I saw that film when I was 15 and it changed the way I tried to play guitar, copy that fluency of his, dynamic stuff from Eric, his early years were a godsend.
As good an explanation of improvisation as you can get. Stock phrases but mixed with dozens of variations and practice until they can come out without overthinking.
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 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
He makes it look so easy! I’ve been playing since 1965, I think I’m pretty good, but every time I see this short video… I’m HUMBLED. I can imitate his style, my kids and my friends are impressed… but I’m no “Clapton”
The quintessential British blues guitarist. A lot of it is down to a highly stylised left hand, which basically maintains an Am/E pattern, moving up the fingerboard to vary the pitch. It's essentially a 3 finger technique with the pinky used to 'grab' add-ons. He wraps his thumb, which makes classical and jazz players cringe but it gives him real power and control in bends and vibrato. It looks awful but it's bloody effective. Clapton's killer secret however is the right hand, which is both incredibly loose and also precise. This lets him move effortlessly from lead to inserting chordal chops. Listen to Crossroads from Wheels of Fire to hear this. He really is a unique player.
He plays better in this video than any of his albums. I never heard him jam out on the radio. I was always confused growing up why people called him a great guitarist.
I hate how some people consider him washed up, or tired…. I say, he’s forgotten more than all the wannabes will ever know…. Still the best in my humble opinion! I was twelve or thirteen when an older friends brother in law said”Rob, everything you want to listen to is blues music, I wasn’t smart enough to realize a genre then, but seeing everybody that came to town at rock n roll concerts, still left me wanting the blues sound… never changed, now we have I-phones and can access anything, when Eric hangs it up… it’s done….
nobody sounds like Clapton or Hendrix since them....the new players copy Jimi, Stevie, Eric and beck.....they speed it up and people think they are better.. no way
3:11. The most important information to every guitarplayer. It can take a long time to get your vibrato perfected. But thats what makes the whole difference, between you and professional guitar guys like Eric, Jimi and Brian May.
I have been very critical of Eric in the past. But I was wrong and I take it all back, and I won't have a bad word said against him. He is a legend plain and simple.
