Tears in Heaven Part I

"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Connor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. This song is one of Clapton's most successful, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S. The song also spent three weeks at number 1 on the American adult contemporary chart in 1992.

Will Jennings, who worked with Clapton on the song, was reluctant at first to help him with such a personal song. The song was initially featured on the soundtrack to the film Rush, followed by Unplugged, and it won three Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 1993 Grammy Awards. It also won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1992.

Clapton stopped playing it in 2004, saying that he could feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing this song. 

Lyrics and Chords 

Intro: A E/G# | F#m F#m/E | D/F# E₇sus₄ E | A

A         E/G#    F#m  F#m/E

Would you know my name

D/F# A/E        E       A/E E7

if I saw you in heaven?

A        E/G#   F#m  F#m/E

Would it be the same

D/F# A/E        E       A/E E7

if I saw you in heaven?

 F#m       C#/F  A7/E       F#7

 I must be strong and carry on,

 F#sus4 F#/C# Bm         E7sus4       A

 'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven.

Instrumental = Intro

Would you hold my hand

if I saw you in heaven?

Would you help me stand

if I saw you in heaven?

I'll find my way, through night and day

'Cause I know I just can't stay here in heaven.  

Instrumental = Intro     

C        G/B        Am7   

Time can bring you down,             

D/F#      G      D/F# Em D/F# G    

Time can bend your knees.   

 C        G/B        Am7    

Time can break your heart,             

D/F#    G      D/F#     E      D/F# E/G# 

A   Have you begging please, begging please.  

Instrumental: A E/G# | F#m F#m/E | D/F# A/E | E | A/E E7     

Beyond the door, there's peace I'm sure      

And I know there'll be no more tears in heaven.  

Instrumental = Intro  

Would you know my name

if I saw you in heaven? 

Would it be the same

if I saw you in heaven? 

I must be strong and carry on,      

F#sus4 F#/C# Bm         E7sus4       A      E/G# F#m    

'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven.    

F#sus4 F#/C# Bm         E7sus4       A     

'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven.  

Instrumental = Intro

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton was born in 30 March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, in the United Kingdom. Clapton received an acoustic Hoyer guitar, made in Germany, for his 13th birthday, but the inexpensive steel-stringed instrument was difficult to play and he briefly lost interest. Two years later Clapton picked it up again and started playing consistently. Clapton was influenced by the blues from an early age, and practiced long hours to learn the chords of blues music by playing along to the records. 

After leaving Hollyfield school Surbiton in 1961, Clapton studied at the Kingston College of Art but was dismissed at the end of the academic year because his focus remained on music rather than art. His guitar playing was so advanced that by the age of 16 people were starting to notice him.

In October 1963 Clapton joined The Yardbirds, a blues-influenced rock and roll band, and stayed with them until March 1965. Synthesising influences from Chicago blues and leading blues guitarists such as Buddy Guy, Freddie King, and B. B. King, Clapton forged a distinctive style and rapidly became one of the most talked-about guitarists in the British music scene.

Clapton joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in April 1965, only to quit a few months later. In the summer of 1965 he left for Greece with a band called The Glands, which included his old friend Ben Palmer on piano. In November 1965 he rejoined John Mayall. It was during his second Bluesbreakers stint that his passionate playing established Clapton's name as the best blues guitarist on the club circuit.

Clapton left the Bluesbreakers in July 1966nd formed Cream, one of the earliest super groups, with Jack Bruce on bass. Before the formation of Cream, Clapton was not well known in the United States; he left the Yardbirds before "For Your Love" hit the American Top Ten, and had yet to perform there. During his time with Cream, Clapton began to develop as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

In the seventies eighties and nineties Clapton team with a number of great artist ad produced a gread deal of albulms and overall fabulous music. Such artists and bands were Tina Turner Phil Collins, Pink Floyd and many others. 

From 2000 to today Eric Clapton was always in the top rank of musicians and song writers having many movies borrowing his music ad performed hundrends of tours around the world. The last time I saw live Clapton’s performance was June 2011 at Royal Albert Hall , London and he was really exquisite.  

 Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time and is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.

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Stairway to heaven Tab Part II

Stairway to heaven Tab Part II

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Stairway to heaven Tab Part I

Stairway to Heaven Cord Map

Stairway to Heaven Part I

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Stairway to heaven

"Stairway to Heaven" is a song by Led Zeppelin, released in late 1971. It was composed by guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant for the band's untitled fourth studio album (usually referred to as Led Zeppelin IV). The song, running eight minutes and two seconds, is composed of several sections, which increase in tempo and volume as the song progresses. The song begins as a slow acoustic-based folk song accompanied by recorders before electric instrumentation is introduced. The final section is a high-tempo hard rock section highlighted by an intricate guitar solo by Page.

The song, often considered one of the greatest rock songs of all-time, was voted #3 in 2000 by VH1 on its list of the 100 Greatest Rock Songs, and was placed at number 31 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It was the most requested song on FM radio stations in the United States in the 1970s, despite never having been officially released as a single there. In November 2007, through download sales promoting Led Zeppelin's Mothership release, "Stairway to Heaven" hit #37 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song consists of several distinct sections, beginning with a quiet introduction on a finger picked six string guitar and four recorders in a Renaissance music style (ending at 2:15) and gradually moving into a slow electric middle section (2:16–5:33), then a long guitar solo (5:34–6:44), before the faster hard rock final section (6:45 to the end). Written in the key of A minor, the song opens with an arpeggiated, finger-picked guitar chord progression with a chromatic descending bassline A-G#-G-F#-F-E. John Paul Jones contributed overdubbed wooden bass recorders in the opening section (he used a Mellotron and, later, a Yamaha CP70B Grand Piano and Yamaha GX1 to synthesize this arrangement in live performances) and a Hohner Electra-Piano electric piano in the middle section. The sections build with more guitar layers, each complementary to the intro, with the drums entering at 4:18. The extended Jimmy Page guitar solo in the song's final section was played for the recording on a 1959 Fender Telecaster (an instrument he used extensively with the Yardbirds) plugged into a Supro amplifier.


The song has been covered a number of times. More than 25 different versions of the song that were performed live by guest stars on the early 1990s, each being a unique version of the song in the usually idiosyncratic style of performance of each guest star.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band that formed in 1968 and consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. With their heavy, guitar-driven blues rock sound, Led Zeppelin are regularly cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal and hard rock, even though the band's individualistic style drew from many sources and transcends any one music genre. 

Led Zeppelin were one of the most commercially successful and influential groups of the 1970s. The band's popularity in the early years was dwarfed by their mid-70s successes and it is this period that continues to define them. The band officially declared they were changing their name to Led Zeppelin on 14 October 1968, and played their first show under the new name at the University of Surrey in Guildford on 25 October. In their first year, Led Zeppelin managed to complete four US and four UK concert tours, and also released their second album, entitled Led Zeppelin II. Recorded almost entirely on the road at various North American recording studios, the second album was an even greater success and reached the number one chart position in the US and the UK. The band further developed ideas established on their debut album, creating a work which became even more widely acclaimed and arguably more influential. It has been suggested that Led Zeppelin II largely wrote the blueprint for heavy metal bands that followed it. 

For the composition of their third album, Led Zeppelin III, Page and Plant retired to Bron-Yr-Aur, a remote cottage in Wales, in 1970. The result was a more acoustic sound that was strongly influenced by folk and Celtic music, and revealed the band's versatility. The album's rich acoustic sound initially received mixed reactions, with many critics and fans surprised at the turn taken away from the primarily electric compositions of the first two albums. 

The fourth album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin was released on 8 November 1971. No title is printed on the album, so it is generally referred to as Led Zeppelin IV, following the naming standard used by the band's first three studio albums. The album has alternatively been referred to as , Four Symbols, The Fourth Album (those two titles each having been used in the Atlantic catalogue), Untitled, The Runes, The Hermit, and ZoSo.  Zoso is also the moniker for Jimmy Page.  After this album followed  five other albums,  Houses of the Holy (1973),  Physical Graffiti (1975),  Presence (1976), In Through the Out Door (1979) and Coda (1982). 

Led Zeppelin disbanded following Bonham's death in 1980, but continue to be held in high regard for their artistic achievements, commercial success, and broad influence. The band is widely considered to be one of the most successful, innovative and influential bands in the history of rock music.

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"Foxy Lady" by Jimi Hendrix

This is a very sexual song that was probably inspired by Heather Taylor, who eventually married Roger Daltrey, the lead singer from The Who. Kathy Etchingham, Jimi's girlfriend at the time, also claimed to be one of many inspirations for "Foxy Lady.

In the booklet for the Experience Hendrix CD, Hendrix was quoted as saying this was the only happy song he had ever written. He said that he usually just doesn't feel happy when writing songs. 

The title of this song has two alternate spellings: "Foxey Lady" (for release in America) and "Foxy Lady" (for release in the UK).

Hendrix recorded this on December 13, 1966. That same day, he made his first TV appearance on the British show Ready Steady Go. His group The Jimi Hendrix Experience had been together only 2 months at that point, but things moved very quickly. Three days later, their first single, "Hey Joe" was released.

LYRICS AND CHORDS

(Capo 2nd fret)

    E(M)m (create feedback)

        E(M)m  E(M)m  E(M)m  (E)(A)(A#)(B)

                                      Foxy

                                      Foxy

                  E(M)m     E(M)m            E(M)m    (E)    (A)  (A#)  (B)

                      Uh, you know you're a cute little

heartbreaker, huh

                      Foxy - yeah

                      And you know you're a sweet little lovemaker, heh

                      Foxy

                                                 E                               D        A      G  (E)

                                                     I wanna take you home, yeah

                                                     I won't do you no harm, huh

                                                     You've got to be all mine, all mine

                                                   E (no chord)     G lick

                                                     Ooh, foxy lady   -   yeah

                                      Foxy

                                      Foxy

                      Now, I see you, heh, on down on the scene

                      Oh, foxy

                      You make me wanna get up and scream

                      Foxy - ah, baby listen now

                                                     I've made up my mind

                                                     I'm tired of wasting all my precious time

                                                     You've got to be all mine, all mine

                                                     Foxy lady - here I come

                                                                   *Solo*   (verse, w/ foxys)

                                                     I'm gonna take you home

                                                     I won't do you no harm, no

                                                     Ya got to be all mine, all mine

 E (no chord)

                                                     Foxy lady

                                                                   *Feedback*   (E(M)m)

                                                                        Here I come baby - I'm comin' to get ya

                                      Oww, foxy lady, yeah yeah

                                      Ooh, you look so good, foxy

                                      Oh yeah, oww, foxy

                                      Yeah, give it to me, foxy

                                      You make me feel like a, feel like sayin' foxy

                                      Oh, lady

                                      Foxy lady

         E(M)m  E(M)m  E(M)m  (E)  (A)

                                      Foxy  lady...

SOLO

(Capo 2nd fret)

   Main lick:

            E(M)m   E(M)m   E(M)m  (E)(A)(A#)(B)

      f# ||-----0-------0-------0---------------

      C# ||-----8~~-----8~~-----8~~-------------

      A  ||-----7~~-----7~~-----7~~-------------

      E  ||-----6~~-----6~~-----6~~-------------

      B  ||-----7~~-7-7-7~~-----7~~-7-----------

      F# ||-0-0-------------0-0--------5--6--7--

   Chords:

           E(M)m  E  D  A  G (E)    1st G lick    2nd G lick

      f# ||--0----------5--3-----  |-/7~-77~---  |-------------------

C# ||--8----9--7--5--3-----  |---8~---8~-  |-12b/~10~~12b/~10~~

      A  ||--7----9--7--6--4-----  |-----------  |-------------------

      E  ||--6----9--7--7--5-----  |-----------  |-------------------

      B  ||--7----7--5--7--5-----  |-----------  |-------------------

      F# ||--0----0-----5--3--0--  |-----------  |-------------------

    ~ = vibrato

    / = slide up to

    b/ = bend up 1/2 step

Preferably played with the teeth!

ENJOY!

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