Eric Johnson Position shifting

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#1

Near the end of this Eric Johnson pentatonics video Troy looks briefly at his position shifting in the Austin City Limits video:

https://troygrady.com/channels/code-series/episode-11-eric-the-right/

The discussion is a little tossed off–as if we’d already been looking at that aspect of his technique, but I can’t find that antecedent discussion. I get the the sweeping and cross-neck stuff, but the thing about moving up or down the neck to get the off-kilter effect of three-note patterns without breaking the UPS 4 note-per string rule is really fascinating and there’s just barely a taste of it. There’s some in the Yngwie stuff, but I’d love to see more on how Eric uses it. Is there a real breakdown of it somewhere?

Apologies if I’ve missed something obvious–I’m new to the site and still finding how to navigate around in it.

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#2

Hi! Indeed, that animated feature was done as a kind of digest / overview. The position-shifting concept is handled at great length — some I work with would say, far too great a length — in the Cascade Seminar here:

https://troygrady.com/seminars/cascade/

It’s pretty much the subject of the entire 3+ hour thing. I apologize ahead of time!

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