Chords for How to Play "Cocaine" by Eric Clapton (JJ Cale) On Guitar

[Em] _ _ [D] _ [E] _ [F] _ [D] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [G] _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [B] _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _
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Gonna break down the song Cocaine by Eric Clapton or JJ Cale wrote it, but the Clapton
version, super fun blues rock song to play.
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Alright, I'm gonna start with the most basic version of the riff and then I'm gonna build
off of it.
The original, the studio Clapton recording has multiple guitar parts.
I watched a few different live versions and there's some different stuff there too.
So let's start with the basics.
_ _ [D] _ [E] _ [F] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [D] _ [E] _ [C] _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [E] And so what we're doing is we're playing a power chord.
It's an E power chord, so 7th fret A string, _ _ _ 9th on the D, and then 9th on the G.
_ _ _ _ And that's the little shape that you're gonna move.
It starts with the root on the 7th.
_ _ _ _ 5, _ 7, _ [Dm] _ [E] _ _ _ just like _ [D] _ [E] that. _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ Rest, _ [E] and then you hit that D power chord, the 5th fret. _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Dm] _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ So that's mostly what he's doing live.
[E] _ [Dm] _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ Now the turnaround is that E power chord, so 7, [E] _ _
_ then [D] 5, _ _ _ then [C] 3.
_ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] That's it.
_ _ [D] Just_
Do do do, [C] do do do, 3, _ [B] _ [E] 2, cocaine. _
[F] _ _ [D] _ _ _ Do do [E] do.
[D] _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] Okay, so there's a few other things.
_ _ _ One thing you could do instead, and this is, I heard this in a different live version,
and this kind of combines two of the guitar parts a little bit.
You can go like this.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [E] And so all you're doing different is you're doing the first part the same.
7, 7, 5, 7, [Dm] so_
[E] _ _ _ But this time, you go down to the 5th, you pick it and slide it to the 7, and back.
[Dm] _ _ Like that.
And that makes it combine with this little riff that's [E] going on.
_ [D] So _
[E] it kind of puts two parts together.
_ [D] _
[E] _ [Dm] _ _ _ See [E] that?
[D] _
_ _ Slide up, back, pick.
[Em] _
_ [D] _ _ Do [E] do do, do do do.
[Dm] _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[E] Just a little different.
_ [D] _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
So now, [E] if you had one guitar player playing the first part,
_ [Dm] _ [E] _ [A] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [E] then you could add this other part here, which you can do the power chords the same,
[Dm] _ [E] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [B] and that goes along with it.
So you're sliding. _
It's the E minor pentatonic.
You're sliding from the 7 to the 9 with your ring finger on the D string,
_ _ then _ 9 on the G, [E] _ _ [D] and _ then [E] the 7. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So there's three different things there.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
And then here's the [E] second way, _ [Dm] _ [E] _ _ [D] _
_ _ and then the third [E] way.
_ [Dm] _
[E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
There's also a little _ double stop.
You can hear [E] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] there's some little planky-chankies going on in there
on the 12th fret of the B and the high E.
And then another thing is you have some fills _ in the E minor [B] pentatonic.
[A] _ [C] _ [E] You [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ know, you could do it right here, _ hammering on.
[D] _ _ [Em] _
_ There's just some [B] different little licks going on there on the second fret of the A. _ _ _
[A] _ Open, [E] 3.
_ So check it out.
_ [Dm] _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[E] _ _ [Dm] _ [E] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ 7, [D] _ _ [C]
5, 3, _ [B] 2, [E] go, K. _
_ [Fm] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[Bb] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[C] _ _ All [B] _ [Dm] _ right, there it was.
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