Acoustic Guitar Technique Is Tommy Emmanuel the complete answer

tonyrath

Basically a thread about how to bash the metal strung acoustic flat picking or otherwise. What floats your boat and so on 

Evilmags

I like his style but prefer listening to Al Di Meola. He is a massively complete player though.

Barney

i like what he plays but cant really listen to a lot of it...i have a mate who plays just like him..

Zodiac51

Issac Guillory, the most wonderfully underrated guitarist / songwriter - a true gentleman and sadly missed. Technique to die for..

Always gives me goosebumps that guy.

His hybrid picking was off the chart:D

[Deleted User]

TE is indeed massively talented, but as with all "clinicians" I get a bit bored listening to too much of his stuff.

I'd rather listen to Jimmy Page, Rory Gallagher, Robert Johnson, George Harrison or Don McLean's acoustic offerings.

tonyrath

I find TEs gurning a bit too much. Players I like are Martin Simpson - John Renbourn - Martin Carthy - Duck Baker - Stefan Grossman - Chet Atkins - John Hurt for a start. 

DulcetJones

As great as he is, there is no single player that can be the last word.  I do realize that's pretty much what everybody else has already said.  I like most of the artists listed in this thread already but I don't see mention of Leo Kottke or Bert Jansch.  There's a Canadian guitarist, Don Ross, that put out quite a few albums here using a percussive approach.  He hits various parts parts of the guitar while keeping a lively strum/melody going and usually plays in alternate tunings.  I don't know how widespread his music is but again, I can't listen to too many songs in a row of his music either.

daveww

Love TE but wish he wouldn't be so over the top at some point on most of his stuff.  Especially when he's playing live.  I've been trying to play Angelina for quite a while now and just started Somewhere over the Rainbow.

tonyrath

I am on the list for something called Acoustic Guitar Videos which give a lot of lesser known guitarists a chance to shine. Some are overrated but there is a Korean player who IMO is very good and just watched Peppino D'Agostino (I think) liked his playing a lot. 

daveww

Thanks for that I watched some Peppino D'Agostina and enjoyed it.

A guy I like to watch who always makes me smile is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrOH_qz0x3E Igor Presnyakov.  He does some really nice versions of popular songs - even Lady Gaga.

tonyrath

Liked that dave thanks for the heads up on him 

daveww

He does some nice, and fun, stuff.  Usually he plays in standard tuning, often tuned down a tone, so you can work out some of his arrangements. 

thomasross20

Has anybody tried the Tommy Maton models? 

Plectrum

I'm afraid I can't stand Tommy Emmanual. He just comes across as a show off to me. Bert Jansch is my all-time favourite closely followed by Richard Thompson. For purely instrumental pieces Gordon Gilltrap does some lovely pieces.

octatonic

I'm somewhat biased but I think Tommy is amazing. I'm not so interested in the slappy/bashy/am I playing guitar or drums style of modern acoustic playing. Guys like Andy McKee and the like- all the energy is spent playing the tricky techniques that somewhere the music gets lost. Tommy is always playing music- yeah he is a showman as well, but I like that too.

octatonic

thomasross20 said:

Has anybody tried the Tommy Maton models? 

Yes, the 808 model. Very nice, but not massively different to a Martin really. Buy used, resale is atrocious.

thomasross20

Ah ok, thanks for the info!

BigLicks67

Tommy is great but I prefer Pierre Bensusan. There's also Michael Hedges and I like some of Pat Metheny's acoustic stuff. I stumbled across this guy recently :

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brucegill

Not as technical as some of these guys, but loving this at the moment... He hammers on that guitar

musicman100

Plectrum said:

I'm afraid I can't stand Tommy Emmanual. He just comes across as a show off to me. Bert Jansch is my all-time favourite closely followed by Richard Thompson. For purely instrumental pieces Gordon Gilltrap does some lovely pieces.

Wow you can't stand TE but like Gordon gilltrap. I guess players like gilltrap can only dream of playing like Tommy E. Tommy Emmanual ( CPG ) is great, he can play anything and he's such a nice guy.

mgaw

brucegill said:

Not as technical as some of these guys, but loving this at the moment... He hammers on that guitar

loving that thanks for posting