Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Hi Tomo,

I'm enrolled in guitar wisdom for three months. Now I can play the major scale, all modes, pentatonic minor and major scales, minor and major triads, barre chords,7 chords, diatonic chords, etc only thinking in intervals, and trusting my ear (following your advice) all over the fretboard, vertically and horizontally. Of course very slowly yet. But I don't know when I'm ready to go to the next lesson. What I mean is that you start or finish lessons with solo and impro demos, how if we were supposed to do the same after every lesson. Do you know what I mean? For example in your video about triads and blues demo in the FT01 series you teach how to play the A blues using triads. Easy! but then you record the backing track and start playing over. I can't play that way, I don't know how to solo over triads, and the same for the rest of the videos. In short, I'm not sure if I'm learning in a proper way or skipping. I'm not new to guitar learning, I have almost finished the Berklee book, and checking the SR video series I realized I'm playing the book's exercises very well. I hope you understand my inquiry and doubts because English is not my language. Anyway, I'm enjoying your course very much. Thanks.

Shouldn’t compare. Not meant to play like him

Here is Tomo's comment:

"Thanks so much for subscribing to my Guitar Wisdom. The best way to test yourself is to play everything you have learned from a lesson. If you can play cleanly, without any major mistakes, then you are ready to move to the next lesson. And it's always good to review! Can you play triads cleanly, without any noise? Can you play a Swing Groove (R 3 7) at a slow tempo? Go back a few steps, and spend more time on these!

"Record your playing - maybe even on video. (I make an audio or video recording of myself every day, so that I will know what is good and which elements of my playing need more practice.) No backing track. No reverb. Watch and listen to your performance. Does it sound good? Is your posture good? How comfortably do you play what you have learned?

"Most of all, don't hurry! You have done a good job with the Leavitt book, and you know that learning takes time. Sometimes, it takes 90 days or longer to accomplish something. That's OK."

Thank you for your comment.