Earlier we looked at Chuck Berry's augmented chord introductions. Now we're going to take a look at two or three examples of how we use chords to kick off some other songs. One of my favorite is tune Go go go, which is kind of a Silly Song. lyric wise but the guitar playing is fantastic. And the whole song starts off with this chord lick like this. Really neat.

So what he's doing one finger going between the 16th and 17th fret. Then he's gonna come here to an F seven That kind of choppy. Sounds like downstroke something like that. So the whole Intro This is for the song Come on that time I did it with downstrokes upstrokes. Maybe that's how he does it. So that's that's fairly fairly simple but really, really neat.

He has another song a slow song called together will always be where he does what I think is a really neat introduction. And it's kind of slow and let me play it for you one time. Really neat stuff. what he's doing is starting off with the first position see barre chord if you listen to the recording, I don't know if this was intentional or if he just kind of aimlessly started off this But he has that barre chord shape. And then he's gonna get the sixth string, that string, sixth string and then the C chord twice and then go to the app second position barre chord app. So we got this.

Let's it hang on, he's gonna do the same thing. Now over the four, which is the app. So we're gonna play the app with a B flat second position bar chord, so it's like this. If you listen carefully, I hear a little bit of a slide back to the seat. For the five, he's just gonna get the bass part of the G chord. That he's gonna do this where he's got it sliding into an augmented which is a excellent Oh, that B, C augmented.

So I'm sliding the way I played as I started on the with two fingers, and my finger on the third fret of the third string. I'm starting the leg by picking that and sliding it up to the fourth fret. And then with an upstroke, I'm getting the third fret of the first string. Then right away, I'm gonna put the second finger on the fourth fret of the second string and pick that and then my pinky is gonna go to the fifth fret of the fourth string. So the whole thing kind of strums that chord, a little bit of picking up a little bit of strumming. If you listen very carefully, it's very faint.

And the original recording you got to listen, to turn it up really loud to hear that so let's do that one. One more time. This is the introduction for together will always be So very simple but really cool You don't have to be fancy to have a neat introduction to kick off the song. That's one of the reasons I'm showing you all these is to show you how you can take all the basic Chuck Berry building blocks that we've learned so far and combine them in almost an infinite number of ways to produce intros and tags, Phil licks, solos, anything you want to do create instrumentals based on these all sorts of possibilities.