Key to the Highway by Eric Clapton Lesson

Song Lessons Grade 5 Songs
1

Learn to play Key to the Highway by Eric Clapton on JustinGuitar!


View the full lesson at Key to the Highway by Eric Clapton | JustinGuitar

1 Like
2

Hi All,
I must be very mistaken if this is not a new lesson for the blim group next month :grin: I’ll start it now just to be sure… a wonderful blues standard in any case :sunglasses:

And a great lesson for me/us who haven’t mastered bending yet and want to learn melody/lead

Greetings,Rogier

1 Like
3

Does anyone know what gauge strings Justin is using on his acoustic for the Key to The Highway lesson? I was thinking about what is a good compromise to allow bending.

4

Don’t know what Justin is using, but I would suggest 10s, more or less the lightest possible. When I was learning the lead intro to Wish You Were Here, which has a tough bend on the G string, I put “Ernie Ball Earthwood Rock and Blues” strings on my guitar. That set has an unwound G string, making it lower gauge than a wound G string and hence much easier to bend.

It sounds a little different, to be honest, but I got used to the change and have used those strings ever since.

5

Thanks! Dropping down to custom Light 11s from 12s first then will try 10s if needed.

6

If your technique is correct, a tone bend on 12s is certainly possible. Hard but possible, keep the strings and work on technique, it will pay dividends in the log run and save you some cash buying thinner strings you don’t really need.

All my acoustics (4) wear 12s and all allow a tone bend if you work it. The easiest is my PRS Parlour due to scale length and my go to for the KTTH melody. But doable on Fender, Takamine and ancient Encore.

Work it, don’t change it.

My 2 cents, ymmv for sure.

:sunglasses:

1 Like
7

A question on the tab of the solo melody: it seems to me that Justin is playing and teaching something different from the on-screen tab. In bar 30, it seems that this note is not played:

image
image1720Ă—414 69 KB

and I think it should just be removed.

To my ear the timing for bar 30 should be: a quarter-note rest, followed by a triplet (string 3, fret 9, fret 11, string 2 fret 10), then the tab is correct from beat 3 (the bend on string 2, fret 12).

Can anybody more expert than me confirm? Thanks.