and give us mere mortals a simple lesson is amazing

Love how he just tells you what not to do straight up. Too many teachers/tutorials on here focus on what to do without addressing the bad habits.

This video’s really helpful and articulate!! Thank you!!❤️😍

More more more...gimmi more. Love you Tom! Seen in North Carolina last year. The first time I heard you I came across "Angelina" and wow your music brought me finally to a taste in music I hadn't yet fallen for, but always appreciated. I learned Angelina the same weekend I discovered you. This way of playing only makes you an overall better player. If you ever get a chance to see him live, do it! Great Showmanship, very entertaining with and without his guitar. An absolute superb player. P.S. I anchor down too... Ever since my mama taught me to play.

@user-jl1vr2sl8o

5 жыл бұрын

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@bealotcoolerifyoudid7217

4 жыл бұрын

Angelina is amazing :-)

@MFDOOOOM

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao i wish my mum stuck a guitar into my hand too when i was a child :(

He's a great great guitarist, and those usually cant teach at all, not a case here. Such a great teacher

@drutgat2

6 жыл бұрын

I completely agree with you - exactly what I was going to say.

@rfabadguitar

6 жыл бұрын

hahaha you hit it right

@houstonwalker7108

5 жыл бұрын

I think he was a teacher before

@marlonbrandoseyes1443

5 жыл бұрын

I think the greatest ones are usually the best teachers e.g. Socrates Plato Aristotle Alexander

@justinemarkdajay7485

4 жыл бұрын

@@marlonbrandoseyes1443 i agree. "If you can't teach it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

The best explanation and demonstration of fingerstyle guitar this picker has seen.

GOD bless TOMMY EMMANUEL, thanks for the lessons. no shortcuts to be great but the right way to learn to be on the winning team.

his thumb so independent it can play another instrument while he is playing guitar

@BillyWrightLive

5 жыл бұрын

...while also flying a helicopter

@paulcarolla8008

5 жыл бұрын

It up to

@paulcarolla8008

5 жыл бұрын

@@BillyWrightLiveon 9o no no no look to it on

@battyflaps5410

4 жыл бұрын

His thumb so independent it moved away got a new job a car a house and drives a posh car

@michaelwood9321

4 жыл бұрын

His thumb is so independent, it works for the independent news paper whilst the ghost of the thumb haunts a bird he shagged at one of his gigs. He then put his independent thumb in her anus whilst shagging her to create a better seal. However, the entire time his thumb was playing freight train.

Magician showing how the magic trick is done...

Thanks Tommy. You make even the basics sound amazing. Cheers my friend. Steve Wilson

Thanks Tommy! You’re an awesome player and teacher! And thanks Reverb! 😎👍

Amazing guy.

7 minute lesson and, for me, months and months and months of practice! 😆🍻 Love it!

He's just amazing! I realized it's going to take a long while to break my picking hand strumming, but I love this finger style.

This is an amazing lesson. Thank you Tommy and reverb.

Thanks for this tutorial, you are a great player

When he says "a little time", it means a century.

Wow! I am ashamed t say I didn’t who this gentleman was before today and I am totally inspired! ‘This gentleman rocks!!!

very cool---you break it down so perfectly!!!!! Thanks Tommy!!!

Step 3 is insane to think about as you're doing four things with two hands. Alternating the left index finger while holding the bottom half of the chord, alternating your right thumb over 3 strings and picking off beat with your first three right hand fingers. As someone who only played with a pick for years, here I go repeating this for hours till I get it.

@wilwaren8571

Жыл бұрын

did you get it ?

@JohnMoseley

Ай бұрын

Yeah, it's really hard. I'm having to take it very slow.

Arpeggio...that´s a big word for an Australian XDDD I love this guy! :-)

Love this have loved him since introduced to him in highschool 20 years ago .... this man has such a love for his instrument

This is a golden lesson for beginners.. Thank you so much..

I'm low-key bragging here, but I had the opportunity to attend one of Tommy's classes back in 2014, and then even got to play a song with him! Then at the end, my wife and kids came to pick me up, and he insisted on meeting and talking with them! He is one of the kindest people I've ever met!

@seemaairy4789

2 жыл бұрын

You're so lucky. I'm jealous of you.

Trying to develop 'thumb independence' in the right hand can be difficult and take a long time, especially when you are also trying to master chord fingering with the left hand. You need to develop the thumb independence upto the point where your thumb plays automatically without you even thinking about it. Then you can solely concentrate on perfecting the melody. A method I found to help achieve this 'thumb independence' was to tune the guitar to an open chord, say D major (D1, A, D2, F#,A D3), and so not worry too much about playing diff chords, instead play the open D major chord, and noodle around with the notes that sound good in that key - in other words practise with your ears, which is what music is all about - hearing and listerning ! - and practise with the thumb low D1-D2-A-D2 to the 4 beats in the bar for 4/4 time.

He's a great guitar player and also a great teacher....clear, concise and patient.

I love you man. Thanks for taking time as the professional you are to teach us schleps how to climb to the level.

Great, now that chord progression is carved in my head for the rest of my life

@marcoVGpolo

4 жыл бұрын

Thymus-chan 81 yup. Still think about it every once in a while

He always seems so happy. That's the groove I wish I had😞

@MrGavinspoppop

6 жыл бұрын

Decide to have it and work for it ... all things are possible ...keep the faith brother

This was so needed. What a beautiful human being.

Tommy Emmanuel; what a guy. Really enjoy seeing him feel the tune. Amazing player.

love you sir

Pretty cool Tommy, I will use this lesson for my starting trainees. One word about the "Anchor with the pinky or not". Tommy is certainly right. But when I was younger, I developed a strange (is it strange?) habit. While my nails were often broken, my pinky nail was always long and solid. I began using this clumsy finger as "B" plan, to a point where 30 years later, it became my best finger to play melodies while picking arpeggios with my other no-nail fingers (making the melody louder than the accompaniment). Therefore, no way Tommy, I can no longer abandon my pinky, using it as an anchor. So I guess I'm part of that losers' team. Seriously Tommy, you're awesome, thanks for your always great generosity and the inspiration you provide us all.

Tommy ist für mich einer der besten Gitarristen, ein großartiges Vorbild. Greetings from Germany.

Tommy is just an amazing player!!!! Thank you, Tommy!

Step 5...repeat for 10,000 hours

@probabilitysurfing

6 жыл бұрын

Me too. Guitar practice is is 6:00 to 6:20 every morning.

@joshfoss7407

6 жыл бұрын

@emre er If noise is a problem and you can afford it, you could try a different guitar for late/early practice. A Godin multi-ac takes acoustic strings, but doesn't have a sound-hole so it's going to be more quiet acoustically. Likewise, my OM model guitars are much more quiet than my dreads. You can even do this on a regular electric guitar without a problem

@acoustic61

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. That's why many people give it up. Most great accomplishments took a lot of work.

@sir2212

6 жыл бұрын

I can't agree more.

@leventopoulos

6 жыл бұрын

haha so true!

Legend.

@ivannovotny4552

5 жыл бұрын

And let's not forget Emmanuel's talented late brother Phil.

I've seen you play for such a long time. You are absolutely outstanding.

You gotta love this guy and a great teacher!

I've finnaly learned it! I'm so happy right now!

@yanalbanwame1762

4 жыл бұрын

Please how much have you practiced ?

@MFDOOOOM

3 жыл бұрын

How long did it take bruh i literally cannot do it

This vid felt like a real teacher teaching me I was smiling so hard

You are the master. Thanks so much for this video sir and reverb, absolulely brilliant.

Yup. Practicing again now. God bless you Tommy

I love how he looks up to Jerry Reed so much.

@anthonyfox1436

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly Jerry was an absolute beast of a guitar player

Tommy Emmanuel is the Tony hawk of guitar

@riccardo4362

4 жыл бұрын

Tony Hawk is the Tommy Emmanuel of skateboarding

@jaelsosa

4 жыл бұрын

occamsrager what do you mean by Clint Eastwood? westerns?

Thanks for sharing you absolute Legend! 🤟🏽

Thanks Tommy. I have a couple of them picks and your other styles are great. I just can't wait to get into them.