Cocaine - Eric Clapton

My colleague gave me a lend of his late fathers guitar with strict instructions to get up the dusty end!

All parts were a 1 take except for 1st solo which I forgot to hit record in the DAW first time around :rofl: hence the blunders I’ve left in

Not happy with the tone. Was using the free plugin Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) which I am finding my feet with and have found some nice distortion tones but if I’m honest the pickups on this guitar aren’t great…thats my excuse anyway!

Solos are improvised, too much resolving to the root which is always my weakness when under pressure, and I didn’t play enough out and out licks but the action and setup didn’t inspire confidence!

Onwards :love_you_gesture:

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hey it was great , I really enjoyed listening to your video ^^

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Well done Neil, it sounded great cheers HEC

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That wasn’t so bad.
Very nice playing indeed.

Was it like Clapton? No.
Does that have to be? No.

You did great, keep up the good work!

Like you said, onward!

Have fun!!

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I thought the improvised solos were great Neil! Listening to the solos in the absence of your comments, I wouldn’t think ā€œoh he’s landing on the root too muchā€. Some progressions just naturally lend themselves to that type of playing and sound worse if you try to chase every chord.

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Neil

Well played! I don’t know the song: your tone sounded quite good: you may be comparing it to the original; your performance is good in its own right.

Brian

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That was pretty decent to me, and the tone wasn’t bad, not brilliant either. Your try a impro the solo was OK, it pays to put your own stamp on it I think, a straight cover isn’t as good as an impromptu interpretation to me!

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Very nice 1-take post Neil! I forget what you call it when you play a note and bend to that note on the next lower string, but I’ve always liked that sound. The one at about the 1:53 mark works great in your solo. :clap:t3:

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Sounded pretty good to me mate. It didn’t sound like you were on that root too much, as you were travelling away from it a fair distance at times then coming back to it.
One good drill I’ve found re the ā€˜root resolution problem’ is to purposely avoid it in some practice drills - try the 3rd, 5th etc, and see what sort of lines you come up with.

Cheers, Shane

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Didn’t understand a thing about all that DAW stuff, but I liked your playing just fine. :grinning:

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