In this video I'll show you how Eric Clapton's playing on the John Mayall and The Blues Breakers change blues guitar by using a Les Paul, Marshall JTM 45 Combo and a simple Minor Pentatonic Scale! Get 50% off Just The Licks Blues Breakers Edition! workingclassguitar.com/p/just-the-licks-bluesbreakers-edition?coupon_code=YT124&product_id=5292071 Get the TAB and Track FREE! workingclassguitar.com/courses/best-of-corey-s-youtube/lectures/51533382?preview=admin Learn more about the Clapton and the Beano record by watching these great videos! Five Watt World th-cam.com/video/p8khIM4eG9w/w-d-xo.html The JHS Show! th-cam.com/video/eqOyJbCxyp0/w-d-xo.html
I saw John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton 11th April 1966 at the Marquee club in London, it cost us 7 shillings & six pence to get in, that's about 38 p in today's money or in American, 30c. He was astounding that night, it was the first time I saw a Les Paul or a Marshall amp. Four of us had to sleep in the car that night.
Great tone and video. For me, Clapton has always been the man. He was inspired by Freddie King, early Buddy Guy, BB King, and others but, to me, his phrasing and touch are guitar perfection that has no fluff, pointless flash, or wasted notes.
All I can say is, Eric Clapton is my favorite guitarists, favorite guitarist… Right? He inspired so many of the greatest guitarists of all time. I’ve actually only heard one other guitarist say anything bad about Clapton. That particular guitarist has a bad opinion about everyone though. The Beno album was incredible! Thanks for all your continued efforts and contribution to the TH-cam world 👍
Really? Sad to hear. There were mny others like him hitting way harder in the guitar and music biz. But even the hill billy knows EC and stops crawling deeper. Because hey, it is EC. EC is a magician on the strings no doubt. But his role in music and guitar history is present and true but not "the one"
I bought that album in 1967 shortly after it came out. I went on to collect about 7 more of the Blues Breakers albums featured more the bands great lead guitar players like Peter Green and Mick Taylor.
8:45 The "Beano Boost" (Analogman) is named after the 1966 Blues Breakers album that features Clapton reading the Beano comic on the sleeve. Incidentally, the guy sitting on Clapton's left on the album cover is bassist John McVie who would later form Fleetwood Mac. Personally, I think that Clapton was at the top of his game during his time with John Mayall. There was rawness and fury in his playing that inspired an entire generation.
I agree a great player can make a captivating solo with just those 5 notes. Paul Kossof was the master of phrasing. When people judge guitarists these days, they tend to look at the technical element and criticise their often limited vocabularys. But focus on the phrasing and what these guitarists did for music overall, above anything it’s about creating great songs with feel.
People are obsessed with what I consider dull playing. I'd rather hear Kossoff, JJ Cale, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Page or David Gilmore saying more with a few well chosen notes than anyone else could say in a flurry of notes
The Clapton course is great, Corey! I really like how you emphasize the nuances of Clapton's playing. It's those subtle nuances that, to me, made Clapton such an amazing guitarist. Great job teaching his playing style!!
I saw an interview with Clapton from 1960s era and he demonstrated his guitar tone. He played exactly the same parts of the minor pentatonic box 1, box 5 and box 2 demonstrated in this video and yes, he used his index and ring finger for the 4 fret stretch on the treble E and B strings in box 1. He only used the bass E and A strings from box 5 and he used the G, B and E strings from box 2. You can always repeat these shapes an octave up with the G minor pentatonic box 1 starting at fret 15. You can get a lot of tone from just these shapes.
You can’t bend with your pinky. That’s why so many players rarely use it. Clapton was always adding little bends and vibrato and using the pinky on those notes precludes you from doing that reliably.
I think Carl Perkins spoke well: "You know there is song writers, there is singers, there is guitar players. Only one man conquered all of them.Clapton done that all around the world.
First heard the Beano album as high school senior. Knocked me out. Been fortunate enough to hear Clapton live a few times and even John Mayall at the Cabooze bar in Minneapolis.
I purchased the course last night and have just begun learning. Like all your material the information is valuable and you explain with passion which makes me want to play. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Please continue for a long long time
Peter Green was another incredible guitarist like that. All about the expression and the tone. Like on 'Fool No More' for example, he had the instinctive musicality to know that mostly, less is more. Too many people lose sight of that and then go to far toward being performing musicians, rather than being artists. Not to knock musicians, but, they often aren't the same thing.
Jeez man… some super phrasing going on there yourself!!! One of the few videos on TH-cam where the change in the tones you are creating actually comes through to the viewer. Very well recorded, thank you!
I really love how some cork sniffers get offended by the word “software” but if you hadn’t told them they wouldn’t have known or “heard” because they already watched half the video without complaining 😆 Amazing as always, Corey! One of the best educators out there.
This is a great video. I knew the story of the album but your examples with the Ox is amazing. The room mic is clearly the magic dust on those tones. Well done Sir!! ☮️✌️☮️
Corey, master of your craft and techno-wizard for sure😮, a giant in the guitar world community, Paid your dues, live life to the fullest and may all your wildest dreams come true !
It seems to me that Lonnie Mack was playing more interesting stuff in 1963 than Clapton became famous for a couple years later. Mack was mixing blues with country, bluegrass and jazz licks and playing every bit as precisely and with as much skill as EC wound up doing with his strictly blues stuff . Lonnie used a Magnatone amp or a Leslie cabinet so his tone wasn't as heavy as ECs but the playing was definitely every bit as impressive if not more so
I love this lesson!! I just had a lesson on this subject with Clapton in Cream . When people today make fun of the pentatonic scales . Just because something is simple doesn’t make it bad . Excellent lesson. I hope people especially beginners listen to it .
Thanks Corey. That album turned me on to live recording of bands but I didn't quite understand what I was hearing at the time. Among other great tips that was a killer demo of what the tasteful adding of room sound can do for a live take. Love the channel, keep up the good work! - Mark
Really great job and commentary/analysis. I'm into Holdsworth, Scofield, McLaughlin etc. but always come back to the Beano album-it's where it all started, the tone, phrasing and articulation is phenomenal.
Dunno about the Bluesbreaker but you’ll notice in pics or vids from the Cream/100w stacks era, Clapton always used the 2nd - darker channel. I think that’s where a lot of the warmth of his tone came from. He’s always said he just turned everything up full.
Clapton had the very first so called Plexi's they were JTM 100's using KT66 tubes, not unlike the Marshall VIntage Modern 100 watt amp, just has added mid boost and master volume, he also had 25 Watt Greenbacks.
I’m a pro keys player learning guitar. I can hear what I want to play in my head but have that frustrating feeling when you have to translate it to a less familiar instrument. I bought your beginner Blues licks course recently on TrueFire and am loving it! I do a new lick every morning then transpose it and improvise using it and combine it with the others I’ve learned and feel like I’m really making some progress. I’ve been recommending your courses to everyone I know! Great teaching and playing!
Very cool and informative clip. Yeah, when I was a young teenager in the early 70s my world was Hendrix, Clapton and Paul Kossoff. Technology is so fun these days. The room sound you got is awesome and I was cracking up when you went from a wood floor to carpet floor with a click of a switch .. Ha!
Great lesson and great sound. Im all for "embrace the Pentatonics before stepping outside pentatonics". Most of solos, that I like is pure pentatonics and I see nothing wrong with that. Funny thing, that Beano boost developemetn was sparked by guitar tech of Tony Iommi, as attempt to find replacement for his long lost Treble booster and has nothing to do with Eric Clapton. Dunno, why they called it Beano boost at the end.
@@danle3181He also almost 80 years old and his lifestyle caught up with him. Besides the fact that he plays boosted Fender Strats that sound like shit.
Just before you demonstrated the room sound, I was thinking, "Yeah, but I can't hear the 'air' in the room." I know that sounds like something from a stoner comedy sketch, but then BAM you answered it with the Room Mics demo. Really Cool.
@@tazisme5751 No it doesn't. Sustaine/reverb is not the same thing as tone. If I would play Clapton's guitar and his gear, I would be shittier player, but the tone would be exactly the same.
Sir, you have a gift for matching that "tone", touch, and phrasing that just make that '59 Gibson have the equivalent of Stratavarius in violins. Brilliant in how you got all the tricks, tips, head, amps and setting to come together to very well match Eric and that live sound. Maybe one day you show us some Pete Townsend "Live at Leeds" tones. Thank you for this education!
That tone is fkn insane dude!! Damn Definitely gonna have to go check out that Blues Breakers record too.. thanks for the recommendation and helpful video 🤘🏼
His best era. Loved mayall/clapton and mayall/green.. the first clapton solo I learned besides acoustic Layla was "double crossing time". Also learned "nobody knows you when youre down and out!". This was on the major scale.
I love this album! My guitar teacher put me on it when I was like 16. His take on Hideaway on this album is my favorite. It has a lot of push/pull between the major 3rd and minor. That one, and steppin out are classics.
In this video I'll show you how Eric Clapton's playing on the John Mayall and The Blues Breakers change blues guitar by using a Les Paul, Marshall JTM 45 Combo and a simple Minor Pentatonic Scale!
Get 50% off Just The Licks Blues Breakers Edition!
workingclassguitar.com/p/just-the-licks-bluesbreakers-edition?coupon_code=YT124&product_id=5292071
Get the TAB and Track FREE!
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Learn more about the Clapton and the Beano record by watching these great videos!
Five Watt World
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The JHS Show!
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Unable to download the free tab is there a coupon code?
The link for tab and track is dead 🪦
Yup
@@gwhiz3708 just fixed it. It is also in the video description
@@Tony_Leonardi. just fixed it. It is also in the video description
I saw John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton 11th April 1966 at the Marquee club in London, it cost us 7 shillings & six pence to get in, that's about 38 p in today's money or in American, 30c. He was astounding that night, it was the first time I saw a Les Paul or a Marshall amp. Four of us had to sleep in the car that night.
This would have to be THE BEST guitar tone I've ever heard.
Concur
Great tone and video. For me, Clapton has always been the man. He was inspired by Freddie King, early Buddy Guy, BB King, and others but, to me, his phrasing and touch are guitar perfection that has no fluff, pointless flash, or wasted notes.
All I can say is, Eric Clapton is my favorite guitarists, favorite guitarist… Right? He inspired so many of the greatest guitarists of all time. I’ve actually only heard one other guitarist say anything bad about Clapton. That particular guitarist has a bad opinion about everyone though. The Beno album was incredible! Thanks for all your continued efforts and contribution to the TH-cam world 👍
Really? Sad to hear. There were mny others like him hitting way harder in the guitar and music biz. But even the hill billy knows EC and stops crawling deeper. Because hey, it is EC. EC is a magician on the strings no doubt. But his role in music and guitar history is present and true but not "the one"
I bought that album in 1967 shortly after it came out. I went on to collect about 7 more of the Blues Breakers albums featured more the bands great lead guitar players like Peter Green and Mick Taylor.
8:45 The "Beano Boost" (Analogman) is named after the 1966 Blues Breakers album that features Clapton reading the Beano comic on the sleeve. Incidentally, the guy sitting on Clapton's left on the album cover is bassist John McVie who would later form Fleetwood Mac. Personally, I think that Clapton was at the top of his game during his time with John Mayall. There was rawness and fury in his playing that inspired an entire generation.
The dope took a toll...
Peter Green formed Fleetwood Mac. John McVie wasn't even the first bass player. That was Bob Brunning.
Clapton is the gaffer.. he’s easy overlooked these days.. sounding great! Keep it burnin!🔥🎸
I agree a great player can make a captivating solo with just those 5 notes. Paul Kossof was the master of phrasing. When people judge guitarists these days, they tend to look at the technical element and criticise their often limited vocabularys. But focus on the phrasing and what these guitarists did for music overall, above anything it’s about creating great songs with feel.
I don’t remember Kossof ever playing a fast solo!
It was 100% soul,tone and feel with him! A true Master!
I love Koss. If you really look at his solos he even uses the same notes/phrases just in different order on different songs.
People are obsessed with what I consider dull playing. I'd rather hear Kossoff, JJ Cale, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Page or David Gilmore saying more with a few well chosen notes than anyone else could say in a flurry of notes
The tone you are getting here is nothing short of incredibly good !!
I concur.
Without a doubt, Corey's tone is incredible!
Tone is ok ….. but it ain’t the tone on the record 🙃
It is great, but you should hear the record.
@@whiskersb5296 What makes you think that a compliment on this guy's tone is an indication that I haven't heard the Beano album ?
60s Clapton and B.B. King were just the absolute masters of ‘Less is more.’ They could both just make a few simple
notes absolutely sing…
The Clapton course is great, Corey! I really like how you emphasize the nuances of Clapton's playing. It's those subtle nuances that, to me, made Clapton such an amazing guitarist. Great job teaching his playing style!!
Mahalo Corey!! One of my favs from my high school days! Still listen that LP to this day!
I saw an interview with Clapton from 1960s era and he demonstrated his guitar tone. He played exactly the same parts of the minor pentatonic box 1, box 5 and box 2 demonstrated in this video and yes, he used his index and ring finger for the 4 fret stretch on the treble E and B strings in box 1. He only used the bass E and A strings from box 5 and he used the G, B and E strings from box 2. You can always repeat these shapes an octave up with the G minor pentatonic box 1 starting at fret 15. You can get a lot of tone from just these shapes.
Very overated player.
@@colinpadley1897What you mean is, you think he is overrated. Each to there own and all that
Calm down girls, after all, training bras aren’t one size fits all 😂
@@badger519Well, I’m assuming he’s going to put up a link to his own playing to show his coruscating opinion is founded on genuine knowledge.
You can’t bend with your pinky. That’s why so many players rarely use it. Clapton was always adding little bends and vibrato and using the pinky on those notes precludes you from doing that reliably.
Your tone is one of the best, 😊 thanks for showing us how to get it going!
Great video Corey, love that tone and explanation of using the room to get there!!!
Been playing the blues scale forever. Never heard anything else than the pentatonic from him
Great video Corey! You can almost hear the "angst" that led to Cream in some of the Blues Breaker solos. Clapton was really going for it.
I think Carl Perkins spoke well: "You know there is song writers, there is singers, there is guitar players. Only one man conquered all of them.Clapton done that all around the world.
Corey, you're on fire! Looking forward to diving into this course soon!
Thx David! Enjoy!
First heard the Beano album as high school senior. Knocked me out. Been fortunate enough to hear Clapton live a few times and even John Mayall at the Cabooze bar in Minneapolis.
I think you totally nailed the tone. Great work and tips on this. And your playing is so magnificently fluid. Such a simple set up and amazing tone!!!
Thanks a ton!
So cool, Corey. Great tone and feel by you as usual! Nice new ink too
Just brilliant Corey. Killer playing, killer tone , killer lesson. Thanks. 👍👍
Always a pleasure to watch you play and great sound with that gear, many thanks !
The version of Cream's volume II live album of Steppin out, is killer also!
Unparalleled! Best break neck drive in r'n'r history! Forever! 👍
I have been listening to the Beano album for over 50 years.
You've got that Beano Clapton tone Nailed Bro !
I purchased the course last night and have just begun learning. Like all your material the information is valuable and you explain with passion which makes me want to play. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Please continue for a long long time
Thanks so much! I hope you continue to enjoy it!
Peter Green was another incredible guitarist like that. All about the expression and the tone. Like on 'Fool No More' for example, he had the instinctive musicality to know that mostly, less is more. Too many people lose sight of that and then go to far toward being performing musicians, rather than being artists. Not to knock musicians, but, they often aren't the same thing.
Peter Green followed Clapton in the Blues breakers and 'A Hard Road' was his 'Beano' album.
Peter Green was peerless at his peak ! Restrained and tasteful with a very unique tone and phrasing ☝️👊
Great tone Corey! That Bluesbreakers record is damn near perfect.
Corey, your explanation these fundamental shapes and especially how they are used are very good. Thanks man!
Glad you enjoyed! My pleasure!
Jeez man… some super phrasing going on there yourself!!! One of the few videos on TH-cam where the change in the tones you are creating actually comes through to the viewer. Very well recorded, thank you!
Thanks!
Man this is cool! I’m a big fan of that album. I’m gonna check out your course. 🎸👍🏼
I really love how some cork sniffers get offended by the word “software” but if you hadn’t told them they wouldn’t have known or “heard” because they already watched half the video without complaining 😆 Amazing as always, Corey! One of the best educators out there.
😉🙏🏻
This is a great video. I knew the story of the album but your examples with the Ox is amazing. The room mic is clearly the magic dust on those tones. Well done Sir!! ☮️✌️☮️
Yeah. Jimmy Page would use this technique, too. I believe he called it distance equals depth.
Corey, master of your craft and techno-wizard for sure😮, a giant in the guitar world community, Paid your dues, live life to the fullest and may all your wildest dreams come true !
Great job! You've really nailed the sound and playing!
It seems to me that Lonnie Mack was playing more interesting stuff in 1963 than Clapton became famous for a couple years later. Mack was mixing blues with country, bluegrass and jazz licks and playing every bit as precisely and with as much skill as EC wound up doing with his strictly blues stuff . Lonnie used a Magnatone amp or a Leslie cabinet so his tone wasn't as heavy as ECs but the playing was definitely every bit as impressive if not more so
Great tone. I could listen to you for days!
Great lesson and info. Thanks Corey
You are one awesome guitarist Corey! That treble boost bit was heavenly.
Love watching your stuff , really love your playing man. Keep it up
Thanks so much!
Great instruction and tones! Just snagged the course, looking forward to digging in.
Great thx!
I love this lesson!! I just had a lesson on this subject with Clapton in Cream . When people today make fun of the pentatonic scales .
Just because something is simple doesn’t make it bad .
Excellent lesson. I hope people especially beginners listen to it .
Excellent tutorial on getting the sounds and phrasing.
Killer tone Corey!!!
Corey! The toooooooooooone! It’s so good. So close to Eric’s! Wow thank you!
Great vid. Tasty licks. Awesome playing
Thanks Corey. That album turned me on to live recording of bands but I didn't quite understand what I was hearing at the time. Among other great tips that was a killer demo of what the tasteful adding of room sound can do for a live take. Love the channel, keep up the good work! - Mark
Phenomenal insights...thank you Corey.
My favorite Clapton solo is on the Yardbirds "I aint got you", 1964... I mean NOBODY played like him in 1964 !!! This IS why one called him GOD
What i finally realized is how the bends make it really come alive
Fully agree with you jroc ... the note bends make the amp 'sing'.
You can see where Ritchie Blackmore “borrowed” the riff from Black Night from!
Great lesson !👍
Man that is an amazing tone !!
Amazing sounds, tone and playing… great video!!
Thanks a lot!
Great tones and stellar playing as always!
Thanks for listening
The song and guitar performance that blew my young mind and is STILL a reference point
Brilliant explanation bro'
💯🔥🎶🎸🎶
I really like the sound of both pickups together.
Amazing tones !
Great content!! Excellent job 🎸
Thx!
Inspirational. Thanks.
Really great job and commentary/analysis. I'm into Holdsworth, Scofield, McLaughlin etc. but always come back to the Beano album-it's where it all started, the tone, phrasing and articulation is phenomenal.
Awesome demonstration vid!
Thank you!
Dunno about the Bluesbreaker but you’ll notice in pics or vids from the Cream/100w stacks era, Clapton always used the 2nd - darker channel. I think that’s where a lot of the warmth of his tone came from. He’s always said he just turned everything up full.
Clapton had the very first so called Plexi's they were JTM 100's using KT66 tubes, not unlike the Marshall VIntage Modern 100 watt amp, just has added mid boost and master volume, he also had 25 Watt Greenbacks.
Ya, Blues Breakers stepping out never gests old!!!
Fantastic Video !
This was awesome thank you
Great video Corey! Thanks
Glad you liked it!
I’m a pro keys player learning guitar. I can hear what I want to play in my head but have that frustrating feeling when you have to translate it to a less familiar instrument. I bought your beginner Blues licks course recently on TrueFire and am loving it! I do a new lick every morning then transpose it and improvise using it and combine it with the others I’ve learned and feel like I’m really making some progress. I’ve been recommending your courses to everyone I know! Great teaching and playing!
Thx for the support! Enjoy the courses!
Very cool and informative clip. Yeah, when I was a young teenager in the early 70s my world was Hendrix, Clapton and Paul Kossoff. Technology is so fun these days. The room sound you got is awesome and I was cracking up when you went from a wood floor to carpet floor with a click of a switch .. Ha!
Up until this moment I thought that carpets were just for decoration and fixing stuff in place…
Corey 👍🏻. Great lesson. Blues on bro🎸
Great work .
Love the top on that Les Paul!!!
Great lesson and great sound. Im all for "embrace the Pentatonics before stepping outside pentatonics". Most of solos, that I like is pure pentatonics and I see nothing wrong with that.
Funny thing, that Beano boost developemetn was sparked by guitar tech of Tony Iommi, as attempt to find replacement for his long lost Treble booster and has nothing to do with Eric Clapton. Dunno, why they called it Beano boost at the end.
What a great video have a good weekend Corey ❤😊
Thank you! You too!
That cestus pedal is badassed! Great video brother , made me feel like I was hanging at a music shop with a friend.
Thx for that!
It wasn't just the notes, Clapton had great time - phrased like a vocalist
You just nailed it. "HAD" is the keyword. Nowadays, he sounds and plays electric guitar like shit.
@@danle3181He also almost 80 years old and his lifestyle caught up with him. Besides the fact that he plays boosted Fender Strats that sound like shit.
Excellent video.
Wow, love your playing!
Thanks a lot!
Superb Tone!
Thanks you for this video its one of my favorits sound with his cream sound
It's pentatonic with a twist. He doesn't fret the non-pentatonic notes. He bends into them 🙂
Just before you demonstrated the room sound, I was thinking, "Yeah, but I can't hear the 'air' in the room." I know that sounds like something from a stoner comedy sketch, but then BAM you answered it with the Room Mics demo. Really Cool.
My favorite thing about clapton is his awesome tone. I can't really put my finger on it but it has such a simultaneously unique & classic sound.
Erics tone comes from his fingers and soul as much as his guitar and amp
@@mikeyh1111 Tone doesn't come from fingers, it comes from the amp and the speaker. Fingers are there just to press the strigs against the frets.
@@metalzonemt-2 tone deff comes from how you play the guitar. Different materials also dampen reverberations of the strings. That includes fingers
@@tazisme5751 No it doesn't. Sustaine/reverb is not the same thing as tone. If I would play Clapton's guitar and his gear, I would be shittier player, but the tone would be exactly the same.
Love this!!!
Tone for days! Thanks Corey😊
You got it!
Sir, you have a gift for matching that "tone", touch, and phrasing that just make that '59 Gibson have the equivalent of Stratavarius in violins. Brilliant in how you got all the tricks, tips, head, amps and setting to come together to very well match Eric and that live sound. Maybe one day you show us some Pete Townsend "Live at Leeds" tones. Thank you for this education!
I can see that fingering in so many other classic tunes from contemporaries and later guitarists. Nice.
great video!
That tone is fkn insane dude!! Damn
Definitely gonna have to go check out that Blues Breakers record too.. thanks for the recommendation and helpful video 🤘🏼
His best era. Loved mayall/clapton and mayall/green.. the first clapton solo I learned besides acoustic Layla was "double crossing time". Also learned "nobody knows you when youre down and out!". This was on the major scale.
I love this album! My guitar teacher put me on it when I was like 16. His take on Hideaway on this album is my favorite. It has a lot of push/pull between the major 3rd and minor. That one, and steppin out are classics.
You RAWK sir. Man, sounds killer!!
Thx!
Nice tone you got there!
Hey, thanks!
Sick tone!
Fun video
Love the Les Paul sound
I was just thinking about learning some Slowhand stuff. Time to dive in on the course!
Ha! Yeah buddy!
Eric has played Guitar with all of the Greats He Himself is one of them .
Great stuff! Would love some Peter Green and Danny Kirwin!