Your guitar wisdom is the best thing youtube has brought me in my life - I am so glad to subscribe because i can show my appreciation for your teaching and get all that knowledge i dreamed of about this instrument - and not go broke in the process! 1x takeout cost me more. Thank you so much for this video - this is the perfect high level overview of what to study and what to focus on! Mark my words tomo sensei i will send you that recording of just funky one day! (but i will watch more videos until then :D) It is gonna be my final test! Edit: Truly, thank you from the bottom of my heart - learning the guitar from you more deeply allowed me to connect and bond with my father more deeply, because i can talk to him about guitar now and show him what i am learning and motivate him to play more again! I hope you know you are changing peoples lives for the better with all your positivity and attitude towards us non-professional enthusiasts!

Thanks Tomo

People! Stop being a Guitar player and start being a musician! This teacher is brilliant and outstanding! Pay very close attention! Study Music not a bunch of nonsense! Thank you 🙏 TOMO ! 🎸

the 9 tips he talks about 2:45 learn maj and min chord REALLY well. 6th string root, 5th string root (maj7, min7, dom 7), & 6th string root (maj7, min7, dom 7), muting exercise, play funk, 9th chords, rhythm, know intervals that make up chords,

Great video and sweet Strat!! The bright neck is awesome... you can send it to lol!!

Oh good here is the Cub sound video. NICE.

Sounds beautiful!

Thank you, Tomo!!

Tomo teaches me that music is better than language to express emotion!!!How beauty the clean tone it is!❤

TOMO! I hope to hear you in my town NYC this August! ❤ Thank you for making effort to come all the way from Asia to perform for us. I can’t make any promises because I may have a performance date myself in the same town! 😂❤🎸🎸🎸👍

“Rhythm comes from the body, not the guitar.” Yes, yes, yes! This is why I think one important step funk musicians miss is to, a some point, put down your instrument and go dancing. Having a pure body experience with music will enhance everything you’re practicing in some very practical ways.

You are such a great teacher. I have never been good at teaching guitar. I've tried a couple times but I struggle to put my talent into words. Everone has heard of "the circle of 5ths". But many don't realize that if it is played backwards, it becomes "the circle of 4ths".

Very sweet sounding amplifier....love it

Thank you Tomo Excellent class

the add 9 or slash or mu chords are very tasty in the right context

Excellent content as always thank you Tomo

Thanks for the tips, I will make sure to practice these!

ありがとう、先生!

It makes me so happy when you play that strat :) Sounds so good, perfect intonation. Thanks for the video, be well

Thank you Mr. Tomo BTW, I'm joining Berklee's summer camp!!!

"Music is cooking, really. " -TomoFujita 7:37

Always thankful for your upload. I always played guitar with tablature since I was a high school teen, but one of your earlier videos about learning by ear inspired me to actually learn how to play guitar. Will circle back to your other videos once I have a good enough foundation. Thanks, Mr. Tomo Fujita.

Wonderful lesson!

Tomo is a national treasure!

Lots of great information here Mr Fujita! for me theory helped me get to the next level by really learning and understanding intervals and being able to visualise and find them on the guitar. It can be really boring to learn and it can be frustrating for some time but once you learn where they are in a chord and scale and you can hear them in your mind you begin to have total musical freedom. Secondly learning how Rhythm works in different music styles and being able to keep that in mind. For example in blues being able to understand a shuffle beat and have that groove memorised, 12/8 groove learned and understood in your mind too then being able to play them in time then the rest becomes much easier!

13:26 😂 Great lesson, as usual!

If the offer still stands in 20 years, I would love to come for dinner! Don’t expect too fast!

I also have this malmsteen strat. It's awesome 😎

Wow. That's a lot of info to absorb in 20 minutes. Thanks.

Always great to improve in any aspect. Getting better is always constant! Cheers

"Take a hot bath and bend your finger"😂👏

smooth as butter my guy!

The most important takeaway for becoming a better guitarist is to indulge in endless fret board noodling with meaningless phrasing, and don't forget to incorporate a "wide leg stance" with one foot perched on the stage monitor.

I would love to come to dinner but sadly I cannot play every note perfectly. I'll work on it LOL. thanks Tomo:)

Do you recomend CAGED? I love Guthrie Trapps sound and teaching as well. He really likes caged. I've started learning the shapes.

Been learning, Tomo ✌️

The neck pickup in that strat soujds fantastic. Scalloped fretboard? I like something other than rosewood. Great lesson, thanks.

I just love you man

The Best Stratocaster on your hands I Saw You with the Juanes strat but Yngwie model is another world.

Useful lesson

Tomo. Nice great love it🎉😅 bring that funk 😅😅😅

Great lesson! For some reason I've already knew alnost everything you told about. Chords, intervals, position, rythms and notes on fretboard even. So is that means I'm not ok guitarist? Thank you for great video

I’m not even at the level of ‘just ok’. I’m too hard on myself self even at practice. I want to make it through a song without any screwups like being able cleanly putting each finger on the desired string of a certain chord but I get so nervous 😬 I muff it up sometimes

Man I need you as teacher

Hey Tomo,,, I'm just nuts (crazy) about that lick @0:50... ooo that is so sweet

Best guitar teacher ever. I really love the phrase about, Music is like cooking, I really believe it is...there is jz so much more to say about that.

Thank you Mr.Fujita. Sometime,we need to review important points. ps)Just funky is good song！.👍

How does one get private lessons with you? Thank you for a great video @TomoFujitaMusic ​​⁠​​⁠

このギターに慣れちゃうと他のギター弾く時に違和感半端なさそうですよね🐥

on the rhythm part I think a person should be able to feel the off beats just as strong as on the beat internally if its 8ths 1+2+3+4+ its a feeling thing

Mr Tomo, I have recently started watching your videos I watched one the other day on the way to work about what level is a player on, beginner intermediate or advanced, I got a question if somebody knows all these 9 things what level would you consider a person to be on ?

The real guitar wisdom: "Take a hot bath and bend your finger." Perfect! : )

スキャロップトは指の皮がすぐ剥けて大変です　余計な力が入っていたのかな　数十年前

Yngwie!

Not video related but do you recommend any jpop songs to learn as beginner?

Tomo I'm curious, what do you feel like you need to improve as a guitarist? I think everyone strives to be better. But yours is on another level, would love to hear your response! Thank you

How much is a private lesson?

I just need to learn what all these numbers mean and how to apply them. Ive heard that playing the key of c can be applied across the fretboard, but its confusing. I always forget how CAGED works

Hello Mr.Fujita!!! hope you are well I have a question when i play open voicings of chords like Am7 with B and E open When I play fast and switch to other chords its sounds messy how do i fix it thanks :)

Dear sir,I’m a fans of you from china, you are so patient that I subscribe you all the way to youtube.(you know how hard a chinese fan use KZfaq)I’m wondering how can I improve my skills as a primary guitar player…practice first or theory first….? I’m not a professional music student,but wanted to improve

What does the code, (248-23) on this video, at the bottom of the description mean?

Everyone seems to be liking those Bad Cat amps at the moment.

Don't steal Al Di Meola's dinner party thunder

Challenge accepted....I wanna see how close I can get to your version. 8 figure I'll learn a lot learning you.......❤❤❤❤see you eventually...😂😅😅😅😅

I don't know theory at all, but being around music for 30 years helps.

Jazzy version of Super Mario.

14:00

I may have been noodling and not paying attention while watching this video..

It's Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si Do

Oh my.....what a challenge........hmmmm.

Tomo are... are you a fender guy?

Let me guess, you taught John Mayer how to play guitar? Shaadappp

1st

You can't stop shredding because you never could shred in the first place. Have some humility.

palm muting is my achilles heal!