Eric Johnson Lesson: Rolling Threes (Cascade, Chapter 12) 

Agree 100%

I think I figure out twinkle twinkle little star. With no help. Lol

jenyminor thanks for watching; glad you're enjoying the videos!

+Benoit Signorini Thanks Benoit!

takeuchitb007 thanks!

MrPerfectfeet No worries. Whatever works! That's what it's all about.

I was just thinking the same thing...Troy is outplaying the guitarists he's studying!

Horganism Thanks for picking up our stuff! And glad you're seeing results. Re: "unlearning", I like to think that it's more like the other way around. Everything you already know just makes the next thing that much easier. I didn't unlearn Italian (or English for that matter!) to make room for Spanish. Yes there is the occasional confusion. But the advantage in terms of overlap is massive compared to someone starting from scratch.

***** Welcome! The videos are really great to watch and your passion for this subject really comes across in them. I just got the Inside the Volcano series the other day too and am really enjoying that too. Re Unlearning, I agree, it's just tricky sometimes for me to play the pentatonic stuff in the EJ series with the picking you demonstrate as I'm used to playing them in a different (less efficient!) way. Ironically the Yngwie stuff I find easier to learn because I have no in-built habits for playing that kind of thing. I'll keep at both though as I can definitely see the advantage to the DWPS method of playing. Part of why I started working on my picking at all is that I've been trying to master an arrangement of Vivaldis Summer Presto, funny thing is when I try to convert what I was doing with strict alternate picking to the 'Yngwie system' of using legato and sweeping to keep the pick strokes even it's not only easier, it also sounds better! Lesson learned!

yes, there is an F#

+Xubuntu47 Indeed, the gypsies are downward pickslanters and you can check out some of our Joscho Stephan clips here on the channel. Thanks for watching!

It's a Gibson Nighthawk.

I think season 2 episode 5 of cracking the code will be going into detail about Shawn Lane's picking technique. Im really looking forward to that one myself :)

si dog Really? That would be truly amazing! Shawn's picking style was quite unique, combined with his blazing left hand hammer-on / pull-off techniques

Yea man absolutely, Shawn was the best. To check out the content of future episodes just go on the CTC website, its all listed under the season 2 page

si dog Hes prolly gonna talk about the ascending 5's sweep thing he did and upward pick slant snap things

NOTHING is out of your league. You just have to want it bad enough.

***** Upward! We cover him in Antigravity.

While descending Eric Johnson uses legato to make the number of picked notes even.

not THIS because FG is a 2-way pickslanter

Marcus Vinnas yes I meant "this" as in "this series", not this technique.

TheFabio oh yes sorry

Hi Jeff! You're not mishearing, but that note really isn't part of the pattern we're talking about here, which mainly concerns string switching. However, we do address Eric's use of the maj7 / min9 type sounds he gets with this note in other chapters in the Cascade seminar, since as you point out it's something he does all the time and it's a signature sound for him.

Okay and is that in the masters in mechanics section only??

oh never mind I answered my own question by checking out the website again. Well..... Guess I do have my job back again so I guess Ibetter Subscribe again!!!:-)

I found it difficult too when I hear everyone talk about EJ pentatonic licks too. Intill I simplified it and broke into little steps. 1. Know the pentatonic and start going up like a stair then once you hit 5 note stop. (This is where it gets tricky ) and most people don't know how to explain. Once you hit 5 you repeat 1-5 (but after 5 sweep down to 1(economy picking) so for example let's start at 15 fret on the high E(1) string then hit 12(2) then 15 fret on B(3) string then 12 (4) and last 14 fret on G string (5) then go down and restart the pattern except 15 fret on B (3) is now 1 (which is why you sweep down) I know it's confusing but just playing it is simpler and getting the sweep down after the 5th note is the hardest.

Alejandro Cisneros dude , that was a great description Thanks