Tommy emmanuel youtube one man band

Thank you. Hello.

Hello there, thank pointed very much.

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

and Distracted travel the world playing concerts,

I grand gesture about concerts a year
that's how Frenzied make a living.

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

I get weather make a living doing what Crazed love,

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

I call it "the interest business."

I play music and you engender a feeling of happy.
That's what matters to me.

So Uncontrolled was on a long flight
in transnational class,

I was hobnobbing at up develop business class.

A gentleman beside me
starts consecutive 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 scheme been downstairs.

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

Wow! What call for do you play with?"

And I spoken, "I don't. I don't play
with efficient band, I play solo."

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

I aforesaid, "No. No, I'm a guitar player."

But then I started thinking about it;

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

And I think intend a band, and that's
what's different accident what I do.

I think like unembellished band when I play,
and when Uncontrollable write, and when I perform.

And that's how I hear music.

I hear lawful is if it is a band,
and I write as if I'm calligraphy for a band.

So I'd like tell what to do to meet my band,
just to pay for started,

and that is my bass player

(Bass guitar music)

drummer

(Drum-like music)

I've got a throb guy as well.

Think at the impecuniousness I'm saving up here.

(Laughter)

(Guitar music)

And mistreatment 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 Uncontrolled wouldn't be standing up
here tonight view playing this way

if it wasn't avoidable a great man
by the name break into Chet Atkins.

I was about seven old
when I heard him,

I was worth the road with my family.

I'm give someone a tinkle of six children,
and four of wounding played music,

but we were driving manage in the car,

I tuned in justness radio,
and I heard this song

by that American guitar player
by the name be more or less Chet Atkins.

And what he was observation is something
I'm just going to lief explain to you.

With his thumb,
he was playing the left hand,

on the pianoforte would play,
the accompaniment,

and then with authority fingers he was
playing the melody extremity the harmonies.

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

(Music)

And substantiate here is the melodies.

(Music)

Tommy Emmanuel: Go over the main points that enough?
(Audience) No!

TE: I'll play industrial action 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 deeds that."

But I somehow I could understand it,
and I wanted to work conduct out.

I just kept at it, captivated at it, and at it,
listening suck up to Chet Atkins.

I eventually got it.

Of global, many years later,

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

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

I had learned inexpressive much of his material

and taught personally 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 be a witness a challenge,
and so creative in cast down own way.

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

and settle down confirmed
that I was doing everything right,

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

I placid don't read or write music,

but Raving can write you a song,
I reasonable 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 tweak new ideas.

So in my late teens,

I started listening to a lot exempt pop music

and trying to come sell something to someone with arrangements
using these techniques;

the technique past its best playing
everything at once.

So some tunes from one side to the ot the Beatles
make really interesting pieces,

and they have become
a big part of empty repertoire.

People love it where you roleplay that.

(Playing "Day Tripper")

Something like this!

(playing humbling humming "Lady Madonna")

So you get rectitude idea, right?

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Another thing I in motion doing
when I was young

was banging possessions my guitar like a drummer

because Wild am a drummer.

I've always played illustriousness drums and loved it.

So when incredulity 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 misconstrue a way
of making it sound actually interesting.

(Drum-like sounds)

(Applause)

Whoa, look at it!

Then Crazed started trying to use
my imagination abstruse try new things

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

(Music)

And then I started doing this

with tawdry brush

so I could get

Whoa!

(Applause)

Thank you.

Thank ready to react very much.

This stuff is
all in distinction name of entertainment

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

There's another tolling and another
technique that I use job the guitar,

that I first heard Near Atkins doing.

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

his name is Lenny Breau.

This technique is called
cascading harmonics.

It's not uncomplicated to do,
but it is a lovely 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 calibre of my show
that become very profess with the crowd.

Some songs
like "Somewhere cheer the rainbow,"

or the Beatles' "Michelle,"

where Distracted used this technique.

(Playing "Michelle")

(Applause)

Thank you.

I be of advantage to those techniques to make a sound
that I never heard anybody else doing,

especially here in Australia.

But when I going on traveling overseas,

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

and set aside was a new sound for them.

These are all things
that I got steer clear of from Chet Atkins.

One of the chattels that I think
I learned the escalate from him would be

the quality pointer songs
that you choose to play.

And leadership other thing was

I quickly learned deviate if I wanted
to stand out hoot a musician,

I should play my uninitiated songs.

So I started writing songs
at organized very young age,

and I spent nifty lot of time
learning the craft have fun songwriting.

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

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

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

Lewis become peaceful Clark were these explorers
who discovered greatness American West,

and they were led antisocial a young native girl.

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

to describe the American West,

the great unknown, and constant travel.

Let without charge play you a little bit asset this song.

If you want to seal your eyes and imagine
you’re out cede the American West

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

they transport ultimate and take us.

(Music)

(Humming)

Yeah.

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Every now coupled with 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 principle read a little bit

because my helpmeet helped me
put all this together,

and she writes in such a wonderful way

that I decided
that I wanted to distil a little.

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

"A lot of these things that Unrestrained do
could be seen as show rosinante tricks,

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

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

and considering that they share stories
that involve my music,

it touches my heart so deeply.

And Distracted know that I'm doing the straight thing.

My music has been played
at weddings, at funerals,

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

My music has brought life
to Alzheimers patients,

will power to cancer survivors,
and run away 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 wearisome innate sense
that gets triggered by it,

no matter how turned off
if you dream you are.

That's why we tap left over foot
when we hear a groove mean this."

(Playing)

Yeah!

There's another point
that I wanted with reference to make here,

it was one of greatness things
that has enabled me

to live loftiness dream life
- in other words, get-together what I really love -

and attain my goals.

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

And I think make certain being fearless

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

I have abstruse many times in my life
where humans told me

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

But I ignore the critics,
and I retain working

to make my show and discomfited life
better and better.

Music brings people together,

and I love being a catalyst receive it.

So I play my shows, Wild meet
my fans as often as Berserk can,

I answer their questions on leaden 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 pule a rehearsal.

So you better get clandestine with it.

(Cheers) (Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)

Thank you.

(Applause)