Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

I understand that, I think.

I love the idea of kind of being aware of the mountain and taking ultimately one step forward. It can be a small step every day! Feet feel good, back is good, walk every day on the (guitar, life) path.

I never thought of time like my roommate too! Interesting!

Today I understood what you are saying about custom tunings in the book. Curious how it will turn out for my ear as it develops.

Thank you Tomo!

My pleasure Sunil! Good job! I love working one thing very deeply then I may have choices (later)

That's about guitar tuning. Guitar tuning is not pefect so I do that way. You will get it slowly.

Tomo

That is great to get it out there Jeff!
Inspiring!

Awesome Jeff! Definitely not 2s of hesitation anywhere!

Thanks Sunil It’s essential to know what to improve and also make sure not practicing the wrong thing. So have to record and watch the video and learn what to listen for. Over time improve what to listen for and know the detail more. Long road ahead grateful for the ideas from the November and July challenges!

Thanks clay!

You are right Jeff, (and Kurt, and Tomo, and Sammi.)

Thank you for repeating this to me, to all. 🙏🏾
I am consistently amazed at all the videos everyone is posting.

Feeling better about posting especially after intonation. I intonated all my strats now, I have 3.

I have a fender avrii '61 and a mario martin set up similarly with a slightly floating bridge (~1.5mm). Both have pu's at scratch plate level for the bottom side strings, half-way up on top strings. I like the sound of an acoustic classical guitar with a thick cedar top darker, and thick spruce top is bell-tone, clear and bright. Both have whatever it is that people talk about when they say "piano tones"...

Silver sky has factory set up still, with bridge flat on the body.

The dissonance from triad practice before intonation really made me worry quite a bit...but sounds actually nice sometimes; I feel good about it now...good enough to make videos again.

Thank you for your patience with me everyone! I am super grateful to be here. Apologies for the excessive text also!
But I am usually verbose....
Although I promise it's always going to be the truth.

My pleasure Jeff! It was so good! A little thing.... I noticed a lot! (Left hand pressure!) Because I never ever think I already mastered it! So I always want to pay a lot of attention on those details.

So sorry! I played twice to show them clearly....Try it with once each and slow down and use less pressure from your left hand. Play a lot of attention on your left hand pressure,

Good job!

Tomo

Less pressure with the fretting hand is a constantly-evolving journey, it seems. Making progress, not in the end zone yet.

Thanks Linda! Yes exactly, onwards!

Thanks Serena! I appreciate it and thanks for watching and your advice. Have a good one!

Thank you Jeff! Good job! I just made another triad video. I played C, F, Bb and Eb.

I will post it shortly. So happy! The Musicmaster Bass Amp is so amazing!

Tomo

This is helpful Tomo! You've been practicing :-)
I play them much slower.
Trying to play clean while I'm learning the inversions and what they sound like.
Trying not to just be breaking up the big shape of all the triads in an area.
Kurt

Thank you Kurt! I have been practicing chromatic scale & R 3 7 Swing Groove everyday! I don't practice triads but I used to do a lot (super slow!) So I can hear them very deeply!

Good job! Stay with your pace and focus on that sound and clean technique! Learning these sounds.... very important!

Tomo

Thanks Tomo. Man - there is a lot built into this challenge / practice.

This is awesome, thank you Tomo, I can do this slowly.

Trying to get it clean as Kurt outlined.
Also I try not to get to comfortable with the shapes, keeping solfage in mind helps, i have repeat note names or i forget, intervals i remember (during practice)

Clay you are so right.

Doing 1212, and just now able to get Bb r37 sounding cleanly sort of, with one strum.

I am working toward getting a stable daily practice, also videos. i think i just need to make a few every day and submit like jeff mentioned weekly, every two weeks.

Thank you all, learning from discussions and trying it

just realized these are 4ths, counter-clockwise around circle of 5ths :)

My pleasure Jeff! I love share videos like these. I think everyone need to hear each melody 3-4 times. A lot of people has a little difficult time repeating this melody in 12 bar blues.

I am so happy to be helpful. This time we have so many little challenge threads. So awesome!

Tomo

That's great, Serena!
You barely look at the fretboard, amazing!
Your efforts always inspire me. Thank you!

Loved that, Serena! Didn't seem like you were looking so much to me. I can't do it at all without looking, so I'm envious.

Great sound on the guitar, too.

Well done Serena!

Hard to mix it up for me.

I love light guitars too, curious about how you like the bigsby.

Thank you Serena for sharing this video. Lovely Ibanez guitar!

Great job on playing those triad inversions! Good job!

Small details. Always better to play slower and these points (I always think)
1) Try to use less pressure from left hand/left fingers.
2) Both hands timing.
3) Softer picking

A lot of improvement!

Tomo

Thank you Tadashi, Andy and Sunil for encouragement!

Great inspiration!

Tomo

All the guitars swim on me. Lol. Thank you Rich.