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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:31 pm
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Clapton's a brilliant musician and composer. He's a blues artist and that's a form of music that for a long while makes the most out of being a virtuoso. If you check out the Riding With The King CD he did in 2000 or so with BB King, he's playing very clean, fantastic tone, exceptionally fluid, pentatonic blues, and nobody can play better than that. If you play the blues, you have decent form with using the little finger, you can play Clapton. He's a blues artist. A lot of the time, like Page, he's multi-tracking guitars, often with other players, and so forget that stuff unless you're going to record. A lot of his songs though can be rearranged for one guitar pretty easily, like Cocaine. Playing above the 15th fret isn't harder, it's just an adjustment to the narrow frets and getting used to the placement of the hands in that part of the Strat. Also, Clapton does a lot of double-stops with a full or partial bend on one string and that's a little challenging but can be learned with some effort. It gets a tougher, angrier sound than for example the smooth BB King sound. I play Clapton all the time but I add a special signature of my own - sux. What's amazing about Clapton isn't the notes he plays - two hands, six strings, 22 frets is all there is to play a guitar with - but how constantly perfect he is. The man never screws up when playing electric blues/rock. I mean that's pretty spectacular to play in perfect time, complex and challenging blues riffs and solos, note perfect, all the time. That's why I say he is an amazing musician.

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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:56 pm
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zzdoc wrote:
stratmansteve wrote:
I didn't discover Clapton until Cream came out. One of the things I've noticed from watching him in videos and DVDs is that he spends a lot of time playing at the bottom of the fretboard under the 15th fret. None of my Strats have the shaved heel and I don't have those long fingers so I know why I can't play a lot of his stuff.


There ya go......and neither do you know his setup, or what it is electronically that makes that guitar sing and sustain the way it does. Dewie, if a real student of Erics, knows how that tone has evolved over forty years from Mayall through to the present. We have done a lot here with respect for the quest for tone and there are more things under the sun, Horatio.......that we do not know about or ever suspect.

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Then there's that whole talent thing, too. I'm lacking some of that.


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It's not so much what you do, (Although it is partly that), but it's more how you do it.

And some guitarist just do it better.

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