Cant Find My Way Home

original by: mike@honet7.att.com

From: "Douglas French (ECE 535)" <dfrench@site.gmu.edu>

CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME By Steve Winwood From Blind Faith

The original recording uses a second overdubbed guitar track to fill

in various rhythms and riffs thus making playing CFMWH solo a

daunting but not impossible task.

The basic picking pattern below forms the foundation for everything

else. Get the basic picking pattern down cold then add in whatever

flourishes and riffs that you can squeeze in.

Play with a pronounced syncopation in the rhythm. Emphasize the

first bass note in each measure, picking the second bass note of

each measure lightly, if at all.

h = hammer on, p = pull off

Basic picking pattern:

2/4

1 : . : . 2 : . : .

E---------------------------|---------------------------|

D---3--------------3--------|------------------3--------|

G---0--------0-----------0--|------------0-----------0--|

B---------0-----------0-----|---------0-----------0-----|

A---3-----------3-----------|---2-----------2-----------|

E---------------------------|---------------------------|

3 : . : . 4 : . : .

E---------------------------|---------------------------|

B------------------3--------|------------3-----3-----3--|

G------------0-----------0--|---------2-----------2-----|

D---------0-----------0-----|---0-----------0-----------|

A---1-----------1-----------|---------------------------|

E---------------------------|---------------------------|

5 : . : . 6 : . : .

E---------------------------|---------------------------|

D------------------1--------|------------------3--------|

G------------2-----------2--|------------4-----------4--|

B---------3-----------3-----|---------5-----------5-----|

A---------------------------|---------------------------|

E---1-----------1-----------|---3-----------3-----------|

7 : . : . 8 : . : .

E---------------------------|---------------------------|

B------------3--------------|------------3-----3--------|

G---------2-----------0-----|------------2-----2--------|

D---0-----------------------|---0-----------0-----------|

A------------------------3--|---------------------0--2--|

E---------------------------|---------------------------|

Use the same syncopation throughout.

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D7sus G

Come down off your throne

And leave your body alone

Somebody must change

You are the reason

I've been waiting so long

Somebody holds the key

Well I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time

And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home

Come down own your own

And leave your money at home <- lyrics on album jacket but...

..."And leave your body alone"

is sung on the album.

Somebody must change

You are the reason

I've been waiting all these years

Somebody holds the Key

I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time

Oh and I'm wasted and I can't find my way home

Repeat the following using the chords from the first verse,

ending on a D major:

But I can't find my way home

But I can't find my way home

But I can't find my way home

But I can't find my way home

Still I can't find my way home

And I aint done nothing wrong

But I can't find my way home

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Notes on chords:

The opening chord is a D7sus missing the fifth. This resolves naturally

into the following G chord.

The chord in the third measure is an inversion of a Gm with the flatted

third in the bass.

The two suspended chords in the chorus are very important as they lead

the progression into the chords that follow.

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