Chords for The Core Lesson - Eric Clapton-Steve Gosper

[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
Okay, today I'm going to teach you [E] a song by Eric Clapton.
It's off of his [C] Slow Hand LP.
_ _ It's a great song.
It's called The [C#] Core.
A lot of people seem to like it.
So, let's learn [C] it.
_ [F] Basically, the [D#] song's in three [C#] parts.
[E] There's the intro and the verse, which [C#] are basically the same thing.
It's the main riff of the [E] song.
Then there's a [C#] chorus, which will play a couple of bar [B] chords.
Then after the chorus, there's a _ [C#] cool little break.
_ So we'll learn all three of those.
_ [B] It also has a solo, but we won't [F] get into that today.
_ _ [E] _ Basically, the main riff [C] is going to deal with two main chords, [A] being an E and an A.
[C#] We're going to play abbreviated [A] versions of those, and I'll show those to you in just a minute.
Anyway, the song [E] starts with a [F] hammer-on on the fourth string.
[B] _ _ _
_ You pick it open, and then you [C#] hammer-on to the second fret.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
What [E] you want to do is [Em] continue fretting that [E]
note, even when you're not playing it, because you're going to come back to it a couple of times.
_ After you do that hammer-on, _ _ _ _ _ just hang on to that note. _
[G] After the hammer-on, [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ hit the open E string, which is the sixth string. _ _ _ _ _
Then we're [A] coming back again to that note that we've [C#] hammered on to on the [E] second fret. _ _
Then we're going to hit it again, _ _ and then go back to the open E.
_ When you put it together, _ _ _ it's_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] again.
[E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Then we're going to play an [A] abbreviated version of the E chord.
[E] _ _ We're not going to play the whole [Em] thing.
We're only going to play the fourth [Fm] string and the third string.
_ Your [F]
middle finger goes on [E] the fourth string on the second [C#m] fret, _ [C#] _ and your index finger goes on the third string [D] on the first fret.
You just play those two [G#] strings.
_ _ Then we do the same thing for an [A#m] abbreviated A chord.
_ [E] We just play the third and fourth strings again, [F#] both fretted on the second [A] fret.
_ _ _ If you put the whole first part [E] of the riff together, it sounds _ _ like_
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ Okay?
_ The second part of the riff starts off the same way, with the hammer-on. _ _ _ _ _
Back to hitting the open E. _ _ _
_ _ [A] Instead of going to the E chord, [G#] we're going to do a pull-off and [B] a hammer-on.
[F#m] _
We're going to [G] start the pull-off on the fifth [Em] fret with the fifth string.
We're going to pull-off to the fourth [E] fret, and then we're going to [D] pull-off _ open.
_ Get _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ a little practice.
[G] Then we're going to hammer [A]-on the fifth string to the second fret, _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ and hit the open [Bm] D string.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[F#] We put it all [E] together. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ That's the riff that pretty much [F] goes through the entire song.
The [F#m] chorus is just [E]
four bar chords, basically.
_ It starts off with an E to a B, _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ then a D [D] to an A. _ _ _
That's [E] pretty much it.
_ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] There's your chorus.
_ Then it goes through that cool [A#m] little break I was telling you [Gm] about.
It _ [E] starts off with the _ fifth string on the second fret, and we hammer-on to the fourth fret.
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
Then we go to the fourth string on the second fret. _ _
_ _ _ Back to [C#] the fifth string on the fourth fret.
_ Then [E] back to the fifth string on the second fret.
[F#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D#] Then we go down to the fourth fret, third [G] string.
_ [D#] We're going to hit that [G] on the fourth fret, [E] _ [F] on the second [D] fret, _ _ and [E] the first fret.
_ _ _ [G#] _
_ [E] Just like that.
You can fancy it up a [B] little bit if you want to.
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
Any [E] way you want to do it.
Then we're going to hit a full open A [A] chord. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] We're going to repeat that.
Instead of hitting an A [C#] chord, we're going to hit an E [F#m] chord.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Do it [F#] again with the A.
[A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Then we're going to do it one more [F] time, but instead of going back to that E [C#] chord, we're going to start the riff over again.
[A] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ That's [Em] pretty much it.
Hope you enjoyed it.
Thanks.
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