In this third section of the course, we're going to look at another one of the trademarks of the Chuck Berry guitar style. And talking about something called sliding double stops. Now we've seen a lot of double stops and the first blues box. So for in the key of C, we've seen all kinds of different ways that Chuck Berry played, double stops and licks based on double stops in or around the first blue Xbox. Now we're going to take a look at how he would slide these double stops up and down the neck. And we're going to start out in the key of C, and I'm not a musical person.

And so I'm explaining this to you in the terms where I understand it, how I understand it. And what I do is I think of the shapes and let me show you what I'm talking about. First, the first example that I have tapped out is from the song Carol. And in the solo, the guitar solo as he gets to the five of the song, he plays this riff right here. And this is an example of a sliding double stop. So this little rep here, Chuck Berry did this and quite a few of his songs.

And sometimes he did it as part of solos, the song sweet little 16, he did it as an introduction to the song. And he did it a lot of different ways. And we're going to start out looking at what I call the sliding double stops on the first and second strings. Now when you're playing the double stop over the one or over the five, there's a certain way that Chuck played it. And there's a pattern if you memorize the pattern or can see the pattern on the guitar Nakheel, I think you'll be able to use these quite a bit. So let's start out where I start.

Started out right there, which is with my first finger on the 15th fret of the first string, and my ring finger on the 17th fret of the second string. That is a C, so the song is in the key of C. And at that point in the song when he's playing that pretty series on the five coming back to the one, and he plays it in this pattern. Also, if you play it over the wire, I'm gonna show you another example here in a minute. And just I think you'll see what I'm talking about. Let's just look at the pattern. So we got this double stuff, where you've got the two fingers separated by an open fret, you're going to move that one too.

So we're going to go so every two moves, you're going to keep the same shape. So the two fingered shape with the gap in between with the fret in between. And then we're going to switch to this shape, which we've already seen. Remember this We've seen that lick and we've seen some others using that same shape. So that is a double stop on the 12th fret with the first finger 12th fret of the first string and the 13th fret of the second string. So far we've got this.

Then we're going to keep that shape, move it down to more to the 10th, and the 11th fret. So we've got and then since we've gone to two licks, now we go back to that original shape on the eighth fret of the first string and the 10th fret of the second string. And then keep that again, one, two, to the sixth, sixth, and the eighth. So I'm Carol he does and he comes back to his first blues box and goes to the eighth, sorry, 10th fret of the first and second and third strings 10th fret. Second and third string, you could also play that here. Remember, we're doing our pattern.

Now we can switch back to that we're not gonna, we're not gonna go there. So we're gonna go back to the first blues box because that takes us into the lick, which he often uses to wrap up these these rods and he doesn't care. So let's look at that again. Got this shape, got two shapes. So there's the first shape. There's two, two with the second shape.

Two more with the first shape again. And then we're going to come back to the double stop there on the 10th fret, second and third strength. Now Carol, if you listen carefully, he actually slides into this from one shape below. So he's going to slide to the 15th of 17 frets from the 13th and 15th. Like like this Really cool stuff. And I've included a chart that shows the shapes laid out on the guitar neck.

And what we're going to do here is we're going to take a look at a bunch of examples on the first and second strings and show you different ways he could mix that pattern up. He didn't always play it like that. And I'll show you just maybe four or five different examples. Now before we conclude this lesson, let's look at a song called the house of blue lights. And in that tin, he actually plays a whole solo using nothing but these slightly double stops. It's the second solo verse and he kicks it off with something like this.

And he plays this a little differently. He's sliding it picking. So he's picking and then sliding Got that same link in there. So it's the same pattern just picked a little differently. But look at that pattern again. Any key you're playing it?

Where do you start the pattern. Usually you start it over the second position barre chord. So this is a second position, C barre chord. So we're going to slide it from there. So for playing in the key of A, we go to the second position, a barre chord, and we slide from there. Same thing.

Just like that.