Blue Moon by Richard Rogers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart (1934). One of the great standards. He would’ve heard many versions growing up - Sinatra, Ella, big bands etc.
As I have said before, the tabs are a massive help along with your clear and concise explanations, amazed you put this together so quickly after part one, many thanks.
Hi Howard. Thanks for the quick turnaround on the follow-up lesson. You have captured Eric's solo brilliantly and now have made my weekend!!!! Cheers! 👍👍
GREAT cover! Love it! There's a couple of classic licks he uses in there. I was sort of stuck on a couple of the notes and you just handed them to us. Thanks! Will be stealing! hehe
I have been wanting to learn this solo for years. i am intimidated by doing a fast vibrato at the top of a bend. Although I have played around on guitar for a long time that is one thing that evades me. I have no problem with bends or vibratos at all...but doing them simultaneously has been a bridge too far. I intend to use this lesson as a basis for facing this challenge. Thanks for posting this excellent lesson.
A lot of it has to do with how clean the guitar neck is, and having a lacquered neck certainly helps. Though the main thing is that unlike vibrato on a normal string, you're only dipping the note down and then back up to the note, never past it.
Great lesson Howard, it increases my interest in the detail of something I only have a passing awareness of as mainly a chords player. Is it my ears or does the first part of phrase 1 (round 6.00) match the opening lyrics "Blue moon, you saw me standing alone" !?
Many thanks for taking the time to do this ... I appreciate the effort to produce and include tab and the detailed explanation of the nuances ... a question I have is simply how do you remember the solo in it's entirety? ... is it simply memorization? .. or is it the ability to hum it or essentially sing it? ... that is a problem I have .... remembering the entire sequence of phrases ... thanks for all you do on here ... I really look forward to every new lesson you post ... I will purchase your blues rock course later today .. looking forward to diving into that .. all the best ...
Thanks... I hope you enjoy the course. Your question is a good one. Memorizing extended solos can be challenging (unless of course you've heard it hundreds of times!) - But with Eric's solo here, the phrasing is particularly difficult to remember. I made it a point to listen very closely to each phrase, and play it as accurately as possible... just memorizing one phrase at a time. Having said that - he's Eric Clapton LOL! But I think just getting each phrase into your head and "clueing" them together is a solid approach. Thanks so much for watching.
