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"AI can't replace your personal sound and style."

Tomo Fujita, @johnmayer's guitar teacher, isn't worried about AI. Because the thing people come to a guitarist for is the one thing a model can't generate: you.

Full episode with @tomojustfunky in the link in my bio.

#ai #tomofujita #johnmayer #gitaarmannen #guitar

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"When you write a song, strip it back. If it doesn't work with one guitar and a voice, everything else is decoration."

Tomo Fujita, @johnmayer's guitar teacher, on songwriting. Production hides a lot. A good song survives being stripped to the bone.

Full episode with @tomojustfunky in the link in my bio.

#songwriting #tomofujita #johnmayer #gitaarmannen #guitar

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"Small town, small pond. People say you play so good, and you believe it."

Tomo Fujita, @johnmayer's guitar teacher, on why John needed Boston: once you sit in a room full of great players, you understand your own level. That's why travelling far is good.

Full episode with @tomojustfunky in the link in my bio.

#tomofujita #johnmayer #berklee #gitaarmannen #guitar

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"They make 30 takes, amazing lighting, and then they play live and sound bad."

Tomo Fujita, @johnmayer's guitar teacher, on comparing yourself to what you see online. The internet isn't live. Don't compare, don't expect too fast, be kind to yourself.

Full episode with @tomojustfunky in the link in my bio.

#tomofujita #johnmayer #guitarpractice #gitaarmannen #guitar

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Dat was best spannend vorige week! Ik had een wild idee: met zo veel mogelijk gitaristen Waiting on the World to Change spelen, ter ere van het 20-jarig jubileum van John Mayers Continuum. Dit natuurlijk in het kader van mijn aanstaande theatertour over datzelfde album.

Het was om te beginnen spannend of het überhaupt wel zou lukken om veel gitaristen op te trommelen. Dat ging gelukkig goed, het werden er ruim 300.

Toen kwam Tijd voor MAX in de lucht met de vraag of ik met een afvaardiging gitaristen zou willen laten horen hoe dat ongeveer zou gaan klinken. Ik ken die mensen natuurlijk niet persoonlijk, dus pik maar eens uit 300 aanmeldingen 10 gitaristen (het liefst ook een mooie mix m/v/jong/oud) die ook niet zouden bezwijken onder de druk van een tv-opname.
Best een gok. En het werd helemaal spannend toen mijn vaste toetsenist en bassist niet beschikbaar waren. Dus eigenlijk was de enige vaste waarde, as always(!), Leon Schmitz op de drums.

Maar een goede voorbereiding is het halve werk. Filmpjes opgenomen, akkoordenschema’s doorgestuurd, en toen waren ze er klaar voor. Je krijgt 1 take en daar moet je het met elkaar mee doen. Ik ben best tevreden!

Drums: Leon Schmitz Bas: Chiel van Rijn Keys: Remco van Zandvoort Gitaren: Mik Jongbloed, Vincent Opheikens, Jesse Peters, Tom Hindriks, Jasmijn Kok, Lauren Lieuw Hie, Alexander Sychev, Maarten van der Sluis, Rob Uijtjens, Ben Verhoeven

Qua sound: ik gebruik de Quad Cortex Mini met de nieuwe John Mayer Archetype X plugin.

#johnmayer #continuum #waitingontheworldtochange #archetypejohnmayer #neuraldsp

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"Was he different, or just one of the students?" "Just one of the students."

Tomo Fujita on @johnmayer at Berklee: probably a little above the middle. What made the difference wasn't talent, it was that John came to the right place to check himself, saw how many great players there were, and worked harder. He never missed a 9 AM lesson on a Tuesday.

Full episode with @tomojustfunky in the link in my bio.

#johnmayer #tomofujita #berklee #gitaarmannen #podcast #guitar

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"Neon is really a Tomo song."

That's what @johnmayer told Tomo Fujita's kids. Tomo taught John at Berklee, and in Neon you can hear exactly what he taught him: play the same thing over and over until you notice what's not right, then imitate until it's yours.

Full episode with @tomojustfunky in the link in my bio.

#johnmayer #neon #tomofujita #berklee #gitaarmannen #guitar

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20 years after Continuum, about 300 guitarists showed up to play one John Mayer song together.

On September 12, guitarists of all ages filled the square at Sound & Vision in Hilversum, the Netherlands, to play Waiting on the World to Change. Twenty years on, this record still brings people together.

@johnmayer, this one is for you. From all the guitarists in the Netherlands and the @gitaarmannen podcast community: thank you for the record that got so many of us playing.

Were you one of the 300? Tell us where you came from.

Official aftermovie of Continuum Day. Filmed by Sebastiaan Boomsma. With thanks to @prsguitars_europe and @beeldgeluid.

#johnmayer #continuum #waitingontheworldtochange #myprs #continuumday

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"You have five fingers. You can play five notes. Why do you play four?"

Joe Pass asked Tomo Fujita one question during a lesson at Berklee, and it changed the way he plays. Everybody used a pick and fingers back then. Nobody asked why.

Full episode with @tomojustfunky, @johnmayer's guitar teacher, in the link in my bio.

#joepass #tomofujita #johnmayer #berklee #gitaarmannen #guitar

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The first time I heard this album I knew something was about to happen that I’d been hoping for for years: the electric guitar was back. Back in the form I love hearing and seeing it most: as an extension of voice and melody. Building on what the legends before him (Hendrix, Clapton) had already done. He’d transformed without ever having to go down to the crossroads. Pure class. Nothing was ever too much, nowhere was it just a “guitar record”. The guitar was always supporting, always there at the right moments. Carefully measured out by a craftsman who’d found his form. The songs were so good, and they were about the stuff I was dealing with myself in my mid twenties. The first time I heard a crappy YouTube live version of Stop This Train (live at Hotel Café) I sat there crying for the rest of the night. That’s how deep it hit. Music can be a band-aid for the soul. This album was a flipping emergency room. ❤️‍🩹

It gave my own songwriting the room to flourish. It gave me the confidence to actually put that guitar solo in that song. No Continuum, no “Tricks Up My Sleeve”, and I’d probably still be sitting in some office in my mid forties. On a business park just outside Utrecht. Dreaming about a life that could have been.

Yesterday around 500 of us came together to celebrate this album. This album that came out 20 years ago. We played Waiting On The World To Change together and it was cathartic. We came to put that feeling somewhere, that this was and is important to us. The youngest one on the square was 10, the oldest 79. That says enough. This is a timeless album that will keep inspiring, and that will keep producing new guitarists and songwriters. Thank you John Mayer, for making exactly the right album at exactly the right moment 🙏❤️🎸

#johnmayer #continuum #continuum20 #gutaarmannen

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Missie geslaagd! 20 jaar Continuum gevierd met een vol plein bij Beeld en Geluid. Thx for the music John Mayer

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Software updates mid-session are a creativity killer.

Chad Franscoviak on why the best studio gets out of your way. Full episode on the Gitaarmannen YouTube channel, link in bio.
#musicproduction #recordingstudio #guitarplayer #gitaarmannen #homestudio

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