That's a great point about playing the scale on one string by one finger to really see the intervals. Great idea.

I love the harmonic minor. Thanks for the tips here. Very smart to play scales on 1 string so as to see the intervals! 👏

I’m pretty new to guitar started late. Really dig your teaching. Even though many things are over my head, I still get many things out of your lessons. Thank you so much

You da MAN Mr. Fujita! Infinite blessings UPON you!! 🎶

Harmonic minor is a very pretty-sounding scale. I really like it! I will have to remember it.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge in a really practical way- and for not just trying to sell us stuff. I'm a gaijin living in Kobe, Japan and enjoying your lessons from the States. A great global community us guitarists enjoy. Arigato Tomo.

I like your style dude. That whole classical mad master musician vibe

Saw you playing live and it was very refreshing to hear phrasing and ideas played with conviction. We used to wait for the latest Clapton and Peter Green cuts -- before Hendrix they seemed to be phrase oriented. I dont think Jeff Beck ever left the search for taste, and THE note. And hardly anyone lets a note decay anymore.

Amazing lesson Thank you Tomo!

Thank you Tomo. This was a very helpful video.

Thank you, for what you're doing here.

you are my inspiration, i look up to you so much. i appreciate your lessons always!

I was forced into orchestra (violin) from kindergarten until my freshmen year of high school when I could finally quit it. I was *never* good at reading music (to this day I have to count the lines above or below the staff because my brain still can't easily identify the notes), but I absolutely love the way you teach. You teach to _play._ *Not* to _impress._ We've got enough wanna be "guitar gods". What all music needs is creativity. I'm all for it. Love you man. Thank you for all that you're doing.

This is excellent 👌 👍😁

I often hear the scales you teach emerge from songs I am playing along to; and isn't music wonderful. Thank you for the video Tomo. I come for some geetar and stay for the wisdom and knowledge.

Great lesson, man! You present ideas in a way I can understand...👍

Thank you Mr.Fujita. Good lesson about chords and scales. 🙏😎

Thanks for this lesson. I've been curious about harmonic minor and knew this was a great places to start. This did not disappoint Tyvm

Thank you Professor Fugita. I feel like I am progressing with ear training since I found your channel two months ago. Learning music more deeply.

Oh that diminished chord tone sticks out like a beautiful thumb. I love minor thirds so much. They're like the sound of "romance" or something. LOL!

Was recently soloing to a backing track in Cm. When the V7 chord was coming up, I let my ear lead me to B and D, the third and fifth of G7. But it's also the major 7 and 2 of Cm. When I saw that, I thought "you can do harmonic minor over the V7 chord!". Then a couple of days later you've put out a great video which solidifies this idea for me and gives me confidence. Thanks so much!

Thank you for another cool lesson Tomo. I learned harmonic minor in 3nps and was fascinated by it's exotic modes but those will come in time.. I primarily wanted to just learn how to use the sounds of natural minor, harmonic AND melodic minor practically. My so-called jazz guitar teacher at the time said "I haven't really found a use for melodic minor"... I don't take lessons from him anymore...

Awesome video, thank you! I love the harmonic minor scale! I recently made a backing track in C harmonic minor and came up with some really interesting ideas for improvisation! I even used the A flat major 7 arpeggio you mentioned! Beautiful sounds! ❤

I use it over the V in a II-V-I, although I find the altered scale a bit more fun and the diminished scale a bit more interesting.

good feel. I like the Don Mock type sound. Great job

Thanks for great lesson. Of course, Most guitar players know the Spanish tinge chord progression with major chord on the flat six but you showed some great ways to bend it to jazzy bluesy chops. I know I will use this stiff. You didn't mention melodic minor. That has a lot of interest in that it changes with the direction you play. I think it affords many possibilities for transformation within a tune, since the six and seventh are both in flux. Also it offers a chance to cover up a flub or three. Great sound that you alluded to as Koto. Very blues but different 🎉🎉🎉 thanks again

Thanks again sir. My ear hears scales on one string. Than it falls into position stuff. Music first. 🤟

Tomo, I use this ALL THE TIME! I have always thought of it as Aeolian #7 over Phrygian dominant. Tritone substitution also sounds amazing with this. Thanks again, Tomo. Keep on rockin'! \,,/,(>

Gipsy scale! I love it!

Awesome!! Ok I will try. I am starting to get this (not all yet, I will continue to work on it) maestro! Only after playing major, minor, some pentatonic scales (position playing by grouping octaves and single string, which helped a lot!) and some triads also, for a year, starting to see patterns :) I was not able to pause your online music class more than once, so I quit. I will sign back on. One other question, I was playing by feel, not thinking, position playing major/natural minor scales, then using diminished-dominate scale (half-whole-half-whole..?) along single strings up and down neck, I was amazed it sounded good, not sure why. Thank you again maestro! Peace. 🫀🙏🏾🌊

I believe this scale is the basis for Flamenco music and even some spaghetti western styles.

arigatou sensei !

some useful tips thanks but i'm still struggling with triads, getting them into my thick head mainly, lol, p.s. i just picked up a jc77 .....i did wonder what the rich folks were playing, flat speaker, funny looking thing, sounds nice is it forgiving like a jazz chourus? thanks for the vid

I think i need a lesson for 9:01-9:04 lick ! Loving it

famous G7 ERic Johnson Venus Isle ...................flat lovely!

Phrygian dominant over a V7 is cool, but have you tried Dorian #4 over a ii7 (such as A harmonic minor over Dm7)? It feels like it has momentum in a way I really enjoy.

Hi tomo, thanks for sharing these lessons with us. What strap are you using here? Its beautiful

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Hi, Mr. Fujita, I am currently working through the Modern Guitar method book by Will Leavitt Volume 1. I can play already so I want to improve my sight reading, I would like to know how I should approach the tempo of the reading I can manage about 45bpm-50bpm with no mistakes. What tempo should I work towards and would be considered good level? Thank you for what you do! Love From South Africa!

Great lesson. I love that Ibanez Strat. Darker sound than some strats. Model?

Master! Is there one on your channel about the melodic minor scale?

Too much for me! When do I go to start slowly? Love your playing !!!❤

I can kind of hear Santana/ Smooth. I wonder if there's an element of harmonic minor in that song.

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Mr Tomo .. Uhm .. I did this .. I made a clean tone for rhytm with a nice flangler on it .. The flangler is nice and soft but now also the tone .. How do i push this up without detroying my tone ? I have a lot of things so if you know this then please tell me .. I never used stompboxes but now Iam recording so the sound is important

I thought I heard a little bit of a change from Minute by Minute towards the end

Mr Fujita i realy enjoy your lessons. still working on the jazzy walking base line without finger noise 😅 i am nou on vacation doing a 3 week trip thrue Japan. What a wonderfull island you are from and what a nice people i love it.

Read your query so my first thought was jazz improv or melodic chords / arpeggiation etc.

Tomo San, have you ever taught someone dyslexic to sight read? When your dyslexic, your eyes move from left to right, instead of the normal right to left. I took much music in college. I understand music theory in a unique way. I received 4.0 grades in all music classes. sometimes taking 13 units a semester. I can read music fine, but sight reading is a problem. One of my teachers came up with writing music backwards starting at the right bottom corner of the page and I could sight read just fine like that. But its very time consuming to rewrite music backwards I always just memorized any piece I would play by ear, as that takes much less time than writing everything backwards. I hope you understand. What I'm looking for is software that will write music backwards for me. I'm a Loveless, I sang live on the radio since I was 5 years old. My parents hired many private piano teachers from the time I was 5. Because of my dyslexia all the piano study was a fail, no one understood dyslexia then, and why my eyes refused to follow a note passage to the right. After the first note my eyes went left and I was immediately lost. Yet I could memorize the piece and teach myself to play it. By the time I was 12 I had memorized the entire Handel's Messiah, and much more. One other thing, I recognized that Jimi also had the same problem. Which lead to his very different style of playing. He also memorized everything. So when I started guitar at 15, 1966, It was easier for me to teach myself guitar by watching Jimi play !!!

Oi how much for live lesson? I got PayPal 😅 and I've been to music school. McNally in St. Paul I'm ready to work Mr. T. My weak areas are walking, basslines and playing outside. And of course, singing and playing at the same time but I still do it like a fool. 😂

Isn't phrygian dominant a simpler and most common way to put it ? instead of myxolydian b9 b13

やはり英語の説明の方がイメージが伝わりやすですねー。洋楽は西洋文化なっだとつくづく感じました。

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Have you ever seen that little Japanese kid Maituo play guitar ? I think hes 8. Hes some kind of child prodigy. Hes plays Steve Via fornthe love of God completely like the record. Check him out if you get a chance. You'll get a kick out of him I'm sure.

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The previous “I taught Jon Mayer” thumbnail annoyed me into unsubscribing

I would love to see you playing over DJ Quik - You'z a Ganxta. Very jazzy track with a nice guitar from Robert Bacon.

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