Slow hand blues
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gsonique
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Do i need to make a point....this is a forum where we share things right ?? or am i wrong ??
Anywayz thats Eric Clapton ...early days with MusicMan Hybrid amps designed and built by Leo Fender after he sold Fender to CBS.
Eric played a major part in Rock music revolution with nice chord progression ...bluesy and laid back thus the name 'slow hand'.
Armed with a cool explorer and telephone chord (which has a total capacitance of 3000pf = high cut here) which has its mojo :wink:
Anywayz thats Eric Clapton ...early days with MusicMan Hybrid amps designed and built by Leo Fender after he sold Fender to CBS.
Eric played a major part in Rock music revolution with nice chord progression ...bluesy and laid back thus the name 'slow hand'.
Armed with a cool explorer and telephone chord (which has a total capacitance of 3000pf = high cut here) which has its mojo :wink:
PatheinRaindropMoe
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woahh, cant imagine all 3 heads working together. How loud wud that be!
BloozeGit
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While I don't quite fancy his latest stuff, I owe Clapton a huge debt for inducting me into the blues, but that's not the point of this post.
I hope to go some way towards correcting some misconceptions. As guitarists we should always seek to further our craft by listening to those whom we aspire to play like, and intently studying their technique, phrasing etc. As our ears improve we get better at hearing and picking out solos and licks, and learn how to focus on the crucial guitar parts. However, in our never-ending quest for musical enlightenment, it is sometimes necessary to take a step back and re-evaluate.
Blues has its origins as a vocal music form, and rightfully so. A lot of the old masters were not outstanding guitar players (Muddy Water, Howling Wolf, John Lee Hooker etc) but they crafted their bands' (or their own) instrumentation to fit around their voices, allowing each player their moment to shine but ultimately following the vocal lead and backing them up. MW and HW were also tough taskmasters, quick to reprimand any player who stepped out of line and overplayed to the detriment of the whole sound of the band.
Blues today has become a lot more guitar-centered, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but to forsake the singing and not listen to what the rest of the band is doing is missing the forest for the trees. Learning the licks and solos without understanding the context of the music is like memorising the dictionary without learning the language.
To understand what I mean, just put on BB King's "3 O'Clock Blues", put down your guitar, close your eyes and concentrate on listening. Repeat with different song as often as necessary. Wash it down with a beverage of your choice.
I hope to go some way towards correcting some misconceptions. As guitarists we should always seek to further our craft by listening to those whom we aspire to play like, and intently studying their technique, phrasing etc. As our ears improve we get better at hearing and picking out solos and licks, and learn how to focus on the crucial guitar parts. However, in our never-ending quest for musical enlightenment, it is sometimes necessary to take a step back and re-evaluate.
Blues has its origins as a vocal music form, and rightfully so. A lot of the old masters were not outstanding guitar players (Muddy Water, Howling Wolf, John Lee Hooker etc) but they crafted their bands' (or their own) instrumentation to fit around their voices, allowing each player their moment to shine but ultimately following the vocal lead and backing them up. MW and HW were also tough taskmasters, quick to reprimand any player who stepped out of line and overplayed to the detriment of the whole sound of the band.
Blues today has become a lot more guitar-centered, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but to forsake the singing and not listen to what the rest of the band is doing is missing the forest for the trees. Learning the licks and solos without understanding the context of the music is like memorising the dictionary without learning the language.
To understand what I mean, just put on BB King's "3 O'Clock Blues", put down your guitar, close your eyes and concentrate on listening. Repeat with different song as often as necessary. Wash it down with a beverage of your choice.
honestly, clapton's new album doesn't suck, it just takes time to grow on you. i'm a big clapton fan and have all of his albums and if you notice towards the later part of his solo albums, his style(music-wise) changed. i mean, you can't expect him to do play solos cream style, sooner or later, people will get bored and maybe that's why he changed his style of music cause he was bored and went back to the blues, something that he started off with. Anyway, to end off, all i can say that Clapton's the ultimate blues man.
sleepykitty
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AEnimic said:
totally agree with you on that one
colin88 said:
Yes, I agree with you.
Clapton's musical style evolve. So we cannot associate Clapton's music to certain genre. And we cannot take a snapshot of his musical career to generalize his musical style (e.g. taking his Cream era or Bluesbucker era or Yardbirds era to describe Clapton)
