hello guitar enthusiasts and welcome to my instructional video on Eric Clapton's
wonderful tonight beautiful song wonderful acoustic guitar song and what
we're gonna do is we're gonna keep it simple I love this song because it's my
four favorite chords which are G D C and E minor I also like this song because it's very
repetitive for most of the song it's the same four chord progression and
every once in a while he changes it just a little bit but for the most part it's
pretty much the same thing so we're gonna start with this intro or actually
why don't I start with the strumming because we're gonna go over three
different ways you can strum this there's the simple way which is just
four down strums so if you do a G chord one two
four one two three four you can just do four simple down strums the other way if
you want to spice it up a little bit it's to do one two three and four and
down down down up down up down down
up down up down down down up down up down
it's another way to do it the way I did it in the intro and the way I'm going to
do it and for this discussion here is I'm going to do a syncopated rhythm now
syncopated rhythms can be tricky for beginners so if you're just getting
started with the guitar I would not recommend trying to do this strumming
pattern so this strumming pattern is one two and and four and there's no down
strum on the three so it's going to be down down up up down up down down up
found out
that's what I'm going to use for this demonstration here so the intro the
first part of the song is a simple chord progression it is g d c d that's how the
song starts so we're gonna start with that intro so we've got g d c d it's
gonna sound like this up down up d down up up down up C
we're gonna play that two more times
so that's how our song starts and then we're gonna switch poor progressions
after that we're going to go to a C it's going to be C D G E minor so it's going
to be same
see
and the back to see
we're back to the beginning
see
so the first progression which is the majority of the sign is GD C D and then
we have this six chord progression that comes in in the middle which is C D G E
minor C and D now if you're feeling like you want to get fancy and you know how
to do a walk down we can put a watt bass walk down in this second progression so
when we go to CC
we've got G so I would do a down down and then I'm
gonna move my first finger up to the top string and then a minor down
so it sounds like this
sorry minor so we're pretty much on the baseline
it's going like this G F sharp this pops up in tons of signs it's really good to
learn this it pops up everywhere but the strumming pattern I'm doing is G
down down up and then I'm just going from G I'm putting my first finger on
the second fret of the top string that's f sharp I'm doing down down up and then
I'm strumming a minor so the whole thing sounds like this see
she asked me
down up down down up down down up
and that's it that's the entire song it just keeps repeating from start to
finish that same chord progression and then you switch back so I'm gonna take
it from the beginning and I'm gonna try and just sing this kind of this first
verse for you with an intro and so that you can hear how it sounds so here it
goes two three four
it's late anything
she's wondering
what's on me
and brushes her long blonde hair
lemons me
do I look all right
I see yes
one
and there you have it that's wonderful tonight now if you can't do that walk
down don't worry about it just strum a full G chord it'll work it'll sound
perfectly fine with the song so this is Eric Clapton's wonderful tonight
practice hard work on those chord changes and you'll have it up to speed
in no time I'll see you guys in the next video