Saw you playing live and it was very refreshing to hear phrasing and ideas played with conviction. We used to wait for the latest Clapton and Peter Green cuts -- before Hendrix they seemed to be phrase oriented. I dont think Jeff Beck ever left the search for taste, and THE note. And hardly anyone lets a note decay anymore.
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that. Live music is so much fun and so rewarding effect. I love music, guitar & people! I have a lot of passion and my strong commitment to play well. Listen to Peter Green's "Stop Messing Around" Unreal taste of notes, rhythm & space! That track made me to think "How much imitating is enough?" from BB King. Eric Clapton...same way about Freddie King. I have listened a lot of hours of BB King & Freddie King" Because Eric Clapton & Peter Green. English guitar players are so dedicated to learn old American blues! So Jeff Beck... made me listened more slide guitar player and made me to work on my bending technique. I have spent many hours on that technique!
I’m pretty new to guitar started late. Really dig your teaching. Even though many things are over my head, I still get many things out of your lessons. Thank you so much
I was forced into orchestra (violin) from kindergarten until my freshmen year of high school when I could finally quit it. I was *never* good at reading music (to this day I have to count the lines above or below the staff because my brain still can't easily identify the notes), but I absolutely love the way you teach. You teach to _play._ *Not* to _impress._ We've got enough wanna be "guitar gods". What all music needs is creativity. I'm all for it. Love you man. Thank you for all that you're doing.
I think you had an amazing experience whether you liked or not... Be thankful to your parents! I teach sight-reading at my Guitar Wisdom. One of very popular courses at TFGW. Because you are learning sight-reading and ended up you are learning more detail techniques (muting and control duration of notes) You see... social medias & kids these days... some of them are so impressive. Good... but that impressiveness can make others not that feel great! I think best to do is not to have any pride in you. Sure, you need to believe yourself in positive way... but no need to impress anyone. Even you did.. everyone will forget as soon as they see someone else! Be yourself and trust yourself! Find your joy & your personality... decide your goals! Then your life will be much more fun! You're very welcome! Thank you so much! You got it!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge in a really practical way- and for not just trying to sell us stuff. I'm a gaijin living in Kobe, Japan and enjoying your lessons from the States. A great global community us guitarists enjoy. Arigato Tomo.
You're very welcome! So happy to hear that! I don't push my opinion. I just want to share this fun part of guitar playing! Thanks for sharing! Thank you so much! I love Japanese Bakery!
I often hear the scales you teach emerge from songs I am playing along to; and isn't music wonderful. Thank you for the video Tomo. I come for some geetar and stay for the wisdom and knowledge.
Thank you for another cool lesson Tomo. I learned harmonic minor in 3nps and was fascinated by it's exotic modes but those will come in time.. I primarily wanted to just learn how to use the sounds of natural minor, harmonic AND melodic minor practically. My so-called jazz guitar teacher at the time said "I haven't really found a use for melodic minor"... I don't take lessons from him anymore...
You're very welcome! Thank you for sharing! Those minor scales are so useful! One string approach with one finger is the best for learning intervals. Melodic minor is called Jazz minor.
@@TomoFujitaMusic cool! I've also seen melodic minor discussed as Ionian b3, which is a cool way of visualizing it for me. I learned Harmonic minor by "seeing" Natural minor shape and remembering that raised 7th!!
You're very welcome! Good job! One String Approach & Ear Training together... is so good! Most people use tabs without these. So it stuck with visual memory so they can not improve their playing skills. Information skills are so good! I teach more depths at my Guitar Wisdom. If you want to improve your playing... Thank you!
Was recently soloing to a backing track in Cm. When the V7 chord was coming up, I let my ear lead me to B and D, the third and fifth of G7. But it's also the major 7 and 2 of Cm. When I saw that, I thought "you can do harmonic minor over the V7 chord!". Then a couple of days later you've put out a great video which solidifies this idea for me and gives me confidence. Thanks so much!
Thanks for great lesson. Of course, Most guitar players know the Spanish tinge chord progression with major chord on the flat six but you showed some great ways to bend it to jazzy bluesy chops. I know I will use this stiff. You didn't mention melodic minor. That has a lot of interest in that it changes with the direction you play. I think it affords many possibilities for transformation within a tune, since the six and seventh are both in flux. Also it offers a chance to cover up a flub or three. Great sound that you alluded to as Koto. Very blues but different 🎉🎉🎉 thanks again
You're very welcome! Yes, as licks v.s. Phrasing. This lesson is harmonic minor so I didn't mention melodic minor. Definitely I would like to make melodic minor lesson. When i teach, I like to stay with a topic. Thank you so much!
Awesome video, thank you! I love the harmonic minor scale! I recently made a backing track in C harmonic minor and came up with some really interesting ideas for improvisation! I even used the A flat major 7 arpeggio you mentioned! Beautiful sounds! ❤
Tomo, I use this ALL THE TIME! I have always thought of it as Aeolian #7 over Phrygian dominant. Tritone substitution also sounds amazing with this. Thanks again, Tomo. Keep on rockin'! \,,/,(>
Awesome!! Ok I will try. I am starting to get this (not all yet, I will continue to work on it) maestro! Only after playing major, minor, some pentatonic scales (position playing by grouping octaves and single string, which helped a lot!) and some triads also, for a year, starting to see patterns :) I was not able to pause your online music class more than once, so I quit. I will sign back on. One other question, I was playing by feel, not thinking, position playing major/natural minor scales, then using diminished-dominate scale (half-whole-half-whole..?) along single strings up and down neck, I was amazed it sounded good, not sure why. Thank you again maestro! Peace. 🫀🙏🏾🌊
Good job! As long as you understand Major Scale then you can do this! Play Major Scale on one string so you know all the notes. Then think about b3, b6... those are different notes than Major scale. You need one string & one finger and thinking about intervals. I teach all the details at my Guitar Wisdom. Especially Music Theory section. Super slow & super clear! Playing by feel. Same way, try to play something with your feel, on One String Approach so you only can go within One Octave! Try stay one One Subject. You are already thinking other thing! You're very welcome!
Mr Fujita i realy enjoy your lessons. still working on the jazzy walking base line without finger noise 😅 i am nou on vacation doing a 3 week trip thrue Japan. What a wonderfull island you are from and what a nice people i love it.
So happy to hear that! Jazz Blues walking bassline is so much fun! Yes, try to use less pressure from your left fingers. Eventually you can play without any finger string noise. Have a fun safe trip to Japan! 3 weeks... great! Thank you so much!
Tomo San, have you ever taught someone dyslexic to sight read? When your dyslexic, your eyes move from left to right, instead of the normal right to left. I took much music in college. I understand music theory in a unique way. I received 4.0 grades in all music classes. sometimes taking 13 units a semester. I can read music fine, but sight reading is a problem. One of my teachers came up with writing music backwards starting at the right bottom corner of the page and I could sight read just fine like that. But its very time consuming to rewrite music backwards I always just memorized any piece I would play by ear, as that takes much less time than writing everything backwards. I hope you understand. What I'm looking for is software that will write music backwards for me. I'm a Loveless, I sang live on the radio since I was 5 years old. My parents hired many private piano teachers from the time I was 5. Because of my dyslexia all the piano study was a fail, no one understood dyslexia then, and why my eyes refused to follow a note passage to the right. After the first note my eyes went left and I was immediately lost. Yet I could memorize the piece and teach myself to play it. By the time I was 12 I had memorized the entire Handel's Messiah, and much more. One other thing, I recognized that Jimi also had the same problem. Which lead to his very different style of playing. He also memorized everything. So when I started guitar at 15, 1966, It was easier for me to teach myself guitar by watching Jimi play !!!
Yes, that case you just need to do simple things with super slowly and you can repeat more to get used to do sight-reading. Thanks for sharing. I don't think he memorized things, he just repeated so many times slowly so than he can handle his playing. His playing is so natural coming from authentic blues and he added a little horn like, piano like chordal sound playing. You can still enjoy sight-reading but you need more time. Listen Jimi 's playing from records so you can really improve your listening skill, that's he got! Jimi didn't learn his blues from videos!
@@TomoFujitaMusic Oh this goes much deeper than I could state in a simple paragraph. Jimi and I met 4 times. Jimi was eidetic, as am I. We always recognized each other when we met. I am Half Cherokee like Jimi, so we are at least distant cousins. We have so many likenesses. I have documented each time we met, which I will keep private at this time. Unlike Jimi I have roots in religious classics. That shows in my style of playing Jimi's music. This classic piece I play a duet with a piano. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LfuUrlU9Vn0.htmlsi=D6Zh-jsZZ8eTQ67l I plan to join your music wisdom to continue my studies. It's about money. I'm spending to much on my recording study right now. I have invented High latency, High definition recording on windows systems. 32 bit 196 hz. My system costs much less than recording with Pro-tools and Apple. I'm smoothing out some bugs. My system is in Beta at this point, but close to being available. Some of my recordings on my channel are from the time of my beginning to learn to record. All is a work in progress. Some of the earlier recordings are not as defined, It's me learning how to record. Most of my guitar tracks are recorded in one shot, no punch Ins or edits. Your advise to start sight reading slowly is how I had to teach myself how to read simple text. That was very hard and took years and my reading speed will never be great. But when I read something in effect I have read it twice. My retention is close to 100%!
@@TomiLoveless Thanks for sharing. Thanks for sharing your invention! Great way to record it. Please take your time on sight-reading. No need to expect too fast. Good job!
some useful tips thanks but i'm still struggling with triads, getting them into my thick head mainly, lol, p.s. i just picked up a jc77 .....i did wonder what the rich folks were playing, flat speaker, funny looking thing, sounds nice is it forgiving like a jazz chourus? thanks for the vid
Thanks for sharing! Please learn triads super slowly! C E G on 123 set stings. X X X 5 5 3 = X X X R M3 5 ... learn them slowly without memorizing! That's root position. Then E G C on 123 set strings X X X 9 8 8 = X X X M3 5 R .. That's 1st inversion! G C E on 123 set strings X X X 12 13 12 That's 2nd inversion. That's all you need to know first! Take your time!
Hi, Mr. Fujita, I am currently working through the Modern Guitar method book by Will Leavitt Volume 1. I can play already so I want to improve my sight reading, I would like to know how I should approach the tempo of the reading I can manage about 45bpm-50bpm with no mistakes. What tempo should I work towards and would be considered good level? Thank you for what you do! Love From South Africa!
Great book! You can not study it by yourself! I made this book lessons at my Guitar Wisdom. Play super slow so that you can play them smoothly. Don't worry about mistakes, learn how to recover from it and how to pay attention ahead of time. I teach all the details at my Guitar Wisdom if you want to improve steadily. Thank you so much!
Phrygian dominant over a V7 is cool, but have you tried Dorian #4 over a ii7 (such as A harmonic minor over Dm7)? It feels like it has momentum in a way I really enjoy.
Oi how much for live lesson? I got PayPal 😅 and I've been to music school. McNally in St. Paul I'm ready to work Mr. T. My weak areas are walking, basslines and playing outside. And of course, singing and playing at the same time but I still do it like a fool. 😂
Have you ever seen that little Japanese kid Maituo play guitar ? I think hes 8. Hes some kind of child prodigy. Hes plays Steve Via fornthe love of God completely like the record. Check him out if you get a chance. You'll get a kick out of him I'm sure.
Mr Tomo .. Uhm .. I did this .. I made a clean tone for rhytm with a nice flangler on it .. The flangler is nice and soft but now also the tone .. How do i push this up without detroying my tone ? I have a lot of things so if you know this then please tell me .. I never used stompboxes but now Iam recording so the sound is important
@@TomoFujitaMusic I did a recording today with micro phones on the amp, and i have the Pre amp booster from Boss BP-1W. It was not cheap but you where right, its good .. My test recording on the guitar soundes very professional .. You are great man .. Exactly what i needed to do, with some reverb it is awesome man it sounded like the dire straits rythm .. Huge thanks ! Sorry for my bad english but i am hyped because the guitar was alive ..
@@TheCSteve Awesome! I love that pedal so much! It does not color the original tone. You're very welcome! Try One Control Prussian Blue Reverb Pedal. So good!
