Now we're going to take a look at the way that Chuck Berry tossed in some single string rounds in the first blues box and between his multitude of double stops and I'm going to show you three four or five examples of this. It's pretty simple what he's doing. But the technique and getting the timing and the plate the way he did it takes a little work. We're going to start out with a song Johnny be good in the key of B flat. So when we're talking about the first position, blue Xbox, if we go back to T bone Walker, one of checks big influences. He played entirely in the first position blue Xbox with single string rock.

Stuff like that. Chuck Berry when he did it, we play it very fast. So let's take a look at Johnny be good and there's a little run in the interest To the song that goes something like this. Something kinda like that. I don't know if I played that exactly right, but this little part that's a good example of how Chuck would stay in that first position blue Xbox with some single string rods. Now some of the interesting things he does there, what he's doing, basically, he's starting out with a bend on the eighth fret of the third string, go into the first fret of the sixth string, and then walking from the ninth to the eighth to the sixth on the second string.

So it's like the eight six on the first string with another walk 986 and then right here. He does want to what I call this where he's basically dragging the pic across the third second and first string while keeping what really is a B flat position and F shaped B flat chord but without the ring finger. First finger is on the sixth fret first and second strings. And my second finger is on the seventh fret of the third string so it gets into it like this. He's gonna go sixth fret, seventh fret on the third string or rake down, third, second, and first. That's where he rates now when he does that, he does a little bit of muting with his right hand palm choke that control it so it doesn't ring out of control.

So that whole deck again That's the single string apart so he does a lot of playing. And this lick that I played here is from Johnny be good, let's do it one more time. Eventually kick or finish up the solo. So there's example number one, a Tim called Carol in C, we're going to move to the key of C he does something similar but he throws in a kind of an odd note for this kind of thing. And he plays this thread is way outside the box, but he goes to that. And it Carol he does that a couple times.

So the whole egg 10th fret of the fourth string I'm climbing eight, nine on the third string on the second string and then go on to the 12th fret back to the eighth fret of the first string. Check the tab. He's just going back and forth between the second string 10th fret of the first string eighth fret. check one more time. There's another example of a Chuck Berry lick where he used a single string rounds in the first position. Blue Xbox.

One more example comes from the 10 Don't you like To me, in the key of G, and it's a common technique and blues and rock and other kinds of music to play over the second position barre chord. When the song is in the four, you can do it when it's the one, two, so the song is in G, and then the solo when it goes to the four, he's going to play right over the top of that chord and he plays a lick like this, which is really neat. So I'm starting on the fifth fret of the third string for the third to the fifth fret of the second string to the third fret of the first string, sixth fret of the first string. Pull off between the third and the fifth fret. That's To the third to the fifth fret of the second string, check the tab here, going from the first string third fret to the sixth fret of the second string one more time.

So that just shows you how you can play over the floor by playing over that bar chord shape. And that's what he's doing in that. So anyway, that's another example of a Chuck Berry, single string right now he doesn't do a lot of bending. Like blues players do if he does that. He's almost always using double stops. There is a tune called Merry Christmas, baby.

We're in the solo. He plays He plays some single string rounds and I've tagged a little bit of that out for you. But we're not gonna go through that. But anyway, what Chuck Berry did is in you know, numerous songs in the introduction to the songs in the solos he would mix in those single string runs in the first blue Xbox with all his double stops and other things that he was playing. So I just wanted to show you a few examples of this.