{"id":110,"date":"2013-01-23T21:46:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T21:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleyjsaunders.com\/wp-blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2022-08-19T19:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T19:38:06","slug":"tommy-emmanuel-practicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/tommy-emmanuel-practicing\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tommy Emmanuel Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever wondered how Tommy Emmanuel practices then you&#8217;ll be relieved to know he follows a really simple routine! He still practises the guitar as often as he can and enjoys every moment of it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are two videos which both outline how he practice and both are mini master classes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, If you love him as much as I do then you&#8217;ll want to check out his latest release: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00MYGS0J6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamesamsongro-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B00MYGS0J6&amp;linkId=8a16bf1b411bcb00e43494183874e582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guitar Mastery of Tommy Emmanuel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>On Practicing<\/h2>\n<p>The first video is about Tommy talking about how he practices daily. It looks like a hotel room and so he&#8217;s practising what he preaches (oops, sorry for the bad pun!). Anyway, it\u2019s really insightful look into his routine and philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIzYq6SZQVI\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a couple of minutes to watch, here are the main points. Tommy works on ideas that he will use, such as new arrangements of old tunes or exploring techniques.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He will also spend part of his practice time working on motor skills by playing complex songs over and over for an hour at a time as well as chords which involve wide stretches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From this short video, you can see that He LOVES to practice and it&#8217;s a really positive daily habit. Tommy also states that he concerned only with playing and doesn&#8217;t believe in using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001OCGGEM\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamesamsongro-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B001OCGGEM&amp;linkId=839e39e2f7e5a134a5f8577ca1062cd4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hand exerciser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;The Band&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The second video is Tommy playing Blue Moon. A tune we all know well. However, he plays it layer by layer. It\u2019s a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/category\/guitar-lessons\/\">guitar lesson<\/a> without being one!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By playing the tune this way we get a front row seat into how Tommy arranges for guitar and how he uses a few notes to outline the underlying harmony. Again it&#8217;s a fantastic lesson!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6UIXEDZGmg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I hope you dig both videos and you got some guitar practice tips from Tommy Emmanuel. Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/tommy-emmanuel-practicing\/\" class=\"excerpt\">Learn exactly how Tommy Emmanuel practices guitar, including what he does and avoids. In another video Tommy introduces &#8220;his band&#8221; using a clever arrangement.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-practice","category-famous-guitar-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}