Video Question: Eric Clapton Style

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Date: January 6th, 2009 | Length: 1.68 | Instructor: Jim Deeming

Gigantesco asked "I am wanna start playing the blues and i would like you to try explain some of Clapton style like his special licks or even strat with his unplugged album for the blues players and the acoustics guitar owners. Thank you." Another benefit of being a member of JamPlay is the video response section. Our expert staff fields questions from our members and provides video responses each week.

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Sweep Picking - February 20th, 2008 (3 minutes, 60 seconds)

Matt11 asks, "In his lesson, Brad demonstrates sweep picking, but I'm confused about the use of it. When mastered, is it quicker than alternate picking? I also thought about the kind of a ,,continuous" sound/feel you get when you play in this technique, but the change is not so drastic. So? :-)" View Response

Shifting Chords - April 11th, 2008 (2 minutes, 20 seconds)

Dsrinath_123 asks, "Hi Steve, this is srinath here, enjoying your basic lessons. I have started learning guitar a few months back before joining jamplay, i learned a few chords and while i was doing a chord shifting i used to hit all open strings in the last beat, this is how I learned (I dont want to mention from where i learned). To explain a bit more, let me put this way, I am strumming a 4/4 eight note strum( D U D U D U D U) and two chords Dmajor and Gmajor and when I am going to shift from Dmajor to Gmajor or vice versa, I would hit all open strings at the last note(U) , but in your lesson it seems that we have to shift after the last note, i want to know whether what i am doing now is correct or not, if not please provide me some exercise to correct it. I would be very glad if my question is answered by Steve Eulberg." View Response

Changing Scale Boxes - April 21st, 2009 (6 minutes, 19 seconds)

Hendoe30 asked "Hey Brad and DMAC, love the site it has really helped me out. I watched the video Q&A from 7/10/08 from john873 regarding mode changes and I was wondering if you could clear this up for me. I am definitely a beginner and I am currently learning the minor pent. scale and I was wondering this. . . In A minor pent. scale when you change from first position to second position do you leave on the root note in first position and start the second position on the root note in order to stay in key, or can you start on any part of the second position. I posted this in the forums but after 77 views and no responses I thought I would give this a shot. I know you guys have lives and can't read all the forums but can you give me some insight. You guys rock!!!" View Response

- September 24th, 2008 (5 minutes, 19 seconds)

Hcso asks, "My question is for Brad Henecke, I get the basic idea of the pentatonic and blues scale to where I've memorized it. Trying to make my own solo is difficult. When I watched you in lesson 11 at the end when you were doing a solo you were all over the neck of the guitar. Can you use the theory of playing between the 5th and 8th fret key of A and use that same theory anywhere on the guitar and if so does the key of the pentatonic change? Hope this makes sense. Thanks Josh" View Response

Learning From Tabs - February 9th, 2009 (3 minutes, 21 seconds)

Lucas Holland asks about learning from tabs online and chord fingerings that seem impossible to finger. View Response