It was during this time period that Clapton’s Yardbirds rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja recalled that whenever Clapton broke a guitar string during a concert, he would stay on stage and replace it. The English audiences would wait out the delay by doing what is called a “slow handclap”. Clapton told his official biographer, Ray Coleman, that, “My nickname of ‘Slowhand’ came from Giorgio Gomelsky. He coined it as a good pun. He kept saying I was a fast player, so he put together the slow handclap phrase into Slowhand as a play on words”

He struggled for years and still struggles to meld blues and rock into a cohesive riff.

Jimi Hendrix attained this ability naturally.

Clapton emulated and downright copied Hendrix and his sound and style.

Like I said, Clapton stinks!