Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Cool idea Tobi - have fun!

Thanks, Clay! Right now I’m working on E blues soloing ideas and double stops. I want to practice both over a shuffle rhythm and see how they sound when I jam with others.

Thank you Tobi for sharing your own challenge here! I think we all can learn and inspire from your efforts!

I highly recommend to go to that Jam a few times before you jam with them. You can record previous jam so that you may know a few popular jam tunes and the house band's tunes. Alway better to do any preparation.

Tomo

Thank you so much Tomo sensei !

I actually have some experience at this jam, but previously I was only playing bass and sticking to simple 12-bar blues lines. My current challenge is to step out as a guitarist. I’m working hard to connect everything I’ve learned from your lessons—mixing shuffle rhythm with double stops, turnarounds, and those fingerstyle phrases.

The house band and the regulars here love playing 'Isn’t She Lovely,' 'Just the Two of Us,' and 'Feel Like Makin' Love.' I absolutely love those tunes and have been watching your 'Perfect Song to Practice' playlist daily to internalize them.

But I still have to learn those songs and many other lessons here .

And of course practice practice practice

Thank you, Tomo sensei!

It actually took me quite a while to go from learning triads to learning full songs. I tried learning Blues for Alice and Isn’t She Lovely before, but even after learning them, I couldn’t really play them properly. I realized I’m not able to absorb things immediately, especially with songs and some of the lessons.

So recently I’ve been focusing more on daily practice—chromatic exercises, R–3–7, reviewing triads, and the one-string approach. I’m starting to gain a bit more confidence from that.

I also just started learning Blue Monk from the chart. It’s funny—before this, I thought jazz standard charts would be many pages and very difficult. But now I’m slowly getting into it. Whenever I feel like I can’t handle something, I go back, slow it down, and review the fundamentals.

To be honest, even focusing on just three songs still feels challenging for me, but I want to work harder and push myself.

Thank you for being such a great teacher, and for GuitarWisdom—it’s an amazing and very affordable place to learn!

Thank you for sharing Tobi! You should practice more rhythm guitar ... R 3 7 or 4 notes 7th chords... you can apply triad inversions on top 123 set strings. Be able to play 3 different inversions for each chord. This practce will take some time.

Blue Monk is basically simple 145 blues and #IVdim on 6th bar. Jazz Blues R 3 7 is fun too! Jazz standard is one page! Simple!

Okay! Just focus on ONE SONG! That would be great! Just the two of us with super slow tempo! \\

My pleasure! Looking forward to your guitar journey! Please enjoy! Thank you so much!

Tomo