Eric Clapton – Key To The Highway (acoustic)
Learn how to play Eric Clapton – Key To The Highway (acoustic) note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty Level: Intermediate leaning towards advanced
Bar Chords: No
Thumb-Over Chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Standard
The lesson is based on Eric’s part in live solo acoustic shows.
This preview video contains the first part of the lesson teaching Key To The Highway as Eric plays it acoustically.
The complete song lesson contains 3 lesson videos (the song as-played by Eric is broken down into 3 sections), 3 performance play thru videos, full tabs and a chords and lyrics sheet. You’ll receive a link to download the lessons which will download as 3 zip files of 208 Mb, 100 Mb and 94 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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You’ll receive at least two videos per song, one lesson and one performance-standard play-through. You’ll receive the chords/lyrics and guitar tabs as PDF files.
The videos are mp4 format and should play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
They will download as Zip files. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file. I use Zipeg which you can get free, here.
If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.
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ian says
do you play the little lead part thats near
the end of the song?
Jerry says
If I remember I used a live version from Madison Square Garden as the template for this one. I certainly included everything he played in that solo version.
Michael says
Hi Jerry, Before purchasing your TAB on “Key to the Highway”, I wanted to know if it’s the same TAB from the book, or have you simplified it a bit? I find the book’s version to be a bit hard because every little note is included. Michael
John says
Hi Jerry
I’ve always loved E.C.s acoustic blues. And this one was pretty much ” The one” I always wanted to learn.
Can report after much practise that I’ve pretty much drilled it into my thick head and the muscle memory has taken over.And can now start to add a bit of finesse to it.
I must be a bit of a masochist because I love the learning stage where you start of with “no bl**dy way am I going to learn this” till eventually (with a bit of luck and practise) you conquer it.
Jerry says
That is fantastic John. I know it’s a cliche for teachers to say this but that really is why we do it. When someone can play a piece they’ve always loved, it brings a smile to my face, because I know that great feeling so well! We’re all musicians at the end of the day.
John says
Hi Jerry,
Just lovin the Clapton acoustic set you are doing, and ‘The Key to the highway’ is one of my all time favourites.Great teaching,keep up the good work.
Jerry says
Hey Mike. This one sounds great when you get it down. I might take a break from Eric for a short while and explore some of the other artists who were popular in the survey, but I’ll definitely come back to him and cover more from that album.
Mike Cee says
Ooooh, this sounds so good, how cool is it going to be to learn to play this! Jerry you are a ‘Great’ teacher, the patience and quality you impart to your lessons, are giving us ‘hobby’ players a chance to learn to play songs that we might never have attempted.
Any plans to do some more of his ‘Unplugged’ album, maybe a simple version of ‘Signe’ that sounds close to that great intro to the album?
Thanks again, Jerry, very much appreciated,
Geoff says
Great song, great tab, From the best teacher, 10/10 Jerry, Please keep up the good work !