Hey, this is John with LearningGuitarNow.com. In this lesson I'm going to show you another extension of the Eric Clapton lessons I've been doing. A couple of this is going to be Eric Clapton lesson number 3. And this is going to focus on under slow blues style, a little bit different sound, a little bit more rock on this sound. But I'm going to dissect the lick in the stubber Clapton from the ‘70s. And I'm going to go ahead and play the lick for you and dissect it. This lick is to be played under slow blues in the key of B. and lick sounds like this.
It’s a pretty cool lick, more of a Derrick and the Dominos style sound from Eric Clapton in the ‘70s. So let’s go ahead and break this lick down. On the beginning of the lick, once again this is in the key of B. we’re going to do a pull off from the 17th fret to the 14th fret. And Eric Clapton likes to do this a lot in his blues guitar playing. Do it 4 times. I just want to accent these moves too. And there's going to be a mute in between. You have to put a mute between each one. Do it 4 times so you got. Then you bend the 17th fret on the high E string twice and apply a heavy vibrato. So that part is pretty simple. It just takes executing it correctly to make it sound a lot like the Clapton style.
In the next part, we’re going to bend up the 17th fret up to the root note, the B. we’ll pull it down at the 17th fret, 14th fret, and then hit 17 again, 17 on B string, then 14 on the high E, then bend 17 up and pull it down the B string. Then 15th fret on the B string, 16th fret on the G string, 15-17 on B string, and then this cool Clapton lead I showed you in the previous video. This time it’s on the B string. You bend the 15th fret on the B string up 2 frets here. So 15, you hear 17 sound. And on the B note on the G string on the 16th fret. That’s the commoner Clapton move is to be that.
The whole lick slowly sounds like this. Just a really cool Eric Clapton style lick played over slow blues. You just going to get that. And you can play around with how many times you do that. It didn’t have to be four times, you could do it more. Got a few rakes in there. You can change around the lick, that’s the whole point in playing the blues is to improvise licks like that. You can start creating your own licks. So slowly one more time it sounds like this.
Okay, so that is the lick. I’ll go ahead and play that over the backing track for you now. And for more blues guitar lessons like this please visit LearningGuitarNow.com. I do have several DVDs available as well on how to play in the blues guitar style. So go ahead and check out me playing over the backing tracks. So you can see how to use it in a context of a blues song and I’ll see you next time.
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