Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thank you Linda for sharing these videos! I enjoyed watching them.

Thank you Linda for sharing your guitar journey and these videos.

Glad to be helpful! I still practice R 3 7 Swing / Finger picking & Strumming with super slow tempo. Blue Monk Melody 1 & Melody 2... is great one too. With a metronome.

Thank you!

Tomo

Thanks Linda! I so need to get to ear training, but it's the one thing that I've had to push out of my routine for now. Just for focus. Appreciate you keeping the vids fresh in our minds.

Thank you Linda ! Wish your trip is fine :)
Thank you sharing & put these lesson together , we have ear training conner !
Reminds us to do this practice !

Twinkel Twinkel !! Shining Linda !

Hey Linda , If you are still in the trip time , maybe we need a pic of your beautiful trip :) Miss you all the time ~

Thank you Clay , the effort and progress with you is amazing , so inspiring me , Thank you .

I ’m with sea to sea , too . So deep but looks like simple , let's keep going with our guitar !

I LOVE my looper pedal! Still not great at using it, but it's another tool in the practice arsenal and another step on the journey.

I'n my sight reading practice, I'm not sticking with a particular page for more than a few days. I don't want it to get to the point that I have a page memorized. I'll practice reading a page for a 5 minutes a day for a few days then move on to the next page. A few days on the next page, then I'll go back in the book to put fresh eyes and unpracticed fingers on a page that I haven't looked at in a while just to try and keep it as sight reading practice and not song practice.

I'm also digging kind of deep in to song and solo analysis. For instance with All of Me, I printed a fresh copy of the tune and marked every note as a scale tone. I think it's really helpful in the sense that in looking at phrases, I'm seeing which notes are more important to the melody, and which are just passing tones to get to the important notes.

And of course, still working on the funtamentals every day. Chromatics/Triads/R37. And I've especially been focused on lightening my touch. REALLY need to break the habit of strangling the guitar neck!!

That's awesome Matt - esp the deep study on All of Me.
I totally get what you're saying on the sight reading. I can actually feel when I'm moving from reading to memorizing. For me (for now), I'm getting enough technique practice out of sticking with a section for a while that it feels worth it (muting, articulating exactly the written notes, keeping time, etc). It's definitely a trade-off though - especially since my initial focus was on learning to read.

Thank you Clay for sharing your practice ideas!

Super happy to see this!

All of Me... I teach that & Autumn Leaves too.
R 3 7 (Finger picking & Strumming)
Triads
4 notes comping

Keep going with Method Book!

Tomo

Tomo

Thank you Sergio for the update.

It is a little hard to focus on practice routiune while you are traveling.

You are very determined and doing so good!

Blue Monk is a great choice!

Tomo

Sergio !! Cheer for you and the amazing work .
We know you are in the travel working time , don't worry , You can do that !

Amsterdam ! Enjoy the trip time :)
We are learning together !

Ps : The September live stream is so amazing !!
Jazz Stander & Blue Monk !

Thank you Jiayang!

So happy to hear that!

Tomo

We all get a little lost at times, don't worry! You'll find your way back. We are here for you!

Thank you Sammi for encouragement! So true! No matter what.... we have some ups & downs.

Tomo

Sorry to hear that. Dig the back to basics move, though.
I imagine it's tough to find an instructor that's aligned with what we're trying to do at GW. Interested in how it turns out - I might try it also in the not-too-distant future.

Thank you Ralph for sharig your experience.

Teaching guitar is very difficult to do! It took me in many years. I am sure that I made a few bad dicision making too. I have been teaching at Berklee since 1993 and I love my job very much! I love communicating with all my students.

Thank you for studying at Guitar Wisdom. Simple strumming is a lot of fun! By the way, Em chord was my first chord that I have learned! Glad to hear that you are playing the Ava Mahogany!

Tomo

"When the teacher is ready, the student will appear"

I see what you did there! Well done Linda!

Thank you Jiayang. That case, you can imagine as if you are using an amp! Think about that?

Imagine your sound coming from your amp! So you don't rely on any sound from your guitar. (So you can play it very soft!)

Keep going!

Tomo

Hi Jiayang!
I really appreciate your motivational update.
So incredibly inspiring to hear how you overcome any obstacle and keep going!
Thank you so much for setting such a great example for us.

Kurt

I hope your situation improves soon! Your positive motivation is very inspiring. Thank you, Jiayang!

Thank you Tomo , I will “ Imagine I ‘m using a amp , Oh will be fun !
The sound is from Amp !!

Thank you !! Kurt , We will keep going !

Gas is full !!

Hi Michael, how's it going? We have missed you!

Great to hear from you Michael!
Thanks for the detailed update. You are doing the work!
I know your own version of Autumn Leaves is going to be so amazing!
Please keep us updated on your progress.
Kurt

Good job Michael! Thanks so much for sharing your experience! A lot of inspiration for us!

Tomo

Thanks Linda! It's going fine. I had some family emergencies to take care of but that has settled down a bit now so I can devote more time and energy into music again.

Hi Tomo,

Missed the community. Glad to be around again for a while again. I'm looking forward to watching the Jazz Standards live stream I missed. Hopefully it'll help with Autumn Leaves!

Thanks for sharing Ralph. I want to go back and do some of the basic videos too - been deep diving on Blue Monk and All of Me + Leavitt.

Thank you Ralph for sharing! Slow is good! Please take your time! Chromatic exercise is a great for warm-up. Good job! I still practice Chromatic 1212 everyday. So happy to hear that you have been enjoying it! Anytime! You can do that (The Leavitt Book One).

Tomo

Hello, Sergio. We are so glad to have you back. How have you been?

Thanks for the update, Sergio!
I miss seeing you play. And your Dad :-)
Starting over on your routine will be fun.
Please keep us in the loop when you can.
Kurt

Hello Linda! Im doing great, working and working and traveling. Fortunately the AV Tech work season is slowing down and I will have time for a proper reset till May to get back to practice and studio works and arts! :) my favorite time of the year. Will try to build a strong routine foundation to keep going without stop in the next year season!
btw im here at GW for almost a year in January! :D

And how is your journey going Linda? Hope all is good! And your having fun with the beautiful AZES31 :D

Welcome back, Sergio! Let's start slowly!

Wow Kurt! 💜 😲

Wow!

Tomo

Whoa, Kurt! That would have wigged me out too!

Such a weird feeling! We must have recovered. Lisa was out there in the backyard playing with the catnip plants.
I think she wants him to come back.

Funny you said "wigged out". Once we had a cool tuxedo cat. "Beaner", who had seizures and we would say "He's wiggin' out!" and hope he didn't fall off the dryer or bed etc!
Kurt

Beaner also thinks this new interloper looks like Corkscrew.