Eric Clapton
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Eric Clapton A look into Rock Blues
By: Levi Lewis
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Contents
Eric Clapton Biography Composition History Listening Guide “Hideaway”, “Sunshine of Your Love”,
“Tears in Heaven.”
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Biography Introduced to the
Rock Hall of Fame 3 times
one of the most influential guitarist of all time
Number 4 in Rolling Stones 100 best guitarists
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Biography Born March 30, 1945 Grew up in Surrey
England Raised by his
Grandparents Very Musical family
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Biography Depressed by
unusual circumstances of his childhood
Flunked out of school Attended Hollyfield
Road school of art
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Biography Eric asked for his first
guitar at age 13 Played blues Inspired by B.B. King
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Biography Eric joined his first
band at 17 Supported himself
through construction labor
Joined the “Yardbirds”
Earned the nickname “God”
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Biography Joined “Fresh Cream” Achieved superstar
status Invented new blues
guitar sounds
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Biography Eric began his solo
career Made himself known
through the 70’s and 80’s
Won a Grammy for “Tears in Heaven”
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Composition History Worked in blues,
rock, Worked in bands,
and as a solo artist
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Composition History “Hideaway” 1966 six on the charts in UK The Bluesbreakers Eric Clapton 29 on billboards top 100 Originally written by Freddie King
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Composition History “Sunshine of Your Love” (Fresh) Cream Eric Clapton Inspired by Jimi Hendrix Written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown “Woman tone” 1664 Gibson SG
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Composition History “Tears in Heaven” Inspired by Clapton’s son Conor Written with the help of Will Jennings Featured in the film “Rush” Clapton won 3 Grammy’s with this song
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Listening Guide “Hideaway” 0:05 The drummer
counts them in using his sticks
0:10 Eric’s blues guitar twains in leading the band with amplifier at a high octave
0:11 A pianist tunes into the fast tempo of the blues guitar hammering the pianos action
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Listening Guide 0:13 The drummer
gently hits the cymbals of the drums acting as a tambourine joining the allegro mix chanting to the beat of the electric guitar
0:35 The music alternates between the background of the two guitars, tambourine and the piano, with blues guitar
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Listening Guide 0:45 By this time the
trombone is highly recognizable with it’s long bursts of sound protruding into the solo
0:56 The blues guitar solo ends and the piano takes over with the cavatina leading the group in short bursts of sound back and forth between roles
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Listening Guide 1:53 The blues guitar
takes a short solo leading them to seemingly all stand out, as they compete with each others instruments for glory
2:47 The battle is broken with a harmonica taking the rest of the band back it it’s regular tempo as the harmonica makes it’s solo
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Listening Guide 4:00 The bands
tempo picks back up to it’s original beat with the piano and blues guitar standing out
4:17 The pianist strikes his last not hard throwing the lead to the blues guitar
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Listening Guide “Sunshine of Your Love” 0:02 Electric guitar
bursts out with alternating notes
0:05 The drummer strikes the toms as it welcomes itself to the song
0:06 The electric guitar and drums alternate between each other
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Listening Guide 0:18 The vocalist
begins singing, keeping up with alternations of the drums and guitar
0:53 The guitars tempo changes to fast paced, forcing the drums to slam the toms at a doubled rate
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Listening Guide 1:09 The electric
guitar leads the band back to its original tempo and alternation
1:48 The guitar, drums, and vocalist lead back to the faster paced notes and lyrics, then simultaneously hold notes taking us back full circle
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Listening Guide 2:47 The electric
guitar solo makes for more complication as it hits even higher octave pitches
2:54 Electric guitar solo ends, bringing us back to theme 1
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Listening Guide 3:35 The vocals,
electric guitar and drums return to quicker alternations
3:55 The vocals, electric guitar and drums all hold notes to once again come full circle
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Listening Guide “Tears in Heaven” 0:01 The music is
introduced with adagio tempo of acoustic guitar
0:12 The vocals are introduced with two hits on hand percussion
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Listening Guide 0:39 The acoustic
guitar tempo get much slower, and the vocalist holds on to his notes much longer. The vocals end with two short chords strung on the acoustic guitar
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Listening Guide 1:52 The music once
again comes full circle with a musical solo, only this time there is clearly a flute distinguishable in the background with long held high octave notes
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Listening Guide 2:35 We are then
brought back to original theme, that now seems to hold a much slower somber tempo with an incorporated tremolo arm affect on the acoustic guitar to draw out dramatic notes
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Listening Guide 3:48 Original tempo
is brought back, with guitar and vocals slowing down
4:10 Chorus is repeated in the lyrics accompanied by theme 2 to bring the song to a close
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BibliographyBiography, Composition History, Listening Guidewww.ericclapton.comWikipedia/Eric Claptonwww.johnmayall.comYoutube.com/hideaway/sunshine of your
love/tears in heavenGoogle images