Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thank you Tomo!
Love Albert King!
This reminded me of another one of my off topic stories:
One time in the early 80's, at a big outdoor festival (Bumbershoot Seattle), I filmed two shows by Albert. Stood right in front of the stage with my tripod waiting for someone to tell me to stop. Near the end of the second show, he walked over to me and pretended to have a heart attack as I was recording him. All of a sudden, he looked right at me and smiled and winked! I about had a heart attack!
Kurt

You're very welcome! I use ony that Albert King phrase a lot! I used to imitate Albert King, Albert Colllins and SRV.... then I only use a few phrases from those guys.

Wow! That's so cool story! Feedback!

Tomo

Thank you Tomo for sharing this video. I love the one string approach and the call and response of the Blues. This paves a path for the next place I got to go. I really have to practice some bends. I have so much on my list to practice I love your idea to stay on one thing for 1 week or 2.

Great and important question Rich!
Tomo seems to mute with anything and everything and makes it so clean!
Thanks for asking him for more details.
Kurt
Grey-the only color people want for their new vehicles, apparently.
Grey- The New Rainbow :-)

Thank you Kurt! That was a great question and there is no one correct answer... because each time slighly different so many conbinations. I love Grey color a lot!

Tomo

Thanks for asking that Rich! I suffer greatly from that with bending. I am still having issues even with no bends (e.g. Blue Monk).

Thank you Clay! Guitar is so amazing! It's bottomless! Please enjoy your guitar journey! I am enjoying my guitar journey everyday little by little. Let me know anthing I can help you!

Blue Monk Melody, R 3 7 finger picking & solo etude. Very good & important.
Maybe some simple bending melody that you can learn it and enjoy!

Tomo

LOL - yeah me too!
As you will see when I post again.
But been working on Blue Monk so much I think if my wife hears it one more time she’s gonna whack me in the head with a frying pan.(I need to soundproof the basement somehow.)

You're very welcome! Glad to be helpful & fun! I have one more great idea for improvisation with Major scale! 2 strings approach! I will make additional lesson videos soon!

I am gonna be playing with the Pigeons Playing Ping Pong at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston tonight! Their song has a lot of minor chord vamp improvisation section.

Tomo

Thank you Jeff! It was so amazing! LIVE music is all about!

Thanks so much!

Tomo

I bet was incredible. If not for my sons birthday we would be there. We will both go one day can’t wait. Live music so amazing

Thank you Jeff! It's LIVE music so you cannot have same performance! It was so great! Well.. family thing is more important than anything! Yes! It was so great! I just posted some videos on Instagram, X and Face Book.

Tomo

Thank you Andy! So happy to hear that! Transcribing BB King is GOLD! Good job! You worked on bending technique alone! Most people just keep repeating entire phrase. If you need more hekp... please let me know. One thing at a time. You're very welcome.

Tomo

Thank you Jeff!

Tomo