J.J. Cale's Cocaine - Guitar, Harmonica, Performance

J.J. Cale wrote it and Eric Clapton made it famous. Here's three videos and downloadable help file to help you sound great.

Cocaine - Rhythm Guitar

This first video demonstrates the chords and rhythm on acoustic guitar. Grab the Help File above and follow along.

Cocaine - Harmonica

This second video provides ideas for coming up with solos and fills on harmonica for songs that don't have any harmonica.
Chord tones, scales, melodies, Blues scale all offer inspiration for solos.

Cocaine - Guitar and Harmonica Performance

Let's jam this one together.

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Cocaine - Lesson Info

Lesson Info

Difficulty: The guitar chords are straight forward but the rhythm can cause trouble. As for the harmonica, 2nd position blues playing is in order. Bending sounds great here.

Lesson Length: 3 videos; 16+ minutes

Instructor: George Goodman

Help File

The following link supplies the chords, lyrics and the harmonica tabs for Cocaine. Cocaine Chords, Lyrics and Tabs download pdf link - for educational purposes only.

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2 responses to “J.J. Cale – Cocaine”

Paul D'hooge says:

January 31, 2018 at 8:01 pm

Hi George!
Great stuff! Good work. Saw your add for the Sonny Boy Williamson song but cannot find it. I am supposed to have a life-time log in…. What to do?
Keep up the good work and thank you for contributions to the harmonica community!
Paul (Flanders, Belgium)
George says:

January 31, 2018 at 8:08 pm

http://harpnguitar.com/course-list/song-lessons/sonny-boy-williamson-bring-it-on-home/

Peace.
George

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