{"id":9020,"date":"2026-03-29T14:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=9020"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:12:06","slug":"clapton-lick-from-spoonful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/clapton-lick-from-spoonful\/","title":{"rendered":"Clapton Lick From &#8220;Spoonful&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s video we&#8217;ll cover a lick that Eric Clapton uses in the Cream recording of, &#8220;Spoonful&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And while he didn&#8217;t use it as a slow blues lick, or even really as a blues lick at all, it&#8217;s a great example of how to get some serious mileage out of a simple, 4 note pattern (also box 1.)<\/p>\n<p>This lick also shows up in my, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-cream-era-clapton-soloing-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cream Era Clapton Soloing Workshop<\/a>.&#8221; And if you want a fun song lesson, check out my &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-ssoyl-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunshine Of Your Love<\/a>&#8221; Workshop.<\/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\/Qwdy9ANTZfo?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s video we&#8217;ll cover a lick that Eric Clapton uses in the Cream recording of, &#8220;Spoonful&#8221;&#8230; And while he didn&#8217;t use it as a slow blues lick, or even really as a blues lick at all, it&#8217;s a great example of how to get some serious mileage out of a simple, 4 note pattern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9021,"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\/9020"}],"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=9020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9024,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions\/9024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}