Tommy Emmanuel - True Stories - Chapter 10 of 19

This documentary interview with Tommy filmed for MusicCountry Cable Television in Australia includes Keith Urban, Troy Cassar-Daley, Tommy's mother Virginia and many other greats of Australian music

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[BuddhaMaster84]

thats good if you can play without notes, that means you feel the music. And thats always better and then notes are just a stone in your way.

[Torfinnmadssen]

I don't think so. Reading music is a tool, and a valuable one at that. I'm trying to learn how to read music myself now. But it's nothing more than a tool.

[Torfinnmadssen]

@skint0n0minted I'm just saying that notation is the only way to play a melodic line you've never heard before. If you hear it, and pick it up instantly, that's fine. But if you don't have the option of listening to the line, notation is necessary.

[Torfinnmadssen]

@skint0n0minted That's assuming you know the melody by heart.

[lastwave235]

@BuddhaMaster84 learning the patterns and not the method, is like a color blind painter. you may be able to make the outline but you cant really shade it in. use all of the tools you can. learn where all the notes are on the fretboard.people say " stevie ray vaughn didnt learn music" well, yes he did. he just never formally studied it it.

[vak82]

@musicisallaroundus It's called "Up from Down Under". A song from one of his earlier albums.

[musicisallaroundus]

what song does he play on 0:23 - 1:05 ?

[neuropharma]

@dasismein3teskonto Not sure how this comment applies to me, other than to support what I was saying, but thanks for your response. I will say this though from your comment: it suprised me that there are people actually dedicated to showing that products claiming to develop tone don't work. How in the world these people get funding for such research is beyond me. Shat studies are you referring to, I'd like to look into them.

[neuropharma]

@BlazinTruth... Studies in neuroscience show that you can't develop perfect pitch past childhood, can't remember what age. As a neuroscientist, I always can find exceptions to studies I read though...so don't give up hope on account of me. Also, you can develop relative pitch, which is why most people have to hear the root note of a key from a piano or something before they can start singing in pitch...it's all relative to the note they hear...they can't produce it from scratch.

[insaneguitarfreak]

@BlazinTruth

hi, I agree with trevskiw2008. you can try remembering the beginnings of some songs, for some specific note you want to remember (absolute pitch is just that, the ability to create an image of the sound in your mind, in other words, memorizing sounds) for example, I always recall the A note in Lady Madonna´s riff (A A C C# D D F-F# A) the same if you want to remember intervals. I do that with the songs I always listened, it´s not that hard. :D Best wishes!

[trevskiw2008]

Some have it naturally known to many as a curse where the perfect pitch listener will cringe at out of tune music.

I find myself not being able to hear something and know the note but i can sing notes such as E A D G B E to tune my guitar to the exact correct pitch.

I Don't use an mp3 player or listen to music when im out but i have it playing in my head so the notes are there i just need to find them.

I think learning to imagine notes and songs is key to prefect pitch.