Truefire Certified Guitar Duets [TUTORiAL]

Few would argue that Tommy Emmanuel is the most charismatic, soulful, and technically brilliant fingerstyle guitar player walking the planet today. 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 the learning adventure is rich with rewards.

Add in legendary John Knowles and the musicality is endless. Composer, recording artist and master fingerstyle guitarist, John Knowles has collaborated with the world’s finest fingerstyle and classical guitarists including Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Lenny Breau, Tommy Emmanuel, and the Romero Family.

We're thrilled to have both these amazing artists collaborating on this TrueFire course, Certified Gems Duets.

"Guitar players love playing duets - they get to take advantage of each other's musical ideas and the special chemistry that comes when you play together."

This course is organized into two sections. In the first section, Tommy and John talk about arrangements, song keys, dynamics, playing together, listening, making your arrangements interesting, and so many other things that will be helpful for your arranging skills.

"A duet is where two people make music together, which could be any combination of musicians: a singer and a piano player, a guitar player and a violin player, etc. - it doesn't matter as long as it's two people. The key to being in a duet is each person trusting and listening to the other ... It's important to think of playing a duet not as "you and me", but as "us". Every time we're working on an arrangement together, we get to a certain point where we agree that it starts to sound like "us", and not just both of us playing."

Then, in the second section, they will breakdown and perform some arrangements that they've put together so that you can see exactly what they're talking about.

Tommy and John will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for each of the licks. Plus, they include all of the rhythm tracks for you to work with on your own. In addition, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.

Grab your guitar and let’s play Tommy Emmanuel and John Knowles!

What you'll learn

• Execute Travis picking with French cafe rhythm variations
• Create harmonic effects using pick technique
• Compose intros by repurposing existing melodic material
• Understand how to arrange songs for guitar duets
• Develop left-hand finger independence for complex voicings

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