How to Play "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benetar

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Joe Wiles with the Rock and Roll Conservatory on behalf of Expert Village. In this segment, we're going to talk about Pat Benatar's Hit Me With Your Best Shot. Let's take a look at the guitar. This one starts out with an E major chord on the the seventh fret that looks like this. Your index finger's going to be on the seventh fret of the A string. With your ring finger, you're going to pad these 3 positions on the ninth fret. Strum together. Even though we're fretting all these, we're going to mostly focus on the lower 3 and maybe incidentally hit that fourth one when we're playing. From there, it goes down to an open A chord, which is open A and then these 3, which is and open A string, and then your D, G, and B strings fretted on the second fret with one finger. Then we're going to go to a C sharp minor chord. It looks like this. Your index finger is on the fourth fret of the A string, your ring finger of the D string, pinky on the sixth fret of the G string, and your middle finger on the fifth fret of the B string. It sounds like this. Then we're going to go to a B major chord, which is your index finger on the second fret of the A string, and then your ring finger patting the fourth fret or the D, G, and B strings. There's a little run after that that incorporates all these with the power cord. The power cord that we're going to start with is your index finger on the fourth fret of the A string, your ring finger on the sixth fret of the D string, and your pinky on the sixth fret of the G string. We're going to keep that form as we run that riff at the end of those chords. You can also do that like this. In context slowly, it sounds like this. You would repeat that twice. To speed, it sounds like this. That riff is really good for moving across the neck using full bar powered chords. It's a good exercise, as well as a really cool riff. In our next segment, we're going to talk about Social Distortion's Story of My Life. I'll see you there."