The Clapton SOUND That CHANGED MY WORLD
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This guy's chops are so smooth, every note sounds so perfect, every bend is so in tune with perfect vibrato. It impresses me more than fast shredding honestly.
Well said brother, and its much harder to learn this
Fast shredding is BS imho. Many many youn folks these days have no idea that decades and decades ago django and many other jazz players were shredding before metal every was a thing. It also was NOT mindless speed for the sake of speed. But hey, I am an old guy. Been playing about 50 years.
Amen... shred is interesting for about the length of an instagram video. Strong melodic playing can keep me entertained for decades
I don’t understand why so many people think that you have to either blues chops or shred chops. Why not both? I think a lot of players like Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, etc. have incredible feeling in their playing, as good as any blues player. Incredible vibrato, note choice, subtle expression as well as lightning speed. Any guitarist that can only do one gets boring. Players who can do both always have something new up their sleeve.
@@gtdcoder Yngvie sounds incredibly boring.
For me, it all started with dropping the needle on Disraeli Gears and the second disc of Wheels of Fire, and discovering Clapton's stinging solo tone on songs like Strange Brew and Spoonful. The tone of the guitar spanked and sliced right through the distortion- I found that particularly surprising on the tracks that were live from the Fillmore. 50 years later, it still makes his marvellous phrasing shine, and the hairs on my forearms stand up and salute!
Tims "throw away" licks as he puts it done at his speed and clarity are more like little masterpieces of technique and soul.
It would be great if you broke down Peter Green's major/minor soloing. He really was the master of that approach, and it always sounds spontaneous.
Plus his fantastic vibrato, not to forget Danny's amazing vibrato as well
Werd!
Agreed! I believe Green sounds spontaneous because he shifted between major and minor by feel on the fly. I'm sure there are patterns he gravitates towards in applying such though, and it would make a cool vid
@@Ninjametal He was a real master of it.
My first experience with Cream was seeing them live, the first time they played in the US, at the Murray The K Show in 1969. I went specifically to see The Who, Cream was the bonus.
I was at that show. What a bill!
Do you mean 1968?
@@brittsmith8260 No, I meant 1967! Really it was '67.
Lucky guy! I've been a fan and player since 60s and really would have liked to have seen them live. I was only about 15 and remember the radio ads for the last Forum concert with live Spoonfull riff playing in background. Instead, studied and learmed his riffs and my band played live Cream for others for a couple years. Still can play some...
Wow what a memory to have in the vault for all these years! That's hard to beat😎👍
Hendrix, Green and Clapton. My holy trinity of influences.
I had the great pleasure of attending an Eric Clapton concert in 1976, he had Patti with him, he retired behind the Amps halfway through and had a brandy with Patti - but he played genuine Blues right in front of me, it was real and very moving.
I’ve been a lifetime fan of EC. Seeing a live video of him playing Layla started me on my way. I basically memorized the Albert Hall 24 nights concert and Nathan East was there. I am a child of the 80’s but Clapton was the man! I still love that he’s still playing and writing! I’m still a fan!
The version of "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" from the Derek & The Dominos Live At The Fillmore record is some of Eric Clapton's finest, most visceral playing, ever.
Amazing record
Freddie king inspired classic
There are lots of great musicians on RUclips… but when I really want a video that boost my day/mood… I just watch Tim.
I learn more from this channel in a few minutes than any other. Just a natural flow of things. Thank you so much Mr. Pierce!
Awesome, thank you!
Love Clapton. He’s on my guitar Mt. Rushmore. His playing on the John Mayall record changed my life when I first heard it. I commissioned an amp build of a Bluesbreaker because of that album. I can’t say how many times I’ve watched that clip of him from 68. Countless
Completely agree hes on the Mount rushmoor for sure
I remember seeing that clip on the show Night Flight probably 35 years ago and I thought it was amazing. I never forgot him showing how effortlessly he glided thru those phrases. Now you can find it on the interweb all day. I still watch it to this day. Agree with Rushmore!
Fuckin A!!
Nightflight!
Being stoned and doing trig homework watching Nightflight in south Texas
Another fantastic clip. So sorry that I missed the live stream. As always, your playing and instruction are fantastic.
Great insights into throw-away ‘punctuation’ in a solo, along with space, and intentional virtuosity that tell the emotional story so well!
Great live stream Tim - enjoyed it so much - content and playing was awesome -thanks so much !
Clapton plays some tasty stuff on the From The Cradle album - a real underrated collection of songs,
Agreed
I alway spend some time reading comments. I agree 100% "From the Cradle" is off the charts. Funny enough, I just watched my favorite (also underrated) guitarist performing two songs from that album and his tone and phrasing is to die for, check him out here on youtube "Edi Roque". You can spot a Marshall Bluesbreaker behind him and also what seems to be a Dumble Overdrive Special but I'm not sure what he used on the session. Anyway he gives me goosebumps. Tim Pierce is also wonderful!
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That "throwaway lick" was the part that caught my ear 45 years ago. I just thought it sounded so cool. Will have to listen to The Dominoes Live lp again as well.
Love love love the dominos
The Dominoes live was Claptons best stuff. If he had continued along that path, it would have killed him.
Catching this on the replay Tim. Love your channel and content.
When I first started playing Clapton was a big time influence as well as Jeff Beck, EVH, Michael Schenker and many,many others. I totally learned my attempt at vibrato from Clapton and Robin Trower.
Use to tune to E flat for decades.
The title of this video hit me because of something I’ve been really thinking lately. I’ve played with too many musicians who get so wrapped up in a certain genre or style they miss out on a lot of great music. So is Clapton a real blues guitarist?... Who cares, he has played so much great music why worry about what to call it besides great.
Wow thanks so much for this kind comment! Really great
I think Clapton played the song.
Does that make sense?
Genre be damned!
of course he was a "real" blues guitarist, hell he didn't start playing the electric. He got his start playing a cheap acoustic guitar, playing along to Big Bill Boosey, Robert Johnson, ect.. not to mention being amongst the 1st to play what we call today Blues Rock.
Ever since I first heard the solo from Crossroads when it came out I knew Eric Clapton was playing what was already in my soul, but I didn't know it. Because of him I learned, as he did, about the blues and the players before him that he listened to as a kid. Though he's gone thru some musical periods that I wasn't crazy about, (I'm thinking when he went to the active pickups and his guitar tone changed) he's always been my guitar guru and I came to accept that everyone changes. You definitely have some Clapton in your soul and it comes out when you play freely...and I'm envious of that. With my limited ability i still hear Clapton in my head but can't always translate it to my fingers like you. Now that I'm retired I say...hey it's never too late to learn right? Thanks for your help in that journey. Your site is always a joy to visit even if it sometimes is over my head. ANYTIME you feel like providing us with Clapton examples it will be most appreciated.😎👍
Cheers
Thanks for doing these Tim!
Tim,
Another great video, I got some great inspiration to take into the woodshed! Thank you Sir.
Great video! I'm intimidated beyond recovery (almost) but loving it! I love learning and know a little, but will try your 2-week offer. Thank you.
great tone Tim. all over the neck, every note, tone is wonderful. well played, thank you for your video s. playing and demos and info and for just being you. Stay safe , enjoy it all good luck.
I've been following him since Disraeli Gears. I had never heard a guitar sound like that before. Still my favorite guitarist 54 years later.
Mine too
Just incredible Tim.
You play with excellent feeling.
Thanks for breaking down Clapton's "Have you ever loved a woman." I have a new appreciation for his subtle (and not so subtle) playing.
After several years without use, I’m going to set my Strat back up and follow this. Cheers and thanks, Tim.
That sounds awesome dude . Thank you so much for the excellent lesson !
My pleasure!
You are a brilliant musician in your own right and really made sense of the little gems that Eric gave to all of us players…..! Thanks
Clapton is not only a Blues Guitarist, He is a Great Blues Guitarist.
Great video, Tim! Thanks!
That is freaking awesome. Kudos man. Would love to learn about all your gear.
Another great video, thank you Tim, always learn something new from you.
Best regards 🇦🇺
Clapton's vibrato has changed over the years where he's not even really touching the neck anymore. I found myself doing that on occasion after playing for almost 30 years depending on where my hand is relative to the fretboard.
Love your playing!! So silky smooth and tasteful!! Keep on killing it!!!! Thanks for passin the priceless knowledge onto the guitar community!
Love your videos, thanks Tim
That smile is so contagious 😁
I'm gonna be 11 rows from Clapton tomorrow night and I can't wait. My wife got me Clapton tix for Father's Day this year and I'm finally gonna cash them in tomorrow night. Clapton is the man and if Cream was the only thing he ever done he would be worthy of guitar Rushmore. I'm overall a "Fender guy" but man when Clapton plugs in a 335 there is something that happens that I can't even explain.
I’ll be seeing EC tomorrow night in Atlanta (thanks to a birthday gift from my wife). One of the main things that separated Eric from Mike Bloomfield….at least for me…was the vibrato. I much preferred Eric’s, and thought MB’s was too fast.
Loved this Tim. The joy in your face while you play and share. Haha. Thank you. An older friend who was teaching me guitar back in the 80's was a huge Clapton fan. Live Cream just blew me away when he showed it to me. And my friend was also a huge fan of little licks from songs like "Have you ever loved a woman" and "Sitting on top of the world". Clapton would be tasty then just throw in blisteringly fast runs.
Hi Tim, I've been a fan, of yours for years, and l even have you're solo record, great work. I love your work, on the Bryan Duncan records, especially the record called Blue Skies, Great sound Tim. Stay safe and all the best..
Wow, thank you!
Thank you Tim 👍🏻..
Thanks Tim!
That is a great tone, well done Tim. I’m thinking of signing up for your masterclas been playing over 50 years , but need to brush up.
Tim another great video. I love the content you provide. Really enjoyed the video were you went through the solo for Peg from Steely Dan with Jay Graydon. That video was amazing.
I'm of the reverse opinion to most. He peaked as a player in the late 80s and then blessed everyone with almost exclusively playing the blues through the 90s. It's all incredible and there might not be a better live album than 24 Nights.
Always agreed with this. People jump on the “Cream was his best era” bandwagon having never listened to August orJourneyman. Every album has been different and they all have incredible pieces in them.
This!!
Well, in the end it´s a matter of taste, i guess. I´ve always favored the daring, raw and innovative approach in music.
I personally find that the more Clapton´s career progressed through the years, the less exciting and more clean cut the music became, right down to being some sort of tame "dad music", that doesn´t take any chances anymore. Artistically i find that boring.
Having said that, it hink he still is a remarkable musician and guitarist and seems like an absolute great guy.
@@modestoney1577 I feel similarly, but have over time got into the "dad" sound. He caresses each note so carefully it's beautiful, and I get it now. But I liked his excursions with a Firebird for tone.
@@psychoprosthetic yeah, i get that too, don´t get me wrong. But i truly feel that in his early years and probably really around the Cream era he did actually peak from an artistic point of view. I guess i would even distinguiish between artistry and musicmanship/craftmanship. I agree that he probably widened his already remarkable range of expression with even greater subtleties and nuances over the years, yet the music itself has become less daring and therefore in the end less significant for it´s time.
He used to be pioneer if you will, which he isn´t anymore. That doesn´t mean the music is bad or should not be appreciated - not every musician needs to be pioneering all the time in order to be a great musician.
Really beautiful, soulful intro.
Just bought the Master Class. Spending the afternoon on a couple funk rhythm lessons. I didn’t realize you had this much content available. Probably a lot better spending a few bucks on this than some new gear. Thanks Tim.
Awesome, thank you!
Love that volume swell crescendo at 8:48! Tasty & perfectly placed. Also wanted to mention that back in the'60's saw BB King on TV & copied his wrist vibrato after realizing "that's it! That's how you make that sound!" Don't know who was the first to do that but thanks BB! His was wider & very easy to see. Thanks Tim as always. Hope to get to meet you someday!
SMOKIN'! Your tone and execution on the whole intro makes me shudder! GREAT video!
This is so cool Tim. I love your explanations. Thanks for being you! So great! I have some questions for you but I have to go cut my grass right now. I'll get back to you. ;)
The tone on the "Forever Man" solo is pretty amazing. A banshee wail.
Very good analysis of Clapton's playing and sound Tim! Btw, great playing yourself!!
Wow....wow what great playing and that tone!!
Somehow I missed the notification that this was happening. Still I enjoyed the replay! Clapton was my first big influence, and I still enjoy hearing him play.
wow your knowledge is amazing just amazing playing
You always look like you are having a blast!
Sweet as always my friend..😎🤘
Great Playing Tim.
Tim, your playing has been an inspiration to me since the days when your band (Traveler) and mine played the first Rock Fest at Speedway Park on south Eubank. One of the first licks Steve Maase showed me was the opening part of Layla. Keep up the great videos, brother!
Thanks so much!
Tim, thank you for this I really enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The “24 Nights” album is my favourite Clapton. Loved his Fender Lace Strats.
I LOVE the joy on your face when you hit something you really like!
Say Tim, when you’re playing something like this, do you really have a thought process where you think ‘I’ll play this descending run and then flick up from minor 3rd to major?
Sorry I missed live stream! Great stuff man!
Thanks so much Jeff I appreciate it. Everybody head over to Jeff Mcerlain's Great RUclips channel
@@timpierceguitar Thank you my friend!
I was fortunate to see Derek and the Dominos at the Fillmore East on October 23rd, early show for the taping of the live album. I was an awestruck 14 year old, and sat 10th row center and I remember this show like it was yesterday. Eric said nothing all night and just played his ass off. Well, I'm now 65 years old and still love Eric's playing and impeccable phrasing. The classic clip from '68 is so eternally etched in my brain, however the movie that Tim has excerpted it from "Farewell Concert" from Cream is an exercise in extreme patience as the film maker loved the use of psychedelic and annoying editing and visual gimmickry. I love Eric's Cream, Blind Faith, and Derek and Dominos playing and gravitate to that style of playing to this day.
Tim’s “never stop learning, never stop loving” the craft approach is inspiring! Is that a Browne Protein I spy?
Brilliant thank you
Un grand MERCI de la France !!!
I categorize those "thrown away" licks as "reactive". They showed themselves in my playing as I let my hands express my reaction to the anticipation in the chord changes and between lyric lines. It's almost as if I were speaking with notes from my hands to express an auxiliary emotional content supporting the lyrical. They are intentionally not scripted but keep my head in line line with my heat even while not singing and so become integral to the performance and much more than "space fillers" for lyric breath pauses.
Nathan is and has always been my most favorite bassist of all time, so cool that he stopped by…
Yes I felt very honored and humbled by Nathan showing up :)
That says a lot about you as well Tim. Equally honored, you are definitely one of the best guitar players to ever live in my book, and as much as I dislike the internet in many ways. I feel so privileged and honored just to be able to have your instruction, and communication…
Much of Clapton's vibrato technique is the vertical movement of his hand/wrist up and down with his finger the only thing really touching the guitar. Unlike anybody else.
Yep, from the biceps. Actually lots of folks do it that way. I think it's difficult to get the vibratos that I like with that technique.
"It's about the space between the notes"......B.B. King
What Clapton did on the Beano record was as much about his note choices, technique, and touch as anything else. His amp was new and his Burst was only six years old. He has said that the riffs were taken from the great blues masters but the connecting bits were his.
THANK YOU, TIM! Volume and tone controls are there for a reason, especially on a guitar. Once you nave your amp
dialed in, your guitar can do anything you like. Everything is at your fingertips-literally.
That record is one of the finest ever made. I never was a Clapton fan until I was 50 years old. It’s all good now.
A great wine ages well. Sometimes it takes time to appreciate what is really going on. All the glitter and flash is nice and dazzles everyone, but can go flat without the depth of feeling that a real musician brings. When people say they get 'bored' with the less flashy stuff, it says a lot more about them than the true musician who keeps that flash in his back pocket.
Maybe it's the fact that it was the first time I heard him, but the Blues Breakers tone will always be it for me.
Howdy Tim, watching from Espanola, NM. Long time fan of yours. Cheers. Keep em coming!
Fantastic Tim we love it Very Coooool
Greeeetzzzz Henk
I had the pleasure to see Clapton in Dallas and in Houston last week. Ive been to atleast 300 concerts and these were my 1st for him. The videos are on my utube page. He was like someone said b4. Clapton was a God. Thank u for the content ill be watching for more.
It was interesting to compare Clapton to Albert Lee when the latter was touring with him. The live recording of “Cocaine” that came out, with both of them playing solos, was very instructive in terms of their musical roots and what they’d studied along the way.
Wow! Reminded me of Jimi's "Once I Had a Woman" which I hadn't thought about for years and years, and more especially Jimi's "Jam 292" which blew my socks off when it first appeared on the french release, "Loose Ends" (1974 - with the very cool 'colors melting into an ear' rear cover art). Also, "Come Down Hard on Me Baby". Of course, just 4 years after his passing, we were all starving for more of Jimi's work (which is why we were eating up Robin Trower's work at the time).
Learnt a lot from watching this. Thanks Tim.
Tim making me feel insufficient but I love it LoL Watching a Master take the Wheel is always a pleasure. I leaned a nice little trick here for me bag ahrrr
This is the song that made me want to play guitar. Those licks spoke to me
SWEET ! I'm just moving to another location, and will look into it, sounds right in my level .
I first became aware of Clapton's blues playing genius on 'Five Long Years' on the 'Five Live Yardbirds' album - all those years ago.
Nice fret-work. I am a recent subscriber who knew not of your abilities. Color me, impressed.
One of my favorite album's of all times!! Derrick and the Dominos, shame they only had one album :(
The tone knob is your long lost friend! :-)
nice playing
Hi Tim lovely playing 👍
As teens back in the day our touch stone for his fire and tone, even more so than the Beano tone, was Stormy Monday live with John Mayall and Jack Bruce on bass at the Flamingo, blistering.
Back in 1976 I remember my guitar teacher using Clapton as an example for good vibrato.
All these years later I've perfected my style of vibrato and now concentrate and am working at a very smooth slow and controllable vibrato. The fast seems pretty easy, it is the extremely slow vibrato that seems to be a challenge.
That was great about vibrato! That's a fundamental technique that everyone who is serious about guitar should learn. The way in which the finger is pressed onto the string can change tone, as well. It can also make it easier. The tips, sides, and even the flat (pad) of the finger can be used. But it takes practice, practice, practice, and then more practice after that. And don't forget to move that elbow when necessary!
You have the tone about perfect. The Layla album is one of my favorites
Absolutely
That Clapton tone in the video. Man I still want that!
So many great bits of info on this episode. Thanks Tim 🙌🏻
Killer intro dude, that was awesome
Nathan East is top notch and he is tuning into this video too! Awesome!
I agree with everything you said in this video, Tim. I, too, got Layla, and then had to pick up guitar to learn to play it. Beano and Cream had been working on me, and it just triggered something. And then discovered my vibrato action could be similar.