Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Great to watch and listen, as usual. But I'm not at the point I can use yet. Still practicing solo etude on Blue Monk. In my noodling time, I have been playing with 1 6 2 5 progressions, trying to add different flavors / voicing to the chords. Also sometimes replacing 1 with 3. But that's just play time, even though I am trying to apply what I've learned about triads, playing cleanly, etc. Thanks for posting - it's always inspirational / aspirational for me.

Thank you Clay for watching. This is like... recreating my private lesson like... so no pressure! Just enjoy watching this video.

We are still working on Blue Monk melody, Solo etude and R 3 7 soft picking (finger picking) with a metronome at 60 a lot!
That's very important foundation in order to play well.

You're very welcome!

Tomo

Great info Tomo! Thank you.
That is a fun progression. D Bm Em G.

Soloing is still a little advanced for me. Working on bending etc.
Fun to play DMAJ pentatonic and practice triads over this though.
Cool George Benson idea to use D min Pentatonic over Em and G, Sounds bluesy.
Kurt

Thank you Kurt! Glad to hear that! Please enjoy it!

Don't worry! Good job! Triads are so useful!

Basically ii V I... you can use minor bluesy sound.

Tomo

Yah Kurt - I liked learning that too - minor pentatonic over the 2 5 part.

Thank you Johno! Chords are DMaj7 (D) B-7 E-7 G/A (A7)

Chord moves very quick! I go for chord tone (triad approach)

Tomo