Chords for How To Play Eric Clapton Ramblin' On My Mind Introduction

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_ _ _ _ _ Let's jump into part one of Eric Clapton's version of Robert Johnson's Rambling on My Mind.
We're in the key of E for this one and we're going to learn some classic acoustic blues licks in the key of E,
starting with this turnaround introduction.
Have your tab in front of you, should be two pages of it for part one,
and we're going to kick off with bars one and two that sound like this.
_ [Abm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [F] That's a terrific little turnaround in the key of E.
We want to start with the_
we're going to come down the third and first strings,
starting at the fourth fret, but we'll slide into the fourth fret from about the [Eb] second.
So we're going to pinch three [B] and one, _ [Abm] _ and slide [E] those up a couple of frets.
[Eb] Then we'll play the first string [Abm] twice more, _ then we'll [D] pinch the two [Abm] again,
and play the first string once more.
The rhythm is everything.
There's [Eb] nothing on one or two of the first bar,
so think of [Abm] this as going three and a four, and notice that triplet on beat three.
[Eb] _ Then come down to the same shape at the third fret and play on the first two beats.
Pinch, first string, pinch, first string. _
_ One and two _ and_
Now a tricky little thing.
Let me show you an easier way to do this first, and then I'll show you what's happening _ on Clapton's version.
Come down to the second fret, [Gbm] play pinch, _ first string twice because it's a triplet,
and pinch again, _ [Eb] out of that shape. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Like that.
That'll work fine.
_ [Ab] But he slides to it from the third fret pair.
So having played that [Eb] first string third fret, he slides it down to the second,
and as it lands [A] at the second fret, [Gbm] _ _ he [A]
simultaneously hits the third string.
Quite tricky to [Eb] do.
It takes a bit of practice, but sounds great.
So that bar would go_
_ _ [D] _ _ _
You hear that slide down with the third string [Eb] coming at the same time.
_ And the final thing we'll do on that bar is we'll play the first string [E] open with the third string at the first fret. _
You can see that being a little mini-equal, right? _ _
[Eb] Let's count through that bar.
_ _ One and two [Gbm] and three and a [E] four _ and_
_ _ _ [A] That takes us into bar three [Em] and a continuation of the turnaround.
_ _ _ _ [Dbm] _ [C] _ _ [E] _
_ I carried it into a little bit of bar four there.
But _ [Ab] having played at the previous bar [C] the third and first [E] strings,
_ _ _ we're going to hit the sixth string open twice,
_ [Em] and while that's ringing, have your [G] ring finger probably,
although you can be pretty [N] flexible with the left-hand fingers here,
come to the fifth string fifth fret, pinch that with the [E] open first string,
and play the fifth string twice [D] more.
_ _ _ Come down to the fourth [Abm]
fret either by [Dbm] sliding the ring finger or replacing it with the middle finger.
Pinch five and one, _ play five [Db] again. _
_ And now come down to the third fret of the fifth string, [G] pinch it with the first [C] string,
play it twice more,
_ _ _ and then the [Ab] next bar will begin by coming down to the second fret of the fifth string,
where we're now outlining a B7 chord.
If you're familiar with B7, we're just playing a fragment of it.
We'll look at that bar in a moment.
But first the count of this bar.
_ [E] _ One and two and a