Loving the whole Guitar Wisdom site - totally changed my practice focus and people are noticing 🙏

You’re genuinely the best online guitar teacher I’ve come across, please keep it up!

Very nice hinting on the hotel California Solo in your intro solo, Tomo! I like it 👍🏻

What a great Lesson Homework...I will work it tonight! BTW, you are not human!! 🙂

Tremendous. It's impossible to overstate the value and importance of this video in combining knowledge and turning it into music. If you're at the right level and do some homework, this is guitar gold. I began my journey from beginner to intermediate a little over 18 months ago, after returning to guitar late in life. Tomo's triad video triggered the journey. I knew basic music theory, but only on an intellectual level. I've studied most of the topics that Tomo mentioned, practiced them individually, and have just started to be able to apply them. But this is a master class on how to do it. I just spent an hour and a half breaking down the video and taking notes. Writing down the natural A minor scale, Iooking at and labeling the chords and the progressions. I wondered about the E Major chord. This "homework" enabled me to understand Tomo's comment on the E being non-diatonic. I missed it the first time. So while I don't know the Harmonic minor scale, the description of the pentatonic and then the 9th came into focus. I appreciated the fact that I was able to see Tomo's fretting hand. I'm not good enough to recognize everything on the fly, but by stopping and starting the video and taking notes, I'm stunned by how much information is contained in this video. Maybe I shouldn't be, I know Tomo is a master teacher, but wow. Even if you follow your own path, if you don't expect too fast, Tomo will help you put it all together. With a smile. Using Hotel California was a great choice. I especially appreciated the move to the relative major. Either in the Listen Together videos or maybe in a series on understanding chord progressions, I'd suggest a song like Black Muddy River. Played by both Jerry Garcia and John Mayer, it's slow enough to allow more of us to follow it, yet focus on the theory. Jerry and John often end up playing it in different areas of the neck. Yet emphasizing the melody is key, like here. Thank you, Tomo. You've truly brought enlightenment - guitar and life - to one old and grateful guitar player.

thank you Tomo, I'm getting over my fears that I cannot learn with your help.

Thank you Mr.Fujita. Melody,singing are important. (And good “Strat”.)😀

Thank you Tomo and Thank you Finn for allowing Tomo to share your lesson!

Oh!... That's often how I jam, but I had no idea it was triads

Nice one Tomo, great stuff!

That blue strat behind you is beautiful. I have a soft spot for maple necks but also matching headstock colours to the body. I hope for one at some point in my life

I have a decent handle on top 3 strings. Landing what I want and where without too much string noise, 😂. Even the minors. Starting on 432 string triads to know them intimately. Takes a bit longer forcing to not use chord shapes but actually know where and why. But well worth the effort. A concept I try to get across but fail miserably. Example. You glance at a pencil, then look away and continue a conversation as you reach to pick it up thoughtlessly. I knew my Violin that well. I want to know my guitar that well. Very nice presentation, Thanks Finn, Thank you Tomosan.

I think of the best parts of the video is him saying “ahh wrong notes, I’m only human” just shows that it’s okay to mess up cause we all do at some point and not to take it too seriously, and just jump back into it confident.

Fantastic

Excellent. Thank you for sharing your lesson with us, Finn.

So many gems to choose from ... thank you Tomo!

You’re videos are so much fun! Thank you!

I love this video!! ❤ Thank you 🙏

Tomo your awesome I've been a fan for a while thank you for your help in your uploads!

Love the playing, love the ideas, and -- again -- love the amp.

The rhythm and vibe of the major section has such a similar feel to Dire Straits "Sultans of Swing" when it changes!

Thank you Tomo!! I need these practice lessons so bad. Thank you!

Awesome !!! Really like your playing and phrasing - and love the Hotel California meets Sultans of Swing vibe... P.S. - Great teacher qualities. You make it easy for any level guitarist watching your lesson to connect with you because of the honesty and how humble you are! (When you criticize your own improve. Pointing out a wrong note or "too much thinking...") 🤘😎👍

Thank you so much Tomo for sharing this video with all of us, I love the rich clean tone you're getting from your equipment plus the wonderful volume swells, the music that your playing sounds a little familiar like from some one from the past, but like you had mentioned, "still quite usable". Thanks again for sharing.

Great lesson and insight!

Wonderful playing

Great video, as always! Some Mark Knophler/Dire Straits vibes from this one

Wow I think this might be one of your best lesson so far, I could watch a 3 hours lesson on that kind of playing. I need to study that, how would you describe that sort of playing so I can dig in

アメリカ的でもあり、1966年生のど昭和の人間なので日本の70年代な感じもして…何れにせよ作品として聴きたい素晴らしいメロディです。俺たちの旅で流れていても全く違和感ないですね。トモ先生、ありがとうございます！

“A lot of songs have that” like waiting on the world to change by John Mayer 🤔

I hear a japanese superhero music theme in the intro 😅😊

It is nice to learn about the different scales we might apply over this chord progression, but what I want to know is HOW you know what to apply to what chords. I am trying to understand how you think about these things and how you decide what to use. Maybe hard to explain, but I would love to know.

Do you ever use the whammy bar on that guitar? I’ve noticed SRV’s strat has the trem on the bass side so I’ve wondered if there’s a special purpose for that.

🤙🏼

bad monkey???