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WATER ON THE GROUND
Eric Clapton
from the album "Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies"
transcribed by Steve Garner (s_garner@hotmail.com)
This song has only 2 main picking patterns. Listen to
the album to hear when you should play each one. The
first one is played throughout the majority of the song,
and the second one comes in around the third line of each
verse, or what you could call the "chorus". Play it once,
then go back to repeating the first one.
Pattern #1:
|------------------------------------------------------|
|--------4------------4------------4------------4------|
|--------4------------4------------4------------4------|
|-----4------------4------------4------------4---------|
|------------------------------------------------------|
|β-2---------2--0---------0--2---------2--0---------0--|
Pattern #2:
|--------0--------0--0---------------------------------|
|-----0--0--------0--0-------------2-----------2-------|
|-----1--1--1-----1--1-------------3-----------3-------|
|-----2--2--------2--2----------4-----4-----4-----4----|
|--------------2---------------------------------------|
|β-0----------------------0--2-----------2-------------|
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comments, corrections: s_garner@hotmail.com
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Last Updated: February 7, 2026