EJ Mini Lesson 04

[@paulstaffordcook8799]

“Sorry about all the mistakes, I just woke up” 🤣. Some of the most amazing playing I’ve ever seen, right there! Thank you Eric 🙏

[@TomoFujitaMusic]

Thanks so much for sharing this Eric!!

[@chipolmstead9220]

Mr. Eric, these mini-lessons are much better than silver and gold. Thank you for sharing your wisdom sir!

[@MethenySco]

Dear Eric, your ‘Fine Art of the Guitar’ VHS tapes were an invaluable source for developing my technique, including this picking method. I encourage any player to get their hands on these videos if they can! I spend months with them....Thanks for the inspiration over the years Eric.

[@millerjeff]

Eric I was fortunate to donate to the inner city for Children's Hunger Crisis from Cru - we'll be able to provide 100 meals. Thanks for challenging us in this way Eric.

[@TheArtofBlues]

We are not worthy!! 🙌🙌🙌

[@wcm5150]

Thank you Eric. These are great.

[@tykruszka]

Thank you for uploading these Eric

[@Joemommas]

"Sorry about all the misakes there, i just woke up" Still sounded incredible Eric! I wish i could sound that good when i just wake up HAHA

[@paulinmt2185]

I sound like EJ _before_ I wake up (in my dreams). God bless!

[@aeg_music]

Pressed the "like" button faster than those cascading pentatonics.

[@johantaharin491]

Malaysia says good mng to you.🇲🇾..trying..piano! Its 6 40am now.will donate to help strays.tq Sir

[@Austropop-Innviertel]

After all these years, EJ is still the best!

[@paulcatangay7770]

Thank You for your lessons!! a lot of great information!!!!!

[@gregbrowne2347]

Thanks for your generosity, E !

[@pranavphx]

Magic fingers

[@rebelrocker7494]

Great Info..Love watching you play ,Looks so easy and it's not, Be Safe ,Have a Great Day ..Keep Rockin 🖤💙🤘

[@luigicannizzo2669]

Great Right Left Hand ' s. .. ☺😊😀/👍👌👏

[@JoelDubay]

Eric, you and your guitar are my emotional voice. I love you and your good heart.

[@MrDMF567]

Lol. It’s ridiculous how good he is. Unreal

[@deathwish1534]

Thank you for all of your mini-lessons Eric. They’ve been very insightful as I’ve been practicing a lot more lately. Best to you and your family.

[@brianroberts152]

I will donate to my local food bank it's a great cause keep the lessons coming thanks

[@jacoscofield5150]

Hello Eric glad you’re doing well ! Thanks for sharing your wisdom !

[@leom9744]

He is so wholesome My greatest inspiration thank you very much Eric

[@i_informer]

We are already distributing food n stuff to the people sir Eric Thank you for your kind initiative

[@skysmith6364]

Man, I just found all these lessons. Wow, I can play like EJ now... lol... what an amazing player. Truly a master

[@EbeneezerGumb]

Check out Troy Grady's youtube channel if you want to see Eric's incredible picking technique in great detail

[@ronanlopesguitarra]

Thanks for all this knowledge you're sharing with us... I'm a big fan of yours and I love to see your lessons taught like you were in front of us. Cheers!! Brazil loves you! When the pandemy is over, please, come around!! God bless you and your family!!

[@ДенисМатвеев-ь3н]

Thanks for the lesson. It is very useful to me.

[@BadChizzle]

Thank you

[@danakemper625]

Priceless! 😍

[@pyleen]

Got to love this man..... total original

[@PanhandlePrepping]

Awesome! Thank you so much for doing these lessons... they are very much appreciated. 🙏🏻 Interesting that you approach the fretboard as a piano. Tom Bukovac talks a lot about how he does the same and likes to study Gordon Mote’s piano playing to create different chord voicings on the guitar.

[@peacechannel9581]

Just admiring!!!

[@alvarojimbo3127]

Gracias Eric por compartir tu conocimiento

[@zaigar111]

Love your videos/music!! Thank you for being such an inspirations in me life!!

[@hilaryhahn]

How a sweet tone you have !! Wonderfull .

[@maximio212]

Thank you Eric. You are a sir!

[@danieljauregui500]

It kinds sounds like trademark solo which is so badass

[@EricBourassa]

***engages GOD-MODE lite*** "sorry for all the mistakes (which you will never even come close to matching- you wish you could make MY mistakes)" EJ is the best

[@RevbillySimmons]

Thank you. Mistakes or not it’s nice to have the opportunity to learn.

[@JuaniVazquezMusic]

Thanks Eric you’re the sweetest guy ever

[@AdamGotheridge]

Really enjoy these and wanted to say thanks. You've discovered all kinds of neat things with playing the guitar you sharing these ideas are really priceless. Just thanks.

[@EXVISIONSLAMCAM]

Thank you!!!

[@jimmyjauregui7196]

Thanks for the lessons!

[@jpbreeze]

mind blown....

[@jasmoism]

Thanks sir Eric for this great insights 😍😍

[@mikeroberts9199]

Love it Eric! You're a gentleman. And thank you for inspiring me to give.

[@mrmisterman999]

Mistakes? You must be joking

[@kipponi]

I heard only one but it doesn't matter.

[@wilsonabel]

upward pickslanting is what you`re describing. Loving these mini lessons ! :-)

[@kelvinpanesar6511]

Troy Grady strikes again!!! I love these mini lessons BTW, too bad we didn't have the technology 30 years ago

[@anthonyjames9711]

Hi Eric, great stuff. The guitar is a beautiful thing

[@danielperkins4610]

Like different articulation is important on a saxophone picking is also important on guitar! Thanks for posting 🎷have a blessed week!

[@electric1gypsy]

I am loving these mini lessons really great info thanks Eric

[@falsenotefest]

That's great, thank you Eric

[@christophchai4964]

Eric Johnson is the best teacher

[@picksalot1]

Great tips. If you zoom the camera out a little, we could see both your hands at the same time. Thanks

[@geoffreymerrifield5666]

Great to consider interesting perspectives.

[@richardgleichmann7671]

Thank you for sharing these useful tips and techniques... I actually noticed this just last week while sitting and picking my Tele (unplugged) last week....Yeah better control and tone picking that way .. Thank you again... Been listening to you since I was 14... (Electromagnets, was played on the Georgetown college radio station in DC.. 😉👍)... Thanks always..

[@7775Kevin]

I would like my mistakes to sound like that. Thanks for doing these lessons for us.

[@RobinChanAudio]

Eric, have you ever heard of Cracking the code by Troy Grady? He has a whole seminar where he breaks down his interpretation of your picking technique. It would be amazing if you two could get in contact for further picking analysis. Also I donated to my local food bank inspired by these wonderful lessons. Thank you!

[@scottrussell7423]

Eric has mentioned that he is aware of Troy and I think he even said they have met. Best of all, he said Troy has his style nailed.

[@njkf]

@@scottrussell7423 can you link me to him saying this?

[@scottrussell7423]

@@njkf Indeed! www.premierguitar.com/articles/30186-eric-johnson-on-breaking-patterns-to-play-with-more-freedom?page=2

[@KeyboardMac]

Thanks Master Eric ♥

[@dinamocong]

Thanks from an italian fan!

[@victimeyes51]

Geez....wish I could make those mistakes. So clean, and how it sings.

[@t.j.fuller9531]

Awesome ! I have a request for lesson 5. Show us how to play lesson 4 !! .... more money going to food bank friday ! Eric’s improv skills are the bomb !

[@jc3teacher265]

So good, I appreciate you doing this.

[@adalbertusignatius4967]

Can you do a video where you show your songwriting process? That would be very interesting, because I want to learn from the best on the planet 😉

[@user-lt3bt7nj8j]

Picking out, find sweet spots and lifetime of practice Thanks Eric! What about picking harmonics and string muting for the next lesson? 🙋👍

[@MrUmandMrEr]

EJ! It might just be me, but I can’t see your right hand...I’ve got an old signature strat like yours though, and it’s awesome! Thanks, and I’ll get down that food bank.

[@kmichaelp4508]

Good information! Have a cigar.

[@adamberk7212]

Eric, Love these lessons! Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but would you consider angling your camera so it captures the guitar. :)

[@paulgambon3510]

I love the way the notes bloom when you pick upwards. For me I see two things to make this happen. First the pick rotation comes from the forearm and wrist. Second, the arc of the picking motion needs to be very small. If you exaggerate the upstroke the downstroke crashes the pick into the strings. A small, almost minute arc , lets the pick move away from the strings on both the up and downstroke. This ain’t easy!

[@F.BERTOLOTO]

Show de bola sempre Abraços e bends

[@ashanetrevin]

Legend🌸

[@rvmusictv0122]

🙏❤️

[@chetpun5600]

♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@pjstamm2112]

"I just woke up!" I wish I could play like that when I'm 100% awake LOL

[@bshingledecker]

Thank you Thank You. Would like to see your right hand at work as well. Pick finesse makes the tone.

[@prssix]

Love ya Eric but could you please zoom back the camera so we can see your right hand when you demonstrate your picking and playing..Thanks for all your beautiful music(~:

[@kipponi]

Nice advice again. I think pick is like equalizer. You can change sound softer or harder. Guitar is best instrument for tone manipulation. Picking above bridge pickup or neck huge difference. Is he describing curve picking? Picking up both down and upstrokes?

[@megafone58]

Eric, please put the camera further away, it would be really cool to see you and the whole guitar, thanks

[@48sunshine78]

圧倒的な個性だなぁ。2、3音弾いただけでエリックジョンソンだってなる！

[@EdgardCabral]

beautiful phrases, do you always use phrasing based on triads and pentas on two notes per string with inverted typing? type harmonic field of E: using the penta in the relative tone C # m: C # - E - G # - B - E - F # - B - C #? thanks for showing us these rich and melodic sound paths for us.

[@knotty.rancour6187]

The only mistake here, in this great (and generous) lesson by a master, is that we can’t really see your picking hand! Oh well, still a great post. Thanks!

[@ceriwilliams1315]

Hi Eric. I was wondering...you probably have an idea already around your next lesson. Sometime...it would be hugely valuable to cover something around how you can orientate your pick and right hand to really know where it is in space. I suffer from all sorts of stuff like hitting the wrong string, missing the note, moving the pick around too much. Basically - how you orientate your pick hand/finger/pick to do so much with small movements. Thanks. C

[@colinli7906]

Thx Eric! But I have a hard time doing this kind of picking probably because of the big movement compared to just "pick". May you put it more specical please?

[@davejackson88]

Biggest one of all times

[@Mac102250]

omg that lydian phrase at 1:42

[@sddfdfsefwfewgrht291]

King of down picking: Hetfield God of up pick: EJ

[@mah_lick67]

Nah hes a downward pickslater

[@shillbuster2886]

Actually,....Buddy Holly was the king of down picking

[@calansvc]

I've been trying to figure out how to pick a guitar for 45 years. He could pick better with his ear lobe than I ever will. And I would pay good money to be able to make "mistakes" like that. :D

[@razzadebronzze1587]

🙏👍☀️💯🙏

[@mrmatthew2443]

Great lesson I hadn’t thought of things like that Thank you Plus , though this isn’t what the lesson is about but how are you getting that tone.? Is it the BK butler and the bridge position pickup.. it’s so unique

[@frederixp]

I’m training hard to improve my picking, mainly to become faster with accuracy, but I fear to be practicing it wrong and maybe making my brain addicted to bad habits. Any suggestions about how to practice speed picking? This mini lessons are simply amazing! Congrats!

[@TSL60-IS-GOD]

Yes Eric, it is kinda hard to play like this!

[@Fernandozurisadai]

Huge fan 🔥🔥 but how can i Play fast?! I still have problems with the speed and the picking, help Mr EJ

[@dregs28]

[@cast390]

Soon as you hear that tone you know who it is, no speaking necessary.

[@jimbeaux4988]

OMG! You are actually striking with an upward motion away from the guitar? That's going to take a while to figure out. Thanks for these lessons. They are invaluable.

[@kelvinpanesar6511]

Check out Troy Grady and his lessons on pick slanting and upward pick slanting

[@officialdamonkoeswoyo]

😍

[@minmaj7837]

G.O.A.T

[@JohanesJordan]

EJ the mr. Fuzz Face.

[@RodneyWallaceDynamoC]

Great lessons, thanks a lot EJ! PS: Are your Fender signature pickups suited for 12" radius fretboard neck? I intend to purchase them this month.