Before You Accuse Me - Eric Clapton Unplugged - Guitar Tutorial

[@stuartrichens724]

I’ll be watching this over & over to get the technique & ways to improvise. Will take me a while but really interesting. Thank you 🙏

[@kevinvinci679]

Im watching this over and over on my quest to really learn the blues. So much to learn here. His style is to not baby us and break it down, but to lay it out and put the burden of figuring it out on us. For the motivated learner it is awesome since you don't have to fwd through BS...just put it on .5 speed and rewind

[@sallysigler727]

Such a great lesson! Minimal blah blah blah with excellent playing and rhythm plus clear instruction that includes the names of the notes - I like that approach!

[@ianguitar7532]

A great lesson! Exactly what you need - some examples and ideas explained and demonstrated. Many thanks.

[@melroberts7987]

Excellant and to the point sir, you got me walking blues a Year or two ago too! Thank you..

[@andybowen1249]

Wow what a great lesson, could pour over this for years

[@bugsywayne]

This is an amazing lesson lots too take from this! Thank you kind sir!

[@angelomisterioso]

You've got it perfectly! I'm gonna check out all your other stuff. Thanks!

[@rafearpin4190]

Great tutorial! Clapton's lines are all so similar . ie; drifting, rambling and Before U accuse me

[@ksk937]

really good in-depth tutorial I have been playing that composition for years . you have given me insight how I can spice it up excellent thank you

[@philguiseppe7992]

Cool, he packs a lot in here, Great help on the blues journey! Thnx!

[@paulgallagher246]

Great lesson!Iike your teaching style, no BS.

[@luigimaggi]

great tutorial. excellent

[@terryClg]

Excellent. This must be the first tutorial where it is emphasized that the 'riff' is played in the same key as the changed chord. Which has to be done unless all your riffs are played in the one key ie. song key and this cannot be done in every song. For example; Pink Floyds 'money' has a key change. There is a lot of info supplied here, very concise and no BS and no ' see how great i am' . Great Video Mr Labell and thankyou for the pdf. of the music.

[@imannonymous7707]

you know what ? you just helped me imensely.... thank you

[@terencekaye9948]

Hi Rob,, Great lesson... I'm trying to learn this song so I can sit in with my Friends Band and this lesson really helps,, Thank you... You have a new Fan. :)

[@terryClg]

watched this 3 x, thankyou so much, thankyou for spending your time to getting the song to a recordable level. Thankyou for your passion of music and sharing it. I will soon check out your youtube channel,. Cheers

[@iacipippo]

Sei veramente il migliore. La tue è stata una magnifica lezione su un grandissimo classico del blues!!!

[@jimforgrave6365]

Verry happy to see this lesson!! I nearly Flipped My Wig!

[@redmycar1]

Thank you

[@sockenfrank]

Great Lesson.

[@berniebrown3140]

Really good talent! Little over my head but fantastic!

[@overtonesnteatime198]

No its not. If you learn this one bar at a time you can do it. Just go slow.

[@Red_Dead_Director]

im devoting my sunday to looping this video until I get it down- Thanks for trhe transcription link

[@imannonymous7707]

Hope it worked out .....me too lol

[@Red_Dead_Director]

@@imannonymous7707 I finally got a day off work - time to revisit this lesson and finally learn this tune - So much stuff going on in this tune that it truly distinguishes itself from a lot of the easier tunes I have learned throughout the years. I have no problem with Hey Hey, Old Love, Layla, signe, and Nobody knows you - but this one ever since I was a kid and got my first tab book ever, has been a hill too tough to climb - I am giving it another go and looping your video for the next couple days as I go into OCD mode.

[@imannonymous7707]

This is great it's hard to figure out who plays what on this track....I think you nailed it....hope I can now.....wish me luck....love this dead thumb style...but I struggle with it...thanks

[@robertlabell]

This Version of "Before You Accuse Me" was based on Eric Clapton,s unplugged recording. I think I mentioned that Andy Fairweather plays the second Guitar part. My objective was to make this version of it a solo Guitar number. The bass note are on the quarter note, the downbeat. The slapping effect was something that I use from time to time to emphasis the beat. The overall purpose of this style was to treat it as Guitar Workshop and use this same rhythmic for other styles, Rock, Country, Blues etc.... It is not limited to one song or style.

[@imannonymous7707]

@@robertlabell well robert I appreciate your time and effort and I'm familiar with the style I call it dead thumb some as you say. quarter note bass pedals I play hey hey and a ccr tune green river the intro is similar This is a great lesson..I get what ur doing.. thank u so much And I'm sincere ..your very talented bro **See the the thing I struggle with is the contrasting triplet feel of the progression with the quater note bass pedal....just to be clear lol ....peace

[@robertlabell]

You are very welcome and thanks for the feedback. The "dead thumb" or pedal Bass or mono bass style can be replaced with alternate or moving bass lines. This is up to player. I illustrate this in my you tube video of "Hey Hey / Anji Medley which was recorded at The Tilted Dog where I host an Open Stage. For the most part I learned this from Davey Graham,s recordings and some ideas that I picked up from Merle Travis. My objective was to keep things moving so I would not rely entirely on a Pedal Bass. Just a few things to consider. A couple of themes and variations is my attempt to keep things interesting.

[@Bootlrggerjim]

Great job teaching...thank you.....

[@javierrubio4341]

Excellent!!!

[@RedinsiMusicTutorials]

Thanks! The transcription will be out very shortly. We'll post it in the description of the video

[@mariodimatteo8458]

Magnifica lezione w il blues.

[@nymcbikers6400]

Decent concepts nice hair too

[@strat62555]

What model Taylor is that? I like it.

[@imannonymous7707]

I'm really curious about ur tshirt.....is it david lindley david Bowie or david lee Roth lol...just wondering thanks again ur great

[@warrensnider188]

Hi there! Thanks for all of your comments. I'll forward these all to Robert as I'm the channel creator and admin. It's a Bowie T-shirt by the way!

[@imannonymous7707]

@@warrensnider188 oh yeah well that's great , I see now thanks! I figured it was Bowie...hahaha Have a great day

[@gerrymorris1698]

Is that a lightbulb...or... Is it the sun coming up ?

[@paulfarmer1605]

SBF?

[@petre.w.487]

I think a little less enthusisiasm on those percussive down strokes/palmheel dampening would work...he produced something more like like it a few bars later.....it could be just emphasising it for lesson though !!.......good teacher....tries to explain from all angles !!

[@שחקמימון]

Which guitar you are playing?

[@josephbrown9699]

The hair looks so real...ha

[@terminatorx2545]

That wig! its like looking at a train wreck while driving by! lol

[@jimforgrave6365]

i get the feeling hes a bit burnt out on teaching. Seems anoyed at me & I just met him.....

[@imannonymous7707]

Well it's not easy to teach what you already know and struggled with right.....good luck keep ur eyes on da prize...you got what you need....now it's just alot of work

[@robertlabell]

This note is a reply to Jim. I think you may have me confused with someone else. I do not believe that we have ever met.

[@overtonesnteatime198]

Jim i think you are confused friend. Robert is not annoyed he is just bluntly teaching and its a great no nonsense approach.

[@travissmith8547]

That’s how you brake it down

[@philh5829]

...I feel exasperated

[@stephenquail3168]

Like he said the purpose is to not lose sight of the original composition but the goal is to get you to improvise .We don't want a bunch of juke box players out there that copy stuff exactly .yuck.Even these guys didn't do it the same all the time .The best ,Jimi Hendrix in my opinion was always changing it up and reaching for that next piece to work into the song that will please oneself,and blow ones own mind .peace and love

[@12Radius]

I never learned math..that's why I play the blues

[@imannonymous7707]

Sadly it's still math man....but I ain't here to preach....rock on! Lol

[@cobra_is_down2894]

No sabía que el de Los palmeras enesñaba a tocar canciones con la guitarra

[@theconcept3150]

Hablas mucho

[@garymyers6638]

What’s with the crazy wig?

[@algomez04]

Love the lesson but too much smacking on the strings

[@3cardmonty602]

I love your lesson, but feel sorry for your guitar - don't be so hard on that precious tonewood. LOL!

[@imannonymous7707]

Dude have you ever seen tommy emanuel neil young even... it's a common technique and very useful in solo arrangements I know what u mean tho that's a couple gs hes slapping around lol

[@palereaper]

Good player but you don’t have the gift of reaching

[@BirtBirton]

He has a very strange technique

[@Torontothroughalens]

He simply annoys me! Take the wig off....loose the ego....and have some passion!

[@hypnoraythompson5824]

if he annoys, dont need to watch again, if he wears a wig? so what?, and if he didnt have passion he wouldnt do what he does. GET OVER IT.