These Eric Johnson Chords from Emerald Eyes Blew My Tiny Mind

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I started watching @OfficialEricJohnson Emerald Eyes live today and it took about 4 seconds before I was asking "What is He Doing There?!" so I had to break it down. In future I will breakdown some more of this tune if any wants me to?

The presets I'm using here will be added to the folder "Eric Clean" and "Eric Lead 35"

Please leave a comment if you find this type of "lesson" useful, so that I know to keep making them!

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[rogerwilliams]

Such beautiful chords. Thanks, John. Imagine being an 18 year old guitarist watching him in small clubs playing this and just shaking my head in 1978

[bathstreetblues]

Tones is hands down one of Eric's best albums!

[averagegamer]

I have been searching for an in-depth breakdown for months, and it would be AMAZING if you could make one. Great video and thank you.

[TCMx]

Yes we want more! Maybe also the Pavillion/Mountain stuff he used to do. There's some amazing peak Venus Isles era video floating around

[jackprice]

Your playing never ceases to amaze me. EJ is from another planet!

[leefradkin]

Gorgeous (and useful); keep the pup(s) involved.

[cosmogang]

I learned some similar chord shapes from the old “chord chemistry” book back in the day after Vai recommended it in a old old interview. Fantastic stuff.

[OverlyCooked]

A bunch of tunes off his to be 'debut' album recorded in the 70's that didn't come out till the 90's "Seven Worlds" will blow your mind.

[LostCupids]

I’m loving these videos. Thank you so much.

[Cybucow]

Yep, loving it...please do more such thangs....

[jeremydumoit]

Here for the dog living his best life. Also the EJ lesson...

[cwwmbm]

Definitely more of this please! Your chords videos are incredible and you don't see this stuff on the tube anywhere. I wouldn't be too upset if you decide them more often than just once a week :)

[ScreamingPopeMindlessnes-xbcm]

Love the tutorial and of course sausage on your lap is classic. It’s like really paying attention as well…..

[TLMuse]

Fantastic intro solo—so many cool and melodic ideas! —Tom

[evetssorc]

Third. Beautiful playing as always John. Greetings from an Island off the west coast of Canada.

[bongo]

Love this song. I kinda knew his name from the Christopher Cross debut CD, but He was not officially introduced yet in Japan when I bought the CD "Tones" digging up the import CD section at the Tower Record in Osaka. The intro gave me a goosebump... the bend... I actually thought he was playing acoustic guitar. I time to time come back to this CD for his raw and pure tone...

[alx]

Please do more of these vids, especially where you do the lead runs - interested in theory behind them

[jakehahn]

Think you could do a deep dive on this one, even if it is only on Patreon? Loved the video by the way.

[Volgin.]

Can you do a video on EJ's tone on the Ampero II? It'd be amazing!

[mosesve]

So, I really tried to follow through, but after the pinch harmonics, that was a Bflat over Dog7, right? And after that a woof over Amajor7 or was that a Awoofsus4?