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ERIC JOHNSON GUITAR EXAMPLE 1 –

CHORD
Eric Johnson is a master of interval skipping. This chord progression shows how he would
take a normal progression in F#m and add flavour with both string skipping, and hybrid
picking. As mentioned in the video, try using two downstrokes , then a pluck with your
middle finger on this progression.
ERIC JOHNSON GUITAR EXAMPLE 2 –
TECHNIQUE
Odd note pentatonic groupings are one of Eric Johnson’s specialities. ‘Quintuplets’ or five
note groupings are a firm favourite. This guitar lick uses positions 1 ‘E shape’, position 5 ‘G
shape’, and position 4 ‘ A Shape’ of the F#m pentatonic. I use the word ‘un-i-ver-si-ty’ to
help me count each five note group. Eric also loves wide intervals, and shows this with three
F# root notes, and a wide vibrato’d bend.
ERIC JOHNSON GUITAR EXAMPLE 3 –
GUITAR LICK
In this guitar lick, we are using the F# Hindu pentatonic. Despite its fancy sounding name, it
is very similar to the normal minor pentatonic. The only difference being that the minor 3rd’s
(of the minor pentatonic) are raised up to become major thirds (from A – A# here). I
recommend taking your normal minor pentatonic blues licks, and adapting them to fit
perfectly over dominant 7th chords, using the scale shown below.
ERIC JOHNSON GUITAR EXAMPLE 4 – THE
HINDU PENTATONIC SCALE
Here is the scale used for the example above. It works perfectly over F#7.

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