Hi Tomo & fellow forum members!
Firstly, I wanna apologize for my appearance because, goodness, I haven’t shaved in a while! Don’t wanna risk the left-handed razor on my face just yet. I have a couple of questions about the naming of a diminished seventh chord in the blues and the tritone approach. I’m able to do some light fingerpicking at this point (we’ll see what the doc thinks about this when I see him next week). Don’t want to force it, but, damn, I’m getting bored! Thanks so much!
Kurt Schubert
John Fiers
李jiayang
Tomo Fujita
Great question!
Maybe those bass line is wrong or no need to make sense as Edim7 but it sounds good!
So don't worry about that specific bassline... but that 6th bar is definitely #4dim7 chord is correct!
Bb blues... Jazz blues...
5th bar is Eb7
6th bar is Edim7 (Bass line: b5 CH b3 CH (CH to Bb7)
Basic Diminished sound: R b3 b5....
So those chords are correct!
Thank you.
Tomo
Thank you Tomo! I can see that it is a #4dim7 as it relates to Bb7 key center! I guess where I’m a bit stuck is that it’s functioning as a four chord which is a rootless Eb7(b9). But I totally agree. It sounds great, so I just need to wrap my head around seeing it both ways. Thanks for your help!
Ken Stewart
tritone three whole steps from root makes flat5
The tritone name throws me off too. Flat 5 substitution I like how it creates a build up so that next sound is so nice and a release
Ken Stewart
Hi Tomo & forum friends! Here's my performance of Tomo's lesson Bb Blues with walking bassline. Metronome 48 bpm 2 &4. You'll notice I've sped up a bit especially at the end where I concertedly slow down! Like a race horse going back to the barn (or maybe a reindeer!) Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all of you!
Sounds great Ken! Beauty guitar you got there. Hmm I need to jump back into that walking bass line lesson today now. Looks like a lot of fun watching you playing this
Merry Christmas!
李jiayang
Kurt Schubert
Tomo Fujita
George Mattingly
Ken Stewart
It’s a lot of fun Jeff! I’ve always liked listening to walking baselines integrated into chord progressions, but never allowed myself the time to learn any of them. Mainly because I was of a notion not to spend time on anything that wasn’t going to “ get me where I needed to go as quickly as possible ”.
Such was my mentality before I came on board with Guitar Wisdom (you know, being older, and thinking I gotta get it done fast point of view).
Now I realize it all “adds in” to the picture of being a guitar player. No more rushing, focus is on learning.
It would be cool if we could start a thing here with you posting your version of this lesson, and maybe others would follow?
No pressure at all, just a suggestion. Thanks for the feedback!
The guitar is a Gibson Howard Roberts fusion three, 1998. It’s a keeper.
李jiayang
Kurt Schubert
Tomo Fujita
Jeffrey Croteau
George Mattingly
Sounds great Ken!
Good job!
A few fingering was a little different than I suggested in this lesson.
A little less pressure from your left hand can help your groove!
Great chords, great ending!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Tomo
Kurt Schubert
李jiayang
Ken Stewart
Your playing of that penultimate chord, I'll call it Bb13 #11 with your thumb on the root and pinky on the b7 blows me away! Is that a short scale guitar? Please say it is! That's some mighty fine nimble finger work Tomo!
Kurt Schubert
李jiayang
https://youtube.com/shorts/IwTi2kh060U?si=8xDVVNCwhZ28Q7vL
Hi Ken, here’s some more walking bass. Just getting under the fingers but having fun with so far. Had to play quiet everybody’s sleeping. But good that I can hear the string noise need to work that. Thanks have a good one!
Jeff
李jiayang
Kurt Schubert
Ken Stewart
Tomo Fujita
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Sergio Walgood
Kurt Schubert
李jiayang
Tomo Fujita
George Mattingly
Hi!
I'm having and fun and getting somewhere with the walking bassline. I went back to these lessons after watching and being inspired by Ken and Jeffrey. " Must Know Walking Bassline- 3 Levels" on Tomo's YouTube channel. This fun supplemental lesson on YouTube is full of more great walking bassline instruction. Lots of helpful repetition to practice with Tomo, who might not even remember making this :-)
Kurt
Thank you Kurt for sharing this video!
So happy to hear that Kurt! Yes, these "Must know 3 Levels" and "Super Simple" series are
good supplemental videos for Guitar Wisdom members.
I made new video today! Blues, triad related video so hope you would enjoy it!
I will post it on Friday 3pm EST.
Thank you.
Tomo
Ken Stewart
Kurt Schubert
John Fiers
李jiayang
Allan Linker
Kurt Schubert
李jiayang
Tomo Fujita
George Mattingly
I LOVE these!!!
Killer lessons Tomo! Really helpful to see little variations. Great detailed explanation as usual. The 335!
Kurt
Thank you Kurt!
You are really good at hunting these videos!
So happy to hear that.
I have so many lesson videos on my YouTube Channel.
There are so many unlisted videos too (more than 600!)
Thank you.
Tomo
Kurt Schubert
Sergio Walgood
Allan Linker
Tomo Fujita
Kurt Schubert
It is a bit of a thrill to find them and right away learn something new about something you've been studying! Always some new detail or move I missed.
This is so fun! I have actually been able to keep up with you a few times when you break out into it on other videos.
Kurt
So happy to hear that!
Thank you!
Tomo
Kurt Schubert
Tomo Fujita