How lucky we are to have a world class guitar teacher willing to take time to upload lessons for all the world to absorb. Thank you Tomo, watching you has transformed my playing and the way I approach the instrument altogether!
Probably the best advice I've ever heard. I am 61 and have been a frustrated wanna be guitarist for my whole life. I still want to learn and this is a great approach!
I'm 72 with 2.5 years on the keyboard and 6 weeks on guitar. I LOVE music! I taught myself to read music during the pandemic and I bought a keyboard. Once I knew I can read and play music, I said to myself, "Hmmm ... If i know the keys and chords on a piano then I should be able to find the keys and chords on a guitar." I was right! MAN, I am so excited about learning and I play each instrument every day. I learn from your videos. I started backwards and learned to play sheet music but I have no music theory knowledge. I will start studying NOW. Thanks for giving me confidence.
Thank you for sharing! I have many over 60, 70 older subscribers at my Guitar Wisdom! Levels or age just doesn't matter at all! It's all about how to learn guitar better ways. Good job! Thank you!
I went to MI about 20 years ago and my jazz improv teacher gave me a great routine for jazz standards. He would have me learn the melody on each individual string. This made soloing so easy! Very similar to this, good stuff!
My god I'm giddy like a school child. I grabbed a caged chart and started breaking the neck down into c triads. This is just amazing. Sounds so good and i recognize some many didn't jingles and songs and things of that nature. It makes sense. This is what it felt like when i finally understood fractions 30yrs ago. I'm lying i still don't understand them. But this make total sense me.
What a language music is. One could study this their entire life and never know it all. Thank you Tomo for sharing your wisdom and insight. I will/would never get into Berkelee but to know I am learning for free ! And from one of the best, Is one of the greatest times of my life !
Music is very deep and it's so easy to skip a few important topics because you can gain these information on internet. (good and bad) If you want to learn more details, I teach all at my Guitar Wisdom. More educational than any UA-cam videos. Thank you so much!
Hi Tomo, I just wanted to tell you that you made me understand that my guitar loves me, and also how to love my guitar back. I struggle with ADHD and Anxiety and playing guitar the way you taught me quiets my brain and amplifies my soul. Since I've started to focus on the fundamentals, I can feel the discordant background noise in my heart turning into bird song. Everyday I wake up and I am grateful to live in a world with guitar. I focus on my fundamentals everyday, not because I want to play cool things eventually, but because the fundamentals themselves are so great to listen to and so fun to play. I appreciate every second I hold my guitar, and I think about my guitar every second I'm not holding it. Not only did you teach me guitar, but you also taught me confidence, self-love, gratitutde, patience and kindness. I thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. Sending you all my love from Hong Kong.
Thank you for sharing! Guitar can give you comfort & confidence if you use it as a tool for learning how to make a great effort! So inspiring! So happy to hear that just because you watched the whole video! If you only watched 5 minutes then people just don't get important part!
This is really good advice... Not just for those that want to go to Berklee, but any musician - as the exact same principle apllies to other polyphonic instruments too!! Thanks maestro 🙏😀
So happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing! This video will help anyone who want to improve their guitar playing in general. You're very welcome! Thank you!
Dear Tomo, thank you for always being there. The past weeks i did not have much time to practise but now I'm back. Thank you for always being present and reacting to my questions. Both on guitar wisdom and on here. I consider you to be my guitar teacher and you are very important to me. Much love from the Netherlands and i hope I will have the opportunity to meet you one time in real life. You are a great human and great teacher, thank you.
Consistent practice with a metronome yields consistent results. Set an alarm clock for one hour each day and work hard at music and in three months time the musicianship will be vastly improved. Enjoy!
My first teacher taught me all the pentatonic boxes first and you’re right, it got me playing in one position too much for too many years lol. Watching you has made me think more linear and to play up and down the neck more. It’s hard to break old habits, but it’s never too late to learn new things on the guitar. Thanks Tomo! 🎼🎸👌🏼
You have to connect the shapes. I learned that from a Dweezil Zappa course on True Fire. Moving up and down the neck on only two strings at a time and connecting all the shapes.
Years ago I took to mapping out the fretboard and then using a highlighter to map various scales, also circling the root… I still play in chunks. I will be working on horizontal now.
6:03 perfect interval signal for a shortwave radio station! Lots of good information here even if you're not going to Berklee. I particularly like the walking bass line under the chords in the B flat blues. Extra points for making your pants sound like a high-hat!
I think I've just found my favourite guitar teacher. Know the basics inside out, keep it simple and leave space for the cat to chill out. What's not to like? 😄👍
Thank you Mr. Fujita. When I first came across your videos they were a bit over my head and challenging (that will likely always be the case), however, they have helped me immensely. I have never taken guitar lessons but I am learning much of theory and understanding intervals and triads. My guitar playing has jumped to new level as of late and you are certainly a piece of that puzzle. Thank you for all of this wonderful instruction.
Intervals really take the randomness out of it! That's what scales and chords are based on anyway. If you want to take the knowledge further, this is based off of the harmonic series. For example, the reason major chords/arpeggios work is because they fit very nicely into the harmonic series. It's not that useful to know how to play what I'm about to describe by itself, but it really helped me make sense of intervals and chords in a kind of "aha!" moment in terms of how the actual physics work! Based off the open A string (which has a main frequency- 1st harmonic- of 110 Hz), you can create a major arpeggio from the 3rd, 4th and 5th harmonics (330, 440 and 550 Hz respectively). You can hear the sounds by gently touching the A string around the 7th, 5th and 4th frets respectively. The second note in there can also be played an octave down at the 12th fret (2nd harmonic at 220 Hz), but it's easier at the 5th fret. Note that because of the 12 tone tuning system we use, the actual major 3rd we use is a bit out of tune from the harmonic 3rd. Tuning systems try to approximate the harmonics, and there's a LOT of history behind it. We don't worry about that, but at some point you might think it's cool to learn more about. This is essentially what harmony is physically rather than reading from a chart!
I’ve really been struggling with my memory and playing Guitar, and felt completely devastated when I decided to pick up a guitar again and couldn’t remember what to do. This run through was really helpful and made me feel like I could be able to play again with confidence. Thank you Tomo! Your cat is cute and I just wanted to say I met you at NAMM, I painted the Japanese dragon amp for Bad Cat and you sounded awesome!
Thank you for sharing! Try not memorize... take your time and repeat same part over and over so you be familiar so much later. Try to learn something very simple. Simple melody on one string or minor pentatonic using only 4 notes. R b3 4 5... not even go to b7 so this will be so special! Learn triad only 123 or 234 or 345 or 456 sets. Only one set. Please use a great " LIMITATION " so you can be so creative within that limitation. For music, I love limitation and for work, I love deadline! So great to meet you at NAMM!
One time I saw a video on UA-cam about from a fellow from Spain explaining a similar concept about scales. The takeaway from that video was "don't just learn scales by memorizing forms but learn the intervals across a single string as well". I've applied this bit to my playing and boy, it does help!
Thank you so much for laying out these requirements. Although there is so much covered in these few minutes, it helps me understand what to study and how to practice musically.
You're very welcome! More details on these topics are at my Guitar Wisdom! I made this video as "Welcome" to all my new Berklee guitar students. Good job!
I wish my guitar teachers tought me the importance of listening and understanding music over just rote learning, whether it was the reading music or guitar shapes or what have you. I could have used this lesson some 25+ odd years ago....Thanks Tomo, you are a great personality and and even better teacher.
Thank you so much! Listening is super important and it's hard to teach this part clearly. You're very welcome! Please check this one. How To Learn Theory, Ear Training and Jazz ua-cam.com/video/ZNBcImeANRc/v-deo.html
Tomo you are a treasure to the guitar and music community. I’m working through Joe Baer Magnant’s “The Guitarists Palette” which is an excellent approach to learning, practicing and playing exactly what you described. If all your incoming guitar students spent their summer before Berkelee mastering this book they would be ready to go. And Triad magic for triads.
Thank you so much! Thank you for sharing! I highly recommend my Guitar Wisdom. Book is not that great in general because too many words & diagrams! No diagrams & no tabs! That's a great start!
@@TomoFujitaMusic guitar wisdom is a fantastic resource! The book I mentioned is not a book of diagrams (it has them of course), but more of a guided practice log.
That pillow is awesome! Your cat is also hilarious. I see a correlation of him cleaning himself while you're practicing scales and such. He then chills out when you start jamming. There's just a wonderful metaphor in there about musical hygiene, staying sharp, and growing in skill.
Something about this video gives me flashbacks of my analysis(maths) professors online lectures for some reason, Im so happy thats behind me, I mean I dropped out, but still its behind me. Best of luck to all the students and cheers from London.
The problem today is that people over-analyze stuff. modes are essentially just a way to connect a melody to a chord and how you transition from one to the other, by tension and resolution, it is nothing new, just listen to classical composers.I dont wanna be rude, but this doesnt teach people anything, all we need to do is listen to a wide variety of music, and find out why it works by figuring out the harmonic changes.
@@TomoFujitaMusic you have a youtube channel talking about music right ? you said "i wish everyone knew a little bit more about the foundation" right ? but you dont show how scales are really about chord changes. like how harmonic minor is a way to move to a major scale on the 5th by raising from the minor 7th to a sharp 7th which creates a beautiful tension and resolution in the melody. you say the terminology is too much but you talk about it yourself in the video. sorry, but you dont know what you talking about, or you are a bad teacher.
Excellent advise! I started working on my dominant chord inversions after watching one of your lessons on your site. Do you have a walking bass lesson?
I know quite a bit of this but not quick enough and not the chords you were doing. You’re video on the arpeggios in hotel California has been very helpful, I’m still doing it. Now this! Lots of info. Thank you so much.
Ah yes, foundation. Very important. Definitely, this lesson is valuable. I should know it by the time we train together. I've known the scales for year's, just so many to remember. C major is easy. I saw this video a few weeks ago. I was trying to memorize the names of the modes within. Almost got it.
@@TomoFujitaMusic, you're welcome. I'm aiming to be a student like you. One that keeps learning. I noticed that as you talk. You're learning how to communicate better with saying less even.
I have been trying to get some more information about guitar and I have been enjoying your great technique for working music when we close our eyes and use our hearing and brain our life gets better and when you have a bad injury that pain disappears when I play even when I have had broken back thanks for your kindness help method you legend
Generally I think about topic and I don't rehearse anything so it goes like that. We are humans! It's okay... Thank you so much! It was fun making this video!
@@TomoFujitaMusic yes sir I agree totally. When i make a cover of a song its one take with any mistake. Great topic. Really useful and practical.Thank you.
@@TomoFujitaMusic of course! I’m actually self taught and going through the Berklee guitar theory book, your videos and the book have really helped my playing come along :)
Thanks Tomo! Most of the time online sources, though free and easily accessible, can be too overwhelming and have no direction or curriculum of some sort that's why at least from your teaching perspective you show us the core theory as if we're all your new students. Cool!! Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
Glad it was helpful! So happy to hear that! I teach this way with a few important must know topics upfront then ... applying these topics with music. Much more fun and so effective! Thank you so much!
There were a lot of references to the Beatles this week due to the 60th Anniversary of their appearance on Ed Sullivan in the US, and like millions of others, I started playing guitar the day after that show. So, 60 years later, I wish I had known music theory instead of just playing the pentatonic shape all these years! Your video has really opened up a door for every guitarist to improve.
Thank you for this insight! :) even if i'm not enrolling to berklee, we should spend time and learn this :) this is really the foundation of becoming a good guitarist :)
It's amazing and fascinating to me...Tom Bukovac, Guthrie Trapp, Eric Johnson, and I'm sure many others if you were to hear them describe how they "approach" the guitar, describe this similar approach. Tomo, you are amazing at breaking it down to the purest fundamental level and describing it to a level that one can take and internalize and build on.
Auto sub, like, share! Your right. I know most of these, but never seen this method of understanding. I will forward this to all my students, Major Thank You!
Love your guitar playing! I'm studying music in Australia and work on this stuff everyday, but a different approach from other teachers really provides some perspective and helps me learn, so thank you! Love the cat feature too :)
Thank you for the theory refresher lesson Tomo!!! I wonder if in a future video you could discuss the most common mistakes you see guitar students making when playing with others in a live performance or recording session?? God Bless
Hi Mr Fujita, thank you for constantly pulling me back into the world of music. I recently tried transcribing songs for practice because it seemed like a really interesting idea. I was following along someone transcribing a song I also liked, though it took me 3 days on and off to do what they did it 10 minutes. It was surprisingly very mentally exhausting. I learned so much from the experience, like where my deficiencies are in ear training (not being able to hear bass notes as well,) or how not knowing theory is holding me back from guessing what the next few notes should be or thinking of something else that would sound good in its place. More valuable than that though, I feel like I finally caught a glimpse of how a musician sees music. Maybe I'm constantly on and off with the guitar because I'm more interesting in understanding music than actually playing it haha. I think it would be a really cool video, to follow along as you analyze a song that you're also learning for the first time, or something like that.
Thank you for sharing! You're very welcome! Learning songs, melodies, solos... good. But daily routine is so important to express your performance part well. Sing triad inversions! Sing Major scale with Ear Training.
Here I've been going in my head over and over again when away from a guitar. All 1st through 6 string natural notes E 1 3 5 7 8 10 12...A 2 3 5 7 8 10 12 ETC ETC over and over again. In these recent exercises I found i need to commit more on the 1st through 4th string.
That's way too much! Only one string for a while so you won't get too much! Stay simple for a long time! You need this! This Should Have Been Your First Guitar Lesson - Chromatic Scale ua-cam.com/video/m2hvyzmBgxg/v-deo.html
@@TomoFujitaMusic I did feel an overload. My intention is to grasp reason for my notes to be in line with what I am "playing" hearing, which had me picking apart any "habits" to learn more about things I write. BUT Next up was to go to 1 string and Yes stay simple for long time I shall.
Yes! Free lesson so too much! You need these 3 things. Technique, Theory, Ear Training so that you can learn anything from just listening! That's an amazing part of being Musician! Musician is a magic with music! Foundation is the only way to keep improving as a great musicians! Good job! @@SuperCMO79
I just happened to stumble upon this video and watched it in its entirety. Using one string to play a scale up and down the neck is so true and has an added benefit from the way how I learned way, way back. When I play the guitar, I look at it from many different angles. I look at my guitar as an organ sometimes. In the linear fashion of going up and down the neck, let's say the open low E string, I see all the notes like a piano for that string all in sequence with the white keys and black keys. Also a metronome is great for perfect timing which I used to do when I started out a long time ago but I like to play to older tunes that have a drummer that falls forward or behind the beat. Metronome or drum machines are great but lose the human touch rhythm of the players. When I first learned to write my own music and compose, I would use the Bugs Bunny cartoon show. I would mute the audio, while writing my own compositions to the animations on screen. Learning how to create emotion with the characters on the screen. It helps you to get the feeling and range of what you're trying to do. You learn about creating your own original voice. Some of my mistakes I've made on the guitar and piano have actually turned into mannerisms and voice on the instruments. Happy accidents I like to call them. My first arpeggio exercise I learned way way back was Woody Woodpeckers laugh and melody. A lot of unorthodox methods I imagine, but benefited me tremendously. Once you learn that all you have is 12 keys and a 1/4 of them you rarely use, it's easy. Just a matter of taste to your music with rhythm, range choices and how to make your instrument sing with breath pauses in between.
How about these? Walking Bassline Lessons Must Know - Walking Bassline - 3 Levels ua-cam.com/video/SSs3oV6of0I/v-deo.html Easy Walking Bassline & Comping - You Should Know! ua-cam.com/video/OBXvCSl9fpk/v-deo.html
Dude, This is True content value...! This is something I've thought of doing before but on the lower E & A strings and only in the key of C Maj.. This will give me a much better insight into the modes. No one's has ever taught this to me that way before and this makes Much More sense, ❤! Also, Thank You for keeping the video straight forward & leaving out the asinine antics so many other creator channels force into their videos. Greatly Appreciate It,👍🏻 --Jason ✌🏻&❤
Dexter gets it. When you played jazz, He obviously came off as the, 'cool cat' ~ "Don't make Me get My cat guitar" I'm snoozin' - I'm curious on what you were using for amplification for this post; &, thank U 4 the lesson, this Super Bowl Sunday
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Now I gotta have a tube screamer pillow!
They don’t have the same tone. Be ready.
Yes! Nice tone!
The 808 is softer
I want a tube screamer pillow too!
🤷🏻😱
I never understand how sounds have names for them,that theory stuff, but I'm addicted to noises.
How lucky we are to have a world class guitar teacher willing to take time to upload lessons for all the world to absorb.
Thank you Tomo, watching you has transformed my playing and the way I approach the instrument altogether!
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much! My pleasure!
True.. i am from Sudan and watching tomo all the time.
Really appreciated
And Dexter.
"Oh....you're busy" LOL!!!
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Ha ha!
Cat playing cello 😂
"Because he can..."
3:23
Probably the best advice I've ever heard. I am 61 and have been a frustrated wanna be guitarist for my whole life. I still want to learn and this is a great approach!
So happy to hear that! You are so young! Please join my Guitar Wisdom! You would enjoy your life more! Thank you!
I'm 72 with 2.5 years on the keyboard and 6 weeks on guitar. I LOVE music! I taught myself to read music during the pandemic and I bought a keyboard. Once I knew I can read and play music, I said to myself, "Hmmm ... If i know the keys and chords on a piano then I should be able to find the keys and chords on a guitar." I was right! MAN, I am so excited about learning and I play each instrument every day. I learn from your videos. I started backwards and learned to play sheet music but I have no music theory knowledge. I will start studying NOW. Thanks for giving me confidence.
Thank you for sharing! I have many over 60, 70 older subscribers at my Guitar Wisdom! Levels or age just doesn't matter at all! It's all about how to learn guitar better ways. Good job! Thank you!
I love the display of mastery at the end after teaching the fundamentals that get you on the path. A full lesson. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! You're very welcome! Thank you!
Any lesson, with a cat in it, is a win! LOL!
Yes! Thank you so much!
As someone who could never afford to go to school for music I am so grateful for you uploading all of these lessons for us to absorb!
You're very welcome! So happy to hear that. Please check my Guitar Wisdom too!
I went to MI about 20 years ago and my jazz improv teacher gave me a great routine for jazz standards. He would have me learn the melody on each individual string. This made soloing so easy! Very similar to this, good stuff!
Thank you for sharing! I just made "Jazz Guitar Lesson" so I will post it soon! Good job!
This is the best lesson on youtube. The horizontal approach opened my way at looking at the guitar.
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
My god I'm giddy like a school child.
I grabbed a caged chart and started breaking the neck down into c triads. This is just amazing. Sounds so good and i recognize some many didn't jingles and songs and things of that nature.
It makes sense. This is what it felt like when i finally understood fractions 30yrs ago.
I'm lying i still don't understand them.
But this make total sense me.
Good job! Thank you so much for sharing! Triads are so good!
Cool .Great playing and tuition.👍
What a language music is. One could study this their entire life and never know it all. Thank you Tomo for sharing your wisdom and insight. I will/would never get into Berkelee but to know I am learning for free ! And from one of the best, Is one of the greatest times of my life !
Music is very deep and it's so easy to skip a few important topics because you can gain these information on internet. (good and bad) If you want to learn more details, I teach all at my Guitar Wisdom. More educational than any UA-cam videos. Thank you so much!
Hi Tomo, I just wanted to tell you that you made me understand that my guitar loves me, and also how to love my guitar back. I struggle with ADHD and Anxiety and playing guitar the way you taught me quiets my brain and amplifies my soul. Since I've started to focus on the fundamentals, I can feel the discordant background noise in my heart turning into bird song. Everyday I wake up and I am grateful to live in a world with guitar. I focus on my fundamentals everyday, not because I want to play cool things eventually, but because the fundamentals themselves are so great to listen to and so fun to play. I appreciate every second I hold my guitar, and I think about my guitar every second I'm not holding it. Not only did you teach me guitar, but you also taught me confidence, self-love, gratitutde, patience and kindness. I thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. Sending you all my love from Hong Kong.
Thank you for sharing! Guitar can give you comfort & confidence if you use it as a tool for learning how to make a great effort! So inspiring! So happy to hear that just because you watched the whole video! If you only watched 5 minutes then people just don't get important part!
This is really good advice...
Not just for those that want to go to Berklee, but any musician - as the exact same principle apllies to other polyphonic instruments too!!
Thanks maestro 🙏😀
So happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing! This video will help anyone who want to improve their guitar playing in general. You're very welcome! Thank you!
Dear Tomo, thank you for always being there. The past weeks i did not have much time to practise but now I'm back. Thank you for always being present and reacting to my questions. Both on guitar wisdom and on here. I consider you to be my guitar teacher and you are very important to me. Much love from the Netherlands and i hope I will have the opportunity to meet you one time in real life. You are a great human and great teacher, thank you.
You're very welcome! Thank you so much! So happy to hear that!
Consistent practice with a metronome yields consistent results. Set an alarm clock for one hour each day and work hard at music and in three months time the musicianship will be vastly improved. Enjoy!
Thank you for sharing! 90 days! Yes!
My first teacher taught me all the pentatonic boxes first and you’re right, it got me playing in one position too much for too many years lol. Watching you has made me think more linear and to play up and down the neck more. It’s hard to break old habits, but it’s never too late to learn new things on the guitar. Thanks Tomo! 🎼🎸👌🏼
Thank you for sharing! Easy to teach & easy to learn = Stuck forever! You're very welcome!
You have to connect the shapes. I learned that from a Dweezil Zappa course on True Fire. Moving up and down the neck on only two strings at a time and connecting all the shapes.
Years ago I took to mapping out the fretboard and then using a highlighter to map various scales, also circling the root… I still play in chunks. I will be working on horizontal now.
I would have loved to have had a teacher like you and been a student at Berklee
Thank you so much! Now you can join my Guitar Wisdom. I can teach you via Skype lessons. Just one can change your life!
6:03 perfect interval signal for a shortwave radio station! Lots of good information here even if you're not going to Berklee. I particularly like the walking bass line under the chords in the B flat blues. Extra points for making your pants sound like a high-hat!
Thanks for sharing! Glad to hear that. Thank you.
EXCELLENT! This made the whole idea of MODES click in the first 3 mins. Thank you!
Great to hear! Thank you so much!
I think I've just found my favourite guitar teacher. Know the basics inside out, keep it simple and leave space for the cat to chill out. What's not to like? 😄👍
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that! Please join my Guitar Wisdom!
Listening to Tomo is golden. Thank you Tomo.
Thank you so much! You're very welcome!
Wow teaching the same school 31 years , Loyal. Hats off
Yes! I love this place! Thank you!
Thank you Mr. Fujita. When I first came across your videos they were a bit over my head and challenging (that will likely always be the case), however, they have helped me immensely. I have never taken guitar lessons but I am learning much of theory and understanding intervals and triads. My guitar playing has jumped to new level as of late and you are certainly a piece of that puzzle. Thank you for all of this wonderful instruction.
You're very welcome! So happy to hear that! Foundation is all about! No diagrams! Learn those intervals and triads! Thank you!
Intervals really take the randomness out of it! That's what scales and chords are based on anyway. If you want to take the knowledge further, this is based off of the harmonic series. For example, the reason major chords/arpeggios work is because they fit very nicely into the harmonic series. It's not that useful to know how to play what I'm about to describe by itself, but it really helped me make sense of intervals and chords in a kind of "aha!" moment in terms of how the actual physics work! Based off the open A string (which has a main frequency- 1st harmonic- of 110 Hz), you can create a major arpeggio from the 3rd, 4th and 5th harmonics (330, 440 and 550 Hz respectively). You can hear the sounds by gently touching the A string around the 7th, 5th and 4th frets respectively. The second note in there can also be played an octave down at the 12th fret (2nd harmonic at 220 Hz), but it's easier at the 5th fret.
Note that because of the 12 tone tuning system we use, the actual major 3rd we use is a bit out of tune from the harmonic 3rd. Tuning systems try to approximate the harmonics, and there's a LOT of history behind it. We don't worry about that, but at some point you might think it's cool to learn more about. This is essentially what harmony is physically rather than reading from a chart!
I’ve really been struggling with my memory and playing Guitar, and felt completely devastated when I decided to pick up a guitar again and couldn’t remember what to do. This run through was really helpful and made me feel like I could be able to play again with confidence. Thank you Tomo! Your cat is cute and I just wanted to say I met you at NAMM, I painted the Japanese dragon amp for Bad Cat and you sounded awesome!
Thank you for sharing! Try not memorize... take your time and repeat same part over and over so you be familiar so much later. Try to learn something very simple. Simple melody on one string or minor pentatonic using only 4 notes. R b3 4 5... not even go to b7 so this will be so special! Learn triad only 123 or 234 or 345 or 456 sets. Only one set. Please use a great " LIMITATION " so you can be so creative within that limitation. For music, I love limitation and for work, I love deadline! So great to meet you at NAMM!
It’s a sound not a shape !!! So obvious but so easy to forget , thank you 🙏 long live to you and you cat 💚
You're very welcome! Thank you so much!
“He knows everything and he listens to me all the time!” Your cat will live so many lives because your cat is happy hearing 🎶🎸
Dexter is so good! He knows some Pat Martino dorian phrase!
Great video with Dexter, and Tomo Fujita playing the guitar as well.
Thank you!
My god, that jazz blues demonstration was magic!
Thank you!
Where was Tomo and this lesson 40 years ago when I started! Solid foundation to build on ❤
Thank you so much! My approach is a little different than most guitar teachers.... I love sharing these foundation!
"Keyword is the sound not shape" - it's a great see today! Thanks you❤❤
Thank you!
One time I saw a video on UA-cam about from a fellow from Spain explaining a similar concept about scales. The takeaway from that video was "don't just learn scales by memorizing forms but learn the intervals across a single string as well". I've applied this bit to my playing and boy, it does help!
Thank you for sharing! Yes. No shape memorization! Too easy! Intervals Colors!
Thank you so much for laying out these requirements. Although there is so much covered in these few minutes, it helps me understand what to study and how to practice musically.
You're very welcome! More details on these topics are at my Guitar Wisdom! I made this video as "Welcome" to all my new Berklee guitar students. Good job!
You are an amazing teacher!!! I will take what I have learned from you and apply it the best way I can.
Thank you so much! You can learn more at my Guitar Wisdom.
Your cat loves your playing just like I do. He stayed there the whole time.
Amazing video! Thank you!
We love our cats so much! Thank you!
Moin Tomo Fujita,
you are a great teacher/professor, it was a pleasure to watch this video, thanks a lot
greetings harry
Thank you so much! You're very welcome!
Love your channel. Dexter is so knowledgeable. Keep up the great lessons sir.
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you so much! He knows so much!
I love the format of this lesson! Thanks for sharing!!
Glad you like it! You're very welcome! Thank you!
I wish my guitar teachers tought me the importance of listening and understanding music over just rote learning, whether it was the reading music or guitar shapes or what have you. I could have used this lesson some 25+ odd years ago....Thanks Tomo, you are a great personality and and even better teacher.
Thank you so much! Listening is super important and it's hard to teach this part clearly. You're very welcome! Please check this one.
How To Learn Theory, Ear Training and Jazz
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Tomo you are a treasure to the guitar and music community. I’m working through Joe Baer Magnant’s “The Guitarists Palette” which is an excellent approach to learning, practicing and playing exactly what you described. If all your incoming guitar students spent their summer before Berkelee mastering this book they would be ready to go. And Triad magic for triads.
Thank you so much! Thank you for sharing! I highly recommend my Guitar Wisdom. Book is not that great in general because too many words & diagrams! No diagrams & no tabs! That's a great start!
I love the Guitar Wisdom videos!
It's awesome to sit in the presence of such a great guitar player and soak up the knowledge!
@@TomoFujitaMusic guitar wisdom is a fantastic resource! The book I mentioned is not a book of diagrams (it has them of course), but more of a guided practice log.
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much! @@JDavidChilders
Thank you so much! Fantastic! @@Joeschmoe8930
That pillow is awesome! Your cat is also hilarious. I see a correlation of him cleaning himself while you're practicing scales and such. He then chills out when you start jamming. There's just a wonderful metaphor in there about musical hygiene, staying sharp, and growing in skill.
Thank you so much! Dexter loves to hanging here a lot! We enjoy our time together!
Something about this video gives me flashbacks of my analysis(maths) professors online lectures for some reason, Im so happy thats behind me, I mean I dropped out, but still its behind me.
Best of luck to all the students and cheers from London.
Thank you for sharing! Thank you so much!
Analysis is probably the worst math class. And I say this as someone with a math degree.
Love that 70s strat. Thank you for today's lesson. Some stuff I know and now I know more stuff.
You're very busy! Thank you!
"Tell me - oh, you're busy" LOL
Yes!
I dont even play an instrument but found your tutorial very interesting. Your jazz riffing was superb!! Thank you sir.
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that!
We love you Tomo !!!
Thank you so much!
excellent. cats too. both very wise. thank you master!
Mr. Tomo, you are awesome. And you inspire thousands to keep learning. We are all your students!!
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that! Guitar is amazing!
A great lesson plus cat yoga included!
Thank you!
Excellent tips on neck bending and leg stretches... the guy with the guitar seems nice but is kind of distracting and gets in the way at times.
Thank you so much for sharing! @@7171jay
When the cat knows more music theory than me… 💀
My cats knows a lot of Joe Pass chord solos!
I love the jazz blues at the end. Sounds great on that Strat.
Thank you so much! Jazz blues is fun to play!
(Dorian) is the sounds, not the shapes. Brilliant!
Yes! Very important! Most people learn vertical shape in 5 minutes and say that way for 5 years! Thank you!
Hello from France! Thanks you for all videos ! You are a good teacher ! 👍
You're very welcome! So happy to hear that! Thank you from Boston MA
The problem today is that people over-analyze stuff. modes are essentially just a way to connect a melody to a chord and how you transition from one to the other, by tension and resolution, it is nothing new, just listen to classical composers.I dont wanna be rude, but this doesnt teach people anything, all we need to do is listen to a wide variety of music, and find out why it works by figuring out the harmonic changes.
Thank you for sharing! I think "Modes" that terminology or name is too much! Major scale! "Application" is so important!
@@TomoFujitaMusic you have a youtube channel talking about music right ? you said "i wish everyone knew a little bit more about the foundation" right ? but you dont show how scales are really about chord changes. like how harmonic minor is a way to move to a major scale on the 5th by raising from the minor 7th to a sharp 7th which creates a beautiful tension and resolution in the melody. you say the terminology is too much but you talk about it yourself in the video. sorry, but you dont know what you talking about, or you are a bad teacher.
@@koenstrobbe8101My guy, he’s an instructor at Berklee, I think he knows what he’s talking about.
Excellent advise! I started working on my dominant chord inversions after watching one of your lessons on your site. Do you have a walking bass lesson?
Great lesson! This is really the most important thing about using your ear and I wish I was taught this when starting out.
Glad you enjoyed it! So happy to hear that! Thank you!
I know quite a bit of this but not quick enough and not the chords you were doing. You’re video on the arpeggios in hotel California has been very helpful, I’m still doing it. Now this! Lots of info. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for sharing! You can review each topic longer and deeper! Great to hear that! You're very welcome!
Tomo, thank you so much. You make everything seem possible. I am a grateful student
You're very welcome! So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
I've had that same guitar for a year, and now I finally know how it's meant to sound. Off to practice my scales!
Awesome! One String One Finger Approach!
Ah yes, foundation. Very important. Definitely, this lesson is valuable. I should know it by the time we train together. I've known the scales for year's, just so many to remember. C major is easy. I saw this video a few weeks ago. I was trying to memorize the names of the modes within. Almost got it.
Thank you for sharing! One string approach with Ear Training is good!
@@TomoFujitaMusic, you're welcome. I'm aiming to be a student like you. One that keeps learning. I noticed that as you talk. You're learning how to communicate better with saying less even.
Good job! I am a fiercer student! So much fun! @@ranman58635
I have been trying to get some more information about guitar and I have been enjoying your great technique for working music when we close our eyes and use our hearing and brain our life gets better and when you have a bad injury that pain disappears when I play even when I have had broken back thanks for your kindness help method you legend
So happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing! Take your time!
I like the fact you're laughing with your own mistakes. What a legend you are sir. I wish i could be able to come to Berkley. Really useful video.
Generally I think about topic and I don't rehearse anything so it goes like that. We are humans! It's okay... Thank you so much! It was fun making this video!
@@TomoFujitaMusic yes sir I agree totally. When i make a cover of a song its one take with any mistake. Great topic. Really useful and practical.Thank you.
Making a mistake is good in music. Especially you will get another ideas! @@billreppas
the "tell me.... oh, you're busy" was too funny haha. Love you way you teach and play guitar Tomo :)
Thank you so much!
@@TomoFujitaMusic of course! I’m actually self taught and going through the Berklee guitar theory book, your videos and the book have really helped my playing come along :)
Amazing video! Thank You for the knowledge, I wrote it all down and I am excited to break the habit of shapes!
Thank you so much! You're very welcome! You can get rid of bad habits!
lovely guitar, i’m so tempted to buy one. I stepped into the electric ice-skating rink many years ago. This has been a great refresher.
I love it! Thank you!
Thanks Tomo! Most of the time online sources, though free and easily accessible, can be too overwhelming and have no direction or curriculum of some sort that's why at least from your teaching perspective you show us the core theory as if we're all your new students. Cool!! Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
Glad it was helpful! So happy to hear that! I teach this way with a few important must know topics upfront then ... applying these topics with music. Much more fun and so effective! Thank you so much!
Thank you for your deep knowledge and humble spirit. You are a marvelous teacher.❤
You're very welcome! Thank you so much! Did you watch this video?
How To Learn Theory, Ear Training and Jazz
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There were a lot of references to the Beatles this week due to the 60th Anniversary of their appearance on Ed Sullivan in the US, and like millions of others, I started playing guitar the day after that show. So, 60 years later, I wish I had known music theory instead of just playing the pentatonic shape all these years! Your video has really opened up a door for every guitarist to improve.
So great to know that! Thank you for sharing! So happy to hear that! Thank you so much!
Thanks! This is actually something I have been thinking about as a beginner guitarist
You're very welcome! Thank you!
Also Love your strat. I rebuilt a 71' 3 bolt neck to a 4 bolt neck and added a Birdseye Maple neck for crazy sustain! I Love My Strat!
Thank you! Awesome Strat!
Nice guitar, cool cat and a great invaluable lesson, i've been to lazy to learn that stuff but he's so right i'm going to get on it now, many thanks !
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that! Please enjoy it!
Thank you for thanking me for watching tomo fujita music
You're very welcome! Thank you!
Thank you for this insight! :) even if i'm not enrolling to berklee, we should spend time and learn this :) this is really the foundation of becoming a good guitarist :)
You're very welcome! You can learn more at my Guitar Wisdom so you won't waste your time. Yes!
Nice blues! I love that type of chord comping.
Thank you so much!
It's amazing and fascinating to me...Tom Bukovac, Guthrie Trapp, Eric Johnson, and I'm sure many others if you were to hear them describe how they "approach" the guitar, describe this similar approach. Tomo, you are amazing at breaking it down to the purest fundamental level and describing it to a level that one can take and internalize and build on.
Thank you so much! Tom & Guthrie can really play guitar! Eric Johnson! Master! I think very simple! Thank you so much!
I'm grateful for the useful advice as always Mr Fujita!
My pleasure! Thank you!
Great video mate. you really got min attention about 12 min in, that playing was awesome. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed! Thank you so much!
that tube screamer pillow is amazing, good stuff
Yes! Totally! Great tone too!
'Great with the black t-shirt' 😂 awesome advice and opens a whole new perspective on music too! 🥳Thank you!
#Priceless 👊
Thank you!
Tomo and Dexter are a winning team.
Thank you so much!
I've been having lots of fun on the b string, "C scale's".... Thankyou Mr F for youre wisdom.
You can stay on 2nd string for two weeks! Thank you!
Auto sub, like, share! Your right. I know most of these, but never seen this method of understanding. I will forward this to all my students, Major Thank You!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much! You're very welcome!
Wow! 31 years Fujita-san?! You look so young! Love your videos, sir!
I am 59 this year!
Thank you so much!
Love your guitar playing! I'm studying music in Australia and work on this stuff everyday, but a different approach from other teachers really provides some perspective and helps me learn, so thank you!
Love the cat feature too :)
Thank you so much! So happy to hear! I am educator and player so I pick good balance in practicing & playing ideas. Dexter is so cute!
Thank you for the theory refresher lesson Tomo!!!
I wonder if in a future video you could discuss the most common mistakes you see guitar students making when playing with others in a live performance or recording session?? God Bless
You're very welcome! Thank you for sharing! I have those ideas!
Thank you, Tomo!!! This video really helps me, even when I'm not going to join Berklee because it is very far for me. Greetings from Argentina!!! 😀
You're very welcome! So happy to hear that! Thank you!
You can join my Guitar Wisdom!
Thank you Tomo. Great stuff. I feel like I am relearning the guitar all over again. Your suggestions are helpful.
You're very welcome! Thank you! So happy to hear that!
Subscribed! This was such a good lesson. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! So happy to hear that! You're very welcome! My pleasure!
Hi Mr Fujita, thank you for constantly pulling me back into the world of music.
I recently tried transcribing songs for practice because it seemed like a really interesting idea. I was following along someone transcribing a song I also liked, though it took me 3 days on and off to do what they did it 10 minutes. It was surprisingly very mentally exhausting. I learned so much from the experience, like where my deficiencies are in ear training (not being able to hear bass notes as well,) or how not knowing theory is holding me back from guessing what the next few notes should be or thinking of something else that would sound good in its place. More valuable than that though, I feel like I finally caught a glimpse of how a musician sees music. Maybe I'm constantly on and off with the guitar because I'm more interesting in understanding music than actually playing it haha.
I think it would be a really cool video, to follow along as you analyze a song that you're also learning for the first time, or something like that.
Thank you for sharing! You're very welcome! Learning songs, melodies, solos... good. But daily routine is so important to express your performance part well. Sing triad inversions! Sing Major scale with Ear Training.
Domo arigato. Thank you for the inspiration and more practice for me! Hello Dexter
My pleasure! Thank you!
thanks you for teaching me the SO DO MI chord
You're very welcome! Do Mi So / Mi So Do / So Do Mi
Here I've been going in my head over and over again when away from a guitar. All 1st through 6 string natural notes E 1 3 5 7 8 10 12...A 2 3 5 7 8 10 12 ETC ETC over and over again. In these recent exercises I found i need to commit more on the 1st through 4th string.
That's way too much! Only one string for a while so you won't get too much! Stay simple for a long time! You need this!
This Should Have Been Your First Guitar Lesson - Chromatic Scale
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@@TomoFujitaMusic I did feel an overload. My intention is to grasp reason for my notes to be in line with what I am "playing" hearing, which had me picking apart any "habits" to learn more about things I write. BUT Next up was to go to 1 string and Yes stay simple for long time I shall.
Yes! Free lesson so too much! You need these 3 things. Technique, Theory, Ear Training so that you can learn anything from just listening! That's an amazing part of being Musician! Musician is a magic with music! Foundation is the only way to keep improving as a great musicians! Good job! @@SuperCMO79
Watching you I can only dream. thank you Mr Fujita.
Thank you so much!
I just happened to stumble upon this video and watched it in its entirety. Using one string to play a scale up and down the neck is so true and has an added benefit from the way how I learned way, way back. When I play the guitar, I look at it from many different angles. I look at my guitar as an organ sometimes. In the linear fashion of going up and down the neck, let's say the open low E string, I see all the notes like a piano for that string all in sequence with the white keys and black keys. Also a metronome is great for perfect timing which I used to do when I started out a long time ago but I like to play to older tunes that have a drummer that falls forward or behind the beat. Metronome or drum machines are great but lose the human touch rhythm of the players. When I first learned to write my own music and compose, I would use the Bugs Bunny cartoon show. I would mute the audio, while writing my own compositions to the animations on screen. Learning how to create emotion with the characters on the screen. It helps you to get the feeling and range of what you're trying to do. You learn about creating your own original voice. Some of my mistakes I've made on the guitar and piano have actually turned into mannerisms and voice on the instruments. Happy accidents I like to call them. My first arpeggio exercise I learned way way back was Woody Woodpeckers laugh and melody. A lot of unorthodox methods I imagine, but benefited me tremendously. Once you learn that all you have is 12 keys and a 1/4 of them you rarely use, it's easy. Just a matter of taste to your music with rhythm, range choices and how to make your instrument sing with breath pauses in between.
So happy to hear that! Thank you so much! Good job!
Wow ... I think I've got a new practice routine ...thanks Tomo!
Great to hear! Thank you!
I;d love a breakdown of how to handle the walking bassline section. How do you think about the various elements?
How about these?
Walking Bassline Lessons
Must Know - Walking Bassline - 3 Levels
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Easy Walking Bassline & Comping - You Should Know!
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thank you.@@TomoFujitaMusic
Dude, This is True content value...! This is something I've thought of doing before but on the lower E & A strings and only in the key of C Maj.. This will give me a much better insight into the modes. No one's has ever taught this to me that way before and this makes Much More sense, ❤! Also, Thank You for keeping the video straight forward & leaving out the asinine antics so many other creator channels force into their videos. Greatly Appreciate It,👍🏻 --Jason ✌🏻&❤
So happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing! Guitar E instrument!
Thank you for your video. Its going to be so helpful and probably will make 1000 times better
You're very welcome! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this valuable advice! Great lesson! Oh, and my girlfriend and I absolutely adore Dexter!
You're very welcome! Thank you!
Dexter gets it. When you played jazz, He obviously came off as the, 'cool cat' ~ "Don't make Me get My cat guitar" I'm snoozin' - I'm curious on what you were using for amplification for this post; &, thank U 4 the lesson, this Super Bowl Sunday
Thank you for sharing! Yes!
Fender Musicmaster Bass Amp
@@TomoFujitaMusic - thank you - that Bruno Mars axe, combined with that amp with the neck pup sounds great! {no reply needed}
the handbook has you start with the chromatic scale and it really opens everything up if youre having trouble
Thank you so much! Chromatic scale is so important for guitar learning.
thank you for the lesson its been a big help to focus my practice @@TomoFujitaMusic
You're very welcome! So happy to hear!