Best Clapton album ??

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Just started to learn "tears from heaven" on the guitar(be quiet only been playing 6 months or so !), and just find it such a moving piece. Along with pieces like change the world e.t.c

What's the best album ? Looking to buy one tomorrow :)

Thanks
 
unplugged is my favourite...Love it...and if you dont like it you can smack me.

So I know you will love it as you wouldnt dare smack me! ;)


PS: I have just started as well learnign the guitar, although I can read music from playing the piano for 30 years. I am slowly learning to read tabs.

I use a program called Guitar Pro, brilliant!"!! can download loads of tracks and play along with them on screen. I have downloaded a load of clapton stuff. Lovely. I download them from here http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/
I bet there are a load more sites out there. but thats the one i know of at the moment and use.

If you want to know more about that, give me a shout. I am learning like i said, only 4 weeks for me though, got a nice electric guitar and also a acoustic that i put a stupid bid in for me on Ebay and won it! typicall.

Cant play guitar and now I have 2.


PS: I drink too much wine lately!
 
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Haha, awesome mate thank you.

i have been using Guitar pro. My girlfriend is a grade 7 guitar teacher (taking grade 8 soon) so she's been teaching me... bless her.
 
Unplugged is probably the sort of thing you're looking for - it has acoustic songs like Tears in Heaven on it. A fair few blues tracks also.

However THE best Clapton album by a long way is Derek and the Dominoes - Layla. It's brilliant. Electric though, different style.

For a more standard blues rock affair, there's John Mayall & Clapton - Blues Breakers.

Also some Cream albums, Wheels of Fire and Disreali Gears. I rather like the Cream at the Royal Albert Hall 2005 DVD.
 
I think I should drive and meet you 2.

Also, perhaps you would ask her something for me:

I am going to get some lessons of course as I want to learn the guitar seriously.

But I know I am just learning, but I tend to be either reading the music of watching my left hand (fret hand) do the work and I keep picking the wrong strings, is there a simple exercise to help me with picking, as I realise it is early days yet. But it does annoy me when I pick the wrong string. Perhaps like everything it is just a matter of time and practise till I get a "feel" for where the strings are.


Happy new year as well.
 
I really like John Mayall and the Blues Breakers featuring Eric Clapton. I feel that this is some of Clapton's best playing. Also the majority the playing on Cream's albums.

And need I say any more...


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Flibster said:
Unplugged
Me and Mr Johnson
From the Cradle
24 Nights
Riding with the King

Imho.

Simon/~Flibster
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Gotta agree with those, but I'm a total Clapton nut so there isn't really any I'd say "avoid". "One more car, one more rider" is a good live one too.

To be honest though the majority of the very very best stuff only exists in bootleg form at the moment :( and that catalog is way too huge to list.

E.
 
Thanks for that guys, I'll grab the unplugged album and let you know what I think.

Magic_x_uk I'll drop her a message mate, and see what she says. Personally though, I'd say it would be all about practising till it's second nature, to build up a memory of where the strings are, so you no longer need to look. Same will happen with your fret hand.

I'll post back when I get an answer for you.
 
KPeh said:
I rather like the Cream at the Royal Albert Hall 2005 DVD.
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Have you tried the "Legends" DVD too? Recorded in Montreux 1997. Eric, Marcus Miller, Steve Gadd and Joe Sample.
Absolutley fabulous concert!
 
girlfriends tried to explain best over text:

"chord of e major. Use your thumb to play the basee note (E) and your 1st 2nd and 3rd fingers o nthe top 3 strings (G B and top E). The pattern of an arpeggio is.... Bass, G, B, Top E, B, G, bass, G, B, TOP E, B, G.... e.t.c played fast"

At least it's a starting point.
 
No worries magic, if that doesn't make much sense I'll get her to show me on the weekend, and then write it up.

Though by using the Arpegio and speeding it up, it's the best way (in her opinion) of building up a memory of the strings. All about technique...

:)
 
Yep Disraeli Gears has got to be the best.

I also like "No Reason To Cry" which features most if not all of 'The Band'
(The Band: Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Emmanuale).
 
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