Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Day 7 Complete!

Breathe. Close my eyes. Don’t think. FEEL. LISTEN.

Best,
Erik

Day 7 done. What showed up today was different ways to move to up without string noise and floating thumb as fingers move. Interesting.

One week of ascending higher and higher in the books!
What goes up must come back down

Day 7 Done. Such a surprising week! Very rewarding.

Completed every day. Glad to see how my finger pressure has lessened while intonation has slightly improved. I have learned a lot already. Looking forward to more.

Felt a little rushed on the way down tonight will try and slow down the pace tomorrow. All around feeling the confidence slightly growing which is really nice

I started joining 2 weeks later after finishing the business trip. Just like any simple, one and one thing only practice suggested by Tomo, I couldn't believe how much I've learned just by focusing on this for 10 mins a day.

One extra thing I started was to film myself playing since the day 3, following the advice given in Learning with Guitar Wisdom. I had done that before but gave up at some points since I stressed myself out by wanting everything to be perfect when I simply couldn't. This time I simply recorded myself playing in one run after practicing everyday without worrying a thing. I felt some mental burden I had subconsciously accumulated were released.

This is the recording on day 3:

https://youtube.com/shorts/c-bF-pzOBOk

This is the recording on day 7:

It isn't obvious in the recording, but I felt so much different while playing. Both my hands are more relaxed, my posture is better, the practice itself is intended to have no pace but somehow it has improved my rhythm. I feel I still have so much work to do, but it's time to move on to the week 2 topic. Can't wait to see what's there waiting for me to explore :)

For what it worths, here are some notes I took along the week:

1. I couldn't feel my left hand after 10 min of playing. I was surprised by how much tense I had put into playing.
2. The hand tense issue felt better, but I started noticing my posture was skewed. That's probably why my right shoulder was in pain after playing for a while?
3. The 4 fret & 5 fret was particularly hard to play cleanly.
4. Noticed that I didn't fret in a balanced way, like 70% on 1&2 fingers, 30% on 3&4. Need to focus more on the balance.
5. I actually held the pick too tight. That's probably how the volume wasn't stable.

What a great thread!

So many beautiful comments from everyone!

Thank you so much everyone!

Tomo

9 pages of goodness!

Please read all these beautiful comments.

Thanks so much!

NOVEMBER CHALLENGE: WEEK 1
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Tomo

Great to refresh and see the start of this all! Caught a few more items :)