There are very few guitar/music teachers whose classes must be a real treat to take... Imagine being Tomo's student. Like a dream come true. I guess you have to get admitted to Berkeley to experience that... I've been playing guitar for a decade or more but I'm still stuck at the same level.
Thanks so much for your kind words. I am so fortunate that my private lesson spots at Berklee fills so quick! In general, first semester students cannot take me lessons because already full before they arrive here! Crazy! I am so grateful that. I think I have the best job in this world! Now you can learn my lessons at Guitar Wisdom (subscription video lessons) for reasonable price.
After 4 years of deep immersion into guitar it finally happened. Eyes closed the keyboard finally mapped in my head. All measurements matched. The magick of extreme slow scale playing. Methodic learning. Fluent just like my violin. Amazing. Be Well, travel essy. ❤🎸🎼🎵🎶
A while back I asked for advice on not to how to sound like the same old blues in a minor based progression. You told me to avoid playing above the 13th fret, avoid playing vertically, only play on 1-2 strings, and think melodies. I’ve been working on it and it’s helped so much!!! Thank you!
Praying for you Tomo. Pray that you will have peace and goodwill today and continuing this coming year. Love and appreciate the content you put out. I have learned tons from you. God bless you!!
Teach got himself a single pickup strat! That is BA. I love the idea of single pickup guitars but I'm always like why not put it in the middle. Best of both worlds.
Oh man, this is such good info! I have a Keb' Mo instructional DVD, and he went over similar steps that you did, although you were a lot easier to understand! Thank you so much!
Middle pup, yes. I like to roll off the bass-contour control on my G&L Legacy(S-type). But you probably move from forward picking position to the typical rearward position for more treble/brighter tone.
This was very good. When Eric Clapton was ready to leave The Yardbirds in 1965, because of the song For Your Love, was too commercial in his opinion, a B side was recorded, Got To Hurry. It has that same pattern. Very interesting. We do have to go further back and see what these gutarists were influenced by. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Cheers! ✌️🎸 🎄
At 13:17 Sensei uses a Japanese word- “gomakasu” (誤魔化す)-which usually means something like “cheating” - but in context here maybe means “to fill out the sound”
Not exactly in this case. Similar meaning but hidden bad playing... as if its a great playing... Translation is very hard. Google translation is okay... but many words and expressions are not available in English. Thank you. Reverb can hide all your mistakes & poor techniques like muting techniques.
I wish to go to Berkeley big brother any ideas on which direction I should start looking into . My intention is to worship Christ and for him to be blessed threw the talent he has given me
Hi Tomo, its a pleasure to hear you. Thanks for your vidéo. cool. The sound Come from the right hand and many years...beautiful chords AT the end..happy christmas.. Tomo for you and family 👍🌲 France. Joyeux Noël...
Middle pickup only is funny to me. It`s the one pickup I don`t use unless it`s combined with the neck of bridge pickup. By itself it has no character in tone, to my ears. Also it`s right where I pick the strings so it`s in the way. My solution is to lower the middle pickup to about flat to the pickgard. Works great now. ;-)
First you need to listen jazz. Jazz language! That sound! Then learn jazz blues so you can learn specific chords! Follow each chords, use chord tone and jazz phrases. Not so much about scale knowledges... you need to hear them. You can learn all at my Guitar Wisdom. Thank you!
The metronoom,... how grow skill without one? Not! So I'm autointact, not autodidact as pps think. Didn't really learn to master it. Wasn't a great teach for myself. Facts: No basics. TY Tomo, you play so relaxed over that clock😊
Yes. I could. I am not expert on Hendrix playing but I know some. His chord playing is based on piano style. His solo is based on Albert King, Lighnin't Hopkins and coming from vocal melody instead of CAGED or 5 minor pentatonic shapes! He plays music not knowledges!
@ Thank you for the excellent insight, Tomo! I truly hope that with your 30+ years of experience as a guitar teacher, you can help us delve deeper into some Hendrix-style playing. His guitar melodies are truly unmatched, setting a standard that other players struggle to approach.
@@Krsna-333 You're welcome! I think most people don't really understand the blues in depths like Hendrix did! Plus chords, rhythm guitar experiences like Hendrix.... definitely no backing tracks! Simple and deep!
Tomo, Tomo, Tomo…a simple few…a few simple, we’re seasonally short, things, Brother: The truth is, umbly, I say to you that utside of your awesomeness in all things music and guitar. I’m feel ashamed have no knowledge of don’t know anything about your Dad….HE’S (could’ve going to
But not everyone wants to become Al DiMeola. Entire musical careers have been built around approximately one and a half riffs and four or five notes. And that music has lasted a hundred years! I want to know what that power is.
One problem I had was I was playing too fast/rushing but I listened to SRV and Albert King in session and it just clicked to play less often especially at first and that seemed to give my playing a lot more feel. Idk if anyone else has this problem
If you listen to the guitar legends like SRV, Clapton, Hendrix it’s easy to slip into a style of playing extremely fast to try to keep up with them, but if you learn to slow it down from the start and warm up to that speed, your playing might become more dynamic.
I noticed when you play that rhythm pattern..... did you always use your pinky for two frets up from A..... did you ever use your ring finger.. did you change from using your ring finger...
Hey Sensei, I’m just a beginner at playing the electric guitar, but I feel like I have no talent for it. I can’t even press the D chord correctly-my ring finger always ends up pressing the first string, which makes me very upset. I don’t know what to do to improve my left hand coordination
Don't worry, we all start somewhere. Keep practicing and you'll get there! We are all same at the beginning! You need foundation first! Chromatic scale!
I am really struggling to understand this 4th, 1st, 3rd, 5th kind of speak, it kind of has no rhyme or reason, or logic in that it's not always as clear cut as just counting up from A or whatever root note you're starting from. Sometimes it skips a sharp or a flat sometimes it includes one, then with the chords they use the roman numerals, major minor and you have to factor in the correct notes for the chord progression? It doesn't folow the wah my brain works, mathematically, seems like skmethjng you just have to know off by heart and that's just not going to work out for me because of my memory problems. I like thinking of things in terms of the note circle because i can always think of it in more of a very simple cycle. Where A is the beginning and G is the end, with a sharp/flat in the middle, but thinking of that doesn't always give me the right answers to understanding keys, scales, whatever. The only scale that makes sense to me is the C major which goes around the circle in order, |C D E F G, A B| and repeat. You say at the start not to think about the pentatonic scale but I feel like I still need to know this kind of theory to understand your chord progression, because it's not always as clear cut as A to G.
You can go super slow! Play C Major scale on 2nd string. Play each note for 3-4 seconds and think, feel each intervals. Then go R M3 5...from R to 4th, 6th... and 2nd and 7th. If you can't feel it strong then do is super slow and repeat about 5-10 minutes a day. Simple & slow... the best! No need to memorize. It will take some time. Stay one topic for two weeks. Thanks for sharing! You can think about pentatonic but you can play them on one string so that you will understand each intervals.
It is very hard for me to focus on making music and practicing because I am constantly being traumatised by videos that are coming from Gaza, where children and babies are amputated by missile fire. I constantly ask myself what I should do to help join the voices that are calling for an end to the genocide. It is so hard to prioritize getting better when these children are being murdered every day. I genuinely do not know what to do. I tried to distract myself by just practicing but it is just so horrific.
Anyway, I'm sorry, I love your videos, and I know this is not your topic, but I am just desperate, now. I cannot stand the silence on the genocide, it feels like I am in a party and there's a huge monster that is murdering everyone slowly and nobody is noticing it or talking about it. It feels insane.
There are very few guitar/music teachers whose classes must be a real treat to take... Imagine being Tomo's student. Like a dream come true. I guess you have to get admitted to Berkeley to experience that... I've been playing guitar for a decade or more but I'm still stuck at the same level.
Thanks so much for your kind words. I am so fortunate that my private lesson spots at Berklee fills so quick! In general, first semester students cannot take me lessons because already full before they arrive here! Crazy! I am so grateful that. I think I have the best job in this world! Now you can learn my lessons at Guitar Wisdom (subscription video lessons) for reasonable price.
Guitar Wisdom is what you want! Really intimate and nice, like private lesson! Can’t recommend it enough!
@@caprise-music6722 Thank you so much! So happy to hear that!
@@woofcity6307 Thanks so much for sharing! We learn about life though guitar learning!
It's true ❤
Be kind to yourself because you are very special. That’s the kindest sentiment I’ve heard in a long time..
Thank you so much!
Don’t worry
Don’t compare
Don’t expect too fast
Be kind to yourself
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So happy to see you back.
Thank you!
The best guitar teacher in Internet! greetings from Argentina
Thank you so much!
After 4 years of deep immersion into guitar it finally happened. Eyes closed the keyboard finally mapped in my head. All measurements matched.
The magick of extreme slow scale playing. Methodic learning.
Fluent just like my violin. Amazing. Be Well, travel essy. ❤🎸🎼🎵🎶
Thank you for sharing! Good job Jack! GREAT JOB!
Slow! Yes! Excellent!
Great idea I love the middle pickup on a Stratocaster 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤
Glad you like it! Thank you!
I love you channel / site and attitude is also the best. I'm going to learn jazz finally, or at least correct blues! Thanx Tomo!
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much! You're very welcome!
A while back I asked for advice on not to how to sound like the same old blues in a minor based progression.
You told me to avoid playing above the 13th fret, avoid playing vertically, only play on 1-2 strings, and think melodies.
I’ve been working on it and it’s helped so much!!!
Thank you!
Good job! One string approach and don't think that blues box position vertically... way too easy! F blues is a great key! So happy to hear that.
Great lesson Tomo! Beautiful chords at the end too
Glad you liked the chords!
Praying for you Tomo. Pray that you will have peace and goodwill today and continuing this coming year. Love and appreciate the content you put out. I have learned tons from you. God bless you!!
Thank you so much! God bless you too!
You’re awesome Tomo! Wonderfull information always! 😊🙌🏼🎸🎸🎸🎸
Thanks! So happy to hear that!
I love how you got carried away in this lesson. Who wouldn't ?, thanks for posting Tomo, great lesson, and thank you TH-cam ❤😂😂
Thank you so much! You're vert welcome!
Thank you Tomo! Always a good lesson.
You're very welcome! Thank you!
Thank you for your lessons, and I agree. Too many people try to turn music into a competition when it is the opposite. It is about collaboration
You're very welcome! No need to do that! Enjoy music! Thank you!
Teach got himself a single pickup strat!
That is BA.
I love the idea of single pickup guitars but I'm always like why not put it in the middle. Best of both worlds.
Thank you for sharing! One pickup guitar sounds so good!
Oh man, this is such good info! I have a Keb' Mo instructional DVD, and he went over similar steps that you did, although you were a lot easier to understand! Thank you so much!
Thanks! So glad you like it!
Thank you Tomo. You are a great gift to guitar players around the world.
You're very welcome! My job is to make people happy with guitar!
Tomo, you are way TOO COOL! Thank you for that last segment. Beautiful!
Thanks for listening! Glad you enjoyed that last segment!
Arigato gozaimasu, Sensei! Beautiful playing in those lines at the end!
You're very welcome! Thank you so much!
Thanks for a classic TomoFujita-lesson! the suggestion for thumb position is very useful, too !
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much!
Tomo you don't teach just Guitar playing...you teach people the language of music❤
@@filippodecardona8168 Thank you so much!
Thanks Tomoson
You're very welcome! Thank you!
Middle pup, yes. I like to roll off the bass-contour control on my G&L Legacy(S-type). But you probably move from forward picking position to the typical rearward position for more treble/brighter tone.
It's all about finding that right tone!
fantastic lesson, many thanks Tomo
You're very welcome! Keep practicing!
Great lesson, Tomo. Thank you for sharing. I have so much to practice
You're very welcome! Thank you!
Thank you, Tomo! That was AMAZING!
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you Mr.Fujita.
Good lesson.
(B.B.King play beautiful chords.)
👍🙏😎
You’re very welcome!
❤❤❤ SIR Tomo.. I praktis this every day 15 mins as you said❤ thnx
Awesome! Keep practicing!
This was very good. When Eric Clapton was ready to leave The Yardbirds in 1965, because of the song For Your Love, was too commercial in his opinion, a B side was recorded, Got To Hurry. It has that same pattern. Very interesting. We do have to go further back and see what these gutarists were influenced by. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Cheers! ✌️🎸 🎄
Thanks, that's great you noticed the connection! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Thank you for this lesson.
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome lesson! I love that guitar.
Glad you like it! Thank you!
At 13:17 Sensei uses a Japanese word- “gomakasu” (誤魔化す)-which usually means something like “cheating” - but in context here maybe means “to fill out the sound”
Not exactly in this case. Similar meaning but hidden bad playing... as if its a great playing... Translation is very hard. Google translation is okay... but many words and expressions are not available in English. Thank you.
Reverb can hide all your mistakes & poor techniques like muting techniques.
@ なるほど。お返事ありがとうございます・
God has given you the understanding to fix everyone’s problem
I wish to go to Berkeley big brother any ideas on which direction I should start looking into . My intention is to worship Christ and for him to be blessed threw the talent he has given me
@@georgevillanueva6926same brother!
Thanks 👍🤩😊😊 happy Christmas 🎄☃️
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Thanks Tomo,
You're very welcome! Thank you!
Love that single pup guitar ❤
Thank you! Love it!
Hi Tomo, its a pleasure to hear you. Thanks for your vidéo. cool. The sound Come from the right hand and many years...beautiful chords AT the end..happy christmas.. Tomo for you and family 👍🌲 France. Joyeux Noël...
Thanks for listening! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
I’m going to join guitar wisdom!
Please do! You can enjoy your guitar journey!
Middle pickup only is funny to me. It`s the one pickup I don`t use unless it`s combined with the neck of bridge pickup. By itself it has no character in tone, to my ears. Also it`s right where I pick the strings so it`s in the way. My solution is to lower the middle pickup to about flat to the pickgard. Works great now. ;-)
Thanks for sharing! I love one pickup guitar!
Beth!🔥
Yes!
Thanks!)
You're very welcome!
Hi Tomo what are the jazzy scales that you start playing around 16:30? Should we be thinking about modes, triads, or something else?
First you need to listen jazz. Jazz language! That sound!
Then learn jazz blues so you can learn specific chords!
Follow each chords, use chord tone and jazz phrases.
Not so much about scale knowledges... you need to hear them.
You can learn all at my Guitar Wisdom. Thank you!
The metronoom,... how grow skill without one? Not! So I'm autointact, not autodidact as pps think. Didn't really learn to master it. Wasn't a great teach for myself. Facts: No basics. TY Tomo, you play so relaxed over that clock😊
Don't worry! If you want to learn, you can! That's all! No magic! Always hard work is good! Thank you!
Very difficult to teach yourself! Too much distraction and too much information! Please join my Guitar Wisdom.
Tomo, could you help us understand your perspective on Jimi Hendrix's approach to blues and some of the fundamental aspects of his style
Yes. I could. I am not expert on Hendrix playing but I know some. His chord playing is based on piano style. His solo is based on Albert King, Lighnin't Hopkins and coming from vocal melody instead of CAGED or 5 minor pentatonic shapes! He plays music not knowledges!
@ Thank you for the excellent insight, Tomo! I truly hope that with your 30+ years of experience as a guitar teacher, you can help us delve deeper into some Hendrix-style playing. His guitar melodies are truly unmatched, setting a standard that other players struggle to approach.
@@Krsna-333 You're welcome! I think most people don't really understand the blues in depths like Hendrix did! Plus chords, rhythm guitar experiences like Hendrix.... definitely no backing tracks! Simple and deep!
Tomo great lesson! But aslo your strap is so nice! I have a black cat and she looks exactly like this 😅 Where can I find such a nice strap? 😀
Thanks so much! Yes! Grande Uomo from Japan.
Tomo, Tomo, Tomo…a simple few…a few simple, we’re seasonally short, things, Brother: The truth is, umbly, I say to you that utside of your awesomeness in all things music and guitar. I’m feel ashamed have no knowledge of don’t know anything about your Dad….HE’S (could’ve going to
Thank you so much! I love simplicity & limitation.My father is very sweet guy! 86 now! I just talked with my parents last night.
But not everyone wants to become Al DiMeola. Entire musical careers have been built around approximately one and a half riffs and four or five notes. And that music has lasted a hundred years! I want to know what that power is.
Thank you so much! Limitation is so good!
One problem I had was I was playing too fast/rushing but I listened to SRV and Albert King in session and it just clicked to play less often especially at first and that seemed to give my playing a lot more feel. Idk if anyone else has this problem
If you listen to the guitar legends like SRV, Clapton, Hendrix it’s easy to slip into a style of playing extremely fast to try to keep up with them, but if you learn to slow it down from the start and warm up to that speed, your playing might become more dynamic.
Good job! Less is more! Take your time as much as you need! Thank you!
I noticed when you play that rhythm pattern..... did you always use your pinky for two frets up from A..... did you ever use your ring finger.. did you change from using your ring finger...
Thanks for noticing! This way, (Like bass player) I can use 2nd and 3rd fingers to mute!
What pedal is that??
One Control Beth Reverb Pedal
Arigato
Italy
Thank you from Boston MA
Hey Sensei, I’m just a beginner at playing the electric guitar, but I feel like I have no talent for it. I can’t even press the D chord correctly-my ring finger always ends up pressing the first string, which makes me very upset. I don’t know what to do to improve my left hand coordination
Don't worry, we all start somewhere. Keep practicing and you'll get there!
We are all same at the beginning! You need foundation first! Chromatic scale!
Please watch this lesson. You can improve your guitar technique!
th-cam.com/video/4XxfLYN-Aqg/w-d-xo.html
@@TomoFujitaMusic thank u sensei! U are soooo nice!!
Wisdom
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John Mayer guitar 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you!
I am really struggling to understand this 4th, 1st, 3rd, 5th kind of speak, it kind of has no rhyme or reason, or logic in that it's not always as clear cut as just counting up from A or whatever root note you're starting from. Sometimes it skips a sharp or a flat sometimes it includes one, then with the chords they use the roman numerals, major minor and you have to factor in the correct notes for the chord progression? It doesn't folow the wah my brain works, mathematically, seems like skmethjng you just have to know off by heart and that's just not going to work out for me because of my memory problems. I like thinking of things in terms of the note circle because i can always think of it in more of a very simple cycle. Where A is the beginning and G is the end, with a sharp/flat in the middle, but thinking of that doesn't always give me the right answers to understanding keys, scales, whatever. The only scale that makes sense to me is the C major which goes around the circle in order, |C D E F G, A B| and repeat. You say at the start not to think about the pentatonic scale but I feel like I still need to know this kind of theory to understand your chord progression, because it's not always as clear cut as A to G.
You can go super slow! Play C Major scale on 2nd string. Play each note for 3-4 seconds and think, feel each intervals. Then go R M3 5...from R to 4th, 6th... and 2nd and 7th. If you can't feel it strong then do is super slow and repeat about 5-10 minutes a day. Simple & slow... the best! No need to memorize. It will take some time. Stay one topic for two weeks. Thanks for sharing! You can think about pentatonic but you can play them on one string so that you will understand each intervals.
How about this video?
th-cam.com/video/Zt0_tC9A_GA/w-d-xo.html
Simple one...
th-cam.com/video/5NAv0smXzhI/w-d-xo.html
This video
th-cam.com/video/QiZ7-6lWkB0/w-d-xo.html
Teddy Swims The Door has a cool baseline th-cam.com/video/xCrh4wLdw84/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vhuXJfSfjZy59OXt
Thanks for sharing!
It is very hard for me to focus on making music and practicing because I am constantly being traumatised by videos that are coming from Gaza, where children and babies are amputated by missile fire. I constantly ask myself what I should do to help join the voices that are calling for an end to the genocide. It is so hard to prioritize getting better when these children are being murdered every day. I genuinely do not know what to do. I tried to distract myself by just practicing but it is just so horrific.
Anyway, I'm sorry, I love your videos, and I know this is not your topic, but I am just desperate, now. I cannot stand the silence on the genocide, it feels like I am in a party and there's a huge monster that is murdering everyone slowly and nobody is noticing it or talking about it. It feels insane.
Thank you for sharing. Guitar is no end. Amazing inspiration. Thank you.
Thank you so much! My TH-cam Channel is all about guitar and positive inspiration. Hope you take anything from here to motivate yourself.