About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Eric Clapton, Steel guitar, Sweep-picking, Slide guitar, Rhythm guitar, Legato, Power chord, Air guitar, Classical guitar technique, Fingerstyle guitar, Tapping, Guitar chord, Guitar solo, Barre chord, Finger vibrato, Slack-key guitar, Shred guitar, Multiple guitar players, 3rd bridge, Guitar showmanship, It Might Get Loud, Palm mute, Pinch harmonic, Guitar picking, Lap slide guitar, Lead guitar, Air instrument, List of hybrid picking guitarists, String skipping, Flatpicking, Pull-off, Economy picking, Alternate picking, Rasgueado, Artificial harmonic, Bowed guitar, Downpicking, Crosspicking, Hammer-on, Carter Family picking, Spider chord, Pick slide, Volume swell, Tremolo picking, Five fret stretch, Ska stroke, Tambour, Left-hand muting, Pick tapping, Dive bomb, Apoyando, Free Hands, Chicken picking, Golpe, Spank bass, Polyphonic strumming, Tirando, Downward stroke, Tap harmonic, Flamrock, Picados, String noise. Excerpt: Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 1945) is an English guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. In the mid 1960s, Clapton left the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand," and graffiti in London declared "Clapton is God." Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed, with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, the power trio Cream, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-b...
