Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thank you Thiago!

I have played with Toshiki Soejima last year and we just jammed without any plans.
Ended up... we made EP together! Lookup his name & my name on spotify.

Neo Soul is... mixture of Jazz, Bossa, R&B, funk ... all tasty stuff.
https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/neo-soul-r-b-lessons

Thank you.

Tomo

And don't forget this great YT collab I came across a while ago.

An EP together? That is amazing! Thanks for informing us! Neo-Soul is great!

Thank you Michael for sharing!

Let me share a little things (behind this video)

I decided not to talk about how to play.... so let me assistant to set up my gear...
Then when everything is ready to go. I didn't say anything to Toshiki... I just started playing...then Toshiki started playing around me... Then we started playing together.

I just did not even mention how to what to do! Spontaneous is the best for improvisation music!

Thank you.

Hi Thiago!

I’ve been learning guitar from him for about a year.
At first, he taught me how to play jazzy chords like major 9, minor 9, and dominant ♭13 on the 6th and 5th strings.

His soloing is heavily inspired by Tom Misch, so he usually doesn’t use complicated scales — he mostly sticks to pentatonics.
He often adds 9ths and ♭13ths to his pentatonic phrases!

If you want to play like him, I think you should transcribe his playing, analyze it through the lens of pentatonics, and think in terms of scale degrees.

I hope this helps your playing!

Thank you Junuchiro!

Tom Misch influenced Toshiki a lot!

Tomo

Thank you Clay! It was so smooth on those jams... basically we did not talk about song forms... we just played one to another... Toshiki Soejma got a great video guy... who captured those videos and Toshiki recorded each guitar so he could mix them. After making those videos, Toshiki asked me if he can make these songs as music recording... I said "YES!"

I got to play the Bruno.... I don't remember.

Thank you.

Tomo

Great to bring that up! I still remembered when you introduced Tom Misch to me when we were driving! Now Tom took a few Skype lessons from me. Toshiki Soejima is a huge fan of Tom Misch & Me! I will record a few songs with Toshiki Soejima around early June in Tokyo Japan.

Life is circle!

Thank you.

Tomo

Really like Tom Misch too! Maybe three's a crowd, but would be super cool to see all of you do something together - even just a jam.

Thank you Clay! I will make more videos & recording with Toshiki Soejima soon!

Maybe there will be jamming with Tom Misch someday.

Thank you.

Tomo