Jake Baynes Quarter One Literature Blog

Finished Clapton Autobiography circus (240) - a song clapton wrote about the night before his son died Versace (276) - type of expensive guitar strap available to Clapton Martin (277) - Premium acoustic guitar brand Christie’s (277) - the organization that auctioned off Claptons guitars to raise money for Crossroads Crossroads (265) - a foundation started by Clapton to help battle alchaholism Anonymity (277) - describing someones secrecy of who they are SWAT (272) - From when clapton was held by the swat team when trying to go to the bathroom on the front lawn of the White House Tibetan dzi beads (270) before the time of the Budda. Supposed to have fallen from the sky. Pro Tools (268) - audio workstation. Also known as a DAW TDF (268) stands for totally disfunctional family. Modicum (267) - a small quantity of a partucular thing Humbucker (234) - Two single coil pickups that create a stronger sound than one single coil pickup Telecaster (235) - The earlier version of the ...

Eric Clapton Biography Finished 328-328 Coming to the final pages of the Clapton biography, A lot can be said about the events that happened in his life, as well as the life choices that he made and how they impacted him and his career. Throughout Clapton's life, many different traumatic and life changing events happened. Starting at a young age, Clapton found out that who he thought to be his mother was actually his grand mother. Later on, Clapton joined the Yardbirds, Blind Faith, John C and the Bluesbreakers as well as recorded songs like "Layla" with Duane Allman. These two moments in Clapton's life were career changing as they are still largely significant in music today! Clapton explained at the end of his book about what it was like leaving each of those extremely successful bands. While he could have stayed in any of those bands and managed to be extremely successful, Clapton decided to leave each band in order to move on to bigger things. He explained the f...

I was looking back on what Clapton had said about his ideas on phrasing with the guitar. I tried to apply these approaches. The approaches were of really relying on the downbeat of the music as well as incorporating chords into solo guitar pieces. I decided to dedicate some of my night to trying out some of these ideas... here is what I came up with!

Eric Clapton Biography Week 1: 120 pages This week: 268 Coming up to this point in the book, Clapton is reflecting back on his family life as a child and what music did for him throughout this time. With Clapton now a successful musician on his own personal career, having come from his first band Cream and having done work with Duane Allman, Clapton begins to look back at his life and what helped him get to this point. With having so many dilemmas and problems arise throughout his life. Like finding out that his mother had left him, in addition to the fact that he was a bastard child. Also things like getting addicted to drugs like Cocaine, Acid and becoming an alcoholic. He was able to over come all of these different things without therapy or rehab centers. Clapton talks a lot about how music was what kept him going, and how it was music that brought him back up every time that he fell down. This makes a lot of sense when looking back to his early life as Clapton had talked a...

So far I have read 240 pages of my Eric Clapton Autobiography. Here are some vocab words that I have found - Perspex (240) - acrylic glass Ballads (240) - slow but progressive song typically found with deep feel Reggae (240) - A style of music founded around Jamaca. Frank Zappa (238) - a musician from claptons time that really pushed the boundaries of music Captivated (234) - deep interest in something Erosion (234) - To deteriorate Reconciliation (231) - the restoration of friendly relations Voluptuous (225) - characterized by luxurious pleasure unequivocally (222) - in a way that leaves no doubt Turmoil (221) - state of great disturbance Chauvinistic (219) - feeling or displaying great patriotism liaison (217) - comminication between organizations disillusionment (214) - disappointment from a lesser outcome. momentous (204) - great importance Moral Degeneracy (202) - having fallen below a normal or desirable level Here is Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Rau V...

So far in my book, I have learnt a lot about the early life of Eric Clapton. When reading about these events in his early life, I have found myself thinking about an essential question that I had written at the beginning of this book. The essential question that I am thinking of is ,"What effect does the events in ones early life have on their later life?" I started relating a lot of what I read to this essential question due to the simple fact that Clapton made the same relation. One event that really spoke to me from Clapton's early life was when he dropped out of school and began to work for his grandfather. His grandfather was a master handyman of many different trades. According to Clapton, he was also a large perfectionist. This mentality was something that rubbed off largely on Clapton. He too found that personal trait in himself and largely applied it to his life. In addition, he also learnt the significance of hard work. His grandfather would have him carry over ...

I found this video recently of Eric Clapton explaining the controls on the electric guitar. This video fascinated be because today, these things do not need explaining to any musician as it is all common sense. It amazes me because back in the 60s' people had little experience with electric guitars. Especially in England since most electric guitars like Fender and Gibson were produced in the US.

At this point in the book, Clapton has found two of his major passions in life. After going through his base level school and failing the test that moves him onwards to secondary education, Clapton decided to retake the test in order to pursue his dreams of becoming an artist. Clapton also began to realize that when it came to playing the guitar, there were so many more options that could come about with moving outside of his small hometown of Ripley, England. He took the chance and began to school outside of Ripley. When at art school, Clapton began to realize that he was unable to express himself as freely as he wanted. So in order to fill this lust to freely express himself, Clapton began to do the artwork that he wanted to do at school, as well as play hockey and play guitar in the neighboring towns and bars. This unfortunately resulted in his dismissal from art college. The dismissal to Clapton was like a large eye opener as it showed him that not all the doors in his life would ...

Since Wednesday, I have been reading Clapton The Autobiography by Eric Clapton. Pages read: 122 Vocab: 1: Basin (2) - A bowl designed for washing, typically attached to a wall that has faucets. 2: Consumption (2) - The using up of a resource. 3: Inundated (3) - To be overwhelmed with things to deal with. 4: Conscientious (5) - A person that is wishing to do right. 5: Reminiscent (5) - tending to remind someone of something 6: Ironmonger (6) - A person/store that is selling tools and such. 7: Haberdashers (7) - Someone who sells small articles for sewing. 8: Privy (8) - Sharing in the knowledge of. 9: Disciplinarian (10) - A person that believes in and practices strong discipline. 10: Bemused (11) - To puzzle, confuse or bewilder. Here is a basin!

My Plan For my topic this quarter I chose to read about the lives of three of my favorite musicians. My reasoning for this is that these musicians all lacked the formal training that jazz musicians would have gotten. I want to learn about how they got to the point of musicianship that they did without the formal training that other musicians would have received. Furthermore, I would like to learn about how I can strengthen a lot of my own musical skills without the aid of my music teachers. Essential Questions: 1. How does lacking formal education in music effect who you are as a musician? 2. Are there benefits to not having a formal education in music? 3. How does life experience effect a blues musician? 4. What forms the sound and identity of a blues musician? 5. What formed the genera of blues? 6. How does blues music grow compared to Jazz and other genres of music? Books: Blues all around me by B.B. Kin g and David Ritz - 368 pages Room Full Of Mirrors - by Charl...