Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Hello, First I want to thank Tomo and the team behind this website project. This is a tremendous opportunité for many of us to get very sensible and sensitive teachings. Tomo, you are a light in the Maze of approaching music .
I am a French man in his mid sixties who decided to learn guitare and play some blues with Friends around. When I discovered Tomos' teaching I knew that was my kind of approach ... be kind to yourself (and others of course ) , do not compare and play. I subscribed with a réal Energy and hope to make progress, I did in fact make progress. It is exciting. I had some playing expérience in my Younger âge so I am not starting from scratch.
On the other end I came to a point where I do not know where to go from one lesson to the other. I am at this point fondamentaly Lost in my work, and keep on staring at all this videos without knowing witch one to follow. I am loosing hope and I am thinking of leaving the site. My message to you is kind of last ressort, hoping you might be able to help me figure what I could do in oser to find again the Energy to learn. I might be asking for the impossible but without asking one never know.
Thank you again .
Marcel Cabrera
Sorry for the spelling mistakes !

Beginner series is about first position chords, tempo/temp-tapping and some stuff you probably know if you have already played in past.

I would recommend starting with foundation and Technique 1.
And you should Click the Text "Foundation & Technique 1" to see all 18 lessons!
You will work alot on learning the fretboard, some technique lessons which will get more in depnt on other videos like Bending, and something really important is Triads, you will spend alot of time on that subject.
In The Q&A video series, there is one video where tomo explains how far you should be to say "you are done with foundation 1 lessons", when you feel you could pass the test, you can go to foundation & technique 2.
Music Theory 1 series is always good to get back to and work on selected subjects any time.

When you have worked on Foundation and technique 2 series, again in Q&A series you watch the video and do the test Tomo asks, if you feel ok you can start working on specific lessons like jazz/blues series etc.

What would improve your learning alot more is also seperate guitar training from "playing and noodling", take atleast 15 minutes daily dedicated to training, focusing on the subject, learning something that is not easy for you yet. After training session you can noodle or try to learn a new song, learning songs is big part of playing guitar and making music, not just exercise.

Big focus on triads, harmonizing scales with triads, learning the fretboard, ear training, learning intervals. embelishing triads.
To build a house you need good foundation.
Cowboy chords and some scale shapes is not good enough foundation.
Learning all notes on your chosen instrument, how to build chords (triads, adding notes to triads), where to play them, all inversions, how to embelish them, understanding and keeping time, this are good foundations. Training your ear, not only learning shapes but understand intervalic relationships, how they sound etc.
And learn songs or play along to songs by ear.

Hope that helps.

Dear Tomo and George,
After years of jamming with various people and finding my own way as a self-taught enthusiast, it's been a blast to revisit and "connect the theory dots" in my mind, in your Beginner series, which is very deceiving for many guitarists as there are many gems to be uncovered to help improve even if you think you are an intermediate player.

May I have one suggestion?

I was really wowed by Tomo's 3 levels of What's Going On, on YouTube, and it convinced me to sign up to Wisdom:

Is there an easy way to find how he breaks this and his approach down more slowly in the paid site?
I just joined you all last week, but I could only find bits and pieces of it here? https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/videos/tf-lesson-037

Or if you can title it to the song better? So we can "search" for related song titles easier, within the paid site? On a personal note, I find it helps to play to a song a little, to motivate myself after learning the theory behind it.

God bless your efforts to educate us all!
Cheers
Ernest

This is why I am here too. To learn correctly. My favorite Tomo quote: "if you don't know intervals -- very difficult to play"