{"id":63,"date":"2010-11-09T18:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T18:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/acousticsnapshots\/?p=63"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:31:26","slug":"tommy-emmanuel-on-set-ups-strings-and-capos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/friends\/tommyemmanuelinterviews\/tommy-emmanuel-on-set-ups-strings-and-capos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Emmanuel on Set-Ups, Strings and Capos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TommyPart9SetUpsStringsCapos 500\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VCPpV1QRV3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nMatt: I want to ask you a question you mentioned that you&#8217;ve a got the guitar reset for action that might be a little higher?<br \/>\nTommy: Well this action is beautiful to play really is a maintain actions is just the best and what I get this last year. I had new saddle, new nut, and new frets and he set it a little higher and said what do you think and I said well I think it sounds a little better I&#8217;m gonna get used to startly higher action<br \/>\nMatt: Right<br \/>\nTommy: So here, it made my hand stronger.<br \/>\nMatt: Wow!<br \/>\nTommy: It took about months of playing shows and practicing and stuff for my hands to not be sore, co&#8217;z pushing down right on the center a little harder.<br \/>\nMatt: Oh right<br \/>\nNeil: Is these a medium or light gauge what are this?<br \/>\nTommy: These are 1254<br \/>\nNeil: Yeah.<br \/>\nTommy: On the big guitar that I play get in to 1358&#8230;but this are D&#8217; Addario J16 that I put on last night.<br \/>\nNeil: That&#8217;s what I tell from were you buy&#8230;<br \/>\nTommy: And (Strumming the guitar), Martin sp they&#8217;re the best two strings that I know that most consistent as well you know<br \/>\nNeil: Yeah.<br \/>\nTommy: (Strumming the guitar)<br \/>\nMatt: You had a question about the Capos as well<br \/>\n(Strumming the guitar)<br \/>\nNeil: We were talking about why you use the Capos and one of the things that makes the action really optimal for a lot of songs.<br \/>\nTommy: Yes.<br \/>\nNeil: You know<br \/>\nTommy: But it&#8217;s not for that reason<br \/>\nNeil: Yeah<br \/>\nTommy: That&#8217;s were the song belongs<br \/>\nNeil: Yeah we&#8217;re talking about that a little bit too&#8230;<br \/>\nTommy: Like I wrote Angelina in D for one day I put the capo one second fret and played it in&#8230;And like that&#8217;s were it belongs<br \/>\nNeil: Yes&#8230;<br \/>\nTommy: And I know it straight away.<br \/>\nNeil: Yeah.<br \/>\nTommy: You know what I mean. And I use a Capo for things like &#8216;And So It Goes&#8217; the Billy Joel song that I recorded it sounds&#8230; (Strumming the guitar), right, (Strumming the guitar) dodoooo&#8230;.dadada&#8230;.it sounds like various voices but you can do it here<br \/>\nNeil: Sure (Strumming the guitar)<br \/>\nMatt: Right<br \/>\nNeil: You didn&#8217;t have to sing it now<br \/>\nTommy: But it sounds like Gregorian chant their<br \/>\n(Laughing)&#8230;bring it back at the end it sounds like a love song (Strumming the guitar), and my guitar really sings (Strumming the guitar)<br \/>\nNeil: Yeah, many years ago one of the song I wrote, in 1985 I think. I had this mood and feeling in my head and I could say; Oh my God that song&#8230;I got a Capo on the 3rd fret and sort of in B minor it&#8217;s like where it&#8217;s going you know and it&#8217;s, I can&#8217;t remember what it&#8217;s called now the sweet child that&#8217;s on the album. But it was just like you know, it was almost like waking up and saying; Oh this song here comes I gotta put the Capo but where&#8217;s my Capo you know<br \/>\nTommy: Yeah<br \/>\nNeil: Do you know how it&#8217;s going yet. But you know it came together and few minutes.<br \/>\nTommy: You know it&#8217;s a funny thing it&#8217;s like that in life. Sometimes we get lookin at things one way you know and as I always think about that dead products decide where Robin Williams said; (He gets up on his desk his a teacher he stands up on his desk) and he says to the class: Why Do I stand up here? And one guy says to feel tall and he said; wrong, wrong answer and he says; I stand up here to remind myself to always look at things in a different way, to try and look at things in a different way. And because we get so used looking things our way you know we forget to look in a different angle and see it in a different way, where as you might see it from that angle and I see it from this angle. And so, it&#8217;s important for us to look on all angles, and that&#8217;s why with the song sometimes you play it the same way over and over and you know it works and it&#8217;s all fine. But then one day something will happen and you&#8217;ll have the courage to change it you know what I mean, you&#8217;ll say well it&#8217;s not written in its term anything that it is and it isn&#8217;t I&#8217;m gonna change it<br \/>\nMatt: It&#8217;s got in the old book&#8230;<br \/>\nTommy: Yeah&#8230; is like classical guess you know. I purposely I didn&#8217;t learn the original because everybody else played it exactly like the original. And I didn&#8217;t wanna be like everybody else I wanted to do my own thing with it. So I totally shredded it pieces and built it back, put it back together in my own way and Mason Williams is a friend of mine the guy I wroted and he loves what I did with it. The original version is really powerful with a band or an orchestra.<br \/>\nNeil: yeah<br \/>\nTommy: But as a solo piece it&#8217;s too boring for me you know and I don&#8217;t mean that in a bad way. I mean I know when I lose people&#8217;s attention.<br \/>\nMatt: Right.<br \/>\nTommy: I can spiel it straight away it&#8217;s like the best why I want it to be in the weak spot in the song, co&#8217;z you gotta kick people with you and take them with you all the time. 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