I did some checking on the EJ website forum and apparently Hal Leonard recently did some better, more accurate transcriptions that are avaiable on and - I haven't gotten a chance to check them myself (mine go back to the early - mid 90's) so perhaps that might be a better route to check. Very few transcriptions I've seen capture this - they usually write it out as a strummed, basic power chord. They are almost more like 'fake books' than actual transcriptions - nothing wrong with that if you just want the general jist of the song, but if you want to get in deeper of what really going on and learn all the finer nuances - most don't deliver.ДЇor instance, alot of his distorted chord technique involves playing power chords that use a bass note on a low wound string, several strings muted in between and the rest of the chord on the higher plain strings - you get this very wide open sound, and he usually plucks the bass notes with the pick and the higher notes he fingerpicks, attacking all the strings at once the same way a pianist would play a chord. His 1990 album Ah Via Musicom was certified platinum by the RIAA, and the single 'Cliffs of Dover' won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. I agree to a point - I usually use books like that for getting new ideas I can incorporate into my own playing more than to actually to learn a song - but, again, most are completely off the mark compared to what he's actually doing. Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is an American guitarist, vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. If he wants a certain note to sound thicker he'll play it on a lower wound string, even though the identical note may be much closer and easier to access on a thinner plain string.ДЇor instance, the opening riff is much easier to play using open notes like that transcription showed, but it doesn't quite sound right - the way to actually play it involves barring the D and G notes on the B and E strings with your first finger, with the lower G note on the 5th fret of the D string, and the moving notes happening on the B string - causing quite a stretch and requiring some careful finger placement, but the notes ring out properly when played that way, and it sound thicker using the wound D in the riff. Then Guitar For The Practicing Musician magazine actually sat down with Eric and transcribed the way he plays it and all the 'single' notes were chords - making the song infinite harder, but when you play it that way it finally sounded right.ДЄlso, EJ is a tough one because he bases the fingering on the neck based on the tonality that he's going for, not merely on where it's easiest to play. First time I saw the song 'Trademark' transcribed it was all nice, easy single note lines. I have two different tab books of EJ - one sort of 'best of' and another for Venus Isle, and they are REALLY bad.ДЄgain, one of the biggest issues is they will write out melodies that he plays using chords using single notes.

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