Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Yes yes yes!!!
Lonnie is the MAN!
Great Jeffrey! So good for us :-)
Kurt

...they understands my sorrows...and they sympathize with meee...
@~2:30

Really cool Jeff.

What a great video from that show! One of my favorites live videos.

Tomo

i listened to half in the park under an umbrella with light rain.
f'g amazing. thank you.

hey matt how much space did that rip take. that is a great idea

Really no more space than a typical ripped CD. I use this link to grab both video and audio from YouTube.

https://y2mate.nu/ysM1/

Matt, thank you for adding this. I will listen to this entire thing.

Yes, I miss him too.

Thanks Sunil!
Very interesting to see this.
in 1996 we took a vacation down to Mississippi and just went around trying to find my Blues Heroes homes and graves. One day I jammed in a bar in Clarksdale with some young kids that were coming home from school! Clarksdale was where the train was that took many to Chicago. The guy that owned the bar bought the abandoned train station. He was just a big blues fan!
Another time I went into a bar to see my Sonics play and lose the NBA championship to the Chicago Bulls. ALL Bulls fans there. A big guy told me we shouldn't really be there. I told him "Ok, I was from Seattle and just wanted to watch the game." He said to sit with him and no one will hassle us honkies!

Kurt

hahaha!

i get it maaan. i thought i was a honky until i started college...fo rael. :)

thank you kurt, i love the stories

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i am just mostly babbling to myself.
some would call the babbling writing...but its an unedited stream of steaming b...babbling :)

read at your own risk.

(i like the stories like my fah-tha before me...sadly not a jedi...or a ninja...i was kind of a software writing ninja-jedi for a while though...:)

hmkay, got some coffee and peanut butter toast in me... now foundation practice.

i had a good practice yesterday.
practice sessions go longer and merge together as my touch gets lighter.
confidence, subjective happiness with my own sound, growing.

lately when i get to triads, i try to do it like jeff did. harder to be quiet on bottom strings (then i found tomo's triads review lesson...longer sustain, thumb position is so important, i will work on that today...tomorrow, r37 focus today) also i realized triad challenge is an exercise with finding octaves...been thinking of shapes again, when i get there i need to change the excercise

but what i wanted to mention is this sensation of things always coming together...like as i've been enjoying 1212 and chrom exercises...i've been becoming more sensitive to finger noises and dynamics...especially when playing faster or playing on lower strings. also i've been doing 70s song progression, in order to do Bb minor, for triad challenge i had to go back to saying solfage, interval note names because i keep wanting to just remember the pattern. maaan, tomo is so right, always.

i forgot where you said "it will change you" because you are right man.
no doubt.
this daily practice is changing me after a week...?...two weeks, i have to check my notes...since i got a daily practice schedule down in lavoy's good morning thread...sorry i stole your thread la voy :(

anyway, i think that is the value of all of us enjoying our practice here together, on top of the book. i am just realizing this.

thank you everyone, gw fam!
thank you most profoundly tomo!

hmkay back to practice...i never loved practice like this before...

i think tomo, you are the richard feynman of guitar and blues.

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

hey kurt,

what did you learn from jamming during the mississippi trip?

that sounds like an epic journey!
wish i went with you! :)

also (apologies for excessive posts 🤷🏾‍♂️)
i only read a little about the great migration to chicago in a us history class during undergrad...i wish i still had that book...

Hey Sunil!
When I jammed that day in Clarksdale the place was empty (Smitty's Blues Club)
The guy there was nice and said I could play the guitar set up on stage if I wanted. I got up there and was playing Lightnin Hopkins style blues in E. Then these young black kids started coming in from school. 2 of them put down their backbacks and got up on stage and started backing me on Bass and drums! They were SO good. It was really fun. I think we also played blues in G (Texas Floodish) and then Key To The Highway in A. I learned that these kids LIVE the blues. Just part of living down there!
Kurt

https://www.reddit.com/r/blues/comments/tlovtt/the_red_top_lounge_aka_smittys_in_clarksdale_ms/#lightbox

Wow! I only know Okie Dokie Stomp from Gatemouth. Hollywood Fats is only someone I have heard of but never heard. Thank you so much.

I thought maybe Canned Heat stopped after Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson died.
Junior Watson is great on this!

Thanks for sharing this great music Tomo!
Kurt

same as kurt, i feel like i know hollywood fats from somewhere, very familiar.

the second video -- canned heat with junior watson, really got me going this morning!

loved both. even if you don't practice, music recs here are worth monthly tuition. but if you practice they are priceless.

i like this feeling always of "starting to get it". it is like a big bird riding a thermal, spiraling up.

is west coast style similar to rock-a-billy?
like stray cats? west coast style feels newer, or looser?

cool recent interview so far (i only watched 4 and a half minutes) with junior watson.

grew up in Visalia and lived in san jose for a while (i had a roommate from visalia when i was at san jose state haha...).
he saw loud bands at the filmore and had to stuff cigarettes in his ears hahaha. so grateful for earplugs now.

wow, direct connection to wes montgomery. did not know "west coast style" was a thing, right in my own backyard. this goes back to oakland to the beginnings.

so helpful to start (some ads and cookies etc)
https://www.bluesguitarinsider.com/blues-guitar-history/west-coast-blues

My pleasure Kurt! One point I was working on that West Coast Blues sound. Once I got them... I don't really listen that anymore but you can enjoy it!

Tomo