Eric Clapton Blues Guitar Lesson

[janomolnar]

you have a voice like a Kyle Gass from Tenacious D.. thanks

[jukedar]

thanks John, great lessons!

[johncarcinogen]

@rsdfender Dude no offense intended but if you cannot figure it out by ear maybe you should stop watching videos and considering the fact that music is much more about hearing or listening than watching "step-by-step guides to make this particular melody magically sound out from my guitar like whatever guitar god". I like Clapton and his style. But really, if you cannot take by ear some simple legato pentatonic pattern, you should reconsider what you're trying to learn and especially, How.

[michaelmchung]

Hey John, just out of curiosity how is the sting height set up on es335 and sg?

[martintheguitarist]

@rsdfender This is pretty advanced stuff to get into the style of a world class guitar player. If you need to slow things down you are probably looking at stuff too advanced for you. You know it's right for your level if you can understand and play by the explanations given. You need to understand and hear what is being played and then play something in that style. If you want to play note by note you are on the wrong track.

[myothercariseva01]

@rsdfender I think he assumes you play a decent amount of guitar and you can come up with your own solos based off the scale, the positioning, and the timing, go practice for a year and come back.

[nikolas2563]

your voice is like KIEL GASS

[nikolas2563]

la voz del tipo es como la de KIEL GASS

[LosLurvos]

@rsdfender i think the best hing is to keep it. You might learn alot froom it when you are more experienced

[TheRealRayJ]

Clapton's vibrato is so damn difficult for me. I can do BB King's "butterfly" style easily. You just act like you're turning a door knob. But Clapton's is so sinusoidal -- like you're just lifting your hand straight up and down. Very hard to control.

[HannahKinStudio]

Digi 002 in your rack!

[Robb9096]

is the guitar here the same as BB King's (335?)? I'd like to know, it sound great on through that Twin. My friend has a smaller body hollow guitar like the 335 (?) but just a little bigger than the Les Paul. I love it, just can't remember what it was.

[johntuggle]

@Robb9096 It's similar. Thanks.

[scarsonmybed]

@Robb9096 it's a ES339 maybe! I got one too, sweet custom sound!

[nicciticket]

@Robb9096 CS336



[Robb9096]

@nicciticket THANKS

[GalaxyHorse]

@Robb9096 sounds like you mean the Gibson ES336, which is like a scaled down version of the 335, just a little larger than a Les Paul body-nice guitars, Jon Herrington of Steely Dan plays one

[parisianUK]

@Robb9096 es339

[GuitarPlayerGeo]

Great lesson! You just gave the best advice ever when you said not to learn the exact notes, but to learn the style instead! Cool playing btw! :)

[moneyquickeasy]

The best way to learn how to play like Clapton is to listen to Clapton.

[mansteinman]

this is es 339?

[lifeson241]

Nice guitar !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stevenjgw9]

Great nice one John

[stripes5150]

I like cream style corn

[walrus261]

Wow you have a beautiful guitar and good lesson, thanks!

[JASONCALEDONIA]

Hey dude great lesson. Can u do one on mick taylor too?

[noorgard1]

Come on by and teach me that one would you. I am still trying to figure out out to use an amp. Too many dials on this thing. ;) 0' -0 0-

[lonestar7703]

I thinks it's great that you're are teaching these blues positions and leaving plenty of room open for people to add a little of their own flavor. Great!

[Gary1497]

Real nice playing, your vibrato is really good, as good as Eric's! and i agree with the comment about your tone, very cool blues tone. Great video.

[Blacksunshine561]

I WANT THAT GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!

[powermichiel]

What amp do you use here ? It sounds a bit like the Roger Waters Pros and Cons album Eric played on.

[johntuggle]

@powermichiel That video was with a 74 Fender Twin and an OCD pedal.

[inatizzy2]

@powermichiel Im afraid NO ONE will EVER get EC's style. Its just a .... SLOWWW hand. Ppl argue who is better, EC,SRV or Jimmie hendrix. Its all a different style. Hendrix is louder and more aggressive, EC, slow hand and easy, SRV, up there with Clapton. Just my opinion. :-)

[codboy61]

multi shades is an idiot Eric emulated and watched everyone

[MultiShades]

Just forget --how to play like some one else and play those strings as you see it done. Eric never watched some one play

[BluesEC84]

Hi John!

Thank you for the great lesson and specially pt2!!Your Explaination is clear and slow enough to follow it....

After I learn some licks of this video it was much easyer for me to cover songs of Eric Clapton!

Sorry for my English and a lot of greats from Germany ;))

[johntuggle]

@BluesEC84 Thanks! I'm glad the video helped.

[pelasreggae]

Que bueno si estuviera en castellano!!! o con subtitulos igual me sirvio mucho thanks!!!

[MaddZzee350]

Dude, I wish you were my neighbor. I'd drive you crazy bringing my guitar over for free lessons.

[garishblare]

@johntuggle Great lesson! I am learning through a solid state amp...was wondering if you could recommend a tone/distortion setting to emulate a claptonesque guitar colour ?

[garishblare]

great lesson! I am learning through a solid state amp...was wondering if you could recommend a tone/distortion setting to emulate a claptesque guitar colour ?

[garishblare]

great lesson! I am learning through a solid state amp...was wondering if you could recommend a tone/distortion setting to emulate a claptesque guitar colour ?

[MastinoNapoletano420]

You nailed it in some parts...I didn't even hear a difference between you and Eric. Very clean sound you have. You explain it so simply as well too. I haven't picked up a guitar in 3 years but watching you play reminded me of how simple and beautiful the blues are and how its more about feeling than the technical play involved. Man I miss playing...I might have to go to shop and pick up a beat up acoustic again...

[johntuggle]

@Someone5287 Distortion Pedal by Fulltone.

[mikestrat56]

I think one key to Eric's sound is his unique up and down free hand vibrato. I've worked on that forever, and you nail it.

[aninstrumentalvision]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[acdc94sg]

would you recommend a les paul standard traditional as a blues guitar because i have always wanted one but im not confident in its ton for blues like clapton SRV bb and others

[madguitarmike]

mate you did a great lesson ..

[roadkil2]

Got a 335 Gibson (1975) copy for graduation (1975) natural color. Gave the grandson

a lesson or two about 12yrs ago .Now I take lessons from him and passed the Gibson on down to him. He deserves it more than me.

[ALFOHOR]

i will like to ask you a question I have a vintage jazz guitar from 1948 but it broke at the head at the neck of the head it's worth to fix and it looks like the onu you have here please help me , thanks .

[johntuggle]

@ALFOHOR I would find a luthier in your area and take it to him to see what it would cost.

[iamtheeggman0]

What pickups do you have?

[wesito51]

Use a harmonica ~due to injuries, but this is really nice n sweet ! Pass it on Bro~~~~

[slowhand633]

this guys really got the clapton feel, style, and even tone of e.c.

someone should tab out a few of these licks they are so great !!!! !!

[spondulas]

I was just learning from a "play guitar like eric clapton" video from a professional magazine and if it didn't have that title I wouldn't even know it was clapton... Your licks are exactly what I think of when I think clapton.. Fantastic lesson, thanks a bunch mate...

[san5a89]

how clapton can obtain the sound on "can't find my way home" live in Hyde Park?? I mean is all valve amp and neck tele pickup or what?

[thebluesrockers]

thanks for the lesson John, please tell what kind of guitar your using in this video? sounds great" Peace Joe

[johntuggle]

@thebluesrockers It's a Gibson ES 335 2005. Thanks!

[805jeffm]

Great lesson! Thanks so much. I have that same 335. Is it a pro model?

[ArtDonna84]

Outstanding, thank you very much.

[lukestar07]

awesome lessons dude, i'm gonna go through all of these....

I really dig that wide clapton vibrato that you got going... still trying to nail that one, maybe you could do a lesson on that, as that is probably one of the most significant claptonisms... :)

cheers

[BaHaYSaMbaHaN]

now this vid is really teaching . thank you so much :)

[CalenCoffman]

He doesn't show his head because he's a magic blues playing space alien.

[westendcreations]

Great lesson ... this just opened up a huge amount of possibilities!

[attributionerr]

good lesson

[Joethomas1547]

Dude your lessons rock man, i love the way u teach!

[johntuggle]

@Joethomas1547 Thanks so much! Clapton is one of my favorites.

[K1RKYD]

I think you can only get his style of playing by listening to him like he did with all his greates. Only he can play like him!

[wrf1973]

Great vibrato, but how do you nail it so well with the first finger? I'm familiar with the pivot/anchor technique that works well for the second and third fingers but is the first finger just a matter of pushing up and down? I notice Clapton also does this when he plays.

[6ftUnder92592]

i like to learn all blues guitar and convert them to lead bass with distortion, im a bass player but i reall appreciate all the legendds of guitar playing

[maltcrispy]

nice tips, thanks for uploading....guitar sounds great too.

[tit4tat4dat]

stuffed nose?  use otrevene.......

[jimmybassman1]

Nicely done. Tasty ! Thank

[quer94]

What amp is that?

[PerfektGentleman]

WOW!!!!!!!!!

[gramswagon]

ill buy that guitar right now £100, cash in hand no questions asked.

[thereaflashgordon]

Hey John. Are there any Tabs for these licks?

[Tayplupe]

Thanks for posting. I am learning so much from you.

[superchabelo]

NIIIIIIIICE guitar dude!! sounds nice!!

[tit4tat4dat]

...such a cool video..........thanx....

[MaxRadin]

great lesson - what amp are you using? Looks like some kind of modeling amp? It sounds like a tube amp though - nice bite.

[ddayrocks]

Hey, great lesson! What guitar are you using? :)

[bluesclaudio056]

@ddayrocks i think it is a gibson es 335! looks like the one i have at home!

[ddayrocks]

@bluesclaudio056 Yeah I thought it was some form of 335... Great finish on it, never seen it before! Thanks :)

[ddayrocks]

Hey, great lesson! What guitar is that? :)

[deadlymakashit]

Blues has the best licks and this is one of the best blues tutorials i have seen so far.

[BlackAngusYoung]

Great lesson but your guitar sounds so good I stopped paying attention to what you were saying and started looking at it as a performance video!

[johntuggle]

@BlackAngusYoung Thanks!

[OMERTA011]

@johntuggle heritage h535?

[johntuggle]

@OMERTA011 Gibson 335

[OMERTA011]

@johntuggle thanks.. btw must be an older model. 'cause the pickguard looks like it's made of wood.. newer gibsons have plastic pickguards :/

[erodu001]

@OMERTA011 its not made of wood gibson have never made pickguards of wood. this is 3 or 4 layer vinyl plastic like all gibson pickguards

[4evergreendayfan]

Wow what guitar is that awesome guitar???????

[gebamst]

Wich equip do you use, to get this tone?

and wich settings on the amp, pedals and guitar?

[TheJuliusJT]

nice lesson... who is YOUR farv blues guitarist?

[johntuggle]

Thanks! I don't have just one favorite.  I have about 10 that I really like.

[TheJuliusJT]

@johntuggle ok, me too... i was just wondering what kind of music a guys like you listens to.

[johntuggle]

Clapton Trucks BB King Warren Haynes Freddie King Albert Collins Gary Moore SRV Duane Allman Dickey Betts There's plenty more though. Thanks!

[FrederickDefraeye]

Great tutorial and great guitar sound! Thank you. By the way, the person asking about the lack of 'pinky use' probably doesn't know that EC hardly ever uses his pinky.

[johntuggle]

@FrederickDefraeye Thanks!

[mistervicenteblues]

that was nice dude!

[johntuggle]

Thanks I appreciate it!

[mikepunchyourfucface]

is there something wrong with your pinky sir?

[6691alexb]

@mikepunchyourfucface

hahah true back in the day pinky didn't exist and apparently u don't need to use it...

[mikepunchyourfucface]

@6691alexb haha well you have all right lol and i enjoyed the lesson lol

[johntuggle]

No. Thanks!

[MitchTimmons]

hey thanks this is great...nice vibrato(wish mine was that good) lol

[ngarewaO9]

i kneW that i wondered if u use it in blues? as in the pentatonic scales

[ngarewaO9]

are the pentatonics always palmuted?

[jondanet]

@ngarewaO9 Palm muting is a technique that can be used with the pentatonic scale but you don't always have to use it. Palm muting is often used playing rhythm and you can also mute strings with your fret hand.

[onemorebrando]

What amp or effex? Thanks big country.

[johntuggle]

@onemorebrando That's an 1976 Twin with an OCD.

[knght1216]

Blues? Robben Ford baby..............

[kleinebudde]

Gibson ES 335 is THE blues guitar.

[werelost1]

sounds like zeppelin, i wonder if its one of the same pedals

[johndawson420]

wut kind of guitar is that and wut pick ups do you have? sounds great.

[mindcrazer]

thats a Gibson 335

[amozartii]

Great stuff! Interesting that Clapton didn't use his pinky much, you can even see this in footage of him playing.

[epiph0ne]

This was actually very helpful, thanks

[SeyRoland]

Oh, yea. Sorry man=) This guitar reminds me with Marty's guitar from rockongoodpeople=)

[snakkajak]

it sounds so simple until you play it and then its =|

[david85251]

Sir, that is a gorgeous guitar.

[johntuggle]

Thanks! Gibson 335

[petertorro]

hello sounds very good what kind of effect/amp you use and wich pickup (neck or bridge

and the are the pickups at full tone or at 5 for example

[ColtonSaylor713]

dude, your a bad ass

[languis1]

badd muy baf

[SLOWHANDNQN]

VERY GOOD THAT EXAMPLE!!!

[Pece17]

nice guitar

[onemorebrando]

Great job!

[cam123cha]

bn lookin 4 a gud lesson on dis nice1

[Ornitoqueirus]

you are awesome keep them cumming i love the way you play, wish we could play together in the funky side.....

[WillofGod13]

good job breaking the lick down...