{"id":8914,"date":"2025-07-02T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:13:38","slug":"how-to-play-bad-love-by-eric-clapton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/how-to-play-bad-love-by-eric-clapton\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play &#8220;Bad Love&#8221; By Eric Clapton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those classic Eric Clapton rock riffs from his Journeyman album back in 1989, and it showcases 2 important things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One, of course, is the technique involved in the slide between the start and the middle and the end of the riff. This is something you just *have* to be able to execute easily and often&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Second is the timing. Most students struggle to breakdown 1\/16th notes and count them, so take your time with this and dig into the syncopation of the riff. Without it, I can pretty much guarantee it&#8217;ll sound pretty bad \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TVyrOHTtnR0?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Need more killer Classic Rock Licks? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-50-classic-rock-licks-by-the-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 Classic Rock Licks By The Box<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/BadLove-EC-Riff.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The TAB for this lick is here<\/a>, grab it before the copyright police make me pull it down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those classic Eric Clapton rock riffs from his Journeyman album back in 1989, and it showcases 2 important things&#8230; One, of course, is the technique involved in the slide between the start and the middle and the end of the riff. This is something you just *have* to be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}