Now we're gonna take a look at one of the coolest parts of Chuck Berry is guitar playing. And what I'm talking about is his use of descending and ascending double stops, where he would play the licks like this, we're in the key of B flat. And there's a tune called let it rock where during the first instrumental break, he plays something like this. That is what I mean by a descending ascending double stop. So I started out, ascending, I bring it back down, that's called descending. So let's figure this out.
We're in the key of B flat. And if you think about double stops, within the first blues box, I'm going to show you a map of where you can play. You can play here on the first and second strings now fret, eighth fret sixth fret, you can do the same thing on the second and third string. Right there. So we got this. And you can mix those up and all kinds of different ways.
And Chuck Berry did that a lot. So the first example and B flat, the 10, let it rock, he just just a simple version of this as part of a instrumental break, so I'm just going from the first and second strings on the sixth fret to the eighth fret to the ninth fret and then coming back again. Usually when he does these ascending or descending double stops, so then go into some of those other licks and the first blues, Bach, something like this. And then, you know, solo, play all kinds of stuff from there. So that's called an ascending if you're moving up or descending if you're going down The neck. So there's one example from let it rock.
Another example comes from the tin, run Rudolph rod. And this is a little more complicated one. And in this tune, he does something like this. I got this tabbed out for you exactly. So starting on the eighth fret, we're in the key of C, not B flat anymore, we're moving to C, and he's gonna go 810 1110 eight, so he stays on goes ascending, descending. Down, so he does that.
Gonna go to the second and third strings and go down 1110 eight. And then right here. He does a hop. I don't know if I did that. The first time I'll do this again. We're bending the third string at the 10th fret.
Remember this leg, which we just did. He's just playing that part of it. And then going into a descending, double stop on the second and third string. So the whole thing that's the whole lick and run Rudolph run. What you can see there is an example of how you can combine these goes there, which would be the 10th fret. On the second and third strings, I call those ascending descending double steps.
And I'm not sure musically what they're called, but that's what I call them and check you use these quite a bit. There's a couple basic examples and later we'll look at some of the song introductions and also a couple of his solos where where he uses those