This next lesson, we're going to take a look at an example of how Chuck Berry played a melodic verse in a solo almost the entire solo verse using nothing but these sliding double stops. And our first example, this is from the tune Merry Christmas baby, where he kicks off the solo with a melodic rendition of, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. And this is one of my favorite guitar parts. In fact, this is one that let me play this Something like that. Maybe a little too heavy on the distortion, but we're gonna go with it. So again, we're in the key of G. And we're gonna start over that second position barre chord, which is a G, double stop, and he's gonna go 12th and 13th spreads, then back to there.

So just think of the song like Christmas if you don't know it's a young. So young folk need to listen to the song and you'll know what he's playing here. Chuck like to do that he likes to take little snippets from popular songs or songs he liked and work them in. And this is one of the best examples of this. So we got this. He's gonna go here.

So we got that pattern. Gonna go to this eighth and 10th fret to the first and second strength. He said, come back to that you And then he's going to go here where he's playing this second position, double stop slide with the first finger on the 12th fret, second finger on the 13th fret. And he's going in reverse up the neck. So he's going to 12th and 13th frets 13th and 14th 14th and 15th. So let's look at the whole pattern.

I'll show it to you without playing. He's gonna come back. Now he's just gonna Go out of this solo. Plan another one of these patterns with those three consecutive shapes, same shape for three consecutive double stops. So he's starting this from what is really the D shaped G chord. Number 66.

The lesson I showed you this luck here a little bit ago, he's doing the same thing, but this time in G. Then we get to that last one, he hits it and then slides down. You hear that in the recording. So let me try to play that slowly. It's kind of hard when you're playing so fast to play it slowly. But let's do it two ways. First way, I'll just show you the pattern again, all the way through.

And then I'll play it for you slowly so the pattern goes like this. Try to play it slower than usual starts playing some single string rats. listen to the song Merry Christmas baby and we're gonna do some more links from this little bit later. And check this out when we're doing the sliding ninth chords and the sliding six chords. We talked about Merry Christmas baby and that is the solo. And then he finishes out the solo with a lot of single string runs and even some double stop stuff in the first position, please box, but it's neat.

How he does that just like 30 days that like I showed you. Quick up and down strokes. rapidly, you want to mute the strings a little bit with your right hand palm, you don't want to have a little control over it. Just practice that. When I learned it, I just did a one section at a time and then kept moving forward with it. So here's a good example of how you can take those double stop, slides sliding double stops on the first and second strings and construct a melody that you can play not just a lick, but something you can even you know, make a solo out of.

Now we got one more of these and this one is the granddaddy the most complicated I think of all Chuck Berry guitar parts and we'll get to that here in a minute.