How to play The Cars "Tonight She Comes" (guitar solo)

Elliot Easton è uno dei chitarristi più sottovalutati di tutti i tempi. Dotato di un approccio molto blues allo strumento, ma anche di forte inventiva nel fraseggio, in quanto mancino lo stimo ancor di più. Ecco un tentativo di dissezionare il solo di un brano del 1985 in cui dà una gran prova di quanto menzionato sopra usando anche effetti di tremolo. Forse la trascrizione non è esatta, specialmente la parte finale dove ho preferito rendere il feeling generale. In ogni modo, buona visione e buon ascolto!

P.S. Scusate gli occhiali!!!

Elliot Easton is surely one of the most underrated guitarists of all times. He has a very bluesy kind of style, and also very inventive in phrasing, and as a lefthander I appreciate him even more. Here is my attempt to examine the solo to a 1985 track which shows everything I just mentioned about his playing, including some cool tremolo effects. The transcription may not be note-for-note, especially the very last part in which I prefered to go for the general feeling of the final lick.
Anyway...enjoy!

P.S. sorry 'bout the spectacles!

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[gmansi]

What is a Floyd Rose?

Fantastic work.

:)

[celestinocamicia]

Cheers Gmansi!

I can figure out you are not too techie about guitars, anyway the Floyd Rose is a kind of tremolo bridge invented in the early '80s, whose first user was Eddie Van Halen, and which became very popular among rock guitarists from then on. Elliot's guitar most probably had a Floyd fitted, or at least in the video, he mimes on a Floyd Rose-equipped guitar.

[drumdude1000]

Unbelievable!!!!! I'm a drummer and a huge fan of the Cars. You nailed this solo note for note-and for added authenticity you're left handed like Elliot Easton! You should be in a Cars tribute band. I'll watch this video many more times I'm sure. Great job you're a very good player! Please try Touch and Go as well.

[BARTGRIGGS]

Excellent job!

[Joonhollywood]

My favorite solo by the tastiest phraser in rock guitar. Thanks for the lesson friend!

[xzzmnqzz]

Sweet! Very nice!

[rlpoloplaya67]

Awesome work! Thanks for sharing!

[snecadc10]

yeah man !!!you got it down perfect,,,thats not tooo bad bro!!!!

[stopatnothen]

right arm

[Xcorgi]

Even with the tab I could only ever play the first part but not quite nail the whammy bar part. Thanks for posting the slowed down part I can finally play the whole solo. In my opinion the best of ALL The Cars songs! (solo-wise)

[frase1234]

Gotta Mirror ?

[jnnycnote]

fucking great!!!!!!

[uberscheisse]

you did an excellent job, especially with the vibrato, almost identical to easton. I have one problem though, i think that the trill at 1:28, up around the 10th fret - should actually be a tremelo bar depression rather than a pull-off.

[abaldovinos1]

Impresionante, amigo. Suenas idéntico que el original.