Hey dawg I just wanted to let you know how thankful I am that you made this, I’ve been having issues learning this solo for years and this cleared it all up
Elliot Easton aint no joke , its easy to come close to playing his solos right, whats not easy is actually playing them exactly as he does, which is why i'm grateful for your channel. nevermind the fact i'm older than you by a few years, you're definitely my favorite uncle
this is such a great solo which combines lot's of techniques, it's frazing and it rocks! Been struggling with it ever since I first heard it but before you can actually play it, there's a lot to learn from all sorts of styles and that's just what Elliot was doing. However, you nailed a lot here, Uncle Ben. Ever so grateful!
Thanks Ben! Been struggling with this solo for longer that I care to admit. The alternate fingering for "that little bastard" lick at the end is really helpful.
Thanks Ben!! outstanding lesson. I was struggling with how best to play the last part of the solo and had come up with the alternate fingering you showed...works better for my smaller hands.
Awesome. I learned this recently but was moving to a higher position on the 2-3 strings versus your lower position on 1-2-3 strings. Doing it the way you show is much easier (and apparently CORRECT). Thanks!
Thanks! It confirms how I broke it down. That string on string country style bend in position 4 (C shape) is a beeeeeotch to play (bend and stretch) so I do just that part in position 1 up the neck where the strings are easier to bend and the structure makes more sense. It’s just a natural there i think plus I carry heavy strings most of the time. Still can’t figure precisely how he plays that note lead in starting at 3:48 but not really that important. He’s definitely striking that note (B) twice then quickly sliding up the string set in pseudo double stops (3rds) for sure. That’s clear to hear. What a great melodic solo. Always thought that since it first came out. Everyone does.
Awesome practice for some bend accuracy. This is a song I used to jam with my buddies to. Another dude was the lead player so I never learned the solo. Definitely gonna try it out though
Great! The bend demo at 7:10 is not only difficult to play at speed for most people, there's a vid of Elliot himself attempting it on his Gibson tribute guitar... and he flubbed it!
Thanks for this. I used to study his playing in clips too. Like that one where he's playing the red lp, but I still couldn't quite get the gist. I've played this for years, but this is better.
I can't afford you Ben . excellence is expensive . tell you what though .. the solo in 'Tonight She Comes' has eluded me for many years, and imo is one of the best I've heard. if you ever feel like doing another Cars lesson please consider that one .
GREAT vidja as always Uncle Ben... wow, like you, i've always played this in the wrong position. I hear EMaj, and immediately start to wank in the C#m Panasonic box in the 9th position. Easton's chord following is unmatched... that C note at the end of the first phrase (following the G#M ) always made the solo for me... recognizing you're playing over G#Maj instead of the "in key" G#m and hitting that C (instead of the B) note to really solidify the chord.... sickness.... it made my step mom moist!
Doooood... this is the best Easton solo lesson on the CARS most happenin' track. It IS 'Just What I Needed ' 😁 Thanks. REALLY! I have the LP and a couple of turntables - once, at a party - I dropped this track directly after James Brown's 'Sex Machine,' and the girls on the dance floor went wild! The immediacy of the band, and the switch of genre, the volume increase - heavy weight LP recorded well, deeply grooved HITS HARRRRRRD... People scream! The CARS have a tightness that rivals and rolls with the Godfather of Soul. Can't wait to master Easton's gem 🤞 Thank YOU sir. - Kent
Really enjoying your videos! Thanks for the Fight Fire, Blackened and Master Intro tutorials! Your humor really makes me laugh, especially love the random "meows" and liquor bottles in random shots. They aren't unnoticed. Awesome stuff man. I found myself watching you sand a guitar neck for NO reason other than you were quite funny in it. Especially the random piles of money!
Great job on a great solo, Ben. That 'redneck' part sounds like it is simulating a 'B' bender that is a mechanical feature on some Telecasters used by country artists. Marty Stuart and his lead guitarist Kenny Vaughan use it on many songs.
I'd love to know if it was intentional, but the solo to Paper Machete by QotSA has a very similar cadence and feel to this solo...even if it's quite different in terms of note choice/key. And I mean that as a huge compliment! I've found these types of solos that follow the changes with very deliberate phrasing to be in their own category. They're genuinely like little stories within the song rather than just using and abusing licks/cliches, and you can break them up into very distinct sections. A lot of Steely Dan solos have this quality (Larry Carlton's Kid Charlemagne solo being the most famous candidate).
Appreciate it. Well explained and I love the alternative lick. Sometimes I need a workaround due to my left hand Dexterity:) But I love playing those tunes I grew up on.
So as a bass player stuck indoors with this whole Covid thing, I decided to expand to guitar as well. I used this video to try to sort out that particular solo. I got pretty decent at it... so I thought I would record it. For the fourth time (in the two months it's taken me to get this right) that full step bend on the 7th fret high E string has caused me to pop the string. Even with the face mask, the guys in the music store are starting to recognize me. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some sort of way to bend strings I'm not aware of that will prolong their life? Or do I just suck?
Hey buddy. Very likely your bridge has a rough spot on it where the string crosses over the saddle. Get some really fine grit sandpaper, and give the saddle slot a few light passes. Should fix it up.
@@BenEller Thanks much! I'll give that a shot. Best part is, now I have an excuse to run to the hardware store AND the music shop this weekend. TWO places that aren't my house!
@@BenEller OK... so I was never able to get it 100% right, but can I get extra credit for playing all the instruments (and using pinched harmonics to try to make another guitar sound kind of like the keyboard?) th-cam.com/video/zfVoisYf4V8/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1 (skip to 1:48 for the solo. While not perfect, it wouldn't have even been that close without your lesson.)
AHAHAHAHAHA i wanted to learn some elliot to spice up my playing a little and by sheer coincedence lo and behold UNCLE BEN!!! lolol im like old enuff to be ur dad but youll always be uncle ben !! rock on dude your fkn amazing
Hey, Ben! I really love all these lessons, _The Final Countdown_ lesson really helped me with everything, timing and what notes to choose and when. I've been listening to some Malmsteen and I really want to learn the solo in _Making Love_, specifically bluesy part of the solo (after the neoclassical part - around 3:20), it has some really killer licks in there and I really want to add those to my vocabulary.
Uncle Ben can u make a video of how can i get clean tone from emg 81/81 pickups??? I bought a ltd v 401dx awesome guitar but the clean tone is kind of distorted i play it through peavey rage 158 and i also use zoom g1xn processor. so if u could say what to do??
yeah man, thats EMG's for you... they're SUPER high output, you'll never get a real crystal clean tone. If there is a way to coil split them that could help, and don't be afraid to roll the volume knob down on your guitar.
Uncle Ben thanks for replying me ... As u said i tried to lower my guitars volume down but it doesn't really make that much of a difference. And the split coil isn't a option here cause my pickups are active humbucker. If there is any other solution pls tell me. Or if u can show how to split coils in a active humbucker that would be good. Cause i have stopped playing licks and started to waste my time on fixing my guitar tone!!!!
lol I tried learning it on 11s and it must have taken me at least 3x as long just to build the strength to do the bends. After I remembered I just took it on as a challenge rather than just switching to a lighter gauge guitar.
5 years later and this is still the most accurate lesson for this solo.
pretty much a prefect solo. punchy, tells a story, a tad flashy, but still musical, and most importantly, follows the changes!
Hey dawg I just wanted to let you know how thankful I am that you made this, I’ve been having issues learning this solo for years and this cleared it all up
Happy to help!
Elliot Easton aint no joke , its easy to come close to playing his solos right, whats not easy is actually playing them exactly as he does, which is why i'm grateful for your channel. nevermind the fact i'm older than you by a few years, you're definitely my favorite uncle
Thanks, I've wanted to learn this solo since I first started learning lead a few years ago. Easton and the Cars were my favorite in the 80s.
great solo. Elliott Easton was very underrated as a guitarist.
Profdeguit I'm giving your comment a thumbs up, because your comment is so original and clever.
Why " was" ? 😉
I don’t think he was underrated. Who underrated him?
Not at all , he is in the Hall of Rock baby, watch their last performance there.
@@jimmy5634 it is sexy to say some hugely popular guy is underrated.
One of my fave EE leads. I saw him play live once but not with The Cars, it was with John Fogerty. Great guitarist
this is such a great solo which combines lot's of techniques, it's frazing and it rocks! Been struggling with it ever since I first heard it but before you can actually play it, there's a lot to learn from all sorts of styles and that's just what Elliot was doing. However, you nailed a lot here, Uncle Ben. Ever so grateful!
This is one of the slickest solos I've ever heard from the 70's.
THANKS BEN ! THAT WAS JUST WHAT I NEEDED !
Well done. Perfect accuracy and instruction. I am quite grateful that i will never butcher this solo again.
Thanks Ben! Been struggling with this solo for longer that I care to admit. The alternate fingering for "that little bastard" lick at the end is really helpful.
great lesson and a hell of a workout on an acoustic guitar but I am ready for band practice tonight :)
You did a great job on this lesson. So clear and precise. Thank you.
Great tutorial, very well explained. Can't wait to check out your other vids
I just played this on stage with my Dads band. I just didnt know the solo. So im going to get it down for next time.
Thanks Ben!! outstanding lesson. I was struggling with how best to play the last part of the solo and had come up with the alternate fingering you showed...works better for my smaller hands.
Awesome. I learned this recently but was moving to a higher position on the 2-3 strings versus your lower position on 1-2-3 strings. Doing it the way you show is much easier (and apparently CORRECT). Thanks!
Great job. Always loved that Rockabilly solo.
It’s so great when uncle Ben has done a vid on a solo I wanna learn
Thanks! It confirms how I broke it down. That string on string country style bend in position 4 (C shape) is a beeeeeotch to play (bend and stretch) so I do just that part in position 1 up the neck where the strings are easier to bend and the structure makes more sense. It’s just a natural there i think plus I carry heavy strings most of the time. Still can’t figure precisely how he plays that note lead in starting at 3:48 but not really that important. He’s definitely striking that note (B) twice then quickly sliding up the string set in pseudo double stops (3rds) for sure. That’s clear to hear. What a great melodic solo. Always thought that since it first came out. Everyone does.
Saw The Cars with Kansas andThin Lizzy top bill. 1978- great show!
This video is just what I needed.
Hey, thank you, Ben. Nice. And great instruction for us slower paced individuala.
Awesome practice for some bend accuracy. This is a song I used to jam with my buddies to. Another dude was the lead player so I never learned the solo. Definitely gonna try it out though
Great! The bend demo at 7:10 is not only difficult to play at speed for most people, there's a vid of Elliot himself attempting it on his Gibson tribute guitar...
and he flubbed it!
Yaay, top quality power pop.. Great practice for bend pitch accuracy. Thanks UB..
Thanks for this. I used to study his playing in clips too. Like that one where he's playing the red lp, but I still couldn't quite get the gist. I've played this for years, but this is better.
100 % accurate....
Great Work AxeBenster
You really show the importance of the bends to get that 1/2 step jump up......thanks again
Thank you for an excellent lead solo lesson on this great song… specially that “li’l bastard” part!!! Love it!!! 😢😮👍😂❤🤗
Yay!!! Elliott seemed to get snubbed a lot in the guitar realm back then. Thanks for the lesson!
I can't afford you Ben . excellence is expensive . tell you what though .. the solo in 'Tonight She Comes' has eluded me for many years, and imo is one of the best I've heard. if you ever feel like doing another Cars lesson please consider that one .
Thanks again been for making it look easy are very tricky solo, overlooked and underrated for sure.
Great teacher. Love the recap parts. Makes it easy to learn. Thank you.
Yep, that sounds exactly like it. Elliot Easton does have some awesome solo's.
GREAT vidja as always Uncle Ben... wow, like you, i've always played this in the wrong position. I hear EMaj, and immediately start to wank in the C#m Panasonic box in the 9th position. Easton's chord following is unmatched... that C note at the end of the first phrase (following the G#M ) always made the solo for me... recognizing you're playing over G#Maj instead of the "in key" G#m and hitting that C (instead of the B) note to really solidify the chord.... sickness.... it made my step mom moist!
Panasonic box! my sides lol
Just learned this! Thanks for this killer lesson, it's a beast!!!
I agree! I decided to learn this solo and saw a few lesson out there, Uncle B you got it dialed in...!!
Could you do Shake it Up???
hi Ben .Fabulous autopsy.
been playing this basterdized for 40 years but now know the most accurate way.
cheers Ben.
your video are top class .❤.😊
Love all the metal stuff Ben, but please do more like this. So many great bands out there other than metal.
Thanks Uncle Ben, "You Might Think I'm Crazy but all I want is to learn this tune".
This is sick!!! Thanks man!!
Nobody could teach me this solo until Ben! Thanks!
Thanks a lot !!! One question, what is the song introducing the video plz ? Thanks again !
kensusi.bandcamp.com/track/shake-it-up
Thanks a lot@@BenEller
Doooood... this is the best Easton solo lesson on the CARS most happenin' track. It IS 'Just What I Needed ' 😁 Thanks. REALLY! I have the LP and a couple of turntables - once, at a party - I dropped this track directly after James Brown's 'Sex Machine,' and the girls on the dance floor went wild! The immediacy of the band, and the switch of genre, the volume increase - heavy weight LP recorded well, deeply grooved HITS HARRRRRRD... People scream! The CARS have a tightness that rivals and rolls with the Godfather of Soul. Can't wait to master Easton's gem 🤞 Thank YOU sir. - Kent
Thank you Ben... you saved me hours...
Really enjoying your videos! Thanks for the Fight Fire, Blackened and Master Intro tutorials! Your humor really makes me laugh, especially love the random "meows" and liquor bottles in random shots. They aren't unnoticed. Awesome stuff man. I found myself watching you sand a guitar neck for NO reason other than you were quite funny in it. Especially the random piles of money!
Thanks, Ben. One of the easiest guitar lessons ever, that I could follow, and it explains why I always had trouble doing it right.
great lesson thanks mate!
cant beat the tone you got a while back when you covered this solo
What a beautiful guitar!
Wow, most excellent tutorial. Kudos!
Great job on a great solo, Ben. That 'redneck' part sounds like it is simulating a 'B' bender that is a mechanical feature on some Telecasters used by country artists. Marty Stuart and his lead guitarist Kenny Vaughan use it on many songs.
Tough one for me to get on my own . The fat string pedal steel lick cheat is nice thanks
Oh darn what a nice solo :D I gotta check this group out
I'd love to know if it was intentional, but the solo to Paper Machete by QotSA has a very similar cadence and feel to this solo...even if it's quite different in terms of note choice/key. And I mean that as a huge compliment!
I've found these types of solos that follow the changes with very deliberate phrasing to be in their own category. They're genuinely like little stories within the song rather than just using and abusing licks/cliches, and you can break them up into very distinct sections.
A lot of Steely Dan solos have this quality (Larry Carlton's Kid Charlemagne solo being the most famous candidate).
"That little bastard" had me belly laughing uncontrollably. Great video, well done.
definitely a fun sounding solo!
one of the first guitar solos I noticed and wanted to play it on guitar...
That and 'In the Mood' by RUSH...then I heard 'Mr. Crowley'...
Thanks so much....very well presented and easy for an old guy like me to understand!
Dude I don't know if this one or the Peg one are my favorites but this is FANTABULOUS 🎉
Great lesson!! You were right about doing this solo previously in the 9th position! Great job!
That guitar sounds really good. I know Uncle Ben had lots of practice but his axe helps too. It's a tele on steriods.
Awesome. Thanks 😊Uncle.
You nailed this. Thanks for posting this, always wanted to learn this sucker!
Great instruction, very well done! That was a big help and thanks a lot.
Definitely my favorite guitar channel on you tube.
Your awesome Ben. Thank you
You saved my cold Canadian ass with this one!! Thanks Uncle Ben.
Super clear. Many thanks.
Your tutorials are so easy to follow and understand. 2 thumbs up, as well 2 big toes up.
Thanks Ben....nice breakdown. I am using 10’s I prefer the alternate method as well.....
Lots of views trying to learn this one. Great lesson. Thanks.
Finally, an exact copy of how it is actually played
Excellent work on this lesson.. I been wanting to learn this perfectly since before the youtube blewup..
All I can say is Thank you Ben for that bendy lesson, Elliott Easton a very tasty player.
I could never play that lick clean, but it is much easier in 9th pos. Thx Uncs.
Thanks alot Uncle Ben haha you rock !!!
Just what I needed . Thanks 👍🏼
Naisu! This video is just what I needed!
Who does the 'Shake It Up' cover during the intro?
Ben, do you think you could revisit the solo and make a guess what Easton was thinking as he put the solo together?
Thumbs Up, Uncle Ben.
Appreciate it. Well explained and I love the alternative lick. Sometimes I need a workaround due to my left hand Dexterity:) But I love playing those tunes I grew up on.
you got it Ben, nice work.
anyone know who does the cover of shake it up that he's playing in the background of the video?
Hahaha dude that is my buddy Ken Susi from the band Unearth!!! He’s got a page with tons of amazing and hilarious covers, seek it out!
@@BenEller Thank you!
I searched, literally nothing comes up, can you provide a link?
@@kenm2709 kensusi.bandcamp.com
Great job! Any idea where to find the tabs?? Not so lucky with using instagram lol
Great lesson!
Great tutorial , thanks! 🙏🏻
So as a bass player stuck indoors with this whole Covid thing, I decided to expand to guitar as well. I used this video to try to sort out that particular solo. I got pretty decent at it... so I thought I would record it. For the fourth time (in the two months it's taken me to get this right) that full step bend on the 7th fret high E string has caused me to pop the string. Even with the face mask, the guys in the music store are starting to recognize me. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some sort of way to bend strings I'm not aware of that will prolong their life? Or do I just suck?
Hey buddy. Very likely your bridge has a rough spot on it where the string crosses over the saddle. Get some really fine grit sandpaper, and give the saddle slot a few light passes. Should fix it up.
@@BenEller Thanks much! I'll give that a shot. Best part is, now I have an excuse to run to the hardware store AND the music shop this weekend. TWO places that aren't my house!
@@BenEller OK... so I was never able to get it 100% right, but can I get extra credit for playing all the instruments (and using pinched harmonics to try to make another guitar sound kind of like the keyboard?) th-cam.com/video/zfVoisYf4V8/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1 (skip to 1:48 for the solo. While not perfect, it wouldn't have even been that close without your lesson.)
Thank you so much, I really needed this, I heard the solo on songsterr and it was just off, thanks a lot!
AHAHAHAHAHA i wanted to learn some elliot to spice up my playing a little and by sheer coincedence lo and behold UNCLE BEN!!! lolol im like old enuff to be ur dad but youll always be uncle ben !! rock on dude your fkn amazing
Great song, great solo, great lesson thanks!!! Don't see it anywhere in the comments tho. "The shocker" roflamo 😂😂😂 no one caught that?
The Shocker, lol!!! Thanks for the laugh!
The shocker is now an official guitar technique!
I fucking love this song.
Thanks a lot. Great tutorial!
Great tutorial. Is that a Fret King semi tone?
Hey, Ben!
I really love all these lessons, _The Final Countdown_ lesson really helped me with everything, timing and what notes to choose and when. I've been listening to some Malmsteen and I really want to learn the solo in _Making Love_, specifically bluesy part of the solo (after the neoclassical part - around 3:20), it has some really killer licks in there and I really want to add those to my vocabulary.
Uncle Ben can u make a video of how can i get clean tone from emg 81/81 pickups??? I bought a ltd v 401dx awesome guitar but the clean tone is kind of distorted i play it through peavey rage 158 and i also use zoom g1xn processor. so if u could say what to do??
yeah man, thats EMG's for you... they're SUPER high output, you'll never get a real crystal clean tone. If there is a way to coil split them that could help, and don't be afraid to roll the volume knob down on your guitar.
Uncle Ben thanks for replying me ... As u said i tried to lower my guitars volume down but it doesn't really make that much of a difference. And the split coil isn't a option here cause my pickups are active humbucker. If there is any other solution pls tell me. Or if u can show how to split coils in a active humbucker that would be good. Cause i have stopped playing licks and started to waste my time on fixing my guitar tone!!!!
Appreciate the demo! What strings are you using here? Trying to determine if I need to go lighter… or if I just have weak fingers
lol I tried learning it on 11s and it must have taken me at least 3x as long just to build the strength to do the bends. After I remembered I just took it on as a challenge rather than just switching to a lighter gauge guitar.