In this lesson we're going to take a look at yet another one of Chuck Berry's signature licks that he uses over and over again. And it combines a couple different kinds of licks one we've talked about one we haven't gotten to yet. We're going to use as a reference the song dear dad, we're in the solos he uses this lick. I think at the end of the first solo, he doesn't more, and we're playing in the key of C. So again, this is a guitar lick played over the first position, blue Xbox sounds like this. And what he's doing here is he's got his first finger in that position, which we've already seen. That was the first lick that we learned.

He's keeping the first finger there and then with the second and third fingers, he's bending the third string at the 10th fret. And then getting that lift. And you can vary that how fast you play it. Or how long you hold the hold the bat. You can do all kinds of different things with that. And so when dear dad, he gets to the end of the first solo when he's playing something like this.

Maybe that's not exactly what he's doing. But that's the idea. So you can move that anywhere you want, you go to the key of G, the song, no particular place to go, he does this. Something like that. I think he might be doing a slide here. And that's one of the things I've never completely got.

I know t bone Walker when he would play these. I call them hops, and we're going to work on this a little bit. Instead of bending the third string, he would slide on the third string in G, this would be from the fifth fret to the seventh fret. Then come back into the First blue Xbox, in no particular place to go. It sounds like Chuck Berry's almost doing this. But he might just be bad day.

Playing it really fast like that. I don't know for sure. I haven't seen the video of Chuck Berry playing that lick. So I don't know. But those are two options. But that lick you can move into any key first position blue Xbox and play it.

One variation of this is sometimes he would combine this and there's a tune called the house of blue lights where he plays in the key of C, and he does something like this. So what I'm doing is combining that hop band and double stop with two other double stops in the first position blues box on the second and third strings 10th fret and the eighth fret here in the KFC. So he'll play something like this. And that's an example of how he would use that lick. He uses it in all different kinds of ways, but that is one that's really handy. Sounds cool.

You can play it in any key first position please box and check Barry use that quite a bit. So that is our next lick in Lesson number 13