Layla (MTV Unplugged) - Eric Clapton - By Jamie Harrison (Lesson in Description)

Lesson Now Available at The lesson includes videos on how to play this song, understanding this style of guitar playing, chords, lyrics, note for note instruction, detailed info on my guitar and how to get the tone Clapton gets, my overall thoughts on tone, and tonnes more. My dad first played this song to me when I was a child and it has become one of my favorite acoustic guitar performances ever. Obviously, we all know the original song, as it’s one of the most well-known guitar riffs/songs of all time without question, but this chilled out acoustic version from MTV Unplugged has it’s own vibe and soul. There are some other, ’higher viewed’ acoustic versions of the song, but in my opinion, they don’t come close to this version, and this is Eric Clapton in his prime. Although it is the ’acoustic version’ of the original song, it’s a very different piece of music, which is what I adore about songwriting. You can represent a song in so many d