The Cars- My Best Friend's Girl Guitar Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
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The Cars "My Best Friend's Girl" guitar lesson. The next Riff of the Day uses the Catalinbread SFT overdrive for classic Ampeg tones and a Way Huge Aqua Puss to produce a slapback echo. Although "My Best Friend's Girl" is played in E, the record version appears to be in F because the tape was run faster during production. Playing along to any live version from The Cars shows you don't need to adjust your guitar. Guitarist Elliot Easton shows his rockabilly chops with this popular tune, using alternate chord positions to add variety and color to a relatively simple chord progression (E,A,B). Enjoy your Riff of the Day guitar lesson!
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Andy is simply an amazing guitarist
Thanks for explaining the discrepancy... Why it's in F on the recording but when you see Easton playing it live he's clearly in E.
E.A.B. Correct?
I love the Telecaster. It has such crunch.
Absolutely one of my favorite tele tones
Brings back memories! Love the slapback. Page also used it quite a bit.
2:50 2:49 3:16 3:32 3:49 4:25 4:55 Excellent! No wonder why I was already subbed. I'm in an Elliot appreciation mode lately. The guy is just phenomenal! (Elliot owns "phenomenal" as musician)
great guitar player--love his style
Nice job. Tone is spot on.
Thank you John!
Bismarck sink
Yessir, nice job doing it in the right tuning and key. So many places have it tabbed out in F which makes it so much harder to play imo.
Not only spot on, but also using the telecaster, which the original song was played and recorded. A lot of guys miss that. Sure you can still pull it off using a Les Paul or whatever.... but that "twang" in the solo.. that's hard to beat. Thanks for the great video. I have never met Ric in person.. but I did meet Ben.. really nice guy (R.I.P.).
Always love the cars!
WOW! That was a REALLY good lesson! Just like he said in the video, they play the song in the key of E when playing it live. Watch some of the videos, and you'll see it. But, the recording on the album is in F.
+J PumpkinKing They always play it in E live; the original recording was sped up, and is about 98 cents sharp of concert pitch, so it is *almost* F-major but not quite.
Note: This is in Emaj, not Fmaj as in the recording. They play it in standard tuning for live performances
This is the best tutorial of this song out there. And that Telecaster is da bomb!
I don't have a fucking word for that intro!!!! Dude!!!!!
Thanks for posting the lesson. The tone is great as your playing is.
Outstanding thanks for sharing
Thanks, I was trying to sort out why the recording was
F, and whether all of the live performance were standard tuning and in E,
this clears it up for me...
i learned this song in a different key The Cars Start out the riff in F . Even so Andy is THE BEST guitat teacher tutorial on the WEB!!! Hands down
Ahhh should have watched the whole video B 4 commenting!! See I told ya Andy was the BEST lmao!!!
great stuff thanks really gets the crowd going and smiles lol
My best friend's girl and I loved the demo. U rock dude!
U da man Andy, luv yer riffs of the day!!!
Some nice little tricks in there!! Thank you.
Now that was mighty helpful. Thanks.
Wow ! thanx man hav always loved this jam !
the cars! yesssssssssssssss!
thank you andy!
pure majick baby, yeah!
Andy is great--thanks for sharing dude! you know your guitar man!
Very cool, great lesson and tone. Read somewhere that he probably recorded this on a blues junior.
The country style pickin run was easier to get up to speed using hybrid picking. Much fun jamming to this. Now to find the solo lesson.
So many tabs of this tune show it played one fret up, but if you watch The Cars play and listen to the guitar they play it the same way as Andy (sorry for being so familiar) When are you going to add the solo bit, please?
Great tone 💯👍
This is a great lesson. I'd like to learn Bye Bye Love. Will you do a lesson on it?
Andy is the man.
That was a classy sound Andy...and thanks for picking a cars tune absolutely love them, Great lesson too! Gosh I miss my old Ampeg stack:(... Needed a car more back then too bad I guess. They would be about 35 years old by now lol Sweet I hope they're still turning heads! & getting the chickies ha.
Nice lesson n nice guitar
so much in this ‘ordinary’ pop song
You are the only one I see playing this right (except I think he bars that E6 on the 4th fret). I wish you would make a video on the solo.
good lesson ... I`ve been playing it wrong for ages !! eeeek!
Sweet WTG Andy. How did you learn about the speedup in the studio engineering?
love the way you teach. Best on youtube.
amazing
That was a beast of a play buddy!!! I got a request for a lesson, you think you can pull off Since you're gone by The Cars? I've been looking for that lesson for the longest and can't find anyone that can sound the same so how about it? Can you pull it off? Congrats for the lesson!
Fun stuff.
Awesome Andy. I noticed again you played it with thumb and fingers and the tutorial part was done with a pick? Is that for definition due to the slow rhythm?
Great song and great lesson video! Thanks! Earvana nut on the tele?
Was Elliot a.fucking genius of what !!!! 😀👍🎸💕💕💕
cool!
You're a great player and a fine teacher buddy, these old 70's rock riffs were musically inspired, maybe the kids listening will take that on and not the rubbish that came after that nigh on killed the guitar.
the guitar is on life support and that saddens me as a 22 year old player
Is the Aqua Puss places BEFORE or after the SFT in the signal chain? I keep waffling on whether I like mine better before or after dirt.
This lesson is as good as Reverb, slam
I wish I could play like that :)
I want to see only Ocasek rhytm guitar
can anyone help me with this! does this kind of more orangey maple fretboard has a special name to it rather than all these more whitish ones?
I believe it's just the finish on it. But, I don't know what it would be called.
where does andy buy his super sick invisible picks??
What are the settings of the sft and the aqua-puss?
at 3:41 what is the chord? It says E but can't figure it out.
G#m(#5) 5th fret b string 4th fret g string and 6th fret d string
for future reference try here www.jamplay.com/tools/guitar-chord-finder
awesome thanks!! will do!
@ZoSo221 its an alternative place to play the same chord with a slightly different voicing i think ...
I've seen Elliot Easton do this live, but I'm still curious as to why he switches to the 4th position instead of staying in the open position. All the same notes are right under his hand there. But then again, I'm not Elliot Easton!
Well there are some nice, rhythmic ghost notes that happen when you switch positions like that. So there's that.
It’s about changing up the voicing and getting that nice open plus fretted e on the e and b strings at the 5th fret. I’ve watched live versions and it confused the hell out of me for ages but then it dawned on me what was going on.
That's my comment,,,, down below,,, 😀👍😂😂😂😂
Very obscure riff, but cool to watch and open up my horizons musically.
hey man, the cars were like really famous in a short period of the 80s, they are not so obscure :D
Renan Bezerra I agree...I was there in the 80's! However based on some of the more intricate riffs shown here, this is obscure. (IMO)
No pick! ("He always uses a pick!" - not)
Watch all the way to the end. He's using a pick.
***** But not in the initial playing demonstration. He likely has to use a pick to play it slowly. He is 100% not suing a pick at the beginning because you can see him unpinch his grip several times.
Didn't touch the solo because it is untouchable.
LESSON ? THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TEACHER AND A GOOD GUITAR PLAYERS IS A TEACHER ASSUMES YOU KNOW NOTHING AND TAKES NOTHING FOR GRANTED. YOU ASSUME WE KNOW EVERYTHING EVERYTHING AND TAKE EVERYTHING FOR GRANTED.
TRICK-OR TREAT , huh? This is not for beginners. A certain level of knowledge and experience is assumed
not much of a lesson
Its a great lesson.
Yeah he doesn't even explain he just plays it slow , this isn't a good way to teach
Maybe this song or his lessons aren't exactly for beginners.
Mike Price Your arse
It's a great lesson for advanced players. We don't need hand holding!
Great tutorial 😂 Next time don't just play it explain it 🤪👈🤣
This lesson kinda sucks, just you playing it slow
this is a terrivle tutorial all yo ucare about is seling shit.
It sucks that this is theo nly accurate one I can find Dx
I mean sure they're trying to sell stuff so what. In reality, it makes sense for them to show you pedals and other things to help you achieve the sound you hear in your favorite songs