Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

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.

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.

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.