Bonus Video 1 - 10 Day Electric - Clapton Style Cream Open Strings

Welcome to this jam track video where we're building on what we've learned so far with moving around the fretboard and comparing it and playing it around the frets of the open strings. This is where we're gonna play a little riff in the style of Cream and an early, late 60s, Eric Clapton kind of thing, and it's gonna go like this. A perfect blues rock late sixties kind of riff. This is on the neck pickup of my um epiphone Les Paul, and that combined with being on the brown sound setting, EQ and Gain all at 5 out of 10, so all pretty neutral. But that combined with the pickup um selection here gives it that sort of rounder blues tone. As opposed to the brighter. As opposed to that, neck pick up. Gives it that bit more bluesy tone. We're then gonna play the same riff, a string down, exactly the same, but from the open D string. So still 0. 35535, which we should be able to do comfortably with the thumb over the top and the thumb can even mute and silence string 6. As long as our fingers are going in for that handshake, 1st finger here, 3rd finger just extending. That's one way we can play it, if you have to play it like this. With the thumb lower, just so you can reach the notes, I totally get it, and we'll build that stretch in our hands by playing riffs such as this. But relaxing and letting the guitar in the overdrive of the amp do the work for you is everything. Same riff, a string down from the open D string, string 4. Back to A Then to eat Now here's where you might want to move your thumb a little lower. And we can hear that beefy uh overdrive from the boss amp. But it's that neck pickup that's really delivering that as opposed to the hand. Almost like a bass guitar. And then we've got this little musical interlude where we're gonna go. And this is to a rhythm of 123 and. OK, and that is 35. But going down a string, so we're really all basing this around this D note here, which is the same. There's that D note, 5th rep. On any string is the same as the open string. Apart from uh string 3 and 2 when it's 1 lower. Really good trick. So And that's where we start to connect the notes on the guitar to the notes at the open strings, especially at fifth fret or on any dotted frets. Let me give you a full playthrough of this jam track, and there'll be more helpful tips below in the description. 123. Final couple of helpful tips for this one, I was adding some vibrato. On this note here. Which is just where we vibrate the string just by moving really your fingers kind of into your hand kind of like this. Um, I, to do that, I supported that bend and it is just really a little string bend with the middle finger. Like this. Now when we do it slow like this, it kind of sounds like kind of seasickness, but it's really important to get that consistency. And little things like that really elevate the plane of basic riffs. That's the start of looking at something called phrasing, which is how we play the notes, not just what notes we play. More of that to come in later videos. I'll leave you with that jam track now and some more helpful suggestions in the links below.