Let it Rain - Eric Clapton | Guitar Lesson
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Learn how to play Let it Rain, as performed by Eric Clapton released as part of his 1970 solo album, though apparently didn't get widespread success until it was released as a single in 1972.
The lesson covers the rhythm guitar parts and the guitar solo parts (harmonized or otherwise). I also trace a "family history" of the song that originates back in 1967 with Stephen Stills and Buffalo Springfield.
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00:00 Demo first guitar solo
00:56 Introduction/what to expect
02:35 Getting your tone
04:35 Lesson - rhythm guitar chords
10:10 Lesson - Intro lead guitar #1
11:33 Lesson - Intro lead guitar #2
12:04 Lesson - Intro lead guitar #3
14:10 Lesson - Chorus lead guitar #1
14:21 Lesson - Chorus lead guitar #2
15:39 Lesson - Stephen Stills' lead guitar
19:24 Eric's approach to the outro guitar solo
23:36 Let it Rain "Family Tree"
29:13 Final thoughts
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This song is a masterpiece and brings back good times. Thanks for the lesson.
One of the great songs all time. In 1976 I practiced this for hours trying to get it right. I never did to my satisfaction. Thanks so much for this video. After all these these years you've inspired me to pick up my strat and have at it!! You play it beautifully. Yes it was a tinge sharp!! BTW, "Why does love have to be so sad" Wasn't bad either.
Right there with the best band I've ever heard in this genre still today. Regards.
Please do more “Derek” era Clapton. Some of the greatest guitar playing ever. That’s why he’s god 🤘
❤same
Some of his best work is on other folks' records. Leon Russell's Prince Of Peace and Stephen Stills' Go Back Home to name but two.
Keep On Growing would be cool.
@hmmmmmm69 👍 agreed 👍
@@1111MJR Or Anyday
My god!! "It don't come easy"!! Never occured to me but makes so much sense. WOW! George and Eric were close friends even after the "Patty" fiasco. Great video.
Interesting story at the end. I’m 70 years old and was obviously around during all that, but had never heard it all tied up like this. Great job! Thanks!
Absolutely love this song!!! So much fun to play!! Thank you for another great lesson!! ☮❤☮
When Eric would play this song live with Derek and the Dominos, he played it just like you were showing us if only one guitar. It certainly gives a fat little tone.
Great job, nice story telling. Let it rain might be my favorite Clapton song.(One of the top 100 greatest solos ever). Let it rain and Got to get better in a little while from Fillmore east 1970, Lp great songs, listened to them 100's of times. I Shot the sheriff 6-28-75 from Crossroads 2 (Great). CSNY Carry on from the Lp 4 way street.
One of the foundation tunes of the blues-rock era. Great choice and lesson!
Eric's first solo album is one of my favorite albums of all times. I've been playing guitar for over 50 years and I consider myself a person who probably loves the music from those times more than anybody. So first I have to just thank you a bunch for even covering and teaching this song from so many years ago. I have to say I disagree with you regarding the song It Don't Come Easy. As a guitar player I'm sure you know there has been millions of songs that use the same chords, and sometimes very closely. However the intro guitar hook to It Don't Come Easy is very unique to only that song. Also there is a lot more to the story of why Stephen Stills appears on Eric's first solo record. I don't know the whole story but the engineer or producer got mad at Eric and quit... he wanted to go on to help Steven with with one of his albums. Eric called Stephen and asked if they would both come back and help him finish his first solo record... so Stephen wasn't just hanging around he also played. on and helped produce the album. Imo every guitar is like a human fingerprint or snowflake, it has a unique sound that only that guitar can produce. I absolutely loved the unique sound Eric got from brownie on that album. And it's just sad to me that guitar is now sitting in a museum in Seattle my hometown next to the Strat Hendrix played at Woodstock and Duane Allman's Les Paul. Again thanks for covering Let it Rain.!!
Great lesson of a great song!
Here’s possibly the seed song from which this family tree grew from,
Badge.
Same guitar lines as It don’t come easy, written by George and Eric.
This guy always… ALWAYS… nails it! 💯
Eric the love of my life😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
New subscriber - love your song selection. I'm 62 so my recollection of songs probably starts in '66 or '67 (what a great time that was, eh?). I started playing in '73 or '74? Bluegrass (you can laugh but Clarence White, Tony Rice, and others were fantastic players). Then I got my first electric in '76 and my life changed. Anyway... I love Clapton. You know what I'd like to learn how to play? The solo on Bad Love. Just a thought. Great videos. You are one of the better guitar lesson channels for sure!! Thank you for your time and effort.
no laughing at all - welcome, glad to have you here. Yeah Bad Love is a great one, good Clapton early 90s - i'll get to that.
👍🏻 Great video
Yea D & the D’S !
Pasadena civic 1970
Wow I'm hooked, my favorite tunes and artists thx.
Great song and chord progression. Appreciate you sharing the family tree and your breakdown of these songs
11 out of 10 man -I've always thought this was a sort of homage to Harrison as its got that feel to it.
Yeah, there's a lot going on in this song.
Thanks for posting this ☺️ 👍👍
ThanksI love the way you teach us how to play all these wonderful songs, which by the way are from my era, I'm 68..
Do you mind doing “Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?” by Derek and the Dominos next? I’ve never seen anyone cover Clapton’s solos that are underneath Duane’s solos
One on my fav of EC 12 Ft. Fantastic work n tone too ♪♫♪♫♪♫
Great job. On Bobby Whitlock's you tube channel , Bobby said Eric took the master tapes of Let it Rain to Criteria studios because Eric thought the song was being mixed too much like a Delaney Bramlett song, and at Criteria studios which is the take that gets on the "Eric Clapton" solo album, Stephen Stills is even playing bass on the final cut of " Let it Rain. PEACE
What's another cool fact on Stephen Stills debut solo album , Jimi Hendrix plays guitar on track 4 " Old Times Good Times" , and Eric Clapton plays guitar on track 5 " Go Back Home. More family tree..plus it's a pretty cool album.
My understanding was that it was the record Co that was "unhappy" with Delany's mix & had Dowd remix it.
Either way the anniversary version had both mixes so you can listen for yourself.
Wow thanks for the history lesson it's really cool learning all those little tidbits about that song and how to play that song thanks.
Great Lesson with all the particulars! Thanx for this, Doug!!!
What a great video! Thank you so
Much! ❤
I've picked up so many songs from you. Lot's of songs I just listened to, but now wanted to learn. Thanks
Can’t forget Bobby Whitlock on this album. As well as the greatest Rock album ever LaOALS!
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Great breakdown of this masterpiece too by the way!
Cheers mate
Great lesson on one of my favorite Clapton songs. I didn’t know Stills played that lead part on the bridge. One correction however. He co wrote this with Delaney Bramlett and many of the songs on this album, Not Bonnie. Due to contractual reasons they weren’t allowed to use Delaney’s name, so they used Bonnie’s instead.
VERY Nice!! You're a great teacher!! Please do some Derek and the Dominos (I Looked Away, Anyday, Keep On Growing) 😎🤟
It’s a STRAT orchestra! Your right though the riff done as 3 parts sounds very different…I have done many times live with the chord method you demonstrated . Great tune great job.
I hear a lot of Dickey Betts happening there at 20:51 They Both had very similar riffing styles / especially in the E pentatonic box . Thanks for the great breakdown.
Excellent history lesson. Thank you!!
Fantastic Doug! 💥
This was great. Love the theory around it you used to explain it as well.
Has it been that long. I like how u break down all the harmonys
Great instructions here on all parts! Especially liked the factoid about the Stephen Stills part - never knew that. I Shot the Sheriff would be a good one for us all to learn! Same era, probably same gear.
Masterpiece
A Prelude to the album that is genius
Really nice! Thanks! Just subscribed
Welcome!
Eric (and Jimi) also featured in a couple of tracks on Stephen Stills first solo record
classic
I bet you didn't know that Neil Young's 'Cinnamon Girl' has the same dang chords, too!! And it fits into your family tree, being he and Stills were using those chords in two other bands.
Yes! It does fit the family tree!
Another great lesson, thanks! Fans of this song should check out Frampton and the Doobies' cover of it. xx
If you listen to the live versions by Derek and the Dominios he plays the chords on the intro, it does sound different.
Nice sound going off the rails! 🎧📻🎸
Interesting that She Rides and It Don't Come Easy are probably written and recorded around the same time.
The Apple(Records) doesn't fall far from the (family) tree. They got mileage out of their art. That split- screen stuff must have been a lot of work, props to you. I like that Stills went "woman tone" on Eric, haha. 😅
This is actually a tricky one because it's made up of three different guitar parts fused into one.
I watched a guy dissect this a few years ago on CZcams it was really interesting how it took three different parts to make one mix.
You had Eric's guitar you had Delaney's guitar and I forget if it was Harrison or somebody else all combined to get that great sound of the main riff.
Stephen Stills also dies a brief bass punch in. When he was listening to the playback with Eric, he heard Bobby Whitlock do a run (at 3:42) and said "I can't believe Carl (Radle) didn't answer that" , so he punched in a bass run to answer the piano.
I'm not trying to seem like a Know it All, lol,. But Stephen Stills actually played a second bass guitar on this song but its near the end. Its hard to pick out but headphones help.
Yeah someone else just said that too. Super cool. The part where the bass does call/response with the descending piano during the 2nd solo right?
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This is probably one of my favorite E. C. tunes. Thanks to you about the final thoughts. Any chance you got some R . E. O.? Kevin Cronin and the group played last evening. And, today is a day to Reco operate.
Family tree. ❤❤❤
I’m pretty sure the rhythm part in the bridge influenced Robert Cary’s “Smoking Gun”.
Great job, BTW there is an album called "Derek and the Dominoes In Concert " that has ECs best playing IMHO, Not the reissue cd fillmore east version, I bought it from the cut - out bin twice, the In Concert Lp has Bobby Whitlock 's vocals and Organ/Piano mixed more to the fore and has different better versions of the songs it can be found on CZcams. Check it out friends I feel Clapton was at his best when he was with the Dominos/with and without the late Great Duane Allman, I feel that Duane put a fire under Clapton s ass that lasted on through this album ps Got to get Better in a Little While " was going to be on Derek and the Dominoes unreleased second studio album .
Never could figure out what they did in mixing & production on the latter release. While on the whole it's clean & crisp but also feels/sounds compressed compared to the original release.
The latter release is notable for the versions of the tracks that are not on the original - there were 4 shows over two nights & as far as I know they were all recorded.
Anyway great comment/point about "In Concert" vs. the later release.
Stills supposedly did that first solo on a Super 400.
17:30
18:03
Studio solo 1....St Stills. 2 Eric
Solo fillmore>>>>>❤10
Is there any way you can show us the end is not in sight lead by the amazing rhythm aces? Thanks.
This is great, but the open G against the A on the 2nd string sounds really wrong! Are you sure that’s the way it’s played. A major 2nd is a pretty tense sound.
It’s difficult to believe that solo the bridge is Steven Stills’ work.
12 FOOT CHAIN, Which rocks songs rolls down the guitars tone pot?
There's many. The solo on LedcZeppelin How Many More Times comes to mind.
@@12footchain It sounds like a Heel cocked wah in the Heel position or its Jimmy Page telecaster tone pot rolled all the way back on the bridge pickup. I know SLASH rolls back his les paul tone pot for the guitar solo November Rain. I think Hendrix rolled his strat tone pot back for Voodoo Chile JAM track and other Blues songs. First Santana Album I think Santana would roll back the tone knob. I have heard that Duane Allman would roll back the tone knob for his slide work which you can make YT lessons about the rolling back the tone knob to show a bunch of examples
The lead actually sounds very Dicky Betts
i appreciate you showing us this song (and all the work you put in)...but it really wasn't my "cup of tea" after what was done with cream.......but hey...all done now...
just watched you lesson on "strange brew"...totally MY brew" that is......
Your amp volume is at 10 for that tone I noticed. How do you get it low enough for bedroom jam without destroying the neighbors ears ?
That princeton reverb is one of those new Tone Master Amos, they all have an attenuator built into them so it lowers the overall volume
Stephan Stills plays organ in It Don't Come Easy, maybe he got out on recordings to pay him for original idea?
Wasn’t there a band called the Rolling Tones in the sixties 😂
Yeah that’s it and I think Mick Jaguar was the singer. Lol
Back when Eric was God😅
In all seriousness tho your tone is just perfect here that Strat looks and sounds like it has some major mojo!
Clapton is a funny one for me. I'm a huge fan of his Bluesbreaker and esp Cream days but pretty much everything after is of no interest to me. His playing in Cream with a Gibson was fiery and incendary whereas to be honest I think his later work is just increasingly bland.
His playing was never better than with Derek and the Dominos. Listen to "Derek and the Dominos in concert" Live at the Filmore. Greatest live album of all time right there with The "Almann Bros" live at the Filmore. Just too good.