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Song · 2000

Riding with the King

Artist
B.B. King & Eric Clapton
Released
2000
Guitar
Eric Clapton & B.B. King
  • Solo

What makes the part famous

The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.

  • Solo

    The passage where the guitar steps forward and sings on its own, phrase after phrase.

Riding with the King chords

What the studio found on the isolated guitar of the recording: the key and the chords, with fingerings that flow from one to the next.

Key
B minor
Chords
Bm · E · A · B · G · D

The progressions that come back

    1. Bm
    2. E
    1. Bm
    2. B
    3. E

The chords and their fingerings

  • Bm
    B minori · Tonic7fr134
  • E
    E majorIV · borrowed7fr×1234
  • A
    A majorbVII · Dominant7fr×1243
  • B
    B majorV/iv · secondary dominant7fr1342
  • G
    G majorbVI · Subdominant7fr1432
  • D
    D majorbIII · Tonic10fr1342

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