Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

What a great thread!

Actually I do this type practice myself.

1) Guitar 1
Play Melody
Play rhythm guitar
Play Solo
Play rhythm guitar

2) Guitar 2
Play rhythm guitar
Play solo
Play rhythm guitar
Play melody

A sort of mind game / reaction game.

Thank you.

Tomo

Looking sharp and playing smooth, Kurt! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. This is so good!!! Simple, pure goodness :)

WOW ! So happy you know the chord progression , This is amazing Kurt !
Great performance !

You cut your hair ! It looks nice ! Have more fun in the summer !

Thanks, 李jiayang and Sammi!
Best summer ever!
Kurt

About not like business man hair , you success. Seems Lisa will happy HAHA !
And this speaker sound nice !

Thank you Kurt for making this duet video!

What a clean clear tone for this rhythm and what a great demonstration to follow the chord progression!

So lovely! I want to keep listening your rhythm guitar!

Great settion on your tone! You cannot hide anything!

Tomo

Wow Kurt you are running away with it. Great idea.

This is a great idea. I'm starting a Tomo folder on my iPad. I just ripped the audio from the lesson video for the section you played along to. And very nice playing!

Lovely playing Kurt!

Thank you so much!

Happy sound & Your cool hat!

Good comping too! Sounds like we are in same room (in person!)

Tomo

Tomo

That was so great Kurt!! 🌞❤️

Kurt is a jazz cat! Love this so much. Thank you for sharing with us :)

Thanks Linda, John, Clay, Serena, Matt and Jiayang!
I appreciate you all so much!
This is fun to try to do.
Sammi is so right when she says to review the video a few days later. Oy! Very important to see what you need to work on.
So happy we can practice with Tomo!
Kurt

Twinkle Twinkle is a great idea Linda!! Can't wait for more practice with Tomo

I didn't sell it. I think my former student Zack Gibs has that guitar.

Tomo

Thanks Yen!
All your hard work is paying off even though we don't really realize it as it is happening.
Just keep working with your good attitude. Keep an open mind and let it unfold.
The longer I keep at it the more fun I have.

Tomo reminded us recently,
"Each person has different pace. No need to know. Keep working!
One topic, one subject for a long time to build something very special"

Let's keep going!
Kurt

Thank you Yen!

It's all about balance.
Having a solid foundation and some musical fun & challenge.
I think Kurt found something in these jazz standard series.

Keep it simple first.
You can practice "Melody" & R 3 7 Swing Groove"
You can read basic melody from real book. Practice what's written even though not all correct. Start with written melody then you can make your own. Start with Blue Monk melody! Play basic blues chord changes. 1411 4411 5415 etc.
https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/jazz-standards/videos/js06-blue-monk

Tomo

Thank you Kurt!

Yes! We all have own pace!
Keep it simple! Do not hurry!
More review! Keep working!

You demonstrated beautifully here about balance between foundation & real music!
I tend to practice more foundation than music sometimes. So I practiced more music last night!

Thank you for your inspiration!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n4RU_gQQ1_0

Tomo

Beautiful, Tomo. And great use of the whammy bar.

Always grateful to get insight into your own practice routines. "Balance between foundation and real music".

Good work, Yen. I suspect you will "catch up" very quickly.

Lovely work Linda! You made me so happy! You transcribed this by yourself Please be proud of yourself! Thank you so much for sharing this video! Plus your AZES31 sounded so great!

Very interesting! I was just thinking Kurt.... He needs new Practicing Tomo Song! I was just thinking that idea and I found this post! Let's make this thread more happening!

PS, Only one thing.... this one is very difficult to play it well. Dom7(9) chord from 5th string root,
So you got R b7 M3 9 5.... Great sounding chord and it's so easy to press with your 2nd finger a little too much and not able to play M3 on the 4th string. Please watch this out.

Tomo

Fantastic! Thanks so much Linda for sharing this. You are really nailing those tricky chords- and so smooth between each change.
You are making great use of that beautiful guitar. Sounds so sweet!
The two of you together sound like Pat Metheny to me.
I know what I'm practicing today :-)

Tomo's demo of this progression is on the VERY IMPORTANT GW Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLENaipLZZvuSe09K52-fo1VPMLrWfJa46

Kurt

Good catch, Tomo. Appreciate the heads up.Thanks again.

Well, thank you Kurt. I consider that high praise coming from a player of your caliber.

Oh, yes, Kurt. I should have included the link to Tomo's post:

Thanks, Tomo, for all your encouragement. Indeed I am working on that Dom7(9) chord from 5th string root. Sometimes I nail it perfectly, but sometimes I fat-finger things and it squashes that major 3rd. But I am enjoying learning the technique of multiple strings with a single finger, I can see it is much more efficient.

Yes, so glad Kurt started this thread (I'm still working on Twinkle Jazz).

You're very welcome & my pleasure Linda! That 9th chord with 5th string root is not easy as well as minor 7th chord with 6th string root. R X b7 b3 5 X.... A little angle of finger can fix this.

Yes! I am so happy that Kurt started this thread! Good job working for Twinkle Jazz. I will make more additional lesson videos.

PS, I just posted my new talk video on my YouTube Channel. So please watch it,

Tomo

This is a great thread!
Looking forward to hearing and seeing more from you Linda!
You probably don't realize how good your playing sounds to us. Love that pretty guitar!
Yes Tomo- Let's keep working and having fun!
The Blue Monk/ All of Me threads are DEEP!
The bonus videos and all the input from everyone is so helpful and inspiring to keep going!

I'm also listening to Three On Six a lot from your very important Etude book. Twinkle Twinkle in there too.
The CD with the book is one of my favorite albums to listen to!
This is a long link to the book on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%81%A7%E3%81%86%E3%81%BE%E3%81%8F%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8B-%E5%9F%BA%E7%A4%8E%E5%8A%9B%E5%90%91%E4%B8%8A%E3%81%AE%E3%81%9F%E3%82%81%E3%81%AE%E7%8B%AC%E5%A5%8F%E3%82%A8%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89-%E6%A8%A1%E7%AF%84%E6%BC%94%E5%A5%8FCD%E4%BB%98-%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF/dp/4845630788/ref=pd_bxgy_thbs_d_sccl_1/146-7434947-7522666?pd_rd_w=4GdaV&content-id=amzn1.sym.dcf559c6-d374-405e-a13e-133e852d81e1&pf_rd_p=dcf559c6-d374-405e-a13e-133e852d81e1&pf_rd_r=W08SXB6C31DS27Y8DZVM&pd_rd_wg=4RhMu&pd_rd_r=5b00344d-dacb-48cf-bbda-848543c7cf7c&pd_rd_i=4845630788&psc=1

Kurt
Day 55 of 90 days straight sight-reading Method Book

Thank you Kurt for encouragement! Yes! Linda is making her AZES31 sounds so pretty!

I love this thread so much Kurt! Great way to play together! The Blue Monk / All Of Me threads are going strong and steady! Let's keep going! Thank you! Three On Six is coming from Blue Monk melody!

Thank you Kurt for sharing my book "Solo Guitar Etude Book" contain Kyoto, Just Funky and more! Plus congratulation on Day 55 of 90 days on sight-reading Method Book!

Tomo

Thanks Tomo!
So many great tunes in the Etude Book. Room 418 is really fun to learn to play.
Also, I like that Three On Six is in the key of A instead of Bb.
Kurt

Day 55 method Book was:
Rests, Tied Notes, Dotted Notes (p21) Also, reviewing Etude, No 1 (p.20)
I've been singing the Key of C (Do Re Mi) of everything in method book up to this point too!
The lesson:
https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/videos/sr09-leavitt-one-pages-20-21-rests-tied-notes-dotted-notes

Yes! We like to practice with you.
The melody demo and then the chord melody stuff at the end is amazing.
Sounding great on the Orangewood!
Thank you for more instruction on these standards.
Kurt

The GW Blue Bossa lesson is here:
https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/videos/js04-blue-bossa

https://jazzmorelia.mx/downloads/Blue_Bossa_Lead_sheet.pdf

Thank you Kurt! Please do! So happy to hear that. Thank you so much! My pleasure!

Thank you for sharing Blue Bossa Lesson!

Tomo

Those chords are SO cool! Plenty of work ahead.

I wanted to try this and I felt why not. So here you go.
Eiji Tatsumi

That's awesome, Ejii. You are an inspiration!

(and is that an Ibanez AZES31 that you are playing?)