In this section we're going to take a look at more than 30 of Chuck Berry's guitar intros that he used to kick off his, his many hit songs, and many not so hit songs. And we're going to start out with the song Maybelline, which was first hit in 1955 why we're doing this, it's fun, but also to give you a chance to apply all the licks and ideas that we've learned so far in the lesson series. So let's start out with the introduction for modeling. It's in the key of B flat. I'll play it one time, and then we'll break it down. So there it is.
I've seen lots of guys on YouTube teach this and they teach it wrong. They don't get the lick right. I stumbled on the correct way to play it by looking at some different tabs that were posted online. He starts out with this lick, here's our B flat chord. So it's kind of a lick, based on that a position, B flat. So we're starting on the third fret of the fourth string, hmm, we're picking at once, and then we're gonna pick it again and hammer on to the fifth fret of the fourth string.
Like that. That's what you hear when you hear the the original recording, he's gonna go to the third fret of the third string. That's the first phrase that he's gonna come here. And if you listen real carefully to the original recording, you're gonna hear this and it's the first and second strings at the first fret. And then he's gonna go with his second finger, ring finger, however, he did it to the third fret of the third string and then back to that lick on the first fret so the whole thing and then from there into the rhythm chord over the one the B flat that he uses to start start singing. So let's play that again.
I've seen Chuck live there's a film with him I think it's in Belgium in 1965. And he kicks off Maybelline a little differently does something like this something using those double strings slides on the second and third strings. But anyway, the original recording 1955 he does it by playing it right there. So there is our first Chuck Berry song introduction Maybelline and the key of B flat