Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

It’s my 4th week in FTR08: diminished triads. I feel kind of stuck, but it’s the best “stuck” I've ever had so I’d like to share.

In the 1st week, through Tomo’s famous one-finger, one-string approach, I immediately noticed that the sound of a diminished triad was so foreign to me, so all I did was to sing along. Like what we did in the July challenge.
In the 2nd week, I basically did the same; just that I sang along with the major triad and the minor triad as well. One finger, one string.
In the 3rd week, I finally started to practice playing the full diminished triad on the 3,2,1 strings. I did a little twist though: the focus was to get familiar with the sound, rather than the playing technique. Thus I’d play major/minor/diminished triads back and forth to make sure I recognized them. It was especially challenging for me to differentiate major and minor after hearing a diminished one — somehow a minor sounded like a major after hearing a diminished.

This week I’m doing the same, but all of a sudden my hearing has changed. There was one night when I watched my son playing the game Hades 2. The theme song was on and I noticed “wait … I know these notes!”. I grabbed my guitar and picked out the melody line in just a few minutes. A few days ago my niece sent me an acoustic cover of Night Dancer from imase and I noticed “ohhh wait … that sounds familiar”. This time it took longer, but I still got the whole chord progression right.

I’m thrilled since it’s not possible for me just a few weeks ago.

The takeaway for me here is to not rush through lessons. I’m stuck there for a reason, and it’s probably a very, very good one.