If you want to see and hear more from Nick check out my ‘A casual chat with Nick Johnston’ video I shot with him: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rIx9zpuTp9OTY5c.html //cheers, Kris

Nick Johnston sees a I IV V chord progression: “I’m about to destroy this mans whole career”

It's so crazy how he reminds of guthrie every time I see him (looks and playing) , but he's got totally his own thing going on and he's pretty cool

One of the most refreshing players in recent memory. Ty Nick

Such a humble guy. Love him

This guy is from the same planet as Guthrie Govan!

This whole video is like a life changing experience

Man, I remember years ago, I was trying to compose a solo into a base using pentathonic and everything changed the moment I discover a note between the scale that made everything more interesting and beautiful. That's exactly what Nick's talking.

Imagine if Mateus Asato and Nick Johnston jamming together

@PGMPARAGUAI

5 жыл бұрын

Nick é mais criativo. Muito mais.

@PGMPARAGUAI

5 жыл бұрын

Basta ver os arpejos com 7 e alterados que ele faz e o domínio absoluto dos saltos.

@taxo

5 жыл бұрын

Asato is a delicious player with loads of taste, but Nick is much more explodingly creative and surprising imho

@PGMPARAGUAI

5 жыл бұрын

@@taxo perfect. Nick is other level.

@TheGuitarifier

4 жыл бұрын

@@taxo absolutely true. Mateus has ridiculous chording ability but Nick is on another when it comes to lead phrasing.

I love how he is maybe the only guy recently that represents the organic guitar tones instead of syntetic "perfect" tone and syntetically perfected articulation ❤

He has the whole fretboard mastered . Mineblow

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

5 жыл бұрын

He really does, it's kind of unreal to witness ! So much talent for such a humble guy too //Guillaume

This was an awesome video to watch, so much information to take in but in an understandable way, love it!

What i learnt from this was all these years I've not been cooking with herbs and spices and Nick just showed me the cupboard with them in. I've got a lot of learning ahead!!

The more talented you get, the closer you resemble Guthrie Govan

@jedisponge16

2 жыл бұрын

@Fifty Cycle Objectively bad take

@Kyrelel

2 жыл бұрын

@Fifty Cycle He was talking about his physical appearance :/

Nick is such a cool down to earth mo fo!! One of my fav guitarists!

one of the best and extremely creative guitar player in the rock/prog scene I think 🤘🏾

Im really flabbergasted bey the musicality of Nick he' s such a tallented guitar player and very nice person. Every note that comes out of his guitar has a function in the whole. Really impressive.

"I've been Guillaume... I'm no more..." 😂 That was great, glad to see something not geared towards the absolute beginners as it usually is the case. Those who understood have great licks and technic to explore, those who didn't now know what to learn to get there, as it was well explained. Stunning video!

Yeah, Nick is very cool as a person and guitarist :-) Amazing how single coils sound, once you get hooked on single, hard to go to the "other" route...

this is just the motivation i needed

It’s all in the mind!!! Great musician.

Nick is a genius. One of a kind.

This guy is so melodic, love his playing and sound.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

5 жыл бұрын

Nick is a legend //Andy

I'm surprised of the like-ratio - it seems like there are more people who couldnt follow nick's thoughts than one should expect? Of course he is a bit over the place but the information that he shares in this interview is gold! This is exactly the kind of style and approach that I want for my own guitar-playing! Thanks!

@Kyrelel

2 жыл бұрын

Do you still get punched a lot, or have you moved on from making childish comments?

Awesome vid....thanks Thomann

Man its just different from everybody ..i just loved it ..thanks

What an awesome guy!! Killer player!

Engrossing video Guillaume, Nick and ANDY! :)

That little hammer-on stab over the harmonic at 19:27 is 👌

Sick. Just plain sick. Thank you.

I went to by a schecter guitar, but it wasn't available, but instead I met this Cort guitar and it was awesome and less costly and I purchased it. Happy, long time...

Great stuff, thank you!

I suppose Guillaume is now boosted for next 5 years for improving his skills in improvisations. Awesome.

Pure class guys 😎👌

18:10 Nick teaches his chord change thoughts.

Sure, now I get it, so easy since you explained it that way.

johnston-ize; verb | \ ˈjän(t)-stən-īz : to overplay a lot but somehow it sounds pretty good

Amazing…..great insight

Nick is such a killer player!

Mann! He's sick!! 🔥

i am relax in mind johnston.... oh,,,so good tune

This dude 🙌🏻

one of the best phrasings in the world

nice nail job Nick haha, on point as well as your guitar skills!

nick johnston is the kind of guitar player i want to have collab with every single band

Such a genius .

A great point to this video is to remember that Eleanor Rigby and Scarborough Fair were both some of the most beautiful songs ever written and each has only one raised note (6th) that make the songs so beautiful. If you take out the raised note they actually sound bland and not too great.

Thanks NJ this make me better player

He looks pirate and sounded like pirate !!! Awesomee.

All Guitars in this song are completly recorded with a Schecter Signature Nick Johnston Traditional HSS Strat AS Rain Air - Funky Faxi gets the Blues kzread.info/dash/bejne/m46spqilk8nOmZM.html

He is just phenomenal. But it makes him more human if you look how he messed up 5:20-5:40 because he had that fluff with A as V of E major, which he immediately corrected, but then got a little nervous for some seconds. Whenever this will happen to me in my online lessons I will think of him and be cool with this :) What he wanted to say is that the chord progression Em-G-A is the dorian mode (not A dorian like he said) and you think it like a D major scale instead of the G major scale when the third chord appears. The bad thing is that mastering that topic will never lead to soloing like Nick because he is just an insanely good player with his own style.

I have this recurring dream. Nick and G. Govan arrived at the cave with their loincloths. They make a guitar out of wood, mammoth guts, and the shell of a glyptodon. Then they play together and show that they are two of the best guitarists and cavemans of all times 👏🙌🙂💛🙃🤙🤘🎸🦴

mind completely blown

anybody else caught the reference he makes to "Time" by Pink Floyd at 1:29 ? No? the "slightly older and closer to death" while playing 3 chords that, though not the exact ones, give off the same vibe/melody as in the Floyd's song.

@shahriaar0

3 жыл бұрын

I think I noticed a bit of Jason Becker vibe on some licks as well.

Nicks Right hand just Kills me ery time So fluid! do y'all sell tone fingers yet?? I'll take a set of Johnston/Gilbert hybrids when their in stock. 22.30 Guillaume said all with that giggle/gasp

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

5 жыл бұрын

G's giggle floors me everytime. As does Nick's fingers //Andy

The best!

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

5 жыл бұрын

He really is. //Andy

Nice informative vdo..... eventually we will reach a space whr all 12 notes are used in a context of time n gap... in total amodal zone..... much like Miles or Indian classical music ! 🎉❤

Nicks guitar expertise is remarkable that's for sure, Enuff said right?

I don’t think he’s the best but him and Mateus asato are A-Tier for me, I was so inspired by him I bought his signature in pink and it’s my favorite guitar

I feel like my man found that infamous Yngwie "more is more" interview and took it as gospel.

The slogan at the bottom of Nick Johnston's guitar lesson business card "I guarantee you'll be older and closer to death"

I wanttt nicckk guitarr soooo harddd!!!!

Wow!

Now I want a Nick Johnston tutorial dvd

@jcborges96

4 жыл бұрын

Intuition by Nick Johnston. Check his page!

When I watch a video with Nick J in it, all of my guitars start laughing at me.....in harmony.

I have the Mk 5:25 but want that 35 too. Cuz, reasons.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

5 жыл бұрын

Ditto. Cuz reasons! //Andy

His right hand have a life of his own :O

Concept about it Remind me of george lynch, his guitar playing Without fear of some loose notes. Creates his own voice nevertheless.

Nick is awesome! The chord progression fits perfectly into D major: E dorian/G lydian/A mixolydian... but "what else you got?"

@victorteran559

5 жыл бұрын

Also my thought process lol

@sasmitha8446

4 жыл бұрын

I followed until he said it goes to A Dorian (which is in G Major) but the key changes to D? How does that work out? I'm new to this so if anyone could explain it would be GREAT.

@victorteran559

4 жыл бұрын

@@sasmitha8446 (so hes tuned a half step down) The chord progression hes playing is Eminor, Gmajor, and Amajor. Which if you think about it are all in the key of Dmajor. Thats how i thought of it. Eminor is the ii chord of Dmajor Gmajor is the IV chord of Dmajor Amajor is the V chord of Dmajor So if you make the Eminor the root note/key, you could play a Dmajor scale and call it Edorian. If the Gmajor is the root/key, play that same old Dmajor scale and its Glydian. If the Amajor is the root/key, with that SAME Dmajor scale and now its Amixolydian You are literally playing the exact same notes in each of those scales/modes, the only difference is the root note. Edorian, Glydian, Amixolydian all share the exact same notes as the regular old Dmajor scale. (Except theres no Dmajor chord being played so thats what is making it sound odd and complex and not like a normal typical major scale. That and the fact that the starting and ending note of that Dmajor scale has beenchanged with one of its intervals making it played in a slightly different order) Modes... essentialy are just a major scale... But the only thing that really changes is which interval you decide to call the root note. Im not a teacher, and this is how i understand it 😅 So i hope im not confusing you.

@victorteran559

4 жыл бұрын

@@sasmitha8446 or since in the progression the Eminor is the first chord you can just play regular old Eminor pentatonic and be fine 🤷🏻‍♂ Or make that into Eharmonic minor.. Once you add that harmonic minor like him things get way more complicated, and its personal taste/choice. And you have to be aware that not all tension notes sound good with other chords. All those chromatic notes fit and sound cool since hes staying in that single chord Eminor progression and not switching to other chords. I think Nick has a much more complex way of seeing things. Which was slightly confusing if im being honest. I try to simplify it in a way i can understand and use in my own playing.

@sgtcaco

4 жыл бұрын

@@victorteran559 you sound like you have explained this a lot. Frustrating isn’t it.

what a guy

would be nice to know his signal chain here

Mind fucking BLOWN!

Maybe it’s just me being stoned but they seemed stoned, but what an experience to interact with Nick. Low the interviewer also!

It's not fair, your hair is playing with you !!

16:34 is my idea of having fun

Yngwie More is More, Nick: Here we go

The only guy I can think of who might have more knowledge of the fretboard might be Steve lukather.

@ryanbeck8004

3 жыл бұрын

I agree dude! Lukather is a god though, and no one can touch his style. You know it’s Luke whenever you hear anything he plays. Same with Nick though. As soon as you hear it you know it’s him. Legends.

Everything he’s talking about is exactly what I want to learn. Can someone point me at classes that teach that? Is it simply music theory? Or is it something more specific?

@satyarsh665

5 жыл бұрын

go and learn some jazz my guy!

@naganud

5 жыл бұрын

The Five Elements thank you much!

@MindsetMastery75

5 жыл бұрын

He was mostly experimenting with different modal concepts. Look into modal theory.

@lancecass8997

5 жыл бұрын

6 months ago o was stuck there too. If you're interested I can send you some links. Get some theory under your belt, takes focus, and gotta force yourself from playing all that stuff you do repeatedly and treat yourself like a new student. It's hard to adjust at first but very worth it. The last 6 months I had some time, played and practiced about 6 hrs a day. Watched thousands of videos, hundreds of teachers. I picked out 15-20 really good ones. You can go through em and see which ones work for you

@lancecass8997

5 жыл бұрын

Check out Move forward guitar and Fretjam on KZread for some theory. Go through the playlists. Some of it you may already know, learn the fretboard notes, then your intervals, triads, scales and arpeggios. Check out Guthrie Trapp and the CAGED system "positions" and it puts it all together and maps the fretboard out. Then learn your modes from Signals Music on KZread. He's great. Then take that new learning and apply it, someone here recommended backing tracks, they are awesome. Check out Elevated Jam Tracks.

5:40 E natural minor to A Dorian? Think he meant E Dorian over A.

@chriswarren5728

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was trying to work this out too. Is it E natural minor to A mixolydian to facilitate the key change? E dorian to A mixolydian is the same key.

Shit…. I’ve got a bunch of guitars for sale after that.

I feel older and closer to death, but not better! 😂😂😂

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

5 жыл бұрын

Do you need a hug? //Andy

@Oilid

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses It's kind of you but I actually need Nick 's brain. 😂

Guys please bring mateus asato

13:00

“I apologize for nothing”

Who switches pickups as often as this guy? I've never seen that.

lol Nick was kinda dark in this one :D

Ahhh, I think I’ve figured out some of Nick Johnston’s secret sauce, at about the 2:50 ish mark. Nick needs to share with us, how to use hair to help play guitar; Hair-brid picking!

@gioelevio1626

5 жыл бұрын

Looks like hair gives that muted-staccato sound :P

@leeg7106

5 жыл бұрын

GioeleVio ...I’ve noticed that, and the hair assist on his tapping, amazing!

@ejRecording

4 жыл бұрын

he definitely dropped the hair lower there for the effects

Too many notes for an ils school Guy like me !!!😁👍 But great playing;-)

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

5 жыл бұрын

Haha don't worry it's too many notes for just about anyone ! ^^ // Guillaume

Nick and Guthrie stand head and shoulders above the pack. Phenomenal musician.

Jesus, he got like all those tattoos and nose piercing in about 1 years time. That's quite impressive in itself.

@kenjiwhe

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, your funny. And Nick is a cool dude, love his style!

Nick just came in to Thomann and blew minds apart. Lol. You can tell by the host at the end. Lost.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

5 жыл бұрын

Space Alien completely true! We’re still searching the bits and pieces of our exploded minds. Ha ha! //cheers, Kris

The lip smack king

This is calculus to me

.

Hi Nick.....

WOW. wtf I've just seen xD

thought this was guthrie at first.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

4 жыл бұрын

Well it's not so far off haha ! // Guillaume

High lol

Airport?....Doesn’t it stay in a case when traveling....

"Humble".. yea right.. humble my a$$