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When You Got A Good Friend by Eric Clapton
When You Got A Good Friend
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0:00 0:05 When you...
The next thing is the rhythm part we need as backgroud for the vocals. Note the quick
change form, chord A (IV) in the second bar. The good thing is that we can use the riff
we've learned at the rhythm page:
E/E6 A/A6 B/B6
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We have some nice fills between, for example the first one at 0:16 (MAMJ):
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0:16
At the end of the first verse at 0:36 (MAMJ) we have a typical turnaround. We can play
the notes from the intro as well as the other ones from the rhythm page. The next verses
are played the same way. At 2:10 a short solo (RJ didn't play a solo on his version!)
starts, almost the same style as the "Unplugged" solo of "Before You Accuse Me":
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2:10
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2:20
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2:28
The rest is played all this way, including the ending.
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