At first I thought this lesson was too easy for me but I let it play out. As it played I realized this is an important lesson for me despite many years of me playing blues. Great lesson, thank you Tomo.
Just play that part is easy then once you add important element then it's very hard to control! That's why this lesson is good for someone is dedicated & committed to improve! Thank you!
This is EXACTLY the kind of practice exercise I need - matching beat (with the metronome), improvisation (improvised lead and/or improvised variations of the shuffle), etc. I’m also using it for some pick practice by using varying picking patterns - all down picks, alternate picking, and varying picking patterns. It’s a nice little exercise, Thank You!
Tomo you are a big part of me breaking down my nearly 30 years of self taught bad habits and aimless direction. Never too late tho, I really appreciate these videos just talking about concepts of fundamentals. So easy to stray from them through the years. I'd love to one day be able to be a real student of yours!
This bassline was in one of your other videos that I started watching 2-3 years ago. This led me to doing pentatonic scale patterns until I was blue in the face. This really was the piece I needed to unlock my blues playing, and really LEARN the guitar. Your courses are great, and your advice: "Dont worry, don't compare, don't expect too fast"..... I've adopted that whole mantra to anything I do. Thank you for teaching and for sharing your wisdom, Tomo!
Thank you for sharing! For blues soloing, this is so important! Groove bassline and chord progression! Thank you so much! I have more detail lessons at my Guitar Wisdom! Good job!!
You're awesome! I enjoy watching these videos when I have time. When I first started playing a long time ago, I used the whistling technique. Even today. If I'm listening to another artist and I like the song, I'll whistle to it, but with my own unique phrases or lines to it over the melody and beat. No rules. Part of the whistling is part of my voice. So if there is certain phrases or habits that I do without much thought and whistle to, the song conforms to my style and to what I like. I'm concerned about preserving my voice and own identity when it comes to playing any instrument. It's a fingerprint to my work. Some people speak with a foreign accent, others have a southern accent and others have a northern accent. We all are communicating with our voice, but with some slight variation to deliver the message. Whistling over music with not much thought, will let your internal voice shine from within. Another tip is to record your whistles over melodies, then you can go back to them and retrieve what your inner voice was saying and transfer them over to the guitar.
What a great lesson, I have always been in favor of playing the Guitar as cleanly as possible, without effects or distortions and then adding little by little what you want, but without forgetting tonal purity. Thank you Mr. Tomo Fujita for sharing your extensive knowledge of Guitar, Music and Life. I use backing tracks from TH-cam because I am a Street Musician, but it is true, the dynamics are not the same as when playing music with real people.
Fundamentals and time is everything. An excellent exorcise that I will be using and showing to my GF who started playing guitar. She has an amazing ear cause she’s an incredible vocalist so I think she will like to play this to help her clean playing and she can expand on it and sing some Melodies over it once it’s locked in for her. Great Lesson Tomo.
It's good to tear it back down to the skeletal frame and reignite inspiration. Go ahead and do that boring stuff - do the work. I especially appreciate the metronome 2 4 after the solid internal bass line is wood burned back into your soul. That's when the just-you solo creativity can start to flow again. When we are uninspired and stale, this is a great video to jump forward by cocking the spring backwards. Thank you, Tomo!
In order to have a fun stuff or amazing work.... there are some important things which is not all fun but when you know all the results... all of sudden, those are fun things to do! So all depends how you think, how you feel! I am so lucky that I got to know how to get very special place via making my efforts & consistency work. You're very welcome! Thank you!
I once heard Carol Kaye teaching upstairs to a student at the BASS CENTER in Studio City, Los Angeles. She was teaching that exact pattern at the slow BPM. I thought, "Gee, that's a lesson?" Now years later, I understand! Later she came down and gave me one of personalized guitar pics. A good groove and solid time, slow -as you teach is very important, so thanks Tomo!
Thanks for sharing! Once I jammed with her. I don't know why we played All the things you are! She is a master legend studio musician! In order to play the part so well. Yes! we all need to play it with super slow tempo. Great teacher! Thank you so much! I love 50 per beat & groove R 3 7 swing groove! Great way to improve your time feel!
With Les Paul. "Listen to this over here" he says pointing to Carol. She does a solo on Before You Accuse Me. th-cam.com/video/21DX4zTL2AY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-_1-dz8_Wl69pUd- @@TomoFujitaMusic
I find I try to do things at level 10 when I am level 1. This lesson is helping my playing so much. Your teaching and playing make me smile as well. Thank you for these videos.
Hey Tomo! I will be subscribing to your online lessons soon. My truest dream is to actually become a master guitar player aside from finishing nursing school. I hope to someday tour and play live shows again. 4 minutes into this video and I am already a lot better
i luv stevie so much ! ,thank god for having me know him so quickly from i began learning guitar, glad to see contents refer to him. thank you mr.tomo.
most of my time i am playing accoustic git, most time i am not eving bluesing at all, but i will definitely make this part of practicing great ... thank you
I was playing parts of his song who did you think i was and noticed it was a little muffled. Im going to practice clean playing. Thank you for the lesson tomo!
Thanks again so much Tomo for sharing! I had to put my cup down to grab my guitar to jam a long in A could'nt stop have to watch again. This lesson reminds me so much of Stevie Ray and Albert kings, "Don't Lie To Me" where the master is teaching the student how to play just like what your doing for me. I really appreciate that! Thanks again.
Thank you so much for this. I struggle to put feeling into my playing (and not just play notes).This kind of very slow tempo demonstration of “playing with feeling” is super helpful
Томо, как здорово, что Вы преподаёте чистый звук!!! Многие преподаватели наоборот предлагают играть "грязно", якобы для того, чтобы "наполнить пространство". Мне очень нравятся Ваши занятия, спасибо Вам большое! С уважением, Фёдор Беляев
Mr. Tomo you are the savior for us self-learner who don't really know how to establish foundation. I simply couldn't believe how deep a deceivingly simple baseline like this can get. If I may ask, would you kindly explain or demonstrate how the freting hand muting works and how we can practice it? I found that my hand is shaking like crazy just by imitating you fretting the right notes while stretching index & middle fingers🥲
Thank you for sharing! Now you can join my Guitar Wisdom so you will not waste your time anymore! Thanks for asking! I will make more left hand muting technique lessons! You need to practice good chromatic scale for basic technique. Thank you so much!
I found this to be absolutely much needed information and know how, brilliant ,,,thank you I'm gonna be bluesin all day for the next couple of days just to clean out the cobwebs in my guitar playing .
I have watched Tomo’s videos for years now. There used be a lot of time especially in the beginning you will feel like “oh it is too easy” “why Tomo is not posting something more difficult” but it really isn’t easy. Sounds simple and looks simple does not mean it’s easy. Playing rhythm guitar is really the key of improvisation, the sound of the chord and the bass line are the guide tones for playing melody. I used to think yeah I can play that very quick but my emotion is not engaged in the playing, so I’m not playing music it’s just my hands are exercising. If you’re not emotionally engaged, music does not connect to your imagination and feelings, and that repetition and hard work without feeling will make it harder to internalize the melody and harmony.To really learn how to play music, I think it’s really important to listen to Tomo, focus on the groove/rhythm/then simple melody and major scale/1 finger approach/shell vocings/triads. Melody connects the chord and it is the device for playing the changes, playing over changes is like talking a second language in different contexts, you have to talk and apply and feel the dynamics of the melody and how it resonates with the chords. Playing the right melody It is like speaking the right words and sentences in the right social contexts. It is actually hard and it takes time. If you have no feeling and only remember grammar(theories) and shape of arpeggios, you will never be able to express your authenticity and identity and soul. Tomo is teaching the real way to internalize music not the gimmicky way with some tricks and inauthentic exercises.
Thanks so much for understanding my approach of teaching guitar! You made me so happy! Mostly all my private lesson students can understand this part. But most people don't watch my videos from top to bottom so they will not understand my key point. You made a great point! Thank you so much! Feeling & Technique/Theory meets freedom!
@@TomoFujitaMusic I just learned so much from you, your story, your books, guitar wisdom, this channel. Not just technique but the right mindset to learn music, I’m grateful!
I really like your calling out the ones. I started calling out the ones after seeing a youtube about typical funk techniques, making sure to hit the root or the third on the ones and fill the space, keeping phrases short and tight (well, tight for me). My playing is way improved, when you miss one of the ones you feel the loss in power. If one could learn to do that with intent it might sound good in a tension/release type way, but would need some other element to tie it together.
You have to know your lines before you can improvise. And yes, it’s very important to be able to solidly backup the other performers. Buddy Guy yelled at John Mayer about that. He stopped playing to watch the piano player solo and Buddy yelled, “Back that mother f****r up!” He learned alright.
I really enjoy your TH-cam lessons. Especially the one you did 2 years ago, ‘Perfect Song To Practise - Tomo’s fun Jazz Blues Solo Etude’. I also really really enjoy your Album ‘Blue Sky’, every single track is awesome. Perhaps you should feature some of your TH-cam lessons on your tracks in Blue Sky such as Gadson Shuffle, Groove Like Honey, etc.
I played rhythm (riff) behind it. Added (i’m a king bee) chords (mahogany rush) Am7, Bmin7, C#min7, Cmin7, Bmin7 and E7. Back into the ‘riff’ A. It almost worked. But you play lead I can hear chord changes already. You don’t need a rhythm guitar Tomo. It sounds like you add chord changes (playing lead by yourself) without rhythm backtrack
This is where Music theory knowledge will help to understand what is being played at base line at time 8:04 . So basically to are going in key of A from the 4th (D ) to the 5th (E) and the bass line is going D to D# to E so you are going from Cmin (D# being the minor 3rd of C ) to Cmajor (E being the Major 3rd of C). There's a mix of Amajor and Aminor and C major and Cminor. Cleverly there is also Bminor and Bmajor in the mix because of D and D# is the 3rd of B! just from music theory , B being the secondary dominant of A. Overall its A7 which has major 3rd and flat 7.
Dear Master Tomo, This is my other account subscribing your channel. Truth is, even if I had 10 accounts, I'd subscribe all of em to your channel! 🤗😀💪 Hope you're doing well! 🙏 You're simply awesome! 🤘🌟
@@TomoFujitaMusic Thanks for acknowledging, Master! 🙏 Those hot funk riffs and rhythms, I can't get enough of em! I really wanna learn and master em. Keep more of em coming! 🤗 Thank you.
I comment first two minutes into video without watching the final result. But I think John Mayer already played this? Old school riff. 50s country blues ‘gone surf’? 500 hundred miles bad surf. lol’
Thanks for your lession, Tomo sensei. Can you explain, why you use down picking only, when play bassline (not alternative)? I am new with picking. Thank you a lot, have a nice day Tomo sensei
You're very welcome! This bassline, it's better to use only down strokes so it makes more definitions on each note. Plus a little difficult to do so it makes more laidback groove! Thank you!
Outstanding! I thought you said Bruce Lee! And I think you did , however your subtitles said something different! Awesome lesson! I’m going to use your idea!
So What's up with your voice? There is nothing wrong with your ears. The good news is you don't flee into your quiet falsetto range! The truth is, the better your ears work, the harder it is to find your natural voice range. I must ask, if you ever had much choir training or taken Classes in Choir? You need this process to play guitar better. Guitar has a volume knob! This gives you a range of dynamics. First find the volume knob in your voice! It is ok to be LOUD sometimes! Then you always want to then be soft, to make the loud stand out more. Tomo San, your pitch is perfect! The tools you learn to play guitar apply to your voice too. Practice Vibrato and tremolo with your voice. Try to copy singers you like, listen to their vowels and consonants. Coming close to mastering guitar, I still find that the most exciting and satisfying music is singing 4 or 8 part harmony with a good choir! Singing and Playing the song Little Wing at the same time is amazingly difficult, few guitar players can do this. Try it! This is The Bar! If you can do this well then your on your way! Here is My Little Wing Live in front of a audience! This takes Stones My friend! Little Wing Flies! There is no where to hide here! th-cam.com/video/g-8gJCVxB7U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7fpZ3bS4pTsz4iuH Like Sub Share Please thank you so much. tomi:
@@TomoFujitaMusic I understand this Tomo San. Do you know how many times I've had to sing solo with Virus, Flu, and Allergies? This is what Hot Lemmon juice and Honey is for, the standard cure for clogged pipes. I mean right before you sing drink this, to see what happens next.
Lol well anyone who knows anything about guitar knows that Mayer is a phenomenal player. Impeccable timing, rhythm and plays more expressively than any other player out there.
Thanks for your support! Most popular TH-camrs got 2-3 million subs. So at least 2.5 Million people really don't know me! This is very helpful to others!
of course, those are Eric Clapton licks as Heard in his version of Hideaway. I'm not sure what the point of this is. There is literally not one single guitar hero. I have that plays, clean, childlike simple. Childish no style
Tomo made it clear near the beginning. You can play more stylistically (less clean), but this really helps your playing and he teaches it to all his students. sounding like your guitar heroes isnt the goal of going to music school, though, so I can see how being challenged with these kinds of things can help.
@@eric2892 Thanks for sharing! A lot of my students always really surprise how I teach simple things without any styles for foundation technique which can really help all my students goals with style playing later! Now I teach Tom Misch and Juanes.
Tomofujita, you are the best guitar guru in the world as always, but I must say to myself to be nice to myself, because I know is not as easy by looking at you how you played, I’m talking about guitar theory especially that easily for me to give in up
At first I thought this lesson was too easy for me but I let it play out. As it played I realized this is an important lesson for me despite many years of me playing blues. Great lesson, thank you Tomo.
Just play that part is easy then once you add important element then it's very hard to control! That's why this lesson is good for someone is dedicated & committed to improve! Thank you!
I totally agree
The power in these simple lessons is incredible. I use these lessons everywhere
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
This is EXACTLY the kind of practice exercise I need - matching beat (with the metronome), improvisation (improvised lead and/or improvised variations of the shuffle), etc. I’m also using it for some pick practice by using varying picking patterns - all down picks, alternate picking, and varying picking patterns. It’s a nice little exercise, Thank You!
So happy to hear that! I love using a metronome! Good job! You're very welcome! Thank you so much!
Tomo you are a big part of me breaking down my nearly 30 years of self taught bad habits and aimless direction. Never too late tho, I really appreciate these videos just talking about concepts of fundamentals. So easy to stray from them through the years. I'd love to one day be able to be a real student of yours!
Thank you for sharing! My Guitar Wisdom lessons are helping many people! So happy to hear that! Never too late at all! Thank you so much!
This bassline was in one of your other videos that I started watching 2-3 years ago. This led me to doing pentatonic scale patterns until I was blue in the face. This really was the piece I needed to unlock my blues playing, and really LEARN the guitar. Your courses are great, and your advice: "Dont worry, don't compare, don't expect too fast"..... I've adopted that whole mantra to anything I do. Thank you for teaching and for sharing your wisdom, Tomo!
Thank you for sharing! For blues soloing, this is so important! Groove bassline and chord progression! Thank you so much! I have more detail lessons at my Guitar Wisdom! Good job!!
Hey, beginner here. Just curious which pentatonic scale did you choose for this piece?
You're awesome! I enjoy watching these videos when I have time. When I first started playing a long time ago, I used the whistling technique. Even today. If I'm listening to another artist and I like the song, I'll whistle to it, but with my own unique phrases or lines to it over the melody and beat. No rules. Part of the whistling is part of my voice. So if there is certain phrases or habits that I do without much thought and whistle to, the song conforms to my style and to what I like. I'm concerned about preserving my voice and own identity when it comes to playing any instrument. It's a fingerprint to my work. Some people speak with a foreign accent, others have a southern accent and others have a northern accent. We all are communicating with our voice, but with some slight variation to deliver the message. Whistling over music with not much thought, will let your internal voice shine from within. Another tip is to record your whistles over melodies, then you can go back to them and retrieve what your inner voice was saying and transfer them over to the guitar.
Thank you so much! Thanks for sharing! You have your own style! So awesome!
What a great lesson, I have always been in favor of playing the Guitar as cleanly as possible, without effects or distortions and then adding little by little what you want, but without forgetting tonal purity. Thank you Mr. Tomo Fujita for sharing your extensive knowledge of Guitar, Music and Life. I use backing tracks from TH-cam because I am a Street Musician, but it is true, the dynamics are not the same as when playing music with real people.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much! You're very welcome! Make your own backing track and think about duration/lengths so that it's more effective!
There's a gold mine of blues phrases here. Awesome Tomo!
Thank you so much!
Always best advices, simplicity for efficacity. Thank you mister
Thanks for sharing! You're very welcome! Thank you!
This video is priceless to me ! Thank you TF for this great work out !
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
Thankyou Tomo! Really enjoyed this technique.
Glad you enjoyed it! My pleasure! Thank you so much!
Everything is important. I keep practicing every day. I have fun and I keep learning from it.
Thank you!
Try not to be perfect! One thing should focus first! Thank you!
Thank for this. I am getting much more by studying with you than any other methods. Foundation.
You're very welcome! Yes! Please join my Guitar Wisdom for more detail lessons.
Fundamentals and time is everything. An excellent exorcise that I will be using and showing to my GF who started playing guitar. She has an amazing ear cause she’s an incredible vocalist so I think she will like to play this to help her clean playing and she can expand on it and sing some Melodies over it once it’s locked in for her. Great Lesson Tomo.
Thank you for sharing! Very important! Good job! Great way to be a better vocalist with guitar playing! Thank you so much!
It's good to tear it back down to the skeletal frame and reignite inspiration. Go ahead and do that boring stuff - do the work. I especially appreciate the metronome 2 4 after the solid internal bass line is wood burned back into your soul. That's when the just-you solo creativity can start to flow again. When we are uninspired and stale, this is a great video to jump forward by cocking the spring backwards. Thank you, Tomo!
In order to have a fun stuff or amazing work.... there are some important things which is not all fun but when you know all the results... all of sudden, those are fun things to do! So all depends how you think, how you feel! I am so lucky that I got to know how to get very special place via making my efforts & consistency work. You're very welcome! Thank you!
This is the best lesson you’ve posted in a while thank you so much, you’re lovely Tomo!
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that!
Master Tomo , I hope you’re doing well and want you to know that I really appreciate your contribution to this community. You ROCK !!!!!💯💪
Yes! I am doing well here. Thank you so much!
I always discover keeping slow tempi accurately is one of the hardest things. As always a challenging lesson.
Yes! I tend to practice slow tempo. Thank you!
GREAT lesson, thank you mr. fujita!
Glad you liked it! Thank you so much!
I once heard Carol Kaye teaching upstairs to a student at the BASS CENTER in Studio City, Los Angeles. She was teaching that exact pattern at the slow BPM. I thought, "Gee, that's a lesson?" Now years later, I understand! Later she came down and gave me one of personalized guitar pics. A good groove and solid time, slow -as you teach is very important, so thanks Tomo!
Thanks for sharing! Once I jammed with her. I don't know why we played All the things you are! She is a master legend studio musician! In order to play the part so well. Yes! we all need to play it with super slow tempo. Great teacher! Thank you so much! I love 50 per beat & groove R 3 7 swing groove! Great way to improve your time feel!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Thank you for that!
With Les Paul. "Listen to this over here" he says pointing to Carol. She does a solo on Before You Accuse Me. th-cam.com/video/21DX4zTL2AY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-_1-dz8_Wl69pUd-
@@TomoFujitaMusic
@@riffdigger2133 Oh my! Beautiful bassline! So authentic and so creative!
I find I try to do things at level 10 when I am level 1. This lesson is helping my playing so much. Your teaching and playing make me smile as well. Thank you for these videos.
So happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing! You're very welcome! Thank you!
Hey Tomo! I will be subscribing to your online lessons soon. My truest dream is to actually become a master guitar player aside from finishing nursing school. I hope to someday tour and play live shows again. 4 minutes into this video and I am already a lot better
Great plan! You can learn so much at my Guitar Wisdom! So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
i luv stevie so much ! ,thank god for having me know him so quickly from i began learning guitar, glad to see contents refer to him. thank you mr.tomo.
Thank you for sharing! You're very welcome!
Thank you for sharing!! ❤️
You're very welcome! Thank you!
ブルースのフレーズをクリーンに弾くというのは新鮮でした。私は今まで弦に対してピックをやや斜めにアタックして、わざと汚い音を出すことを良しとしていたからです。クリーントーンでごまかしが効かないので正確さも身につくと思いました。ありがとうございます。
ありがとうございます。ボクは、基本的にアンプとギターで自分のトーンを作ります。歪みも良いですが、クリーントーンで楽しくどうぞ！
I know what I’m doing after breakfast tomorrow!! Always great stuff here
Sounds great! Thank you!
This is such a great lesson. I heard you teach this idea before but something toward the end really hit home. Thank you. Excited to get after this.
Glad it was helpful! You're very welcome! This lesson was so important for myself and all my students!
most of my time i am playing accoustic git, most time i am not eving bluesing at all, but i will definitely make this part of practicing
great ... thank you
Go for it! Thank you so much!
I was playing parts of his song who did you think i was and noticed it was a little muffled. Im going to practice clean playing. Thank you for the lesson tomo!
Thank you for sharing! Good job! Thank you so much!
You have always been a inspiration thank you
I appreciate that! Thank you so much!
Thanks again so much Tomo for sharing! I had to put my cup down to grab my guitar to jam a long in A could'nt stop have to watch again. This lesson reminds me so much of Stevie Ray and Albert kings, "Don't Lie To Me" where the master is teaching the student how to play just like what your doing for me. I really appreciate that! Thanks again.
Glad you enjoyed it! So happy to hear that! Thank you so much! My pleasure!
Thank you for this knowledge and in depth lesson on technique! great way to start the morning
My pleasure! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this. I struggle to put feeling into my playing (and not just play notes).This kind of very slow tempo demonstration of “playing with feeling” is super helpful
You're very welcome! In order to play well...start playing super slow! So you can fix any weak parts. Good job!
Томо, как здорово, что Вы преподаёте чистый звук!!! Многие преподаватели наоборот предлагают играть "грязно", якобы для того, чтобы "наполнить пространство". Мне очень нравятся Ваши занятия, спасибо Вам большое! С уважением, Фёдор Беляев
Thank you for sharing! I love dirty tone too. But somehow I love clean tone! Pure tone! Thank you so much!!
Thanks as always Tomo!! You’re the true guitar sensei !!
My pleasure! Thank you so much!
Excellent!
Glad you liked it! Thank you so much!
Mr. Tomo you are the savior for us self-learner who don't really know how to establish foundation. I simply couldn't believe how deep a deceivingly simple baseline like this can get.
If I may ask, would you kindly explain or demonstrate how the freting hand muting works and how we can practice it? I found that my hand is shaking like crazy just by imitating you fretting the right notes while stretching index & middle fingers🥲
Thank you for sharing! Now you can join my Guitar Wisdom so you will not waste your time anymore! Thanks for asking! I will make more left hand muting technique lessons! You need to practice good chromatic scale for basic technique. Thank you so much!
Very helpful lesson. Thank you kindly.
You're very welcome! So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
Thank you Mr.Fujita.
Good lesson about Blues/Jazz shuffle.
(and how to make feeling in jamming.)
👍🙏😎
(Please take care allergy.🙏😎)
Thank you so much!
I found this to be absolutely much needed information and know how, brilliant ,,,thank you
I'm gonna be bluesin all day for the next couple of days just to clean out the cobwebs in my guitar playing .
Glad it was helpful! So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
Great simple lesson, Thks a Lot Master
So happy to hear! Thank you so much!
Took me a minute but i did get it. Now I'm on to different, harder stuff thanks to that.
Good job! Thank you so much!
I have watched Tomo’s videos for years now. There used be a lot of time especially in the beginning you will feel like “oh it is too easy” “why Tomo is not posting something more difficult” but it really isn’t easy. Sounds simple and looks simple does not mean it’s easy. Playing rhythm guitar is really the key of improvisation, the sound of the chord and the bass line are the guide tones for playing melody. I used to think yeah I can play that very quick but my emotion is not engaged in the playing, so I’m not playing music it’s just my hands are exercising. If you’re not emotionally engaged, music does not connect to your imagination and feelings, and that repetition and hard work without feeling will make it harder to internalize the melody and harmony.To really learn how to play music, I think it’s really important to listen to Tomo, focus on the groove/rhythm/then simple melody and major scale/1 finger approach/shell vocings/triads. Melody connects the chord and it is the device for playing the changes, playing over changes is like talking a second language in different contexts, you have to talk and apply and feel the dynamics of the melody and how it resonates with the chords. Playing the right melody It is like speaking the right words and sentences in the right social contexts. It is actually hard and it takes time. If you have no feeling and only remember grammar(theories) and shape of arpeggios, you will never be able to express your authenticity and identity and soul. Tomo is teaching the real way to internalize music not the gimmicky way with some tricks and inauthentic exercises.
Thanks so much for understanding my approach of teaching guitar! You made me so happy! Mostly all my private lesson students can understand this part. But most people don't watch my videos from top to bottom so they will not understand my key point. You made a great point! Thank you so much! Feeling & Technique/Theory meets freedom!
@@TomoFujitaMusic I just learned so much from you, your story, your books, guitar wisdom, this channel. Not just technique but the right mindset to learn music, I’m grateful!
@@vincentchen5341 So happy to hear that! Hope you are studying at my Guitar Wisdom. More foundation & advanced. Thank you so much!
I really like your calling out the ones. I started calling out the ones after seeing a youtube about typical funk techniques, making sure to hit the root or the third on the ones and fill the space, keeping phrases short and tight (well, tight for me). My playing is way improved, when you miss one of the ones you feel the loss in power. If one could learn to do that with intent it might sound good in a tension/release type way, but would need some other element to tie it together.
So happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing! Good job!
🙏❤️☝️ thanks very much for sharing your music 🎸 please get well soon 🙏
You're very welcome! Thank you so much! I am good now! This was recorded early May.
@@TomoFujitaMusic 👍🏻 great 🙏 hope you have a great week ☝️
Great lesson. I love box shuffles.
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
Very very good !!!!!! 😊 ❤ thanks
Thank you so much!
Good advice, I think this would be great guitar practice tool for using a simple looper, and can play in different keys and tempos.
Thank you so much! Glad to be helpful!
❤️❤️ much support from the philippines!
Thank you so much!
ありがとうございます。🙏練習したいです！
ご丁寧にありがとうございます！ゆっくりどうぞ！
Very nice! Thanks 🤘
Thank you so much!
I love Crossroads 1986! 😎 off topic. Great lesson.
Thanks for sharing! Thank you!
Good stuff. Thanks Tomo. Did John also learn the guitar face from you ?! ;)
My pleasure! Thank you so much!
love it !
Thank you!
Great lesson all the way through. Solid. You can take this one to the bank. If the bank was open.
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that!
You have to know your lines before you can improvise. And yes, it’s very important to be able to solidly backup the other performers. Buddy Guy yelled at John Mayer about that. He stopped playing to watch the piano player solo and Buddy yelled, “Back that mother f****r up!” He learned alright.
Thank you for sharing! Yes, dedication & commitment for good soloing!
do you have a video of that?
@@alec554 no but it was at a live performance in New York City where Mayer sat in.
I really enjoy your TH-cam lessons. Especially the one you did 2 years ago, ‘Perfect Song To Practise - Tomo’s fun Jazz Blues Solo Etude’. I also really really enjoy your Album ‘Blue Sky’, every single track is awesome. Perhaps you should feature some of your TH-cam lessons on your tracks in Blue Sky such as Gadson Shuffle, Groove Like Honey, etc.
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much! Good job! Blue Sky has a lot of blues style tunes. Yes, I would love to do that. Thank you!
I played rhythm (riff) behind it. Added (i’m a king bee) chords (mahogany rush) Am7, Bmin7, C#min7, Cmin7, Bmin7 and E7. Back into the ‘riff’ A. It almost worked. But you play lead I can hear chord changes already. You don’t need a rhythm guitar Tomo. It sounds like you add chord changes (playing lead by yourself) without rhythm backtrack
Thank you for sharing! Thank you!
this is very similar to SRV's "so Excited".. correct me if i'm wrong ?
Yes! That's same bassline!
That's a pretty guitar, sensei!!
Thank you!
This is where Music theory knowledge will help to understand what is being played at base line at time 8:04 . So basically to are going in key of A from the 4th (D ) to the 5th (E) and the bass line is going D to D# to E so you are going from Cmin (D# being the minor 3rd of C ) to Cmajor (E being the Major 3rd of C). There's a mix of Amajor and Aminor and C major and Cminor. Cleverly there is also Bminor and Bmajor in the mix because of D and D# is the 3rd of B! just from music theory , B being the secondary dominant of A.
Overall its A7 which has major 3rd and flat 7.
Tomo said, “Don’t think. Just feel.” -Bruce Lee
@@BillNelson-OU812 I like to "Think" to understand about what I am going to "Feel" much more fun!
@@rajeshgumber363 the best lessons I learned are K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid. And “If you think, you stink.”
Thank you for sharing! I teach more detail lessons at my Guitar Wisdom.
Thank you Bill!
Me thinks John helped Tomo alot.
I am so grateful! So many other students really helped me too!
I didn't quite catch that Count Basie song - somethin Blues? And the other one was Milt Jackson - Bag's Groove right?
C Jam Blues! Thank you!
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You're very kind! Thank you so much! You can subscribe my Guitar Wisdom. More educational contents there. Thank you so much!
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Thanks for acknowledging, Master! 🙏
Those hot funk riffs and rhythms, I can't get enough of em!
I really wanna learn and master em.
Keep more of em coming! 🤗
Thank you.
Tomo's backing track? Metronome! Thank you so much professor! ❤🙏
Metronome is a great backing track! You're very welcome!
I comment first two minutes into video without watching the final result. But I think John Mayer already played this? Old school riff. 50s country blues ‘gone surf’? 500 hundred miles bad surf. lol’
Thank you for sharing! Good job!
Thanks for your lession, Tomo sensei. Can you explain, why you use down picking only, when play bassline (not alternative)? I am new with picking. Thank you a lot, have a nice day Tomo sensei
You're very welcome! This bassline, it's better to use only down strokes so it makes more definitions on each note. Plus a little difficult to do so it makes more laidback groove! Thank you!
Outstanding! I thought you said Bruce Lee!
And I think you did , however your subtitles said something different!
Awesome lesson! I’m going to use your idea!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for sharing! Thank you!
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Thank you!
All I want is to be able to play that lick with that phrasing from 5:25 - 5:31.
Thank you so much! Blues phrase! Please copy by ears!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Forgive me if I look at the frets too.. but I will try to do it mostly by ear - thank you!
@@daviddawkins You can look at the fretboard and think, feel all the intervals / colors!
What full black guitar behind?
Ibanez AZES40 Black
Ha ha, I like walking bass. The most basic was the first blues riff that learned. I will start to add walking base first.
Thank you for sharing! Bassline is so much fun!
What string gauge do you use?
D'Addario Pure Nickel 10-45
Man how ,..how do you do that bend 5:33..??? :)
Thank you so much! Practice bending technique!
Mr.Fujita are you palm muting as you play this bass line?
I use both hands to mute any notes that needed to be muted!
Thank you for your reply!
So What's up with your voice? There is nothing wrong with your ears. The good news is you don't flee into your quiet falsetto range! The truth is, the better your ears work, the harder it is to find your natural voice range. I must ask, if you ever had much choir training or taken Classes in Choir? You need this process to play guitar better. Guitar has a volume knob! This gives you a range of dynamics. First find the volume knob in your voice! It is ok to be LOUD sometimes! Then you always want to then be soft, to make the loud stand out more. Tomo San, your pitch is perfect! The tools you learn to play guitar apply to your voice too. Practice Vibrato and tremolo with your voice. Try to copy singers you like, listen to their vowels and consonants. Coming close to mastering guitar, I still find that the most exciting and satisfying music is singing 4 or 8 part harmony with a good choir! Singing and Playing the song Little Wing at the same time is amazingly difficult, few guitar players can do this. Try it! This is The Bar! If you can do this well then your on your way! Here is My Little Wing Live in front of a audience! This takes Stones My friend! Little Wing Flies! There is no where to hide here! th-cam.com/video/g-8gJCVxB7U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7fpZ3bS4pTsz4iuH Like Sub Share Please thank you so much. tomi:
Thank you! I had a bad seasonal allergies in May. Thank you for sharing!
@@TomoFujitaMusic I understand this Tomo San. Do you know how many times I've had to sing solo with Virus, Flu, and Allergies? This is what Hot Lemmon juice and Honey is for, the standard cure for clogged pipes. I mean right before you sing drink this, to see what happens next.
You have helped so many, and given so much of yourself, I just thought you might also benefit from a little help from your friends.😎
I feel like if you can't get this down - that a looper would be a tremendous help
Thank you for sharing!
I wish I played guitar younger age too old and not much cash for lessons
Thanks for sharing. Please join my Guitar Wisdom. Affordable lessons.
@@TomoFujitaMusic will do thanks
I wish somebody would teach Mayer about Jerry Garcia.
Thank you for sharing!
Think he’s learned enough from Bob weir the past decade
Its my soul people... its my soul
MY MY MY MY MY MY MY MY MY MY MY MY SOUL (phish reference) 😅
Thank you for sharing!
where is the cat ? Yo Tomo did you check new D Gilmour song?
Dexter is very busy! Thanks for sharing!
More like T-bone Walker than SRV.
I love those guys too!
Sounds like "everyday I got the blues"
Thank you for sharing!
never thought John Mayer was anything special on guitar. He is a good singer.
Thank you for sharing!
Lol well anyone who knows anything about guitar knows that Mayer is a phenomenal player. Impeccable timing, rhythm and plays more expressively than any other player out there.
@@cs16331 he's pretty good overall yeah.
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Thank you!
I need to play cleaner
Yes! Yon can! Enjoy!
Typo in the title bro~!
Thank you!
Doo be doo wop wop say hey what yeah.
If all you have is Stevie Ray Vaughan licks… You are not playing the blues.
Thank you for sharing! Great start!
dude has been squeezing the teaching john mayer thing for a lifetime lol
Thanks for your support! Most popular TH-camrs got 2-3 million subs. So at least 2.5 Million people really don't know me! This is very helpful to others!
He really doesn’t milk it though… besides from that, he’s a really knowledgeable player and teacher as well
The past is fixed…..he will always be John’s former teacher.
@@soondubu. Thank you so much!
@@michaelgoyettemusic thank you so much!
of course, those are Eric Clapton licks as Heard in his version of Hideaway. I'm not sure what the point of this is. There is literally not one single guitar hero. I have that plays, clean, childlike simple. Childish no style
I love Freddie King, Eric Clapton!
Tomo made it clear near the beginning. You can play more stylistically (less clean), but this really helps your playing and he teaches it to all his students.
sounding like your guitar heroes isnt the goal of going to music school, though, so I can see how being challenged with these kinds of things can help.
@@eric2892 Thanks for sharing! A lot of my students always really surprise how I teach simple things without any styles for foundation technique which can really help all my students goals with style playing later! Now I teach Tom Misch and Juanes.
Tomofujita, you are the best guitar guru in the world as always, but I must say to myself to be nice to myself, because I know is not as easy by looking at you how you played, I’m talking about guitar theory especially that easily for me to give in up
Thank you so much! Foundation, music theory, I teach all the details at my Guitar Wisdom. You can learn them! Then more fun is waiting for you!