Tommy Emmanuel top guitar tips: timing

[@autocrow]

Well said. I'm currently enemy's with mine, but we're getting along better and better. I've found it's actually rather soothing sometimes to play along to a metronome. Once you learn to how to play a guitar, timing is everything!

[@helpfulliving]

God....I love Tommy. What a wonderful tip about the metronome!

[@WoesteWobbe]

@ Jamie Phillips: it's Windy and Warm, a good version (but hey, Tommy has only good versions of course :) ) is found at his concert at Sheldon auditorium or maybe in some of his lessons here on u2b ;)

[@CDCalvert]

There's also an excellent walkthrough taught by Dave Morgan on this site as well.

[@angel231264]

thanks Tommy, you are the greatest

[@1hunidthousand812]

Thanks for the tips tommy

[@345kobi]

Good guy - Thanks for your tips.

[@jezzbass1826]

Thank you!

[@CapitaineBuisson]

He forget the most important: Don't tie your shoeslaces ! (0.53)

[@ramonbaglari9714]

ROFL 😂😂😂

[@MAL1C10US1NT3NT]

STFU already Don!

[@dantstube]

Thanks

[@mmroofs]

Korg TM40 Large Display Digital Tuner and Metronome

[@Marcus538]

tapping your fot is trying to pump water around your skin to your fingers pour a cap of vinegar in your ear each day, it helps this by dissolving unwanted calcium in this water system

[@allgoodnamestaken]

Timing a tika tika tika good timing

[@jamiephillips786]

Does anyone know the song that he plays at the start?

[@mathieugemard8937]

Windy and Warm

[@klauswhitedreamer]

yes, every professional recording use metronome, it's the main guide !...

[@autocrow]

So true. I've heard mixes where someone merged different parts of two popular songs together and it works, because they were both on time. (and in the same key)

[@Yngsatchvai]

In case your curious its a Korg TM-40 tuner/metronome

[@midnightaustin9287]

travis picking with metronome is hell, TE Song with metronome is hell, i'm still suffocating with it!

[@matthewvarney6214]

Tuna on one side salmon on the other

[@NelsonMontana1234]

Don't tell Jeff Berlin.

[@kozovoi1975]

Tommy, welcome to 2014 ! You can have a metronome on your smartphone now !!

[@Madcloud1]

...and the smartphone has a real big battery ...mmmhhh ... and a lot of other rings and things i don't need to recharge when I rehersal ;-)

[@kozovoi1975]

Beo Dyrtland Just put it on plane mode, you'll have 12 hours of battery life...

[@Madcloud1]

THX for that helpfull tip :-)

[@Michael-4]

That carpet needs a good clean.

[@kingrobert1st]

Time is not a magazine...? I suppose Tipping is not a town in China either! lol

[@beagleguitar]

Sorry 181Burnout, the only way that's true is if the drummer is playing along with a metronome. Of course playing with a drummer (and other real musicians) is essential, but to say there's no benefit to playing with a metronome is nonsense. I hope that's not what you're saying. After all, if the drummer you're playing with sucks ass, then that's not going to help you one bit.

[@pickinstone]

+beagleguitar 181 has a point and so do you, beale (love both names, btw. Makes me think of burning out on Beale street).I want to explain the argument that most people shy away from, 181's argument. So... why is playin with a good drummer better than playing with a metronome? I'll give the answer in one word: phrasing. Great drummers don't always give you "metronomic" eighths that fall right in the middle. Great modern drummers may not even give you a back beat. They will, however, feed you phrasing. This is the idea of macro time. Once you understand that most music is built in phrases of two measures, four measures, and eight measures, than you will realize the drawbacks to playing with a metronome. A great drummer will NEVER play like a metronome, that would be too square for most music, especially jazz. Great modern drummers love to mess with the beat, listen to Big Daddy Dave, Eric Harland, Bernard Perdie, Tony Williams. But, and this is a big but (sir mix a lot would agree :) ) drummers will give you rhythms based around the pulse of the phrase. If you want to know more, PM me for some good material on this. I just learned this concept in the last 3 years and it changed how I play music forever.

[@DanneoYT]

pickinstone Interesting, what do you mean by ‘Most phrases are built in phrases of 2, 4 or 8 measure’?

[@dublinirishkelt]

Metronome is my mortal enemy i hate it

[@sleepingcat5102]

+lonewolf/*\ I never play with metronome... I never care about the timing, i'm in the band, and...I just know what i have to do.... Well I know at THIS moment i havo to do this, that's all... I don't care about the BPM...I play Hard Rock with my band...