Stealing And Simplifying Clapton: "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" Guitar Improvisation.

[Music] so do do all right welcome back to another episode of stitch method uh today we're going to be doing an in the mind of slash stealing and simplifying uh eric clapton's version of uh nobody knows you when you're down and out before we begin make sure you do click that subscribe button and share this video with anyone who you think will enjoy it let's get right down to it uh this video this video this song was originally written by jimmy cox and has been covered and played by hundreds of great musicians i happen to like eric clapton's version on it on the unplugged album and also one of my students uh john hey john brought it to my attention i figured yeah this is really good let's bring it to the masses so what eric clapton does in the solo you can learn and all then you can also apply it to like any version uh his soloing techniques and mindset is really tasty on this so we're going to go over a bit by bit and before we do that let's just talk about the chord progression the chord progression is uh is really unique has a lot of seventh chords you can check out a video here about seven chords i'm gonna post um and a lot of movement and so let's just check this out so we understand what we're dealing with we have c e seven a seven d minor a d minor f f sharp minor seven fly five c a7 d7 g7 and over and over again now when you listen to the version clapton takes one solo even though there's about two sections of solo you could the uh the second take is done by i believe the piano player but if you're playing by yourself with a musician you get to take this solo twice all right so how does clapton handle this well when you watch the version um you can see that his mindset kind of divides these sections of these chords into sectional chunks so we're going to take it one chunk at a time the first chunk we're going to talk about is the c e7 a7 part now his scale of choice over this section is the c major pentatonic well why that's a good question well it starts on a c so that's a good choice we have an e7 and an a an e and an a are also in the c major pentatonic now you can look at it like an a minor pentatonic because a c major pentatonic and an a minor pentatonic are the exact same thing here's an a minor pentatonic but if you've seen my in the mind of clapton he kind of likes to play this kind of thing and so he starts with this guy but starting with third fret you can say it's a minor but c major pentatonic [Music] and so that's his first tool now the c major pentatonic works on the c chord of course it's going to work on the e7 because there's an e in there uh there's a g in there which gives you that blue sound just let you know uh the the minor third which is a g on top of the e7 chord it's going to sound great and so for the c chord excuse me for the c chord the e7 and the a7 he's using a c major pentatonic slash a minor pentatonic same thing and of course on top of the a7 and a minor pentatonic is going to sound bluesy that's my blues trick number one video and so he sees this movement the c the e7 and the a7 all belonging to the c major pentatonic now i have a backing track loaded up here and i'm going to play just a c major pentatonic on top of it i'm going to show it to you and then we're going to add some flavor let's see [Music] there it was wow i didn't feel like i clicked that that was it let me do it one more time c major pentatonic [Music] all right and so you can see you can hear that it works but he does something really unique here and it shows you that he's really paying attention to each chord of course in the c he's starting on the c note now on the e he's not really hitting the e he's trusting the fact that this major pentatonic can kind of ride through the e and he can kind of just go where he wants to go but when he gets to the a he does something quite unique he does this what is that well in my blues trick number one video or two video i talk about if you look at the a chord or look at an a7 look at that middle finger it is not in the a minor slash c major pentatonic it is not what he does is he starts on the minor third of the a hammers onto the major third there it is in the chord and brings it home to the one this is a standard blues move he kind of tips his head to the a says hey a i know i'm on you so i'm gonna kind of like bond with you for a second just by bringing in your major third again look it's in the chord it comes home to the root note what can you do you can do that move or we can steal and say well can't we go this root note up here this is the minor third major third then home to the high e sorry the a on the high e string so it's your choice so now let's listen to c let's listen to c if you can hear that move on the a chord [Music] there was a double pounce right and so for this section the c the e7 and the a7 he's totally on it with a c major pentatonic slash a minor pentatonic whatever is easier for him for your mind and he's tipping his hat to the a major or sorry the a7 chord by bringing in the major third of the of the chord itself and coming home to a one the second movement now we have a d minor for two bar two b's and a for two beats and back to a d minor for four beats well here he does something really cool and quite clappinesque on top of this d minor progression or this cluster of d minor a to d minor he's going to be using a just a d minor pentatonic now we can do it many different ways you can do what we call the form 4 right here which is 5 8 5 8 5 7 5 7 6 8 5 8. and that's good enough you can also hear him kind of uh playing this [Music] and kind of doing the clapton pentatonic starting on the d here [Music] okay you start here and so you're going to see these little moves but nonetheless a d minor pentatonic but as you know that's not the whole that's not the only story let me play the first part c e and a into the d minor part with just the d minor pentatonic and let's see if that kind of blankets everything so here's the first cluster with the c the a now here's the d minor part [Music] fine it works fine so the second cluster the d minor a and d minor he uses a d minor pentatonic but again with this a chord he has the d minor for two beats to an a but what does he do let's look at that a chord specifically let's look at the b string okay that fifth fret that note ain't in the d minor pentatonic okay it's not this note this is in the a sorry this note but this note in the pentatonic so what does he do well right when the a hits he does this clapton trill he does it in layla as well okay he hits this note which is an e it happens to be a chord tone of the a and he kind of trills up to this note which is in the d minor pentatonic and then continues on the d minor pentatonic now let's listen for it here we go there it was all right so i hope you're enjoying this this is moving really fast so we have our first cluster of chords uses a c major slash a minor pentatonic um and he um he kind of puts in the the a major chord tone a major third to the root the second cluster of chords the d minor a d minor uh uses a d minor pentatonic and he also kind of tips his hat to the a brings in an a chord tone right on that a change and then goes right back into the d minor pentatonic and then what happens next well we have an f chord and then uh to an f sharp minor seven flat five and if you if you just take an f chord and put your pinky on the fourth fret of cover up this note put your pinky on the fourth for the d you get this f sharp diminished triad i hate that word and you have your f and to the f sharp diminish and this is just a movement you know when you find these diminished chords your minor seven flat fives they're usually on a movement piece and here it is f to the diminish and this is our our little cluster and then it's going to go to a c chord but let's talk about what he does on this f because it's really cool now he does something in his performance that sets him up for the next piece what do i mean well this f is an f major chord so he goes for an f major pentatonic now don't be too worried he plays it looking like a d minor pentatonic excuse me on the 10th fret just a regular form one remember this is your major root note so this is an f major pentatonic or a d minor pentatonic however you want to think of it just a form 1 pentatonic on the 10th fret this is both a d minor and an f major pentatonic on the f gonna come in on this f major pentatonic d minor pentatonic and then on the f sharp this is cool on the f sharp minor seven flat five this is really cool and i i'm not going to throw a lot of theory on your head okay you're looking for the note e flat let me explain all right there it is there the 13th fret of the d e flat also one fret below the e and so if you're playing a pentatonic sorry there's one here there's one here and there's one there why the e flat well they're going from an f to an f sharp minor seven five five and to make the longest story short when you put the e flat on top of this chord it creates a full diminished moment and it's going to be a chord of a one a flat three a flat five and a double flat seven i know don't throw up don't worry about this all you need to know is on the f sharp minor seven flat five just touch an e flat for a second and it's gonna sound so good so let me see if i can show you this again on the f just an f major pentatonic when it changes to the f sharp minor seven flat five hit that note come back to the f sharp oh sorry come back to the f major slash d minor pentatonic let's see if we can do this whole thing [Music] okay heard it so i did a little d minor slash f major pentatonic and then when the f sharp hit i put this e flat in there this creates a pure diminished moment a little like spicy sauce and you're gonna do it too okay [Music] and that that takes us let's see that's our third cluster first cluster cena second cluster d minor a and d third cluster f to f sharp minor seven five five the fourth cluster is the c to the a7 now this is a cool move and i hope you enjoy this um you can hear him clearly on his performance play this piece and so we are going to steal that because that is tasty now what is that well if i make a c chord here on the eighth fret an e shaped bar chord according to the cage chord system video linked above right all right these two notes these are in the chords the g string and the b string ninth fret a fret this is piece of your c chord it's going to an a chord which is three frets down [Music] all right you're starting on the c going to a b b flat a and in that moment it really connects the c chord to the a chord with a very nice flow now you can do this in other places you really can and if you want to learn how to do this in other places you can check out my patreon account where i'll show you how to do this stuff all over the neck with all these ideas in different places and you can practice long enough about that let's keep going so on that c right we're going to try and do that move let's take it let's take a breath yes there'll be a chart there will definitely be a chart um and you can follow along on the chart and again if you're a member of patreon for the um practice sessions and bonus lessons the chart is included and so let's see if i can do everything from memory i'm gonna do it right now in front of you the first part is a c major pentatonic tipping the hat to the a with the major third the second chunk of the d minor a d minor is a d minor pentatonic when we hit the a we kind of hit a little clacked in little trill there okay the f chord playing f major pentatonic the f sharp minor seven touch that e flat right out of the pentatonic and then the c to the a come in [Music] with these two double stops these are double stops by the way let's see if we can get there i think we can let's see how it goes [Music] oh yeah okay so we're getting there now we don't have a lot to do you can hear it coming right and then after that um c to a7 chord uh we only have two chords left the first chord is a is a d7 and what does clapton do well clapton here does a really cool thing with um these sliding six video linked above um sliding sticks are nothing more than chord tones or movement in between chord tones and so here you can see him do this okay and this here here's a d7 and then this this here is a d7 chord tone and here this he takes it to a d6 chord tone but the idea is i want to explain this is you can use this like that if you want to but if you want to steal and simplify then you can just use any d7 chord tone so let me show you the ones i'm going to use just so you can see it work well here's a d7 here so i'm going to use two and two here's a d7 here okay and if you look this is fifth fret on the c on the g string and fifth fret and the high e same strings if i have enough time i can make it to this d7 now this is a d7 shape here seventh fret of the g eighth fret of the high e excuse me if i have enough time i can get there all right put all those little tiny double stops actually sliding sixth in let's see if i can make it up to that moment this is so much fun let's see [Music] all right i stayed tasty and i just did this d7 piece into this d7 piece all on the chart for you and the last moment now the last moment here is really cool what era clapping does in the unplugged performance is a smooth move and if you're watching this channel you probably know i'm a big fan of jerry garcia and i call this a jerry garcia move i'm not saying that jared garcia made this move i just call it a typical jerry garcia move check this out on the g he finds here's a g chord okay 12th fret d g b and 15th fret of the high e this note here on the 12th fret is the major third this note here on the 15th fret is the fifth okay so you have the third and the fifth and he just climbs chromatically from the third to the four to the flat five to the five now he keeps it there kind of gives a little twang and ends back on the 5. but now we're going to steal simplify and maybe make it a little bit more complex i have a g here just to show you you can follow along again it'll all be on the chart you can practice this on patreon like i said here is a b okay this is the major third same thing three four five five five and you can hear him do this before the solo begins again so let me just show you the clapton move first and show you how i would enhance it not saying in any way that clapton's playing needs enhancing it's just this is how i would enhance it if i wanted to listen for this move [Music] okay so that's what clapping would do what would i do well i would do something that jared garcia would do don't don't get upset is same thing and then in this pentatonic look at this g major or e minor pentatonic however you want to see it you're going like this grab this guy the 14th fret of the um g string and you're gonna bend this up this is a major second [Music] and then back home a little bit of a country feel if you're up here on the 8th fret this is a g here so let's see if we can throw that in that's my only time i'm going to enhance something because this is about stealing and simplifying here we go [Music] there it is all right so let's recap here i hope this isn't too crazy hope i'm not going too fast but that is the solo section that's the chord progression so to recap i know you can do this keep it simple at first the first part is a c major pentatonic any c major pentatonic you want if you're not familiar with major pentatonics just search stitch method major pentatonics they'll come up and it'll hopefully make sense of them for you the second part is a d minor pentatonic and you're going to be putting in a little bit of a you know that a um chord tone trill and then rocking the d minor pentatonic for the f and the f sharp minor seven five five you're just gonna stay in a d minor pentatonic if you want to and on that f sharp um minor seven five five bring in that e flat if you can then on the c chord to the a chord use the little again i'll show you some different ways to do it in the practice videos on patreon um and also then you get the d chord a d7 any d7 sliding six you can see [Music] whatever whatever you can see and then uh for the g7 really just a major third four flat five five and if you want to throw in the major second bend to the third i'm back home and so i'm gonna play myself out hopefully enjoy this make sure you share make sure you subscribe um leave comments below if it worked for you load the song up you can literally play with clapton if you watch this performance it's in the same key it's not too fast not too slow and it's enjoyable so thank you so much for being here and make sure well i'll see you on thursday with another guitar fundamentals video alright see you guys later bye [Music] you

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Length: 22min 9sec (1329 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 04 2020