Eric Johnson Technique - Spread Triads - Guitar Lesson

In this video, I'll explain what spread triads are and show you how to get them into your playing with some simple exercises. This is a technique commonly heard in Eric Johnson's playing as both a single-note and chordal concept.
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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Triad Review
1:40 - Diatonic Chord Scale
2:10 - Spread Triad Chord Scale
3:38 - Spread Triad Progression
4:18 - Spread Triad Arpeggios
5:40 - Inversions
6:40 - Outro

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Two years late, but I loved this so much. I have been stuck in the intermediate slump for about 10 years but since focusing on my theory and learning intervals these lessons make way more sense.

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[@JameyArent]

Great! You’re welcome!

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[@DoctorRobertBobby]

Great tone

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[@JeffKeel]

Jamey such a great lesson thank you for sharing this. Is the Low E spread triads used much. thick string as root

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[@JameyArent]

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[@JameyArent]

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[@jorispollet6981]

Thank you for sharing this. I love the sound of your strat. Can you share any amp / effect settings?

[@JameyArent]

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[@greek42069]

@3:50 u do a chord progression , Amin , G, C, Dmin , is that considered 6512 in the key of C ? Or am i way off?

[@berryster]

Can you elaborate on something? If I look at combinations of a 1-3-5 like CEG, I see 6 of them: CEG, CGE, ECG, EGC, GCE, GEC. So not really understanding inversions, I would expect there would be 5 inversions of CEG plus the "normal" 1-3-5 version. I see now from your video maybe some of these combinations are spread triads. Any thoughts I'd appreciate.

[@faiskies_]

you are right, he didn't show all the spread triads.

[@RetroBytesTV]

There are only 3 inversions in a triad. You look at the bass note. If the root is in the bass, its a root chord. If the 3rd is in the bass, it is a first inversion, and if the 5th is in the bass it is a second inversion. The order of the remaining notes doesn't matter, just what is in the bass.

[@greek42069]

Think of inversions like this , 135 , 351, 513 , spread triad change the order of those 3 notes

[@JeremyLeMahieu]

Is there a specific Eric Johnson song I could look up to hear this in context?

[@AxemanMessiah]

I would recommend Saucer Studios practicing, his practicing is literally the most divine music itself! Also his famous songs like Cliffs of Dover, Gem, Zap, Manhattan, and more. Joe Bonnamassa also uses this but I not familiar with him enough to give specific songs. All the best!

[@richardisberg1541]

Great explanations all through the vid. But you say diminished to the 7th chord but play m7-5. Or is it maybe me who got this wrong?

[@JameyArent]

Thanks! Great question. In this video we are only playing triads, and a min7b5 chord implies there is a 7th in the chord. You are correct that in the key of C, the vii chord would be Bmin7b5 (spelled B, D, F, A) but when we are just dealing with triads, the name for the triad containing root, b3, and b5 would be a diminished triad.

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What the hell are you even talking about