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Studio

Song · 1992

Tears in Heaven

Artist
Eric Clapton
Released
1992
Guitar
Eric Clapton
  • Acoustic
  • Fingerpicking

What makes the part famous

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

  • Acoustic

    Played on an acoustic guitar: a crisp attack and ringing strings.

  • Fingerpicking

    The picking hand's fingers pluck the strings one by one, bass and melody at once.

Tears in Heaven 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
A major
Chords
A · E · F#m · D · Bm · C#

The progressions that come back

    1. A
    2. E
    3. F#m
    4. A
    5. D

The chords and their fingerings

  • A
    A majorI · Tonic×123
  • E
    E majorV · Dominant4fr×1432
  • F#m
    F♯ minorvi · Tonic××13
  • D
    D majorIV · Subdominant××132
  • Bm
    B minorii · Subdominant×1342
  • C#
    C♯ majorV/vi · secondary dominant×1432

Automatic analysis: it can get a chord wrong, and your ear has the last word.

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