9 days since you put this lesson up. I'm starting to think you may have a knack for teaching?Lol. A large part of my problem has largely been fixed. That awful thumb. Every time I'd go in or out riff, i know now my thumb would shoot to the headstock, and my fingers would fumble. No more. That freed me up to sing a little melody, which i never knew i was capable of. I could hear a notes not sing one. But I've noticed by verbalizing the note and not just saying it in my head it just happened naturally. So i would like to if i could at the end of the month pay for a sub and maybe you could give it to someone who else who could use it? Every time i apply something you teach, i get better. Maybe i could help save someone a little headache? Anyway, if anyone reads this and is thinking about trying a youtube course, do this one. Mr. tomo is the real deal.

Ill never forget how happy my guitar teacher was and kept telling me how good i was. He said i learned fast even though looking back it wasnt anything unusual. Its him telling me i was good or had an ability that made me practice harder. That was 37 years ago. I love that guy.

Having a one on one lesson with Tomo... this is amazing. Thank You!

Not only essential for learning intervals, but where all notes are on the fretboard. Only 12 notes, but if you know where they are, it unlocks the puzzle. Great dexterity builder.

Played for 35 years, 10 professionally, worked full time giving private lessons afterwards. I would have said I was well beyond this exercise on the surface. But the microscopic attention to detail-avoiding all extraneous sound-was so enlightening. I never realized the small amount of string noise I could get, particularly from the higher strings. I love simple, back-to-the-basics concepts that elevate my playing. I’m doing it 10 min. a day until it is just what my hands do naturally (eventually in all contexts, not just chromatic). Thanks for your insight.

Watching this dead tired late at night and swore his fret hand was floating free of his body. No wonder he’s so good.

Glad I found mr Fujita.a effective,patient teacher. At 71 time is is something I valued . This man is bursting with answers,and fascinating info about everything guitar

my son's grandpa is Japanese (he is the first generation of the Japanese who migrated to Brazil). You, Mr Fujita, makes me to remember him. I use to say my son's grandpa is the only Japanese guy who can play samba on guitar like a real Brazilian!

I deeply appreciate your lessons, Mr. Fujita.

Thank you for the lesson, I’m going to be practicing this 10 mins a day (listening to the notes carefully). #guitartechniquetransformation 🙏

Hello Tomo , I wanted to say I get it , the way you relate what you need to know and how most of all its ok to take your time and learn at our own pace . All my life music was always easy to hear and to play . I am a bass player most of all put now I understand that I have been doing things the hard way . My ear hears music and my brian wants to dive into that emotional feel but without the proper tools i wont ever get to the point in my playing . Now you have shown me where to start and the best mindset to have . I know i can flow i just have to get the chords and phrasing and arpeggios into my tool box . oh and new rule no distortion while i learn . your mastery of feel and space if fuel for my imagination . thank you so much now i better get back to it Tomo.

Thank you, Tomo. You made my fingers very happy when you said “Ten minutes”!

Its important to make good habits before we are stuck spending our time breaking bad ones. Thank you Master Tomo

I'm a drummer who hacks around on the bass a bit - this is an awesome lesson! Thank you

Chromatic scale and the Major scale formula, that's my first lesson to all my students! 💯🔥🤟

Nice lesson! I think the only subject missing was the fingers positioning in order to avoid mute strings below.

Wow this is actually how I learned.

I love how counterintuitive a lesson from one of the best guitar teachers can be. It’s poetically correct that it be a lesson on basics

I really wish I knew this 30 years ago the first time I learned to play guitar. We didn't have internet and youtube back then so good materials were hard to find.

Just started watching, but from the title and thumbnail, yes my first lesson was with my uncle and he told me to praftice the chromatic scale for a month and then talk to him again. I still do it for warmup sometimes, 20 years later! What a memory

Incredible video, very detailed and well explained. I’m gonna try this out, really wish it was my first lesson! (Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago!)

Thanks for the video. This is actually my first lesson. Just got my guitar this morning. I'll try Guitar Wisdom soon too!

Thank you as always. Just started playing but you're always clear, precise and succinct. Hope you have a good day.

I will start practicing this lesson today.

I love that the shop has the reminders right under the video dont expect too fast is a big one for me

Thank you, sensei. Much appreciated.

I love these lessons because it is giving me a strong foundation to build upon. Of course I want to go and play all my favorite songs but ultimately I want to be a great guitar player and a strong foundation is so important. Thank you for sharing Tomo.

Thank you so much. I will apply this to my days.

❤ Very interesting lesson Mr. Fujita, I didn't know that Fender amplifier has a beautiful tone. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia (South America).

This is exactly what I needed at this point in learning. Thank you Tomo

Thank you thank you for taking the time to do this. I really appreciate it.

Tomo we love you! Thank you so very much for your kindness and positivity while teachers us. Truly an amazing Guitar Dojo!

Thank you Mr.Fujita. Good basic guitar technic.🙏😎

It is obvious you are brilliant.Your communication skill is outstanding.Thanks for your patience and lessons

Thank you for these videos, Tomo. Working hard on learning triads and it’s helping me understand the fretboard so much better than I ever have

Thank you so much Tomo! The clear visuals and instructions on proper thumb and right hand placement are so helpful to me. I have never had formal lessons and finding good information on those topics is surprisingly difficult.

I like this simple n getting rid of bad habits. Love the explanation also Thank you Tomo keep it simple n easy to understand 🙏🙏🙏🎸

When I play riffs I always hear the slight hammer-ons or pulloffs even when I don't intend to. I'm going to add this to my practice routine today. Thank you for this lesson.

Very useful exercise for a beginner, you're a great and welcoming teacher!

Incredible man , you teach at the highest level , play at the highest level all over the world and still make time to teach us these important fundamentals so we can improve and enjoy the guitar. You are a blessing to humanity. Thank you.

"Guitar is the most SHAPE based instrument[chord families]." -Jacob Collier

Looking at the neck horizontally makes such a difference! Thanks Tomo!

Thanks for sharing, I like the way you slow it down to give your brain time to process.

Nice lesson - thanks

I wish someone has told me this early on, I have learned with bad habits and techniques that up to this day hinders me from being more advanced. This is a great part of a beginner things to learn pack!

Tomo thank you for everything you taught. 2 years ago I started playing guitar with justinguitar after that I found you and learned I lot of things from you and now I am intermediate guitar player and still practicing to be advanced. You always encourage me with your videos. Justin and you are precious people that I will never forget, Great teachers. I just wanted to say thank you. :)

I hear in everything. That sounds like the background to a suspense movie. 😂 Seriously, form is so essential. Many want to learn a song on guitar. But then that’s all they know. Learn the notes and then one can play all songs and create much easier. If it was easy everyone could. There is only like ~6% of the world’s population that can play a guitar.

Thanks for this, new subscriber. Going to practice this.

Thank you Tomo! These are some things I missed out on being self taught!

Thank you for showing the proper thumb position. I was confused since I'd see my thumb laying horizontal on the neck 😅 I love your videos and wanna thank you for taking the time to help us all out. ❤

Thank you very much sir! I love your lessons

Love these simple lessons. Im doing this everyday trying to perfect and get rid of the finger sound and at the moment it’s my pinky finger struggling the most.

Great lesson!

One string changed things for me. I made my own exercise in a way because I knew the shapes. When you said play all the modes in c maj on the b string in another lesson, I was able to check the sound by shape at the 8th fret. I’m still doing that but it really came together. I knew I couldn’t hear it properly. Like you said it’s hard lol. Thank you for these great lessons

Okay, my study begins here! Thanks Tomo

Excellent

Hi Tomo san, Hope you are having fantastic day, I love your videos and they are goto for my guitar learning journey. One small request if possible please add your learning videos to a playlist which will be helpful for us to directly follow through to all the learning courses.

Too cool. They're going to call me "Shifty" from now on. Tks Tomo San!

Love from Chile.

Thank you!

Thank you.

Glad to find your wisdom. Reminds me of basic karate moves, practiced first to profection every day, then speed up gradually over time. In the course of days and weeks. Not ever forgetting to maintain perfection. Discipline involves much patience, so we don't get ahead of ourselves. Letting overall improvement come gradually. Never forgetting the K.I.S.S; keep it simple stupid. (learned that in AA)❤😂

One of the few 👍👍

Amazing exercise, I'm self taught and have no idea what I'm playing most of the time. I actually battled with this exercise and I have been playing for years.

thank you fancy guitar man

Thank you. 🌈

Thanks!

Good lesson! - I was taught how to “play in position” by playing a “2-octave chromatic scale”. Say you want to go from a 5th fret A on the LOW E string to a 5th fret A on the HIGH E string, and stay “in position”. - You have 4 fingers so each one is “assigned” to one fret; A/Bb/B/C are played by fingers 1-2-3-4. - To get the C# on the A string, reach back to the 4th fret with your first finger, and use that finger to play both that 4th fret C# and also slide it “back into position” to play the 5th fret D note. - Do that “reach back and then pull into position” move on every string EXCEPT on the B-string (because the tuning is different there). - So play 5678-45678-45678-45678-5678-5 (and stop there to complete the 2nd octave (rather than continue, as you could).- Now, on the way back down from that 5th fret high A to the 5th fret low A, instead of going to the 4th fret by sliding your first finger back one fret, do this: reach to the 9th fret with your pinky so that it is now the finger assigned to playing the note that is “out of position”. This time, on the way down, it will be the G-string that only has 4 notes. From high E to low E, it will be: 5-98765-8765-98765-98765-98765. - So reach BACK on the way to higher notes, and reach AHEAD on the way down. Also stop on the D-string’s A-note on fret 7, so that you “hear” the sound of a one-octave chromatic scale. (It is the sound more than it is the fingering). - That is how I was taught to play a 2-octave chromatic scale IN POSITION. The index finger reaches back and then plays an additional note (the first note that is IN POSITION); the pinky reaches ahead and plays an additional note (again, the first note that is in position). This is something that should be, I think, practiced daily as part of your warm-up: playing a 2-octave chromatic scale IN POSITION.

I discovered just now that only using these two strings are perfect for doing the spider walk exercise. This is so much better than using all six strings.

Guitar Patience(winky face). Would be a good shirt. Cheers, Tomo.

I like your guitar sir Love & respect from Nepal

Great Lesson Tomo! I'm 65 and first started playing guitar at 14 and was a bedroom player the first 2 years and at 16 Started getting brave enough to play "outside" School and Stuff..... I remember My first book was " 100 CHORDS" Not sure I ever practiced that way..... Hope I did..... this takes a certain amount of humility because of it's Simplicity but more effective than it appears

Tomo, this is your best sounding strat imo

Thank you Sensei! I bought my first guitar 2 days ago. 🌞 I bought "Instant Guitar" also.

Hmm interesting. My guitar instructor seems to take the opposite approach. He suggested I might be focusing too much on drills and should try to start learning songs. I have a little music experience, but I've only had a few guitar lessons, and I'm worried I'll pick up bad habits.

Thank you for your guitar wisdom, Mr Fujita! Your calm voice brings back fond memories of a former mentor, who is Korean, not Japanese, but who speaks with very similar calm and thoughtful mannerisms to yours. I have a question for you, if that is OK: my teacher focuses on classical technique, so I play finger-style so far, no pick. For a finger-style version of your chromatic scale drill, do you recommend p p p p or p i p i or i m i m or something else? Would the RH fingering be different descending vs ascending? Different 4th vs 3rd string? (Of course I should ask my own teacher next time, but it is fun to ask for your wisdom!) Once I have become more proficient with basic technique and posture, I would like very much to put some time into your Guitar Wisdom. For the moment I "don't expect too fast" and am enjoying the early parts of the Parkening method book. I have Leavitt too, but at first glance, Parkening's exercises are a more melodic starting point. Thank you so much for these profound videos! Your first video with your daughter reminds me of where I started last summer, strumming a few open chords, playing a major scale or a simple melody on one string, and intensely curious about where to go next!

depending on how many notes per string you play will depend on fret shift...depending on whether you start on bass or high strings also determines fret change...

Tomo, this is lightning the way to not just guitar beguiners, also for begginers teachers. This is the way to improve, with calm, although all the begginers want to just play songs in the first lesson😅. Thanks master

I never considered the thumb stuff- gonna teach it from now on

New sub.🎸👍

❤take care of your self Sir❤

Damn its so intuitive after you learn it . Of course, you do it that way.

I came back to guitar at 50yo. Everything I learned at 15 was trash. I use alternate tunings and scales now and amazing music is to be found far from the confines of standard instruction.

Now I know how John Mayer turned out so good 😂 this is great thankyou kindly for the lessons I will do this

I UNDERSTAND :D

優美音響時代のダンカンですね！いいですよね！

Love this exercise thank you so much for posting this it's a game changer also is Berkeley modern method for guitar a good book to work with for my guitar playing?

thank you so much for this! As someone whos been learning for about a month now and I needed this, especially since I want to play funk! you are so helpful. So you start first fret 4th string up to 9th fret 4th string then you go to 1st fret 3rd sting up to 9th fret 3rd sting for long version and 5 fret to 9th on 4th string then 5th to 9th fret on the 3rd string for the short version?

Hi, what’re you guy’s thoughts when it comes picking through anchoring/ hovering I have a tendency of using my pinky to anchor against my guitar whilst picking. Will using this method hinder my picking speed in the long run? Should i stop anchoring and start hovering whenever I use a pick instead? Any advice/past experience stories would help. Thank you!

You made reference to my lunchtime lesson? I am working on chords I’d like to find these ? Do I need to join to access this feature ? Thanks again .

Django would be proud 😭 Thanks Tomo

Man makes doing the scale less tedious. I'm glad i bought the course. A little guidance goes a long way .

I played guitar for several years, and then I lost most of my fret hand index finger in a work accident. After several years away, I have started playing guitar again, because I can finally use my stump without my nerves screaming in pain. Because it is short stump, I must wrap my thumb for chord notes on low E string. I see you place a lot of importance on thumb position, so I ask - Do you think it is smarter to continue to develop this technique, or to try to maintain correct positioning and leave out the low notes in chords? It seems to work well for me, but I worry about the effects of bad habits down the road? Thank you, I love your positivity and joy with the instrument, it is infectious.

Hi Mr. Fujita! What is your opinion regarding yamaha's sg-line of guitars?

Hi Tomo, How would you change approach to chromatic scale with un-amplified acoustic guitar? Thanks!

Chef Tomo pleeeeease play the bitter with Will and Shawn again... please

I like to focus on my neck shoulder forearm muscles. if I'm getting tense I'm going to fast

Hello Tomo, I have been a teacher for 7 years, not nearly as long as you, also most of my students are children, I understand that this is very useful for a university student's first lesson or an adult that understands the usefulness of such an exercise but no way I would ever give a chromatic exercise to an 8 year old as a first lesson. As homework I have given such an exercise but a young guitar player needs to have something relatable and somehow familiar, so that they can show it to their relatives and get a positive reinforcement for their achievements, that motivates them to keep playing after a first lesson. I remember one of your videos where you told how an older guitar player in Japan taught you a melody or a riff, imagine if he said that before you learn Horse With No Name you need to practice chromatic runs for two weeks. Again, this is extremely useful and important to teach but never, never as first lesson, specially young people where it is hard enough to compete with Fortnite for their attention span.

As advanced a guitar player as you are sir, I am so thankful you take the time to help us beginners from the start so we develop proper guitar playing habits.

I can tell ( by the style of your instructions ) that most of the lessons you teach, make the student feel they are not progressing, they seem to drag on and on and what you teach in on hour, can be taught in 10 minutes . The only thing I can think is that , you drag your lessons as extra income. A lot of guitar teachers do that . I have discovered . Finally I would never attend Berkley School of Music . It would have to be USC of GIT.