Well, I've come to give you Cliffs of Dover. Although many have heard it, the sheer brilliance of it all is enough to re-listen to it. Eric Johnson's most well known and masterful piece, Cliffs has a Jimi style thang going on. It starts with a strong solo following no specific time, but utilizing many advanced techniques such as hybrid picking and some really freakin fast fingers. It then settles into a shuffle beat for the music nerds among us who are interested and enters into motifs and individual melodies which are repeated or riffed on. And finally the outro is much like the intro, ad libbed with extreme awesomeness. Unfortunately, I don't have a really good recording to give you, but the cleanest that I have found a youtube guy who plays it all and plays it well. Check it out.
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