This was exactly what I was looking for to start building phrasing. So many teachers just wanting to show flashing lick without connecting to the vocals and the riffs and playing off of the up beats and crossing down in beats on longer phrases. Which is what vocals do in blues music. Short, long phrases short phrase etc. I’m a classical player for the past 30 years now. But want to get back my Chicago roots, 60s and 70s. Yeah I’m an old guy. But I want to learn it right. Are you in Japan? What prefecture?
Thank you so much for this wonderful series. I'm an early learner and was pulling my hair out trying to understand "E flat" in the comping section until you corrected at around 7:00.00 that chord was D. The universe is in alignment again. Your words of encouragement and 'Don't worry, etc are a tonic. Again, thank you.
You're very welcome! Sounds are correct than information! Don’t worry Don’t compare Don’t expect too fast Be kind to yourself www.osiamo.com/Pickboy-Wisdom-Picks-by-Tomo-Fujita
Blues is a bit like chess, you can learn the moves very quickly , they are simple moves. Then you spend the rest of your life mastering those moves together in context.
So much is packed into this lesson. If you don't pay attention the finer details are missed. The use of triads that fall out of the cord shapes placed gently within simple lead patterns. Tomo makes this look so simple, fantastic!
So useful those hidden tricks. like the chromatic walk to the V chord. Your ear catches it, but it just get your foot going because of the smoothness. I watched video several times before my eyes caught it and I could start to learn it. And the changes from comping to riffs are as silk. And looking closely on the riffs, they are not all pentatonic. Yet it's blues.
I’ve been listening to blues my whole life, I hear it in everything, it is a source, and the simplicity you mention is a great starting point. Thank you for this.
At first I was "Oh God! No tab, no explanation of where you're playing!" BUT.... then I went, "Well you have to listen and watch what he's doing don't you!" I think you've just taught me "feel" in 17 minutes and 43 seconds! Thank you sir, I am now a subscriber and look forward to learning more from you. 😊
Glad you liked it! I teach more detail lessons at my Guitar Wisdom. I don't use any tabs but there are so many subscribers! Why? Eventually they don't need any tabs! Thank you!
Again, I love this guy! He's entertaining & really into what he is doing or showing. He's never really showing off or egotistical. He seems real and conveys the importance of feeling it*
I love your videos and teaching! They open my mind for better playing and understanding how music really works. Thank you for this and i am a great fan of your playing!
He is so great. He play's so clean & precise . . . also he explains things, in an easily digestible manner. Great teacher = always interesting content presented here. oNe LovE from NYC
coming from playing classical guitar, Tomo has inspired me to get back in to electric guitar and start playing jazz/blues🙏🏼 thank you Tomo your lessons are the best. never stop posting videos.
No lie, the opening riff, I was practicing that just now. Turned on this video, and for a second, I confusingly thought I had recorded myself, but I was practicing bass... 😂😂 After 39 years of trumpet playing these short little riffs offer so much to work on and can be rhythmically changed up to practice different grooves and finger techniques. The simplest phrases seem to offer the most in terms of practice time
I really like the way in this video Tomo shows a lot of like "ideas" rather than licks or anything. I got a lot out of it that way. Thank you again Sir for a great lesson
Music can always be boiled down to the intervals. I tell my students to learn the interval patterns of their fav musicians solos/melodies and then be able to use those phrases in any key! Interval theory allows you to do this
Love you yours vids it is realy rare guitar progressions , we are see on youtube all kind a " pro" guitarist. I like to see if is possible Strawberry letters.
I love your tshirt. Thanks so much for all your kind tips and teaching. Im just starting playing blues and trying my best to memorize all the notes on the guitar frets.
So useful to me 🙏 Fifty years ago I got my first guitar, played and studied clarinet and learning now to transfer that study to guitar. Getting there! ❤🎶
Tomo’s like Larry Bird. Ya don’t know you’re looking at the Best at first. The more ya watch the more you realize we’re just scratching the surface of so much more you didn’t know was out there and he has it all at the ready. Thank you 🤙🤙
Hello,Tomo sensei ! Now I learn triad concept, and this teaching is very useful! So I will watch this video many times, and practice steadily. Thanks for your teaching!
🙏🏽😊Good Evening, I was trying what you played in the beginning with just couple notes while practicing a scale, just to have a bit of fun 😄I have to keep doing something that just sounds interesting and rhythmic or melodic, I can’t do the same later, it’s done and forgotten most of the times until I hear somebody play the same 😄
Does anyone know what are the chords / double stops that he plays in the turnround of the intro are? is it just 7 on D and 8 on G (and then slide down 1 fret)?
@@TomoFujitaMusic Hi Tomo thanks for your reply. I love your videos. I meant a specific part of the turnaround in the intro. It looks like you are playing a chord and then sliding the same shape down 1 fret.
really need tabs to understand these things i want to know tis..but only know the part E5 D7 D5 A7 A5 G7 G5 D7.. small shuffle part all things between i cant follow o and i figured out 2 of that 4 chordsthe A7and i not sure if you so the same at 7th fret the E7? if that is i only nis one because i have the one i dont know wich but 5th fret E and D and 6th fret G string
No need to have any tabs! You need a good 👂 & good theory basic! You can look up "Drop 2 voicings on top 1234 set strings" lesson. Thank you for sharing! You need to know intervals! Thank you so much!
@@TomoFujitaMusic thanks i will do that.. i only learned with tabs so it can be only me.. i am only practicing 13 weeks now i go look that drop 2 voicings too 👍
@@TomoFujitaMusic yes i have found that out after you said this.. i now take some more time and listen and try to find that note.. only with chords if i see it not that well is sometimes difficult.. but. it getting better every day .i also found that with tabs, if it has some chords it says for example: 8 9 7 11 10 8 then its a puzzle how to position which finger, and this is with every chord you dont see which it is if its only those numbers.. and even more difficult. so now i did whatyou say take some time and listen and just try a bit.. and in the end, thats how i learn for myself instead of others tabs.. (it only works for some loose licks) but not for learning more than that thanks!
Gonna be honest. I really don't care for the blues that much, but I just love listening to Tomo's playing blues. It just makes me feel so great. I don't get it...
Blues is an art and in the hands of a master can involve upper chord extensions, chromaticism alternate chord shapes, phasing, flat 7s flat 5s, approaching chords from a half step above and below it can be sad it can be up tempo swing oriented its a rabbit hole with going down
Tomo, Great lesson. Extremely thorough. What do you think about the PRS Silver Sky? I've got my eyes on that same guitar. Would love to hear what you think about it. Thanks!
Tomo, いつもありがとうございます。 I love your musicality and lessons. A question about your Silver Sky: did you hardtail it, or is the whammy bar just off it? It’s a beautiful instrument! 😎✌🏼
"If you have melody, you have a listener", some of the most profound words ever spoken within the context of music. OK, time to go get this course.
Thank you so much!
This was exactly what I was looking for to start building phrasing. So many teachers just wanting to show flashing lick without connecting to the vocals and the riffs and playing off of the up beats and crossing down in beats on longer phrases. Which is what vocals do in blues music. Short, long phrases short phrase etc. I’m a classical player for the past 30 years now. But want to get back my Chicago roots, 60s and 70s. Yeah I’m an old guy. But I want to learn it right. Are you in Japan? What prefecture?
Thank you so much for this wonderful series. I'm an early learner and was pulling my hair out trying to understand "E flat" in the comping section until you corrected at around 7:00.00 that chord was D. The universe is in alignment again. Your words of encouragement and 'Don't worry, etc are a tonic. Again, thank you.
You're very welcome! Sounds are correct than information!
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 video is better!
I Wish All My Students Knew THESE Before They Came To Berklee
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Blues is a bit like chess, you can learn the moves very quickly , they are simple moves. Then you spend the rest of your life mastering those moves together in context.
Blues is very deep like ocean!
That's a very good analysis Stu, I'll keep that in mind
@@TomoFujitaMusic and some parts of the ocean even to this day we have yet to explore.
@@purplecowideal I like your name. It's like John Cena but better
This is a great analogy.
So much is packed into this lesson. If you don't pay attention the finer details are missed. The use of triads that fall out of the cord shapes placed gently within simple lead patterns. Tomo makes this look so simple, fantastic!
I think I added too much information in one lesson (In the past..) My pro guitar friends are enjoying though.... Thank you so much!
So useful those hidden tricks. like the chromatic walk to the V chord. Your ear catches it, but it just get your foot going because of the smoothness. I watched video several times before my eyes caught it and I could start to learn it. And the changes from comping to riffs are as silk. And looking closely on the riffs, they are not all pentatonic. Yet it's blues.
I’ve been listening to blues my whole life, I hear it in everything, it is a source, and the simplicity you mention is a great starting point. Thank you for this.
So great to hear that. Thank you!
At first I was "Oh God! No tab, no explanation of where you're playing!" BUT.... then I went, "Well you have to listen and watch what he's doing don't you!" I think you've just taught me "feel" in 17 minutes and 43 seconds! Thank you sir, I am now a subscriber and look forward to learning more from you. 😊
Glad you liked it! I teach more detail lessons at my Guitar Wisdom. I don't use any tabs but there are so many subscribers! Why? Eventually they don't need any tabs! Thank you!
Tomo is amazing teacher. Next pay day I will get your guitar wisdom.
Thanks so much! Please join my Guitar Wisdom. Only $9.99 a month subscription. tomovhxtv.vhx.tv
Totally worth it!!
@@TomoFujitaMusic I must get this subscription too 🙏🥳
Finding a guide who speaks in intervals is extremely refreshing. Greatly appreciated. Cheers.
Glad it was helpful!
I have been teaching at Berklee for 28 years!
@@TomoFujitaMusic that explains it :) Been playing for 20 years and can’t wait to dig into your course. Cheers
It’s a lot more common now than it was a few years ago
Its a pleasure watching your videos Mr Tomo Fujita. Please keep making such videos, these save months if not years. Thankyou so much!
Thank you so much! You're very welcome!
Less is more, each phrase is a part of the story like a great sentence leaves you wanting. Clean with breathing room, a pleasure to hear you.
Thank you!
Again, I love this guy! He's entertaining & really into what he is doing or showing. He's never really showing off or egotistical. He seems real and conveys the importance of feeling it*
Thank you so much!
I love your videos and teaching! They open my mind for better playing and understanding how music really works. Thank you for this and i am a great fan of your playing!
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much! You're very welcome!
He is so great. He play's so clean & precise . . . also he explains things, in an easily digestible manner. Great teacher = always interesting content presented here. oNe LovE from NYC
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that.
Impeccable timing… no metronome. You can actually see him working it out in his head.
coming from playing classical guitar, Tomo has inspired me to get back in to electric guitar and start playing jazz/blues🙏🏼 thank you Tomo your lessons are the best. never stop posting videos.
You're welcome!
No lie, the opening riff, I was practicing that just now. Turned on this video, and for a second, I confusingly thought I had recorded myself, but I was practicing bass... 😂😂
After 39 years of trumpet playing these short little riffs offer so much to work on and can be rhythmically changed up to practice different grooves and finger techniques. The simplest phrases seem to offer the most in terms of practice time
Good job! Yes! Simplicity is the key! Thank you so much!
@TomoFujitaMusic thank you Tomo
Domo arigato gojimasta. Most beautiful. I will watch this with my PRS over and over learning much. Such a pleasant lesson.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much!
Love the Tungsten Silver Sky John Mayer, Fantastic guitar!
Me too!
Love those phrases.
Great to hear that!
Thank you for showing Bag's Groove. Super helpful, as always
No matter how far along I think I've come I always find myself back to basics. Thanks Chief.
Great idea! Me too!
Today I signed up for guitar wisdom I love it 🙂
Thanks so much for subscribing my Guitar Wisdom. I am very happy to hear that!
@@TomoFujitaMusic welcome 🙏🏾
You blow my mind every time great explanation of blues tommo🎉😊
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
I really like the way in this video Tomo shows a lot of like "ideas" rather than licks or anything. I got a lot out of it that way. Thank you again Sir for a great lesson
So great to hear that. This way you can develop your own playing!
Inspiring! Beautiful playing!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the lesson Tomo!
This reminds me of the song "blues local" by Pappo, one of the best Argentine guitarists.
You're welcome! Thank you!
Music can always be boiled down to the intervals. I tell my students to learn the interval patterns of their fav musicians solos/melodies and then be able to use those phrases in any key! Interval theory allows you to do this
Thanks for sharing!
Best guitar teacher ever such great knowledge
Thank you!
I'm going to spend a lot more time on my blues from now on. And learn to keep it simple. Thank you so much😊.
Wonderful! Blues is good! You're welcome!
Love you yours vids it is realy rare guitar progressions , we are see on youtube all kind a " pro" guitarist. I like to see if is possible Strawberry letters.
So happy to hear that. Thank you so much!
I love your tshirt. Thanks so much for all your kind tips and teaching. Im just starting playing blues and trying my best to memorize all the notes on the guitar frets.
You're welcome! No memorization required!
The power of simplicity! So effective yet so
Often overlooked! Great lesson!
Glad you liked it! Thank you so much!
I like the Root then 5th trick.
Glad to hear that!
Saving this video as ultimate blues phrasing lesson.
Thanks Tomo. Greeting from Argentina. Great teacher. You are helping me so much.
Happy to hear that! Thanks from Boston MA
So useful to me 🙏 Fifty years ago I got my first guitar, played and studied clarinet and learning now to transfer that study to guitar. Getting there! ❤🎶
Fantastic!!
"Melody is to listeners"
Thanks Tomo. I watched ads.
Yes! No melody no listeners
Amazing. Great that you did a deep dive and giving lots of examples. Thank you thank you thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! You're very welcome!
It's so fun to solo over the intros to your blues lessons!
Thank you!
@@TomoFujitaMusic your welcome
You're the best Tomo - Much love to you for all you do for the guitar community.
I appreciate that!
@@TomoFujitaMusic A real treat to hear back from you - Thankyou for finding the time in your busy day!
Tomo’s like Larry Bird. Ya don’t know you’re looking at the Best at first. The more ya watch the more you realize we’re just scratching the surface of so much more you didn’t know was out there and he has it all at the ready. Thank you 🤙🤙
Thank you so much! I am still learning
Perfect analogy.
今日も素晴らしいレッスンと心地良いサウンドをありがとうございます！
グレーの艶消しストラトはトモ藤田さんのイメージになってきました😄
ありがとうございます！
Hello,Tomo sensei ! Now I learn triad concept, and this teaching is very useful! So I will watch this video many times, and practice steadily. Thanks for your teaching!
Glad to hear that! Thank you!!
Omg that intro was so good makes me feel more relaxed and wanting to play my guitar more!!
Thank you!
Beautiful playing sir. Appreciating this tutorial as I'm just trying to learn how to blue solo.
Thank you!
One day I will surely be signing up to your course.
Thank you so much! Only $9.99 a month subscription lessons.
You’re such an inspiring teacher, and make everything look so easy!
Thank you so much!
Tomo - you are a magician!!
Thank you!
Awesome video!! thank you so much. I feel like I learned so much from just watching this
Glad it was helpful!
I love that silver sky with all my heart, i need it!
Great guitar!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Paul strikes again.
I have big mansquatch hands i fear the neck is too small.
🙏🏽😊Good Evening, I was trying what you played in the beginning with just couple notes while practicing a scale, just to have a bit of fun 😄I have to keep doing something that just sounds interesting and rhythmic or melodic, I can’t do the same later, it’s done and forgotten most of the times until I hear somebody play the same 😄
Thanks for sharing! Keep working!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Thank you too😊🙏🏽
Beautiful playing!
Thank you so much!
I really like your instruction. I think this one may have been made simpler without the chord substitutions
Thank you!
Such inspiration. Off to practise now!
Great to hear that!
Great lesson. Great tee.
Thank you!
Very cool lesson
Thank you!
Thank you Tomo this was really helpful and it also reminds me to work on my bendings.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you!
Thank you, Tomo! This was very very helpful. Always good videos!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you kind Sir….🙏🏻
You are very welcome
Awesome lesson! Wish I could have a PRS Silver Sky like you and John. Maybe one day...
You can do it!
thanks from republica dominicana
Thank you from Boston MA
happy u brought in milton, my dads fav :)
Thank you so much!
Thank you!😁
Much appreciated 🙏
You’re welcome!
In the simple blues song, the phrase and dynamics is very impressive....
BTW, I love your velvet tone with Silver Sky!
Thank you very much!
Best blues video
Thank you!
tomo its lovely to listen to you play. can you post some tabs I would like to learn that sound. I'm just starting out. your help would be great
Thank you!!
It feels like you are only talking to me in this course and there is so much to learn.
Thanks so much!
GREAT lesson Tomo!!
Thanks so much!
Thanks Tomo
You're welcome!
hey tomo fujita youre awesome
Thank you!
great. thx very much
You're welcome!
Good to come back to the roots ! What about Blues in F (Billie's bounce) ?!!
Thank you!
Thanks again Tomo, very insightful as usual!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yay ... loved it ..tomo ..our senpai❤️
Thank you!
Dwight!?
Omg this is great lesson.
Thank you!
That opening was reminiscent of "One way out" by the Allman Bros
Many great song has same chords! You only need 5 chords to write a great song!
I IV V
vi- ii-
😲Wow blues playing is soo cool
Thank you soo much Tomo☺😊
Love from 🇮🇳India
N would u mind making a video on how to solo during cord changes.... 🙃
You're welcome! More blues lessons are coming!
very helpful
Glad to hear that
This is a srv song in my knowledge, I’d say it’s “so excited”
Thank you!
you are amazing!
Thank you so much!
I love the tone of your PRS in this lesson. What amp are you using?
Thanks so much! 1967 Fender Pro Reverb & Two-Rock TF Signature combo. Both amps got my signature Eminence TF-1250 speakers.
This lesson provides me with study material for at least 6 or 7 months …
Thank you!
Great stuff brother.
Thanks!
So great SENSEI❤️🙏🏻
Thank you!
Zabardast... cheers from Toronto...
Thank you from Boston MA
MELODY!!!! YOU ARE RIGHT!!! PLEASING MUSIC TO THE EAR!! THANKS TOMO!!!
Thank you so much!
Greetings!
😊
Wish you a great weekend!
🙏🏻
Thank you! You too!
@@TomoFujitaMusic
Thanks.
Nice T-Shirt!
Just bought your course ! Started with Paul Davids now I’m going through yours.
Thanks so much for joining my Guitar Wisdom.
Paul is a awesome teacher!
@Ayustria Salma Thanks for asking. If I could change it. I would love to. but Guitar Wisdom only accept a credit card. Thank you.
Gerry which of Paul’s program did you go through and what are your thoughts? I am going through Tomo’s now.
Does anyone know what are the chords / double stops that he plays in the turnround of the intro are? is it just 7 on D and 8 on G (and then slide down 1 fret)?
Thank you for sharing! A lot of triads!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Hi Tomo thanks for your reply. I love your videos. I meant a specific part of the turnaround in the intro. It looks like you are playing a chord and then sliding the same shape down 1 fret.
So happy to hear that! I will do more specific & super slow video!
Thank you :)
You're welcome!
Question at 11:48 why is it being called hide away?
Please ask Freddie King!
really need tabs to understand these things i want to know tis..but only know the part E5 D7 D5 A7 A5 G7 G5 D7.. small shuffle part all things between i cant follow
o and i figured out 2 of that 4 chordsthe A7and i not sure if you so the same at 7th fret the E7? if that is i only nis one
because i have the one i dont know wich but 5th fret E and D and 6th fret G string
No need to have any tabs! You need a good 👂 & good theory basic! You can look up "Drop 2 voicings on top 1234 set strings" lesson. Thank you for sharing! You need to know intervals! Thank you so much!
@@TomoFujitaMusic thanks i will do that.. i only learned with tabs so it can be only me.. i am only practicing 13 weeks now i go look that drop 2 voicings too 👍
You're very welcome! Don't use tabs. You will stuck forever!
@@TomoFujitaMusic yes i have found that out after you said this..
i now take some more time and listen and try to find that note..
only with chords if i see it not that well is sometimes difficult.. but.
it getting better every day
.i also found that with tabs, if it has some chords it says for example:
8
9
7
11
10
8
then its a puzzle how to position which finger, and this is with every chord you dont see which it is if its only those numbers.. and even more difficult.
so now i did whatyou say take some time and listen and just try a bit..
and in the end, thats how i learn for myself instead of others tabs..
(it only works for some loose licks) but not for learning more than that
thanks!
Bags Groove seems to owe a lot to Gershwin's Summertime. At least the phrase played here.
Thanks for sharing! Lovely song! both!
I like your Kansai-dialect English. Thanks. :)
(I was born in Kyoto.)
Thanks! 😃
nice guitar
Thank you!
Great lesson ! Did John Mayer give you that guitar?
Thank you! No. John gave me the first silver one & the Roxy Pink.
I thought bags groove was "Quincy" theme but its odd couple close sound.
Many great song has similar notes, rhythm etc.
Gonna be honest. I really don't care for the blues that much, but I just love listening to Tomo's playing blues. It just makes me feel so great. I don't get it...
That's totally fine! Everyone has own taste! Thank you! My blues has a little bit jazz in. Thank you.
Blues is an art and in the hands of a master can involve upper chord extensions, chromaticism alternate chord shapes, phasing, flat 7s flat 5s, approaching chords from a half step above and below it can be sad it can be up tempo swing oriented its a rabbit hole with going down
Thanks for sharing.
Tomo,
Great lesson. Extremely thorough.
What do you think about the PRS Silver Sky? I've got my eyes on that same guitar. Would love to hear what you think about it. Thanks!
Thank you! I love it!
Tomo, いつもありがとうございます。 I love your musicality and lessons. A question about your Silver Sky: did you hardtail it, or is the whammy bar just off it? It’s a beautiful instrument! 😎✌🏼
Thank you so much! Just the bar is off.