Blues licks in E are so common, and its such a widely used key anyways, I thought I’d break out another lick in E. This lick is a great shuffle lick in 6/8. It works by using repeated notes (the b7th) and adding a little more color after each pass.
The final bit works around the 9th, another popular dominant extension, before landing on a classic minor 3rd. This lick doesn’t even touch a major 3rd, its minor pentatonic/blues to the core! That slightly unusual for Clapton, who loves to add those major flourishes.
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