Now that you know the basic double stop positions that Chuck Berry used in the first position blues box, we're going to take a look at how he would bend, one of those double stops on the second and third strings. And in the key of G, we're going to play over the first position, g blue, Xbox and the key of G and I'm going to talk about a song called school day. And this technique is real simple. He just takes the second and third strings at the fifth fret, that double stop and he's gonna bend it up. You've probably heard that before and many rock songs and Chuck Berry was the one who kind of invented this. Originally guys like keyboard Walker if they bent strings, they would bend single strings like the third strike What he did is he took that band and then bands, the third and the second string together, the technique is pretty simple, you keep your first finger anchored there at the third fret and the key of G, second and third strings, then use your ring finger and even a little bit held up with a little bit of help from your second finger and bend it.

And that's the idea of bending double stops. Now, exclusively, Chuck Berry did this on the second and third strings. And typically he did it at that position in any key he was playing it. So for playing in G, he's going to be on the fifth fret bending those two notes second and third strike. What I'm going to do now is just show you a few examples of this and you should listen to the songs as well. The first example comes from the tune called school day.

It's in the key of G and throughout the tin and even in the solo check plays just a multitude of double stops in the first position blue Xbox, and sometimes he bends up he plays something like this That's the first example for you. So what I'm doing is not only bending, but I'm picking it as I bend. So I'm bending up. And I'm actually picking three times downstroke upstroke downstroke. And then bringing it back to the fifth fret, third fret, fifth fret, third and fourth string. So there's an example of bending the double stop.

And that is from the song school day. And if you listen to the whole tune, he does this quite a bit, and in lots of different ways. So again, listen to school day and you know, hear him bending that position. One of my favorite Chuck Berry song, just kind of a novelty tune he recorded. It's called the man and the donkey. And that's got one of the most vicious guitar solos and in it Chuck Berry He's gonna do some bands and licks with that bent double stop and he plays something like this.

Look like that what I'm doing is bending up still in the key of G, bending up the fifth fret, second and third string and then releasing and going to the third fret. banding, releasing, getting that double stack. And you can also throw in this lick, fifth fret, third, fourth string. And you can go the other way. All kinds of possibilities with that. Listen to the guitar solo in the man and the donkey and you'll hear him playing some really cool riffs there.

Now there's a 10, another 10 where you can hear this here checked in and this is called down bound train, which is one of his early novelty tents about a guy who gets drunk and has This weird dream slash hallucination, if you get past that, that guitar solo is really, really simple and really cool. And he plays it in E flat. So our first position blues box and E flat is here between the 11th and the 13th frets, and the whole solo, he's playing licks like this. All kinds of stuff playing around with those bending double stops in the key of E flat, so listen to that 10 down bound train. Now there's one more example. There's a instrumental tune that he does called Liverpool drive, which is in the key of C, and we're going to get to some of the lyrics from that later.

But for bands, he does this really cool thing where he holds the band. If you've ever seen some of the film of Chuck Berry performing live, like in those one where he performs at Toronto, some peace festival and there's another one where he performs at any What, a lot of times it's kind of a gimmick kill ban this double stop and hold it like this. And then sometimes we'll do this we'll move the strings without picking and kind of like a guitar trick. And all I'm doing there is doing that same band, this type in the key of C. So we're bending at the 10th fret, second and third string. And I'm just holding it up keeping the band and letting the guitar sustain. Do all kinds of tricks with that bet.

So double stop bands. That's another one of these basic check Barre guitar ideas that you need to create the tech Barre solos. And that's one that's relatively easy to play and learn. Listen to those tunes I have listed and you'll hear hear exactly what I'm talking about.