Wonderful Tonight Tin Whistle Sheet Music
Wonderful Tonight Tin Whistle Sheet Music And Easy To Follow piano Letter Notes. Words and music by Eric Clapton. This song has a beautiful melody and is fairly easy to play. The letter note version would also be suitable for flute and recorder. You can play this song on a D or a C whistle, just use the same fingering within the sheet music. Back to Pop Songs On Tin Whistle . Now added is the beginner violin tab.Wonderful tonight tenor guitar / mandola tab in CGDA tuning also here, with chords.
Wonderful tonight tin whistle sheet music notes for either a D or C tin whistle.
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All of the sheet music tabs have been made as easy to play as was possible.
The price of the ebooks is €7.50
Wonderful tonight easy piano keyboard notes - All the keys are white.
Wonderful tonight tenor guitar / mandola tab in CGDA tuning
Below is the standard sheet music in the key of D Major for Wonderful Tonight.
Wonderful tonight easy sheet music in G by Eric Clapton
Wonderful tonight sheet music notes for beginners in Do Re Mi
An interview with Eric Clapton
I was there in the 60s it wasn't that great it wasn't really you're telling us now yeah it was okay but it wasn't like there was actually less happening if you can believe that you know it was like the Beatles and the stones what else was there you know until like 67 and then you had San Francisco but you had to travel a long way to see a good rock and roll [music] first of all I was imitating you know to be honest with you, I was copying what I heard on record.
And trying to do it that way and as time went by um when i started to meet my heroes for instance when i met Freddie king when i met muddy waters they didn't want to hear me play like them right, so they wanted to hear me play like me and that's when i realized that i had to develop some kind of personality of my own with my music being what I am can be lonely sometimes because i feel like I'm too purist or I'm too like a part of a dying tradition you know like
A dinosaur of the blues really and uh there have been times in my past when I thought well I've got to pack this in because it's lonely you know maybe I should become more of a rock and roll musician so i can hang out with the other guys but when Robert came along i thought oh there's someone else that likes this stuff and plays it too so it made me feel more at home do you remember when you got your first guitar yeah when was that well I was about 15.
Well what i bought my first guitar that is my grandmother bought me a guitar when I was 13 and i couldn't, I mean that was just pure whim I said i wanted a guitar and she bought me one and i couldn't play it I never learned how to play it so it wasn't until I was 15 that I bought one very cheap and learned to play can you remember the first feeling of it i mean did you sort of immediately well it was very foreign it wasn't looking you know it looked so easy for
People like buddy holly and Elvis Presley the way they held the gate but you actually got one it just like it was funny and the strings hurt and I had no idea and it really was purely for love of listening to music that I started to play just you know a little bit at a time did you like the sound of it your own sound yeah because it's one instrument where you can hit one string with a plectrum just hit one string and it sounds good or maybe hit two strings and you start to invent it you know
Yourself and you think you're writing and you're learning and it is enjoyable as you're doing it not like I would imagine playing the violin you know what I mean that would sound awful when you're learning but guitar sounds good when you learn it did you ever consider another instrument yeah when i was a kid I wanted to play trumpet violin drums all of them yeah yeah so how come you chose well because the music that i was hearing that I really liked was being played on the guitar you know
And i do Buddy Holly i mean i guess the only other person that what you know I really liked was Jeremy Lewis and but piano was inconceivable I mean you can you can't just go out and buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible right what do you think is the best thing about the guitar I mean is it sort of is it the sound of it or is it the feel of it or is it what it can do i think it's so adaptable you can carry it around you can play it in your room you can amplify it and play it to thousands
Of people, you can play it with a slide you can with a bottleneck or and you can play rhythm you can play lead you can use it as accompaniment you can use it as a voice it has so many uses you know i don't think i can't think of any other instrument that is that versatile very few white musicians actually play that kind of the kind of blues that you played in the 60s there weren't many then there are a lot more now yeah
Why do you think that was did you feel that it was was it just you picking up from your idols or was it I mean was it not done um i think the problem was with most players even today is that they we were talking about this earlier on with some other friends of mine that um they look at the people that are immediately influencing them like the modern guitar players and they stop there they think that that's where it started so people that listen to me if they're listening to me now or they were
Listening to me in the 60s or 70s they think I started it they don't choose to go beyond what i do and find out what I was interested in and that's that mystifies me because that's what I did I mean i heard Buddy Holly and i heard I was Presley and I and I wanted to know what they were listening to i wanted to know where it came from so i it became my obsession and my kind of scholarship in a way like being at school to find out where it started and I would go back you know through uh
Muddy waters and uh through all the people that came from Mississippi and Chicago and uh and try and uh examine it and learn every aspect of it and I think that's what is fascinating about guitar playing and the blues and rhythm of blues and rock and roll there isn't a record made that has any soul that didn't come out of the blues you know and even people today like prince and Bobby Brown and they sing the blues i mean it's its there if you know a little bit about it
You can hear it and if it doesn't I'm not really that moved by what did it feel like when you met them was it a letdown or was it it was very scary but it's incredibly exciting but did you mind playing to them always well yeah because all I could do at first was play like them especially like people like Freddie king I'd copied him all my life and here he was on stage with me and what could i do that wasn't like him you know that was that's when it was
Really hard to come up with something of my own can you hear what kind of musicians have copied you i mean can you sort of see oh that's me he likes me or can you trace it no i can't actually because I think um i can sometimes and i and i can hear for instance people that are copying George at least you've got one one friend that sort of followed you yeah through the years i was thinking about George Harrison who wrote the song for you yeah yeah we did we did three or four songs in fact for the album and i
Selected that one because I thought it was more complimentary to the rest of the album the the other songs we did were more rock and rolly and more in fact more pop songish and uh i thought this one would be more different you know would set the album off perfectly the two of you go back a really long way a long way back to the early 60s yeah in fact i was with the yard birds when i first met George and he we were on the the Beatles Christmas show
And uh we hit it off and I love him very much he's a great guy kind of bit like an older brother you know yeah yeah it must be hard to keep up friendships in this business i mean you move a lot you work all over the place and well as time goes by i mean uh it's a bit like when you're at war you know that you know you stick together and it's like the old guys now we we do stick together because of all the competition you know and like i find i have more in common with people
That have survived the 60s and the 70s you know we've got the same sort of attitude you know and every one of us really like Elton and the stones and George and all of the guys really that much more mellow now and uh we value one another's friendship you know you've gone softer yeah yeah in some ways harder in others yeah such as you would have to ask me that i guess um just more resilient you know more resilient you can roll with the punches better
When you get a little more experienced you don't I don't tend to suffer from criticism or all from mistakes as much as i used to i used to be very insecure about reading bad reviews things like that really yeah they had a very profound effect on me earlier on and now I'm not so moved by it you know I'm more uh secure in myself i guess when so many people really easily care a lot about what you did in the past does that is that difficult for you
Do you sort of feel that they like your past better than they like your future yeah or your presence yeah and I think that's sometimes that sometimes tied in with their own lives you know like when they got married you know something like that they they kind of like they know the song that cream did the first time they took their first girlfriend out or something and so it's not real it's like their own nostalgia they're suffering from it's nothing to do with me at all what was it
That made me so great well it was that kind of the the value that we all placed on one another and because there was so little of it happening it was much more important you know the centers were New York San Francisco and London and there was probably two bands in each town that were worth going to see so I mean it was really like oh god this is exciting stuff but it's better now i think you've got so much more choice yeah I mean it must have been something it must have been
Something that you had something that you did well it was i mean for my personal point of view it was a great time in my life because i was in my early twenties and uh you know that part of your life is always exciting because you feel like the world is your oyster but uh in a realistic sense no it's a myth really i'm sorry to tell you but how do you think it would have done today if you sort of put up cream today would it sort of disappear it wouldn't stand up
It wouldn't stand up I mean there 's's you know at least 20 or maybe even 30 heavy metal bands that are far better than what the cream were in their day I mean we had we had our moments and there are you know some good things on record that we did but live a lot of it was just uh rough you know i mean we had a good time but there's today it wouldn't, it wouldn't survive it really wouldn't but did you move on from them even
Before sort of before people did it I mean did you feel that the same at the time no no I guess we thought we were the bee's knees at the time uh I think we were all egomaniacs we had to be we couldn't have made that music unless we were really very headstrong but was it nice being in that cla in a band that closed i mean that sort of little nucleus of treatment it was a little claustrophobic i don't think i could experience that again because you're living with one another we were
Doing like tours that went over six months playing seven nights a week constantly living with one another and i don't you know that's too much there's no balance in that kind of life you know it's just let's have a break you know my life is better now it's much better pain i mean i work hard but i rest as well you know i i have a close relationship with the musicians i play with but we all go home to different places and we let one another breathe we don't stay in one another's pockets and i don't think you can do that no no
But when you look back if you said it what is what do you consider that a high point in your career if you sort of i think valuable for yourself well the high points were I guess john male was you know when I was first finding my feet as a blues guitar player I was being inspired and encouraged by John and being fed and nurtured you know he really did a great job of making me value myself and bringing me out you know and then again when i i was in when we
Were forming and playing in the early days of Derek and the dominoes playing with my first American band yeah yeah that was really exciting because these guys knew what it was all about you know they weren't imitators they were real musicians from Tulsa Oklahoma that knew about everything that i liked you know so that was one of the high points and then later in the 70s before i got kind of overwhelmed by booze and drugs and everything when i had the ban
The same band but you know doing 461 and slohan and these albums and then i guess you know coming to work with Phil and and then now with Greg filling i read that you got an award the other day from Prince Charles from being 25 years in the music business yeah what was that like it was very touching yeah yeah it was that um one of the prince's trusts I think it was the last one i did and uh it was a surprise i didn't know it was going to happen
He does this thing where you line up all the musicians that are going to play that night line up he comes down and shakes your hand and he had this thing you know it was like a a beautiful solid silver guitar a little pedestal with an inscription saying congratulations for 25 years of making music from his royal highness Prince Charles it was very nice yeah it was a nice little pat on the back do you get it when you get young people who want to work with you do you find that they're all struck
By you or that they sort of that you're this guitar guard that they're very afraid of talking to everyone well a lot of it can depend on the way i behave I think I mean if i was uh if I was discourteous or if i played play acted being god i mean or whatever you know if i use my ego as a weapon you could make people feel really you know shabby or small but when I'm introduced or if I meet a young musician that I know in advance thinks I'm good you know
As I've inspired him or whatever i try and put him at ease generally it works very well but i don't you know i don't have that i have had in the past but i don't have that high opinion of myself i'm just another musician because that's the way this is the most healthy way to look at it but it can't be easy i mean everybody else is sort of putting you on pedestals and admiring you yeah i guess you've got to just throw that out the window you know just remember who you are that you're
Just a hard-working guy who has his ups and downs you know I'm not always playing to my best ability you know and i live with that is that hard do you sort of feel that you always should no it's actually harder for me to have a good opinion of myself because i mean when you're making a record for instance you're going and you do four or five takes and you use the one that's best and that's the one that people hear they don't hear the bad ones i do because I've made them and so I'm living
With that i know that you know I make five times as many mistakes as i wanted and that keeps my feet on the ground but when you hear for instance like the box set that was put up put out a year ago was it yeah that keeps my feet on the ground does it yeah do you sort of do you want to get back and change it sure i mean I'd like to have gone back and extracted all the alcohol out of my body and all the other things can you hear it oh I can hear myself listen to that and say yeah there's coke
On that one it's uh brandy on that you know i can hear the steak that I'm in really yeah yeah and it's a little embarrassing how long did that period go on for well i guess throughout the the mid of the mid seven well the beginning of the set like from 73 till about 81 i was really indulging in a lot of different stuff far beyond my own uh health could allow you know and it had to stop it's a long period yeah
Do you sort of have any physical problems from it i had um i i got ulcers at one point i think about 1980 i was in i was hospitalized in America with uh three very bad ulcers i mean i could have been if i carried on I would have killed myself for sure and i think my mental health suffered a great deal too you know from over-indulgence in booze you know you get paranoid and you get just generally very crabby yeah and a
Nasty person you know you develop a pretty nasty personality if you indulge in any of these things and people don't want to know you you lose a lot of friends how did you start well i guess through the help of friends you know to help friends and becoming you know aware before it was too late that that that I had more important things to do you know that i wanted to live and i wanted to be a creative musician I think if i hadn't been
Um granted some kind of gift as a musician I probably would have been dead by now really yeah because it's something to hold on to you know even when I was really out of itIi still knew that I was a guitar player first and foremost but now you even managed to sort of not get high then I mean you don't play the guitar and you don't take drugs yeah so what you do like now for instance you're on tour you don't have your guitar with you yeah what do you do well I don't
I guess I don't have to get high all the time so that's what
I was there in the 60s it wasn't that great it wasn't really you're telling us now yeah it was okay but it wasn't like there was actually less happening if you can believe that you know it was like the Beatles and the stones what else was there you know until like 67 and then you had San Francisco but you had to travel a long way to see a good rock and roll [music] first of all I was imitating you know to be honest with you, I was copying what I heard on record.
And trying to do it that way and as time went by um when i started to meet my heroes for instance when i met Freddie king when i met muddy waters they didn't want to hear me play like them right, so they wanted to hear me play like me and that's when i realized that i had to develop some kind of personality of my own with my music being what I am can be lonely sometimes because i feel like I'm too purist or I'm too like a part of a dying tradition you know like
A dinosaur of the blues really and uh there have been times in my past when I thought well I've got to pack this in because it's lonely you know maybe I should become more of a rock and roll musician so i can hang out with the other guys but when Robert came along i thought oh there's someone else that likes this stuff and plays it too so it made me feel more at home do you remember when you got your first guitar yeah when was that well I was about 15.
Well what i bought my first guitar that is my grandmother bought me a guitar when I was 13 and i couldn't, I mean that was just pure whim I said i wanted a guitar and she bought me one and i couldn't play it I never learned how to play it so it wasn't until I was 15 that I bought one very cheap and learned to play can you remember the first feeling of it i mean did you sort of immediately well it was very foreign it wasn't looking you know it looked so easy for
People like buddy holly and Elvis Presley the way they held the gate but you actually got one it just like it was funny and the strings hurt and I had no idea and it really was purely for love of listening to music that I started to play just you know a little bit at a time did you like the sound of it your own sound yeah because it's one instrument where you can hit one string with a plectrum just hit one string and it sounds good or maybe hit two strings and you start to invent it you know
Yourself and you think you're writing and you're learning and it is enjoyable as you're doing it not like I would imagine playing the violin you know what I mean that would sound awful when you're learning but guitar sounds good when you learn it did you ever consider another instrument yeah when i was a kid I wanted to play trumpet violin drums all of them yeah yeah so how come you chose well because the music that i was hearing that I really liked was being played on the guitar you know
And i do Buddy Holly i mean i guess the only other person that what you know I really liked was Jeremy Lewis and but piano was inconceivable I mean you can you can't just go out and buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible right what do you think is the best thing about the guitar I mean is it sort of is it the sound of it or is it the feel of it or is it what it can do i think it's so adaptable you can carry it around you can play it in your room you can amplify it and play it to thousands
Of people, you can play it with a slide you can with a bottleneck or and you can play rhythm you can play lead you can use it as accompaniment you can use it as a voice it has so many uses you know i don't think i can't think of any other instrument that is that versatile very few white musicians actually play that kind of the kind of blues that you played in the 60s there weren't many then there are a lot more now yeah
Why do you think that was did you feel that it was was it just you picking up from your idols or was it I mean was it not done um i think the problem was with most players even today is that they we were talking about this earlier on with some other friends of mine that um they look at the people that are immediately influencing them like the modern guitar players and they stop there they think that that's where it started so people that listen to me if they're listening to me now or they were
Listening to me in the 60s or 70s they think I started it they don't choose to go beyond what i do and find out what I was interested in and that's that mystifies me because that's what I did I mean i heard Buddy Holly and i heard I was Presley and I and I wanted to know what they were listening to i wanted to know where it came from so i it became my obsession and my kind of scholarship in a way like being at school to find out where it started and I would go back you know through uh
Muddy waters and uh through all the people that came from Mississippi and Chicago and uh and try and uh examine it and learn every aspect of it and I think that's what is fascinating about guitar playing and the blues and rhythm of blues and rock and roll there isn't a record made that has any soul that didn't come out of the blues you know and even people today like prince and Bobby Brown and they sing the blues i mean it's its there if you know a little bit about it
You can hear it and if it doesn't I'm not really that moved by what did it feel like when you met them was it a letdown or was it it was very scary but it's incredibly exciting but did you mind playing to them always well yeah because all I could do at first was play like them especially like people like Freddie king I'd copied him all my life and here he was on stage with me and what could i do that wasn't like him you know that was that's when it was
Really hard to come up with something of my own can you hear what kind of musicians have copied you i mean can you sort of see oh that's me he likes me or can you trace it no i can't actually because I think um i can sometimes and i and i can hear for instance people that are copying George at least you've got one one friend that sort of followed you yeah through the years i was thinking about George Harrison who wrote the song for you yeah yeah we did we did three or four songs in fact for the album and i
Selected that one because I thought it was more complimentary to the rest of the album the the other songs we did were more rock and rolly and more in fact more pop songish and uh i thought this one would be more different you know would set the album off perfectly the two of you go back a really long way a long way back to the early 60s yeah in fact i was with the yard birds when i first met George and he we were on the the Beatles Christmas show
And uh we hit it off and I love him very much he's a great guy kind of bit like an older brother you know yeah yeah it must be hard to keep up friendships in this business i mean you move a lot you work all over the place and well as time goes by i mean uh it's a bit like when you're at war you know that you know you stick together and it's like the old guys now we we do stick together because of all the competition you know and like i find i have more in common with people
That have survived the 60s and the 70s you know we've got the same sort of attitude you know and every one of us really like Elton and the stones and George and all of the guys really that much more mellow now and uh we value one another's friendship you know you've gone softer yeah yeah in some ways harder in others yeah such as you would have to ask me that i guess um just more resilient you know more resilient you can roll with the punches better
When you get a little more experienced you don't I don't tend to suffer from criticism or all from mistakes as much as i used to i used to be very insecure about reading bad reviews things like that really yeah they had a very profound effect on me earlier on and now I'm not so moved by it you know I'm more uh secure in myself i guess when so many people really easily care a lot about what you did in the past does that is that difficult for you
Do you sort of feel that they like your past better than they like your future yeah or your presence yeah and I think that's sometimes that sometimes tied in with their own lives you know like when they got married you know something like that they they kind of like they know the song that cream did the first time they took their first girlfriend out or something and so it's not real it's like their own nostalgia they're suffering from it's nothing to do with me at all what was it
That made me so great well it was that kind of the the value that we all placed on one another and because there was so little of it happening it was much more important you know the centers were New York San Francisco and London and there was probably two bands in each town that were worth going to see so I mean it was really like oh god this is exciting stuff but it's better now i think you've got so much more choice yeah I mean it must have been something it must have been
Something that you had something that you did well it was i mean for my personal point of view it was a great time in my life because i was in my early twenties and uh you know that part of your life is always exciting because you feel like the world is your oyster but uh in a realistic sense no it's a myth really i'm sorry to tell you but how do you think it would have done today if you sort of put up cream today would it sort of disappear it wouldn't stand up
It wouldn't stand up I mean there 's's you know at least 20 or maybe even 30 heavy metal bands that are far better than what the cream were in their day I mean we had we had our moments and there are you know some good things on record that we did but live a lot of it was just uh rough you know i mean we had a good time but there's today it wouldn't, it wouldn't survive it really wouldn't but did you move on from them even
Before sort of before people did it I mean did you feel that the same at the time no no I guess we thought we were the bee's knees at the time uh I think we were all egomaniacs we had to be we couldn't have made that music unless we were really very headstrong but was it nice being in that cla in a band that closed i mean that sort of little nucleus of treatment it was a little claustrophobic i don't think i could experience that again because you're living with one another we were
Doing like tours that went over six months playing seven nights a week constantly living with one another and i don't you know that's too much there's no balance in that kind of life you know it's just let's have a break you know my life is better now it's much better pain i mean i work hard but i rest as well you know i i have a close relationship with the musicians i play with but we all go home to different places and we let one another breathe we don't stay in one another's pockets and i don't think you can do that no no
But when you look back if you said it what is what do you consider that a high point in your career if you sort of i think valuable for yourself well the high points were I guess john male was you know when I was first finding my feet as a blues guitar player I was being inspired and encouraged by John and being fed and nurtured you know he really did a great job of making me value myself and bringing me out you know and then again when i i was in when we
Were forming and playing in the early days of Derek and the dominoes playing with my first American band yeah yeah that was really exciting because these guys knew what it was all about you know they weren't imitators they were real musicians from Tulsa Oklahoma that knew about everything that i liked you know so that was one of the high points and then later in the 70s before i got kind of overwhelmed by booze and drugs and everything when i had the ban
The same band but you know doing 461 and slohan and these albums and then i guess you know coming to work with Phil and and then now with Greg filling i read that you got an award the other day from Prince Charles from being 25 years in the music business yeah what was that like it was very touching yeah yeah it was that um one of the prince's trusts I think it was the last one i did and uh it was a surprise i didn't know it was going to happen
He does this thing where you line up all the musicians that are going to play that night line up he comes down and shakes your hand and he had this thing you know it was like a a beautiful solid silver guitar a little pedestal with an inscription saying congratulations for 25 years of making music from his royal highness Prince Charles it was very nice yeah it was a nice little pat on the back do you get it when you get young people who want to work with you do you find that they're all struck
By you or that they sort of that you're this guitar guard that they're very afraid of talking to everyone well a lot of it can depend on the way i behave I think I mean if i was uh if I was discourteous or if i played play acted being god i mean or whatever you know if i use my ego as a weapon you could make people feel really you know shabby or small but when I'm introduced or if I meet a young musician that I know in advance thinks I'm good you know
As I've inspired him or whatever i try and put him at ease generally it works very well but i don't you know i don't have that i have had in the past but i don't have that high opinion of myself i'm just another musician because that's the way this is the most healthy way to look at it but it can't be easy i mean everybody else is sort of putting you on pedestals and admiring you yeah i guess you've got to just throw that out the window you know just remember who you are that you're
Just a hard-working guy who has his ups and downs you know I'm not always playing to my best ability you know and i live with that is that hard do you sort of feel that you always should no it's actually harder for me to have a good opinion of myself because i mean when you're making a record for instance you're going and you do four or five takes and you use the one that's best and that's the one that people hear they don't hear the bad ones i do because I've made them and so I'm living
With that i know that you know I make five times as many mistakes as i wanted and that keeps my feet on the ground but when you hear for instance like the box set that was put up put out a year ago was it yeah that keeps my feet on the ground does it yeah do you sort of do you want to get back and change it sure i mean I'd like to have gone back and extracted all the alcohol out of my body and all the other things can you hear it oh I can hear myself listen to that and say yeah there's coke
On that one it's uh brandy on that you know i can hear the steak that I'm in really yeah yeah and it's a little embarrassing how long did that period go on for well i guess throughout the the mid of the mid seven well the beginning of the set like from 73 till about 81 i was really indulging in a lot of different stuff far beyond my own uh health could allow you know and it had to stop it's a long period yeah
Do you sort of have any physical problems from it i had um i i got ulcers at one point i think about 1980 i was in i was hospitalized in America with uh three very bad ulcers i mean i could have been if i carried on I would have killed myself for sure and i think my mental health suffered a great deal too you know from over-indulgence in booze you know you get paranoid and you get just generally very crabby yeah and a
Nasty person you know you develop a pretty nasty personality if you indulge in any of these things and people don't want to know you you lose a lot of friends how did you start well i guess through the help of friends you know to help friends and becoming you know aware before it was too late that that that I had more important things to do you know that i wanted to live and i wanted to be a creative musician I think if i hadn't been
Um granted some kind of gift as a musician I probably would have been dead by now really yeah because it's something to hold on to you know even when I was really out of itIi still knew that I was a guitar player first and foremost but now you even managed to sort of not get high then I mean you don't play the guitar and you don't take drugs yeah so what you do like now for instance you're on tour you don't have your guitar with you yeah what do you do well I don't
I guess I don't have to get high all the time so that's what
