Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thank you Sunil for shraing your morning! Great setup! Guitar, amp, effects, note books....all ready to go anytime! Lovely piano too! I love coffee too!

I love that scale roll! What a clever idea! Good work! Only thing I suggest 2 things.
1) Do not write any chord forms or any scale shapes... you will remember those and modes/scales anything is like water... keep moving.... so I don't write any of those. So keep practicing them so you can hear and you can go as you hear.
2) I use a little note book and try not to write too much. At most is 5 items in one side of page. I use my little note book for reminder (what to do everyday so I can make something happen.) Less is more!

Thanks so much for sharing this! This inspire others!

Tomo

Thank you Tomo!

Yes, I had this when I was talking about triad visualization. It’s good to understand fingerboard conceptually I guess, it helped me a little I think.

But it doesn’t include sound…like your triad studies. Musical instrument…I found out hard way, you have to listen. Haha.

I think it didnt even occur to me. Because I was not learning sound before, just concepts and memorizing everything. Sounds good, feels good, but then I hit so many walls. I think that will be minimize now

I realized how important saying notes, solfage, and which inversion, it’s the right way. Then noticing things I didn’t notice before.

I really like this idea of the list.
It’s helping me a lot.

I even got my guitars down to 4, three Strats and one Telly. I think I only need the white one, I think the sound can be super nice and round like a classical guitar. But, the electric guitar is a completely different instrument.
I understand why, when you say to start fresh!

The list is l everywhere on GW too, as you know.
Videos have a list. I cleared my prior list, and new list includes daily practice you suggest for…yourself, and everyone.
Also I rely heavily on emails from GW to track new thread comments. (This is kind of the same as a min-max heap sorting recipe or algorithm.)

Also I love when you’re suggesting focused time to practice in small chunks.
Seems to minimize hurting myself.

Reorganizing everything in the morning.

Hi Tomo!

Just saw this! Yes this is exactly what I’m thinking! Yes!! I am on track! (…was I ever derailed…oh right don’t worry, omg I telling myself don’t think to much just like my Amma tells me…nooow I get it hahaha)

I won’t hurt myself, but I have to practice every day, pick up guitar with joy! It’s ok to just hold it sometimes, I think of everything that brought me to this point. All good thoughts!! Positive. Thank you so much. I think deeply about your responses, always.

Enjoy food shopping! I was in Boston for Thanksgiving maybe whoa before Kavya, it was snowing and folks were jogging outside! Blew my mind! Do they have farmers markets there when it’s so cold?
No need to answer Tomo haha…my doctor told me I have to “overdose” on vegetables. Trying still, did not overdose (why do the drs use this term for something I *should* do? I think we use words all the time without thinking what they mean…me too…crazy, not-crazy. Maybe just human :)

I’m going to do chromatic study now!

Meditation! Yes!!

Kids waking up now, they have to leave in 15. Chaos sometimes, hahaha, trying slowly to wake them up earlier…by 8, Shilpa and girls off to school, and Shilpa works at their school, kind of awesome, set up by Shilpa (thank you Shilpa! Even though you will probably never see this haha)

After they leave I can turn up amp for chromatic study. I like listening until the note disappears!

Thank you Tomo!

Oh sorry, I keep finding I missed things to respond to. Maybe I will take some time to respond. Within the day is my goal now.

I will checkout the dvd!
Yes, adding etude and r37 swing groove.
That means I will need to add open triads now, still need to practice r35 (closed? triads for aug and dim. I think Kyoto will include this all. This is awesome Tomo!
Thank you for helping me complete my goal for today! Reorg, restructure.

Also, using middle path for finding my pace. Not heroic mad man cramming for finals practice, that will hurt me.
Need to find the right pace

Also no memorization.
That’s what I did with 70’s tune triad study. But then I stop playing, get distracted.

I think I will look at the skill I am working on and have several exercises I can switch between. Then I can avoid memorization. I can do 10 min at a time on 1 task! If I can do that I can do anything. I know this is true.

Whew, the crew is off to school.
Lots of crying for them.
I ask them to wake up one hour before they need to leave but this does not happen. Morning not good for my ideas or discussion. Tried evening, not so much change. I have to think deeply about how to deliver good feedback to my family without them feeling negatively about feedback…hmm…sounds like I have the answer in my guitar…

Base case for me for guitar is to make conscience effort to make each note on behalf of the truth, for positive generational change.

Everything else then will fall into place!
8:16am. Now I am free!

Right on Kurt, thank you!
You are helping me focus!
Let’s do this thing!!

Thank you Kurt! My pleasure! These converastions are so inpiring and great for "Read Only" members! They are very happy!

Tomo