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Kyoto
Tomo Fujita
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1/3/2026 public
when i think of the blues, i don’t think of peace. i think of hunger and passion. it’s incredible that tomo is able to create such a peaceful feeling using the blues vocabulary
11/28/2025 public
i struggle to use minor/major pentatonic switching outside of a blues context. this song provides many examples of that over a progression that is not bluesy at all
11/28/2025 public
fantastic example of tomo fujita's tasteful guitar playing - patiently plays the melody twice, lets the organ solo first, starts with simple improvisation, full of delicate and melodic bends, building up to some genuinely impressive lines
11/28/2025 public
the chord progression for this song is quite simple but provides a wonderful playground to solo over - a ii iii vi (which you can think of as a iv v i) progression in the verse with ample opportunities to play with the dominant to minor i transition, then a ii V I, then the same "walk the root minor down a whole step" trick that sounds like 
Just the Two of Us (feat. Bill Withers)
Just the Two of Us (feat. Bill Withers)
11/28/2025 public
was on a hike the other day and this song spontaneously popped into my head. I suspect it's because tomo fujita wrote this song about his hometown kyoto, which is full of natural beauty