Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thank you so much for watching!

Bad habits are hard to break.
I’ve been playing for over 30 years with my thumb wrapped around the neck. I will try to pay more attention to my thumb position and alternate picking.

Thank you for your feedback.
You are amazing!

You're very welcome!
You can fix it no problems!

Please watch each week videos for November Challenge!
Those will help you. Later you have more freedom.

Thank you.

Tomo

Tasteful and entertaining! Good job!

GM

Thank you George!

Thanks so much Rich for posting this video! You really improved your picking touch a lot! I really respect your big effort on getting a Musicmaster Bass Amp and tring your single coil guitar! This tempo is so good! Your tone is so beautiful! Great job!

A few things you can fix a little bit. Fingerings. Please watch my demo video more. And your thumb position (better than before…)

Tomo

Really nice Richard! That melody is complicated, and you nailed it. The MMBA sounds great too - hope you are enjoying practice with it.

Thank you Tomo.
I didn’t think my fingerings were bad but I did notice my thumb creeping up high behind the neck.
It’s funny I usually pay so much attention to that when I practice but I guess as soon as I put the camera on to videotape, the bad habits start creeping back in.

Yes, improvement for sure Richard, but I thought you were really good way back then :-)
I hope you get to keep wearing that.
So sad when I finally wear out some of my old favorites and they end up becoming part of my Yard Work Uniform.
Kurt

Haha - yes as I’ve put on weight I’ve moved a lot of my clothes over to yard work clothes!
Thanks again Kurt!

The Autumn Leaves are here.
You look like you've lost weight to me.
Must be the yard work :-)
Kurt

Kurt! You're amazing! I totally forgot about that rhythm guitar video!

Thank you so much!

Tomo

Sounds so good Rich! Thank you for sharing.

Your body is not moving with "Groove"
I think you should watch your body motion.

Normally I watch it without any sound so I can feel....
Please check around 1:17....

Tomo

I often feel like my playing sounds stiff so I was a bit happier with this performance because I was more relaxed but maybe I need to focus on actually ‘groovin’ with it a little more. Thanks for the feedback.

Good stuff as usual Rich! Really clean playing.

Great job Richard!
I am still working on the chords, but see what is possible.
Thank you for leading the way!
Kurt

You are playing so good Rich! We all have more things that we can work on (if you hear the difference) Please be happy and proud about what you are doing here. I think you can work on your body motion and you can work on "slow" tempo. I am always looking for slower tempo.

I am working slow swing groove... 48,46,44,42 on every beat! So much fun!

Tomo

Thank you for watching JH.

Thank you jh for encouragement! It is so important to pracice a little slower than the original.

Tomo

Thank you Johno for encouragement! There are many own challenge threads here at GW forum. So much inspiration to all us! I am so grateful and thankful!

Tomo