In this lesson number 39, we are going to take a look at a handful of films that Chuck Berry played on his guitar in between verses of some of his most famous songs. And some of these are licks that you hear and you wonder, okay, what's he doing? How's he playing that? So I'm going to try to answer that question for at least a few of his songs. One of my favorite Chuck Berry films, and one of the first ones I learned is from Johnny be good, which is in the key of B flat. And as he sings the song, he does a couple different fills, and one is this double step fill like this.

So let's go Johnny, go go. And what I think he's doing there is using a B flat seventh double stop, which is with my first finger on the ninth fret of the second string, and my second finger on the 10th fret of the third string and I'm sliding into it. From one step below, then put in my ring finger on the 11th fret of the second string at the end of that lick. That's what I hear. And that is a really simple little lick and see how many songs were Chuck Berry played that lick. The only time he is that he also uses this leg as a philic in between verses of Johnny be good, but this is the one that I remember the most.

So he's just taken a B seven, double stop throwing in the second string at the 11th fret. So there's one example. Another example this a little more complicated in the song, dear dad, and I'm not sure if Chuck was playing this and this was overdub, or if a second guitar player was playing this, and I have to look at the credits for this but the song is insane. In the background, you hear this, this riff going on. Well, Chuck is singing the song here, something like this. And the song comes to a stop.

So what I think is going on there as he's playing again, that seventh double stop. So here's our C. First position. barre chord. That lick is our C seven double stop. But what I hear is something like this. He's just vamping on that.

Then right there, he's going to this lick, which is our double stop, lick that Chuck you so often, and I'm just taking it really from the C double style to the 10th fret. So it's like this. That's how I think it's being played. To play it's a little tricky. Then the second time he's gonna go where he's gonna go to the 10th fret. And then back to that seventh double stop.

And then back to that, listen to the song, the first verse, you'll hear this going on. Then the third time when it gets ready to wrap up the verse I think he plays something like this and then maybe gets the what would be the G seven c shaped g seventh chord. can't really hear what's going on there on the five. So if you listen to dear dad, you're going to hear this little Phil riff going on. It's just double stuffs played over the first position. See blues box and the song is in the key of C, check the tab and listen to the original song.

Another example just kind of a cool check berry Lex not really a philic but it's it's one of my favorite kind of licks and it's in the song No money down, which is in the key of G where he's playing that. That kind of riff. Now, you could play this, I think the way Chuck played it was with the barre chord shape. Something like that where it keeps the barre chord shape and flattens out the ring finger hammers on the second finger. Not good at that yet. So what I do is play the book the bass part, which is that boogie bass just on the part on the third and the fifth strings, third fret of the sixth string, sixth and fifth strings, so third fret of the sixth string, fifth fret of the fifth string.

So it gets it twice. And he's gonna go to the third fifth fret of the second and third string, hammer on and come back and I think in the in the tune when he comes back, he's gonna come down on the court shake. We could play this without playing Exactly like he did so you can do something like this was motivating back in town. So Cadillac sign saying no money down like that. That's that's just a fun Rep. Sorry, I'm not a better singer.

This would be much better if I could sing the parts but I'm just a guitar player. So there you go. There's another fun riff. Now when you talk about Phil's to Chuck Berry songs, no particular place to go and school, they have a lot of fills in and no particular place to go. He would sing the verse over the bogie bass rhythm, but then he played a couple different kinds of fields one was like this. probably heard that before what I'm doing is a sliding into a double stop on the third fret first and second strength, the first shape that we learned in this lesson series.

We've got this little that we've used How many times before check the tab on this? place that a couple times and he also plays where he does the G seven. Double stop, then into that shape, school days does something kind of similar. There really aren't a whole lot of songs where Chuck plays the Phils himself as he's going through but those are two of them no particular place to go and school day. So check those out on the tab. And those are a couple more examples of Chuck Berry.

Phil's example number five and six. Both examples come from the tune Carol. And early in the song. This was one of the few times that Chuck plays Phil's that aren't double stops and he plays he bends the third string plays around in the first place box with some single string Right, the first example I have is going to bend the 10th fret of the third string and kind of let it hang a little bit. And then wrap it up. Just a simple little phrase in the first place box and see third and fourth strengths.

Now he also does a riff, another fill at the end of that first verse where you play something like this. That is a really cool fill. And that is a variation of that kind of wrath. And I think and Carol, he's just bending straight up on the 10th fret of the third string with this first finger anchored on the eighth fret of the second string, and then go into the 10th fret of the third string, eight, nine, wrapping up on the 10th 10th fret of the fourth string. So that leg Johnny be good be flat. That kind of rough so this little hop in like what I call it the bend, you know with the single strings.

That is something that he used as a philic and Carol and also a couple other songs. Another great Chuck Berry fill wasn't played by Chuck Berry. It's from the song confessing the blues and B flat. And this is another one played by Matt guitar Murphy. This time he doesn't play it in the high blues box position. And in confessing the blues, he plays this little riff behind some of the Chuck Berry vocals, he does it in the first half of the song.

So check the tab I'm just playing over the first position blues box and B flat starting on the ninth fret of the first string to the sixth fret. Back to six. actually doesn't go back to the six he goes to the nine again so he plays it really fast. I always loved that that little philic kind of cool blues type thing and this is one of Chuck's more bluesy songs. So there's a bunch of different kind of Chuck Berry Phillips that he played in specific songs but you could use in a lot of a lot of different ways.