Blue Moon - Tommy Emmanuel Cover

This is many hours into practice/recording, and my happy face died somewhere along the way. All that's left is a tired, sweaty, bitten-lip face, but the feeling is still there.

A few mistakes remain, and some of Tommy's solos are untouchable. He makes it looks so easy

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Blue
• Moon
• Guitar
• Acoustic
• Tommy
• Emmanuel
• Cover

[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

[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.

[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^_^