Let me start by saying It's not easy to make Eric Clapton's music easy to play. Eric Clapton is a master of his musical art form. To begin with, he was born tremendously talented. Then he had the right influences as a young boy and practiced his !?*&^! off. When he started to play professionally (at age 16) he got to the point where he was playing guitar most of his waking life. He would go to a gig at 6 pm and when he was finished with that gig he went to another gig that same night. (read… Continue

There are several reasons I teach this workshop. The first is accessibility: Thanks to Eric Clapton's unplugged CD that was recorded back in the 90's the vast majority of acoustic blues guitar enthusiasts had a very inspiring rendition of Robert Johnson's music made easily accessible for the first time. By accessible, I mean very playable and readily available by music publishers. Before that you had to dig to find arrangements that were easy to learn and that sounded good. Several very talented… Continue