Stealing And Simplifying Clapton : Layla Unplugged Guitar Solo Improvisation Lesson

all right welcome back to another episode of stitch method this one I'm very excited about because if you have seen stitch method before you know I felt a lot of concepts out there and they're all over the neck and I realize you know what let's let's try and take some of the greatness out there that's in music and try and simplify it and put it in one location for everyone to practice so you can get the concepts of what's working and I chose the song that I think is one of the best acoustic performances of all time which is leyla unplugged which I'm sure all of you heart have long because you clicked on the video but anyway but Layla's unplugged the performance of that is just absolutely brilliant I think Eric Clapton just absolutely shined during the whole thing from the recomposition of the original to the acoustics the slowing down the ultimate swagger this thing has and when you listen to the solos that happen this one the beginning and there's one in the middle there's a lot of range on it excuse me there's a lot of range on it through you know down here and up here and uh you know if you're not if you if you're not comfortable sewing all over the fretboard like Eric Clapton is you still might want to be able to play lay low which is a simple song to kind of play but also rip a really good solo so what I'm gonna do is well we're gonna do is we're gonna steal from Eric Clapton's performance we're gonna look at all the concepts and we're gonna put them into the form one pentatonic on the tenth fret now before we really begin let's just talk about what's happening at during the solo during the solo the core progression is D minor to b-flat major to C back to D minor I'd actually get my fingers on the camp right minor B flat C and then D minor over and over and over again and so three of what we're gonna use what Clapton uses is ad minor pentatonic he starts off with a form for down here but we're not gonna do that we're gonna stay with a form one well why do we want to pick a form one number one it's the form that all of us know or should know it's the most comfortable it's where ninety-eight percent of all the guitar solos are in music in the rock world or blues world and I'm going to show you something really quickly if you listen to the range on a form one pentatonic alright and those are the frets 1012 1013 1013 you know I can get all the way back here to form four and pretty much get the same range between here and here those are the same notes and then this so this form one pentatonic actually covers a huge span in the guitar but it's compact and we know it and so let's explore what Clapton does and that's so first and foremost I have a loop going here for next to get my front of looper and the first thing that you want to practice is playing this this panic with confidence I mean just knowing it's gonna be great it's gonna be perfect and the first thing you're gonna notice it when he listened to it is that his lines come home a lot to the root note to the deep so here is ad here a 10th fret of e twelfth fret of the D string and the tenth for the high E listen to what it sounds like when I play some lines but I always come home to a root note [Music] it works really well if you find this intriguing and you haven't seen it I have a video on my channel called how to actually use a pentatonic for blue soloing and that's it right there and when you listen to Eric Clapton's lines on this performance you will hear it and also you'll start to understand how to do it yourself in a form one simply um the next thing that you're gonna see hear him do is he starts to uh he has a line like right there that's a Blue Note this is the Blue Note that's in all of blues music in the pentatonic five and so one thing you want to do now is you want to start putting in the Blue Note in your song so I'm gonna do the same thing we're layering this this cupcake of Clapton and we're I'm playing the pentatonic first I'm always gonna come home that's you know how to actually use the pentatonic always come home and then I'm gonna start putting in some blue notes and again this is all about you doing your own solo or stealing the concepts and you just want to be able to bring these concepts to life through your performance in one simple box and get it all in there and people will be blown away trust me so here is first the form one pentatonic and then I'm gonna put in some blue notes I should show you where they are right there's blue note and there's another blue note on the thirteenth fret of the G and the eleventh fret so same thing here we go got to get new looper this one has an electrical contact issue here we go simple concept pentatonic a always sounds good be bring it home to the root note you'll hear clap didn't do it all time I'm going to talk about that in a second and number two the blue scale with the flat five just get it get that flat five in there colorfully but make sure we always head home one of the reasons that the coming home on the one up to the root note always works in this song is because the chord progression has always come back that D you know so if you can be aware that chord progression and know when that D is coming and hear it hit the D on the D everything is delicious I'm so sorry all right here we go so that's first concepts um one thing you're also gonna hear him do again just in the very beginning have this this is no more than just a piece of a D chord that a D minor for these two of your fifth fret a minor shape okay five six seven you hear breaking up into these double stops as you can see the guitar my hand so what's happening there well it's a piece of D minor chord alright so we're right here on the tenth fret and then the seventh fret here does a room note and this is a piece if you look at it if you played a D minor chord right here which would be 10 and 12 12 and then then that you can see it's actually just a piece of the D minor chord right here I like to play mine you know like 20 and then borrowing my first finger over all these notes are great notes to double stop on because they're part of the chord now if this is all making sense by the way and it's going fast do check out my blues primer playlist because all of these ideas are in there and plus my blues master class has explains everything I promised anyway back to the show so we have this D minor and so what I do now I'm going to layer it I'm gonna do pentatonic I'm gonna do the Blues notes and now I'm going to start putting in I'm always going to come home to the one when the one the D minor chords being played and I'm also gonna start in this form on finding my D minor chord and playing some double stufs from it let's see if we do this now we're sounding good we are stealing the ideas from Clapton this is what's happening putting them to a form 1 so you can do it on your own and blow people away the next thing you have I've written everything down next thing you have is Oh a great move that you have to you have to put in your playing now this is the one exception you know which is you hear him do this great triplet sliding from the 13th fret and 12th fret up into 14 13 now this is in this discussion that I'm doing here is in my in the mind of Eric Clapton video you know this is a D minor blues and he loves usually playing this d7 chord but there's a problem just to explain this which is he's not playing a d7 for his playing a D minor and so what he does here is he plays just note this note which are part of I'll say a D minor 7th chord the most important piece of this puzzles that he's not playing the major 3rd you're not playing this that's more of the blues this is a bluesy swagger song I'm not gonna consider it a full-on blues song it has a blues element of the drive but it definitely starts on the D minor so he comes in on this Clapton fashion he can't control it because this is what he loves doing you can see it in that video I mentioned but in the mind of Clapton right so he just takes the 14th fret and he takes the 44 the a 13th fret of the B and he does these little triplets so this is a piece of a D minor 7th chord but what pieces are they they are the 5 and the flat 7 now we're talking so we're cleaned those guys in here well we have 1 flat 3 4 5 that's cool and this guy works here even though it's low it's the same thing these are the two places here and here you can get the double stops in now I know I said four more in pentatonic but this guy takes you out of it I'll let you do it but if you want to be true to the mission you can get this double stop in there so now Pentatonix Blue Notes minor sorry seventh minor arpeggios and then this doubles none of the five and the flat seven let's see how it sounds shall we you hear it do it when you want to do it get all concepts down and do it next thing I want to mention again this is um in my blues per hour playlist and Clapton does this all the time actually Clapton's probably like the one guitar player who does this like all the time which is really using that interval the five to bring some tension and movement into his playing he uses it in two ways number one is instead of ending on the root note sometimes he sometimes ends on the five and you will hear it in the unplug solo now I'm not gonna play that solo note for note because this is about creating your own by stealing and so what we're going to do is let's locate that five well the five is right here on the tenth fret of the B string and also on the twelfth for the a string I'm going to stick of this one and you're gonna hear that he likes to sometimes end his lines there so let me just do that really quickly he'll either play the root note on the end or hit this keep in mind the five is a tension note it's also in the chord being played and so if you can see that chord you can kind of spot it also if you know your intervals I'll stop talking any which way you want to navigate was fine [Music] okay so you heard it another way he doesn't is you'll hear it in the unplugged version he kind of really sits no something like that and we'll talk about that note in a little bit but he also will just kind of like punch it a little bit and this is what it sounds like when you kind of punch it as your solo instead of ending on it if you like it you throw it in again notice how I brought the five back home to the one if you want to watch that video I talked about how the five has a lot of tension it wants to go home to the one all right couple more things to do before we design our ultimate Layla's unplugged guitar solo by stealing from a great guitar player right so now one thing he does and he does this a lot in the intro and he does this a lot on the ending solo which is the use of motifs now motifs on guitar are just patterns repeatable patterns that we play and what they do is they help build momentum towards something so what you can do is you can come up with your own motif adjust a pattern that repeats the one I'm gonna use here is like three notes forward and then start on the second note I started on into the same pattern so three frets forward let's start here start the second and just any pattern you can think of but he uses it a lot in his playing and helps move so listen for that type of pattern if I go backwards okay I don't go too fast over this so again I'm just picking three notes triple it and it's the second note of the phrase I start again on trip this takes some time to get used to if you haven't done these before but they're worth looking into I should have mentioned you know they're definitely triplets so there you go here we go backwards kind of satin fill tension motifs huge so now this is supposed to be a nice short video don't think that's gonna happen we have a lot to cover we're kind of you know working through this I'll have a chart for you of like these things and also what's about the follow one thing you'll notice in this solo is it comes out for for people watching this we're familiar you know really familiar with a guitar playing you kind of really hear that pentatonic bite right that you hear though and you're like okay there's clapping was minor pentatonic but then we get this really cool thing right this uh up there it is they were like whoa what was that such full color and and when we look at it on paper or on the computer it looks very diatonic very filled with notes from the D minor scale and it kind of is but we're gonna steal the mentality of this we have a D minor progression we're using a D minor scale in this sense and it works well and so first I'm going to show you again all in the form one where the D minor scale is but we gotta learn how to use it right so the D minor scale form one is gonna be 10 12 13 10 12 13 10 12 10 12 10 11 13 10 12 13 for anyone who's playing you know a good inch for the salon guitar or if you want to know notes the EFTA let's see and Dean all the way through it it's like it through all right so now um you're gonna notice that he does something that is so well timed out and to us it sounds like a brilliant melody but to the musician and you won't understand what's happening you got me cheering all those chords like D minor bumps B flat C and then D minor and E minor C and then D minor alright so what you do here well it comes out I'm taking out form one for a second but you get this line and when he hits that it's like off it's so good so what's happening here well on the D minor right before he leaves in D minor he hits this note which isn't F and this F belongs if you look here here's a little D minor chord the D minor chord and so he hits this and gets down to this note here alright which is reading which is a D and when you look at what's happening you have this D minor and if you look at this B flat chord barred that D nodes in the B flat okay it's right there so he sees the D minor note it's the B flat note okay which is the major third of this chord loved it and then this guy twelfth fret that's not in the pentatonic we're going what is that it's an e well why is he hitting an E well if you look if you play a little D shaped chord right here at 12 fret G 13th fret B and twelfth fret of the E string it's in the C chord so listen like and so on that Secord hits Annie because it's part of the core tone not part of the pentatonic but because it's not part of the pentatonic when he hits it our ears just light up and we love it so how do we do this in the form one let's take it very slowly so on the D any note of a D the D pentatonic or again like I showed you that D chord also this note here is the minor third of the chord and so that's what you want you can use it to the form one it's what he does he goes or there it is there and then we get to this guy here this is the e of a C chord you want to picture it alright it's right behind at my third so now I'm going to do is when he hits the D very quickly can hit some D chord tones when it goes to the B flat and then hit some B flat chord tones now be warned if this is a C I was gonna show you in the form one BAM two frets down that's a b-flat his two notes notes notes his two notes of choice really are gonna be the D which is there's that major third okay the root note not really this guy here because it's - it's the fifth it's a harmony doesn't really punch as much of one of these two notes and so it goes by quick but let's see if we can capture that melody went on the D gonna hit some D chord tones b-flat and then to the C and I'm gonna try and stay in the pentatonic and hit one note from this chord and give a little spice let's see [Music] D E flat C nice to show you this guy here ninth fret of the g m-- and 12 5 these are both the same same note and so again I'll have a chart of where this is there it is oh it's a long video but now I'll do it again d ok for the D minor B flat C D minor sorry yeah do you mind as a matter of fact if I played just that you should hear like it would sound pretty good let's see enough stealing sorry mr. Clapton we're just uh we're digging for your brain your fingertips and we found a lot so we're gonna take it all right so um there's all of the stuff that could witness from the Lela guitar solo I'm sure there's more but you know 30 20 minute video so if you like this stuff please subscribe I do have a brand new podcast coming out where it's the audio version not it I'm not gonna rip the audio from this but I'm going to talk about it just talk about my guitar so if you're driving or if you're doing something where you can't have a guitar hand and you want to visualize what's happening and visually visualization is the most important piece of playing any instrument I can kind of talk you through what's happening so this will be the first episode of it I prepped to go back through all my hundred or so videos and do podcast for those but um I hope you enjoyed that subscribe check out the blues primer playlist blues masterclass what else on YouTube are you supposed to say anyway alright guys hope you enjoyed take care bye bye

Channel: StichMethod Guitar

Views: 392,354

Keywords: Eric Clapton Guitar Solo, Layla Unplugged, Pentatonic Solo, Derek and the Dominos, Eric Clapton Guitar Lesson

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Length: 21min 40sec (1300 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 30 2018