Blue Moon - Tommy Emmanuel Cover

[SpiritedAmore]

Absolutely fantastic I would love to add vocal to this!

[paulrocks247]

you look like john mayer!

[superdanyman92]

TAB PLEASE.... ^^

[wintershadows]

Yeah, that pretty much sounded perfect. Don't be so hard on yourself, that was great!

[Jazzawray]

brilliant !!!! very very good im trying to copy this class piece .

[Taylor314T5]

well done....perfect performance

[ReallyImWorking]

Amazing! You have a great, easy feel. And you make it look pretty easy, too. Wish I could play this. Someday... maybe...

[peachababa]

tab plzz ^^

[skyke12]

well done!

[Methos06wd]

Sounds great, post more sir!

[minzling]

Very very Good ! Sound is Clear, best Version in You TUBE!!!!!!!

Keep on playing !!!!!

Great!!!!

[almkim23]

what guitar is that? i'm planning buy guitar.. anyways great cover^_^

[72rockman]

Great! a best cover on Tube!

[minzling]

Very very good Version ! Yeah absolutely perfekt ! Very Clear an phantastic!!!

Thanks for Playing !!!

[minzling]

Very very good Version ! Yeah absokutely perfekt ! Very Clear an phantastic!!!

[ndatto]

BRAVISSIMO !



[awma1975]

Good job!

[AndryBal]

4 dislikes!!

so many..

[TheGameHippo]

I just saw Tommy live a couple of days ago. I have you to thank for introducing me to him through this video. I'm a fan of your remixes (you made a quick Mega Man Legends remix for me, remember?) and I found this link through your site.

He was absolutely amazing, and you're not bad yourself!

[ffsooo3]

Very very impressive. Tommy makes EVERYTHING look easy. But we all know how almost impossible his stuff is to play. Great job.

[DannyLoef1]

I listen to your version closely for the percursion, and the lovley intro!

Good job dude! hope you can play it with a nonchalant smile now!

[aLiF92]

That was great. I just started learning this song ytd. Halfway there but still can't get the slapping percussion in. Any tips?

[PatrickBurns]

@aLiF92 If you want the bass to slap without muting the note, you can't come directly down at the string perpendicular to the face of the guitar as you would if you were just slapping the string against the fretboard. You have to hit the string hard enough that it slaps, but at an angle so that you're only touching the string for an instant before you come to rest on the next string. (Also, coming to rest on the next string produces some percussive noise if you rest hard enough against it.)

[FrenchKramer]

I like this version more that original

Congraturations you play best, better than Tommy Emmanuel

[PatrickBurns]

@FrenchKramer whoa now, thank you for that. But I of course cannot agree :) Having played the song, it just makes me appreciate more what Tommy can do. Forget the runs, forget the complexity -- Tommy has an amazingly tight and forthright groove that just makes me feel clumsy at best.

I'm studying abroad in Melbourne Australia right now, and I see him in concert in 8 days! right before I go back home. can't wait

[mwmii790]

@PatrickBurns You're doing GREAT! No, not quite TE quality but that's like an IMPOSSIBLE standard. When you've performed on the guitar for 50+ years, I'm sure you'll play every bit as well as Tommy. (I mean, Tommy isn't even a fair comparision for anyone.)

[FrenchKramer]

I like this version more that original.

Congraturations

[brightredcar]

Great job!!

[DRYFLY0]

Wow...just wow...

[minzling]

VERY VERY GOOD! YOU should play more !!!!! really perfect!!!

[minzling]

Super Player !!!! Perfect!!!! Please play more!!!

[bt7358]

Hey man.. great job on this song! I am a huge Tommy Fan and can play a couple of his tunes... this one is a challenge for sure... bravo!

[WhyteRomeo]

what kind of taylor is that?

[punishr36]

Great cover from Tommy.

Very Very well done.

[MathNielsen]

Which Taylor are you playing here?

[merelvh]

Wow, awesome relaxed performance!

[LittleWhiteDove1100]

You got talent kid!!

[LittleWhiteDove1100]

You got talent kid, don't fool yourself this was great, Good job, you're a natural.

Amy H.

[marmaladalada]

made me smile :)))

[diegoescolochog]

Ill be grateful if you could make a lesson explaining how to to that "beat" with your right hand.

Or at least if if you could expain me via comment.

[Sm0keSG]

best cover!

[juzanordinaryguy]

Very good! I'd like to learn to play this one .. Nice song, like the bass runs .. guitar has a good sound to it!

[acouztixz]

i love ur intro rendition :D

[raccoonzilla56]

very nice

[dadofpatrick]

way to go my son, very smooth, and nice rhythm

[Saroan]

Man, I just lost myself somewhere beetween the beginning and the end of your video... You rock, we can feel the work behind all this.

[supermin99]

dude this was awesome cover!

[midnightmusic82]

awesome!!!

[yimack]

how does he pick and slap at the same time?

[PatrickBurns]

Adding percussive sounds to your playing is the wave of the future! It's part of the reason Andy McKee is so popular. In this song, Tommy does it by hitting the bass note with the thumb pick and slapping on the next string with the pick. It takes looseness, accuracy, and practice, but it works. In other songs you can bounce your thumb off of a single string quickly to do this, or you can strum down with the fingers and slap the thumb on the sixth string--no bass sounds, but there's still a slap.

[yimack]

awesome thanks =)

[dimshims]

Where did you find the tabs

[PatrickBurns]

@dimshims scroll down 6 comments

[dimshims]

sounds as good as the man himself

6/5

[GuitarSwedette]

Man this was really a great rendition of the song and you pulled it off in the style of TM. You should be extremely proud of the result as it is in the top 1% of the fingerpicking videos on YouTube. Have you though about entering a fingerpicking contest? You would surely make it far in the competition.

Keep on strömmin'

ATL

[supermin99]

loved it!

[krypto87]

Mr Burns....I really enjoyed that - great great job.

[Zardverine]

Really love your cover. Great feeling and nice sound. Wish to see more covers from you.

[gronki1]

I don't remember if I have commented that yet. If so, sorry. Anyway - great performance, loved it, and very nice sound quality. I agree that mixing microphone with piezo gives best results!

[drewzian1724]

ive seen many covers here.. but this one is the best of all blue moon covers... congratz bro

[elambing]

AMAZING cover dude, i hope to learn to play this just as you did

[kunit135]

by the way Fantasic playting!!

[kunit135]

hey man did you do this by ear? or tabs? mind sendin them?

[PatrickBurns]

Tommy Emmanuel Solo Guitar Style + videos of him playing it here on youtube

[rickynba]

Blue Moon of transcription in the book is good?

[LittleCrazyT]

Es la mejor vesión que he visto de la versión que de esta canción hace de Tommy enmanuel.

Enhorabuena

[N123I456C]

awsome song awsome cover keep it up

[MimboJumbo]

AWSOME! Definitely the best cover of it on youtube!!!!

[fluxoblueelefants]

class !......my attempt no where near it , its as good as tommys ....well done !

[SacredOreo]

great cover mate. loved it. that little pause was a nice change. certainly one of the best covers on youtube. the only criticism i have is i think that you should have brought out the bass a tiny bit more but other than that, well done

[markgalloway]

This is an awesome cover of this difficult tune. You have captured the Tommy vibe very well. *****

[ThinkingDog06]

Great job -- a very difficult song to cover, you do it extremely well!

[Batman001]

Pretty, what amp you using there?

[PatrickBurns]

My Taylor 414ce is going directly into my computer mixed with the microphone hovering in front of me.

[forbebe]

Really nicely done. I so know about the bitten lip and how tough it is to have a happy face! Personally, I chew my tongue when I'm trying to reach for hard chords!! Would love to see what you thought of my blue moon! bb

[mastrodonte113]

5 stars but... awful ending..... the last chord was way too short

[JarboeKA14]

did you play this at the workshop in E-town

[PatrickBurns]

Yes, I did. Do you happen to know any of the people who recorded it? I gave my email to one guy, but he never got back to me.

[mutedloud]

Man, your some kind of player..... remarkable tone and very pleasing to my ears

[zacharron]

It's a fantastic coover. Groove, subtleties, feeling, it's all there. Great playing.

Zane

[BirdmanWayne94]

That was more than fantastic man! It's right that TE did perform it and record it before but here, it's all your own. I'd easily vote this video as the best I've seen performing Blue Moon on an acoustic. The way you play it, the expressions and feelings, the whole atmosphere. Great and masterful JOB buddy! I'm off to share this video...

[KevinCongTu]

Very good! I was afraid you were going to snap your neck off for a second.

[PatrickBurns]

I thought the same thing when I watched Tommy do a lot of that. He says he's never ever broken a neck, and he does it much more than I ever do. Anyway, that's the direction of force the neck is designed to take.

[dima666]

man thats badass!! what a groove! brilliant!

[onin102]

Bravo i like it so much very good......

[scorps449]

very nicely done.tommy would be proud!

[ErinTheLilCrazy1]

Wow thats amazing, and you're good looking too ;)

[luvcomedy123]

absoltely brilliant! loved it! of all the versions ive heard i never seen sum1 do wat u did at 2:19....i really enjoyed it! when i post my vids be sure to check em out ay! keep up he awesome playing!

[StrikerShot21]

Bravo! That looked and sounded awesome. Keep it up, dude!

[EliteRanger]

Whoa man, that sounds professional!!

[pjclmnsn]

youve really nailed the feel of this song -

full credit to you

[patternsinchaos]

Nice!

[jecm21088]

Awesome.

[cosmanthony21]

Fantastic man, practice seems to've paid off. Thanks!

[allegrande]

You are great ! One of the best Blue Moon versions Ive heard :) Nice !