Doug, thanks so much. I really appreciate your feedback. The more one studies and digs deeper into Eric's playing, the better it gets. There's always a twist or turn of some kind, and new things to discover. I'm so pleased you like the videos. All good wishes, Mark

By the way, this and all the other videos to date (November 1st 2018) have been recorded in Garageband on an Apple Macbook Pro, using an iRig Pro single-input interface. I usually always use the 'Crunch' setting and then, within that, the 'Heartbroken' setting. In that, it pays to play around with the amps and cabs. I have told myself to start taking screenshots of the final mix settings and will try and do this, posting them either on my website mybluesguitar.com and/or Instagram mybluesguitar. There are a few already on the website and I put a screenshot of the Sitting On Top Of The World settings (from the take that appears first in the videos) on Instagram yesterday.

@@mybluesguitar Thanks for this valuable setup info. I think your tone is spot on. I play through a Mesa Lone Star 4-speaker amp and I use a FreqOut pedal to get the sustain on those occasional long notes, but my tone is not as good as yours. I'll have to give Garageband a try.

@@dougboblas That's a nice rig you've got. My residential circumstances do not really permit using a real amp, but Garageband is great, and only lacks in a very few areas. And one of the beauties of it is that you can record the guitar with a workable 'ok' sound then play around with the settings afterwards to get closer to what you need.

Hi friend, am so pleased you find the channel helpful for your guitar journey! Cheers, Mark

I can't imagine what it must have been like putting the Beano album on the turntable for the first time back in 1966. There was a ton of great music around, but the guitar had never sounded like this. Whilst I grew up with the music of the '60s, I was a child at the time and it was not until the mid '70s that I first got my copy. What a revelation! I honestly believe that Eric's playing in those days will never be equalled, let alone surpassed. I am delighted to see that so many fellow players share my love for this music!

Terry, I've just (November 1st) found your comment from 4 months ago. That's a great suggestion to get a slow-down app. I'm sure that back in the day you did what I did...slow a 33 1/3rpm album down to (what was it?) 16 2/3rpm on a turntable, then transpose the subsequently lowered-pitch notes back to the proper key. What a job that was! Modern software is amazingly helpful for the guitarist. Thanks so much for your feedback. All good wishes, Mark

Originally by Freddie King

Wow...I am 71 also. This fellow does great tuorial covers. I'd think any dedicated informed player can hear this immediately.....The best I've heard for Clapton, who's work on guitar has been a huge influence on me. I use Transcribe a lot to loop and identify, but 99% is my ears and strong desire to get as good as I can before I croak. I have Dupytrens Contracture in my left hand (neck hand) which is affecting me but I still have compensatory work arounds. A bigger issue is....I'm just not as sharp and fast as I used to be, (EC himself has mentioned this sort of thing in interviews) damn memory issues, normal aging stuff I suppose, but, I feel much more motivated then ever. If I felt this way as a teenager there's no telling how advanced I'd be today. We have our work cut out for us, right? Once you've heard certain things,when it really gets into you, there's just no going back.....Stuff we heard 50 yeras ago, it's still inside us....that's power isn't it? C'est la vie etc. etc.

Thanks for your comment Craig. Delighted to hear that you want to dig into this great instrumental. Cheers from Surrey! Best wishes, Mark

Hi Dave, apologies for my miserably late reply. I let comments build up then sit down with a mug of tea and answer a bunch in one fell swoop! So glad to hear you found the video useful. Eric is a classic three-finger player, much more so than the other Gods I feature on the channel, like Page and Mick Taylor who both can be seen using their little fingers often. But Eric..virtually always just the three! I'm sorry to hear of your problem with your own little finger, but like you say...think Eric, Django etc! Thanks again and good luck with your playing :-)

@@mybluesguitar It appears Page has a double jointed first finger. Today I mastered your first lesson on Hideaway. After I got it I played along with the EC/Mayall track. I use an old Fender Twin and a Marshal Bluesbreaker OD with a seperate pre-amp boost that gives me close to his exact tone at low volumes. I rewired two Lollar Imperial Humbuckers for series/parallel so I can simulate a Mayall/Peter Green sound, or damn close, but I pretty much stay away from reverb unless I'm doing "The Supernatural." I'll try and go through 2 lessons a day this week. EC is my "go-to guitarist." (And at the moment you are too) The only Mick Taylor stuff I've absorbed are those beautiful elastic singing phrases from "Hide Your Love" on "Goat's Head Soup." Re: Page I mainly have grabbed his acoustic stuff, like the ancient Your Time is Gonna Come or on Ramble On..... I get lots from the 3 Kings, lately back to Freddie. Hendrix i don't even deal with too much...He's too astonishing...I just sit back and appreciate it; He died on my birthday when I was 18...not a good present. I'd think Wes Montgomery influenced him some; His Octaves with Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore. I'm babbling...I drive some of my friends nuts. I'm getting old and before I croak I owe it to myself to participate in the genius of guys like EC, and actually guys like that are one per planet. Working on that great little signature phrase at seconds 16 to 21, getting that timing "under my fingers"....I can then really appreciate the brilliance of it....and he's conributed so much to the lexicon that there are likely thousands of players who don't even know who has informed their playing. Anyhow, again, your help is much appreciated! D.

@@mybluesguitarNo problem, your doing me a great favor with this material. I mastered lesson one today. I'll try and do two per day this week. Once I got it I played along with the Mayall track. That great signature phrase he does around seconds 12-21 on the Mayall track....getting the timing down I become a participant in the inherent brilliance of it. The only Mick Taylor I know are those beautiful elastic singing phrases on his 3 solos on Hide Your Love from Goat's Head Soup. I use a little bit of compression and reverb there. Clapton has been a "go-to" player for me for a very long time. (And at the moment you are too...) I have a lot of influences. Lately I transposed the terrific Jr. Walker Sax solos on Cleo's Mood/Cleo's Back here on YT. If you haven't heard those I strongly recommend them. One tone it took me a long time to get was making my guitar sound like a saxophone with a slight case of laryngitis. For EC of 1966 I use an old Fender Twin, a Marshall Bluesbreaker OD and a seperate preamp, and two humbuckers wired for series/parallel. In general I try and get the exact tone and architecture and feeling from material, and if/when I do, then I've sort of 'earned the right to improvise.....I'll take all the luck I can get, but I find it's a ton of hard work that gets me results. I'm not a DNA lottery winner like EC....(In his case it's one per planet) but then, I'd bet he worked his ass off , probably with more dedication then a lot of people. "Use it or lose it" I guess. One thing I've noticed that he has continually used across the stylistic evolution of his career is the way he mixes sweet/seventh ....major/minor often within the same phrase. It gives many of his phrases a very sweet "aftertaste", a synesthesia. His best playing is full of Joy. I hear the exhuberance in this Freddie King cover. (And I'm way into the 3 Kings, especially Albert) That's just the soul of the guy. And how he's laced that joy through fantastic architecture and great technical muscianship is why he's EC. Anyway...Thanks again for your very timely help. D.

Glad you liked it!

Thanks Roy! Yes, this is such a great tune!

Thank you, Peder! Wow, you got this the year it came out! Good luck and much fun with your guitar playing! :-)

That's very kind, Michael. Am so pleased you find it useful. All good wishes to you. Mark

Thanks so much Custer Ranch. Great to have some feedback on the teaching approach. Cheers, Mark

Brian Chaze You’ve certainly chosen the right album to learn with. The Beano Album is the Gold Standard! Cheers, Mark

Hi Derek, thanks for your comment. I really appreciate the feedback and I'm glad you find the videos of use. Enjoy your playing! Mark

Wow, thanks! That's very generous. And I have just noticed that you have joined the Patreon page! Thanks so much. I hope you find the content interesting and helpful 🙂

Hi Eduardo! Greetings from Surrey England to Lima Peru! Great to hear your Hideaway is getting good results! :-)

That's a great one!

Glad you enjoyed it, Clint. Many thanks.

Hey, Welcome Ronny! Thanks so much for checking out the channel. All good wishes, Mark

Glad it was helpful! That's great to hear, Mark. Thank you.

Many thanks!

Glad you liked it! Thanks Alfie. Cheers, Mark

Thanks Pietro. I like Calcutta Blues. I remember jamming along with that one playing on my record player many years ago. Cheers, Mark

@@mybluesguitar well, I wait a great lesson,thank you for all

@@mybluesguitar I suggest also the analysis of Spoonful solo,epic version of 10 March 1968 great concert kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9-daq-k1tCdYJc.html

Thanks for the sub, Anthony! I appreciate it! Cheers, Mark

Glad you liked it!

Yes, wouldn't it just! A series of DVDs talking us through his techniques, equipment and all the rest of it!

MrBritrider Hi Mr. B. Thanks so much for your kind words. I’m glad you like the channel. I can’t do requests, as such, because the videos take so long to make (15-20+ hours each) but I really do like hearing suggestions and make a note of them. So thank you! Cheers, Mark

Glad you like it, Seb. Thank you.

Hi Nikolai, thanks for your feedback and for subscribing. I really appreciate your supporting the channel and I hope it helps in some way with your guitar journey :-)

Thanks for your support. Very much appreciated.

My Blues Guitar I have some questions, do you send the guitar directly to an amp? Which one? The tone is in 10 or less? Because I really like the tone that you get

Hi Nico, Thanks for your questions! I currently have three amps: a reissue Marshall JTM45 head (the 30w one), an Orange Tiny Terror (with the matching 1x12 cab) and the little Amplifi unit from Line6. But I don't use any of those for the videos. For these I plug straight into my Apple laptop using an iRig. I then go into Garageband. I have been asked a few times about how I make the videos and I will shortly be making a video going into that. It took me (literally) years to figure out how to do it, because most (if not all) of the 'how to make guitar videos' on KZfaq that I found assumed degrees of understanding, which I just didn't have. I would really like to make a really simple, step-by-step guide to save fellow guitarists the hassle that I went through myself. In the meantime, here is a link to a page on my website, where I include a screenshot of the settings I used on at least one of these Hideaway videos. In conjunction with the settings, the guitar was usually on the bridge pickup, with the tone right down, between 2 and 4 and the volume usually between 5 and 7. For the videos with the Firebird I use different settings. Anyway, the Hideaway settings... mybluesguitar.com/amp-settings-for-recording-hideaway/

THANK YOU!!!!

Hi Friend, thanks for pointing this out! I don't read, having learned to play by ear, and my technical knowledge is very limited, including chord names. I probably hadn't discovered the online chord checker when I made this. Using that now, it says that the three-note shapes are F7 (omit 5) and E7 (omit 5). Thanks again. Glad you like the videos. Cheers, Mark

Thanks my friend! Good luck with your blues guitar journey! :-)

My Blues Guitar best hideaway lesson ive seen. The little hints are great along with some of the timing explanations. Hope you do The Stumble by Peter Green off of the bluesbreakers' hard road album.

Thanks, Alan. The Stumble is a great tune. I must put it on the 'to do' list.

Thanks Braxton! They are SHED pickups, based on the model they called the 'PAF Daddy' but tweaked to what I described I would be using them for.

Glad you like it. Thank you.

Hi Thelonius! All the videos to date have been made in Garageband, mostly using the 'amp' that simulates a Marshall. From memory (I made it about two and a half years ago) the guitar was probably set to the bridge pickup, with the volume on maybe 7 or 8 and the tone between 3 and 5. Cheers, Mark

Congrats, that's a great achievement to get that first verse down. It's a tricky tune for sure. I don't have a backing track on the site. I got one from the net somewhere, but can't remember exactly where. What I do remember is that not all of the Hideaway backing tracks you will come across work well. If you do a search on KZfaq you should get a few returned. The kinds of backing tracks I provide occasionally on my paid site, Patreon, are ones that I make myself with either just bass guitar or with a simple snare or cymbal crash - just enough to keep it really clean while providing the necessary framework to work on the piece. Thanks for commenting and your question. Cheers, Mark

@@mybluesguitar It's hard after the chord slide. I don't have the timing down, but I'm working on it. I have "noodled" around on guitar for 30+ years, but never really learned properly, so I am really trying to get decent. I love this lesson (I am working on 2 now.).

Hi, AGP! Thanks for commenting. It's four or thereabouts years since I made the demo for that. I am pretty sure I got the backing track from KZfaq. If you do a search you should find it. There are actually quite a few, but when I was looking myself I found that one in particular (this one) was better in terms of the various 'accents' needed to make it sound right. I'm sorry I can't give you any more guidance than that but, like I say, with a bit of digging you should be able to turn it up. Cheers, Mark

Hi Lindsay, sorry for the late reply. I don't always get notification of comments so have to take time now and then to scroll through. Yes, I will definitely be getting to the Fresh Cream Sleepy Time Time in due course. Cheers, Mark

Hi Matt, eveything to date has been recorded in Garageband. I usually use the 'crunch' setting, then the 'Heartbroken' setting within that, then play around with the amp settings and cab options. I will have probably used the 'Vintage Brit 2x12' for this. I usually have most or all of the bass up on the amp, and for this and most tracks use the bridge pickup with the tone backed right off and also the volume (maybe between 5 & 7). No effects. Just a bit of reverb and the 'room' setting.

I agree.

That’s a great question. I believe Mike Bloomfield was a Tele player around 1964/65 and started using Les Pauls in1965, which coincides with Eric’s changeover. There’s a certain intrigue as to who copied whom, unless of course it was complete coincidence. 2 legendary players, and Mike is sorely missed.

selfintuition2 Key of E 👍😃🎸

@@mybluesguitar I guess the first note of the intro riff should have made that obvious to me. Thanks for the reply My Blues Guitar :)

Thanks John. Ah, yes, it is a bit long! Must have been right before a clipping session :-)

@@mybluesguitar i was just curious if its was guitar related. thx!

Hi UU! It's all in the key of E and alternates between the major and minor scales :-)

@@mybluesguitar I am not talking of scale. Chords.Obviously, E9 chord and F#m7 are in that scale and they are in many other scales. That is why my music teacher tells me that when only a few notes are used, we should not quickly assume that it is in a particular scale

Hi again UU, I'm sorry my friend but as someone who learned to play by ear and, essentially, still does, I am unable to answer your question. Perhaps if you showed the phrases to your music teacher he or she could tell you what you want to know?

@@mybluesguitar I am just asking which chords those phrases imply. With my study of theory, I would say that there are only two chords: E9 chord and F#m7 . I just wanted someone to confirm.

@@univuniveral9713 All questions are welcome here, UU, even if I can't answer them! If anyone knows the answer to this perhaps they can chip in. Cheers, Mark :-)

Sorry! You are right, of course. This one is in E, a regular twelve-bar blues, so E, A and B. Thanks, Univ.

@@mybluesguitar Thanks. I think that in order to enjoy or fully appreciate this video, the student has to be good at the theory of scales chords, like I am. Then I can analyse it and figure out which scale position / chord each of the riffs are located.