Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Hi Tomo- you’ve spoken extensively on how John Mayer’s neon was born from limitations in imitating your slap guitar technique. Beyond the technique , I’d love to see a theory focused lesson on the voice leading John uses to construct the neon progression, since it doesn’t follow conventional V-I cadence, maybe even a breakdown of his life in La version. Thanks!

Thank you Christopher for asking me this.

Basically John could not copy exactly what I was doing so he created his own way to use slap & pluck string techniques and created his song Neon so that he told my kids about "Neon" is "Tomo Song" That was a little story behind that song.

Voice leading you can transcribe and analyze each notes! All there! As long as you can lift those notes.

I can show my slap technique if you need to know more.

How long have you been at Guitar Wisdom and please let me know which videos did you watch so far? I would love to know how are doing here.

Thank you.

Tomo