…But Play wHen you want to

“If you feel like, ‘Uh, I don’t wanna play today’, then don’t,” Tommy Emmanuel advises. “Play when you really wanna play. It used to be that if I had a lot of travelling to do, by the time soundcheck came round I’d be worried I hadn’t played enough that day. As soon as I wake up, first thing I do is play my guitar – but I don’t try to push it. I start with songs I love and that gets me started. Some people need a routine – they write it out. I don’t do that. If I have a song I need to work on, I know I’m going to play that song and nothing else until I can play it while eating a ham sandwich…”