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It's Never Too Late Songbook
Interactive Video Songbook Featuring 6 Fingerstyle Guitar Tracks
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About this course
”Quality is laced throughout Tommy Emmanuel’s It’s Never Too Late, the first regular studio album featuring Emmanuel completely solo without guests since 2000. Boldly emblazoning every musical nuance and idea he can conjure, Emmanuel plays with a practiced expertise that is dispersed throughout the record. With this release, Emmanuel once again sets an example for every aspiring guitarist to strive towards.”
Few would argue that Tommy Emmanuel is the most charismatic, soulful, and technically brilliant fingerstyle guitar player walking the planet today. Tommy Emmanuel’s It’s Never Too Late Video Songbook features six original songs off the album, each one a testimony to his mastery of the instrument and acumen as a composer.
Learning to play any of Tommy’s songs, as Tommy himself would perform it, is no easy task for we mere mortal guitar players, but with TrueFire’s interactive video, looping, slow motion, and synced tab/notation; the learning adventure is always rich with rewards.
“”Hey thrill seekers! This is a collection of six of my favorite songs from the ‘It’s Never Too Late’ album. I wrote them all on the road and it's an interesting mix of songs that cover many styles. For each of the songs, I’ll tell you the story behind why I wrote it and then I'll play the song for you, break it down slowly, and show you all the things that you need to know to play it yourself.
With each song, you'll also be able to see a close-up of my right hand, left hand, and a wide shot where you can see both. You'll be able to work out the whole thing using looping, tab, notation, and slo-mo video! I hope you're ready to learn because I'm sure ready to teach. Let's get to work!”
Tommy Emmanuel’s It’s Never Too Late Video Songbook includes multi-angle video guitar lessons presenting full performances and detailed breakdowns of Only Elliot, It's Never Too Late, Hope Street, Blood Brother, Traveling Clothes, and Old Photographs.
All of the performance studies come with standard notation, tablature, and a detailed breakdown. You can loop or slow down any of the videos down so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and ‘let’s get to work’ with Tommy Emmanuel!
Few would argue that Tommy Emmanuel is the most charismatic, soulful, and technically brilliant fingerstyle guitar player walking the planet today. Tommy Emmanuel’s It’s Never Too Late Video Songbook features six original songs off the album, each one a testimony to his mastery of the instrument and acumen as a composer.
Learning to play any of Tommy’s songs, as Tommy himself would perform it, is no easy task for we mere mortal guitar players, but with TrueFire’s interactive video, looping, slow motion, and synced tab/notation; the learning adventure is always rich with rewards.
“”Hey thrill seekers! This is a collection of six of my favorite songs from the ‘It’s Never Too Late’ album. I wrote them all on the road and it's an interesting mix of songs that cover many styles. For each of the songs, I’ll tell you the story behind why I wrote it and then I'll play the song for you, break it down slowly, and show you all the things that you need to know to play it yourself.
With each song, you'll also be able to see a close-up of my right hand, left hand, and a wide shot where you can see both. You'll be able to work out the whole thing using looping, tab, notation, and slo-mo video! I hope you're ready to learn because I'm sure ready to teach. Let's get to work!”
Tommy Emmanuel’s It’s Never Too Late Video Songbook includes multi-angle video guitar lessons presenting full performances and detailed breakdowns of Only Elliot, It's Never Too Late, Hope Street, Blood Brother, Traveling Clothes, and Old Photographs.
All of the performance studies come with standard notation, tablature, and a detailed breakdown. You can loop or slow down any of the videos down so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and ‘let’s get to work’ with Tommy Emmanuel!
What you'll learn
- Master advanced thumb-based fingerpicking technique
- Master complex chord voicings
- Advanced chord voicing techniques
- Understand creative chord voicing methods
- Develop complex fingerstyle arrangement skills
Release date: 05/17/2018 • 2h 04m runtime
Sample lessons
It's Never Too Late
Overview
It's Never Too Late
Performance
It's Never Too Late
Breakdown
What's included
19 lessons • 6 charts
It's Never Too Late Songbook
Hey thrill seekers! I'm Tommy Emmanuel, and I want to welcome you to the It's Never Too Late Songbook. I wrote these songs on the road, and it's an interesting collection that covers many styles. For each of these songs, I'm going to tell you about the background or story behind why I wrote it to give you some insight. Then, I'll play the song for you, and then break it down slowly and show you all the things you need to know to play it yourself.
With each song, you'll also be able to see a close-up of my right hand, left hand, and a wide shot where you can see both. You'll be able to work out the whole thing! I hope you're ready to learn, because I'm sure ready to teach. So, grab your guitar, get it in tune, and let's get to work!
With each song, you'll also be able to see a close-up of my right hand, left hand, and a wide shot where you can see both. You'll be able to work out the whole thing! I hope you're ready to learn, because I'm sure ready to teach. So, grab your guitar, get it in tune, and let's get to work!
Only Elliot
This is "Only Elliot". I wrote this song pretty quickly, actually. I was doing a photoshoot in Los Angeles, and the makeup lady has a beautiful little girl, who came in when I was getting my makeup done. I asked her name, and she said "Elliot". I thought it was a beautiful, unusual name. I told her that she should have more kids, and she said, "Oh no...only Elliot!"
When she said those words, I thought, "There's the song right there!" I set about writing this tune during the course of that day, taking photos and playing the guitar. It happens a lot when doing photos, as you end up holding and playing the guitar a lot. I ended up writing most of it right there, a sweet little tune that ended up turning into something more than that. I hope you enjoy it, here's "Only Elliot."
When she said those words, I thought, "There's the song right there!" I set about writing this tune during the course of that day, taking photos and playing the guitar. It happens a lot when doing photos, as you end up holding and playing the guitar a lot. I ended up writing most of it right there, a sweet little tune that ended up turning into something more than that. I hope you enjoy it, here's "Only Elliot."
Only Elliot
I'll start things off by performing "Only Elliot". Take a listen, and in the next video we'll break down the tune bit-by-bit.
Only Elliot
Let's get in to breaking down and showing you how to play "Only Elliot". The first thing I want to point out to you is that it's like you're playing the drums at the same time on the guitar. You have to work on the percussive effects with the right hand to get the groove right and "be the band" beneath the guitar part. As you can see, we're capoing at the second fret here (F#). Let's dig in.
It's Never Too Late
OK, here's "It's Never Too Late". I wrote this song in December of 2014 on tour in Poland. My third daughter, Rachel, was coming very soon - born January 6th, 2015. I wrote this song for her arrival, and I had my friend Adam on the road with me. I played it for him and said, "Tell me the first thing you think of when you hear this." After I played it for him he said, "It's really interesting. It's a minor song with optimism." Which is a nice thing.
In my household, we call it "Rachel's Song", but it's title comes from me turning 60 and about to have a baby. My friends also gave us a sign to hang in our house that says "It's Never Too Late to Live Happily Ever After", and that's what this song is about. Let's check it out.
In my household, we call it "Rachel's Song", but it's title comes from me turning 60 and about to have a baby. My friends also gave us a sign to hang in our house that says "It's Never Too Late to Live Happily Ever After", and that's what this song is about. Let's check it out.
It's Never Too Late
Now we'll take a look at the title track from the album, "It's Never Too Late". Watch me play through the song, and in the next segment we'll break down the performance.
It's Never Too Late
Let's break down "It's Never Too Late". The feeling of the song is gentle, yet it's really in the pocket when you're playing it. I consider this song a product of all the songwriters who inspire me. As Paul McCartney says, "You can't put out unless you take in." And he's absolutely right, he being one of several people who've influenced me (all of the Beatles in fact). If it weren't for composers like Neil Diamond, James Taylor, Carole King, Alison Krauss & Union Station, etc. to draw on, I couldn't have written a song like this. I also attribute some of what I've written here to the Irish music that I've heard over the years, as you'll hear in the tune.
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Reviews
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joham777
Verified buyer
01/13/26
Great presentation of some lovely acoustic pieces
First and foremost, the included pieces are really wonderful. In spite of them being written by Tommy Emmanuel, I feel you do not need to be a monster player like him to be able to play them at a level that others would enjoy listening to or for your own enjoyment of course. However it might be difficult to master them perfectly. The time Tommy takes and the detail in which the songs are presented is remarkable. He is a very good teacher in my opinion and I feel motivated to learn, and he comes across very human when he e. g. tells you that this and that part of your hand is going to hurt when you first tackle a specific section in a song. I recommend these lessons to guitarists that want to outgrow usual Travis picking and are looking for their next steps in fingerstyle acoustic guitar.
rockerbenny
Verified buyer
09/29/25
the GOAT
chrisdavies88
Verified buyer
06/20/22
It’s Never too late
This is a wonderful opportunity to learn to play these songs. Very well put together. Timeless pieces worth discovering I am new to the TrueFire community and I am so glad I signed up Thanks Tommy and all for making possible the chance to improve
wojtop6
Verified buyer
04/07/22
It's Never Too Late is my favoritue piece of Tommy Emmanuel.
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