Eric Clapton Looks Back at His Blues Roots NPRWhoopin the Blues. Hey Hey. Honey Bee. Eric Clapton is shown here in New York in 1. Cream. . Michael Ochs ArchivesGetty Images. Michael Ochs ArchivesGetty Images. Eric Clapton is shown here in New York in 1. Cream. Michael Ochs ArchivesGetty Images. Eric Clapton Guitar Book Pdf' title='Eric Clapton Guitar Book Pdf' />First in a two part interview. Eric Clapton has been reinventing himself musically for more than 4. But the strong pulse of the blues has powered his guitar playing since the beginning from the Yardbirds when he was 1. John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Derek and the Dominoes, to today. 808 Kick Sample there. Now 6. 2, the legendary guitarist is the author of a new autobiography, Clapton. In the first of a two part interview, Clapton talks to Melissa Block about his musical influences as a young man. Uncle Mac and the Blues. His first guitar, which he got when he was 1. Hoyer made in Germany. It was about as big as he was, Clapton recalls. Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE born 30 March 1945, is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only threetime inductee to the Rock and. Eric Clapton has been reinventing himself musically for more than 40 years. But the strong pulse of the blues has powered his guitar playing since the. In what might well be the most diverse assemblage of collectible guitars ever presented, Guernseys will be conducting its next Guitar Auction on February 27 live at. Master blues guitar rhythm chops with these essential shuffle grooves, riffs, chords riffs, turnarounds, and more. TAB, notation, audio included. It was a very cheap guitar. And most cheap guitars, as anyone will tell you who tries to play a cheap guitar. Clapton tells Block. It sounded nice, but it was just such hard work, I gave up. So I started when I was 1. I was 1. 3 and a half, he says. Claptons introduction to the blues the music that would forever influence his own work came from an unlikely source a childrens radio show in the 1. Uncle Mac aka Derek Mc. Culloch. The shows usual fare was novelty childrens music, such as How Much Is That Doggie in the WindowBut every now and then, Clapton says, Uncle Mac would slip in some blues. I dont know what this guy was on I cant imagine how it would get snuck in, whether it was his taste or someone elses, his wife, who knows Clapton says. I Got What They Were Trying to DoClapton even remembers the first blues song he heard on the show Whoopin the Blues full song audio by harmonica player Sonny Terry and singer and guitarist Brownie Mc. Eric Clapton at His Best is a twoLP compilation of Eric Claptons early solo work, released in September 1972. It was concurrently released with a twoLP compilation. Eric Clapton Guitar Book Pdf' title='Eric Clapton Guitar Book Pdf' />Shop from the worlds largest selection and best deals for Sheet Music Song Books. Shop with confidence on eBayGhee. Thats where it started for me, he says. It got to me on a level that nothing else did. I got what they were trying to do, Clapton says. I think the purity of what they were trying to do undercut everything else that you could hear on the radio. Aside from great classical music or great opera, there was a seriousness about it that none of this other music had. Listening to, Learning from the Greats. Other guitarists that Clapton listened to and learned from in those early years include Big Bill Broonzy and Muddy Waters. Advanced Engineering Mathematics By Jain And Iyengar Solutions Pdf more. Broonzy was just an extremely good technician and a great player. As he listens to a recording of Broonzys Hey Hey full song audio, Clapton notes the audible sound of the guitarists foot tapping. His rhythm its absolutely perfect, Clapton marvels. Waters Playing Acted as MilestonePerhaps the blues guitarist who influenced Clapton the most is Muddy Waters. Muddy was there at a time when, really, the music was getting to me. I was really trying to grasp it and make something out of it, Clapton says. Clapton says he would listen to a Waters song such as Honey Bee song clip audio and try to emulate the guitar greats technique and the effect he created with his playing in this instance, the chime like sound of a bell. It was a hook to me. And I made this as a sort of milestone for me, for my learning capabilities, Clapton says. If I can get that, Im one rung up the ladder. And I did, finally, manage to do it one day, and I thought, well, you know, I think I can probably do this. A Mentor and Friend. The two guitarists played together later and became very close. In his book, Clapton describes Waters as the father figure I never really had. Until his death in 1. Waters was a part of Claptons life. Even so, Clapton says he was not comfortable enough and perhaps too proud to ask Waters technical questions about his playing. I wish I had, he says now. But there was more than just professional pride at work. When I got to know Muddy, unfortunately, my drinking career was in full sway, Clapton says. He liked to drink, too, he wasnt really down on it or anything, but I was definitely not really there as much as I wish I had been. October 1. PM ETIn this excerpt, Eric Clapton writes about his first electric guitar, which he got as a teenager. The electric guitar I chose was one I had had my eye on in the window of Bells, where we had got the Hoyer. It was the same guitar I had seen Alexis Korner playing, a double cutaway semi acoustic Kay, which at the time was a quite advanced instrument, although essentially, as I later learned, it was still only a copy of the best guitar of the day, the Gibson ES 3. It was cut away on both sides of the neck to allow easy access up the neck to the higher frets. You could play it acoustically, or plug it in and play electric. The Gibson would have cost over a hundred pounds then I think, well beyond our reach, while the Kay cost only ten pounds, but still seemed quite exotic. It captured my heart. The only thing that wasnt quite right with it was the color. Though advertised as Sunburst, which would have been a golden orange going to dark red at the edges, it was more yellowy, going to a sort of pink, so as soon as I got it home, I covered it with black Fablon. Much as I loved this guitar, I soon found out that it wasnt that good. It was just as hard to play as the Hoyer, because again, the strings were too high off the fingerboard, and, because there was no truss rod, the neck was weak. So after a few months hard playing, it began to bow, something I had to adapt to, not having a second instrument. Something more profound also happened when I got this guitar. As soon as I got it, I suddenly didnt want it anymore. This phenomenon was to rear its head throughout my life and cause many difficulties. We hadnt bought an amplifier, so I could only play it acoustically and fantasize about what it would sound like, but it didnt matter. I was teaching myself new stuff all the time. Most of the time I was trying to play like Chuck Berry or Jimmy Reed, electric stuff, then I sort of worked backward into country blues. This was instigated by Clive, when out of the blue he gave me an album to listen to call King of the Delta Blues Singers, a collection of seventeen songs recorded by bluesman Robert Johnson in the 1. I read in the sleeve notes that when Johnson was auditioning for the sessions in a hotel room in San Antonio, he played facing the corner of the room because he was so shy. Having been paralyzed with shyness as a kid, I immediately identified with this. At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this mans example would be my life work. I was totally spellbound by the beauty and eloquence of songs like Kindhearted Woman, while the raw pain expressed in Hellhound on My Trail seemed to echo things I had always felt. I tried to copy Johnson, but his style of simultaneously playing a disjointed bass line on the low strings, rhythm on the middle strings, and lead on the treble strings while singing at the same time was impossible to even imagine. I put his album to one side for a while and began listening again to other players, trying to form a style. I knew I could never reach the standards of the original guys, but I thought that if I kept trying, something would evolve.