In 'Gitaarmannen, de podcast' praat gitarist Ed Struijlaart met zijn favoriete NL gitaristen (m/v) over hun leven en muziek, met de liefde voor de gitaar als rode draad.
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Morgen: Continuum Day! Speel mee met 300 gitaristen!
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In deze extra, korte, aflevering van Gitaarmannen, de podcast heb ik het over morgen: 12 sept. Dan is het namelijk precies 20 jaar geleden dat Continuum van John Mayer het levenslicht zag. Zoals je misschien weet ga ik dit najaar langs bijna 30 theaters in heel Nederland om een ode te brengen aan deze plaat. Het leek me een geweldig moment om dat af te trappen met Continuum Day. Hét moment om met elkaar samen te komen op een centrale plek in Nederland: Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum.
Als je je opgeeft om mee te doen ding je mee naar die PRS Silver Sky SE en de andere toffe prijzen zoals een Dunlop Guitar onderhouds set én 3-pack set John Mayer snaren van Ernie Ball.
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10 Sept 2026
John Mayer's Guitar Teacher Told Him to Quit Berklee. Tomo Fujita Explains Why
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 (https://www.tomofujitamusic.com)
Guitar Wisdom: https://www.tomofujitamusic.com/guitar-wisdom (https://www.tomofujitamusic.com/guitar-wisdom)
GITAARMANNEN 4: CONTINUUM - DE THEATERTOUR
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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 (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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17 Aug 2026
Steve Jordan: The Man Behind Continuum
Steve Jordan (co)produced and played drums on Continuum, the album that turned John Mayer into a guitar hero. Twenty years later, he tells the whole story: the trio that started in a single day, the label boss who didn't hear a hit, and the trio album that's still in the can.
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Continuum Day - vrijdag 12 september - Beeld & Geluid, Hilversum. 150 gitaristen spelen samen Waiting On The World To Change. Gratis aanmelden, je aanmelding is je lot, be there to win: https://gitaarmannen.nl/continuum-day
GITAARMANNEN 4: CONTINUUM - DE THEATERTOUR
Speeldata en kaarten: https://gitaarmannen.nl/continuum
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open & intro
1:23 Steve Jordan joins the show
1:40 Meeting John Mayer
4:05 Stitched Up & Herbie Hancock
8:53 How the John Mayer Trio started
13:33 Try! John's stake in the ground
14:50 The label didn't believe in it
20:18 Waiting On The World To Change
22:40 The sound of Continuum
28:21 Choosing drums for every song
30:30 In Repair: written in one day
31:47 A tour booked before there were songs
33:23 Memphis & the Al Green mic
34:43 Steve's favorite Continuum track
35:27 How Vultures was born
41:23 The lost trio album
43:29 Jazz Foundation of America
53:09 New projects: The Verbs, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy
56:50 John's new album
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