Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Hi, this is a very interesting thread with many excellent points of view.
My taiji teacher once asked me, "Do you know the difference between a master and a student?"
I truthfully answered, "No, I don't."
He replied, "A master has practiced the basics more."
Now .. as for a cup of tea ...
Rupert

Thank you guys , Seems need learn some cooking , Guitar is connection with cooking .
What about use learning guitar way to learning cooking ?

I think this is a very interesting question, and I've been churning on it for a few days, and I'm no closer to an opinion. I think there is so much nuance to this question that it might be impossible to answer unless the question becomes much more specific.

The openness of the question is where I'm tripping. I'm progressing with some of the foundation aspects of playing, but I've not focused on sight reading at all. There are some areas of guitar playing where I'm at absolute beginner, day 1 walking into my first lesson. But there are other areas where I feel like I'm past the beginner level and am squarely an intermediate.

I think that because guitar can be played with tabs and YouTube tutorials, a more meaningful question might be to define the question in terms of musician skills rather than guitar skills. There's plenty of resources out there that can make someone a guitar player. But that's NOT what Tomo is teaching. I feel like Tomo is teaching us how to be musicians whose instrument is guitar. I think that if you take that as the question, you will be including things like sight reading, transcription, theory, as well as the physical abilities on the instrument. Now at what level of ability someone has in each of those areas will change someone from a beginner to intermediate to advanced, I'll let smarter people than me argue about that.

Maybe I have an opinion after all. ;-)

The unfortunate part for me is that I won’t get to 90 days straight for the simple fact that I have to travel for work pretty frequently. I’ll modify that to say 90 days when I’m home. 😆

I know that music is a personal thing. Everybody has their own likes and dislikes. For example, my wife hates jazz and is not a big fan of outlaw country, both of which I love. In fact, I can’t think of a single genre of music that I don’t love. Well, except maybe Hip Hop, which I used to hate, but now that I am letting my hair grow out, it’s kinda growin' on me. Anyway, I think the professor wants us to listen to music for an hour or two every day. I realized I have been paying $12/month for Spotify, and frankly, I have hardly used it at all for the past 9 or 10 months. So I asked ChatGPT to make me a list of 4 or so tunes/songs for each of 7 or 8 genres that it thinks would be good for an intermediate guitar player to listen to for an hour or so before practicing to get a better feeling for things like rhythm, lyricism, tone quality and variation, dynamics and comping (one player backing down, quitting down and yet complimenting another player while they take the lead). To the list that ChatGPT gave me, I added 10 or 15 of my own choices. For the past three or four days, I have been listening to it for an hour or two while lifting weights, fishing, or riding my bike. I love to put it on “shuffle”. That way, I never know what I’m going to be listening to. Whatever it is, I try to focus on rhythm, tonal quality, and variations, but especially on dynamics and comping as well, of course, as simplicity and honesty of melody or chord progressions, and how it makes me feel. You should see me trying to tap out a rhythm on my thighs or dance in my rowboat while fishing.
Anyway, I hope everyone is enjoying their own playlists as much as I am now enjoying mine. Thanks for the kick start, professor. If anyone is interested in checking out my playlist or even adopting it or parts of it to build their own, here is the link:
Link to my guitar practice listening playlist on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7a6SZrQYBfNnVFUDIHIYu1?si=d73793f261fd4a90