Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Nicely done, Andy! Sounds great to me.

Thanks, Clay! Lots of overlap here with the funk stuff we've been working on.

Sounded so great! Love it! Awesome job Andy. Your notes are so warm and your touch was so good! Thanks so much for sharing your inspiration!

Tomo

Thanks, Tomo! One thing I noticed is I am cutting off the bass notes sometimes. So I am working on that.

Great to hear you're going to practice it, Rich!

Just watched this lesson, so good!
Bass note plus A, D, B- triads on top two string sets, looks like.
I will try today! Thanks Andy! Good find!

I feel like I can do this, been practicing
C, F, Eb, Bb triads horizontally, vertically in all string sets. Still working on playing all root inversions, then all first, and second inversions together. Saying note name is helping. Close. I didn't think about chord progressions or bass note.
Excited to try!

Go for it, Sunil! These triads are really calming to play, kind of like the spread triads Tadashi has been working on (though not as "cathedral" sounding).

I'm also been practicing singing the scale degree (do, mi, so, etc.) before playing the triad. It helps get the inversions straight in my mind.

I love the way they sound!

Beside the lovely open triads he is playing, I think Tadashi is practicing with reverb also. I am not there yet, but I am so inspired by all of the work shared.

Kind of a tangent but leads back to triads:

I am trying to sing solfage for triads.
But I have not been satisfied by my attempts.
I "binge-watched" all of Essential Theory section (took a few weeks whew) and now I have been working earnestly since the beginning. I "know" C major. But then I realized how Tomo is showing examples of how to play C major is how to learn all the modes. (In this lesson you are working on there is a "something over something" triad, with a #11 (#4?) I know why it's there now, same for all the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th,...and so on flats. Kind of.
I am back at the beginning now at Dorian, b3, b7! I am loving playing C7, and C-7!
Playing from 6th and 5th string root, wow it is so cool sounding.

I think in the beginning of the Mixilodian lesson Tomo mentions playing G major one string one finger on G string and then on top E. Then he plays a third apart starting at Mi-Do, if you add 5th it becomes diatonic triads for G major, and Tomo mentions you can do for other keys so I found C major thirds on 4th and 2nd strings, but still working out "knowing" minor and diminished triads on second string set enough to play. But I am practicing the diatonic G triads like Tomo shows scale ex, like Do Re Mi, Re Mi Fa...and so on. Whick is getting close to this ex you are working in above but no progression of course.

Started the trip into Essential Theory to be able to sing triad solfage without the guitar but I still need the guitar. I think it's a slow practice thing like swing groove, or triads, or chromatic foundation work. I like Tomo's suggestion about singing it like a melody. It is all craft-work. Gotta do it daily, two, three times a day, like Tomo says.

Also, I was looking up when Charlie Parker found modes when he was jamming (practicing?) "Cherokee"...ET giving me some beginning bits of insight into that horizon.

Thanks, Tomo. No rush — also, sorry I if I have been posting too many videos. I am finding it helps me to keep going, and while I love your comments, i know you are busy so I don’t expect your comment on every one!

Don't worry Andy! Your videos are really inspiring to others! I really appreciate it. I try to leave my comments on 4-5 threads on every other day so people don't get too much pressure. Plesae keep going! In order to play funky... the foundation! 1) Chromatic Scale 1212 3212 3432 1234...4343 2343 2123 4321 2) R 3 7 / R 7 3 Swing Groove over Blues, jazz blues and a few standards... doing there will make things easier. That's why when people learn songs, solos on YouTube... will stay at same level without building the foundation. I do item 1) & 2) for my freedsom on my playing skills.

Tomo