How to play - Crossroads by Cream

This all time classic solo contains some essential blues licks. This isn't an exact note-for-note solo and isn't meant to be. It's my interpretation and the way I play it according to my playing style and technique so I hope you find something to learn from this lesson. Pay special attention to tone by using the bridge pickup (preferably a humbucker) and not too much gain. The appropriate use of vibrato and subtle bends are what make this solo so great. Good luck!

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[nedalust]

Great tone, great playing, great lesson but, with no offence, a strat with 2 humbuckers is not really a strat (in my opinion).

[JOHNNYG99X]

@nedalust totally agree with you.. but since i dont own a les paul or a 335 at the time, i used the humbucker equipped strat.. BTW, the pickups are tappable to single coils

[zivbaziv]

I love clapton and i am only 11 age doesnt matter

[PokerFish2006]

Cool man, im learning this one again, bar by bar , slowly but surely :)

[misterstratocaster]

@nedalust You're right...real Strats don't have humbuckers.

[vond9]

Excellent work ,,nice phrasing,,brkn' out my tex-mex strat,,,,,,,

[aandrewranger]

you should have tabs like Bobbycrispy

[willy14155]

muy lejos se encuentra la guitarra de la camara, acercala mas y sera mejor, buena intencion..

[Zozou77]

GENIAL  MERCI BEAUCOUP

[cofferson]

No offense to Clapton but his version blows. Robert Johnson is always the alfa

[MrQuickfix79]

your pretty good bro!

[LizzardHunters]

@MarshallAmpMan

Get it straight- Clapton NEVER uses anything but a Fender Strat- his preferred axe is nicknamed "Blackie" (for obvious reasons). Dude is being polite when he says thanks- you obviously don't know your guitars or axemen. You have Slowhand confused with some AC/DC hack or another.

[MayChild8]

@JOHNNYG99X Hey what do you think of fat strat?

[appluntu]

Great lesson! As I wanted to play this song, I listened to this song millions of times (already posted my video). I have a question - in the main riff I can hear Eric Clapton pulls off the 2nd fret on 3rd string (G), and then picked it again, instead of hammering on, except the very first time. Many people as well as you in the video on Youtube use pulling-off and hammering-on at this part. I hear wrongly?