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“I’m always true to the melody”: Tommy Emmanuel on arrangement, performance and pursuing virtuosity
- Tommy Emmanuel does things with the acoustic guitar that defy belief. He does things with pop-culture's canon that blow our mind. Here he walks through his approach, sharing wisdom as he goes
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Life feels a bit more precarious. More precious, too. That’s because the finality of death hit especially hard this year. It kept hitting, just as older friends told me it would. With the passage of time, death becomes an ever more frequent visitor in all of our lives, and that makes life more special. In that spirit, we pause to remember some of those who died in 2023. Frank Loconto ...
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"When you practice the skills enough, one day, just like magic, the skills turn into music": Tommy Emmanuel's thumbpicking masterclass
Video lesson: Tommy Emmanuel takes us through the basics of how to use a thumbpick so you can play your own version of Elizabeth Cotten’s Freight Train
