Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Hello,

I am looking for a roadmap of video series to follow to go from a beginner player to advanced player. By advanced player I just mean to be able to sit down and improvise my own music with the guitar, playing solos with chord changes and licks in between.
I come from Pickup Music where I learned the CAGED system there. It taught me all the triads in the C shape, A shape, G shape, E shape, D shape. I feel like I was getting somewhere there as I could quickly change keys and just play shapes. I was told that this is the correct way to improvise. I just followed the CAGED bootcamp.

Which video series's do I need to watch on Guitar Wisdom to become an advanced guitarist that can just sit down and improvise for hours and hours?

Best,
Ben

Well, that's quite a tall order, isn't it?

I don't think there's any video series made by anyone that can get you to become an advanced guitarist who can improvise for hours and hours.... certainly none that will make that happen just by watching them.

But if any set of videos can get you started improvising, Guitar Wisdom can.

To start, you need to know where you stand. I recommend viewing the videos in the Q+A/Proficiency series first -- and taking note of the ideas that you do not understand and the exercises that you cannot perform.

https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/q-a-proficiency-1

Then watch the lesson on the CAGED system and see how it lines up with your prior instruction and try to understand where he's coming from in terms of shapes and patterns vs knowledge of inversions and scale degrees.

https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/start-here/videos/tf-lesson-006-3a-caged-system

Then take all the ideas that you wrote down above and use the search tool to find the videos for those topics. You'll likely find them in the Beginners, Foundation and Technique, Theory and Applied Theory videos series.

If you've truly already mastered all of that, look at the advanced topic that is directly related to your interest:

https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/soloing-improvisation-lessons

Do the same thing. Note the things that you cannot do and the ideas that you do not understand. Use the search to find the videos that teach those ideas and practice them until you have them under your fingers.

Beyond that, improvisation is about building a vocabulary and preparing to use it. Vocabulary is built from the ground up. For example, if you've only been taught shapes, then maybe you haven't heard of guide tones. You learn these things building up from earlier lessons.

For the sake of good vocabulary, instead of building a master list of topics and the ultimate video watch list, it is probably better to start at the beginning and work through all of it.

After all, slow and steady wins the race.