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Layla

From MTV Unplugged - Digital Sheet Music

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Scoring:	Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Instruments:	Voice, range: C4-C#5 Piano Guitar
Range:	Voice:
Pro Credit Eligible:	Yes
Interactive:	Yes
Pages:	5
Product #:	MN0043231
Lyrics:	Contains complete lyrics

From the All Media Guide: By the time Eric Clapton launched his solo career with the release of his self-titled debut album in mid-1970, he was long established as one of the world's major rock stars due to his group affiliations — the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Blind Faith — affiliations that had demonstrated his claim to being the best rock guitarist of his generation. That it took Clapton so long to go out on his own, however, was evidence of a degree of reticence unusual for one of his stature. And his debut album, though it spawned the Top 40 hit "After Midnight," was typical of his self-effacing approach: it was, in effect, an album by the group he had lately been featured in, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Not surprisingly, before his solo debut had even been released, Clapton had retreated from his solo stance, assembling from the D&B&F ranks the personnel for a group, Derek and the Dominos, with which he played for most of 1970. Clapton was largely inactive in 1971 and 1972, due to heroin addiction, but he performed a comeback concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on January 13, 1973, resulting in the album Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert (September 1973). But Clapton did not launch a sustained solo career until July 1974, when he released 461 Ocean Boulevard, which topped the charts and spawned the number one single "I Shot the Sheriff."

Contains complete lyrics

Title:	Layla
From:	MTV Unplugged
Instruments:	Voice, range: C4-C#5 Piano Guitar
Scorings:	Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Original Published Key:	D Minor
Product Type:		Musicnotes
Product #:	MN0043231
Price:	$5.99 Includes 1 print + interactive copy with lifetime access in our free apps. Each additional print is $4.99
Number of Pages:	5
Average Rating:	Rated 3.5/5 based on 142 customer ratings
Top Review:	"This is a piano arrangement of Claptons MTV Unplugged acoustic version of Layla. For a ..." continued \| Read reviews
Lyrics Begin:	What will you do when you get lonely?

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From:	MTV Unplugged
Additional Performer:	Eric Clapton
Number of Pages:	5
Form:	Song
Instruments:	Voice, range: C4-C#5 Piano Guitar
Scoring:	Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Original Published Key:	D Minor
Product Type:		Musicnotes
Product #:	MN0043231
Tempo:	Easy Swing
Metronome:	q = 100
Genres:	British Blues R&B Adult Contemporary Pop Rock

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Composers:	Jim Gordon Eric Clapton
Lyricists:	Jim Gordon Eric Clapton
Date:	1970
Publisher:	Hal Leonard Music Publishing
Product Type:		Musicnotes
Product #:	MN0043231
Lyrics Begin:	What will you do when you get lonely?
From the Show:	MTV Unplugged
From the Albums:	Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies Unplugged
From the Books:	Ultimate Showstoppers: Blues VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll

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From the Books:	Ultimate Showstoppers: Blues VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll

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This is a piano arrangement of Claptons MTV Unplugged acoustic version of Layla. For a piano interpretation of Claptons skilled acoustic guitar playing this arrangement is very good!

I_Am

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If this is supposed to be the acoustic version, there needs to be a swing rythm with little piano fills and alot of attitude. If this is supposed to be the electric version, where is the end part? This is a good skeleton of the song. There is alot more to it in parts, but if you enjoy figuring out the solos and fills, it is a good guide line, that has served me well.

Danbert52

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This arrangement ends with the lyrics and is missing the instrumental (primarily piano) coda that forms the song's famous second movement.

James_Lipsey

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