Hey Blues Fans,
I got a request over on the forum for some Robin Trower. I went into the video archives and I found two old videos I did for the rhythm part of Day of the Eagle from the Bridge of Sighs album. The quality isn’t the best, but it’s good enough for gub’ment work. Sorry, but I don’t have tab for this.

As always, have fun

Part 1
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Part 2
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Hey Blues Fans,
It’s been awhile. I’m glad to be back. The new job has kept me pretty busy. Lots of travel to Japan and around the USA. In addition, I moved from San Clemente to Newport Beach (that’s in Southern California for my foreign visitors.) Most of my stuff is still in the garage, including some of the guitar gear. Slowly but surely, the new house is coming together. I’m going to try to start posting lessons more regularly, hopefully once a week.

In the meantime, here’s a fun little I-IV-V diddy in the key of E that I like to play when I just feel like screwin’ around. I learned this from my brother about 35 years ago. I’ve never tried it, but I think it would also sound good if you played it on a bass guitar. I’ve added the tab on this one, so it should be pretty easy for you to learn.

If you’re playing an E shuffle pattern, you can use some of these licks in lieu of the shuffle. For example, you can play the shuffle over the I chord, then play licks 2a and 2b instead of an A (IV) shuffle. It’s like Garanimals – mix and match.

As always, have fun.

P.S. Coming up next – the outro solo to Kid Charlemagne. It’s a fun one.

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Hey blues fans,
Here’s the second part of Eric Clapton’s solo from “I’m Tore Down” off the “From the Cradle” album. This lesson builds upon part one from the previous lesson. It’s broken down into four parts to make it easier to learn. As always, have fun.

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Practice along with this backing track: