Where Did Eric Clapton And The Beatles Learn To Play Their Instruments?

February 7, 2010 by admin · 5 Comments
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Were they self taught, took lessons or what?

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5 Responses to “Where Did Eric Clapton And The Beatles Learn To Play Their Instruments?”
  1. xx_satan says:
    February 7, 2010 at 7:09 am

    Eric, who was born in England, was very young when he showed an interest in music (around 8 or 9). A family member bought him his first guitar. He was heavily influenced by the blues. Robert Johnson was to be his passion. He played in many bands including The Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, Cream and Derick and the Dominos before he went solo playing with many, many greats. In my opinion he is one of the best guitarists in the world before or since.
    Each of the beatles members have there own facinating stories which im not as knowledgable on. Great question.

  2. Sara says:
    February 7, 2010 at 7:27 am

    self taught

  3. himyname says:
    February 7, 2010 at 7:29 am

    Since you are asking about how 5 people learned to play, I will just do one – Slow Hand:
    Clapton received an acoustic Spanish Hoya guitar for his 13th birthday, but found learning the instrument very difficult and nearly gave up. Despite his frustrations, he was influenced by the blues from an early age and practiced long hours to learn chords and copy the music of blues artists that he listened to on his Grundig Cub tape recorder.
    After leaving the grammar school in 1961, Clapton studied at the Kingston College of Art but was dismissed at the end of the academic year because his focus remained on music rather than art. Around this time Clapton began busking around Kingston, Richmond and the West End of London.[11] When he was 17 years old Clapton joined his first band, an early British R&B group called The Roosters. He stayed with this band from January through August 1963. In October of that year, Clapton did a brief seven gig stint with Casey Jones and the Engineers

  4. QUEENSHERRY-House Frau says:
    February 7, 2010 at 7:42 am

    They went down to the crossroads and made a deal…. Im just kidding
    LOL

  5. VooDoo Child says:
    February 7, 2010 at 7:58 am

    in their bedrooms man!

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