Looking forward to see you all at the GW Livestream at 11am EST today!
Thank you.
Tomo
Looking forward to see you all at the GW Livestream at 11am EST today!
Thank you.
Tomo
Awesome you guys! Thanks a lot. This was a great live stream and I really liked this time late Saturday morning too. Thanks Tomo for taking our questions and bringing to life how we can carry forwards and apply. A lot of ideas.
A lot of take aways and hideaways.
I don’t know the Stevie Ray version. Looking forward to rewatching this livestream I need to go listen to HA 40 times first to get ready for the new challenge thread.
Our pleasure! Thank you Jeff for watching the Livestream this morning. We are trying a little different time. You're very welcome! Your question was so good and very important! Thank you for asking!
"Hideaway" is one way ticket to "Blues" You can learn many things from this tune! Look up on YouTube. 40 times is better! Go for it!
Tomo
thinking same as jeffery.
i love it when tomo says "go for it!!"
f*** yeah!!!
Agree with you, Jeffrey. I got a lot out of this particular livestream.
P.S. I see what you did there with the 'takeaways' and 'hideaways'.
Thank you Sunil!
Tomo
hey gw fam,
here are my notes.
(i have an ld so you may need to go back and watch the recorded livestream video anyway. haha. its a good one, totally worth it)
live chat
listened to:
• hide away, freddy king
• hide away, clapton
• srv version?
what did the english guys experience when they listened to freddy for the first time?
• organ players add 3rd 7th
gw student questions:
• rich asked how to improvise (more to this)
• clays asks how to connect triads
• sunil asked how to go from fundamentals to improv
• a net of influences
listen, analyze, it will take two weeks, its not instantaneous
• (need to go back and listen to live chat again, this is a key point, i may have flubbed it)
matt scholfield and tomo at a guitar clinic, basic blues shuffle, matt forgot to think about it because (i think) he integrated it into himself, or learned it, long ago
during practice simply after learning
• bass line, r37, triads, bends, flourishes
• get the feel
never let tomo or me work on your cars hahaha
Johno asked:
"what is a good rule to use modes, like mixing them?"
hw?:
• listen to freddy ~20x,
• listen to clapton 20x
• practice foundation clearly...cleanly, like a piano...
tomo mentions level of communication for students with different cultural backgrounds:
• infer student personality from top 5, musical parents -- influences
• find and learn influences to temper communication, complexity of the song you are learning(?)
johno:
freddy king learned guitar from his mother. (whoa that is super cool)
"@Matt_
_81A Linda - that's the key for me.
Modes are too technical! I don't have the brain cells to spare when playing to think about modes!
I'm still working on triads and making musical phrases with them."
^ such a good point same for me! i totally blanked on jam night...as tomo, george and sammi say: preparation.
Sunil, great notes. It bears repeating.....play triads in a different position, or switch up the timing. I get your point about getting brain-lock. I can feel like I've practiced something so well but when it's my turn, I am deer-in-headlights.
I'll keep you posted on the car.
Great summary Sunil!
Well done!
You are so good!
I can destroy any car easily!
Tomo
exactly linda!
hahaha jump my friend!!
definitely felt like brain lock, but i was like a slightly nervous but not-as-bad-as-i-imagined-happy-baby haha. luckily no drooling and had my big boy pants on hahaha...for real tho.
when i got home i seriously wondered why i didn't play octaves like wes first, then triads then scales...
my mind went straight to the most profoundly simple.
i think i'm starting to realize why tomo says the pros dont talk about the simple stuff, maybe they understood it so completely they forgot to consider it....
ok, i will! :)
golden; the reps are key:
play triads in a different position, or switch up the timing.
also taking apart my even-shameful-for-a-billionaire pedal board.
can't practice with the tree in my face lol.
all i need is a tuner and some tasty waves...
i put the supro in the eating room.
i think i can stand to hear my guitar alone on the swart mod 84 now. tone on max. thats my bassman.
silktone is just for pure joy.
Thanks Tomo!
studying with friends :)
So bummed I missed the livestream.
I was totally free but I didn’t know it was happening.
Thank you for answering my question!
For me after my first watching of the livestream the thing that made the biggest impact on me was…
In order to go from a ‘learned phrase’ to making a phrase ‘your own’ you have to be able to play the phrase in a bunch of different positions. This way when you are performing you have options.
And then after you have learned a phrase in a bunch of different positions you need to have an idea of where you want to take the song musically and practice doing that.
I have noticed that my biggest weaknesses as a player is my ear training. So I am still struggling to hear what intervals are being played over chord progressions. This makes it very difficult to transcribe music for me without slowing the tempo down or watching someone on YouTube explain how to play the song (which I won’t do anymore).
Even the melody to,Hideaway would take me forever to figure out if I couldn’t watch Tomo play it.
But at least I’ve identified the problem and now I have to work on it.
Hopefully learning phrases in different positions and analyzing what intervals are being played over the chord will help my ear training.
Thank you again for answering my question,
If you could please send out a reminder email a day or two before the next livestream that would be appreciated.
Love you guys.
Love this Rich.
Thank you Rich for your request and question! We are happy to answer!
Yes. Need to have a few choices.
1) Same phrase / different positions & different fingerings (Triads!)
2) Different rhythms (Long notes/short note)
3) Different space (Do not fill every bar)
The most important part is having a great ear!
Without this… it is hard to follow music in time.
That’s why “slow down machine” No good.
You can learn so much from R 3 7 Swing Groove.
Playing Blues, Jazz Blues and Jazz Standards.
Very effective for training ear to hear chord changes.
Hidaway is a great song and must know song for blues jam session.
You’re very welcome! Your Method Book playing is very impreessive!
Please be proud yoursellf!
We will do better notification next time.
And please check TOMO LIVE STREMS thread for more information.
Tomo
Best things to do.
1) Do not watch YouTube lessons.
2) Do not use slow down machine.
3) Do not expect anything first.
Find something to grow....
1) Seeds
2) Water
3) Sun
Nothing is instant!
Be patient!
You can do it!
Tomo
Love this Tomo.
Somehow reminds me of the gap band, "you dropped a bomb on me"
early memory of waiting with amma, for acha to come home...past bedtime, in pjs cozy...maybe it was the bammies, some awards show...
nothing is instantaneous. true.
be patient. ok.
you can do it. ok.
keep going maaaaans