Thank u Tomo-san! Such a groovy song and so good to see you playing with Shingo and Toshiki. Guitar Wisdom has been very helpful, I’m learning Autumn Leaves right now! For a request, i’d love anything about current Japanese bands like Yorushika, Yoasobi, or King Gnu. Yorushika’s new songs 「晴る」and 「Rubato」 have a lot of jazz influence that I think you’d really like!
Many Thanks for all you do, Tomo!🙏……I was wondering why this affordable guitar that you helped design (with the win-win tones) didn’t include a whammy bar?
Ty. I love how you teach. 3 months in and i hit a rut. I knew to much but didn’t actually in reality but you show me how to just learn tiny amounts and let it come together in time. Its made a huge impact just keeping it simple as i was running but with no knowledge of the track so would go off key so to speak now i walk slowly but sounds musical then speed it up. Just one video changed so much. Very grateful and was free ❤ all happy playing
So happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing! Less is more! Do less items in depths without expectation. Then you will learn how to focus on one subject/topic. Then everything will come together. Good preparation! Most people get too much information too fast! As if you are keep eating & not digesting so... I am so happy! Thank you!
@@TomoFujitaMusicty for showing me how to walk. So happy with my playing now i just got to get muting control down now. I didn’t notice how much unwanted noise i had until i see you explain what i was hearing i thought it was bad guitar or me but is normal and very important. I cant explain how happy i am. Must go much to learn. Ty. Ty. Ty
I feel inspired to learn every time I watch your video. Then I bookmark it and come back several times to figure out what's going on in your playing. It's a long process for me because I'll forget about 95% by next month but the 5% that sticks is worth gold. ありがとうございますトモ先生… また遊んでひくのが素晴らしかった！さすがトモですね
Bill Withers, Just the two of Us! The vocal is wonderful in the original song. Learning the chords and the melodies are Massive! Thank You so Much Tomo San you have already done so much for me. I have been looking at these chord relationships for some time now. Kinda like the walk-downs in Good Morning Heartache. I gotta sing too, with my guitar format. Makes everything come ALIVE!
Perfect timing! I finally got my new guitar and it holds tune very well, so I am ecstatic to return to practicing my triads and learning the songs you have shared on your channel. Yes it’s a Stratocaster!
Thank you so much for sharing Tomo! I really enjoy listening to you play guitar riffs by George Benson. He's truly one of the best, very clean, pure guitar sound, he can play super fast or slow and makes me think twice about how to really play jazz guitar. His sense of rhythm and vocals are also truly great especially On Broadway where he adds a little something to the beat to make the song stand out more, just The Two Of Us sounds completly different yet it's George. Thanks again.
Glad you enjoyed it! You're very welcome! Love George Benson! Amazing blues / Jazz player! Please listen older Benson stuff. "Bad Benson" is so cool! Thank you so much!
Hi Tomo, thanks for sharing this - it's a great song. I've always thought the chord structure was interesting. Normally I play it a semi-tone lower for some simpler chords, but I like it starting on the Db M7. Thanks again for sharing.
Please check this video too! Just The Two Of Us - Tomo Fujita Ft. Shingo Sekiguchi th-cam.com/video/KtGLCQA_iME/w-d-xo.html Just The Two Of Us - Tomo Fujita Ft. Yoshiaki Imahori th-cam.com/video/Wvf93DckECA/w-d-xo.html
Love this number! I put it in our group's songbook several years ago... but the 'pull' wasn't there at the time; I'll have try and rekindle some interest in it!
Nice guitar, it's got the strat style body with tele string holes and Ibanez Jem style neck. I'd definitely consider this guitar if I decide to go that way...🐨🎸
Tomo, question how much of your chord play was shell voicing, Triads, and your licks were arpeggio of chords. I may be wrong,but you showed me where I was wrong about the no outside of the scale playing. Thank you so much again 😊. .
Great question! I use basic chords & a little triads, some arpeggios. We all learn these as foundation and use them musically so I am not playing exactly correct arpeggios like exercise. This lesson is all about basic chords and simple melody. Thank you!
Hello from someone who's obsessed with yakult and music, Mr. Fujita! I was trying to improv over this song and I noticed how I tend to repeat patterns or lines once I try to play faster to the point where I play the same thing for other songs. Do you have any advice on how I could stop falling into a pattern and play something refreshing when I try to play faster? Much love and respect, YakultLover72
Yes! In this case, try to play minor scale on 1st string and try to find a good melody first. then maybe you can learn the structure of each chords. Triads, 7th chords and use those chord tone on part of your soloing. So need to learn something new & practice them so you can apply them. So much fun! Thank you so much!
thanks tomo, cool switch and a good concept. i too have a switch on my mex strat so i can play the neck and bridge together or all three at once, it's a cool sound, jazzy, woody on two and big on three. have you tried it?
could you do a lesson on the beverly hills cop axcel theme tune please Tomo? also to arrange the melody to guitar with some sort of really good synth effect for guitar thanks man
suggestion; you should play a cut of the original hit b4 U start, (if there's no copyright issues) I believe you can legally play any song if you're just running a short clip? - some of your audience might not know the tune 😊
Thanks for your question. I teach anyone who has a lot of passion. Somebody can be good at or better than others but there is no "Gifted people" I was just normal person who had a lot of passion & figured out how to improve my playing ability by pure hard work & solid clear plan ... not just quantity of hours. That's way too easy! I teach foundation to all my students but each person has a special personality so I choose a specific timing of choosing right material for that person with appropriate pace. Thank you!
Tell Ibanez to make the AZES31 in left-handed format! The only left-handed guitar they make that comes close to this one is the AZES40, and that has different pickups -- a Humbucker in the bridge position, and two single-coils in the middle and neck positions. Doesn't seem to have the same tone because of the different pickups, but maybe it's my imagination.
I usually love Tomo, but I've never seen a video titled a chord lesson that was less clear about the actual chords being played. He even skips one of the chords entirely when going through the chords at the beginning, playing the melody instead of that chord. This video was really frustrating. Videos that claim to teach chords of a song should actually teach the chords of the song! This video is more about the melody and the gear than about the chords. For those struggling, like me, to just get the names of the chords in order, here they are: D flat maj 7, C7, B maj 7, B flat 7, A maj 7, A flat 7, D flat maj 7, G flat 13
Maybe you are thinking about where I played very jazzy chords? Those are not about this lesson. This lesson is all about super simple chords! Oh! Really.... Melody part was really supporting this song chords! I should make much more simple lesson & only focus on simple chords! I am so happy that you shared your thoughts on this lesson. Thank you so much! DbMaj7 ....C7..... F-7........Eb-7 Ab7... DbMaj7... C7... F-7..... Intro is DbMaj7 C7 BbMaj7 Bb7 AbMaj7 Gsus4 G7 DbMaj7 Gb7(13)
@@TomoFujitaMusic thank you for all of these videos that help us become better! Will Smith made a rap over this in a song by the same name. Being a 90's kid it was how I first heard the melody and original song and the chorus. I always love to hear Mr. Fujita play!
Thank u Tomo-san! Such a groovy song and so good to see you playing with Shingo and Toshiki. Guitar Wisdom has been very helpful, I’m learning Autumn Leaves right now!
For a request, i’d love anything about current Japanese bands like Yorushika, Yoasobi, or King Gnu. Yorushika’s new songs 「晴る」and 「Rubato」 have a lot of jazz influence that I think you’d really like!
You're very welcome! Thank you so much! So happy to hear that! Good job on my TFGW lessons! Keep going! Great bands! Thanks for sharing!
That guitar and amp combo sounds like melting butter. So good.
Thank you! Ibanez AZES31 & One Control BJF-S100
Many Thanks for all you do, Tomo!🙏……I was wondering why this affordable guitar that you helped design (with the win-win tones) didn’t include a whammy bar?
@@manyvibes1540 You're very welcome! Yes!
This one www.ibanez.com/usa/products/search/electric_guitars/list/?cf_search_product_code=AZES40
@@manyvibes1540 And this www.ibanez.com/usa/products/search/electric_guitars/list/?cf_search_product_code=azes31
what a great teacher! Made explaining fun and easy to understand, thank you sir!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
Ty. I love how you teach. 3 months in and i hit a rut. I knew to much but didn’t actually in reality but you show me how to just learn tiny amounts and let it come together in time. Its made a huge impact just keeping it simple as i was running but with no knowledge of the track so would go off key so to speak now i walk slowly but sounds musical then speed it up. Just one video changed so much. Very grateful and was free ❤ all happy playing
So happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing! Less is more! Do less items in depths without expectation. Then you will learn how to focus on one subject/topic. Then everything will come together. Good preparation! Most people get too much information too fast! As if you are keep eating & not digesting so... I am so happy! Thank you!
@@TomoFujitaMusicty for showing me how to walk. So happy with my playing now i just got to get muting control down now. I didn’t notice how much unwanted noise i had until i see you explain what i was hearing i thought it was bad guitar or me but is normal and very important. I cant explain how happy i am. Must go much to learn. Ty. Ty. Ty
You're very welcome! Good job! Please record your playing more often. So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
Jazz chords, a key I’ve never played. Thank you Tomo.
Good timing! Now you can! Thank you!
Toshiki Soejimais a wonderful artist with a great team behind him. He hits the right notes at the right place at the right time.
Yes! Toshiki Soejima is only 32! So great! Thank you!
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Such beautiful melodies make my heart ache in a good way.
Thank you for this!
Thanks for listening! Thank you!
I feel inspired to learn every time I watch your video. Then I bookmark it and come back several times to figure out what's going on in your playing. It's a long process for me because I'll forget about 95% by next month but the 5% that sticks is worth gold.
ありがとうございますトモ先生… また遊んでひくのが素晴らしかった！さすがトモですね
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that! You can join my Guitar Wisdom for more proper lessons. ありがとうございます！
Tomo, you
Are a
slick evil master mine of guitar teaching wisdom. Very happy.
Ha ha! I love to help many guitar players in the world! Thank you so much! Good job!
Bill Withers, Just the two of Us! The vocal is wonderful in the original song. Learning the chords and the melodies are Massive! Thank You so Much Tomo San you have already done so much for me. I have been looking at these chord relationships for some time now. Kinda like the walk-downs in Good Morning Heartache. I gotta sing too, with my guitar format. Makes everything come ALIVE!
Thank you for sharing! Beautiful song! You're very welcome! Thank you!
Perfect timing! I finally got my new guitar and it holds tune very well, so I am ecstatic to return to practicing my triads and learning the songs you have shared on your channel.
Yes it’s a Stratocaster!
So happy to hear that! Please enjoy it! Good job! Thank you!
Another great video tomo!
Congrats on 600,000 subscribers too! You deserve it! 🎉🎉
Thank you so much!
Great channel really enjoying it; thanks for all the great sharing of everything guitar. 💪🎸
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you so much! You're very welcome!
Ahhh what a pleasure to see another Tomo-San video 🔥❤️🎸
Hope you enjoyed it! Thank you!!
Big fan of your vids. Your inversion vid brought my playing to a whole other level. Thank you!
So happy to hear that! Good job! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for sharing Tomo! I really enjoy listening to you play guitar riffs by George Benson. He's truly one of the best, very clean, pure guitar sound, he can play super fast or slow and makes me think twice about how to really play jazz guitar. His sense of rhythm and vocals are also truly great especially On Broadway where he adds a little something to the beat to make the song stand out more, just The Two Of Us sounds completly different yet it's George. Thanks again.
Glad you enjoyed it! You're very welcome! Love George Benson! Amazing blues / Jazz player! Please listen older Benson stuff. "Bad Benson" is so cool! Thank you so much!
Hi Tomo! Have a nice day! I love you and I love your playing :3
Have a great one! Thank you so much!
Thanks Tomo, I really love this song! So grateful that you are sharing this lesson. ❤
You're very welcome! Thank you so much!
Thank you maestro!!
I love that song too.
Peace!
🫀🙏🏾🌊
You're very welcome! Thank you!
As always you sound great and thank you for sharing your knowledge, your advice and your tips. Thank YOU so much.
Thank you so much! You're very welcome!
Nice playing. Very thoughtful phrasing in your interpretations.
Thank you! So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
I was literally thinking about the changes to this song today. You read my mind uploading this. I wanted a different view
Great timing! Thank you!
Thank you Mr.Fujita.
Good main chords lesson.🙏😎
Thanks for listening! Thank you so much!
Hi Tomo, thanks for sharing this - it's a great song. I've always thought the chord structure was interesting. Normally I play it a semi-tone lower for some simpler chords, but I like it starting on the Db M7. Thanks again for sharing.
You're very welcome! Nice chord progressions with fun chords. Thank you!
Thank you, Tomo. I really enjoyed it! I also like that it was related to the previous topic on harmonic minor :)
My pleasure! Good job! F Harmonic minor... for C7! Thank you!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Keep rockin! The wisest player on Earth!🙏🤘
The best...!
Thank you!
really appreciate this awesome lesson! sensei tomo makes it look easy! wish I had Ibanez AZES too
My pleasure! Thank you! Great! So happy to hear that.
Please check this video too!
Just The Two Of Us - Tomo Fujita Ft. Shingo Sekiguchi
th-cam.com/video/KtGLCQA_iME/w-d-xo.html
Just The Two Of Us - Tomo Fujita Ft. Yoshiaki Imahori
th-cam.com/video/Wvf93DckECA/w-d-xo.html
Love this number! I put it in our group's songbook several years ago... but the 'pull' wasn't there at the time; I'll have try and rekindle some interest in it!
Good job! Thank you for sharing! Thank you so much!
Nice guitar, it's got the strat style body with tele string holes and Ibanez Jem style neck. I'd definitely consider this guitar if I decide to go that way...🐨🎸
Thank you for sharing!
I know most of it is the player, but that's a geat sounding rig!!
Thank you so much! Ibanez AZES31 & One Control BJF-S100 amp
Hi how are you dude rock on l am learning to play guitar basic power chords.
Good job! Thank you!
Tomo, question how much of your chord play was shell voicing, Triads, and your licks were arpeggio of chords. I may be wrong,but you showed me where I was wrong about the no outside of the scale playing. Thank you so much again 😊. .
Great question! I use basic chords & a little triads, some arpeggios. We all learn these as foundation and use them musically so I am not playing exactly correct arpeggios like exercise. This lesson is all about basic chords and simple melody. Thank you!
Yes! That's possible! Thank you!
Hello from someone who's obsessed with yakult and music, Mr. Fujita!
I was trying to improv over this song and I noticed how I tend to repeat patterns or lines once I try to play faster to the point where I play the same thing for other songs. Do you have any advice on how I could stop falling into a pattern and play something refreshing when I try to play faster?
Much love and respect,
YakultLover72
Thank you for sharing! Listen more jazz Saxophone! Some part of song is just jazz! More jazz phrases. Or try 7th arpeggios first. Thank you!
5:15 nice
Thank you so much! Nothing to do with this lesson part!
Mr Fujita any tips for improvisations? Love from India🇮🇳
Yes! In this case, try to play minor scale on 1st string and try to find a good melody first. then maybe you can learn the structure of each chords. Triads, 7th chords and use those chord tone on part of your soloing. So need to learn something new & practice them so you can apply them. So much fun! Thank you so much!
thanks tomo, cool switch and a good concept. i too have a switch on my mex strat so i can play the neck and bridge together or all three at once, it's a cool sound, jazzy, woody on two and big on three. have you tried it?
My pleasure! Thank you for sharing! So awesome! Yes!
could you do a lesson on the beverly hills cop axcel theme tune please Tomo? also to arrange the melody to guitar with some sort of really good synth effect for guitar thanks man
the new movie is released soon and I would like to hear you play it
Thank you for sharing! You're very welcome!
Tomo - do the pickups on that Ibanez have a lot of feedback.?
Yes! So good!
Sometimes you do lots of cool stuff lots of chords like 5:50 I just loved that so bad 😅 Do you have a lesson about that ?
So happy to hear that! Yes, more detail lessons are at my Guitar Wisdom (more educational)
suggestion; you should play a cut of the original hit b4 U start, (if there's no copyright issues) I believe you can legally play any song if you're just running a short clip? - some of your audience might not know the tune 😊
Thank you for sharing.
Do you teach individually beginners sometimes or you teach only very gifted people that way?
Thanks for your question. I teach anyone who has a lot of passion. Somebody can be good at or better than others but there is no "Gifted people" I was just normal person who had a lot of passion & figured out how to improve my playing ability by pure hard work & solid clear plan ... not just quantity of hours. That's way too easy! I teach foundation to all my students but each person has a special personality so I choose a specific timing of choosing right material for that person with appropriate pace. Thank you!
What string gauge set you use on this guitar? ❤
I use D'Addario Pure Nickel EPN110 (10-45) Thank you!
Tell Ibanez to make the AZES31 in left-handed format! The only left-handed guitar they make that comes close to this one is the AZES40, and that has different pickups -- a Humbucker in the bridge position, and two single-coils in the middle and neck positions. Doesn't seem to have the same tone because of the different pickups, but maybe it's my imagination.
Thank you for sharing! I will do! About left -handed guitar.. I pushed it! One more! Thank you so much!
AZES31 is very special and very versatile!!
@@TomoFujitaMusic I agree it's a great guitar. It sounds wonderful when you play it. It's extremely surprising that it's so inexpensive.
Thank you so much!
Is the guitar tuned to e flat?
Regular tuning
What is 8th minor?
Time code?
Hi
Hi! Thanks for watching!
Idea. How about a lesson on the girl from Ipanema ?
Thank you for sharing! Great song! Maybe I made it?
I usually love Tomo, but I've never seen a video titled a chord lesson that was less clear about the actual chords being played. He even skips one of the chords entirely when going through the chords at the beginning, playing the melody instead of that chord. This video was really frustrating. Videos that claim to teach chords of a song should actually teach the chords of the song! This video is more about the melody and the gear than about the chords.
For those struggling, like me, to just get the names of the chords in order, here they are: D flat maj 7, C7, B maj 7, B flat 7, A maj 7, A flat 7, D flat maj 7, G flat 13
Maybe you are thinking about where I played very jazzy chords? Those are not about this lesson. This lesson is all about super simple chords! Oh! Really.... Melody part was really supporting this song chords! I should make much more simple lesson & only focus on simple chords! I am so happy that you shared your thoughts on this lesson. Thank you so much! DbMaj7 ....C7..... F-7........Eb-7 Ab7... DbMaj7... C7... F-7.....
Intro is DbMaj7 C7
BbMaj7 Bb7
AbMaj7 Gsus4 G7
DbMaj7 Gb7(13)
Agree!! Just get on with the lesson.This existential musing is irritating!!!!
I appreciate the musing. If I want to memorize songs, I’ll watch Justin or Marty. I watch Tomo to understand guitar music.
@@ZackKnight Once you understand intervals... then you listen & you understand music!
will smith brought me here
How? Thank you!
how?
@@TomoFujitaMusic thank you for all of these videos that help us become better!
Will Smith made a rap over this in a song by the same name. Being a 90's kid it was how I first heard the melody and original song and the chorus. I always love to hear Mr. Fujita play!
@@dandyanthony You're very welcome! Oh! Totally I did not know that part. Very cool!
@@dandyanthony How?