Strange Brew - Eric Clapton - Guitar

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

It was ingenious the way EC put those licks together so beautifully and seamlessly. That’s art.

[@steenthorse8579]

Yes and in my opinion he was never better than those years

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

@@CreamBootlegs Thanks for that! 🔥🔥🔥

[@riffdigger2133]

Just found this. It’s the solo, yes! Eric with clever phrases, bends and vibrato- doing Albert King. It’s fantastic to hear you single out the notes and how they are executed. Without Ginger and Jack covering your sound up. You have the technique down and it resonates as if Eric was playing it, himself. Beautiful. Thank you!

[@johnm.4655]

The song is in A Mixolydian (5th Mode of the Key of D Major). The line Clapton sings is all Mixolydian tonality, which is why it sounds so "groovy psychedelic" over a 12 bar blues. ;o)

[@phili.b975]

Clapton was untouchable in the cream Era ....... Thanks for the awesome lesson 🤘😎🤘

[@michaeld.mahoney9106]

Outstanding

[@philipcarson6768]

just found this - thanks mike great insight into playing rhythm / lead and how the chords provide the basis for the runs- excellent

[@kencampbell9297]

Great tone and great playing...awesome!

[@roryt9751]

Great lesson, very well explained. Nice one Boss!👍🏼

[@richardsanguinetti]

I’m so glad to have found your channel. You are like a friend who cuts through the confusion. Thank you❤

[@JohnnyBGood-ii8kt]

Thanks so much Mike, you are so right about Mr. Clapton, his timing, and choice of notes, and the attitude he has makes the sound so classic, to me, and finally after years of playing I'm beginning to be able to play his style . EC has always been my all time favorite players, I think some his best work was done with Cream, and has always stuck with me. There are a lot of guys out there that can play ten note to his one, but his one has more soul and meaning then 1000 scales. This and Spoonful, born under a Bad sign are some of my favorite songs to play in Clubs and have never lost there magic.

[@alanseviour6856]

Brilliant playing and so well taught - thanks Mike!

[@RobertPickeringBucketList69]

Magnificent! Instantly subscribed for binge watching! Thankyou...

[@TheCream14]

Awesome lesson. One of the best guitar guys on You Tube!

[@johnbarber3499]

Thank You Mike, I come back and watch this every once in awhile, and learn something from it. Wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas, thanks for telling me about the Peavey Mini Colossal amp, its my next purchase, maybe if I tell my neighbors they'll chip in and buy it for me.

[@5150show]

How Did I miss This !

[@philipellett7703]

great strange brew lesson thanks mike b

[@jroc2201]

Excellent, well played

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Nice vibrato sir...very smooth. The riff Clapton plays around the lead lines reminds me of the first track on the Bluesbreakers album..."All Your Love" (I think that's what it's called) which incidentally is in A also, all be it A minor.. Some of the lead lines are very similar also. But like you say, the devil is in the detail and some of those lines are really slinky and very smooth. Excellent job, great lesson, I like that it's your interpretation. Thanks.

[@billnewlin3735]

One of my all time favs. Great lesson. Thank you.

[@adampoe2797]

Love this Guy!

[@bigo8524]

Mike - Great Lesson and Tone. Thanks love early EC on the Gibson!

[@195819581111]

I love the videos... I think its great being taught by Chuck Connors.

[@rodrigopontes4980]

Perfect Congratulations from Brazil!!!

[@thehalographicmind3976]

I've been listening to a lot of Cream , recently... Thx Mate , 1 of my best ones ~ "Strange Brew" ! It's funny you bring up the Hendrix Chord , in a black- n-white video from the 60's and I swear he's imitating Jimi Hendrix while playing "Strange Brew" .😅🎉🎉🎉

[@TheGlass50]

Great playing and tone👌🏿

[@dutchiebunny]

Fabulous, Mike! Love that song, and you have nailed it!

[@jimgish6546]

Sweet vibrato Mike!

[@195819581111]

I think you are really great at teaching and thanks for your time and wanting to share your knowledge.

[@anth-ny]

Well played !! and that guitar sounds great

[@alanhowell3646]

Great guitar sound

[@danielschumacher1721]

Oh man... thank you a lot .. a lotta lot... i love it, to learn this song with a little help from mike Thank you ✊🏼🎸

[@WysteriaGuitar]

Brilliant! more Clapton please.

[@raecarful]

Very Nice

[@glennevans5824]

Yr videos tutlage excellent...keep it up...👍👍👍🤙

[@sakutasu]

Great lesson, Mike ! Thanks !

[@williamtaylor874]

nailed it JJ

[@hernanielegaste2777]

Thanks mike ,

[@Tubedog8]

Great job! Love it!

[@Ronnie631000]

Excellent! Rock`On! Thank you. From Sioux City,Ia.USA.

[@larrimos]

World class vibrato brother...

[@chuckyoneil3820]

Great Mike

[@greenbrightly]

Please do Lonely Years and Bernard Jenkins! Love these lessons thanks.

[@MrJasonbushey]

Awesome man

[@luissegura1580]

Excellent man, great tone Mike !!! Superb lesson Please try "I'd Love to change the world " by ten years after

[@glenmurschel5939]

Great job!

[@Smithy67]

Excellent lesson, subscribed! Thanks

[@alfonsoalarcon4246]

Very good,Mike

[@chuckyoneill9029]

Liked and subscribed and shared, yours is easy to follow, thanks

[@MrRobfullarton]

Excellent work. Can you play all your love by EC, John Mayal, Bluesbreakers? Love that song.

[@mikebrookfield]

Yes, I did that whole album... check out the Beano album playlist on my channel.. thanks.. Mike

[@Barchenhund]

Damn I’m late to the party again. Great lesson!!

[@Dressagevids]

Nice tone

[@wrcolo]

Nice work man! Thank you!

[@JohnnyBGood-ii8kt]

Mike you really got the touch, thanks so much for sharing, say were you using any kind of pedals aka tube screamer.

[@xuamxxi]

Thanx for the lesson! Subscribed!

[@stefano54ify]

Mike I just saw a clip of Cream playing this song , I am seeing that the little riff in between cord is played by Jack Bruce, Clapton only plays the cords

[@SPARKLEJET]

On the recording Eric most definitely plays the lick as well.

[@josiebrookfield2721]

Nice one Mike

[@PC-ko6dy]

I liked it and I subscribed, cant say better than that!

[@LMexplorer]

I love cream , gibson es 335 and Marshall plexi sound 👍

[@frankhurn9055]

Great Lesson Mike .... Really nailed the sound and tone !!! Could you please answer this comment with what you used for the amplification to get that particular tone ... Thanks, I subscribed to you bye the way!

[@tylerwillison4962]

Very nice work! What amp are you running through?

[@jimmyjam4ever]

Thanks for the upload.

[@pauloftarsus8145]

well, Im impressed and thats no easy feat. Strange Brew was Lawdy Mama. They just added Bruce/ Pete Brown lyrics. Same song different lyrics from what I understand, anyhow. Great job.

[@Cook9698]

are you using 10s on that 335 or 9s or what kind? sounds great!

[@adampoe2797]

Mike Just wondering if you've ever attended and/or played at any ot the Rory Gallagher tribute festivals @ Mike Brookfield?;)

[@mikebrookfield]

Yes I played sRoru fest Ballyshannon big top tent in 2016.. would love to do it again sometime.. there’s a bootleg online.. I’ll post link below..

[@mikebrookfield]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmnUi2Obpp2kl8U

[@earthb67]

Late to the party, but hell! That was the shit right there bro!

[@195819581111]

Mike, what is a good string set to use on the guitar for this type of action and bending. Slinkies... Super Slinkies... what do you use?

[@PatrickTreloar]

Do you have tabs for this Mike? Best cover of the tune on KZbin I think

[@ChrisHolden]

Are you still playing Patrick Treloar ? We're running a blues jam night at the Neptune in Hove on Thurs 25th. Someone somewhere always gives Strange Brew a go...

[@jimatorta]

Great lesson, Where can I get the Tabs?

[@benbrown7072]

many thanks for the outro. Feels like the chord shape would be Am11 but I think I'm wrong there. Any views?

[@gjs850]

Superb tone Mike. Sweet 335. Straight into the amp? No pedals? Thanks for posting...

[@mikebrookfield]

***** I go Guitar, ***** Velvet Fuzz, Amp....

[@moreorlesslikeso]

Mike Brookfield "velvet fuzz" - the name fits the sound, I'd say...

[@cy8919]

You're a great player Mike. Great tone too. What picks and strings do you use (brand and gauge)? Thanks.

[@mikebrookfield]

CY Thanks...Fender Medium Picks...Ernie Ball 11,14,18.32.42,56

[@matrox]

Eric Clapton said those licks were from Buddy Guy.

[@samykouki]

I hear a lot of Albert King instead of Buddy Guy.

[@lamper2]

@@samykouki me too

[@stefano54ify]

Mike you know any zeppelin blues like ...Since I Have Been Loving You ?

[@adampoe2797]

How about Out of Water Coast When Yardbirds backed up Sonny Boy;)

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Nice vibrato.....

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Totally Like Wow Dudeski

[@Sam1628]

Interesting how close this is to Lawdy Mama and Crossroads

[@ankurbhattacharjee23]

even the outside woman.

[@Sam1628]

Very true

[@ankurbhattacharjee23]

@@Sam1628 if you dig down you will find the same things with Whiteroom and tales of brave Ulysses .

[@stga4628]

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[@jasonmanieri2603]

what kind of amp do you use?

[@mikebrookfield]

my current gigging amp is a Marshall 1974x .. it's 18w & sometimes I use an extension cab

[@alfiehenshall688]

Albert King phrasing !

[@michaeljames8531]

You’re so right about the similarity to A. King’s Tore Down!

[@andrewowensrussell]

IRC Eric would do this version of the song, which I think was originally "Lawdy Mama" only if he was allowed to do an Albert King style solo?

[@vitor_mag]

that's what he said on the classic albums doc on disraeli gears.

[@herberttobisch4426]

Would be very helpful if you just could put a little white dot on, say 5th fret and 12th fret. So much easier to follow what you are doing.

[@rickybearden4575]

Sounds original English guitarists are badass !!!

[@dpg227]

It's just blues in A, ... but the devil is in the details. Indeed, doing more with less.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Early Trower ?

[@stga4628]

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