Tommy Emmanuel
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United StatesTommy Emmanuel (born May 31, 1955) is an Australian virtuoso guitarist, best known for his fine art of "fingerpicking". He is considered by some as the greatest fingerpicker in the world today. Throughout his career he played with many famous legends like Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, Sir George Martin and John Denver. Some tracks of note include The Journey (a Top 30 hit in Australia in 1993), Cross The Nullarbor and his cover of Mason Williams's Classical Gas.
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I thought I'd try to play this on guitar, but then I decided to try something easier like quantum physics
I thought I'd never be able to play this song. 10 years later, I was right
While most guitar players tune their guitars to the standard E A D G B E, Tommy tunes his to W T F H O W.
that part between 00:00 to 4:29 is absolutely mental
I play this every morning, just before I wake up.