Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Thanks for sharing this, Michael! I bet many of you will recognize a lot of the ideas Tomo addresses in this interview :)
Shoutout to everyone here in the Guitar Wisdom community towards the end!

Hey friends, watched and took some notes with tea before morning practice.
Now for morning practice!

I am not going to worry about my pu heights haha.

- [ ] pick up height:
* my pu's too low now?, what is optimal height?
- [ ] 2.5 second triad rule:
* if it takes more than 2.5 second to know all triads for a key, think you don't know it, then practice slowly.
- [ ] melody arises from rhythm:
* tapping rhythm,
* singing melody while playing bassline
- [ ] what to tell students who want to learn something "outside" (the norm):
* play everything with triads (then chromaticism, half step up or down) but how to teach outside when student doesn't know (reference chord tones) "inside"? impossible and not helping the student. so must learn inside first.
- [ ] transcribing/creativity:
* it's not important;
* what's important:
"learn exactly what you heard"
* one note different finger is cool!
* "day tripper" creativity on top of playing the blues
* the 7th
* once you know the shape, never play that -- sounds like an exercise
- [ ] what is berklee like now?
* computers
* class is good but if you want to learn details, individually
(1 to 1)
- [ ] what was john mayer learning?
* foundations:
* picking rough so practice chrom scale
* berklee duet (sea to sea?)
* blues shuffle
* amp settings no reverb, high treble
* a lot of R 3 7 / R 7 3 blues shuffle exercise,
* triads,
* dynamics (so reverb is not triggered
* guitar and amp is one unit!
not separate
- [ ] harmony:
* if you can transcribe pop, the basics you have a good start
- [ ] new book:
* described with old book so interesting translation of culture is difficult.
* reprinted 20x!!
* thank you sammi for reorg and translation!!

Yes, looks like a cool filter :-D Thanks for the sharing the video.

The title of this video is probably one of the first things that stuck when joining Guitar Wisdom is that playing (around) is not practice. Now I practice more and play less, yet when I play, I feel what practice has provided to me. So yeah, I want to get better.. practice more lessons, exercises, and sight reading. Amazing resources and really, my little GW book keeps me in check better than a smart device or computer screen. At least now I do plan, path, and reflect easily. Much more organized than the same songs over and over again. So happy be freed of that old cycle with new fresh ideas of practice. Most definitely going to keep it rollin'
- johno

I did see the camera shimmer like a special effect :) fantastic interview.

Tomo, will the Guitar Wisdom book be printed in English soon?