Hey All,
I was wondering if any can point me in the direction of a couple Eric clpton songs to learn. They gotta be bluesy. Please remember, I'm a newbie, so nothing to "crazy hard" to play.
Thanks,
Mike
Mike
Well, just about everything Eric plays is bluesy. But some classic 3 chord blues songs that would be easy to learn (at least strumming the basic chords) would be Lay Down Sally and Crossroads (actually a cover-song by EC).
Wonderful Tonight is a beautiful and fairly easy song to learn. It is not a strict Blues song, but EC's solo style in this song is bluesy. This song is also fairly slow, so it is a great song to start with.
Eric Clapton enjoys playing classic Blues covers. I once saw an interview where he said he does not particularly like to write his own songs. He almost always includes many cover songs on his albums (such as Crossroads). So just about any Blues song would do.
If you know something better than Rock and Roll, I'd like to hear it - Jerry Lee Lewis
Check out www.12bar.de It's an entire site devoted to Clapton's style of blues playing. The guy has tabs and tips on a ton of Clapton songs. Check out Outside Woman Blues when he was with Cream. It's a great song and pretty easy to play. You could probably figure it out by ear.
I've posted a couple of Clapton tunes to the Easy Song forum... "Wonderful Tonight" & "Running On Faith"
E doesn't = MC2, E = Fb
Music "Theory"? "It's not just a theory, it's the way it is!"
Jonny T.
Thanks everyone,
18 hours after I ask a question and I've got enought material to work on for a year. I love this forum.
Mike
Check out www.12bar.de It's an entire site devoted to Clapton's style of blues playing. The guy has tabs and tips on a ton of Clapton songs. Check out Outside Woman Blues when he was with Cream. It's a great song and pretty easy to play. You could probably figure it out by ear.
absolutely. it is a great song.
also try We're Going Wrong from Disraeli gears.
Or Sunshine of Your Love. The main riff isn't too hard, although the vibrato may be tough.
That's really the key to playing the blues like Clapton, getting a good vibrato. Really, that's a big part of playing guitar in general.
Before You Accuse Me
An excellent song to get you into a 12 bar blues rhythm
Michael
Playing an instrument is good for your soul
Most of the songs he has are pretty straight forward and easy to pickup on.
Joe
Motherless Child - capo forth fret and it's G G/B C with little g and Dsus2 shapes.
E doesn't = MC2, E = Fb
Music "Theory"? "It's not just a theory, it's the way it is!"
Jonny T.
David hodge has an excellent lesson of Before You Accuse Me
https://www.guitarnoise.com/lessons/before-you-accuse-me/
Good intro to 12 bar blues
Well I got this guitar and I'm tryin' to learn how to make it talk.
Accoustic strumming on 'Alberta' is dead easy, bluesy and cool.
