This is absolutely one of the best learning resources I've ever seen - some fine tablature that is really accessible to the beginner and advanced player alike. If you want to play this up to speed, the speed of the original recording is around 133% of the speed here, somewhere between the 1.25 and 1.5 speed. To readers/listeners, this is as good as guitar tab is ever going to get. From here, you have to listen hard for what tab won't tell you. If you see a 13b15, cool. Play the C and bend it up to a D, easy peasy. But if you just see a hanging bend, i.e. 10b , listen closely to how far Eric bends, and what speed he bends up at. (He almost always plas the bend up, but more rarely plays the release back down to pitch.) The other thing to listen to that tab never captures is how carefully he adjusts the dirt of his solos pretty much all the time. If you see him live, you'll see how often his hand darts down to his tone knobs, sometimes between phrases. He's making on-the-fly adjustments using the 25 dB mid-boost pot that exists in Clapton signature Strats and very few other guitars (I think Buddy Guy's signature series has a mid-boost, but I'm not sure if it's a hilariously excessive 25 dB like Clapton's). It's such a fantastic tool in Eric's arsenal and this solo really brings it out as the clean boost really drives how much his overdrive breaks up, and that overdriven sound is basically how he gives ongoing "direction" to the whole band in terms of dynamics. When they drop right off the map, you hear the distortion go right out of his sound, hear a very sweet trebley Strat-like tone, close to the Mark Knopfler's Strat sound on the early Dire Straits records (not quite, as Eric still gets a harder attack out of a flat pick). He gradually builds and builds and builds, and the band comes up with him to the finale. A lot of that build is through ongoing minute adjustments of the boost as he plays, which is how the tone slowly thickens out until you get that really fat, almost humbucking tone full of saturated mids. If you're wondering how Clapton can still reproduce his old Cream-era SG tones on a Stratocaster, that mid-boost is his secret. Unless you're going to shell out $2,000+ for the Clapton Signature Strat, or know someone who can source the mid-boost and wire it in for you, you'll need a workaround for this if you really want to play with his kind of dynamic shaping. The best I've been able to come up with so far is to use my old multi-effects pedal (a Line 6 M-series) which lets me stack multiple boost/overdrive pedals in any order, then control any function as needed using a volume/wah pedal. I run a clean (low-gain) overdrive or compressor into my main overdrive, using the expression pedal to bring up the boost as needed. If you're richer than me, but not as rich as Clapton, you could also do the same thing beautifully with any of the high-end dual-function overdrive pedals that take an expression pedal input--something like the Strymon Sunset or Compadre. For my money, that's the missing sound in a Clapton solo that builds in dynamics all the way through that tab will never tell you. Take this amazing tab as your starting point, and use your ears to make up the difference.
I've been following Nikola for a while now. He's tabbed just about every song I like. Even the John Frusciante stuff lol. Dude's got good taste in music and he's awesome at breakin these jams down for us. I'd sub again if I could.
Mr Gugoski your channel is a TREASURE. I can’t express how lucky and grateful I am to find your channel. I’ve always been more more of a live version fan when it comes to music and it’s especially hard to find proper lessons for live edits. Your videos got me back into playing, thank you and merry christmas!
Hey guitar master!, thank you very much for this, it's great. I think that in second 57 the note of the second string should be in space 11, and not in 10 as the tab shows. Thanks a lot again.
Thank you so much for this fantastic lead guitar solo tutorial tab from Eric Clapton !!!! I was really hoping that someone would upload this particular tab ! My wish had cum true ! Thank you so much for this ! This is a really fun bluesy solo to learn ! Great rock n roll ! At some stage I want to have a crack at learning this intro solo to this song from this crossroads live performance some time on my electric fender Stratocaster guitar ! :)
Amazing lesson! Just a tip, I realized that in the slide at 1:20 Eric switches to de neck position. In the live performance u can apreciate it more, but im pretty sure I saw him switch that. Great vid !
00:07 You can hear crowd cheering in the background...he just used the original audio and is playing it slow so we wouldn't notice....also the same bass notes
Nicolai eric clapton is my favourite as usual love your videos and i dont skip ur ads.U are the best !! Love ur strat. Are u an eric clapton fan also? Love ur RHCP videos😁😀😄
Hi One of my favourite songs and would Love to Play it like you do! Is it possible To get a pdf of the tab please? Would help me a lot Many thanks Matt
Great video, I have been trying to figure out which scales are in use in this one. Obviously, Gm pentatonic scale is there, but there are other ones. Can you please list which scales are combined in this solo? Thank you so much!
@@riveracarlos328 Is it just the Bb major scale? How did you know that? I don't know how to find the relatives but how did you understand that the relative major is used?
If you play the g minor pentatonic scale, and play the A# as normal and add the B note that is the 3rd. A#/b, one semitone up goes into major note. Similar to adding the 'blues' note briefly Db the 5th. Playing the Bb major gives the solo a more happy vibe, Gm pentatonic would sound more sad. Correct me if I'm wrong
Hey man, great tutorial! I managed to pick up the intro solo myself, but the ending solo I could only pick up the first 70%, after that I lost it a bit. If you'd decide to make a video about that that would be amazing! Awesome content though, definitely subbing.
@@nikolagugoski Hah, glad to know I wasn't the only one having difficulties. I might give it another go this weekend, so maybe we could combine forces if need be.
I really want to do a chon song or riff but don't have enough time. Their stuff is so time consuming haha :D Plus I mostly learn their songs by watching live shows or playthroughs. Not sure if there is one for Here and there
![Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff [Crossroads 2010] (Official Live Video)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/APWhx97QvxE/mqdefault.jpg)
Please please please please please please please please please please please please do the ending solo!! You play phenomenally !!!
Here's the link to that video my good man th-cam.com/video/HqG08g5XQAY/w-d-xo.html
Bro you do not know how to look for this tutorial for years, I appreciate it.
Glad I could help
@@nikolagugoski legend mate !
I thought only me was looking for it.
And you also one of us
The second solo pls
th-cam.com/video/HqG08g5XQAY/w-d-xo.html here's a video of the last solo with tabs
@@ncerdan97 thanks bro
0:38
Jeez a two min vid, just slow enough to learn and understand the intended flow.
This is the pinnacle of guitar lesson videos. Kudos.
This is absolutely one of the best learning resources I've ever seen - some fine tablature that is really accessible to the beginner and advanced player alike. If you want to play this up to speed, the speed of the original recording is around 133% of the speed here, somewhere between the 1.25 and 1.5 speed.
To readers/listeners, this is as good as guitar tab is ever going to get. From here, you have to listen hard for what tab won't tell you. If you see a 13b15, cool. Play the C and bend it up to a D, easy peasy. But if you just see a hanging bend, i.e. 10b , listen closely to how far Eric bends, and what speed he bends up at. (He almost always plas the bend up, but more rarely plays the release back down to pitch.)
The other thing to listen to that tab never captures is how carefully he adjusts the dirt of his solos pretty much all the time. If you see him live, you'll see how often his hand darts down to his tone knobs, sometimes between phrases. He's making on-the-fly adjustments using the 25 dB mid-boost pot that exists in Clapton signature Strats and very few other guitars (I think Buddy Guy's signature series has a mid-boost, but I'm not sure if it's a hilariously excessive 25 dB like Clapton's).
It's such a fantastic tool in Eric's arsenal and this solo really brings it out as the clean boost really drives how much his overdrive breaks up, and that overdriven sound is basically how he gives ongoing "direction" to the whole band in terms of dynamics. When they drop right off the map, you hear the distortion go right out of his sound, hear a very sweet trebley Strat-like tone, close to the Mark Knopfler's Strat sound on the early Dire Straits records (not quite, as Eric still gets a harder attack out of a flat pick). He gradually builds and builds and builds, and the band comes up with him to the finale. A lot of that build is through ongoing minute adjustments of the boost as he plays, which is how the tone slowly thickens out until you get that really fat, almost humbucking tone full of saturated mids. If you're wondering how Clapton can still reproduce his old Cream-era SG tones on a Stratocaster, that mid-boost is his secret.
Unless you're going to shell out $2,000+ for the Clapton Signature Strat, or know someone who can source the mid-boost and wire it in for you, you'll need a workaround for this if you really want to play with his kind of dynamic shaping. The best I've been able to come up with so far is to use my old multi-effects pedal (a Line 6 M-series) which lets me stack multiple boost/overdrive pedals in any order, then control any function as needed using a volume/wah pedal. I run a clean (low-gain) overdrive or compressor into my main overdrive, using the expression pedal to bring up the boost as needed. If you're richer than me, but not as rich as Clapton, you could also do the same thing beautifully with any of the high-end dual-function overdrive pedals that take an expression pedal input--something like the Strymon Sunset or Compadre.
For my money, that's the missing sound in a Clapton solo that builds in dynamics all the way through that tab will never tell you. Take this amazing tab as your starting point, and use your ears to make up the difference.
I absoloutly love this performance of Clapton!
Such a sweet tone and awesome phrasing..
Big thanks for your work here!
If you're interested here's the outro solo with tabs th-cam.com/video/HqG08g5XQAY/w-d-xo.html
@@ncerdan97 Still have to work on the intro but thats great, thank you!
finally someone did this tutorial. thank you man!
Amazing, that I can find so many tabs for the music I like. Clapton, Hendrix, all the RHCP-s. I adore this channel.
I've been following Nikola for a while now. He's tabbed just about every song I like. Even the John Frusciante stuff lol. Dude's got good taste in music and he's awesome at breakin these jams down for us. I'd sub again if I could.
Wasn’t expecting this song. Thank you nikola!
Having trouble choosing what to upload, so I'm trying different stuff 😁 glad you like it
oh my god finally someone did it ! the best live of i shot the sheriff hands down
Mr Gugoski your channel is a TREASURE. I can’t express how lucky and grateful I am to find your channel. I’ve always been more more of a live version fan when it comes to music and it’s especially hard to find proper lessons for live edits. Your videos got me back into playing, thank you and merry christmas!
Hey guitar master!, thank you very much for this, it's great. I think that in second 57 the note of the second string should be in space 11, and not in 10 as the tab shows. Thanks a lot again.
Exactly!
Excellent musical flow. Thanks for your effort and time dedicated to this piece. This has brought me a great deal of learning enjoyment.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! Ive legit been waiting for someone to do this for years omg
Another excellent video! Thanks Nikola
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for this fantastic lead guitar solo tutorial tab from Eric Clapton !!!! I was really hoping that someone would upload this particular tab ! My wish had cum true ! Thank you so much for this ! This is a really fun bluesy solo to learn ! Great rock n roll ! At some stage I want to have a crack at learning this intro solo to this song from this crossroads live performance some time on my electric fender Stratocaster guitar ! :)
Awesome Nikola, really amazing job! Could you do fade to black if there is more interest?
Amazing lesson! Just a tip, I realized that in the slide at 1:20 Eric switches to de neck position. In the live performance u can apreciate it more, but im pretty sure I saw him switch that. Great vid !
Thanks a lot for this solo. Great job!
One of the best version of I Shot the Sheriff. Thank you for giving us a chance to play it hehehe
Thank you for watching 😁
00:07 You can hear crowd cheering in the background...he just used the original audio and is playing it slow so we wouldn't notice....also the same bass notes
I play it slow so that anyone can follow. Even if you are a beginner
@@nikolagugoski so you agree it's original audio synched in?
@@pashinichhaporia yes, it's the original recording
@@pashinichhaporia does it matter?
Omg this is what i have been waiting for thank you very much
Just a tiny note, at 1:17 Eric switches over to the Neck pickup, makes the tone a bit muddier and thicker for the second part of the intro.
was it in the middle or 2nd position before?
wow !!! this is what i was looking for....great !! thank you ! this live was Amazing
Eric clapton - 'I shot the sheriff' (Solo only), BEST!!!
please cover this please please make a tutorial you are the single best teacher on youtube
I think 0:56 is A# or Bb should be 11th fret not 10
Yes, it's a typo in the tab. Sorry about that
Been waiting for this!! in love
Did you consider maybe doing a solo lesson for this live also? Thank you for all lessons. Happy new year brother!
th-cam.com/video/HqG08g5XQAY/w-d-xo.html there you go my good man
Nicolai eric clapton is my favourite as usual love your videos and i dont skip ur ads.U are the best !! Love ur strat. Are u an eric clapton fan also? Love ur RHCP videos😁😀😄
this man deserves more subscribers
Good job nikola this was a great one, sounds hard but you got to it and got this one done and spot on!
Thank you! Glad you like it
Exactly what i needed , couldn’t thank you enough
Thank you for watching 😁
a video of yours always appears at the perfect moment 😃
Yeaaaah dude ! I remember learning this by ear a while back and now you made the tabs. awesome
Glad I could help!
AMAZING !!
Yesssss, thank you Nikola, I love this version
holy shit i love this version so much but never found any tab, thank you so much!
If you're looking for the tabs of the outro: th-cam.com/video/HqG08g5XQAY/w-d-xo.html
just AWESOME, thanks bro
Great, great, great. Thanks fot teach, thanks for share
I really like eric Clapton thanks!!
thank you man!! can u make Voodoo Child slight return by jimi?
Amazing!!!
Can you also do the 2004 crossroads one? Has an amazing solo!
Great work, nikola!
I listened to the original video to try and learn it by ear for days and just now I found the tabs to it..are u kidding me..
aww yiiis, love your taste
Thank you!! 😊
Hi
One of my favourite songs and would
Love to
Play it like you do!
Is it possible
To get a pdf of the tab please?
Would help me a lot
Many thanks
Matt
So cool! Thank's for that one.
Awesome vid, thanks for the lesson & tab 👍🇳🇿
Yes!! More Eric Clapton please
Suggest a few songs :)
@@nikolagugoski change the world?
@@nikolagugoski I feel free
Crossroads
Man, you're simply the best!!! Could you please make a tutorial for the second solo?
Thank you! Just checked the second solo and I'm pretty sure I can't tab that haha :D
Clapton's solo comes out of improv at that point. So many years playing the same song always different
Great video, I have been trying to figure out which scales are in use in this one. Obviously, Gm pentatonic scale is there, but there are other ones. Can you please list which scales are combined in this solo? Thank you so much!
Bb major which is a relative of g minor
@@riveracarlos328 Is it just the Bb major scale? How did you know that? I don't know how to find the relatives but how did you understand that the relative major is used?
If you play the g minor pentatonic scale, and play the A# as normal and add the B note that is the 3rd. A#/b, one semitone up goes into major note. Similar to adding the 'blues' note briefly Db the 5th. Playing the Bb major gives the solo a more happy vibe, Gm pentatonic would sound more sad. Correct me if I'm wrong
Then again to me it looks like he is playing the Gm pentatonic scale but using the 3rd and 4th position. Bb Dorion and Db pyrigian
D prygian
Genio! thank you very much
0:56 is it wrong?? was it supposed to be 13b 11 not 10 cause 10 sounded weird for me
yeah wrong !!! it's 11
This is awsome
finalmente ACHEI!! OBRIGADO!!!
Can you make a tutorial of can't stop live earth intro . Love your videos btw keep it up
AWESOMEEEE! pls could you do the outro solo???
Tzadik sharing knowlegde. thanks a lot,man! we appreciate a lot
Can you do a lesson on the San Francisco part of Dazed and Confused on the song remains the same?
Perfect job. Anybody can analize it with this.
awesome!!
cool thanks for this video
Amazing
Thank you so much! The whole intro uses the middle pickup?
Yes!
Muito bom amigo
Obrigado 👏👏
Bro this is such a good lesson thank you! I was also wondering if you can do a lesson on “Fat Dance” by the chili peppers?
can i make a sugestion for some next vid? Eric Clapton -JJ Cale-Lies
Nice video! can you please do Knockin' on Heavens Door by Clapton?
Hey great video! Can you maybe explain which effects to use to get this kind of sound?
Thank you! I use only Guitar rig. Presets I use on all my videos are available on my Patreon page 🙂
Thank you nikola i absolutely love it, i just want to know if you don’t mind where can i find this backing track? And thank you again.
Thank you for watching! I play over the original recording. No sure if there is a backing track available
@@nikolagugoski thank you
Thank you! But where you got a backtrack for guitar only?
I don't use a backing track. I'm playing over the original recording. My guitar is a bit louder
@@nikolagugoski Oh brilliant! Thx
Thank you so much. Can you please do one on Cocaine solo also?
are you gonna make solo section?
I can give it a try if there is more interest 🙂
@@nikolagugoski i will give all the interest you need man, please do it, i really love this song but cant play solo section
Could you please learn unreachable by john frusciante ?? I would really appreciate it
Hope you'll share the last guitar solo part of this song as well. Cannot wait)
The last guitar solo with tabs: th-cam.com/video/HqG08g5XQAY/w-d-xo.html
Good job ! 👌
is there any training for that left hand fret positions?
Tentei fazer aquele slide da 8 paraa12 mas não soa igual, pode me dar uma dica de como fazer? Acho muito e presivo aquele slide
Thanks brother
I love your tabs
Can you do the lead tabs of Love Never Felt So Good By Michael Jackson?Thanks!
Old Love next please!
Can you do the entire song pls?
00:35
good tutorial, what tabs on screen are you using?
Can we have River of tears one time pleaase?)
where can I find the backing track?
Thanks men.
can you do the 2004 version?
Can you tabulate White room royal Albert hall 2005
Subscribed!!
what scale is he using for this solo, does someone know?
Hey man, great tutorial! I managed to pick up the intro solo myself, but the ending solo I could only pick up the first 70%, after that I lost it a bit. If you'd decide to make a video about that that would be amazing! Awesome content though, definitely subbing.
Thank you so much! I tried the ending solo but couldn't properly tab it. I'll give it another shot for sure :)
@@nikolagugoski Hah, glad to know I wasn't the only one having difficulties. I might give it another go this weekend, so maybe we could combine forces if need be.
0:35
Could you do one on Chon - Here and There please?
I really want to do a chon song or riff but don't have enough time. Their stuff is so time consuming haha :D Plus I mostly learn their songs by watching live shows or playthroughs. Not sure if there is one for Here and there
Can you please share the backing track of that concert?
There is no backing track. I play over the original recording. My guitar is a bit louder
@@nikolagugoski oh, okay. Thanks though.
great video
Can anyone link me the chorus part of this version?