This next part of the lesson series, we're gonna spend about 10 lessons just looking at some really cool Chuck Berry ideas, some miscellaneous Chuck Berry licks and ideas and things that are that are part of his music. Let's start out with lesson 33. And I'm just going to show you a couple more licks that he used out of the first position blues box or related to the first position blues box that we didn't talk about in the earlier lessons, mostly because he doesn't play these as often as he does the others. The first one I'm going to show you is from Maybelline and I call this a D. Bass double stop a D shaped double stop. So Maybelline is in B flat. And this chord, I take a D chord and I move it to the 10th and 11th fret.

That's a B flat I'm going to show you it's just a double star. And I make that by taking my first finger out of out of the picture and leaving the third string and just playing the first and second string. So Chuck Berry in the solo for the second solo and play something like this. And then he goes into that. So that little leg is right there on those two strings. So the way you find that, here's my first position barre chord.

There's my D shape, which is or my D shaped B flat chord and then just take those two strengths. So B flat, it's going to be on the 10th and 11th fret, so the first and second string. Another way that Chuck Berry uses that same letter is in some of the songs and C and B flat and he'll do something like this. He combines the eight Position bands, remember this that we talked about, and combine that with the D shape. So in C, we're going to use a song like I'm talking about you, and in the solo he's playing in C. So his D shape is over the 12th and 13th. We'll do something like this.

We'll go from the a band which is over the second position barre chord. C chord. And that is a technique Chuck used in route 66. He used it in a few other songs. So when you hear this leg a lot of times you'll hear it along with something like that. A third example of how he used that same lick that D shaped lick is in another tune in seek his version of Louis Jordans.

Ain't that just like a woman? And then that He uses this what I call fade out lick. So as the song is fading out, he kind of trails away. Something like that just playing the lick and then sliding his hand down the neck. We'll do something like this as the songs fading out, so check the tab, still in C, or D shape is still at the 12th and 13th fret, but that D shape flag. We already mentioned that we were talking about the sliding double stops, but that's one that he also threw in there every now and then as a lick all by itself.

Now another example something I have a lick in the first position blues box is what I call a rolling lick. Just sounds like rolling to me. And let's go to the stay in the key of C. St. Louis Blues Chuck's version of St. Louis Blues. He plays a lick like this that leg, got the first position blue Xbox, but we're really playing over the four, which is an app and what I'm doing is putting my first finger on the eighth fret first and second strange. And then I'm hammering my ring finger onto the 10th fret of the second string. Getting the first one, which is still being fronted by my first finger.

Just repeat that. You can get both strings. Or you can just get one string. Second one kind of rings out anyway. So if you're playing in any key, like in the first position, barre chord and B flat, that liquid B over the four chord, which is going to be an E flat to C. Listen to the St. Louis Blues. I think it's his second solo where it does that.

No, it's actually the first song Now another version of that same kind of lick, he plays on the bass strings and a tune called Viva Viva rock and roll. So we're going to stay in C. And we're going to move that shape that we had here to the fourth and fifth strings and we're going to hammer down on the 10th fret of the fifth string play the same letter. Hear the bass here sound and he'd do something like this. On the one which is the C on the eighth fret of the sixth string. So you can play this leg is over the see this leg play over the four but the basically the same, the same leg. One more version of that lick is in can be heard in the tune called Liverpool drive, and now he's gonna play the lick on the second and third strings like this.

What I'm doing is planning my first finger on the eighth fret, second and third strings, now have read my second finger onto the ninth fret of the third string and picking the second string like this. All kinds of things you can do with that lick. So there are a couple licks that Chuck Berry played in the first police box or in the area of the first police box. But he just didn't quite use those as often as he did stuff like that. But I wanted to throw those in and have a lesson so when you hear those in Chuck Berry songs, you'll know what he's doing.