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Hello Everyone!

Today's Target and Pay Per Lesson release is now live.

Change The World is a song written by Tommy Sims, Wayne Kirkpatrick and Gordon Kennedy, over quite a long period of time.

Eric Clapton recorded it for the movie Phenomenon in 1996 and it has become one of his most requested and performed songs of the last 20 years. It starts with a bluesy vamp, and a nod toward Muddy Waters, a big influence on Clapton, and continues into a jazzier chorus.

In the lesson we go over the vamp played in a comping style, and some different choices for the chords, particularly in the chorus. There are quite a few barre chords involved, as well as partial shapes where you only include certain strings.

Enjoy this level 6 lesson!

http://www.totallyguitars.com/target-so ... esson.html

Can't wait to get back to hotel room so I can check this one out tonight. Always love me some E.C. B)

Bart


EDIT: Ok, I am back in my hotel room wishing I had a guitar to play with. The way Neil breaks this song down is fantastic! Great lesson on a great song! And, I love the concept of "If I could change the world"...


Thank you very much!!

:ohmy:

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Oh my, game one of the world series here in KC, or practice Change the world? What would Neil Hogan do?????

I love this song. His original track just blows me away. Thanks Neil.

This one seriously cool song...

Great song, thx Neil...

btw.. what is the difference between a riff and a vamp ???

cheers, david

Hey David!

I asked a similar question a year ago and both Neil and Doug Young gave some good advice on the subject at the time.

It's here:
http://www.totallyguitars.com/forum/80- ... is-it.html


Neil of course may come back with a more specific asnwer, as it connects with this song, but this thread might help in the meantime.

M

haha, yes of course Shel, i remember the riff/vamp thread now !!

Anybody buying the next Bob Dylan bootleg series, the Cutting Edge 1965-66, should listen first to Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence. When Bob sings in the final verse
"You may think this song is just a riff..'
then we all shout out
'No it isn't mate, it is a bloody vamp!"

... or something like that..

Riff, Vamp, Lick ???

What differentiates the term Lick from Vamp and Riff ?

Dermot

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