Chuck Berry Style - "Home Base" and Double Stop licks
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I like it!! Thanks
I Been playing Jonnie Be Good for age’s. The last riff, is the intro. Micheal Fox, played it, he did in Bm.
it is a 12 bar blues, never learned the first lick, but improvised.
BACK TO THE FUTUER, Also a bit of Movie blunders, that Gibson was not made till 1957. same one as BB KIngs, But no F holes.
Thanks Griff! I have always wondered about what you just explained. So that would apply to the other box number major minor combinations in the same position for deriving double stops right?
Theoretically, yes, though I didn’t find any evidence of Chuck Berry using much outside of that “home base.”
Fine lesson, so simple, but very funny.
Thanks Griff! Great lesson for using double stops.
Really enjoyed!
Sounds Great, but could you share what effects pedal/or pedals, and settings are you using to get that Guitar tone /Sounds ? Thanks
Same as always, Boss Blues Driver (Keeley mod) into an Eleven Rack on the Fender Super Reverb setting.
Excellent!
Hey Griff,
Great lesson….always good to have this Chuck Berry stuff in our bag and pull it out when we need it.
great but sadly out of sync
Sorry tried again and its fine also mp4 dl is good, win 10 must have been updateing
Thank you, Griff, I really enjoyed this lesson. I appreciate the TAB, too,
Sorry my machine must have been updateing no problem withe the video now and mp4 works fine also.
No one has ever described this better, Griff. Awesome. Thanks.
Chuck played in b flat because that’s what key Johnnie Johnson played in. I believe it’s a piano key.
I think that high note double stop is so good because it sounds like the horn or whistle on a steam train.
Thanks for unraveling that !
Just what I’ve been working on so this is like Manna from heaven’.
Cool stuff Griff!
9/25/21
Thanks Griff, I like it!!
Is Chuck Berry the guitarist who bridged the blues and rock n roll?
I’m looking forward to the course. I don’t think anyone teaches Chuck better than Griff.
I always appreciate all that you show us and teach without any reservations. Thank you.
This is a course that really appeals to me, growing up in the 60s and 70s, but there is one snag – you’re not sending hard copy and discs outside of the US. Yes, I understand we are living in strange times with COVID-19, but no hard copy and no discs is a deal breaker for me, which is a shame because I already have several of your courses. I can only hope that things will get back to normal, whatever that may be, in the future.
Martin I hope so too. I’ve waited this out as long as I possibly can, because I know most of my customers prefer the hard copy. Unfortunately, it has gotten to the point where my shipments just disappear and I can’t afford to continually re-ship things, hoping they’ll one day arrive.
I’m a bit with Griff on this. I’m in Australia I’ve ordered various CDs from England and the biggest problem I’ve had is that it takes forever to get here due to the limited flights in Australia. And due to the lockdowns when they get here they sit in wharehouses for a week or two before delivery. While they have been delivered, most have been damaged. The most frustrating damage is where the CDs /DVDs sold with cardboard covers become warped due to sitting in wharehouses for weeks on end with heavy parcels on them.
Good stuff Griff, brings me back to high school when I was just a beginner! Drove my family nuts as My sisters husband was a
consumate Julliard grad. Ragged on me continuously.He truly was genius and conducted at Carnegie Hall a couple of times. Hes gone now but he’s best remembered for playing live everyday the opening theme song for the soap opera ‘ The Edge of Night on piano and organ.Paul Taubman.Being a musician he had the most intense stereo system of the time.Omg when he wasn’t home I’d put on Led Zep 1. THE WHOLE HOUSE WOULD SHAKE. LOL
Keep up the good work Griff.
Lou
Thanks Griff! Great Lesson Again!
You did duplicate The Great Chuck Berry Riffs and Sound!
Will purchase as soon as I finish Chord By Chord Blues Soloing…going through it as you suggested…like your friend did with the Charles Atlas instructions.
Go Griff Go!!!
Is it just a glitch in this video or do you normally have your fretboard diagrams rotated 180 degrees so that moving right on the fretboard is moving left on the diagram?
I also found it mentally confusing to picture Griff’s fretboard and the TAB upside down from each other. Left/Right, Up/Down, each reversed.
Great spund
Hey Griff, will you teach us how to duck walk too?
As always, Griff, your teaching skills are top notch, and I’ve never heard Chuck Berry riffs explained and demonstrated so clearly. It’s obvious that you love making music and sharing your knowledge and expertise with so many of your dedicated fans and subscribers. Keep it up!
Hey Griff, I am a great Fan of Chuck Berry and have most of the music for his famous songs. When I started to Learn Guitar back in 2013 my first Goal was to learn Johnny B Goode, still not there entirely but I had the song transcribed into the Key of A which makes it a lot easier to play and for me to sing it. Your Course is certainly the best and I will wait until Covid-19 allows freight to come from USA to Australia..I even have a Cherry Red Epiphone Dot 335 like Chuck Berry’s Gibson version..as someone here said do you teach the Duck Walk as well..all Good . Many thanks for all your good work bringing this course together.
Michael -Sydney-Australia Sept 28th 2021 – NSW In Covid-19 Lockdown since June 2021..
Hey Griff as you would know all the BGU and Classic Rock courses that I have already, I always get the Full Pack. Also I will be upgrading our Laptops in Nov 2021 to Win 11 and hopefully everything will work..Take care and stay safe..
Michael – Sydney- Australia Sept 28, 2021
Hi Griff, from Nova Scotia, Canada. I picked up the digital version of this new Chuck Berry Blues lessons and I am thoroughly enjoying it!
My favourite Chuck Berry tune is C’est la Vie. I is so romantic and has a wicked rhumba feel. Maybe you could give a lesson on that some day?
keep ‘er bluesy!
b
Thanks Griff. Lately I’ve been getting into the early jazz influened blues rock guitarists like T-bone Walker and Danny Cedrone. I would love to see some lessons of their work. Great work and thanks again.
I have always wondered how the old guys figured this stuff out. Yu are a skilled, and educated musician. Chuck was a house painter. Do yu think he,and others, just found the sound? especially since this sound was somewhat original.
Nice video Griff, I grew up with Chuck Berry and all the “old” rock n roll players.
I’ve heard you say this many times, so no matter what key you are in, if you play box 2 it becomes the major scale… ??? If so, that’s an awesome tip!