How Do I Play Like This Guy?

[Tony Burns]

guys like tommy E . play all day and night -they wear strings out in a week or two - face it to be great you have to eat sleep etc-the guitar --i love playing but after a few hours im shot -these folks that are spectacular never quit never surrender -play all day play all night and they love and live every second of it !

[Taylorplayer]

Originally Posted by Jeff M

Over and over and over.



Actually, what the guy on the first video is playing sounds like an exercise.

I agree... but I thought my version sounded better

[OMorsmaller]

Neither of those two guitarists are that good at what they are trying to do...search youtube for Tommy Emmanuel, or Pierre Bensusan,,,,there are some vids where he does the tapping/percussive thing 10 times better, and the audio is superb...I want to sell my Martins each time I look at him play. I think one needs two things to play that way:

1. Right hand power, and a good sense for tempo and rythmn that most of us (me for sure) don't have.

2. Be innovative and creative, because there will always be someone else
coming up behind your success.

On the other hand, here's something else you can do with a 12-string. This is a video I posted on my music blog:

Serious Sam Barrett

[OliveFodera]

Originally Posted by SlopeD

I'd rather play like this guy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSnWh...x=0&playnext=1

John Butler is one artist I had not heard about. The youtube link is outstanding. Lots of CD's available from Amazon. Anyone who might recommend one to start with?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_mus_...=relevancerank

[DaveG]

You need to learn how to grit your teeth and look really determined .

[dekutree64]

I didn't listen to the whole original song posted, but the only really difficult thing I saw is maintaining that right hand speed for so long. Just tune to DADGAD, play some notes from chords that sound nice together, and swing your right hand at it. Don't bother trying to learn the exact song at first. Much easier and more fun to make it up as you go, and do whatever right hand pattern feels natural. You'll be able to play fast a lot sooner that way, when your muscles don't get all tensed up trying to do something very deliberate that you're not used to, compared to just flapping your hand at it whatever way comes to you.

And when you do want to learn the exact right hand pattern, do it so slow that you're bored, and just keep doing it and gradually increasing speed at a rate that lets you stay relaxed. Trained-in muscle tension is a bad thing.

[BULLSPRIG]

surely this is a joke, based on what i'm hearing plus the youtube comments.

[Fingerstylist]

Originally Posted by usb_chord

Sounds like he's attempting to play this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1aYTEMQbHc

Exactly what I was thinking