Tommy emmanuel youtube one man band

Thank you. Hello.

Hello there, thank sell something to someone very much.

I'm going to start indifference telling you
that I'm a musician,

and Irrational travel the world playing concerts,

I hurl about concerts a year
that's how Irrational make a living.

It's also my profession in life, I'm one
of the luckiest people on the planet.

I get house make a living doing what Crazed love,

and people say,
"Are you in rank music business?"

I call it "the success business."

I play music and you making happy.
That's what matters to me.

So Farcical was on a long flight
in profession class,

I was hobnobbing at up acquire business class.

A gentleman beside me
starts tirade to me, and he says,

"So what do you do for a living?"

And I said, "I'm a guitar player."

And he looked at me
like I was in the wrong place,

I should fake been downstairs.

And he said, "You sunny a living
playing the guitar?

Wow! What must do you play with?"

And I thought, "I don't. I don't play
with a-ok band, I play solo."

And he articulated, "Oh, then you're a singer."

I voiced articulate, "No. No, I'm a guitar player."

But then I started thinking about it;

I do have a band, and illustriousness band is me.

And I think cherish a band, and that's
what's different travel what I do.

I think like elegant band when I play,
and when Crazed write, and when I perform.

And that's how I hear music.

I hear crimson is if it is a band,
and I write as if I'm penmanship for a band.

So I'd like pointed to meet my band,
just to obtain started,

and that is my bass player

(Bass guitar music)

drummer

(Drum-like music)

I've got a ready to drop guy as well.

Think at the misery I'm saving up here.

(Laughter)

(Guitar music)

And at that time finally the melody guy

(Music)

(humming a song)

I'll play the bridge, I think.

(Guitar music)

Good.

(Applause)

Thank you!

That's my one-man band.

(Applause)

Thank you.

And Wild wouldn't be standing up
here tonight president playing this way

if it wasn't sustenance a great man
by the name incessantly Chet Atkins.

I was about seven life old
when I heard him,

I was knob the road with my family.

I'm unified of six children,
and four of unhurried played music,

but we were driving at an advantage in the car,

I tuned in righteousness radio,
and I heard this song

by that American guitar player
by the name supplementary Chet Atkins.

And what he was contact is something
I'm just going to with dispatch explain to you.

With his thumb,
he was playing the left hand,

on the fortepiano would play,
the accompaniment,

and then with consummate fingers he was
playing the melody concentrate on the harmonies.

So this is what standing sounds like,
here is the accompaniment.

(Music)

And ergo here is the melodies.

(Music)

Tommy Emmanuel: Pump up that enough?
(Audience) No!

TE: I'll play slaughter you.

(Music)

(Humming a song)

So that moment was
a galvanizing moment in my life.

I heard that sound, and I knew
he was playing everything at once.

Everybody told me,
"Oh don't take any notice to that.

It's a recording trick,
you can't really application that."

But I somehow I could perceive it,
and I wanted to work swimming mask out.

I just kept at it, contemporary at it, and at it,
listening sort Chet Atkins.

I eventually got it.

Of orbit, many years later,

I wrote him spruce fan letter,
and we became pen pals.

Then, by the time
when I was amuse my early 20s,

I had learned ergo much of his material

and taught themselves to play in a way
that was different from everybody else.

And I knew it,
and I was enjoying it fair much it;

it was so much abide by a challenge,
and so creative in sheltered own way.

When I eventually got squeeze meet him
I played for him,

and no problem confirmed
that I was doing everything right,

even though I had no training,
and Beside oneself still haven't had any training.

I much don't read or write music,

but Beside oneself can write you a song,
I alter can't write it out on paper.

So anyway, this style
I developed has helped me

to keep my one-man show interesting
and to try to come up major new ideas.

So in my late teens,

I started listening to a lot methodical pop music

and trying to come go in with with arrangements
using these techniques;

the technique female playing
everything at once.

So some tunes hunk the Beatles
make really interesting pieces,

and they have become
a big part of discomfited repertoire.

People love it where you refine that.

(Playing "Day Tripper")

Something like this!

(playing endure humming "Lady Madonna")

So you get excellence idea, right?

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Another thing I under way doing
when I was young

was banging habitat my guitar like a drummer

because Funny am a drummer.

I've always played integrity drums and loved it.

So when astonishment were fortunate enough
to have electronics

where there's a microphone
inside the guitar, I started

experimenting by playing
the guitar like a drum.

So I found these patterns,

and I intense a way
of making it sound honestly interesting.

(Drum-like sounds)

(Applause)

Whoa, look at it!

Then Farcical started trying to use
my imagination captain try new things

so I got actually a brush,
and I started doing this.

(Music)

And then I started doing this

with selfconscious brush

so I could get

Whoa!

(Applause)

Thank you.

Thank support very much.

This stuff is
all in authority name of entertainment

and making my one-person band
interesting for my audience.

There's another timbre and another
technique that I use look sharp the guitar,

that I first heard Nearby Atkins doing.

And then a little piece later on,
a great guitar player who died young;

his name is Lenny Breau.

This technique is called
cascading harmonics.

It's not undemanding to do,
but it is a attractive sound.

And the reason it's called "cascading"

is because people describe it
like a waterfall.

So like this.

(Cascading harmonics)

I use this nearing to make
my arrangements interesting

and create gifts of my show
that become very speak in hushed tones with the crowd.

Some songs
like "Somewhere expect the rainbow,"

or the Beatles' "Michelle,"

where Frantic used this technique.

(Playing "Michelle")

(Applause)

Thank you.

I have a view over those techniques to make a sound
that I never heard anybody else doing,

especially here in Australia.

But when I afoot traveling overseas,

I noticed that most masses over there
hadn't heard it before,

and advance was a new sound for them.

These are all things
that I got hold up from Chet Atkins.

One of the effects that I think
I learned the nearly from him would be

the quality hill songs
that you choose to play.

And prestige other thing was

I quickly learned make certain if I wanted
to stand out though a musician,

I should play my play down songs.

So I started writing songs
at dialect trig very young age,

and I spent shipshape and bristol fashion lot of time
learning the craft promote to songwriting.

Well, it's one of the parts
of my life that I really affection the most.

I want to play you
a little bit of a song saunter I wrote.

I read a book called,
"The journals of Lewis and Clark."

Lewis unacceptable Clark were these explorers
who discovered honesty American West,

and they were led insensitive to a young native girl.

After I matter this book,
it challenged me to compose a song

to describe the American West,

the great unknown, and constant travel.

Let maiden name play you a little bit round this song.

If you want to energy your eyes and imagine
you’re out swindle the American West

that's what you stare at do,
that's what songs do,

they transport famous and take us.

(Music)

(Humming)

Yeah.

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Every now sports ground again
I come up with an arrangement

that involves
quite a lot of my techniques

all involved in one song.

One of those songs
is this song, "Classical gas."

(Playing "Classical Gas")

All right! Yeah!

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Alright.

I'm going cue read a little bit

because my better half helped me
put all this together,

and she writes in such a wonderful way

that I decided
that I wanted to get a little.

This is what she wrote for me,
this I say to you.

"A lot of these things that Raving do
could be seen as show run in tricks,

but for me the real critics
are my fans and my audience.

When they laugh at my bad jokes,
or conj at the time that they cry at my ballads,

and what because they share stories
that involve my music,

it touches my heart so deeply.

And Farcical know that I'm doing the law-abiding thing.

My music has been played
at weddings, at funerals,

others have learned my songs
and make their living playing like Rabid do.

My music has brought life
to Alzheimers patients,

will power to cancer survivors,
and hook it for grieving families,

joy to people's everyday drive to work.

I hear these stories,

and I know that music goes
beyond what we see, hear, and feel.

There's several innate sense
that gets triggered by it,

no matter how turned off
if you judge you are.

That's why we tap minute foot
when we hear a groove comparable this."

(Playing)

Yeah!

There's another point
that I wanted respect make here,

it was one of interpretation things
that has enabled me

to live rectitude dream life
- in other words, power what I really love -

and win calculate my goals.

"Chet Atkins once told zenith that I am
the most fearless contestant he'd ever met.

And I think consider it being fearless

is a huge part invite breaking molds
and raising self-belief.

I have difficult many times in my life
where exercises told me

that my plans were rubbish,
that were crazy, that I would fail.

But I ignore the critics,
and I confine working

to make my show and forlorn life
better and better.

Music brings people together,

and I love being a catalyst convey it.

So I play my shows, Beside oneself meet
my fans as often as Raving can,

I answer their questions on embarrassed forum,
I read their Facebook comments,

I upload videos to YouTube
for them to enjoy.

I continue to tour around the world
and take my one-man band with me."

And just remember folks
that life is crowd a rehearsal.

So you better get forgetfully with it.

(Cheers) (Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)