Lesson number seven, we're going to take a look at one more type of cord that Chuck Berry used quite a bit. And we'll see examples of this throughout the rest of this lesson series. I call these sliding ninth chords and sliding sixth chords, or sliding six chords and sliding ninth chord. So let's start with the sliding sixth. There's a song for reference called around and around and it's in the key of B. So here's our first position, blues box first position barre chord in the key of B, the sixth chord looks like this.

Using three fingers, I'm not going to borrow it, because I want to be able to slide it. And so I've got my first finger on the seventh fret of the first string, my ring finger on the ninth fret of the second string, and my second finger goes on the eighth fret of the third string and the sliding part comes From you're going to slide it from from two frets below like this. And he uses this chord in all kinds of different ways as intros to song as part of solos as a philic. You'll see this. In fact, there's quite a few of our lessons where we're gonna be talking about these in the song or around and around, he uses it as a Phil, he does something like this. So that's a good one to practice with and just get the hang of it.

It's real simple, wherever your first position barre chord is you make that shape. And then if you want to slide it, you're going to go two frets below, two frets down, and then slide it back to your one quarter root chord. And then back, we're going to see all kinds of different picking patterns and ways you can pick that. So wherever your core check takes you so far in the key of B flat, here's our B flat seven. One, two, we'll slide it this would be an A flat six. We can do some slides between our one and then right there.

So that is the sliding six chord. And again, we'll see more examples of this listen to the song around and around in the key of B, that's a really good song to get the hang of these chords, play along with it and get the hang of these. Now the sliding knife courts in blues music and Chuck Berry's music is very much influenced by the blues. A lot of times guys like t bone Walker, which slide ninth chord Chuck Berry did a lot with a technique that other bluesman use was just play to the strengths. Instead of playing the whole chord. He's just gonna pick the second and the fourth string.

There's a couple different ways he picks it. He picks it with a flat pick and starts with the fourth string. The second string slides back. So what I'm doing here I've got my ring finger on the third fret of the second string, my second finger on the third fret of the fourth string. So I'm picking the fourth string, and then sliding to the fifth fret. And then I'm picking the second string.

And I'm picking the fourth string again, sliding it back down. So you got all different kinds of ways you can use that you could also what I'm doing is taking my pick, you get the fourth string and I'm using my second finger on my right hand to get the second string and you'll hear Chuck Berry do both of those. So if I'm playing over a first position, barre chord and G, this is G. My sliding knife goes right in that box, on the second and fourth string. Now if I move to a second position barre chord, so let's say the song goes from the G to the C, all I do is move that shape over. And now I'm playing on the first and the third strings. And if you look, I'm playing right over that bar chord shape.

And then at the song goes to D, we're still in the second position, barre chord shape. Same idea. So how do you know where to play a slightly ninth chord, if you want to play over a first position barre chord, you're in the key of G, you're going to play on the second and fourth string. If you're playing over a second position barre chord, you're going to move to the first and the third string. There's a song called Merry Christmas baby, which has a lot of these sliding nights in it and including some variations on it. We'll get to that more Specifically a little bit later when we talk about that song, but anyway, that is sliding ninth chord.

So we got sliding six chords, sliding ninth chord. There's one great Chuck Berry song that includes both of these. It's called Memphis or Memphis, Tennessee. And in that 10 Chuck plays a lot of these over the five chord, which is D, the songs in G. And he plays these legs. And what I've done is I've tabbed that out for you. I tap the first solo that he plays in Memphis, Tennessee, and if you get the shapes down, you're feeling pretty good.

You listen to around and around you listen to Merry Christmas baby. The ultimate example of Tetbury using these sliding six to nine so this is song Memphis and I think have that one part of it for you. And if you take that, you'd probably be able to figure out the rest of it. But anyway, I don't want to throw too much at you right here. So first thing, learn the shapes. Six chord, you're going to use the sliding form three fingers over the first position blues box, and then the ninth chord.

So let's say we're in B, and we want to play a slightly nine. We get on the second and fourth strings, we'd be going for the seventh ninth fret, if we're in B, if we're going to play over the four chord, anytime you play over the second position bar, you're going to the first and the third strings, check the tab I have for you and listen to those songs and she get the hang of these pretty quick plus, in later examples. We're going to look at like song intros and fill licks and all that stuff, turnarounds, we're going to see these again and again.