Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thank you for week 5 video and bonus video. I watched and rewatched and have a good idea of what to do next.

Guitar Wisdom July Challenge Contest: Important Details

1. Eligibility
To be eligible to win the prize, you must be an active Guitar Wisdom subscriber at the time of the winner selection. There are no geographic restrictions – the contest is open to our subscribers everywhere. Please comply with applicable laws in your location.

2. How to Enter
Submit your video entry for the July Challenge no later than August 10, 2025. Video content must reflect the assignment of the July Challenge as outlined in Tomo's videos.

3. Winner Selection
The winner will be selected solely at the discretion of Tomo Fujita. The selection will be made around the end of August 2025. Performance, effort, and participation will be taken into account—but the spirit of learning and personal growth is what matters most!

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6. Prize Delivery & Announcement
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7. Kindness and Community Spirit
We created this challenge to support your musical journey. Whether you enter the contest or not, we hope you enjoy the process, grow as a player, and stay motivated.
Be kind to yourself and have fun with it!

Thanks, GW Team, for the fun challenge!

I'd like to mention that this was the 100th extra bonus lesson you have posted on the GW playlist!
These personal bonus lessons are SO valuable, helpful and just pure gold!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLENaipLZZvuSe09K52-fo1VPMLrWfJa46
Looking forward to more fun lessons!

Kurt
Triads and beyond!

You’re very welcome Serena!
Please enjoy it!

Tomo

Beautiful Sammi. Thank you for details.

That's great Thomas! Learning triads so early on will benefit you greatly. I just started learning them last month and it is helping me unlock the rest of the fretboard too! Let's keep going!

Right on Thomas. Yes Tomo is patient with his students and detailed. So Good. and Great hearing from you.

Thank you Thomas for your kind words! I really apprecaite it so much!

So happy to hear that you have been with us for 5 months!
Good job! So happy to hear that my videos are very hekpful!

One string approach & triad inversions are your good friends!
https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/music-theory-i section is super important!
Even someone already knew about C Major scale. Same scale but my approach is different from others.

You’re very welcome!
Please enjoy your GW journery!

Tomo

Thank you Tyler & Serena for encouragement!

So sweet!

Tomo

Yes, sir! Richard, please enjoy this!

Let's keep going!

So far... GW July Challenge... was so success in my mind!
What a group of these wonderful souls!

Tomo

Thank YOU Ralph! It would be great to see you. Just do it! Yes, it can feel uncomfortable to record yourself, but it is good practice, and we will be cheering you on :)

Without You and every members of GW…. We are so apprecaite it!
You’re very welcome! So happy to hear that! Thank YOU!

From our members, so much encouragement, motivation and inspiration!
I got so much energy from July Challenge.

What an amazing group of people! I am so grateful!
Very rare to have this deep discussion and detail communication.

No pressure & hope you enjoy this prosess.
You have time to prepare and looking forward to your post!

Great way to challenge and away from your comfort zone.
Yes! Like my 2nd video for details. You can look here and there.

Tomo

Thank you Sammi for encouragement!

Yes totally, this contest and record yourself (slightly uncomfortble & not used to…) part will become a little friendly later.

I highly encourage to make this video!

Tomo

Thank you Serena for encouragement!

Yes! This contest is another challenge and everyone will get amazing benefit!

Tomo

Always encouragement and so much benefit.

Hi Serena, great to see you're consistently working hard!
Be thoughtful, careful, take your time and enjoy guitar journey.
Amazing that we can practice together on a global scale!

Thank you for all the detailed notes, Serena! Yes, when you are ready to submit your video for the contest, post it as an unlisted YouTube video and share it in this thread.

Wow! Serena amazing details!
So happy to hear! Great job on reviwing my videos.
Please watch Week 5 / Bonus / Contest videos.

For contest, you don't need to post your progreess everyday. This is a lot of work! Now you can focus on practicing for contest. So sorry that I didnot mentrion this part in my video.

My 1st video explaining all the details about contest.
2nd part video explaining exact what to do "Guitar playing part"
I explained "What not to do" too.

Tomo

Good call Tadashi, take my time, words to live by. I am grateful to be on this journey together.

Awesome job Kurt!

Thanks, Ralph!
I just watched it and realized I didn't play G again after playing GCD. Whoops!
Kurt

Great leadoff man, Kurt!
I'll follow you!
Thank you for your nice performance!

Thanks Tadashi!
Let it rip!
Kurt

Kurt, as always, so great to see you. SO glad you were part of this July Challenge. Good job on the video, and being first-off-the-helicopter. I love your new AZES31, something about that Ivory that looks so cool.

Thanks Clay!

Hi Richard,
Thanks!
No, that wasn't the MusicMaster Bass amp, unfortunately. I'm still waiting.
It is somewhere between Seattle and Florida :-)

I used my Boss Katana MKII head into a Victory cabinet with a 12" Celestion Vintage 30 speaker.

You have been so solid pushing through the month. Totally inspiring us!
I'm glad we took the challenge and are students here together.
Kurt

Thank you Richard for sweet encouragement!

Kurt have done so much great things at GW & throughout July Challenge!

And you have done so much great work here! I am so proud of you!

What a great group of people! What a beautiful community!

I can’t thank enough!

Tomo

Oh yeah Ralph!
So clean. Great clear tone with that rear bridge pickup!
Glad we are doing this!
Kurt

Thanks Kurt! Appreciate all your encouragement and positivity.

Listening back to this I would have picked more softly. So useful to record oneself and review, something I've been trying to incorporate into my daily practice.

Apologies for the backdrop. Remodeling this room.

Best wishes,

- Ralph

Awesome, Ralph. Glad you were part of July Challenge. (Oh, and...nice guitar!).

Thank you Ralph!

Over a year! Fantastic!

So happy to hear that you have been enjoying at GW!

Good job!

Lovely nice dry tone!

Keep going!

Tomo

Thank you Linda!

The body is a Fender Wayne's World Strat made in Japan in 1994.

- R

Nice playing Jeffrey. Awesome technique! Partial to white and cream Strats myself.

- R

Nice, nice, nice Jeffrey! (Triad nice!). Great sounding guitar as always. Nice, smooth playing. Enjoy your weekend.

Sweet tone, Jeff! I can see that light holding of your pick in action. I really appreciate what you shared in your video. Yes, working on keeping that active community to keep us motivated, inspired, and supported throughout the journey! P.S. The shirt looks great on you!!

Wow, what a great performance, Jeffrey! Very smooth fingering and a great clean tone. Thank you!

Very good Jeffrey! These are so fun to watch. Love to see your videos.
You really were not looking at the fretboard!
Sound is so nice and clean with no finger or string noise.
I appreciate the thumb reminder too.
So glad we are getting this training!
Kurt

Thank you Sammi for encouragement!

We are so lucky to see these beautuful playing with a lot of passions, commitent & pure hard work! So much inspiration!

Tomo

Sounds great Tadashi. Really nice smooth picking. nice shirt!

Holy Smokes Tadashi!
No noise on an acoustic? That's incredible muting and timing.
Great work for the whole month. I used your updates as guides when I was getting off track.
It's funny how we all see things we need to work on when we watch our own video. Tomo has us teaching ourselves!
Your English is great!
Please keep making videos for us!
Kurt

Tadashi goes acoustic! Great job w/ no noise.

Thank you Tadashi for posting your video!

So happy to hear that you have spent here for 6 months!

Thanks so much for your kind words on Guitar Wisdom. Beautiful community!

Good job! You have worked on your thumb position!
Very smooth on acoustic guitar! Nice R 3 7 shirt too!

Tomo

Nice pace Tadashi, very clean, and no noise. Sounds great acoustic very bright,. Making all kinds of musical notes too, technical and inspiring. Thank you, - johno