Chords for PART 1 - Eric Clapton Blues Guitar Lesson - Journeyman Style

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_ Hey everyone, this is Brian from ActiveMelody.com.
In this lesson we're going to take a look at Eric Clapton and his style of playing.
Eric Clapton was a tough one because he's covered a lot of different styles.
He's done everything from reggae to electric blues to delta slide blues.
So I kind of picked one of my favorite styles of his which is the electric blues style.
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Alright so let's take a look at what we're going to learn.
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[E] Okay so let's break this thing down.
Now we're in the key of E and even though this ends up being kind of a bluesy solo,
it [G#] starts off in the major scale.
And the blues scale by the way is the minor pentatonic scale, that's what it's referred to as.
So the first little run that happens looks like this.
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_ And that's all played in the major scale.
And so note for note, let's break that down, what's going on [G] there.
So I'm starting on the 14th fret, the first string or the E string, my ring finger and
I do a double bend.
[Em] And I end [E] that bend by just kind of muting the strings with my [G] right hand.
Just kind of letting them fall there.
Then we [E] do another bend, kind of come up and down landing on the 14th fret and then we
end up on the 12th fret, first string.
[C] _ Apply a little bit of vibrato to that string.
_ _ _ _ Then we drop down to [F#] the second string or the B string [G#m] and do.
_ [C] And what that looks like is we're starting here on the [C#] 14th fret, second string, [G#] do a hammer on.
[D#] Now I'm coming down to the, [C#] this note is the 13th fret, third string or the G string.
_ _ And just so you know, this hammer on is a [Bm] very Eric Clapton thing to do.
He does that a lot when he's trying to really accent a note when he's playing. _
_ [G] You hear him do [E] that _ _ _ quite a bit.
So if you really want to get kind of an Eric Clapton [F#] sound, try doing hammer ons, especially
repeat hammer [A] ons where you're [E] trying to stress something and you'll kind of get that signature sound.
So anyway, _ now [G#m] _ _ [G] we go to the 14th fret, [D#] second string and we drop down back to the third
string, [G] 13th fret and we do this little slide down.
We slide down two frets.
_ [C#] _ [E] So it looks like that.
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_ _ _ So when you slide down, you land on the 11th fret.
Then we come down to the [Bm] 9th, so sliding down to the 11th fret on the third string.
[E] And then we come down to the 9th fret on the third string.
[C#] Then we're going to drop down to the 11th fret on the 4th string or the D [E] string.
And then we [Em] land on the 9th fret G string.
So let me play that [E] whole run real quickly.
Okay, [C#] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
so now we're going to drop down and play the [A] bluesy part of the solo, which sounds like this. _ _ _
_ Now, that sounds more complicated than it actually is.
What you're going to notice here as I break this down note for note is that it's actually,
it follows a very similar pattern.
[D] And what this run starts here on the 5th fret, 5th string.
_ [E] Then we skip a fret and we jump up to the 7th fret, 5th string.
Then we go to the 5th fret, 4th string or [G] the D string.
Skip a fret again, go to the [A] 7th fret, 4th string. _
_ Now we're going to slide to the 9th [B] fret on that 4th string.
So that part goes.
_ _ _ _ [Em] And then once you're on the 9th fret, you're going to reach up to the 7th fret, but this
time on the 3rd string or the G string.
And just hit that note real quickly.
When [E] _ _ _ [D] you hit that note, you're going to come back to the [C#] 9th fret and slide back down to the 7th.
So it goes like this.
[G#] _ [G] Then we're back to the 5th, [E] back to the 7th on the 5th string.
So let me do that whole run here.
[A] It looks like this. _
[Dm] _ _ [C] I'll do it slowly for you. _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [Fm] Then we close out that bluesy run by jumping back to the 7th fret, 3rd string or G string.
We [E] hammer on to the 9th fret.
And then we go right back down this little [Bm] scale here.
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[Cm] So let me [E] start you from here.
We do the hammer on to the [D] 9th fret, back to the 7th.
Then we're [B] back down to the D string, 9th fret.
We're going to slide our whole [Em] hand down, so we're not going to play this with the 1st finger.
We're going to stay on with the ring finger [A] on the 7th fret.
_ [G] Back to the 5th fret.
[E] Now here's where you do a little bar.
On the 7th fret, 5th string.
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To the 7th fret, [Em] 4th string.
[A] _ _ [G] Back to the 5th fret, [E] 4th string.
_ Then we do two notes there on the 7th fret.
[A] So see _ _ [E] [B] what I'm doing there?
That's where I'm doing that little [A] bar.
That bar is happening on the 7th fret.
[E] So let me play that whole run backwards, or back down.
It goes like this.
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_ _ [G#] Just kind of close it out with that [G] 5th string.
Just kind of let your hand fall off.
So, _ [E] _ _ you might have to practice that bit over and over again, but it's got a real bluesy sound. _ _ _ _ _
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