My Best Friend's Girl - The Cars | Guitar Lesson

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Learn how to play My Best Friend's Girl, as performed by The Cars released on their debut album in 1978. Great song written by Ric Ocasek (pronounced "O-Kah-seck" by the way :-) ), and fantastic guitar arrangement betwen him and lead guitarist Elliot Easton.

The lesson covers Ric's rhythm parts as well as all of Elliot's rhythm and leads on this song. Great variety of tones on this super fun song. Fun-fact - this song was not recorded in F but ended up that way on the record.

00:00 Introduction and what to expect from this lesson
01:19 What key is this song?
02:26 Ric Ocasek's rhythm guitar approach
03:00 Lesson - Ric Ocasek's rhythm parts
05:34 Elliot Easton's overdrive rhythm tone
06:23 Lesson - Elliot's overdrive rhythm part
08:20 Getting Elliot's clean rockabilly tone
11:08 Lesson - Rockabilly turnaround #1
12:18 Lesson - Rockabilly turnaround #2
13:54 Lesson - Elliot's rockabilly rhythm part
14:59 Lesson - Elliot's guitar solo parts
21:32 Slow demo of guitar solo
22:25 Final thoughts

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