I've been busy with work lately and haven't visited Mr. Tomo in a while. Seeing Mr. Tomo always brings me a sense of peace and happiness. I'll start with a like on this video.
Thank You Tomo. I love You. I really apreciate You. All I've learned from You through these videos and all You have injected to my playing have been extremely useful to me. I Thank God Jehová for You. You are a blessing! God Bless You!
I sincerely thank you Tomo, for your enthusiasm and your talent. Both you and Brian at Active Melody, say that blues music is like having a conversation that both the player and listener understand. Thanks for your teachings.
Tomo, you are an amazing person and a great guitarist! I felt so happy and had the biggest smile on my face hearing you play. I would love to become a better guitarist like you. Thank you for the inspiration and I wish you and your family great health and great success!
Tomo’s book and videos are the best resource that really train my ears, I have a lot of courses but they ignore the basics. I love how practicing shell chords and rhythm guitar, triads really allow me hear the chord change and play the melody. And I play much cleaner than I used to. Just trust Tomo, do the basic things everyday, 1-2 years your musicality will greatly improve.
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that. The foundation is the key! Easy to just show what they are... but you cannot apply things to music. Simplicity & Limitation ... I love! Please join my Guitar Wisdom. I teach a lot more details on those lessons. Yes! One year of a lot of efforts will change a lot!
Thank you so much! You´re a true inspiration. Such great playing, so friendly you are. What a beautiful soul you must be.Your students have to be so lucky to have you. Best wishes from Germany.
The hardest thing isn't to play a lot of appropriate notes in good rhythm but to really say something, let your music breathe and play really interesting and melodic most of the time - good lesson 🙋🏼
Thank you so much for sharing Tomo! I always look for you each morning for some important guitar information. You always have something good to share with all of us with what ever guitar your playing. You are truly great! Thanks again.
My pleasure! I teach this topic to all my students. Great way to enter improvisation on blues. First melodies and learn when not to play anything! "Space" and "Rhythm" are important as "Notes"
Thank you Tomo! I am preparing for my Berklee audition and the improvisation has been my biggest worry. Everyone loves a great melody and I forget that sometimes. I will put your wisdom into my practice!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Its a little bit more than helpful. More like a paradigm shift in how to think about improvisation, also instruction on how to escape the pentatonic noodling trenches. Thank you again.
I love how the ES 335 sounds. WhatI'm reminded of here is the instrumental from the Eric Clapton era of The Yardbirds, called Got To Hurry. This was awesome! Cheers! 👍🏻👍🏻✌️🎸
@@TomoFujitaMusic As do I! I would love to see you react to and break down some of Jeff Healey’s stuff. He is the most underrated blued player ever, in my opinion. Peace!
Yes yes yes. Everybody wants to sound like somebody else. But I‘m not! I‘m self taught and I want to and will sound like myself!😊 I want to learn the silabes and words to form my own sentences to tell a story.
that looks like my 1963 Gibson ES 330 TDC because of the tailpiece. I did not know that 335s came with a tail piece back then.. i’ve had both a 335 and my 330. I prefer the 330 because it seems to be a little bit shorter in length, and the guitar comes alive more because it is hollow…
I remember hearing that in Japanese culture they count on their fingers by curling them up starting on the pinky. Westerners open them up starting on the index finger. Interestingly, native Americans including in South America do it the Asian way, providing evidence of immigration over the land bridge...at least that's what I was told! Oh and inspiring lesson, a lot to listen to and take in!
I'm watching and I'm thinking how much I would love to hear you and Jack Ruch play together! I am quite sure it would be highly complementary and exceedingly instructive! You're both so good on the 335 (and any guitar, for that matter)! Love What You Do!! P.S. On another note, what are you using for a looper? Thanks Much!!!
Actually we jammed together in Nashville! I have a few videos (playing & talking) Yes! He is a beautiful blues & jazz player! Lovely playing indeed! Thank you so much!
Hey Tomo, I often also comment on your Facebook and appreciate your responses. I recently started doing jazz jam sessions in Osaka. I played fly me to the moon, Alice in wonderland and all of me in a gypsy jazz style. My question is, what are some blues that I must know for jamm sessions, not only in Japan but, immediately as a musician I should know aside from Bblues and Fblues. Any songs with a strong melody in mind?
Thank you so much! First learn songs with R 3 7 chords then go through with triads so you can hear those chord changes. For jam, must know "Back at the Chicken Shack in F" " Blue Monk in F " " Straight No Chaser in F " "Billies Bounce in F " " Tenor Madness in Bb "
I like Alvin Lee from 10 years after he played my going home to see my baby I’d love to change the world 335 with peace sign on it lot of great guitarist out there from the past
Where exactly? Best way is you can transcribe it and analyze with those chords behind. Then you know what's going on(?). Thank you. PS, I may add some chromatic notes or #IV Diminished arpeggios. I play augmented triads on the V. I often play Major 7th arpeggio from b7th note over any 7th chords.
Do you think Matteo Mancuso is an exceptional guitar player? The reason i ask is, ever since after seeing him play, for me, i feel like no other guitar player compares to his vast amount of knowledge in music and style of playing 😇! Am i wrong? Thank you. Keep on rockin' 👍🎸
Amazing player! I met his father too. His techniques are really well prepared & his ears ...so good! Anyone can get that technique part but musical ear part is very hard! A lot of efforts & consistency. Thank you!
Same type picks for last 30 years. 1.00mm Don’t worry Don’t compare Don’t expect too fast Be kind to yourself www.osiamo.com/Pickboy-Wisdom-Picks-by-Tomo-Fujita
This seems like such an inane question to ask, but I just have to. What gauge strings are you using on that old Gibby? There is such a wonderfully full throated presence!
@@TomoFujitaMusic I have a 1969 ES335 that I use EXL115’s on. I have tried .010’s but they just sound too floppy. Maybe the extra length due to the trapeze tailpiece on your 335 makes the difference. 🤷🏻♂️ Yours sounds great!
Each guitar is totally different & different set up makes different feel. Maybe you set your string height is a little lower? You can try this set www.daddario.com/products/guitar/electric-guitar/xl-nickel/exl110-nickel-wound-regular-light-plus-10.5-48/
My first Gibson ES-335... I stared working delivering newspaper (back in KYOTO JAPAN) at my age 13 to 16. Each month I made about 30000 to 35000 yen (= A little over $200) so I paid my musical instrument from that job for 4 years. I have worked for 4 years (newspaper route job).
Is it true? That to make most any tune into blues just flatten the 5th? 🤔 but don’t hang on the dissonance. 😮 Have a most wonderful week. Enjoy the fading days as the Solstice passes under that Full Moon. Be well dear Tomosan.
I have watched so many videos. Bought countless courses belong to truefire. I get lost in so much information. It's like wanting vanilla ice creme, then seeing chocolate tasting it, then strawberry the... and it goes on forever. I can't even remember where I started. Information overload
Thanks for sharing. Truefire asked me many times for making my instructional course there. I am very happy with my Guitar Wisdom site. Slowly but steadily my Guitar Wisdom is making people happy! That's why I love simplicity and limitation. Blues... melody, rhythm and space!
I like how you use melody whit your phrases, but I think a lot of people enjoy a guitar sound with more vibrato on notes and also exaggerated bends . And also the bending of chords, not full chords half chords , two note chords. It’s closer sounding to the voice to hear notes stretch to the next. Just hitting most of your notes with no vibrato or bends, kinda sounds like playing a keyboard , that doesn’t sound as good as an actual keyboard.
You can add more spices later. This example is more toward "practicing" than "Performance" Once people learn foundation of phrasing then adding more vibrato expression is good! Thank you!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Me too...My Favorite B.B. King Record is called "Blues on Top Of Blues". You should check it out if you don't already have it. Great horn arrangements and they are prominent in the mix. Thanks Tomo!
Hi Tomo, could you do something about the way you record your voice, make it more crisp or something? With all respect to english not being your mother tongue/language, you have a tendency to mumble (a little), it makes your talking kind of hard to follow. Groeten from Almen Netherlands!
Blues phrase with a minor pentatonic / blues scale and a little more chord tone M3, b7...then I can add 9th & 6th etc. I never think about "Mixolydian" scale shape etc. I think more blues language that came from old records. You can analyze any notes that you are interested in.
@@williampimblott8373 I disagree, you could have put it simpler in that short lesson. By the way , I do think that you're talented . Playing the guitar well and teaching is a whole lot of difference . NO reflection on you, but in my experience most people that play in a professional level , can not teach , because they don't have the talent to teach.
Keep moving in peace and love. Your positivity is your best gift, thank you.
Thank you so much! Have a great Sunday!
I've been busy with work lately and haven't visited Mr. Tomo in a while. Seeing Mr. Tomo always brings me a sense of peace and happiness. I'll start with a like on this video.
Good work! Thank you for sharing! Have a great Sunday!
Indeed. Good idea, Fennis
What a glorious way to start a sunny Sunday morning!
Coffee's on....and so is Tomo Fujita!
Thank you so much! Please enjoy your Sunday!
You know you are a great player when even your “bad” example sounds good. You rock Tomo
Thanks so much! I try my best!
Thank You Tomo. I love You. I really apreciate You. All I've learned from You through these videos and all You have injected to my playing have been extremely useful to me. I Thank God Jehová for You. You are a blessing! God Bless You!
You're very welcome! Thank you so much! So happy to hear that!
I sincerely thank you Tomo, for your enthusiasm and your talent. Both you and Brian at Active Melody, say that blues music is like having a conversation that both the player and listener understand. Thanks for your teachings.
You're very welcome. Brian is a fantastic player & teacher. Blues is so important. Thank you!
Tomo, you are an amazing person and a great guitarist! I felt so happy and had the biggest smile on my face hearing you play. I would love to become a better guitarist like you. Thank you for the inspiration and I wish you and your family great health and great success!
Thank you so much! I am so grateful! Guitar is really helping my life! Music, guitar and people are my inspiration! You're very welcome!
Tomo’s book and videos are the best resource that really train my ears, I have a lot of courses but they ignore the basics. I love how practicing shell chords and rhythm guitar, triads really allow me hear the chord change and play the melody. And I play much cleaner than I used to. Just trust Tomo, do the basic things everyday, 1-2 years your musicality will greatly improve.
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that. The foundation is the key! Easy to just show what they are... but you cannot apply things to music. Simplicity & Limitation ... I love! Please join my Guitar Wisdom. I teach a lot more details on those lessons. Yes! One year of a lot of efforts will change a lot!
When you can play clean shapes and runs without a lot of distortion and sound so fluid ,, You know your legendary !!!!
Thank you so much! I never played any overdrive tone with this guitar.
Rhythm and accents are so good. Note voicing is perfect. Guitar sound, well the best.
Thank you so much!
What a wonderful lesson! From the opening comments on life to lessons on melody, what's not to love?!
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! You´re a true inspiration. Such great playing, so friendly you are. What a beautiful soul you must be.Your students have to be so lucky to have you. Best wishes from Germany.
You're very welcome! So happy to hear that! Thank you so much! In have so much passion on my teaching!
The hardest thing isn't to play a lot of appropriate notes in good rhythm but to really say something, let your music breathe and play really interesting and melodic most of the time - good lesson 🙋🏼
Thank you for sharing! Yes! That's so correct! Meaningful statement by your playing, your sound! Thank you so much!
Springville - lightning strikes twice. Sets my soul free...
Thanks for sharing!
日本語で書かせてください。この動画を見てよりカッコいいブルースのソロのフレーズの作り方のコツが掴めてきました。トモ藤田さんの英語が私にとって、以前よりも聞き取りやすくなってきました。私の妻は黒龍江省出身出身の中国人です。ですから今、私は中国語を学んでいます。まだ十分に話せるレベルには達していませんがトモ藤田さんの英語動画を見ると学習に励みになります。私も中国語学習を頑張りたいと思います。
ありがとうございます！参考になっらた嬉しいです！
中国語ができるので素晴らしいですね
Thank you Tomo.
You have helped me connect a lot of gaps in my playing recently. Keep being awesome!
Glad to hear it! Thank you for sharing! Thank you so much!
Thank you Tomo. This is a wonderful reminder to stay focused on melody. What a great way to start my Sunday and my inspiration 4 today.
You're very welcome! Have a great Sunday! Thank you!
beautiful collection of guitars
Thank you!
Your lessons are always a must watch. I couldn't take my eyes off the ES 335 ❤️❤️.
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for sharing Tomo! I always look for you each morning for some important guitar information. You always have something good to share with all of us with what ever guitar your playing. You are truly great! Thanks again.
My pleasure! I teach this topic to all my students. Great way to enter improvisation on blues. First melodies and learn when not to play anything! "Space" and "Rhythm" are important as "Notes"
It’s cool you can sit there and grove,and show us how you are doing it and just smile,cool brother
Thank you!
Thank you Tomo! I am preparing for my Berklee audition and the improvisation has been my biggest worry. Everyone loves a great melody and I forget that sometimes. I will put your wisdom into my practice!
You're very welcome! Good job! It's all about proper preparation and right material to go thorough. Thank you so much!
An Awesome and very important lesson for blues and guitar players in over all in deed! thank you tomo sensei!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
I loved that walking bass run you did. I need to practice that more. Thank you for sharing this .🙏😎👍
Glad you enjoyed it! You're very welcome! Thank you!
Tomo, that walking bass part was divine! Keep sharing the blues stuff. Thank you!🎶🎸
So happy to hear that! Fun technique! Blues is so good! You're very welcome!
Like Teacher and student
2:03 start and that exactly same licks as John mayer played “Brown eyed women - Folsom Field,Boulder CO” 2023 tour 😅
Thank you! Two notes, 3rds... diatonic popular lick!
Great human being and an exceptional guitar player/teacher....
Thank you so much!
Love your wise words/phrases Mr Fujita, very helpful.Thankyou!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much!
This is one of the most useful pieces of instruction I've ever seen.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Its a little bit more than helpful. More like a paradigm shift in how to think about improvisation, also instruction on how to escape the pentatonic noodling trenches. Thank you again.
@@blahdiblah2169 So great to hear that. Thanks for sharing. Follow the chords!
I love that walking bass jazzy blues playing. I wish i could play like that.
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
That is in fact good enough !
Ty Mr. Fujita. Beautiful.
Got your point :)
Thank you so much!
Lovin' this topic! Melodies in the blues! Important.
Thank you so much! I teach this to all my students.
大変楽しい講義ありがとうございます。ES-335いいですね。1979年群馬県からバークリー音楽院に行ったEさんにアメリカでレスポール買ってくれるか聴いたら、送ってくれたのがES-335でした。STRATが450ドル、レスポールが600ドルくらいだよ。と教えてくれて、レスポールが欲しかったのですが、送られてきたのは古いケースに入ったES-335でした。後年1963年のES-335だと分かりました。ボストンから送られてきました。
ご丁寧にありがとうございます。その当時から８０年代半ばまでは、ヴィンテージギターもそんなに高くないお値段でした。７９年にアメリカ、ボストン、バークリー、今より知らないことも多くてスリリングだったと思います。このギターは、日本に先月持っていきました。ある有名なギタリストさんにお買い上げ頂きました。
@@TomoFujitaMusic 先生ご返信ありがとうございます。勉強させていただいています。このguitarネットで最近見たようなギターですね。多分。By the way Eさんは遠藤という方で渋川出身の今60過ぎになるとおもいます。
@@yukiokobori1 ご丁寧にありがとうございます。ボクの渡米は、１９８６年からです。
I love how the ES 335 sounds. WhatI'm reminded of here is the instrumental from the Eric Clapton era of The Yardbirds, called Got To Hurry. This was awesome! Cheers! 👍🏻👍🏻✌️🎸
So happy to hear that! Awesome! Thank you!
Good Man tomo ,you give great tutorials thank you for all you do.
I really appreciate that! Thank you so much!
You are so good! So funny! So unique. So tasteful. Such interesting playing. A great soul.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much! I love blues!
@@TomoFujitaMusic As do I! I would love to see you react to and break down some of Jeff Healey’s stuff. He is the most underrated blued player ever, in my opinion. Peace!
@@patrickandraska2033 Thank you so much! Thank you for sharing! Amazing player!
Ah! So useful and beautiful! Thank you Tomo!
My pleasure! Thank you!
Very informative for this sax player, thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much!
Lovely instruction Tomo! Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
I've got a 1960's all original Teisco "DECCA" 335.....it's beautiful!
Awesome!!
Thank you Mr. Tomo much respect for your talent!
My pleasure! Thank you so much!
Great comping skills around 6 minutes Tomo - flawless 👌
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
It's heart warming sound and tone😊
Thank you so much!
Thank you for reminding me to be consistent as you post consistently. :)
You're very welcome! Hard work with consistency!
Thanks Tomo for sharing, this is a great video 🔝🔝
My pleasure! Thank you!
Felicitari pentru prezentare . Frumos si foarte interesant . Multumesc frumos !
So happy to hear that! Thank you so!
【元気と勇気】より、、、tomoさんES335素晴らしいですね〜🎉羨ましい限りです🤗🎸👍
ありがとうございます！このギターは、もう持ってないです。
Love me some semi-hollow body guitars. That thing is gorgeous!
Thank you so much! Lovely guitar!
Nice lesson Tomo. I like the overall idea and want to practice that melody.
Thank you so much! Melody & groove!
Excellent lesson….lovely guitar! 👍🍷
Glad you like it! Thank you so much!
Thank you Mr.Fujita.
Great bluse lesson.
Singing bluse!.🙏😎
You're very welcome! Thank you so much!
I must say you're my teacher Mr Fujita, although indirectly 😊 Kinda wish I met you way earlier when I lived in the US back in 97-99
Thank you so much! Please join my Guitar Wisdom! You can learn my lessons!
Nice guitar Tomo, I love it !!😂😂
Thank you! It was a great guitar!
Sweet Jamming. Great lesson!
Thank you so much!
Great lesson!!! Thank you!
Glad you liked it! Thank you so much!
Tomo, I just joined Guitar Wisdom and I feel like I’ve been baptized 😂 I’m coming up out of the water, ready to live my new guitar life. 😁
Thank you so much for subscribing my Guitar Wisdom!
Terrific as usual!
Thank you so much!
❤my teacher Sir Tomo.. inspire me ❤
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
The golden rule, you MUST sound like yourself.
Thank you so much!
Yes yes yes. Everybody wants to sound like somebody else. But I‘m not! I‘m self taught and I want to and will sound like myself!😊
I want to learn the silabes and words to form my own sentences to tell a story.
@@lone-wolf-1 10-4 buddy. Same boat.
Beautiful guitar thanks for the great info .
Thanks for watching! Thank you so much!
Great video thank you! Those are beautiful guitars
My pleasure! Thank you!
My problem has always been where to come out of a solo? When i write songs! Thanks again 🤘 😊
Beginning & ending are important than middle solo. Thank you for sharing. Maybe you can decide what actually you really want your ending(?)
You're very welcome! Thank you!
Reminds me of ''So Excited' by SRV - cool!
That's simple shuffle bassline that SRV made it famous!
Nice! Thanks Tomo.
Thank you so much!
As a Berklee grad, I felt at home again. 🙏
So great to hear that! Thank you!
Thank you !
You're very welcome! Thank you!
Love your videos !
Glad you like them! Thank you so much!
Hey Tomo, I love your videos, especially your song breakdowns. Could you breakdown bay street fix by masayoshi takanaka? Thanks!
So happy to hear that. Pretty much any songs I can do my song breakdowns. So many great songs! Thank you for sharing!
12:55 this is a great bad example! That’s what I do when I panic during a solo.
Thank you so much! Don't panic! Don't play anything! Space & suspense!
@@TomoFujitaMusic I know now but in the moment I need the reminder! Gotta keep playing only remedy.
Just got my first SG (Ephiphone) in "arrest me" red.
Awesome! Please enjoy it!
that looks like my 1963 Gibson ES 330 TDC because of the tailpiece. I did not know that 335s came with a tail piece back then.. i’ve had both a 335 and my 330. I prefer the 330 because it seems to be a little bit shorter in length, and the guitar comes alive more because it is hollow…
Thank you for sharing! I love ES-330 too!
I remember hearing that in Japanese culture they count on their fingers by curling them up starting on the pinky. Westerners
open them up starting on the index finger. Interestingly, native Americans including in South America do it the Asian way, providing
evidence of immigration over the land bridge...at least that's what I was told!
Oh and inspiring lesson, a lot to listen to and take in!
Thank you for sharing. Thank you!
I'm watching and I'm thinking how much I would love to hear you and Jack Ruch play together! I am quite sure it would be highly complementary and exceedingly instructive! You're both so good on the 335 (and any guitar, for that matter)! Love What You Do!! P.S. On another note, what are you using for a looper? Thanks Much!!!
Actually we jammed together in Nashville! I have a few videos (playing & talking) Yes! He is a beautiful blues & jazz player! Lovely playing indeed! Thank you so much!
Boss RC-1 or RC-3
@@TomoFujitaMusic Thank You Tomo! You’re a Class Act!! Play On, Brother!!!
Hey Tomo, I often also comment on your Facebook and appreciate your responses.
I recently started doing jazz jam sessions in Osaka. I played fly me to the moon, Alice in wonderland and all of me in a gypsy jazz style.
My question is, what are some blues that I must know for jamm sessions, not only in Japan but, immediately as a musician I should know aside from Bblues and Fblues. Any songs with a strong melody in mind?
Thank you so much! First learn songs with R 3 7 chords then go through with triads so you can hear those chord changes. For jam, must know "Back at the Chicken Shack in F" " Blue Monk in F "
" Straight No Chaser in F " "Billies Bounce in F " " Tenor Madness in Bb "
I like Alvin Lee from 10 years after he played my going home to see my baby I’d love to change the world 335 with peace sign on it lot of great guitarist out there from the past
Thank you for sharing! Awesome! Thank you!
Nice guitar Tomo-sensei. Non mickey mouse ear, the less evil looking ES335's brother. 🙂
Thank you so much!
What are you playing on the Jazzy outside sounding runs inbetween chord changes?
Where exactly? Best way is you can transcribe it and analyze with those chords behind. Then you know what's going on(?). Thank you. PS, I may add some chromatic notes or #IV Diminished arpeggios. I play augmented triads on the V. I often play Major 7th arpeggio from b7th note over any 7th chords.
when do you reach for a Stratocaster versus? When do you reach for a music master type?
I love vintage Fender Musicmaster & Duo Sonic very much!
Use to see u play at crest
Thank you for sharing!
Do you think Matteo Mancuso is an exceptional guitar player? The reason i ask is, ever since after seeing him play, for me, i feel like no other guitar player compares to his vast amount of knowledge in music and style of playing 😇! Am i wrong? Thank you. Keep on rockin' 👍🎸
Amazing player! I met his father too. His techniques are really well prepared & his ears ...so good! Anyone can get that technique part but musical ear part is very hard! A lot of efforts & consistency. Thank you!
Will you share the passing chords?
Nothing too complicated. Thank you so much! Which part?
Thanks to this video i mastered the blues, now teach me grindcore. Please
Glad to hear it! Good job!
I’m seriously asking, what gauge strings? .010’s? .011’s?
D'Addario Pure Nickel EPN110 (10-45)
Hello Tomo! What mm of guitar picks do you use?
Same type picks for last 30 years. 1.00mm
Don’t worry
Don’t compare
Don’t expect too fast
Be kind to yourself
www.osiamo.com/Pickboy-Wisdom-Picks-by-Tomo-Fujita
@@TomoFujitaMusic Thank you! Me too!
This seems like such an inane question to ask, but I just have to. What gauge strings are you using on that old Gibby? There is such a wonderfully full throated presence!
That's easy question! D'Addario Pure Nickel EPN110 (10-45) Thank you!
@@TomoFujitaMusic I have a 1969 ES335 that I use EXL115’s on. I have tried .010’s but they just sound too floppy. Maybe the extra length due to the trapeze tailpiece on your 335 makes the difference. 🤷🏻♂️ Yours sounds great!
Each guitar is totally different & different set up makes different feel. Maybe you set your string height is a little lower? You can try this set
www.daddario.com/products/guitar/electric-guitar/xl-nickel/exl110-nickel-wound-regular-light-plus-10.5-48/
@@TomoFujitaMusic Thanks. I do have the action rather low. That could be a part of it.
@@kenster3554 In order to make that guitar sound better... raise the string height slightly higher so each strings can vibrates more!
I've already worked out the lyrics: Bo daaaa, da da da, da da da ba, boo da da!
Good job! Singing is very important!
How did you raise the money to buy those Nice Gibson guitars??
My first Gibson ES-335... I stared working delivering newspaper (back in KYOTO JAPAN) at my age 13 to 16. Each month I made about 30000 to 35000 yen (= A little over $200) so I paid my musical instrument from that job for 4 years. I have worked for 4 years (newspaper route job).
Is it true? That to make most any tune into blues just flatten the 5th? 🤔 but don’t hang on the dissonance. 😮
Have a most wonderful week. Enjoy the fading days as the Solstice passes under that Full Moon.
Be well dear Tomosan.
Thank you for sharing! Just feeling bluesy is good! Have a great Sunday!
魔法みたいなプレイ
ありがとうございます。基本が安定すると自由度が上がります。
I have watched so many videos. Bought countless courses belong to truefire. I get lost in so much information. It's like wanting vanilla ice creme, then seeing chocolate tasting it, then strawberry the... and it goes on forever. I can't even remember where I started. Information overload
Thanks for sharing. Truefire asked me many times for making my instructional course there. I am very happy with my Guitar Wisdom site. Slowly but steadily my Guitar Wisdom is making people happy! That's why I love simplicity and limitation. Blues... melody, rhythm and space!
🎉😂🎉😅🎉😅❤Bud's Groove!!!!! So smoove
Thank you!
@@TomoFujitaMusic no thank you. It is good to refocus and redirect
Sounds a little different on my acoustic
Thank you for sharing!
sounds more like jazz
Thank you for sharing! I love Blues & Jazz
I like how you use melody whit your phrases, but I think a lot of people enjoy a guitar sound with more vibrato on notes and also exaggerated bends . And also the bending of chords, not full chords half chords , two note chords. It’s closer sounding to the voice to hear notes stretch to the next. Just hitting most of your notes with no vibrato or bends, kinda sounds like playing a keyboard , that doesn’t sound as good as an actual keyboard.
Thank you for sharing! Yes so many choices and so wonderful! Thank you so much!
You can add more spices later. This example is more toward "practicing" than "Performance" Once people learn foundation of phrasing then adding more vibrato expression is good! Thank you!
How to stay in time while soloing
Preparing rhythm guitar part & bassline etc so you can prepared those!
Like horn lines...that's what I'm hearing.
I love horns!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Me too...My Favorite B.B. King Record is called "Blues on Top Of Blues". You should check it out if you don't already have it. Great horn arrangements and they are prominent in the mix. Thanks Tomo!
Hi Tomo, could you do something about the way you record your voice, make it more crisp or something? With all respect to english not being your mother tongue/language, you have a tendency to mumble (a little), it makes your talking kind of hard to follow.
Groeten from Almen Netherlands!
Thank you for sharing! Great point! Thank you so much!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Thank you for sharing your wisdom and showing us guitarists how to become better players!! 🎸❤️ 😊
@@NeverGiveUp30 You're very welcome! Thank you so much!
It seems you getting cold.Please be kind you self.
Thank you! When I made this video in May... I had seasonal allergies.
That's not a 335, it is a 330
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Thank you for sharing!
Where are the scales that you are using? Where is the chord progressions that you are using? Your interaction are all over the place .
Blues phrase with a minor pentatonic / blues scale and a little more chord tone M3, b7...then I can add 9th & 6th etc. I never think about "Mixolydian" scale shape etc. I think more blues language that came from old records. You can analyze any notes that you are interested in.
@@TomoFujitaMusic Thank you for the confusing explanation . Simplicity is the best policy . Remember you are conveying to a general audience .
@@walterlacayo6503 are you ok?
@@walterlacayo6503 if it was simple... You wouldn't be here .. neither would I. 😂
@@williampimblott8373 I disagree, you could have put it simpler in that short lesson. By the way , I do think that you're talented . Playing the guitar well and teaching is a whole lot of difference . NO reflection on you, but in my experience most people that play in a professional level , can not teach , because they don't have the talent to teach.