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Let’s have a look at those.Īll right guys, Example 1, as you’re probably becoming very aware of in these series revolves around a chord, or in this example, revolves around a chord progression. They might be a little bit more technical than the last few. Today we’re going to check out the style of Eric Johnson, one of my personal heroes. Hey YouTube, Simon here once again for Fundamental Changes.
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Make sure you log on and subscribe to our new YouTube Channel, dedicated to bringing you the finest free guitar lessons. It works perfectly over F#7.įor classic Eric Johnson style guitar licks, I recommend buying the album “ Ah Via Musicom.” My favourite track on that album being “Cliffs Of Dover.” Subscribe on Youtube Here is the scale used for the example above.
I recommend taking your normal minor pentatonic blues licks, and adapting them to fit perfectly over dominant 7th chords, using the scale shown below.Įric Johnson Guitar Example 4 – The Hindu Pentatonic Scale The only difference being that the minor 3rd’s (of the minor pentatonic) are raised up to become major thirds (from A – A# here). Despite its fancy sounding name, it is very similar to the normal minor pentatonic. In this guitar lick, we are using the F# Hindu pentatonic. Eric also loves wide intervals, and shows this with three F# root notes, and a wide vibrato’d bend.Įric Johnson Guitar Example 3 – Guitar Lick I use the word ‘un-i-ver-si-ty’ to help me count each five note group. This guitar lick uses positions 1 ‘E shape’, position 5 ‘G shape’, and position 4 ‘ A Shape’ of the F#m pentatonic. ‘Quintuplets’ or five note groupings are a firm favourite.
Odd note pentatonic groupings are one of Eric Johnson’s specialities. As mentioned in the video, try using two downstrokes, then a pluck with your middle finger on this progression.Įric Johnson Guitar Example 2 – Technique This chord progression shows how he would take a normal progression in F#m and add flavour with both string skipping, and hybrid picking. Emotive chords, speedy pentatonics and a musical blues background all add to his modern sound.Įric Johnson is a master of interval skipping.
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