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TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
YOU GOT LUCKY

Guitar 1: Electric 1 (Tremolo and Mutes)
Guitar 1: Electric 2 (Clean)
Guitar 1: Electric 1 (Slightly Distorted)
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About the Track

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were among the few established American rock bands to fully embrace the emerging world of music videos—and MTV rewarded them with heavy rotation. The video for "You Got Lucky" was especially groundbreaking: the song doesn’t begin until more than a minute into the clip. Inspired by the Mad Max films, the video is set in a barren, futuristic wasteland where Petty stumbles upon an old boom box that begins playing the track. The band came up with the concept themselves, and it was brought to life by director Jim Lenahan.

Performance Notes

“You Got Lucky was built around a drum loop,” Campbell said. “I had created one in my home studio and layered the music on top of it. When we went into the studio, we decided to recreate the loop manually. Our drummer played a part, and we literally cut the tape and spliced it into a loop. We ran it around the room using mic stands and fed it through the tape heads. We printed that loop for three or four minutes, and then recorded the song over it.”

Petty added the lyrics and came up with the idea for the guitar solo. He suggested they do sort of a surf guitar with a tremolo arm, like in the Clint Eastwood movie The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

About the Lyrics

In this song, Tom Petty does some posturing, telling a girl that she got lucky when he found her, and warning her that she can do no better. All that posturing is wrapped in a chorus with a simple message: "Good love is hard to find."

Chart Info

This song became yet another Tom Petty tune to crack the Top 20 in America, landing right on the 20th position.
Patrick Jones - Course author
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR

STAYCE ROBERTS

Electric, Acoustic and 12-String Guitars
With over 40 years of dedication to the instrument, Stayce has taken his love of songwriting, guitar playing and producing that allows him to bring a fresh, professional style to his Online Instructional Videos, making him a top tier instructor in song and lesson tutorials.