Jojo In this lesson, we're going to take a look at a variety of fills that Chuck Berry played on the second and third strings in his song called Jojo gun, which is one of my favorite Chuck Berry songs. It's a novelty 10 about a about a mischievous monkey who causes all kinds of trouble in the jungle. But don't let that fool you. There's some really great guitar in the song. And the way it works. And we're going to take a look at the rhythm part a little bit later when we look at some checks different kinds of rhythms and chord progressions, but for now we're going to focus on the filled, the song is in the key of C. So when we play these fills, we're going to be using the pattern in C. So remember these positions we're even going to add one And then the song Jojo gun.

The song has verses there's like 10 or 11 verses and after each verse, there's a break, and Chuck plays these little guitar kills. So for this lesson, I'm going to go through and show you each of these. And this will just show you a bunch of different ways you can use that basic pattern and get all kinds of different melodies and different little licks out of this. And the second verse of Jojo God, he plays a really cool fill this time, on the second and third strengthen, he does this something like that where he ends up on a position see, so that lick I'm starting out with that double stop the first thing we learned in this whole course so in the key of C, or the eighth fret first and second string, and then I'm gonna slide from the 10th to the 12th fret on the second and third string.

Come back To the 10th fret to the C, double stop, check the tab on these, I'm just gonna show them to you kind of quickly since there's so many of them so I'm gonna go back 12th fret 10th fret and then from one step below fourth fret, fifth fret into the sea. So let me play that whole thing slowly for you again. That's the second philic. He plays in jo jo got the third philic that he plays is one that Chuck Berry liked. It's the Mary had a little lamb fill, which he also uses in guitar Boogie, and then the KFC goes like this. So he's starting, sliding into the C double stops, or eighth and ninth fret, second and third strings.

Then moving in here, six and seven frets on to the fifth fret and then we'll get and then going back. So he just plays part of it, it's a play the whole verse like he does and a guitar Boogie. So we got this. And there's yet another double step fill on the second and third strings that he plays in Jojo gun. At the end of the fourth verse, He plays another really cool lick, using the same basic pattern goes like this. Something like that one more time on the 10th fret of the second string.

So what I'm doing here is I'm starting on the C, double stop. eighth, ninth fret, sliding 10th to 12th on the second and third string and then to the fifth fret. So we've got here is E goes back to the C, twice. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but I think that's what he's doing. So it's 10th fret, second and third strength. Let me play that.

Again slowly. That's what I hear. So again, all these different ways of basically getting different, different melodies, different licks out of the same basic sets of double stops. First number five, in Jojo gun he plays a single string Phil so we're going to talk about that one separately when we go through some of the check Barry Phil's verse six, he comes back with another really cool double step what goes like this really kind of neat. So what I'm doing what I think he's doing is going from the eighth. So so he's going from the eighth fret first and second strings 10th to 12th, back to the second and third strings to the C double stop, second and third strings.

Then he's gonna go to the 10th fret, second and third string That's what I hear. So let me play that again slowly and check your tab. Something very, very close to that. At the end of verse number seven, he plays something a little different. He plays this which is really out of the a position, which we're gonna take a look at separately here in a little bit, check the tab on this one. We're not gonna dwell on this one right here.

Now we'll talk about how he plays that a little bit later. At the end of the eighth verse, He plays this lick. Kind of an ominous sounding lick, we're going from the fifth fret to the eighth fret, second and third strings. Now that lick right there we haven't used yet in this pattern, but that is right in the first position blue Xbox and see We've talked about this before, it's one of the different double stops, you can play in that blues box. So he's going I don't know if he uses his pinky or maybe his ring finger which might be a little easier to do and then he's gonna go he's gonna go from the fifth fret to the, to the A. One more time, listen to the 10 verse number nine, he does a kind of a chord slide when the monkey falls out of the tree is something like I don't know how he plays that exactly.

I've never really figured it out. But in verse number 10, he goes right back to the double stop in the pattern on the second and third string sliding double stop and he plays something like this. least that's what I think he's doing. So he starts on the fifth fret. Right here, he's in the first position. He's gonna go to the double stop on the second and third strings, which is the 13th and 14th fret.

So we've got this listen to the song, let me play it again. And then finally at the end of the song as the song fades out and play something like this just another variation Using just three positions you can see how he takes this basic pattern and mixes it up and so many ways to create these different melodic riffs. So there is a song that you can listen to and work on these licks and really should help you understand the different ways you can put these. Put these double steps together.