Master Class: Lord Of The Ring
. Author: Jude Gold, performed by Brad Carlton
. Publisher: Guitar Player Magazine
. Category: Acoustic
. Description: Tommy Emmanuel Details the Fine Art of Making Steel-Strings Sing...
“I can't play one thing in DADGAD,” confesses Tommy Emmanuel. If you’ve ever seen the Aussie guitar hero perform one of his dazzling solo sets—or at least spun his new concert DVD, Live at Her Majesty’s Theater, Ballarat, Australia [Favored Nations]—this unfamiliarity with one of solo guitardom’s most vibrant and useful tunings may seem a stunning admission indeed. Sure, Emmanuel uses a capo here and there to put chiming open strings into keys in which they wouldn’t normally be available. And yes, he does occasionally detune a low string or two to liven up pieces with the rich drone of harmonically complementary pedal tones. But, watching him perform, it seems almost inconceivable that he gets that much ring while rarely, if ever, leaving standard tuning. How does he create so much resonance and sustain?
“It’s called practice,” says Emmanuel. Okay, maybe that was a silly question. After all, the guitarist has been gigging professionally since—no kidding—the age of six. And he was personally mentored by the guy who was arguably the greatest solo guitarist—and, speaking of practice, one of the most devoted guitar students—of the 20th century, his dearly departed friend Chet Atkins. “It’s called striving to get the melody and everything to ring in such a way that it’s a beautiful sound,” continues Emmanuel.“It’s about striving to get the most amount of sustain possible out of your fingers so that fretted notes ring organically, so that the melody doesn’t sound like you’re jumping from one position to another, but instead just flows.”
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