How the PROS Use the Pentatonic Scale – Eric Johnson Lick

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I was checking out Eric Johnson’s Truefire course, and this thing he is doing jumped out at me…So here’s a little bit of thinking about that!

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19 thoughts on “How the PROS Use the Pentatonic Scale – Eric Johnson Lick”

  2. The Pentatonic scale was so maligned in my mind as a kid growing up in the neo-classical shredder era, but there is SO much more you can do with it than the blues box I thought it was limited to. Killer opening track as usual John.

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  6. I love Eric's playing. I'm a sucker for 'play like EJ' type vids on YT. I bought the EJ course last month. I've watched maybe a dozen of the chapters in this. I'm honestly kind of underwhelmed. For a guy who is notoriously particular about his gear, I was surprised that he comes off so unaware of what he's doing when he's playing (like his comment "they tell me I play patterns of five"). If I wanted a "I just play what I feel, man" – or – "I just go where the song tells me" kind of answer, I could have just watched any number of interviews with him. Nothing but respect for him as a player, but so far, his latest lesson falls flat. Flame if you must.

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  7. The pentatonic scales and (modes ?) were the first things I learned on guitar after the basic chords. It happened by accident within a few hours one afternoon. I was learning the beginning of Hendrix's "who knows" off band of gypsies, and I quickly realised that this pattern I stumbled on repaeted after a few versions up the neck. I didn't even know the major scales, byt in the few weeks following this minor breakthrough, I also figured that I could lower the first box, and it would give a mellower more major harmony. I spent the next 10 years playing in garage bands with my pals sorting these patterns out, before finally learning the diatonic 1 3 5 7 thing for chord construction and started to understand theory. Also coming iut of the blue I realised what I found out kater what is called the cycke of fifths ( although I thought of it as the cycle of 4ths, because to my ear this is how music naturally progressed. Before internet in the late seventies, I started to grasp some things from the workshop pages at the back of guitar player magazine, and toyed with Ideas like "2 5 1 movements and chird substitution, although I couldn't actually read or write to save my life. Ever since then I've been unable to plan or control anything in my playing, because when I start playing I can't think or I grind to a halt. Anything that doesn't come naturally to my ear, I can't use, and it wasn't until the mid eighties that I learned what all these things are called, and what they mean officially. Living in New Zealand and trying to figure stuff out without anyone to explain it in the late seventies, was suprisingly hard and slow. I used to talk to uni students of music and ask them what these "boxes" were, and amazingly in those days the educated few had no idea. I'm often suprised by y/tub videos that say " don't overlook the much maligned pentatonic scale" because to me it was all I knew, and let's not forget that practically 100% of the guitar greats of the 60's and 70's used hardly anything else. The Skye boat song, and Ye banks and braes were all pentatonic and no wonder they held a spell over me as I played them on plastic recorder at the age of 8. My love of folk music in general was probably because of these ancient modal scales that to me, seem to echo spookily down through the years of time in most folk music. Thankyou fir pointing iut little ways I can keep developing these wonder harmonies that seem to resonate with me culturally. I wish I was a quater as good in execution on guitar as I seem to be in natural feel for melody.

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  12. Hey John, could you do a lesson on some of your compositions? I really love “Dusted in Two” and “Forty Seven Winks”

    Thanks for all the great lessons and content! You rock!

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