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Because you asked for it! Another oldie from the pre-patreon days. I like this lick, i've been craving making up some new EJ style licks for you all to practice! You into that idea? 

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Eric Johnson Essentials! Phrasing and picking strategies lesson Weekend Wankshop 166

www.facebook.com/unclebeneller instagram @BenEllerGuitars Skype lessons? email BenEllerGuitars@gmail.com yo guys! on Weekend Wankshop 166, Uncle Ben here is gonna hand you a couple Eric Johnson essential strategies for phrasing and picking! We all know Eric's incredible pentatonic and hexatonic mastery from songs like Cliffs of Dover, but what a lot of us don't realize is that EJ has very specific strategies when it comes to his note choices to enable maximum speed and cleanliness. These tricks enable him to blaze with maximum accuracy, but they're also just cool melodic moves too! To dig WAY deeper into Johnson's bag of tricks, i STRONGLY advise you watch Troy Grady's Cracking the Code series here on youtube! In particular the episode titled "eric the wise". Truly eye-opening stuff, watch everything he's got on his channel! It really breaks down how EJ built his entire style off of the strengths and weaknesses of downward pickslanting (or DWPS). Check it out!!! Playing my Suhr Alt T into my kemper with a little boost/shaping from a new KHDH Ghoul JR! Great little pedal. Thanks for watching!

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Anonymous

I’m from Austin where we discovered EJ over 40 years ago.

Anonymous

Awesome - I will study and practice this. I’ve always loved Cliffs of Dover and now I’m psyched to steal the technique! Thanks Ben