A lot of Jimi Hendrix’s fame lasted through the Vietnam War, this recording of Hendrix with the Band Of Gypsies playing “Machine Gun” was taken during this timespan. It happens to be one of my favorite Hendrix recordings! I have been listening to this album before I began playing the guitar.
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 ...
I recently watched this video of BB King talking about his phrasing over a slow blues. I will definitely be applying what he is playing here in a later video! I think that this video is great because BB actually talks about how what he is playing sounds like talking.
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!
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