Chords for Eric Clapton - Guitar Lesson

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Hey, [N] _ what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here with GuitarJams _ _ .com. _ _
_ _ _ _ Hello there. _ _
Here's what we're going to do.
It's blues in A and it just starts like this.
_ _ You can either start with an A power [A] chord like _ _ _ getting the open [E] A and then the second
fret of the D or you can just play an open A string _ _ and then you can use your middle
finger or your index finger and we're going to go to the second fret of the G string so
we hit open A _ then we hit the second fret on the G _ _ then that [Em] string open [A] and back on
the second fret of it so it's like _ [A] so _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ then we go it's all just on that G string look
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_ _ _ _ [Bm] one more time [A] _
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same string again but open _ then _
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third fret on the A string _ _ _ _ little nudge on
that third fret very bluesy [A] _
_ _ _ right back to the riff again so check it out here's the
whole riff _ then _ [G] _ _ [A] _
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_ [D] we're going to go to a D7 chord _ now _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
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you can do a full on E chord or
just an E power chord _ to _ [A] that D7 _ [D] _ _
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_ _ _ so [Cm] _ another thing that he does sometimes is on that _ kind
of thing he adds the second fret of the B string and that adds a harmony [D] _ [A]
then _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [A] _
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_ [Eb] when the
singing comes in it's the riff on the A chord and then the D and the E do more into a more
of a bluesy thing like the second fret on the G with the open [D] D string kind of this kind of and
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_ _ _ _ _ if you hear the original Clapton _ solo he starts his solo in the straight-up major _ pentatonic
which looks exactly like the F sharp minor pentatonic so but I think of it [A] this way pinky
on the fifth fret pinky on the root the [Eb] fifth fret it's an a note and then you play the pentatonic
below [Ab] where you normally would for the rock and for the one [A] chord _ _ _ [Eb]
he [Gbm] kind of does like _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] it's also that and then when you go to the [E] D _ you go to the minor _
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_ [N] _ _ you know you can always go right to the minor the whole time but on the A chord of
that in the original cream recording he's playing a lot of major pentatonic licks over
the A chord and then kind of going more minor over the rest [A] of it _ so _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _
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a couple just a couple
other things about it when it intros it does a turnaround and returns around [Eb] onto an E
chord before it starts over so the intro [A] would be a _
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_ _ _ little turnaround he's [Ab] licking over it
but that's what's [G] underneath the licks then another thing when it goes to the singing
it's does the quick change in the blues like this [A] _ _
it's _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _
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always a short it's a then D then a
longer D longer so it's like _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _
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you [D] _ _ _ [A] know [D] that's the open D and the G hey _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [N] so once again thanks a lot
you guys hopefully you got something out of that nice little riff blues lesson we'll see you guys
real soon got some more free lessons coming your way
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