Tomo Fujita has taught guitar at Berklee College of Music since 1993. In 1998 a young John Mayer walked into his summer clinic, signed up for private lessons and never missed a single Tuesday 9 a.m. class. In this conversation Tomo tells how he taught John clean technique, dynamics and triads, why he advised him to leave Berklee and keep writing songs, and what he heard of his own lessons when Room for Squares and Continuum came out. He also tells the story of his own lesson with Joe Pass (paid in cigars), explains his four rules for guitarists and talks about Guitar Wisdom, his online lesson platform.
Tomo Fujita online:
https://www.tomofujitamusic.com
Guitar Wisdom: https://www.tomofujitamusic.com/guitar-wisdom
GITAARMANNEN 4: CONTINUUM - DE THEATERTOUR
Speeldata en kaarten: https://gitaarmannen.nl/continuum
ENGLISH: This season I'm taking Gitaarmannen 4 to theaters across the Netherlands: a full show about Continuum, the album that turned John Mayer into a guitar hero. Tickets: https://gitaarmannen.nl/continuum
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open & intro
0:13 Tomo Fujita joins from Boston
0:45 1986: from Japan to Berklee on a one-way ticket
6:08 The Joe Pass lesson, paid in cigars
10:34 Five fingers, four notes
14:38 Triads: simple, endless choices
16:26 1998: John Mayer at the funk clinic
18:28 Tuesday 9 a.m.: John never missed a lesson
19:01 What John was searching for
20:56 Was John different? Boston as a reality check
23:51 Why Tomo told John to quit Berklee
28:45 Room for Squares
31:48 Continuum and the signature Strat
33:04 Neon was a Tomo song
35:04 Gravity: Tomo, is that you?
36:50 Would Tomo teach John anything today?
40:23 Guitar Wisdom: Tomo's online lessons
46:48 The four rules
48:55 Don't compare: the internet isn't live
51:05 Owen: the student who taught Tomo
55:22 AI and the future of guitar
58:15 Thank you, Tomo
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Photo credits: Joe Pass by Tom Marcello (CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) - Berklee College of Music by Tim Pierce (CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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