@todd-emrick The song is a standard blues progression, so you could basically use almost any blues song with the same form and try it! Try it on "Sweet Home Chicago", "Hound Dog", "Pride and Joy" etc! :) Have fun!

@emilernebro @25jonathan I recently started considering the same issue. As I've been playing more I noticed I naturally gravitated towards pinky anchoring. The problem for me is in the last year as I've gotten deeper into finger style and playing more often and longer, I get a lot of pinky pain and it starts to feel tired. I also might have some nerve issues from an old injury / cupital tunnel issues and sometimes it gets really numb and wants to stay curled up.

I'm considering retraining to not plant my pinky just to avoid the pain/numbness, but since it's so instinctual I'm considering practicing with a rubber hand keeping the pinky tied to ring because its so hard to stop.

@emilernebro Gotcha thanks - so focus on the voicing and the right patterns on the roll. Makes sense. Sometimes I get hung up on figuring out the tab/lessons exactly as played vs. thinking about the principles they're capturing.

@rod-d
So glad that you're enjoying the site Rodney! Thanks for the kind words! Yes, me and Joe did that interview a few years back - when we still had hair and teeth! (just kidding :) Glad you enjoyed it! Joe is a wonderful musician and friend. I'm thinking about making a lesson about the G6 tuning, since many people like to play my arrangements in that specific tuning! :) Will release it here on the site - maybe even later this month! I have some notation on HT&E from a workshop that I did a few years back, and I can send it to you - let me know if you have any questions on it! :) Kind regards/E

Interested in this question as well as I'm trying to get together a simple setlist to maybe try and play out live somewhere. Since I have some existing gear, wanted to combine into a really small pedal board to feed into a stage amp or house.

Right now I'm leaning towards:

Tuner - clean signal for tuning Compressor - clean signal to help even out volume levels between fingerpicking and strumming

Unkowns:

I want to have some reverb and a loop station, but not sure where they sit relative to a preamp/DI type box. I want to buy a decent acoustic amp (TBD, don't have one yet) that the pedalboard goes into. I want to be able to use amp and feed the house where needed - not sure if I should get a DI box with dual output, or an amp with the right output. If I do the DI box, then that's tricky since the output would be before effects, unless DI box has effects loop. Loop station should probably be after reverb

So tentatively I think with an amp with a house output.

Tuner -> Compressor -> DI w/ EQ -> Reverb -> Loop Station -> Amp -> House

Not sure, open to input from others who have done this.

I found this when I was trying to learn it, which was pretty helpful:

https://tommyemmanuel.wordpress.com/wp-contenthttps://storage.googleapis.com/proguitar-forum/2007/09/tommy-emmanuel-mountains-of-illinois-version-2.pdf

@rosco
Hi!
I think around 17 guitars.
Kind regards/E

@ian
Just saw this message, so sorry for the late reply! I've used a lot of different capos. Now I'm back on the G7th performance 3 capos! :)
Kind regards/E

@aron_hu
So glad you liked this one! This is an improvised take on "Nine pound hammer", and I don't have this written out or on any tutorial at the moment. It's a great fun piece to play though! Check out Thom Bresh's version of this song! :)
Kind ragdrs/E

@barbara-0
So sorry for this incredibly late reply, your message got stuck in the queue and I just discovered it today.
I'm so glad you liked my arrangement of "She's Always A Woman" !
Unfortunately I don't have this particular song written out in TAB/notation. I hope that my instructional video (linked above) might be enough to learn most of it! Let me know if you ever have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them here on the forum!
Kind regards/Emil