Lesson number 18 we're going to take a look at one one more classic Chuck Berry like and this is one that I'm pretty positive he picked up from t bone Walker. And that's what I call a hop and this is a little different earlier we learned this lick and see and Chuck Berry played that same kind of lick but only on single strings. So something like this and the first time you hear that if you follow his recordings is in the solo from Maybelline and Maybelline said B flat. So we find the first position, B flat barre chord, and we're going to start in B flat from the eighth fret of the, of the third string. And I think he slides from the eighth to the 10th on the third string Back to the sixth fret of the second string. So you play it like this.
If you listen to Maybelline and how quickly he plays that lick, that's what I think he's done. You can also play it by just bending. And there's places and times where I'm pretty sure Chuck Berry's doing that instead of doing the slides. But anyway, you slice it, you got the same basic kind of lick. So in Maybelline, you hear this. Johnny be good.
The Phil said he does. He plays something like this same lick. The only difference there is he's doubling up the second string. And then another example he does a tune called woodpecker, which is in the key of A This was on his bio album in the early 1970s. One of my favorite Chuck Berry albums. A lot of people didn't like it, but I still like it.
And then the instrumental woodpecker He does kind of a variation on this where he's doing that, hmm. But sometimes he's getting the first string instead of the second string mixes up. So each time he does that, ha, he's gonna get a different string and he mixes it up back and forth. Not alternating, you have to hear the song to see what he's doing. I did a little example in the tap for you. So that leg single string hop is what I call that that is one of Chuck Berry's really classic licks, one that he used over and over again.
So if you mix this with this double stop lick, you can do that to play on both and there's a few songs where he does that as well. So that is lesson number 18. And that is yet another really basic Chuck Berry lick that you need to know to play his play his style.