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Lockdown Lick 46

Lockdown Lick

Lockdown Licks no. 46

“My Sharona” by The Knack signature/verse riff, pre-chorus riff, and power chord progression, played on a Fender Stratocaster with the neck/back pickup position selected, volume on 8. NUX amp on ‘superlead’ with gain set to 5, mid and bass at 5, treble 7. Doug Forget/Berton Averre were the Knack guitarists. A Telecaster(I’m expecting one in a DPD delivery πŸ™‚), would have been preferred to play it it on, it was so much fun to play, I may play it again with my Tele when it arrives! 🀟

“My Sharona” is the debut single by the Knack. The song was written by Berton Averre and Doug Fieger, and released in 1979 from their album Get the Knack. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart where it remained for 6 weeks and was number one on Billboard’s 1979 Top Pop Singles year-end chart.