Ive been trying to master hideaway by John Mayalls bluesbreakers feat Clapton.
I have no problem playing it improv, by just messing with E maj and E min scales. Last week i got Guitar Techniques, and it has the song all tabbed out.

Im trying to mimic that but from about 1:02 mins on Clapton switches between maj and min all over the place, creating weird licks that are quite fast and i cant bloody well nail.

I know improv is great, but i just wanted to try learning some of this "a la clapton" so i could throw some of his techniques into my improv but its not working ( trying for the last 3 days now).

anyone got any advice on this song and claptons style in it?

schmintan wrote:
Ive been trying to master hideaway by John Mayalls bluesbreakers feat Clapton.
I have no problem playing it improv, by just messing with E maj and E min scales. Last week i got Guitar Techniques, and it has the song all tabbed out.

Im trying to mimic that but from about 1:02 mins on Clapton switches between maj and min all over the place, creating weird licks that are quite fast and i cant bloody well nail.

I know improv is great, but i just wanted to try learning some of this "a la clapton" so i could throw some of his techniques into my improv but its not working ( trying for the last 3 days now).

anyone got any advice on this song and claptons style in it?


Whenever I run into something that difficult I try not to think of the changes at first and just play it over and over slowly. Once I pickup on a pattern I'll start to up the tempo a bit and work my way up to the actual tempo as I master the pattern for each lick. Sometimes it takes a couple of tries other times it takes a couple of days. You just have to keep at it and slow it down as much as it takes untill you get it right.