Can't Find My Way Home

This unforgettable tune by Stevie Winwood was covered by many including by himself and Eric Clapton on various stages in various versions through five decades now.

My favorite version remains the original Blind Faith acoustic studio version recorded in 1969. Of course it is a studio version that no one would think of playing again note for note on a stage today
but … just for the pleasure I tabbed it and tried to play it.

I personnally used a MIDI drums simulation ( from Guitar Pro 8) as a metronome which is essential to get the right rhythm.

So in the 1969 original version there were two acoustic guitars and a bass.

The first guitar will be the one we can call the rhythm guitar : it is tuned in dropped D.

It mainly follows the well-known bass line C B Bb A F G D and is played strumming with a pick.

The second guitar I call the solo guitar for simplicity and it stays in standard tuning . I prefer to play it with the fingers (with the flesh of your fingers as Ry Cooder would emphasize) to reproduce the mellow feel of the original tune. You can listen to/download the mp3 I registered with two guitars, an electric bass, MIDI bongos and congas and Stevie Winwood's voice above all ! The guitars are :

rhythm : an Epihone Masterbilt AJM500
solo : a Martin D-28
bass : Fender Mexican P-Bass

Click on the LP to listen

The real and only difficulty is to keep synchronized, in other words to stick to the rhythm . In the Youtube video I give two samples of the drum rhythm without and with the bass.

The tune is divided into 8 parts:

intro
first verse
first chorus
first bridge
second verse
second chorus
second bridge
a long outro

The solo guitar, the one in standard tuning, is heard at first in the intro. It is played there with a picking pattern ( there are two pure picking parts in the tune with this guitar : the intro and the full second chorus). In the intro the rhythm guitar progressively fades in behind the solo guitar.