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Eric Johnson Triads
Martin Miller
Hey friends, Today we’ll be dealing with a concept that has been fascinating me ever since I came across it: wide interval triads á la Eric Johnson, Steve Morse, etc. Firstly, let’s look at how these triads are constructed. Here are three simple steps: 1. Fret a triad of your choice, any chord type, any inversion. 2. Raise the middle note by an octave. 3. Find a useful fingering for those notes. (optional) Feel free to experiment on your own with a few examples of your choice before moving on to the next part.
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Lesson · 2m Eric Johnson Triads - Concept
Hey friends, Today we’ll be dealing with a concept that has been fascinating me ever since I came across it: wide interval triads á la Eric Johnson, Steve Morse, etc. Firstly, let’s look at how these...
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Lesson · 1m Eric Johnson Triads - Fingerings
In this part of the tutorial I’ll show you a few fingerings for the D Major and D minor wide-interval-triads. Of course, there are tons more but these are the most useable in my opinion. Be sure to always be...
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Lesson · 1m Eric Johnson Triads - Chord Melody
Here’s one of the most exciting applications for these shapes: chord melody! This is just a quick improvisation I came up with. You’ll soon discover how much fun it is to mess around with these shapes...
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Lesson · 1m Eric Johnson Triads - Lick 1
Okay, now it’s time to increase our soloing vocabulary with a few licks. Any of these 3 licks can be used against a static Dmin7 chord. The first one is a melodic sequence that uses a few substitutions...
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Lesson · 1m Eric Johnson Triads - Lick 2
In order to spice things up a little, let’s add a few color tones to these triads. This example uses the 9th (the note E against Dmin7) and the 11th (the note G against Dmin7) in conjunction with the regular...
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Lesson · 1m Eric Johnson Triads - Lick 3
This last example shows how to incorporate these shapes into a more straight-forward shredding context. Like the first lick, it utilizes a few substitutions and some very tricky string skips, so it is bound to...
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