Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Sounds great Markos - hard work is showing.

Wow, what an amazing performance! I couldn't help but move my body and groove along. Thanks, Marcos!

Thank you so much Clay. I have come a long way the last 3 years. I love guitar!

Tadashi thank you very much i am very happy that you like it! 🙂

Hi Professor thank you very much for your kind words and your reply. I feel lucky to have you.

The great with this solo is that you can play it by yourself and sound cool! I can even play a section of the rythm part when i play the highway melodie and learn to start at the 2nd beat! I just wanted to be kind like a jam with full band because of the discussion in the thread for playing with others!.

I love to play simple rythm! To play good E blues is hard! I would probably post here my rythm practise.

Improvisation is hard! Sometimes i feel like nothing that i play make sense and other times i like my playing!

I try to not improvise like that for a long time. I feel that i need to listen and transcribe more to earn it! But sometimes it's just to fun to ignore the scale based soloing! I need also to learn to cook more with triads! I have practise triads alot but not in improvise setting. I am a little bad at cooking us you say! I love to learn and play but sometimes i don't have so much idea to use the knowledge.

Thank you again Professor you are the best. 🙂🎸

You're very welcome! E blues and Hideaway.... great things to learn. I love that rhythm guitar part! Very simple yet it is very difficult to play cleanly. You can play this as a solo guitar too. So happy to hear that you enjoy playing rhythm guitar. Improvisation is not easy! Just like a telling your story! 2-3 times is good. Great idea to transcribe some solos and some blues melodies. You can add triad ideas here and there. You can play a triad and add M6 and b7 or you can play top and bottom notes from each triad inversions. In order to cook a good food. First you need to know that good taste by experience and better not folllow only written instruction of cooking! My pleasure Markos!

Tomo

Thank you very much professor for your guidance, i am currently watching all the blues lessons again to go at the applied theory. I listen alot of blues but i haven't transcribe so much blues like other music! For some reason i have focused more in greek rock and pop music.
One time i saw a video that you suggested your students to learn Lucille from 2:20 minute...4 (something like that).
I would love some recommendations like that (maybe idea for YouTube video).
My personal favourite players are Gary moore and Joe bonamassa that they are a little intimidating because of their fast playing.
It's difficult for me to transcribe fast lines recently i started to learn Coral sky and at 2:04 there is a fast line that i can't figure out and i started a different song that called sell my soul to rock n roll by Kingfish that i can't figure out the last phrase of the last solo! (Great song in my opinion).
This is just a topic that i would like guidance the correct way to incorporate phrases to your own playing and how to deal with fast lines!
Anyway i am saying too much! I am excited to communicate with you! 😅

Thank you Markos! Blues playing can help other styles (soloing aspect) a lot.

1) BB King : Thrill is gone (Intro solo) Must know!
2) BB King : Blind Love (Intro solo) from Blues Is King (Amazing!)
3) Albert Collins: Frosty
4) Gatemouth Brown : Okie Dokie Stomp

Learn older recording (Simple and slower)
Thank you for mentioning my Blue Sky. Maybe shuffle blues : Gadson Shuffle or slow blues : Sweet Boy ... etc.

Tomo

Thank you Sammi. I am very glad you like it 😁