Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Jeffrey, Wonderful tone. I can hear your soft touch sound when you go lower string.
Eiji

hey jeff, whoa that was a lot different that last week, movements are smooth and elegant. i agree with eiji sounded like even touch everywhere. well done man!

Bravo Jeff!

Good job Jeff! Nice dynamics! Great tone!

3rd part, you want to move your first finger a little bit more with each triad inversions.

The reverb dynamics control is really good!

Tomo

Great Jeff!
You are doing amazing job,
Thanks for updating and inspiring us to work on those details!

Better than 5 golden rings :-)
(12 days of Christmas is ON!)
Hope You, Zucca and everyone there have a fun weekend.

Kurt

Clearly a jazz dog.

🤣 Linda!
if i were a jazz dog i would be allergic to myself, same sadly if i were a punk rocker cat :) doggies and kitty cats are so cool tho...i dont know how they tolerate the great apes around them.

also, jeff, that is so cool and smart that zukka helps you practice.

yesterday during the live chat, i had my supro in the eating room and sat at the table with the avrii'61 strat, and kept hearing warbling on top strings, so i increased the distance between too strings and pu's until it went it away.

practice during the rest of the day continued on mm strat (set up same way with slightly floating bridge) and main amps.

i couldn't handle the reality that supro might be more sensitive than main amps.
i want to sell the supro now lol.

i will try the avrii'61 on main amps later today. sticking with mm on main amps for foundation practice now.

apologies for so many words maaans.
i'm working on it.
but, fun to chat with you all.

Thank you for the feedback, Jeff. Okay, now I get it about the grinning dog :D Sounds great to me! I will look forward to your next post. And I have to try that out with the reverb as a learning tool. Thanks again.

Great conversation guys! So lovely! Thank you so much!

This exercise is so deep!

Tomo

Oh I get it (triad ex) with the reverb now, also grinning dog jokes haha! I want to try those too Jeff, they sound nice!
Great observations question jh, thank you friends. Good morning everyone.

So happy to hear that Jeff!

Tomo

Thank you Clay! All good! I am still practicing these triads so I can play softer and less pressure! It is very deep! No end!

Tomo

Tomo, when you are improvising chord fills, what are you thinking about? Nothing? Just letting practice take over kind of?

I swear I am not picking these thumbnails.
-LTR

(nothing is actually really hard to think of...just say'in. :))

I liked your playing LaVoy.

I gotta try this too now guys.
Did not pick up the guitar yet today.
Tomorrow, ...holy cow, I didn't realize it's almost 11pm here.

Thank you Tomo.

Totally agree with nothing is hard to think of. That was so funny. Just laughing to myself trying to think of nothing haha thank you. 1:08am here.
-LTR

Thank you jh. Yes! Eventually you can use all triad types... but first you want to work on Major and Minor sound really smooth. I love adding Dim & Aug sounds into song. Sus2 & Sus4 so beautiful too!

Tomo

Great stuff, Tomo. I hear your message about keeping it simple. Good guidance. But I also appreciate you mentioning sus chords, dim, aug, etc. And then there are always the spread voiced triads which sound so beautiful here.

But bottom line: Keep it simple. Like they say in golf...."The basics. Always the basics". Not that I golf, it just seemed like good advice.

Thank you Linda for watching this video. Nice to have more choices but I prefer to have less things in the beginning so that I can focus on one thing at a time and I can control one thing really well. I may have a chance to apply that idea into something. This simple bassline can apply to our lives. Thanks so much your your kind words!

Tomo

Why do you delete posts?
Also Lovely Chords is a bit smoother. I can only play it smooth, half speed
-LaVoy

For some reason the audio was all static. So I'm re-uploading to Youtube... I'll repost it soon, I hope!

I thought is was America the Beautiful HAHAHAHAHAHA.
-LaVoy

Beautiful. also sounds like the bridge pickup. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. just kidding lol. All love.
-LaVoy

Truly inspiring to me Andy, well done!
Also love the Oaklandish tshirt wooo! ✊🏾

What is Oaklandish?

-LaVoy

Well, to me, it sounds like the area around Oakland, California, where I was born. I think Thomas Pridgen was too.
https://www.oaklandish.com/blogs/news/unchained-thomas-pridgen
My daughters too.

We had to move to Pleasanton, which is quite uuh, pleasant, a ton, too. Many homeowners here love to keep their abundant christmas lights up until past the fourth of july, and their flags out all year. But they really love those flags moar in Livermore, near the lab. Kind of weird, butt let's not talk about thaaat.

Oaklandish is a non-profit b-corp.
They sell tshirts and give back to the community. Beautiful idea actually.