Drive My Car (The Beatles) Guitar Lesson with Backing Tracks + TAB

Drive My Car Guitar Lesson + TAB
In this Guitar Lesson, we work through each section of Drive My Car with TAB examples that translate beautifully to solo acoustic or electric guitar parts for a band - Try it with Backing Tracks!


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’re 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 the 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’s 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 written on a loop:

Drive My Car TAB, outro.

When you can play all parts, try it along with the Backing Tracks—this one is great fun!


Drive My Car Backing Tracks + 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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