Chords for 'Erotic City' Prince Guitar Lesson

[Ebm] Hey let's check out Prince Erotic City.
Okay so starts in E flat minor _ [N] _
and we start with a little
_ just a simple tone bend from the D flat to the E flat so _ going from 21 bend it up to 23
[A] _ _
okay _ _ let's get that E flat note and then the [Ebm] main part of the song is a funky lick around the E flat
_ blues scale [G] now Prince plays this a lot of different ways throughout the song so I'm
just going to play you a kind of basic version that you can improvise around otherwise I'd be
hours long going to every different nuance of the lick but basically what he's [Eb] playing is we've got _ _
_ _ that [B] lick that goes on underneath and around that we're kind of I'm well this is how I'd play it
I'd play something like _ _ [Ebm] _ _ so _
_ _ [A] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ I'm getting that _ [Gb] that [Eb] _ little _ E flat _ [Db] B flat [Eb] D flat E flat _ _ 13 [Db] 13 [Ebm] 11 13
_ now _ _ _ _ I'm just playing that again [A] _ [Eb] and this time I'm going and then picking up _ _ to get E flat and B flat
or [Ebm] 11 _ and then _ landing _ picking down _ on _ the G flat _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ebm] and _ _ [D] _
you know you can play lots of different variations [C] of that _
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] you know you can just jam around because _ it's a great little
you know way to practice your funk playing is just to take [Ebm] these _ this [Bb] position these notes [Eb] and
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
so you can use these _ the _ _ blues scale to really [G] _
[Ebm] funk things up _ _ _ _ _
[G] it was something as simple as that would work over the
E flat minor chord and then we've got the little chorusy bit which [Abm] I'm playing a
_ [B] _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [B] _ [Gb] _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ bit
okay so I'm playing a _ G A flat minor 7 so just four _ four all the way just missing out
the A string _ I'm [Gb] just playing three notes of an G flat chord _ _ _ four three two then [B] _ [Gb] adding this as
four [B] so _ _ _ adding the B with [Ebm] my little finger [B] and _ [Ebm] _
_ then playing _ the E minor but here _ four three four _ _
[Gb] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
[B] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Ebm] _
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_ so
back into that [B] so it's a great fun song to play and I also got one of these little organ pedals
so for that little chorus bit I could actually go which _
[Gb] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
[Abm] _ is a _ fun _
[Gb] and _ _ _ _ _ _ then back to the funk
_ _ [Eb] _
whatever you want to play there so um great fun song to practice your little funk chops
and enjoy living in erotic city what a great place to be _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _