Badge - Cream Guitar Lesson / Tab

[@nckwlch]

SPOT ON in every way.

[@pachin253]

Hi! Badge is my favorite 🎶 from Cream last album🎸 Have a good day from Japan🎙

[@trevorflarty1811]

Excellent,analysis,breakdown,&lesson on a perfect song Thank you!

[@chrissherri1614]

Excellent lesson. George said in his 1979 memoir "I Me Mine" that it was Ringo who misread the title.

[@buddybrown5662]

Yeah, said he came in really drunk and thought "Bridge" said badge! And he also started rambling something about swans in the park, so that is how that got in there :)

[@juke699]

Excellent cover...

[@MrAnthony000004]

excellent lesson

[@hitmanhook]

great lesson

[@lauralacandia3802]

Very clear and instructive! Many thanks!

[@dtowndano]

Great lesson. Very understandable and easy to follow. My favorite part is of course the bridge arpeggio riff.

[@colink4823]

Very good lesson 👍

[@jimsego]

Thanks great lesson well done

[@terencekaye9948]

I haven't seen anyone play the clapton rythem guitar parts ever , great lesson other wise .

[@derekclacton]

Nicely presented - incidentally, George said that Eric wrote and played the bridge.

[@LearningToPlayTheGuitar]

Thanks. That's interesting. The bridge part does sound like a George Harrison part ala Here Comes The Sun etc. Eric must've been taking notice!

[@harlow743]

Bullshit That Bridge is PURE HARRISON

[@stratolestele7611]

​@@LearningToPlayTheGuitar I agree - especially with the Leslie.

[@stephenrothman6058]

Can anybody help with harmonic analysis of Badge. It starts out obviously in A minor and hovers around the I, IV and V chords, A, D and E. Then when the arpeggiated part starts (maybe a sort of bridge?), the chords are D major, Cmajor 7, G major and back to D. Has it modulated? If you analyzed it as still being in key of A minor, then those would be the IV, III and bVII chords. But I guess bVii is in the diatonic key of A minor. But it sounds to me more like it has modulated than that it's still in A minor. But if so, where? If it had gone to Gmajor, then all 3 chords, Dmaj, Cmaj7 and Gmaj would be in the key and could be considered I, IV, V in that key. But Gmaj doesn't really sound like the tonal center there, the Dmaj does. And if it's in Dmaj, what is the C(natural)maj7 doing there? The diatonic Dmaj scale has a C# not a C. The sound is simple enough, just Gmaj, Cmaj, Dmaj, but how would you analyze it? And if Dmaj is the modulated key, then is Imaj, bVIImaj, IV a common progression to see?

[@matthewskoblar5230]

Any chance of doing any lessons from Silverchair?

[@LearningToPlayTheGuitar]

Good idea! I'll add them to my list.

[@gg-dw1yq]

So what key is it in? C? you forgot to mention.

[@stratolestele7611]

If only Clapton had played anything approaching this studio version at any time - once - live. I realize there are limitations within the power-trio Cream era, but there certainly weren't any limitations in the many iterations of personnel on stage over the years.

[@edwardgonczy3170]

At the end you say you are going to play the solo slowly but basically play it at same speed as in the song proper. It's gonna take me a while to get this one.

[@moppop2016]

Have watched Eric play badge live and never sounds like the record, maybe George played solo on original recording

[@Henry3Studios]

Eric never plays the same solo

[@danielsuarez1431]

This is the most accurate "Badge" arpeggio that include the variation. 🎸

[@LearningToPlayTheGuitar]

Cheers thanks!

[@harlow743]

Let's see this guy try to double Jack Bruce's baseline "

[@arosalesmusic]

The very last fills are incorrect. It's a decending pattern.

[@atomicflash1753]

Talker

[@lyledouglas8324]

You should make the video 2 hours it's to short. NOT.

[@youarewhatyouare]

That picture says hey you've taken my wife but hey I still want your friendship