Rt 37 swing practice

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Matt

7 months ago

R37 is one of my favorite practices. I ripped the audio from Tomo's Bb blues lesson and made a loop of him playing the melody. I play along with that loop where I comp the chords. I have another loop of Tomo comping the chords and I play the melody.

It's very meditative.

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Tomo Fujita Mod

7 months ago

Thank you Matt! Great way to make a duet playing!

When I practice R 3 7 groove, I think about some melody or solo phrases.... when I play soloing with a metronome, I think about bassline or chord progrerssions. Very rare to play with chords (backing track, playing comping by me) without chords/backing... gives me more freedom. That's why I repeat R 3 7 swing for a long time. 4-5 minutes.

Tomo

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Takano Junichiro

7 months ago

Playing as a duet sounds like fun! Thank you for your comment!!!

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Kurt Schubert

7 months ago

That is a great idea Matt!
Thank you!
Kurt

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Richard John Albano

3 months ago

I also wanted to post me practicing R37 swing from behind to see if it looks / sounds ok. I didn’t use a metronome. Just trying to keep everything relaxed.

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Tomo Fujita Mod

3 months ago

Good job Rich! Your thumb position is improving!

Your timing is still slightly slow! Tempo should be slow but you need to strum faster!

Do a little slower and strum faster! Listen deeper!

So great to see this! Thank you Rich!

Tomo

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George Mattingly Mod

3 months ago

Thanks for your post, Rich! I like the motion of your elbow. Keep going!

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Clay

3 months ago

Good job Rich! No extra noises - awesome.
Funny - when I first started watching, I thought "man - Takano's setup looks a lot like Rich's!"

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Richard John Albano

3 months ago

I think I know what happened...
I've been practicing at times when my wife is asleep and in an effort to be more quiet I've slowed my pick speed down (creating that fast arpeggio). And as you practice so you will perform. I will make sure I practice trying to make ONE sound with both the down and upstroke.

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Tomo Fujita Mod

3 months ago

R 3 7 Swing Groove.... about "Timing"

Tomo

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Kurt Schubert

3 months ago

Thank you for this great lesson Tomo!
Hard to not have fun around here :-)
Kurt

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Tomo Fujita Mod

3 months ago

You're very welcome Kurt! I love this place so much! A lot of inspiration!

My pleasure! Please have fun! Thank you!

Tomo

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2 months ago

Wow! I love this place. I watched the November Livestream where this was covered, and picked up a lot of tips on R 3 7. I recorded myself to listen back, then I found this thread. Now I've picked up a few more tips. Interestingly, I watched the video by Rich and Tomo's response video and noticed I had also slowed my strum down as well when I slowed down the tempo. I will add that comment into my notebook. Thanks for the thread and have a great day!

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Sammi Fujita Mod

2 months ago

That's awesome, jh! There's always more to discover. Keep going and enjoy it!

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2 months ago

Slower tempo, faster strum. Was a more challenging/fun than I had expected :-)
Yes, Sammi, always more to learn, always more to discover. The devil is in the details.

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Kurt Schubert

2 months ago

Thanks, jh!
Sounding mighty fine to me!
I appreciate that you are sharing this!
Kurt

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Clay

2 months ago

Nice work picking up that nugget jh! Sounds great.

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Tomo Fujita Mod

2 months ago

Thank you jh! I feel same way! This place is so special! Everything is very positive and everyone is working very hard with these important foundation, Thanks so much for watching the November livesteam. It is simple yet, it is very deep! You need to practice R 3 7 super slow but you have to strum very fast so that you can play all 6 strings at once! Good job jh! You made my day! You're very welcome!

Have a great day!

Tomo

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Sunil Menon

2 months ago

awesome!
going to go through this thread fully.
thank you jh, and tomo!

i like your videos jh --
i keep thinking about experimenting with angles too.

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2 months ago

thank you, Sunil. appreciate your feedback. enjoy it, try it out and see how it goes. And as Tomo says, "Don't worry! Don't compare! Don't expect too fast! Be kind to yourself!"

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