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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:28 am
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I'd like to play some eric johnson or joe bonamassa scales , how could I proceed to learn and with which methods and mediators


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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:52 am
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There are plenty of tab and lesson books of Eric and Joe's songs and style. Start there.

Eric Johnson:
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q= ... CB8QrQQwAg

Joe Bonamassa:
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q= ... CCcQrQQwAg

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Start by getting your major/minor pentatonic scales nailed in all 5 positions, then work out ways of linking them together. Work on 'cascading' the pentatonic notes in groups of 3,4,5 and 6 up and down.

For more exotic stuff, do some work on your modes of the major scale, and try moving some of the notes around within the pentatonics, e.g for a nice EJ sounding scale, play the minor pentatonic but raising the minor 3rd to a major 3rd. Sometimes called the hindu scale I think.

And both Bonamassa and EJ have Cream-era Clapton as a major influence, so you could do a lot worse than study that.


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:46 am
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Nevin1985 wrote:
Don't focus on playing fast at first. Speed should never be the goal, good sounding music is the goal.

If anything, work on getting a solid grip of what you are playing first, and then if needed, incorporate speed later. IE: Don't just try and learn a riff at full speed, break it down first and master it.


Indeed... as EJ says in one of his DVDs, "start simple, and start slow"


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:05 am
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Nevin1985 wrote:
Don't focus on playing fast at first. Speed should never be the goal, good sounding music is the goal.

If anything, work on getting a solid grip of what you are playing first, and then if needed, incorporate speed later. IE: Don't just try and learn a riff at full speed, break it down first and master it.

Excellent advice.

The fact is, if you can't play it slow you can't play it fast. And however fast Joe in particular plays, his passagework is exquisitely clean and accurate - no sloppiness in sight. That only comes from years of careful painstaking practice.

Let's get started...!

Cheers - C


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