Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thank you Jeff for watching this interview video. For soloing over chord changes, it’s better to have 3 steps. I love audio tapes because it limited length. And rewind time is important too. Overall recording yourself is only thing can really improve yourself. I use that questions to all my tape lessons & Berklee students. Often people write top 10 so I have to ask narrow down to 5. Less is better. Good job!

Yes! Many records... I tend to listen only side A! So listening CD from top to bottom is not the way musician listening. That's why old records are so good! Entire album is around 35-40 minutes. 70 minutes CD is too much information!

Tomo

A lot of this info can be found in Tomo's book Guitar Wisdom!

this is a great point to repeat jeff, thank you, i was thinking about this too.

listening to an album 300 times.
associating a drive with the side a of an album and its cover art into your memory.
(this is what people do to remember huge amounts of information, like π to ridiculous levels of accuracy.
pretty incredible practice.
really cool tomo!!)

i believe it.
i listened to a metronome at 50bpm in the mornings for about two weeks.
cool things happened.

also, realizing impact of this type of practice after a week, or so.
it is really different.
intense, but relaxed, focused.
no pain. feels good.
really starting to understand what you are all doing when you post a video. thank you so much for helping me enjoy my practice, helping me to stick with it.

also realized i don't know blues progression after the last live chat.
also i dont practice it but now i am able to get r37 strum. so working that in there.
G,C,G,G,
C,C,G,G,
D,C,G,C
my first real blues progression was today.

also, i didn't know people think of jamming like mumbling, interesting and helpful perspective. makes sense.

yeah also the tape format.
i started wondering about this deeply then realized i just need to make videos.
a plus there for me will be less words. :)

two for the road, joe pass.
i will check it out.
thank you friends and tomo!

Thank you Tomo!

That sounds intense.
I will add it.

I read a story about a bass player who used to listen to his "favourite BPM" on the metronome after a gig. I thought it was exageration, but if Tomo listened to the metronome doing dishes, I will listen to it too. I will add "listening to just metronome" to the list of practice things I can do away from guitar!

My pleasure! I think I can improve a little better so I need to be creative on groove practice.

Guitar is so amaizng! Each day is so special! I am so thankful and grateful today!

Tomo

Thank you Kim Sun Ho. Same as Ear Training. If you want to train your relative perfect pitch. Listen " My Girl" and " What's going on? " everyday! Later, you can imagine either song and now you now Key of C and Key of E. You can sing C or E!

I love listening a metronome at 40!

Tomo

I'll defer to Kurt, but man, that one tied a whole bunch of stuff together for me. Truly an eye opener. I almost heard an actual "click" in my brain when some of these concepts came together. I'll keep coming back to this one. Plus I just want to nail that walking bass line with my chords.

Thank you Clay! I love your reaction too! I just wanted to show "Jazz" Simple way as possible! Walking bassline is also you can play it simple like that! A lot of chromatics. Please enjoy it!

Tomo

I was encouraged by the words "Jazz is not too difficult."
Because I felt like it was an inaccessible wall.
It made me want to learn chords more deeply.
I'll also check out Charlie Christian, who I've never listened to before!
Thank you!

awh love you too tomo, all of gw land! haha.

i'm going to watch that again a few times and try it. :)

thank you!

This is a wonderful video Tomo! Thank you for the early access! Perfect title too!
Amazing how you actually explain approaching starting to play Jazz in an easy-to-understand way!
Listening, R37 chords, triads, bassline. I understand what Clay meant by having concepts come together as part of the bigger picture.
"Get Jazz inside of you so something can come out."
Helpful that you recommended 3 essential and important albums! I spent last summer listening to side one of Virtuoso.
That basic "Walking Chromatic Near Root" bassline with just a few chords is new to me. I practice Bb Jazz Blues Walking Bassline every day.
My favorite part was the jam over the walking backing at 24:00. Love when you play like that so effortlessly. I just listen for entertainment without trying to analyze everything.
This video and Guitar Wisdom is a great blast of sunshine for me. We are Super- Duper soggy up here in the Pacific Northwest.
You would appreciate the many. many shades of grey :-)
Thanks for sharing this with us!

Kurt
"You can learn something slowly. You don't have to hurry. Not easy, but not TOO difficult. -Tomo Fujita

I agree Jeff. That is such great playing throughout that video. Great Jazzy Guitar Wisdom teaching/talking too.

I have to practice more before I can "Practice with Tomo". :-)
Kurt

Thank you Jeff! You’re very welcome! This is so special for me to hear your feedback!

Tomo

Thanks so much Kurt! I really appreciate your kind words! I love simple jazz guitar. Your “Practice with Tomo” thread is so much joy for me! Thank you for creating this thread!

Tomo

You make us all feel special here thanks Tomo! It’s great to be here it’s like sitting in the VIP area or getting to see the sound check before the show. Lot of exciting videos and threads in our forums

Thanks so much Jeff! So happy to hear that. This place is so special to me!

Tomo

I use this.... Vintage Panasonic RX-FS430 Portable AM/FM Cassette Player Boombox!

Tomo

Thanks!

Jeffrey, I am using AIWA cassette tape recorder audio -G RCP2.
Not so expensive.
Eiji

Thanks Eiji. I found an old Panasonic online that should arrive this week. We’ll see will need to get lucky again with vintage equipment. Great to know about the Aiwa. I have never used a cassette recorder so all new experience for me

Jeff sez: "I have never used a cassette recorder so all new experience for me"

Jeffrey, there was a time when cassette's were all we had. Still have the old Panasonic boom box. When you wanted to hear a certain song you waited thru the other tunes that were in front on it. Totally different listening experience.

I think it might re-appear when he posts it on YouTube,
Kurt

Roger that. Thanks for confirming, guys. Have a great weekend.

Thank you Jeff! I set that video as scheduled post so the video will appear tomorrow morning!

Tomo

Thank you Linda! Now you can watch that video.

Tomo

many comparisons.

listening to different pre-amp tubes on sat mornings; jan ray for tf, ts; alnico vs ceramic in the bassmans.

i watched: your fingers for muting, there is an angle. the playing, all the playing.
i am only able to observe what i have practiced, i feel. i am always asking myself what do i really know as you ask in the first intro to gw videos.

always looking what others will say too.

loved it. hanging with tomo, masterclass.

Thanks Tomo!
Both sound amazing. So fun to hear the different speakers.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and playing with us!
Kurt

My pleasure Kurt! Thanks for watching this video! Yes, both speakers are so nice! I love both tone! New speaker the 100 (30 watts) has more clear top end and more dynamics. So happy that you enjoyed it!

Tomo

That was fun. Ceramic definitely sounded warmer to me. Both sound great. I think I liked the ceramic clean, and the AlNiCo with boost.

Thank you Clay! Many prefer Alnico... but it's too soft attack (sometimes) and I prefer ceramic for tighter picking attack so I have more room for my picking dynamics. My favorite is vintage Jensen C12N with good condition (some of them are very tired!) My Eminence TF1250 is baseed on one of my Jensen C12N and we worked on mids a little more tighter.

Tomo

Hox about Saturday Morning Amp Tasting for that title.
Eiji

I can pick two titles and check to see which one is doing well... Thank you! I liked it!

Tomo

thank you tomo, for teaching us :)

i have an alnico, celestian blue, in my bright amp (swart mod 84, vox ac-15-like) and a custom ceramic in my darker amp (silktone, fender princeton-like i think).

i think of this like cooking, adding a little bit of lime juice or vinegar in something when it needs to wake up a little?

idk, i like the sound.

i am appreciating both amps together more after i am using my aby switch up top on the smaller pedalboard. only after using bright amp for practice alone for foundation practice after a week or so.

a little bit less noise from brighter practice amp after switching rectifier from 5y3 back to gz34 and switching power tubes from mullard el84's back to jj's.
i need to switch out preamp 12ax7's still as well to see if that will solve noise issue

i will keep going, thank you.

My pleasure Sunil! Great! You have a great speaker! Having two amps = more fun! Deeper tone! That’s how John Mayer’s amp setup. He runs three amps. I am very curious about A/B/C switch from Lehle. You can try 5715 preamp tube is good!

Tomo

thank you so much tomo!

ah yes! 5715 is exactly what i need!
tube depot also calls it 5751 i think?
https://www.tubedepot.com/products/jj-5751-preamp-tube
i will avoid high-gain the option.

i also didn't know john is using 3 amps,
very cool to think about!

i will check out lehle a/b/c switch, that is awesome i didn't know there was a 3-way one. i had used supro third amp through the looper...cumbersome set up because i needed a true bypass switch to implement 3 amp setup with my current radial bigshot aby.

i am imagining john playing with three two-rocks? my god.

so many ideas and improvements for the new year in my head now,
very grateful.

Thank you Jeff for listening this! That's so true! That's why I had so many Pro Reverbs one point.

Especially I have the Lehle amp A/B swtching pedal so I should do more fun tasting amps & speakers!

Tomo

tomo, jeff,

i started looking at bassmans again.
maybe i will get one next year, need to sell some stuff still.

which model do you guys recommend?

or better to go and listen?

maybe i should post this on bjoern's amp thread?

thanks so much clay!

i was following this thread but i lost track of it.

i'll go back through it.

Thank you Clay for sharing that thread!

Tomo

That was really super-duper fun to hear Tomo! Great idea to score two while you can.
Thanks also for the early access to the video.
Love the country bending licks and the triad examples for that fun progression.
I think the title is really good. I guess you can mention the comparison of the stock P90 vs. the Grinning Dog P90 pickup in the description.
I like the Grinning Dog smoothness a little more but would be happy with the stock P90.
Nice that the guitar is at a lower price point and people could afford to upgrade the pickup if they want.
Once again, your playing and the Beth reverb are Stars- makes it all sound so amazing.
I'm so glad we did the July challenge; The Do Mi So, Mi So Do, So Do Mi of the triads is just easy to name now.
Thank you for sharing your playing, cool guitars and most of all, helping us have more fun with the guitar!
Hope you have a great Holiday!
Kurt

Thank you Kurt! So happy to hear that! I will bring the last video to new thread "Early access to my YouTube Videos. So that people won't mix up with other theme / other topic than main thread topic. So sorry about that. So if you see it... can you copy and paste your comment above to new thread. Thank you!

https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/forums/general/77067-early-access-to-my-youtube-videos

Tomo

Thank you Jeff! So glad to hear that. Kishimoto san at the Grinning Dog Pickups... he does amazing job! I just moved this video to this new thread.
https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/forums/general/77067-early-access-to-my-youtube-videos

Tomo