Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

In the end you want to know/hear it all. Scale degrees of a chord with respect to its root, and also its scale degrees with respect to the scale you are harmonizing. It takes knowing a bit of theory but after that you only need your guitar as Tomo likes to emphasise. If you know scale degrees and intervals and chord construction formulas you dont need to memorize any more than that. You pick up the guitar and find it and after enough practice you just see it. If you are also working on ear training with this (i didnt and that was a huge mistake) there are no obstacles to anything. I really like Tomo's no paper, no tabs approach...just put some small effort into some basic theory directly on the guitar.

Example: chord progression comes to a C chord. All the chord tones work. C E G. 1 3 5 of C major scale. You want more tones to solo which are not a par of the triad. Well, there are 9 more. See which you like. C chord is a 1 chord in C major so you can add notes from C major scale. C is a 4 chord in G major so you can use notes of G major (or C lydian if you prefer that viewpoint). C is also a 5 chord in F major. So you can use F major scale (or C mixolydian if you prefer that viewpoint).

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To Silvije Domazet, Thanks so much for sharing! You are helping others! Great person! We are so lucky to have you as a Subscriber Member of Guitar Wisdom!

Thank you Tomo for making your lessons and sharing knowledge. I am not a pro player or a teacher. Just a student/subscriber. So, if I write something stupid or incorrect please let others know about the mistake or remove my comment.

The chords you wrote are all "major type" as they have a 3rd degree and not b3 degree in them. Also, they are not from the C major scale, only G7 is. In C major F is a Fmaj7 and C is Cmaj7. C7, F7 and G7 can be a 1 4 5 blues progression but beware, blues aint exactly theoretically correct.

Also there are chord tones in the pentatonic scale, but also thete are chord tones not in the pentatonic. You can outline a chord (Tomo's triads, right?) without even thinking about any scale. If a chord is playing and you play a notes of that triad you outline a chord and dont even need to consider which scale is in question.

Generally I don't think just one scale. I listen chords and I follow those chords. There are many examples on blues playing or triad videos here. I make a lot of supplement videos on my YouTube channel (more free form)

Check minor blues chord progressions and mainly even though you are playing C minor pentatonic scale. Then you can add Major 3rd or triad of each chords.

This video is a supplement video for understanding scales over chord progressions. Blues to Jazz Blues.

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Thank you so much Silvije Domazet!