Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thanks Jeff!
Kurt

Thank you Sammi!
Yes- let's remember to have fun!
Kurt

Thank you George Mattingly Esquire!
I appreciate you!
Kurt

Yes please!
Thanks, Tomo!

Kurt

Thank you Kurt! I really enjoy to hear your reaction!

I don't know why.... that color!

Tomo

I know you were asking Kurt, but my $.02 is that it's great. Love the funk lesson. Some specific bassline stuff I want to add to practice. Will be rewatching.

Oh yeah! Funky Blues.
That cool guitar is like Thanksgiving Gravy! So smooth. and sounding great with that not-Marshall.
Cat Walk! You make it look so easy but there is a lot of details.
It was fun to try to add that octave bass line you show us at 16:10.
I liked how you really step on the gas and then explain that you need to be relaxed. to play like that.
Also enjoyed hearing you play the "Uptown" blues bassline that ascends.
I will re-watch this many times for fun!
Thanks for sharing your brown Thanksgiving gravy guitar!
Kurt
(I was able to read the Guitar Wisdom book while I waited for my brother-in-Law at the Doctors office today!)

I hope your brother-in-law is the doctor Kurt. Otherwise I hope your family is ok.

"P is for 'P90' not Perfection"
Really nice Tomo - I feel thankful too. I always like your messages on perfectionism because it's the one thing that holds me back the most.

Thank you Clay for watching this video. I would love to play better but not prefer "Perfect! It is easy to follow that.... better to drop any high expectation and any pride! It's tough to do! Guitar can help us to do something better! Let's work together!

Tomo

So good Tomo. I hope you keep going for feeling and keep taking the chance. I like how you talk about borrowing from ancestors bb king Charlie Christian Joe pass Stevie Ray Vaughan. That guitar sounds great!

maaan, this video is one of those golden notes.

starting to get it!!

gotta watch again, many times.

Tomo, you look very happy playing that guitar.

Thank you Jeff! Great song to learn!

Tomo

Thank you Eiji. You can practice this melody on 2nd string. One String One Finger approach!

Tomo

Wow! Love this one Tomo.
It never gets old seeing you demonstrate amps and stuff and just play and talk about music and life.
You are playing so much amazing music here. I can't believe it is almost 30 minutes long. Went by really fast.
You are going to sell a lot of those 30th Anniversary Blues Jr IVs for them! They are about $1000.
That guitar looks and sounds so beautiful. Love hearing the different pickup variations.
I like to just sit back, watch and listen and not worry about trying to understand everything you're doing,
but I am going to be re-examining all that you did with the basic G blues.
Thanks for letting us see these first! Great way to spend a windy Friday night.
Hope you have a great weekend!
I respect your parents :-)

Kurt

That's so great to hear that Kurt! I thought it was OKAY.... Because I was going to play "Slow Blues" originally.... then I thought I should play something super simple and very important so I played G shuffle riff... then I played triads I and IV... Then I felt a little bit something lacking... That's why I really needed your opinion. This is so amazing! You made me so happy! Thank you! Yes! That guitar is very very special! I waited to see the right one from 1965... I played more than 10 of 1965 Stratocasters and this was the best one.

One more thing... I wanted to make a little shorter video like less than 10 minutes. This is just like one of my private lessons which time is going very fast! After I made this video... I really surprised that it was almost 30 minutes! Simple shuffle blues is very important for me. It's a great conversational thing! I will post this on this Sunday morning. Thanks so much! I respect my parents everyday!

Have a great weekend!

Tomo

thank you for this conversation also tomo.
learning how to give balanced useful feedback for myself and others!

is that the guitar with the grinning dog pu's? it's about $700 for those, i want to buy them...gotta sell some guitars though hahaha

silver sky is based on 63-64 strats,
do you feel 65 (cbs era?) is different

these questions probably wont matter for us though...vintage strats are 30k and up i believe...i could pay off my student loans and take the fam to disneyland with that haha.

My pleasure Sunil!

Bigger neck than my 65 Stratocaster.

Tomo

Good morning Kurt! Hope you can join our GW Livestream!

Looking forward to see you all at the GW Livestream at 11am EST today!

Thank you.

Tomo

Thank you Jeff for watching this video! This week is "Fender" Simple shuffle blues yet it's not too easy to play that rhythm guitar which is very important! Llike a piano boogie shuffle! My pleasure!

Tomo

Thanks so much Eiji for watching this week's my YouTube video! This amp is really good! Overall tone is so good! It's very bright and ”抜けが良い！” Blues Jr. IV / 30th Anniversary limited version. I think I can play this for club gig. Very versatile!

Tomo

i started a list of parents for myself,
so many ancestors to add!

influences:
are musical parents

srv:
- lightening hopkins
- albert king

tomos:
- bb king
- joe pass

Thank you Sunil for watching this video! I try to do just same as my private lesson (One on one).

This amp is so good! Great speaker and it's very bright! (Very important for me!) It's so nice to have "Volume" and "Master" so it is very versatile! This amp has a special modified preamp circuitry for increased fullness (Better than the origional/normal Blues Junior amp).

Good job! Each player has own parents and parents players! (Please don't comment on this video until it publish)

Tomo

uh oh, is there a rule like that?
broke it, sorry.

that is a great interview!
learning a lot.
so brave of the interviewer too, almost like a public lesson, master class.

starting to get it tomo, thank you.

the idea of actually finishing a thought finishing a song on guitar, that is really making sense to me.

applying restrictions or limitations is a creative tool, i just know it's powerful.

but tomo, when do you flip it to b-side?

doing that every day.
and recording yourself on tape.
wow, its a lot
i like this idea.
hardcore analog.

if i bought a set of 52 tapes,
i could review weekly, monthly, yearly...

Thanks! I'm happy to see this again. This is interesting.
I kind of remember seeing it a long time ago in the blur of YouTube.
I understand more each time I hear that wisdom!
Kurt

Thank you Sunil for watching this video. A little old video but I hope it is helpful. My pleasure! Narrow down, less choices so you can focus one thing at a time. For myself, I only use 60 minutes cassette. I record both side or just one side (less is better!) I like limitation so much, because I can get some result from One Thing.

Tomo

Thank you Kurt for watching this video again! So happy to hear that. Some Wisdom you can hear.

Tomo

So much Guitar Wisdom in this...

(to those who don't do deep listening and therefore don't improve) "Because you don't have anything inside"

This bears repeating: "When the teacher is ready, the student will appear".