Mixing MAJOR and MINOR PENTATONIC Scales (People Get Ready) 

What I really like here is that you are taking the elements of guitar--triads, pentatonics, etc--and turning them into MUSIC. It's that magical moment that most teachers miss, in my opinion. But here you show the moment of transmution from kindling wood into fire. Please do more of this!

It’s a good day when Tomo Sensei brings us the wisdom.

Ohh... John Mayer talked about this in a live. But I didn’t understand it But Tomo is a teacher and I understood it now, thank you

When I discovered "Blue Sky" I started to study jazz/blues and modern blues and try to emulate your approach for clean tone playing. Many thanks Tomo. God bless you.

The amount of videos you are uploading is amazing! I feel criminal learning new guitar things by just watching your free guitar videos. Thank you for sharing, please keep it up! Greetings from Netherlands.

Nice, more triads, just what Im actually studying in Guitar Wisdom. I thought It woukd take less time, but turns out that there are a lot of fun with triads

I hope everyone understands the sweetness of the melody depends upon the relationship to the chords, obviously Tomo gets this but it's the most critical thing to consider.Curtis Mayfield wrote this masterpiece 56 years ago and developed these melodies in direct relationship to the chord progression. They go together like a hand in a glove, thank you Tomo for giving us this gift of knowledge and congratulations on your album.

Somehow reminded me of "Waiting on the world to change" by John Mayer, I guess the chord progression.

Real Tomo Disciples Wake Up Practice Triads and Sleep. Thanks Tomo So much !❤

That's why you are the most amazing teacher ever! I'm your fan and a student from philippines , i love it !!!

You’re Amazing 🤩 teacher in the world 🌎 from Nepal 🇳🇵

この曲が流れたころ　ドキッとしました　でも音楽関連番組では　軽い扱いでした　このフレーズ　いいですよね　味わえる　っていうのはこういう音とメロディーとがあってこそ　まあ　宣伝しづらかったのかもしれませんが...　でも音は残っていて　いままた聴く機会が持てました　そのことに感謝します

Now i know where John got that vibe. Damn, what a nice teacher

tomoさん、1965ストラトは宝物ですね！55歳ってtomoさんの同級生ですね。👍😄🎸

I always appreciate your pedagogy, simplicity, humbleness and wisdom. Thanks Monsieur Fujita for being here!

At around 17:00 you talk about not using the pentatonic shape millions of people use and say how your students do it. Can you elaborate? I understand not just memorizing shapes and learning intervals, but what’s the advantage of the other way? Sounds way better by the way, but curious to understand. Is it the sound? Or closeness to triads? BTW I already subscribe to guitar wisdom. 🙏🏻 You changed my playing already, thank you.

Kkkk, I heard mr. TOMO says 'por que?', in portuguese.

Cracked me up when you said you can't play your song LOL. I like your loose aproach to teaching .

Really enjoyed this one. I feel I’m on a huge fretboard break though right now. It’s all unlocking and becoming clear

Thank you for amazing lesson video!

Glodbless you tomo.

I once asked him about this in a comment on a video of his and he asked where i got that wild idea (something to that effect)

Sarap! Means taste good! Watching from the Philippines! Great stuff Tomo! You are the master!

Wow What Wisdom Tomo stay right there n Play minor Pentatonic n Stop Moving All over the Neck? You are One Great Player n Teacher, Much Thanks. Dave A

Dear Tomo, I need some help, my rpicking go fast down but slow going up, for instance in this lick 22:02 , can you please give some sort of advice/exercise to speed up going up (from 1st string to 3rd) Thank you so much!!

Wonderful tasty sounds and very valuable theoretical content to study - I'll spend much time because I feel like starting big yourney into aimost unknown wonderland... I have big apetite for more..

Thank you for all you do Sr. Amazing wealth of Knowledge you share. Power of Truth is your nature, we are all blessed to witness it. "Shaka" \m/!

I will never understand how someone could dislike any of Tomo’s videos

Hey Prof. Fujita, I am new to guitar and have been looking into your guitar lessons. Should I start with beginners then go straight into your Lessons 1- 12 and continue from there or is there some other order which I should start?

Hi Tomo ,, at about the 17.00 mark , you say your students play this way & not the normal pentatonic way : playing vertical ,, I take that as meaning to play between the positions & this enables you to play notes an octave apart to get depth ? This is how I approach playing and I guess you could call it “ play think horizontal” Interested to hear yr comment. 😊

It’s was very sweet solo and lots of feeling while you play.. Thanks a lots.. I was trying to register your music wisdom however I couldn’t do.. pls send me the links if possible.. i really want dig dipper from Paris.. my name is Tsering love to watch your video particularly short advices you give as human being... other day I saw your video playing with your student and helping him changing the string and cleaning the fret broad.. it’s was really great video.. I admire you a lots good nite

Thank you,Tomo san. Love that all ur video.I learned a lot. I also check ur Instagram,too. Thank you again, I very appreciate it.

He is influenced by John Mayer's style. Maybe he listens to many John Mayer songs. 🤫

Tomo explains at 1:50 - 2:05 that to him minor Pentatonic is what he calls the blues scale and major Pentatonic is major chord tone triads to him. In this video he is trying to use our Pentatonic language to explain his method but he reverts back to intervals and chord tones because that's how he maps it in his mind and how he teaches. I could be wrong but I think Tomo is saying is he doesn't look at the fretboard as a series of Pentatonic patterns like the 1000's of us that learned the Pentatonic patterns as a short cut, because lets face it, it is a shortcut and it is the easy way. No doubt It's a lot more work to learn the fretboard by roots, intervals and triads. Tomo suggests that learning shapes is fast but soon becomes very limiting. He tries to avoid shapes but there are shapes in his - Root, first and second inversion triad system too. He suggests learning the triads on the first three strings then 234, then 345 ect. His method is to look at the fretboad as roots and intervals that make triads and form all chords and scales mentally from there. I think his point is that by seeing the intervals vs shapes we have more flexibility and can play what we hear in our head much easier. On the other hand Eric Clapton did quite well with the pentatonic scale. It would be interesting to ask him and John Mayer if they found starting with the pentatonic patterns was limiting. I am one of those who has learned Pentatonic and now needs to fill in the rest. The bottom line is no matter the method we use, it won't give us the super clean fretting, muting, phrasing, and fretboard knowledge of someone who has taught guitar at Berkley for 30 years. I too have found many gems of guitar knowledge in his course.

At about 14:07 you play nice lick that seems a little bit like a turn around. Can you explain...I think it starts by outlining a Bm triad and then goes back to D major pentatonic But at 14:10 you hit an Ab on the 4th string which sounds great but isn't in the scale. I think it sounds good because the chord that it's played over is a E9 and Ab is in there. IS that right or is there something else maybe easier that I missed? I am subscribed to Guitar Wisdom by the way and enjoying it.

Tomo, that's great! Could you give us here some more jazzy phrases? :) Some more intermediate or a bit advanced

Tomo coming out of his chair for his whole step bends is what life’s about lol

I just bought a Tagima Strat style to sound like you. $200

Wow , the dominant 2nd is very inspiring, thank you Tomo.

Can I order a CD of your directly? I don't want a download. I want the actual CD please. Thanks.

Thanks alot my master.....very2 good lesson.👍👍👍👍😉

Love that Version People Get Ready Bea Utiful Solo. Dave A

John Mayer helps explain what Tomo is getting at, to me his explanation is easier to understand because he comes at it from a slightly different angle. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ad2hRRpUnsw.html

Me stupid thought pentatonic is neither major nor minor. Neutrum 🤷‍♂️

Can you make video about loop pedals. Some tips and tricks and maybe what kinda looper to buy :)

「Chugoshi de!」 アメリカでも流行りそうな気がします。

Hey Tomo i would love a 1 on 1 lessen with you on skype if that is possible? Greetings from austria 😀

Tomo you got the most tasty blues solo ever, no clichés, get me inspired every time! So original and so outstanding voicing!

Their are places you went jazzy, what were you actually doing

Tomo I'll do free setup on your guitar so you play less choppy and play silky smooth.

Very nice! 👍 I’m going to work on this! Thanks 🎸🎸💯

I love watching your videos TOMO what a Legend

That three playing exactly what I looking for . . . the box!!

Angle of your camera is inadequate for proper lessons, sorry but you have to be more professional

Love it so you are saying stay in the 7 th positio n play Major n Minor Pentatonic.Awesome. Dave A

This is your best video ever!!! ❤❤❤🙏👍😃😎🎸🔥

Did you used Bm pentatonic and goes to a higher neck end playing Am pentatonic?

10:32... I got that! Great video, Tomo!

Love this too. Can I recommend Jeff Beck featuring Joss Stone.Superb guitar work... and the feeling Joss puts into it....stunning. Once again Tomo thankyou.

Tomo! this whole video I was a bit confused, until I thought of this as mixing Aeolian with Ionian, and then it clicked. I'm not sure if that's the best way to think of this, but I try to always think of the scale degrees and how they go together. Anyways thx Tomo. We need more Funk on Guitar Wisdom!!!!!! I'm waiting hahahahaha

Man no wonder John has multiple inversions in his songs! SO GOOD!

Hello Tomo... you teach music, not scales. Thank you so much! So much to learn. My focus now is on how to seemlessy move from chord to chord... musically... both melody and harmony. Thank you so much for all that you do for us!

Your phrasing reminds me of Duanne Allman or Clapton

I'm not a maniac, but I love you, Tomo Fujita! Happy to know about you and your lessons here! Oasis in desert of guitar playing.

Great tips Tomo, as always! So in simple words, when you play a major position (for example 2nd), you just have to play the pattern from the previous position (in that case - 1st) to make it right?

guru ji you dont need cd you livs in people heart thanks for sharing

So at the most basic, bottom level, simplest understanding- you can mix major and minor pentatonics by just playing the same shapes two frets apart, while resolving using the major third?

#kudos to Tomo for your guitar playing and teaching! Would you kindly share the backing tracks of your latter, lovely work Blue Sky? Thanks a million!

Another great video!!! Thanks my friend!!

Ele fala português, que barato!!! Abraço do Brasil!!!!

thought it sounded like Waiting on the World to Change because of the chords and rhythm.. turns out ots John Mayers amp. makes sense now. lol

I know this great song from Curtis Mayfield. Listening to your video and listening to you play it now I realize how much John Mayer ripped this song in Waiting in the World to Change

I used my ibanez rg 550 it was cool great leeon i look foward to more

Great video Tomo, I can hear 2 of my favourites in this BB king , Curtis Mayfield mixed in with the Tomo flavour.

Beautiful, I just love your funky sound!

Song makes me think of "Isn't she looooovely?" Nice song and I love this channel. Amazing tutorials Mr. Fujita

Thank you!! Spicy string slayer sensei

he just played till the right one comes by john mayer 1 years ago

I love this guy... Your Awesome Tomo !

Man U r amazing to teching guitar I love it can teach some harmonica minor am melody minor

Curtis Mayfield People Get Ready!!!!

Dmaj Bmin Gmaj Dmaj - Waiting On The World To Change vibes damn~~ gives me chills

Thanks Tomo. I’m curious about your tone and volume settings on both guitar and amp... How do you have them set here?

Just downloaded Blue Sky. Beautiful sounds

Thank you,sir for your informasion,GBU..

Oh my god! What a beautiful song at the end of the video!

Chord progression: D, A, Bm, E, G/A, D

12:51 I started singing: Me and all my friends, we're all misunderstood... Thank you for the lesson sir

It doesn't get better than Curtis Mayfield

Thank you, Mr. Fujita! This video gave me a breakthrough in my understanding of the fretboard. Moving my way from one note to another is like making my way across the city which has many one-way streets. The pentatonic scales are templates that I can dance away and back on to, as long as I touch the important intersections as I go toward my goal. I get to decide which ones are important as long as I return to the template enough to give the listeners that sense of resolution and let them ride with me where I'm going.- J //PS, "Blue Sky" is nuanced and inspirational. Wow!

You just helped me so much. I mean, sometimes you know a lot but just can't figure out how to blend things together and play efficiently. Sure a lot of teachers teach the same things, but all it takes is one person to explain something in a way that creates that spark in someone's head where it all makes sense. Which is why I follow so many RU-vid teachers. You sir, just blew my mind. Thank you

This I actually a big thing for me. I like blues so I can only jam on the minor pentatonic. I can play along with major songs, but only in the minor scale. I wish I started with major but now I got the sounds locked in. Bless you for your wisdom Tomo! I'm gonna need it.

me olvide de mirar lo que toca, solo me quede disfrutando de la musica.

So joyed and great full to receive this lesson... Some of THE tastiest, beautiful blues I've heard, and exactly the emotion and feel I've been striving for in my playing for so long... And you just hand me the keys to unlock it in one perfectly concise and inspiring lesson. Much Gratitude

Hello Tomo, i really appreciate your work, it really helps. I started 2 months ago and i just posted a cover of Lenny by Stevie Ray Vaughan. I would highly appreciate if you told me some advice

That's it I'm subscribing to guitar wisdom

Tomo. Wow. You bless me, sir. You are an incredible, and gifted person. Having just learned of you, I am already totally in. I'm a fan now. I love your way. Something very wonderful about you and the way you teach. Thank you for some of the best time I have spent watching a lesson today. Very awesome, happy to know of you now sir. I'll be like a sponge soaking up and enjoying your videos in the days ahead. Blessings back to you.

That album is awesome! I've heard it a few times in the other Tomo sensei channel! It has a lovely tone, really reminds me of Jimi Hendrix's tone in Bold As Love and Little Wing... Great lesson, by the way!

Beautiful song! Thank you Tommy

Tomo teacher is fantastic....someday someway I will get there. Thank you for your guitar 🎸 playing and teaching 🙏