Clapton Style Lick In The Style Of “Crossroads” From The Cream Era
A lot of people get hung up on a couple of things:
1 – The turnaround in a blues… the chords go by a little faster and it’s nice to have licks that you can just pull out of your bag-of-tricks and not have to think about it.
2 – Playing faster and incorporating hammer-ons and pull-offs with the picked notes.
Today’s lick will help with both. This is a straight feel blues/rock lick in the key of A. It uses mostly A minor pentatonic, but there are a couple of nods to the major 3rd (the 6th fret on the 3rd string) over the I chord.
Plus… it just sounds COOL when you get it down and works great even at slower speeds.
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This is the TAB for the example in the middle of the video
Here's the jam track I used in the video so you can try it out for yourself.
Now if you dig this sort of stuff, I know you’ll love the Blues Guitar Unleashed course…
If you need it, here’s the TAB for it. It’s not too tough as you can see… but the speed makes the challenge. If you take it SLOW at first and COUNT OUT LOUD then I promise you can do it. If you don’t do those things… it won’t be so good.
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4 replies to "Clapton Crossroads Lick"
I really like the lesson it definitely looks like something I can learn.
I have dug this lick out for years. It impresses EVERYONE!
Thanks!
Fantastic lesson, as always. Thank you.
Easier to count if you split the measures: 1 2 & 3 4, 1 & 2 3(4) would be his first measure