Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Oh yes! This is such a great live recording. Otis was amazing. So deep! I never get tired of listening to him.
LOVE that downtown Blues Shuffle Groove here. Just like Tomo teaches us! So important.
Thanks Jeff!
Kurt

Wow love this. Such a good feeling. Every instrument is really grooving too. It sounds like they are having a grand ol time playing together

It really does! Great to hear how the different players compliment each other. I think this is live too which amazes me.

I am so happy to see this type conversaion via good musical conversation!

Tomo

Oh, yeah. Roy was a master!

Nice Matt! I don’t know this one will check out

Yeah, his story did not end well. But he left us with some great music.

There's a few documentaries on Youtube on Roy. I've not watched any of them yet, so I can't say if they're worth a watch, but they're there.

Yes, Matt, it is so nice to have those kinds of documentaries on YouTube. I still have a lot of old BETA videotapes :-) .
Roy got his big break from one of the documentaries.
Kurt
Buchanan's life changed in 1971, when he gained national notice as the result of an hour-long PBS television documentary. Entitled Introducing Roy Buchanan, and sometimes mistakenly called The Best Unknown Guitarist in the World. It earned Buchanan recording contract with Polydor Records and praise from John Lennon and Merle Haggard, besides an alleged invitation to join the Rolling Stones which he turned down and which gave him the nickname "the man who turned the Stones down"

Oh yeah Jeff! This is important.Thanks.
Big Moose Walker on cool piano too.
Love Earl Hooker!
Kurt

Great blues melody!

Tomo

I love this album! This influenced many pro blues guitar players!

Tomo

Thanks Tomo! Listening

Thank you for listening!

Tomo

Watched this morning Linda. Pretty interesting the tone he gets from up stroke on pointer finger on the top three strings. And bass notes down stroke with the thumb. That strumming he sings over looks so fun to play

Our theme song here in Seattle :-)
Great one Jeff!
Kurt

Very hip bassline Jeff and Albert King phrase!

1) Great way to think those intervals! (Bass line)
So you listen this, grab your guitar or bass.. you can play that bass line!

2) Learn a few Albert King phrase.
Albert King Challeng! (Bending challenge!)

Tomo

Would love to have tone like that. He was a master.

Love that bassline too! I only knew the original plus Hound Dog Taylor and SRV's versions. This one is nice. For the bass I get the "I" as "C" with b7 and b3 in the note progression - R-R-b7-7-R-b3-R. So key is Cmin?

CH to M3 (How to call this technique .... move fast hammer on & off....

Tomo

That's sounding great Jeff.
You're channeling Albert!
Thanks for sharing!
Kurt

Jeffrey, to my ears that sounded great.

Thank you!

Tasty - and already nailed the bassline too.

Sounds great Jeff!

Try to learn a few phrase as close as Albert King.
Better not use any backing so that you need to play your phrase with a strong sense of rhythm and space. If you want... you can use a metronome click on every beat.

What a great work!
Keep going!

Tomo

Amazing!

This is great! Haven’t heard before

That IS a great horn line! Inspiration can come from anywhere.

A little older recording and I love it!

Yes! That horn line! I had to learn it!

Tomo

So good