Chuck Berry Style Runs By Borrowing Notes
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Excellent Griff Hamlin instruction as per usual. What it has to do with Chuck Berry escapes me.
It’s Chuck Berry’s lick, taken from a live recording of the tune, “Wee Wee Hours.”
Jerry. You weren’t paying attention in class.
In the early/mid 1950s Chuck Berry did some slow blues like “Havana Moon”,”Wee Wee Hours” are two I remember.The kids all loved Chuck Berry’s voice and guitar work and did listen to these slow blues.
Chuck Berry was one of the ones, who made rock and role.
he did a lot of blues songs and he was one of the greats in the 50’s. Been playing some of his music for years. Thanks Griff. this really helps !
Great lesson! I would like to see you do a course on the whole song of Chuck Berry “Johnny B Goode “
Excellent lesson,Thanks Griff.I would also like to see a purchase lesson showing some long minor blues runs (minor blues not dominant 7th blues)
If the run is all minor blues scale, as this is, it’ll also work over minor 7th chords as well as dominant 7th. What you have to watch is the borrowed note, the 6, it won’t work over a minor iv chord.
Cool lesson Griff. Thanks
@FrederickBrown, I’d rather see Griff do a lesson on Jimi’s version of Chuck’s “JB Goode”. But… that’s just me!
Good morning Griff, it’s kinda funny because when I first started soloing over tracks most of my playing was like this. I kept hearing that I needed shorter licks more pauses( phrasing) in order for it to sound better. It appears both are good and I actually prefer to ramble a bit more in my playing to really get into the feel of the music. Thanks for this lesson and demonstrating what I was doing did make sense. I’ll be mixing these long licks back into my playing, so I can make it my style and not try to be someone else. Enjoy your day.
Really like this course. Seems that many members do not realize that there is more to Chuck Berry than “Johnny B. Goode”. Need to listen to some T Bone Walker who was a big influence on Chuck.
“Chuck” and “T-Bone” the answer to “Where’s the beef?!”
Great stuff Griff!
I”m loving all this Chuck Berry stuff. Now if I can just get where I can play it as well as you!
I think we’re so used to hearing chucks songs like carol,school days,Johnny b good mabellene,and many other popular songs,this is the blues side of chuck. Maybe go on YouTube and listen to the songs that are on the lesson and that might help some. Thanks again Griff! Enjoying!
I love this course. Thanks Griff. A question completely off topic… Do you have a recommendation for a looper? I bought the TC Ditto and hate it, too much latency. Thanks in advance.
Great lesson and now I clearly can understand the Licks and Notes as I watch a lot of his Youtube songs and it is always hard to work out how he is playing. One thing I did work out that a lot of his songs are similar in Beat..
All good
Michael-Sydney-Australia Oct 4th 2021.
Great lesson as usual!! Better than Chucks toilet cam footage! And thanks for providing the tabs!!
Hi Griff!
I find it makes more sense for me to count the quarter notes as 3 beats of 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
That way I can feel each eighth note as accented, since it’s in 12/8. Would you say this is also a good approach? I’m a bit confused about counting in 12/8. Thanks.
Sorry, I meant counting each eighth note as 1 and. So in a quarter note there would be the 3 eighth notes as ‘1 and 2 and 3 and’
I have liked this as my beginning lesson and trying it out and having a lot of fun doing it and like to eventual jumping on board and take more lessons later on.
Jerry,don’t sit at the back of the class. Your missing out on the essence of the lesson