Eric Johnson's Cascading Pentatonic WORKOUT!
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Well what the heck, I played onstage with Eric Johnson at the Woodshed Guitar Experience 2023!!!! No big deal!!! Madness, right? Anyway, since then, I've been on a quest to add more of EJ's signature cascading pentatonic runs into my playing. To help you all master these legendary licks, I came up with this exercise to help you all master the 2 most essential EJ picking principals:
1: alternate picking even numbers of notes per string
2: the double downstroke dangler (AKA limited economy picking)
Practice these licks with the practice tracks from my Patreon page and you're sure to be ripping faster than ever in no time!!!
Gear:
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Thanks for learning the 2 fundamental techniques you HAVE to know to master Eric Johnson's cascading pentatonic runs! Grab the TAB and practice tracks right here:
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are you going to start posting the tabs in guitar pro format at any point?
Do to my ignorant, self taught picking, I have painted myself into a box that only an act of God could get me out of…or Uncle Ben 🤣
Having seen you guys in Knoxville one night (after finding out you guys are Tennessee boys too) and enjoying the hell out of the show, NOW I find out you shared the stage with Johnson and Timmons in lil ol' Crossville? That's such a beautiful town. Passed by it a million times as a kid going to Rockwood and Kingston. Other than Nashville, I'm surprised other parts of Tennessee are drawing such big names in the guitar community.
On the stage with both EJ and Timmons? Insane man! Great lesson Ben :-)
As soon as I heard the first note, I camed and started farding.
RIP UR pant
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Lmfao😂
CUMB FARD!!!
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If you slow the "step dad speed" section down to 50% it REALLY sounds like step dad, when you talk.... "I'm not drunk! You're drunk!!"
This is a bit of a shot in the dark…. BUT could Uncle Ben do a vid on ‘Slip of the Tongue’ by whitesnake?… y’know the Steve Vai thing?.
Ive looked everywhere but there’s nothing that great….
Can you help?.
Pretty please?!?!? ;)
YES! +1
Been looking for that one too!
I still remember the first time i heard Cliffs of dover. My faculties left me for a second and i left stains in my boxers....love stains 😉
If its good enough for Ding-dangle Marmalade, it's good enough for me!
This is awesome, thanks! In his interview with Rick Beato, Kirk Hammet showed a warmup he did that he called jazz chord promenade or something like that that he learned from Joe Satriani. Would love it if you could show us that exercise or something similar.
My pentatonics thank you in advance. Still waiting for that Chris Poland etude you promised me.
Babe, wake up. Uncle Ben just posted a new exercise!
LESS SLEEPIN, MORE SWEEPIN!!!
@@BenEllerif only my real uncle gave advice as good as yours
Awesome lesson! I love these types of runs, it also has a, Warren DeMartini vibe to it as well. He does a lot of these cascading style runs too.
Thank you Ben for teaching that phrase this is just what I needed was someone to slow it down and explain exactly how it works thank you
Thanks for this! Would be great if you can show us some Shawn Lane's pentatonic ideas
So pumped for this, my pentatonics have always been lacking
Love you're content man all good stuff keep up the good work lots of us appreciate it
Your picking hand is your skill, not your fretting hand
But everyone watches your fretting hand
I’ve been watching Ben for a long time but I still don’t know (definitively) why he never says Yngwie’s name correctly.
Are you gonna make a video dissecting Kirk Hammets practice routine from Rick Beatos interview?
Still waiting for "Out in the Fields"....
Just sayin'.
Nice!
the first few notes sound like the lead break from EJ's song SRV 🖖
I only started learning how to play guitar a month ago & I'm documenting my journey on here and this type of stuff is super helpful!
Thank you for the EJ lesson, great video and wow to being on stage with him and timmons way cool!!!! Thank you keep up the great videos, much appreciated 🤘, ok fingers let's get this!!
Excellent work as always. Fortunately this feels pretty natural, and I’m less ashamed that I can’t economy up for shit. 😆
I notice you use two fingers rather than roll for adjacent notes. Do you feel there is an advantage at speed, or just personal comfort?
Cheers!
Yup I can get that cleaner than rolling. I actually covered that in the original cut of the video but snipped it last minute, dang!
I see the new RGA!
Good stuff. And super cool about sharing the stage with EJ. Phenomenal.
Cool Ben! Its nice when a practice exercises sounds good on its own!
Omg ..😢 I WISH... The Woodshed Exp. looked like it was a blast
It's weird, I've always had clean upward sweeps and economy picking but really sloppy downward sweeps. Johnson is basically doing the opposite to what I would do for speed and comfort.
Funny I’m the opposite. Can economy pick and sweep pick down but can’t match it going up.
@@dangrather1280 it's so weird, i just find the pulling/dragging motion of upward picking more controllable and it feels like pulling off with the left hand, it's like releasing pressure instead of applying...
I im in the exact same situation but guess what... It works, at least for these exercises. I think its related to the angle on the hand and muscular memory
@@andresreiter indeed, this exercise has also brought my downward economy picking forwards. I'm really grateful actually. It made me return to the climactic sultans of swing lick and use an economy picking approach on that too and it was a completely foreign feel, but once locked in it sped up and cleaned up that phrase for me.
Don’t wanna ruffle your brisels 😂😂😂
Hey what do you think Neal schon does?
That Shining art on the wall is rad
This will keep me busy. Great as always Ben! ;)
Great lesson Ben! I'd most likely rip the strings out of my guitar in terror sharing the stage with EJ😬
Haha I was very content to be on bass!!
Cool stuff... by the way, I notice when you refer to a particular Swedish guitar shredder. You don't use his actual name. At first, it seemed just humorous and a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I sense that there's a more specific reason for that. Am I right?
you're gonna enjoy next week's video hahaha
Thank you for dope educational content, Ben! As always :)
i can't wait to try this when i get home, and then curse my old stupid hands
Great lesson mate !
I was about 20 when I first heard EJ and the Tones album. Maybe a lesson on EJs intervallic approach as well? Like he uses in ‘Friends’
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Now I can't stop hearing Bean-ller-Guitars in my mind when you promote your patreon. 😅
you rule uncle ben ! cant wait to give this little ditty a go
I saw Eric on the Ah Via Musicom tour in 1991. Mind blown.
Another awesome lesson Ben. I don’t know what everyone thinks but I think you are also a God-level player!
Stealing this for my wedding gig on Saturday. Keeping em coming!
Some of the best EJ breakdowns, your EJ essentials vid a few years back was also brilliant. Love this playing but combine it with EJs tone and its just magic - very happy for you to have seen it first hand.
The Down-Down parts are a little tricky for me as that motion plays the 2 notes faster than the alternate picking parts. Because it's one stroke that almost plays the notes together. Less space in between. So I can hear these little speed things here and there in the whole phrase. I know....I suck.
You’ll get it! Keep with it!
This down down eco picking reminds me of another lesson you had where it was some ascending 3 note per string shredding with the down down eco things thrown in. That one defo made eco picking click for me and this one is really good as well now
When you were playing with EJ, you should have shown him hammer-ons and pull-offs. Not only would it have blown his mind, but it makes those phrases a lot more easier to play.
Doesn't really have that same EJ articulation to it if you do it that way but yes, you are correct.
EJ sometimes uses pull-offs in his playing to force an even number of notes on a string.
Now I know why he is Uncle Ben!
Dingdang Valvoline 🤘
Lmao "stepdad speed" 😂
That picture of you and Eric onstage sparks joy
Great lick and lesson. Thanks Ben.
Man.. Same stage as Eric Johnson. It will take time to grasp that. He knows hes way around the sound. Anyhow..
Azum!! Thank you and take my thumbs up!
Keep up the good work!!
Big Thumbs Up
Good for you , Ben !! What an amazing Life Experience for you . I must say , like a lot of people , I'm extremely jealous . But I'm happy for you . Hope you're doing well .
Thanks Uncle Ben! You jam and hang out with the coolest of Muse's, Much luv lesson
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Thanks, Uncle Ben.
Jesus! This is the BEST explanation of that technique I have seen.
Looking forward to getting at my guitar later
Yes yes and yes
Sick. I’ve been working on incorporating economy picking into my playing so this will be a fun one to integrate.
Great stuff Ben!!!
A favorite cascading run of mine is Joe Satriani's 'Rubina' (Live at the Tower Theatre) 2:51
That solo is powerful.
Right up my alley
Thanks, Uncle Ben! I'm still having a hard time with my pinky since the surgery, but these exercises are fantastic!! You are a maestro!! 🤘🎸
This is a great lesson. Were you able to watch EJ and break it down while you were watching him? That's so sick man. You are legend.
great lesson. Nice job, Ben!
Good stuff Ben, something different to work on. Thanks!
@beneller I’ve watched sooo many videos on Eric’s technique that frankly gets it wrong. This is absolute gold and I’ll be shedding this religiously. Thank you! P.S. What happened to the “King Ben” drawing that was on the wall at your old studio?
Thank you!!! King Ben will return, he’s chilling in my storage unit at the moment. Upper left side is a ZomBen by my same friends that’s amazing!
Your kidding!? Awesome to just stand next to him, let alone play. Respect!!. 👍
Going to see him next month for the first time evah!! Thanks this is great!
EJ is a monster!!! Awesome you got to jam with him!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Eric doesn’t shred like metal the way you are doing Ben. That’s a reason why I love EJ is because he isnt shredding like that but plays really fast and it’s just beautiful. Most people play fast riffs and it’s garbage.
Congrats Uncle Ben, or congrats Eric 😁
Stepdad speed on this one sounded more like Metallica speed.
Or maybe I’m just trying to make myself feel better because I’m a stepdad and can’t shred anywhere near as fast as Uncle Obi-Wan.
Edited to fix “unlce” to “Uncle” because I also can’t spell as well as Uncle Obi-Wan Eller.
Cool. I've Andy and Eric Gales jam at the NAMM show right next to my old boss Grover Jackson.
Very good!!
What's the equipment used here, besides the Universal Audio OX?
Hey Ben great exercise in the style of EJ. Any reason you wouldn't just bar the 17-17 economy picking with your middle finger near the beginning? Is it because you don't want ring out?
I’ve been trying to learn Cliffs of Dover.. ugh i’m so used to just watching something a couple of times, fiddling around a few times and i got it..
nope.. not Cliffs of Dover. It’s frustrating but I’m getting it little by little
Searched Eric Johnson and ended up watching my first B.E. video. \m/
Ben, no one seems to address the mental part of keeping track of where you are the fretboard as you move around. Especially, overlapping patterns. Any tips ? Also, where can I find out about the Woodshed you events you mention ?
EJ and Andy, two of my favorites! This lesson is exactly what I need, thanks Ben!
This lesson is awesome. Also, my new, orange Shred Til You're Undead shirt just showed up!
Huzzah!!!
one of my fave lessons from u makes economy picking so easy thanks to you
l like step-dad speed, thx for the consideration of us
guys who can't think fast any more😅😅
any reason as to why Eric uses double downstrokes but not double upstrokes?, at 4:53 when it goes from the 15th fret on E string (up) to the 17th fret on B string (down) my picking hand naturally tries to do up-up instead of up-down for some reason
I take bits and pieces from EJ. Enough to change up my solo but not completely morphed.
great lesson Uncle Ben
Ben hopefully you can answer this quick question . I just bought a nice Ibanez persteige and notice a gap on both sides where the neck bolts onto the body . Do you think that’s a problem ?
Nah. Look at the neck joint on EVH’s Frankenstrat sometime!
@@BenEller ohh god thank you bro lol... I was loosing my shit lmfao! I looked at my older prestige from 2014 and didn’t have gap , so I thought maybe they made the pocket was to big.
Not a problem. I have two S6570s, just make sure the neck is straight then tighten the screws a tiny bit. You can slip a business card in the bass side of the pocket.
Is Dingdang Valvoline a real thing or is that just another name for Wingnut Springsteen?
Uncle Legend!
Would like a friggin' with that? 😉
Great lesson,example how to enhance pentatonic scale with 6th interval of major scale .in this case adding C# to key of E and get that slightly diatonic feel ,EJ and Satch do it all the time
Uncle Ben I have a request: we have all heard would it would have sound like if Eddie Van Halen dead say the solo for Stairway to Heaven those kinds of things... you are about the best Eddie Van Halen sound alike that I've heard it was brought to my attention that Eddie really wanted to join kiss and tried very hard to join kiss but Gene Simmons wouldn't let him do it said he needed to have his own thing... it would be cool if you would take some of the Van Halen songs that came out after that conversation and see what it actually would sound like if kiss had performed it with Eddie at the helm and also some of the Kiss songs that were written after that what would it have sounded like if Eddie had been involved no I think that would make an awesome video
You got the 'thumbs up' for playing this at 'stepdad step' for me. 🤣
Ben. Love ya bro, but how do you not mention Andy Timmons in the introduction along with Eric. Wow!
As a guitarist I know the a minor pentatonic scale which most everyone is taught. So say when you learn these scales you are teaching, how do most guitarists “make it their own” so we don’t just memorize the scales and get stuck in that box so we can just have fun and let lead guitar come natural and just let it flow? Do most guitarists get stuck in this mode in the beginning and learn to branch out in time?
Going from bass to guitar. Wish me luck.
The problem is even if you learn to play the licks ..the speed that EJ plays those is just very hard to get! Not as easy like 3 note per string patterns,2 notes per string patterns like that i found those even harder for some reason
What’s good homie?
Things that are nice!