Drive My Car (The Beatles) Guitar Lesson with TAB

Drive My Car Guitar Lesson + TAB
In this guitar lesson, you get the TAB for how to play all sections of Drive My Car. These parts will work on just one acoustic, or on the electric in a band!


Drive My Car | TAB


Let’s work our way through all of Drive My Car‘s sections using TAB, this will work on just one acoustic or if you are the only electric guitarist in a band.

Here’s the intro, make sure you’re counting it right, start on beat 4 +, like this:

Drive My Car TAB, intro.

Next, here’s the verse, make sure you can see all intervals in these riffs and how they spell the chord names D7#9, Gadd9, and A7#5.

Drive My Car TAB, verse.


Here’s the chorus, I didn’t call the Bm a Bm7 even though there is an A (b7) for one 16th note, it just felt like a quick bass line anticipating the beat, not a chord note.

Drive My Car TAB, chorus.

If you loop the last two bars you get the outro, here’s what that looks like if written on a loop:

Drive My Car TAB, outro.

When you can play all parts, try it along with the original recording, this one is great fun!



Drive My Car TAB | Related Pages


Drive My Car | Chords + Lyrics

Drive My Car chords lesson.

You can learn how to play Drive My Car by The Beatles using chords, lyrics, chord analysis, a chord chart, and the original recording.

| D7#9 | Gadd9 | D7#9 | Gadd9 |
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The Beatles tunes

The Beatles wrote Drive My Car.

The Beatles are the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in the history of popular music.

As the leaders of the so-called British Invasion, their catchy Rock ‘N’ Roll-infused pop songs took America by storm, creating hysteria everywhere they went.


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About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson and TAB for about Drive My Car.

This guitar lesson by Dan Lundholm featuring TAB covers Drive My Car. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.

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