This video is the first of a series of videos on the electric guitar part for the Byrds' The Girl With No Name.
One of my first videos on KZread was one of myself playing the guitar solo for The Girl With No Name on the pedal steel.
Although I planned my next video to be a pedal steel video playing along to a Dylan song, I decided it was high time that the electric guitar part for this Byrds number was looked at so it got bumped up my list.
The late great Clarence White of course played the electric guitar parts for this song written by Chris Hillman.
For this project, I went through the original recording carefully at slow speed to make sure I got Clarence’s parts as accurate as possible.
Having said that, although i have made efforts to get it accurate, I cannot guarantee anything. Refer to it at your own risk.
Some parts just couldn’t be heard clearly, over the A chord when Chris is singing and especially over the G major chord so I had to make a best guess.
Anyway, all in all, it sounds acceptable, enough to act as a rough guide for those who want to take this further.
I believe a 12 string acoustic guitar was used to play the intro riff which is repeated throughout the song.
As I did not have a 12 string acoustic handy I had to make do with a Rickenbacker 360/12 played through an acoustic simulator pedal.