Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Hi Bill!
So smart to dig into those lessons. Triad lessons are great for learning fretboard and intervals.
You ask good questions.
Tomo always simplifies things for me.
Keep us updated!

Kurt
Don't pay attention to what I'm doing :-)

Thanks, Kurt! I really liked the triad video that included bits of Sultans of Swing, with major and minor triads on strings 3,2,1, root, first inversion, second inversion. That does seem like another good way to learn the fretboard and intervals. I also liked the barre chord video that included bits of Hotel California, which seemed helpful for remembering where to find the root notes on strings 5 and 6.

-Bill

What I am doing now is saying note names as I go across a single string. and sounding out intervals when I am playing positionally (single octave scales in this cntx)

I think its useful to think in note names like you said for chord changes, like: "ok, so I wanna grab the root of the next chord change on the 5th string now!" and in those instances when you are searching for a note in a new chord change, I personally use note names instinctively, so it made sense for me to practice note names going horiztionally on the guitar.

Then when I am practicing playing positionally, then I will always think and count in terms of intervals, as one of the biggest benefits of playing positionally (for me at least) is that you can grab intervals within one/two octaves with ease.

P.s, I've found that (now that I hve finally committed to doing 10 minutes of sightreading a day) sightreading is very very helpful for learning note names on the fretboard.

P.p.s using my out-loud voice and singing the intervals/note names helps me internalize it faster i think

I agree about sight reading. I found that sight reading, mostly in open position (EADGBe), but then sometimes in 5th position (ADGCEa), has helped a lot with learning note names up through the 8th fret. I should do more sight reading in 5th position.

That makes sense, to think of intervals/degree when playing scales positionally, since the patterns are moveable to change keys.

I am so used to hearing the notes of a major scale (and should make myself get used to a minor scale) that I was mainly curious how best to do string 4 and 6 such that my ear knows what sound to expect. It will take me a while to get used to hearing DEFGABCD or EFGABCDE. I think CDEFGABC on string 2, and ABCDEFGA on strings 5 and 3 (skipping the open G) are more familiar.

[Maybe that's my answer: do CDEFGABC on string 2. Then do ABCDEFGA on strings 5 and 3. Then later I can learn the sound of EFGABCDE (Phrygian?) and use that for strings 6, 4, and 1.]

I think the Do Re Me Do etc and the Do Mi, Re Fa, Mi So, etc will be fun both single-string and vertically. I can also warm up my ear first at the piano.

-Bill

Bill and Kim-you guys are working! Love your energy and creative ideas. Do and know everything!
I haven't sight read in 5th position yet, but I know where all the notes on the fretboard are.
It was a big deal to really learn them and helped me so much to keep going.
Follow all those theory lessons in order. They really help learn the fretboard. (One string one finger).
Keep us updated!
Kurt

Thanks Bill.
The new Guitar Wisdom book is amazing.
Singing before playing was something I learned during the July challenge.
Keep practicing them slowly and you'll forget you have that paper!
I appreciate your spirit!
Kurt

Hey Bill! I appreciate you sharing your way of learning. We all learn differently! I can tell you are adopting the Tomo Fujita/Guitar Wisdom approach by keeping it to a single sheet of paper! Like Kurt said, eventually, you won't need that paper - that knowledge and understanding will be inside of you. Keep going!

Hi Sammi - Already, the only thing I need the sheet of paper for is to remind me of the recommended finger placement when the root is on string 4 or 3. I think after another day or two, I won't need the paper at all. But I think the exercise of making the sheet of paper helped me to internalize the plan that was outlined in text within the ET01 video.

It is interesting how quickly one can tell if a note is wrong when doing the single-string method without looking. So maybe the ear is there, and just needs some training.

That is so great to hear! I also feel that writing things down helps internalize what is being learned. A little bit of training each day will go a long way.

Hi Bill!
That is a cool idea to use GitHub to share files. I will add that to the list! I was thinking how to share *.jpg on YouTube haha.
I did something like you did on the pdf.
I have a long rectangular piece of paper that represents the fret board one octave 12 frets only and I marked pattern of octaves, 5 patterns which stay true for all keys. Then I found major key between octaves. Then you can mark relative minor scales, all the scales. I spent a year doing this to understand scales before joining gw.

For me, gets so complicated so fast.
Can’t remember when I slide up to the edge.
Then when I’m finally learning triads the way Tomo suggests it’s just super easy to remember flat 3, flat 6, flat 7 for minor key. Right? I’m still learning scales to take with me down the triple diamond run, but I never know what I can remember when I am facing the chasm.

That’s why I think Tomo's lessons are all about fundamentals …actually just look at the book, good image of base of mountain is practice, top of mountain is performance. No need for me to use so many works! Haha, just see the book (also practice, also not-practice…all the work) :)

So yeah, I have this feeling like everything I work on collapses down to a simple, elegant invisible seed, that Tomo is giving me, and it only appears when I’m ready to see it. That feel to me like being on a hike, just easier to walk by focusing on each step, then everything falls out of that…don’t compare; be kind to yourself….
It’s like talking about a world emerging from any axiomatic system of rules. But Tomo is attempting to communicate the truth, and not-truth both with this.
But Not-truth like Bertrand Russell and Gödel, and those maestros explained.
So the only way to reach understanding is for the student to complete making a connection with maestros on the path a lot time before they arrived.
That’s what we’re all doing here now.
That’s what gw is. But you can’t see it until you look at the whole…

Also the babbling comes from repeatedly attempting to make a connection. Each new perspective helps us all so much.

Like the rainbow visualization I posted is all about this. Every person sees their own rainbow. But the rainbow is the ultimate massively distributed illusion. And the raindrops, sun, sky are all doing their own thing. No individual cares what the other is doing but we’re all interacting with each other in this world.
The rainbow is an illusion of the truth. But you need to be an observer to realize it…but you only understand it after understanding how it all works together, and really deeply understand how a raindrop and sun and observer and where they are in the atmosphere relative to the ground.

None of the ideas are mine but presented when I was watching leave it to beaver as a kid.

Gödel, Esher and Bach; Douglas Hoffsteader.

Also I know what I’m saying sounds like the woo…but it’s all based on philosophy of logic, proof by contradiction; proof by induction. game of life, glider, cellular automata. the concept of zero, and the not-zero.

This line of exploration is not mine, it’s everyone’s and I am leaving it behind on the path on behalf of the truth, with empathy and compassion. This is an act of hope to make a connection across the void between self and not-self, for positive generational change. No money, no fame; just the truth and not-truth.

Thank you for listening.
Felt like I’m going through a squeeze point for so long. Making the fleeting connections with all of you here is giving me new life! Actually since intro video I have been getting up early, walking everyday, wife smiling, children smiling (most of the time hahah) setting goal to start juijistu training in one year.
Using Tomo Fujita’s one-inch punch method.

So many words, but never enough.
I don’t understand how people learn with out talking about mental state because actually learning something is about changing your mental state. You become a new person when you learn something. I think that’s what Jerry Garcia means when he talks about “having fun”…

Idk…just going back to feeling good with my Strat.