There you go Kurt! Love it!
Thanks Jeff!
Kurt
Kurt, would you like to watch my new YouTube video? Before I publish it.
Thank you.
Tomo
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.
I am so thankful today! This place is so amazing! Thank you so much guys!
Tomo
I practiced 1) Chromatic Scale 1212
2) Classical Etude
3) Swing Groove (Bb, F, Ab, Eb jazz blues)
I made new YouTube video with my Gibson Goldtop today!
I love P90 tone very much! Isn't she lovely soloing & chords!
I am so thankful today!
Thank you everyone!
Tomo
"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.
I was hoping to make "Fender Blues Junior IV amp demo" today..... This amp is the 30th Anniversary version. I played some blues and triads (I & IV triads) with my 1965 Fender Stratocaster straight into this amp! I added a little "Wisdom" toward end.
What do you think about this video! Hope you guys like it.
This part is so special that you guys can watch this video before I post it.
Thank you for watching!
Hello Kurt! Hope you like this video.
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
What a fun video. I love the beginning part and where that went so much to rewatch. Thank you!
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
What a great video, Tomo-sensei, because many of Japanese people maybe only me are looking for which is affordable real tube amp. I think this is it. I have blues jr 3 but I am thinking to sell old one and buy this 30th anniversally version.
Eiji
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 love the free form videos.
I feel like I am just sitting and listening to you after a lesson.
Need to watch again.
I owe you a good box of cigars Tomo! :)
Blues Jr 4,30th sounds nice with the brown box on my iphone.
I have a supro delta king 12 which is hooked up to my looper. I don't know how it compares to bj4-30th but it's a single ended tube amp with a solid state rectifier with one 12ax7, and one 6L6 I think. Cheaper, $4-600 now i believe.
blues junior has more tubes maybe a better circuit? idk.
I am just using the tuner on my pedal board, so I haven't used the supro amp much over this last year but I bought it before the other combos. Light and portable jam amp I'm thinking.
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
Of course, no comments on unpublished videos.
I commented on the last "golden note" video.
Then I noticed someone asking why there were comments on a new video.
I apologize Tomo!
mea culpa! my bad.
Also I used an ai search to compare
"supro delta king 12 vs. fender blues junior iv 30th" ...ai thinks blues jr has more clean headroom and might be a better pedal platform. and supro might have more mids.
(i dont usually use ai...bezos, zuck, google are all building small fissile nuclear power plants to run it...dumb-dumbs maaan.)
I don't think ai has played a guitar though...
why is the master and volume knobs important? i forgot, need to look this up again.
i think it has something to do with the preamp and distortion
but my 'old' silktone amp and swart mod 84 combos just have a volume knob. i usually just put them on noon together, i can play quietly at night
Thank you Sunil! Someone said about it.
Those information is all technical term so I will not belive it unless I hear the differece. I think Fender Blues Junior IV has more options from clean to dirty tone.
Yes and no. As vintage Fender, I prefer only volume with no master. Modern amp like Blues Junior... already has both. Simply I like it. Each one has speciality!
Tomo
This is Kurt's thread so I can share this with you. I think you would enjoy my comments in this video.
Thank you for watching!
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".