That Twilight cookout. Now that you know the two basic barre chord shapes first and second position barre chord, I'm going to show you a few other courts that Chuck Berry is. The good news is Chuck Berry did not use a whole lot of courts. So the court aspect of his plan is pretty simple to get down and figure out, but it's important nonetheless. So let's spend a little time and just learn some courts. And then in the next lesson, we'll learn how to use the Chuck Berry courts.

So let's start with our first position barre chord shape and we're playing a G major here with our first finger on the third fret of the sixth string, a G seventh chord, Chuck Berry used a lot of sevens. And if we take our pinky and put it on the sixth fret of the second string, our G now becomes a G seventh, we're adding the seventh note That's the g7 Chuck Berry had a lot of songs like rock and roll music and others where he uses this kind of janky seventh chord is what I call it. So, in the first position, you take the pinkie and move it there. And that's how you get this. Now some guys can play it like this where they take the bar out, but I'm pretty sure and from watching Chuck Berry in various videos and live performances, looks like he uses the full bar, which allows him to get the bass notes in there too if he needs to.

So anyway, that's our first check barre chord. And just like with the major courts, we move it. Let's say we go here, this is an app, we'll put the pinky on the fourth fret second strike. Now we've got an F seven. Pretty simple idea. Now the pinkie might be tough for you.

And no matter what level of guitar player you are, you need to develop your pinky. Believe it or not, the pinky has muscles and those little muscles that are very complicated and they're not you To be used. So when you start playing guitar, you're really teaching your fingers muscles, how to do things you've never done before. And it's hard, they don't like it, and you'll feel some pain, but you got to stick with it. And if you develop your pinky, trust me, you will be able to play so much more on the guitar and it'll be a lot easier for you to do. Now another chord, the Chuck Berry used, what if we're talking about a second position barre chord.

This is a C major. Now c seventh chord, you could play it a couple of different ways we could play it like this. And what we're doing is taking an a seventh chord, which is not one of the basic check barre chords, and we're moving it to the fifth fret. And we're playing a C seven, but Chuck Berry didn't do that. He did it the other way, which is to make what's called a C seven shape right here. So here's c barre chord.

That note right there. All I'm doing is moving my fingers and I still got one finger on the third fret of the fifth string. And this is the C seven shape, check Barry use the shape a lot all over the neck, not just in C, it's really pretty simple. Take your first finger, put it on the first fret of the second string, second finger on the second fret of the fourth string, your ring finger goes on the third fret of the fifth string, which is your C's, you've got a C chord right there. Now if we take the pinky, drop it in on the third fret of the third string, we've got a C seventh core. Chuck Berry used that a lot.

You can move that court just like the bar chords if we move it up to we've got a D seven Chuck Berry would use this and different spots c seventh primarily. So make sure you learn that shape. Another chord shape the Chuck Berry used is what's called a sixth chord shape. And let's stay in in the key of let's go to B flat. And this is a base B flat major chord, B flat seven, a B flat six, you can play it like this by taking the pinky from the seventh note to the sixth note, which and B flat would be the eighth fret of the second string. You've got that.

And you hear a lot of guys using that as a swing core. Swing song, Chuck Berry played it a little differently. He didn't really play it as a rhythm core, he played it more in a sliding fashion, something like this. And he used the three fingered version. So I'm going to show that to you right now. Go to the same position that we had our B flat major, we're going to put our first finger on the sixth fret of the first string, second finger on the seventh fret of the third string.

And then my ring finger goes on the eighth fret of the second string. So you should have this He would move like that. And when we get to slide in six to nine, we'll come back to this and show you how to use it. But that's the chord shape on Chuck Berry used that you want to try to get down. One last Chuck barre chord shape that we'll mention now and come back to in more detail later is a second position, ninth chord. And in the key of G, that's our G major.

That's a C second position barre chord. This is a C nine. What I'm doing is putting my first finger on the second fret of the fourth string, second finger on the third fret of the fifth string and then my ring finger is going to flatten out and get the first second and third strings. Chuck Berry uses this in a few songs mostly as a rhythm core. And we'll talk about songs like route 66 and also guitar Boogie, which is one of his great instrumentals where he uses the nights now later, when we Talk about sliding six the Knights. That's when we'll get into the knife courts in more detail because Chuck Berry didn't always play this shape.

He had a simpler way of playing those nine courts. And we'll worry about that here in a few lessons. So that is really the tech barre chord encyclopedia. Now he is some others. And he had a few songs that were even threw in some, you know, what we call jazzy chords for jazz chords. And when we talk about those songs later, if I think of it, we'll learn a couple of those too.

But these are the basic check barre chords. You need these to play 95% of the songs that that he played