Don't take this the wrong way lads because I know I'm nowhere near Eric's level but that's how us self-taught players do it, I know the major scales and the maj/min pentatonics, and the 1,4,5, chord progressions, but that's it can't read music and trying to understand theory gives me a headache, got the scales from a book everything else was learned by ear and jammin, when I'm groovin what I hear in my head is what everyone else hears and to be honest I'd love to understand theory because I find it hard to talk musically with other players, playing 40 years and I still get a buzz from learning something new 😎
A few years before this was filmed I met him in a pub and got chatting -I never let on I knew who he was.He came across as a really nice humble guy with no superstar ego.He used to do many charity gigs around Surrey under a false name and was lucky enough to see one in a pub. It was the best gig I ever saw - he played Chuck Berry and various other rock n roll classics - none of his own stuff. It was like watching Pele turn up for a Sunday kick around
@@DrRock2009 I don't know about David Gilmour that well, but I don't doubt it. The only thing about David Gilmour that I'm a little ambivalent about is that he has some deep-seated resentment toward his mother, even at his age. It was part of a documentary once. Seems like a nice guy though....family man.
Best advice for lead guitar playing on UA-cam. It's NOT about scales or modes or arpeggios or musical rules. Like Miles Davis famously said, "First you got to learn all that stuff, then you got to forget it". It's about vocalizing the music in your head. Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker did it the same way.
The problem is that you'll never internalize the sounds until you learn scales and arpeggios and rules and all that. You can't write a poem in Russian until you learn the vocabulary. That's pretty hard to do by just coming up with random stuff and seeing if you like the sounds. Learning all the modes and scales is just faster.
It IS about scales and chords and arppegios. Just like Miles said. You must! learn how to use them. Embed them in your brain. Then be creative with them in an artistic manner drawing upon your subliminal conditioning.
Clapton is one of the most influential guitarists of all time, and has a unique style that you can recognize instantly (very few guitarists have this). Great emotion and melody to his playing. Plus he's a great vocalist, a great songwriter. If you think he's overrated, you're clueless.
Totally agree. Anyone who thinks he's overrated is clueless. I saw Eric in Portland, OR in 1978 at the Paramount. Only 3,200 capacity. Ticket was $8.50, lol.
His style is. "BB. King". only faster. and the way he sings is called. " Sounding like a black man". lolyou really think Billy Gibbons talks and sings the way he does for real? lol. Did you ever hear Billy Gibbons talk in his normal voice? Or Eric Clapton sing in his normal white man voice, if not. listen to him sing "Isn't It a Pity". live on you tube, it is a George Harrison song. He must sing it like a white mqn. as it is nothing like a blues song - he has such a hard time doing that. lol. lol. lol. you can tell he is very uncomfortable doing it. Then. there was a You Tube video. of him saying that. but they took it off You Tube
That is "The Journeyman's" gift. The "hearing in your head" thing. He has said this at other times : he knows that he has the command of the "vocabulary' and can effortlessly apply that onto the fretboard with his hands. This it what make him great.
The more triads, harmonizations, scales and licks you can learn the better. I think the secret is to somehow get all that stuff into your subconscious so you can play it at will without thinking about it. Also KNOW THE FRETBOARD!!! Notice how he drops from somewhere over the 12th fret down to the second or third without missing a beat cause he’s done it a million times. The best improvisation I’ve done, which doesn’t happened very often, is when Im not thinking about it. In fact everything I “F” up in life in general is a result of overthinking. Life is a song, if you stay in the key you’ll be all right, if you’re out of tune you’ll be thrown off the stage.
Amazing that Eric’s gift for playing beautiful guitar has survived the many addictions he went through, and that he survived them too... he is without doubt a chosen son!
to be honest - he wasn't any worse than any other entertainer who got on the shit - he was just a lot smarter - he knew he couldn't handle it so he quit - I'd be shocked if he didn't smoke weed - his big problem was the legal stuff - liquor -
Franco Villarreal no...for e.g. like making your guitar soloing sound like it’s Aretha Franklin singing or simply copy the melody of the song....get it?
@@thomasfarmer1730 yeah I think I get it now, so that is what Clapton is talking about in this video, right?? And John Mayer did too in his Instagram's live
@@francovillarreal5739You have to play a lot so if you hear a melody in your head you can do it on the guitar. Don't just mindlessly pluck notes from a scale but feel them. Don't make a melody on the guitar make it in your head and transfer it. But it is also not recommended you think of these things all the time. It comes natural I guess
This is a clip from a 1987 edition of The South Bank Show on TV. Was an excellent programme all about his career up to then, they got him together to play with Buddy Guy too. Amazing!
The genius of Clapton is he can play the same song - flawlessly - a thousand times while no two sound the exactly the same and, yet, each is a masterpiece. I mean, think about what this really means. A performer can often do ONLY one or two: 1.) Perfectly deliver - no mistakes. 2.) Give a different performance 3.) Make something beautiful that stands above all others He has done ALL THREE simultaneously - _many times over_ .
What artists don't fathom, is you need it in your head in the first place, and being able to translate that feeling and depth of emotion from your soul, brain, fingers...... in too the guitar and out too us..... that..... THAT is the magical bit. People often say they don't believe in magic, but i do every time i hear Clapton, Gilmour, Doyl Bramhall II, Satriani, Vai, Rothery and many more play.
That’s exactly what I’ve felt and it’s cool to hear a master say that. It’s humming/singing to the song with the instrument. Just my fingers don’t always get it haha, but sometimes you make a little fumble and it actually sounds good and you roll with it. Maybe even re do that fumble and add a little something to it and just keep it rolling. At least when you’re jamming.
Man he hit it on the head, but even at this time he had in around 20 years, and 20 years of being Eric Clapton at that.. I think he unintentionally undersold the value of dedicated technique development, but he describes what it's like to be in the zone so accurately.
Never heard anything more true I spent so long trying to learn all the technical stuff to soloing and drained all the creativity from it as soon as you know the scales and all that learning how to play what you think is the most crucial thing above all
When I was a young guitar player this would have made no sense.. Now it does. I will try to explain - imagine you are in the key of c and you are playing a c chord in the open position - like we all learn when we are starting out. When we strum the C chord - that cord is make from 3 notes - they are C E and G - so when you strum strings 5,4,3,2 and 1 - all of those strings are playing one of the 3 notes - C E orG. Nothing magic there. Now you want to improvise,.... play something at random to match up with a C chord . So have someone strum the C chord while you at random pick notes in that open position - of course you can pick and of the C E or G notes and everything will sound fine - you can do hammers, pulls, slides, bends, vibrato on any of those C E and G notes. It will sound find but might get a little boring after a while. So here is the secret - the C scale - yes, that scale you never wanted to learn about or practice. We will take the C major scale that is the notes C D E F G A B - those 7 notes - you already play 3 of them when you make the chord - you play C E and G notes. That leaves 4 more notes in the scale - they are D F A and B. For basic rock or blues we fill leave out the F and B notes for now so the notes we will play are C D E G and A. (if you want to get technical we will call that the 5 note pentatonic scale. So what? Well, have your friend strum a C chord while you randomly play and of those 5 notes (C D E G or A) - do any hammers, pulls, slides, bends, vibrato you want. - it will be really hard to make it sound bad - and it will probably begin to sound pretty good to you. After you do it a while you are not thinking of notes at all, you are hearing a sound in you imagination and then playing it on the guitar as you go. You are playing notes in the c scale and your fingers have memorized what notes are allowed and which ones to avoid.
From someone who is self taught and just now understanding scales and solos... Clapton describes it how i describe making solos... Its like a voice or your speaking with the strings instead of your mouth. Only way to describe it really.
Look if Les Paul can pull off a show every week well into his 90s I think Mr. Clapton could easily do a few intimate performance sessions with special guests on a live podcast. Has anyone even asked him? Loloo
We need to call him and at least give him something to think about. Tell him we can get David Gilmore, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and probably Brian May to come guest with him. Any of you guys got their number? We should probably call them too. Lmao
This is taken from a "south bank show special" which was a programme on the bbc in the 80's. He does some brilliant playing on it and talks in depth about his life up to then.
Eric Patrick Clapton (Ripley, Surrey, Inglaterra, 30 de marzo de 1945) es un guitarrista, cantante y compositor de rock y blues británico, conocido por su magistral habilidad con la guitarra eléctrica, en concreto con su Stratocaster. 79 AÑOS 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
I've drawn similar conclusions, not just with guitar but multiple instruments. If you can make those instruments "sing", at the right time, you're gonna get amazing results. Not all the time you want your instruments to sing though lol.
the thing is its more than just singing it's compositional. improvisation is just composition except instant. theres a lot of rules to it that tell you what note you should go to
it's actually easy to get this tone. he is playing with only a chorus pedal on with the pickup in 2nd position off the bridge. turn your amp up and roll back the sound on your guitar. good luck.
Pretty much. What you do not understand is Eric has perfect timing and space allotment, ahead of vocal concepts. That is something you are basically born with and impossible for most to grasp in their playing. It is a gift from God.
Ah, the 90’s. When all Strats had pickup covers. It looks a bit odd now, but they were all like that back then. White plastic hiding the pole pieces. I think they were like some special noiseless single coils. Fender had this thing for putting covers on stuff. Almost all their models originally had covers on the bridge. I guess they didn’t like how the literal nuts and bolts looked. Telecasters have the ashtray covering the bridge and bridge pickup. Stratocasters have a rectangular chrome cover on the bridge. I don’t think they had the pickup covers back in the day. Jazzmasters, Jaguars, and Mustangs had this arch like cover going over the rocking bridge. Duo Sonic’s might of had that too.
@@dougjones243 I think you’re right. Lace sensors are a real eyesore without the covers. And Claptons signature model had lace sensor pickups. But I do remember covers being on regular Strats. Yeah, I remember them saying noiseless on the cover. So the Strats came with stock noiseless single coils. I think the Squiers might of had covers too, but not the noiseless pickups.
Actually like me he spends hours learning run licks bits of solos from Albert king muddy waters Freddie king ect Then using technique and scales arpeggios ect Puts his own twist on it I like his twists though So does everyone els Love you Eric you opened the door to the old blues guys.the thing is you had it when you were 20 and just got better.thank for the inspiration
@@megadave1197 hi den no vids but I have played for fifty years.in pubs working men’s clubs pubs and venues when I was young my nickname was Eric yes I played sunshine of your love badge ect. Not as good as are beloved Eric then it was hank I was in a shadows tribute band now hank nobody can sound like him then I discovered old school blues and that is it for me I’ve been in country band blue grass rock and cover bands.just tenner this all the grates where grate at 18 so if you’re not grate by then just enjoy the ride and get better as time goes by .
the Lace Sensor pickups, mid active boost strat and Soldano rig he ran in the 80s is such woman tone...like they get up and dance and clothes come off way
my favorite guitar player - my favorite musician - Charlie Daniels said the same thing - if Charlie said it - then maybe I am smarter than I act , or look or .....
@@BillyF752 Peter Green once watched Eric play and he asked him details about his setup. Peter recreated the setup and came to the conclusion that the guitar or setup is the icing on the cake. In order to get the tone it’s a lot of practice and worry. Great words from another humble great.
the majority of "musicians" nowadays don't feel music anymore, they type in "how to get famous" into the computer and a song comes out the other side. Those times will come back once everyone has gotten tired of listening to VST synths.
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Knowing that what you hear in your head you can play with your hand. Yeah. That's all.
We all wish for that skill level.
British modesty... He gives a good description of what having to play an upcoming live solo on guitar feels like.
A modest musical genius lion tamer.
Don't take this the wrong way lads because I know I'm nowhere near Eric's level but that's how us self-taught players do it, I know the major scales and the maj/min pentatonics, and the 1,4,5, chord progressions, but that's it can't read music and trying to understand theory gives me a headache, got the scales from a book everything else was learned by ear and jammin, when I'm groovin what I hear in my head is what everyone else hears and to be honest I'd love to understand theory because I find it hard to talk musically with other players, playing 40 years and I still get a buzz from learning something new 😎
@@Domn879 Brilliant comment and brilliant name
@@Domn879 Ouch.
Most people never realize that your head creates better melodies than your fingers ever will.
Stevie Ray an Jimi Hendrix were playing just that what was going on inside their heads, check them out
@@boriswolff3423 check out guys like Chet Atkins or Roy Clark
Well yeah but if your hands manage to catch up to your brain you get names like “B.B King” and “Stevie Ray Vaughan” and so many more I cannot name.
This is extremely true
Except for Allan Holdsworth, the Greatest of them all
I just rolled off the couch from a nap, time for my interview.
Dude didn't even roll off. He just sat up and someone handed him a guitar hahaha
@@joemanco1075 Haha! I stand corrected. :)
🤣🤣🤣relatable af
“It’s not about technique at all...” he says while displaying some of the best mfing vibrato in human history.
" ... it's just feeling."
Probably the best vibrato ever
It's all in the fingers, pal. :)
@Rock Ironsides Yes you're trash but you'll get better with practice
Eric Clapton is an overrated talentless hack
Love that he is so casual about the greatness he's achieved. Humble dude.
A few years before this was filmed I met him in a pub and got chatting -I never let on I knew who he was.He came across as a really nice humble guy with no superstar ego.He used to do many charity gigs around Surrey under a false name and was lucky enough to see one in a pub. It was the best gig I ever saw - he played Chuck Berry and various other rock n roll classics - none of his own stuff. It was like watching Pele turn up for a Sunday kick around
@@marillion1 very cool. I think that a sign of true greatness is when they are humble about their talent and grateful for the attention they receive.
Like David Gilmour…
@@DrRock2009 I don't know about David Gilmour that well, but I don't doubt it. The only thing about David Gilmour that I'm a little ambivalent about is that he has some deep-seated resentment toward his mother, even at his age. It was part of a documentary once. Seems like a nice guy though....family man.
@@marillion1 in what year was this filmed?
Best advice for lead guitar playing on UA-cam. It's NOT about scales or modes or arpeggios or musical rules. Like Miles Davis famously said, "First you got to learn all that stuff, then you got to forget it". It's about vocalizing the music in your head. Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker did it the same way.
Too many over technical players out there that have no soul. That’s why for every ten million players, there’s one Clapton!
The problem is that you'll never internalize the sounds until you learn scales and arpeggios and rules and all that. You can't write a poem in Russian until you learn the vocabulary. That's pretty hard to do by just coming up with random stuff and seeing if you like the sounds. Learning all the modes and scales is just faster.
It IS about scales and chords and arppegios. Just like Miles said. You must! learn how to use them. Embed them in your brain. Then be creative with them in an artistic manner drawing upon your subliminal conditioning.
@@johnvenable5638 exactly. The opening post totally contradicted itself!
@@superdog797 he says that in the quote
His guitar is totally tuned to the 80's
Ah the Chorus pedal!
Lolol
So were his drugs! 😂
Love EC
ZZ Top/Dire Straits ish
@@SammyPrairiechicken what did he do?
Clapton is one of the most influential guitarists of all time, and has a unique style that you can recognize instantly (very few guitarists have this). Great emotion and melody to his playing. Plus he's a great vocalist, a great songwriter. If you think he's overrated, you're clueless.
One of the BIGGGEST Artists Ever !
His Guitar Tone and Style ...(specially in the 70´s ) is somthing of the BEST in the Music !
Totally agree. Anyone who thinks he's overrated is clueless. I saw Eric in Portland, OR in 1978 at the Paramount. Only 3,200 capacity. Ticket was $8.50, lol.
@@davidstovall8573 jealous!
His style is. "BB. King". only faster. and the way he sings is called. " Sounding like a black man". lolyou really think Billy Gibbons talks and sings the way he does for real? lol. Did you ever hear Billy Gibbons talk in his normal voice? Or Eric Clapton sing in his normal white man voice, if not. listen to him sing "Isn't It a Pity". live on you tube, it is a George Harrison song. He must sing it like a white mqn. as it is nothing like a blues song - he has such a hard time doing that. lol. lol. lol. you can tell he is very uncomfortable doing it. Then. there was a You Tube video. of him saying that. but they took it off You Tube
@@meyou-dv8ns thanks for the dumbest comment I've read in a while. 👍🏿
Always will prefer Eric’s fiery and tormented work with Cream ... but gotta appreciate his later “vocalized” playing.
Cream and the Bluesbreakers.
Love his unplugged album as well.
Spoonful. Wheels of Fire. The ultimate cream/Clapton solo. Intense fiery
Derek and the dominos fool
Yeah i agree. "Old slowhand" doesn't do it for me. Eric, Jack & Ginger do it right
That is "The Journeyman's" gift. The "hearing in your head" thing. He has said this at other times : he knows that he has the command of the "vocabulary' and can effortlessly apply that onto the fretboard with his hands. This it what make him great.
I swear he can make more with 3 or 4 notes than anybody can ...that sounded so good
The more triads, harmonizations, scales and licks you can learn the better. I think the secret is to somehow get all that stuff into your subconscious so you can play it at will without thinking about it. Also
KNOW THE FRETBOARD!!!
Notice how he drops from somewhere over the 12th fret down to the second or third without missing a beat cause he’s done it a million times.
The best improvisation I’ve done, which doesn’t happened very often, is when Im not thinking about it.
In fact everything I “F” up in life in general is a result of overthinking.
Life is a song, if you stay in the key you’ll be all right, if you’re out of tune you’ll be thrown off the stage.
Amazing that Eric’s gift for playing beautiful guitar has survived the many addictions he went through, and that he survived them too... he is without doubt a chosen son!
Too bad you can't say the same about his actual son lmao
@@cm9241 sheesh
@@13bro45 ...............people!
to be honest - he wasn't any worse than any other entertainer who got on the shit - he was just a lot smarter - he knew he couldn't handle it so he quit - I'd be shocked if he didn't smoke weed - his big problem was the legal stuff - liquor -
I know of liquor and coke, but was he ever on smack?
This lesson I never forget, after I saw it on a age of 12 years ...30years later I really sing in my head when I start a solo.
He did say that in another interview before....’mimick the vocals when soloing’.
@@thomasfarmer1730 do you mean like humming while soloing?
Franco Villarreal no...for e.g. like making your guitar soloing sound like it’s Aretha Franklin singing or simply copy the melody of the song....get it?
@@thomasfarmer1730 yeah I think I get it now, so that is what Clapton is talking about in this video, right?? And John Mayer did too in his Instagram's live
@@francovillarreal5739You have to play a lot so if you hear a melody in your head you can do it on the guitar. Don't just mindlessly pluck notes from a scale but feel them. Don't make a melody on the guitar make it in your head and transfer it. But it is also not recommended you think of these things all the time. It comes natural I guess
A nostalgic hero and artist with a great personality and heart.
Extremely hard for a musician that thinks in terms of sound to verbalize their thoughts. I think he did a wonderful job answering the question.
the interviewer sounds like the same guy who interviewed him for creams albert hall interviews
I think it was Melvyn Bragg.
@@Moteridgerider it was, from South Bank Show
@@alanhowell3646
Can't mistake that nasal Northern English voice for anyone else, can you?
@@tonybates7870 indeed not
I was thinking the same thing.
Man I remember the these times when artists need actual skills and talent to become famous
Nah Lil Wayne rocks. ;-)
The out of context laugh at the beginning 😳😂
it killed me
Drunk
They had some of that chronic before the interview
Clapton is one word amazing ,,,,,,,,,
Clapton is God
the best blues guitarist of all time !! and i listen to all of them
This is a clip from a 1987 edition of The South Bank Show on TV. Was an excellent programme all about his career up to then, they got him together to play with Buddy Guy too. Amazing!
Thanks a bunch for the info. I was looking for it.
The genius of Clapton is he can play the same song - flawlessly - a thousand times while no two sound the exactly the same and, yet, each is a masterpiece.
I mean, think about what this really means. A performer can often do ONLY one or two:
1.) Perfectly deliver - no mistakes.
2.) Give a different performance
3.) Make something beautiful that stands above all others
He has done ALL THREE simultaneously - _many times over_ .
Damn the guitar sounds so good
Through a Musicman
GODDAMM LEGEND !!
I´ve seen Eric in Frankfurt 2015 ...GOOSEBUMPS 100% The Audience Won´t Let him Go ..Standing Ovations ..SUCH a LEGEND !
What artists don't fathom, is you need it in your head in the first place, and being able to translate that feeling and depth of emotion from your soul, brain, fingers...... in too the guitar and out too us..... that..... THAT is the magical bit.
People often say they don't believe in magic, but i do every time i hear Clapton, Gilmour, Doyl Bramhall II, Satriani, Vai, Rothery and many more play.
Happy Birthday Mr. Clapton!
"Just me singing, really".
That about sums it up.
are you saying he is bad? or really good?
Just love this man and his music 🎵
Wise words from legend himself.
The goat 🐐
is no one going to mention that his tone in this video is so satisfying and calming?
That tone is so buttery 😍
That’s exactly what I’ve felt and it’s cool to hear a master say that. It’s humming/singing to the song with the instrument.
Just my fingers don’t always get it haha, but sometimes you make a little fumble and it actually sounds good and you roll with it. Maybe even re do that fumble and add a little something to it and just keep it rolling. At least when you’re jamming.
Just feel it
Thanks Eric lol
Exactly
And pentatonic
A great guitar lesson.
Legend
he really has the feel
Man he hit it on the head, but even at this time he had in around 20 years, and 20 years of being Eric Clapton at that.. I think he unintentionally undersold the value of dedicated technique development, but he describes what it's like to be in the zone so accurately.
OMG, Thank you so much for uploading that great video!!! Keep on rocking! CLAPTON IS GOD -STILL
This very video has taught me so much and much more is to be learned and practiced. Grateful to have him!
Never heard anything more true I spent so long trying to learn all the technical stuff to soloing and drained all the creativity from it as soon as you know the scales and all that learning how to play what you think is the most crucial thing above all
amazing best touch bending and vibrato maybe all time
and he knows the 5 positions!!!!
He said it best, you just gotta be thinking about playing, and let everything else go out the window.
When I was a young guitar player this would have made no sense.. Now it does.
I will try to explain - imagine you are in the key of c and you are playing a c chord in the open position - like we all learn when we are starting out.
When we strum the C chord - that cord is make from 3 notes - they are C E and G - so when you strum strings 5,4,3,2 and 1 - all of those strings are playing one of the 3 notes - C E orG.
Nothing magic there. Now you want to improvise,.... play something at random to match up with a C chord . So have someone strum the C chord while you at random pick notes in that open position - of course you can pick and of the C E or G notes and everything will sound fine - you can do hammers, pulls, slides, bends, vibrato on any of those C E and G notes. It will sound find but might get a little boring after a while.
So here is the secret - the C scale - yes, that scale you never wanted to learn about or practice.
We will take the C major scale that is the notes
C D E F G A B - those 7 notes - you already play 3 of them when you make the chord - you play C E and G notes. That leaves 4 more notes in the scale - they are D F A and B.
For basic rock or blues we fill leave out the F and B notes for now
so the notes we will play are C D E G and A.
(if you want to get technical we will call that the 5 note pentatonic scale. So what? Well, have your friend strum a C chord while you
randomly play and of those 5 notes (C D E G or A) - do any hammers, pulls, slides, bends, vibrato you want. -
it will be really hard to make it sound bad - and it will probably begin to sound pretty good to you.
After you do it a while you are not thinking of notes at all, you are hearing a sound in you imagination and then playing it on the guitar as you go. You are playing notes in the c scale and your fingers have memorized what notes are allowed and which ones to avoid.
Never disappoints, my goat.
Mine 2.. nobody better
I don’t have a goat. Tough to catch those guys.
@@NiallConroyIreland 😂😂
Hahahaha..takes the piss out of it eh?
I think this guy has a future if he sticks to it! Lol
Agreed, I think he will be one of those guys that will live until old age and open a rehab in a place like Antigua. But I could be wrong.
@AnDrEw youre following the way of the son?
lets see, he might get famous
I use interviews as a form of meditation and Claptons from this era seemed to be calm my mind. I can get very anxious and overwhelmed
Eric one of the most talentet guitarist 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
From someone who is self taught and just now understanding scales and solos... Clapton describes it how i describe making solos... Its like a voice or your speaking with the strings instead of your mouth.
Only way to describe it really.
Eric Gale has mentioned this as well.. and when he plays u can see his mouth moving abit like he is singing.
I think he’s an incredible improviser and wonderful command of the instrument. Really good live. Total pro. Like a boss... lol
Look if Les Paul can pull off a show every week well into his 90s I think Mr. Clapton could easily do a few intimate performance sessions with special guests on a live podcast. Has anyone even asked him? Loloo
I bet he’ll do it if it’s convenient and easy and enjoyable and a butt load of money. Lol
We need to call him and at least give him something to think about. Tell him we can get David Gilmore, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and probably Brian May to come guest with him.
Any of you guys got their number? We should probably call them too. Lmao
Anyone who know anyone of them please give them a call and let them know what we want to do. Thanks. This is gonna be awesome. Lololol
He has a wonderful command of the pentatonic blues scale, but then, so he should after sixty years.
He's so good....🙏🙏🙏
Brilliant x
HI MY ERIC PATRICK CLAPTON ❤️ 💙 YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL VOICE I LOVE TOO SEE YOU PLAY YOUR GITAR
Thank you-that was good and just what I needed to hear.
I love the last phrase. It’s subtle
Legend talks about legendary things
Mr. Natural!
Shapes becoming sound.
It’s like hand - eye coordination. To be any good it’s automatic.
But it’s finger - ear coordination.
David gilmour also said that he hums the solo before playing it
Be nice to see this entire video. Great stuff. Thanks Doug.
This is taken from a "south bank show special" which was a programme on the bbc in the 80's. He does some brilliant playing on it and talks in depth about his life up to then.
Eric Patrick Clapton (Ripley, Surrey, Inglaterra, 30 de marzo de 1945) es un guitarrista, cantante y compositor de rock y blues británico, conocido por su magistral habilidad con la guitarra eléctrica, en concreto con su Stratocaster.
79 AÑOS
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You listen every minute/every day to what's been done. Then you "forget all that shit and play."
That’s awesome. I play guitar as a hobby just by myself. It’s amazing what you can learn from UA-cam
Lol Eric is the greatest of all time.. listen to his work with John mayall and the bluesbreakers
I've drawn similar conclusions, not just with guitar but multiple instruments.
If you can make those instruments "sing", at the right time, you're gonna get amazing results.
Not all the time you want your instruments to sing though lol.
Best singer in world!
it comes so natural to him that he cant really explain how he does it
natural perhaps but he played hours and hours every day when learning
What i hear in my head somehow doesn't come through in my hands while playing guitar 🎸
the thing is its more than just singing it's compositional. improvisation is just composition except instant. theres a lot of rules to it that tell you what note you should go to
Good ol wake and bake Clapton. Wish he played that 1967 sound
His guitar tone here is very unique nothing you’ll find when you buy your own strat
its the amp and effects here also this was 30 years ago
it's actually easy to get this tone. he is playing with only a chorus pedal on with the pickup in 2nd position off the bridge. turn your amp up and roll back the sound on your guitar. good luck.
when you clicked the video to gain knowledge about soloing then ending up shame because of his laugh
Never gets old ;-)
The best of them all
I can't get over that tone.
he can go all the way to the top this guy
"It's not clever at all, is just feeling".
So good , jesus
Pretty much. What you do not understand is Eric has perfect timing and space allotment, ahead of vocal concepts. That is something you are basically born with and impossible for most to grasp in their playing. It is a gift from God.
Ah, the 90’s. When all Strats had pickup covers. It looks a bit odd now, but they were all like that back then. White plastic hiding the pole pieces. I think they were like some special noiseless single coils. Fender had this thing for putting covers on stuff. Almost all their models originally had covers on the bridge. I guess they didn’t
like how the literal nuts and bolts looked. Telecasters have the ashtray covering the bridge and bridge pickup. Stratocasters have a rectangular chrome cover on the bridge. I don’t think they had the pickup covers back in the day. Jazzmasters, Jaguars, and Mustangs had this arch like cover going over the rocking bridge. Duo Sonic’s might of had that too.
I think they were called lace sensor pickups. They were not a 100 percent noiseless but they sure sounded good anyway.
@@dougjones243 I think you’re right. Lace sensors are a real eyesore without the covers. And Claptons signature model had lace sensor pickups. But I do remember covers being on regular Strats. Yeah, I remember them saying noiseless on the cover. So the Strats came with stock noiseless single coils. I think the Squiers might of had covers too, but not the noiseless pickups.
Actually like me he spends hours learning run licks bits of solos from Albert king muddy waters Freddie king ect
Then using technique and scales arpeggios ect
Puts his own twist on it
I like his twists though
So does everyone els
Love you Eric you opened the door to the old blues guys.the thing is you had it when you were 20 and just got better.thank for the inspiration
You have any videos playing?
@@megadave1197 hi den no vids but I have played for fifty years.in pubs working men’s clubs pubs and venues when I was young my nickname was Eric yes I played sunshine of your love badge ect. Not as good as are beloved Eric then it was hank I was in a shadows tribute band now hank nobody can sound like him then I discovered old school blues and that is it for me I’ve been in country band blue grass rock and cover bands.just tenner this all the grates where grate at 18 so if you’re not grate by then just enjoy the ride and get better as time goes by .
That's a great explanation!
Strats sound great with chorus
Bowie said..They'll come a time when people will cherish something organic, made of "wood". That's Eric Clapton.
the Lace Sensor pickups, mid active boost strat and Soldano rig he ran in the 80s is such woman tone...like they get up and dance and clothes come off way
my favorite guitar player -
my favorite musician -
Charlie Daniels said the same thing -
if Charlie said it - then maybe I am smarter than I act , or look or .....
Too many guitar solos do a lot of talking but say nothing. They need to hear this.
Back in the good old days when Blackie was his Number 1 =P
Pentatonics FTW!!!
Good Lordy; that tone!
Exactly, very melodic solos from the master, not mechanic repetitive speed showoffs...
He playing on the 4 th position
Like Mark Knopfler
Yes
Feeling and pentatonic…….
Love he describes it as 'just feeling' because that is basically his sound. Only problem is he thinks everyone can do it.
Then maybe everyone can, but how much do they want it ?
@@BillyF752 Peter Green once watched Eric play and he asked him details about his setup. Peter recreated the setup
and came to the conclusion that the guitar or setup is the icing on the cake. In order to get the tone it’s a lot of practice and worry. Great words from another humble great.
If you can PLAY than you don't need to be here, Eric is fucking with the interview lol
I never could put that voice in my head into my fingers so I have learned to just except it and be grateful others can.
No techniq za SS itts number one before feeling création
the majority of "musicians" nowadays don't feel music anymore, they type in "how to get famous" into the computer and a song comes out the other side. Those times will come back once everyone has gotten tired of listening to VST synths.
Check out Eric's fuck you chord at 50 seconds.
Brilliant
Clapton is God