In this lesson, and actually the next two lessons, we're going to take a look at one of my all time favorite Chuck Berry tunes and instrumental called guitar Boogie. And we're going to start out by learning the basic rhythm part that he plays throughout the whole song. Pretty straightforward. And I'll show you at the same time what the rhythm guitar has played. If you can get two guitars on this. That's really what you need to make it sound the way it did on the Chuck Berry record.

The introduction. I'm going to teach this in a later lesson, lesson number 70. But I'll play it right now to show you how the song starts. So it starts out like this. And that's kind of how the whole song goes, these little core thing. And behind that you've got the rhythm guitar playing your standard, say the whole part here in a minute.

So let's start with the, with the court. So he does the introduction. That part of it and then he's going to go into this court now the songs in G. So the four chord is the C. So here's our second position, C barre chord, this is a C, seventh c night. Now it's a seventh. If I pick the fifth, fourth and third string, that would be a C seven. But if I add the second string, flat now my ring finger now I've got more of a ninth court.

When I listen to guitar Boogie, I hear him sometimes sounds like he's just playing the seventh sometimes he's playing the night. So what I did was when I played I make the night shape. Then I can adjust which strings I pick. So if we play just the bottom three strings or the fifth, fourth and third string, you get that if you throw in that second string so that's what he plays over the four and then it goes to the one taking that same shape and moving it to the 10th fret with the first finger on the ninth fret of the fourth string. And then he goes to the five which is the same shape D for the for the C. And then he goes to this little turnaround that I'll show you in a minute. So when he's playing over the four that Chuck Berry is playing, the rhythm guitar is playing.

Goes to the one rhythm guitars playing this and the chords are goes to the fire And then the turnaround is I'm not sure who's playing that checks playing that or the second guitar is playing it, I hear it but it's hard to tell what it is is a G major, but just the fifth and sixth strings. And that's it cc seven, back to the G d seven. So the whole turnaround. There's a stop time on the one. So the rhythm part of guitar Boogie, which is most of the song you have these court reps gone. That he's going to go into at the end of each verse, he goes into a lick over the one during the stop time.

Before the song kicks back in over the floor, so this part this opening will break that down and less than 70 if you want to skip ahead and check that out, now you can make sure you listen to the original and get that rhythm part down. Now we're going to go ahead and start looking at the stop times. And this is the coolest part of the song and it kind of progressed from easier, the harder I think the harder ones are at the beginning. Each one is really different and each one involves a lot of the licks and ideas we've already used. So the first step time we get to this place and since we don't have a ton of time, and these two lessons, I'm just gonna, the easier part. So I'm gonna have you refer to the tab and listen to this first one.

He's just pointing over the first position blue, Xbox and G and we got that list. Just repeat that three times. Then we got these double string bands on the fifth fret, second and third string. And then right after he finishes that, we're back into the song again, he goes all the way around. He does another one. So let's do that first one.

Again, with the turnaround, I'll play it slowly. Then enter the tune. So that is the first step break for Chuck Berry's guitar Boogie. Now the second guitar break, we're going to use these sliding double stops on the first and second strings and he plays this differently than the other ones with before we were lucky mainly at the keys of C and D flat. And in this tent, he does the double stop slides in the key of G which you'll see presents problem. So anyway, second verse, let's take it from the turnaround back into the song.

So what we're doing is going to the second position barre chord in G. And we're doing that pick and slide pick, pick again, picking slide, like we did in the house of blue lights double slide. So we're sliding into that double stop the G over the second position barre chord 10th and 12th frets. Now we're going to the eighth and 10th frets, seventh and eighth, sixth, fifth and six. So we got so far, so good. And now we're going back to the pattern. And then right here, we run out of room.

And for a long time, I couldn't figure out how he did this. Was he playing this on the second and third time Was he shifting from the first and second string. So the second and third, I don't know exactly what he did. But here's what I think he does, he goes, he kind of goes from this to that note right there first fret of the second string, and then pulls off, you got this. He listened to the original recording, and that's after listening to that hundreds and hundreds of times. That's the conclusion I came away with.

So that's the first time through and that's, that's kind of tricky. Then the second time, it's much easier, he just goes back. Then right here, he's gonna double back to the seventh and eighth fret. Check the tab and see exactly what he's doing there. So we're going seventh and eighth, sixth and seventh, fifth and sixth. we wind up on the third and fifth fret.

So the first and second strings. Let me play that whole solo stop thing one more time. Slowly back into the song so there is the second stop break for guitar Boogie.