Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thank you my friend!
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like the goal of picking up guitar three times a day, 30 min each time, and work on 3 things on the list, 10 minutes at a time. Whoa 10 min for chromatic scale is like this past November challenge…deep practice

Thank you Tomo! This is very helpful, I understand now, this is the same as when you said no limits for me.

Oh wow, yes that is a super approachable starting point to just listen to Kyoto! Things wind up in my head and I freak myself out, still. That’s ok. That is me. Probably self evident to most (not me hahah) this is what Mr. Kim Sun Ho mentioned! Yes, true!

Abstraction is my super power.
But then everything becomes guitar and no one understands what I’m saying so then it becomes about deciding cost of backing up and explaining all the connections (usually loose and not-logical…but this is the creative process I think).

This how focus on fundamentals for guitar is helping me.

This is great Tomo! This is a flexible structure that permeates any limits anyone may have. Ah, Guitar Wisdom!

Hey, where are all the good mornings?

Aaalooooh?

Hmm…

Kurt, …am I…have I become…the Sasquatch?

Well, I do love children…they’re us….they are messengers into the future.
I love to watch them play…..
And they are tasty!?
No no no no!
Do not eat the children!

Kurt, there were two questions.
You said you like the last version.
But, I think the first version of “Leaves of Grass” is Whitman’s favorite, not that one, before that one.

What the heck in the house.
It’s 6:25am…the sun approaches…the children will wake soon…I must prepare for the path today,
I love the path.
It’s my path.

Actually not 10 minutes of chromatic scales. Really like…actually when I stopped checking the time, I realized I slip out of time.

Thank you Tomo!

I accept this “Good Job Sunil!”
Thank you my friend!
I still have to reply about
Pentatonic Productions video you sent.

I wrote pages about it last night…but don’t want to send you pages anymore haha. I will boil it down by tonight.
All good, all beautiful. I think I…just starting to realize…

Hope your parents are happy and fine!

I think I finally understand intonation.

Standing with the guitar, tune, check octave harmonic, tune. Then press with MY touch, at octave. Adjust saddle. Repeat until tuned.

That’s why my triads were inconsistent.
I have to have the guitar tuned, and intonated, AND understand MY touch.

Easy peasy. Just tuned bottom E! Hahaha…took sometime, five more strings to go!

Profoundly beautiful day today!
Gray sky and chilli here hahaha!

Sorry not-chilli, meant Shilpa’s garbanzo bean curry…with a tortilla.

Maaan, that’s some good stuff.

Thank you for your reply! Yes! Intonation is super important! Please enjoy those triads! My parents are doing well! They are so happy! I am very happy and I am so grateful!

Tomo

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Hey Scott!
Yes it does!
Yes it does!
Yes it does!
Good morning my friend!

Thank you Scott! Lovely place indeed! What a sweet group of people! Great community! I am so grateful!

Tomo

That is an awesome day Rich!
I hope so too!

Thank you Rich! Have a great day! I am at Berklee now. I teach from 9am but I am here since 6:30am!

Good job! Amaizng!

Tomo

Good morning, Sunil.
So sorry your fridge is being weird.
The last time mine acted up (freezing things in veggie drawers, but warm in other areas of fridge, water leaking on the floor in front).
The problem was the little fan in the refrigerator section. That fan / fan motor wasn't blowing and had to be replaced. I think it is a common problem. The GE repair guy had one on his truck. Hope you get it sorted out without too much pain or $$.
So great that you have such a positive attitude.
We're rooting for you!
Kurt

Hey Kurt, good morning man!
Hows it in Seattle now?
Beautiful crisp baby blue skies this morning in Pleasanton.

Yikes about your fridge!
Yeah, we both thought Kimaya was messing with the thermostat but she told us the truth and we did not initially believe her. Gah!

Freezer above is super freezing stuff solid, and fridge below is luke-cold, borderline room temps lol.

Not worrying about it is one of the benefits of renting haha, I guess.
Shilpa let'em know, they'll probably switch it out.

Thank you my friend, I do feel this!
Fo' real!
The rooting is distributed! :)

Focusing on chromatic scales exercises this morning, so much details I missed before in FT01, FT02, FT03.

I have to still work out details of my daily foundation work, its getting there.

I still feel on-track I think, not freaking out hahaha, hands feel great (yea!), guitar is so much easier to tune even on cold mornings when everything is intonated correctly I think, amazing. Excited about triads, listening to Kyoto...oh god, i forgot off the top of my head the rest of my list to prep for that triple-diamond snowboard run mid-Jan, but i still feel good about it.

Lots of things in motion now, feels great!'

Yay Sunil! The benefits of renting.
Great attitude!
Shilpa sounds like an angel.

Good job trying to stay on track and not freakin' out.
I love that triad lesson Tomo just put up on the Triad review and challenge thread.
That's something I need to do every day.
Have a nice weekend!
Kurt

Hey Jeff! Thanks man! Heading out to "the breakfast club" in livermore heard its good, kids almost ready haha. Maintenance friend is here, we might have crowded the freezer too much, he's going to remove everything then clean it out and put it back, see what happens.

That sounds like an amazing morning my friend, balanced! Love A.King of course :)
That is awesome man have a great rehearsal Loving the reminder from the chat and your chat thread, very helpful!

Sounds like you are off to a great start Jeff!
You too Sunil!

George is always right. :-)
It is a straight shot from Boston to Seattle!

Kurt
Interstate 90 (I‑90) runs all the way from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts. It is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching over 3,000 miles.

Thanks Kurt!

I keep thinking of the RAAM when you're all discussing great paths across "our" local piece of North America.

I would love to do that someday on a recumbent. :)

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BUILDING ABSTRACTIONS
WITH PROCEDURES

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning
Human Understanding (1690)

1st page of the 1st chapter of
Abelson, Sussman, Sussman;
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1985)

Thank you Sunil for sharing your great day! Good job on working on the JS01.

Tomo