Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Welcome Alejandro! No need to be terrified - many of us have a very similar guitar story to you. The lessons are great. The forum / community is even better. Please feel free to share struggles and successes here. We're all on the same journey with just some different starting points.

Thank you, Clay.
Hopefully I'll be able to fill all the holes on my knowledge, one day at a time

Welcome Alejandro. Nice to meet you.

Many of us have similar experience and picked up guitar later in our lives. It's definitely not easy having family duties and getting older. Everyone's progress is different. But this platform is definitely one of the best in helping each others out and we can leverage on Tomo's vast knowledge and experience.

Please take your time. I have joined not long ago and I have been working on the basics non-stop (see Tomo's reply below), every day (only except down time due to allergies). Progress may/will feel painfully slow. Frustrations may come, but never give up! What matters is the journey and who/what/how we ride it with!

Hugo

Thank you, Hugo. Your words encourage me. I do feel progress is slow but I trust that I can only get better if I keep working o it, like anything else in life.

Alejandro, Welcome to Guitar Wisdom. It is wonderful here. We learn so much and Tomo, George, and Sammi take such great care of us.

Thank you Alejandro! You're very welcome! Good job! That's so fantastic! One String Approach!

Muting techniques. Guitar Method Book Vol One is so good! You alreday learned Amp setting too! Good job! You got it!

Tomo

Hi Tomo, what book is the one you're suggesting? Who is the author? I find several with very similar title in Amazon. Is it the one by Will Schmid and Greg Koch | Hal Leonard?

Thanks!

It's the Berklee book. The author should be William Levitt (didn't check the correct spelling).

Hugo

Thank you for your question. Please go to this section and read description about this book.
https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/sight-reading-series

Tomo

Thank you!

Thank you, John. I've been watching a lot of Tomo's videos on YouTube and I believe I am indeed in the right place.
What I have doubts about is me!😅
It's been a lifetime of procrastinating and using the guitar only as a way to deal with stress. Some chords here and there but I haven't actually played a whole song for many years. Also, I didn't own an electric guitar since the 90's and I was playing a basic Yamaha nylon string guitar for all that long. I feel like a giant with chunky fingers now that the neck is narrower.
But I'm starting to adjust and I'm not going to stop.

Thank you, Sammi.
Has it been two weeks? Time goes by too quickly!
I have been doing one string approach major scale on the C scale, primarily.
I also have been practicing horizontal chromatic scale on all strings but mostly on 3rd and 4th strings.
Also, C, D, E, F and G major scale triads horizontal and vertical.
Triads on I-V--IV-I progression horizontal in the key of C...
Every day. Sometimes 15 minutes, sometimes one hour. Dometimes Even twice a day.
I have made some progress but it's going slow. I admit I'm not consistent with the exercises, meaning, I'm not doing one thing for 15 minutes straight. I jump from one thing to another, then back to the first thing and so on...
Maybe that's what's slowing me down? I don't know.
I have to repeat myself "Don't expect too fast!" hehe.
Anyway, thank you for the kind words. I'll keep working on it.
Cheers.

I'm loving that I now know and understand root, first inversion and second inversion triads. R-M3-5, M3-5-R and 5-R-M3. I never payed attention to it before.

I was where you are with no foundation. Learning the root locations to chords opened up the world for me. Then I learned the neck that was another huge help. And like you said here R,3,5 and with Tomo learning 7ths, 9ths etc. Tomo explains why without losing sight of making music which helped me tremendously.

Thank you for checking with us, Alejandro. We recommend you keep a notebook (or two!) to track your daily practice, progress, plans, etc. You can continue in this thread, or start a separate one specifically for what you are working on. If you are looking for feedback, sometimes it helps to start a new thread.

As Tomo recommended, every other week is good if you are posting a recording (it takes some time to progress!). The examples provided have worked well because other students can search for the topic and join in on the GW lesson/exercise. From there, communication grows, and so does motivation and feedback. I like to think of everyone here as good neighbors :) sharing is caring

Thank you for the guidelines and the examples, Tomo. Will do.

My pleasure! Please enjoy!

Tomo