Lesson Tag: wonderful tonight

Now that we’ve discovered slash chords, we return to the song, “Wonderful Tonight” by Eric Clapton. Now we can play it with the D/F# chord and get closer to the original progression of the song.

Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton for guitar is another great song in the key of G. We use this song to highlight some very important principles of playing rhythms and chord progressions: holding a steady tempo (especially for slow tempos), placing upstrokes into your rhythm pattern, and changing chord shapes while your strumming hand is still moving.