What Chuck Berry Taught Me In 12 Short Bars
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- How the intro solo from Johnny B Goode taught me about mixing pentatonics, rhythmic displacement & got me playing modes.
Tabs for solo:
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Not only can you read and write so well but you can play the guitar just like ringing a bell. Go Johnny Robson..go go Johnny Robson......top stuff again Jr...many thanks
Thank you from Canada for posting these videos. Who would've thought you could learn so much from a pop song?!! Apparently Chuck lifted this from a big band intro to a song. It was his version of the brass intro. Great stuff ...lessons..I am learning alot putting the pieces together. I have studied a little theory but you put it together in an easy to understand manner and in a way where I can start applying it to my playing right away. I am working on this for my retirement hobby. I have always wanted to play in a band and I am getting closer to it. I did play in a polka band on the drums with my brothers when I was 12...but that was not cool!! Being a guitar player in a band....yeah....
Informative in a no nonsense, down to earth style. Thanks for sharing your knowledge John.
In 1969 I borrowed a Harmony archtop (barbed wire action) f-hole guitar and began playing and two years later I was determined to learn the opening riff to J.B.G. because it was pretty much the baddest r'n'roll riff ever to open a song. In order to do this I took a record with the song and put it on the turntable and set the speed to 16 rpms (half speed) so that I could hear the riff note for note without getting too confused and for weeks I trained in that riff until I could play it by muscle memory and dang here it is again, slowed down and everything. Thank you.
that lil' colored boy can play.....The INTRO SOLO beginning with the 3dPOS d-note, then the f-note is the hot tip, me likey. thank you & Mr Berry sirs
Hi John. Thank you very much for this inspiring and clearly explained video. I always wanted to play this piece on a nylon string guitar, but the 8-full bent was to difficult, so I gave up. Then I bought an electric guitar. But of course this has some other challenges. Now I play 9-half bents on electric nylon and it sound very good. I also like your hybrid explanations, as I often was confused about major- minor changes. And you play very good. It is fun listen to you.
This is top stuff. John, you're on a winner here, you are very good at this IMO.
It's a combo of the obvious carefull preparation plus the engaging and relaxed presentation plus the colossal amount of cool information you impart in a short space of time without the viewer realising it and going "OMG, take cover, another incomprehensable theory vid incomming" (due to said carefull preparation and engaging and relaxed presentation).
Ain't got time to look at any more for now, so I just hit the subsciber button instead :) Good luck with the channel.
1234gregor Thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed it. 😀
Light bulb moment for me - very illuminating! Thanks
NICELY DONE JOHN !!
JayJKay HouseOfHarley's Cheers mate 👍😀🎸
Thanks for the insight and tabs. Nice job
Enjoyed your presentation here👍
2 thumbs down? Who could not like this video?
Hello John. Just watched your chuck berry video, loved it. I watch all your videos when I can, and always find them informative. I was wondering, where you find all the great backing tracks to your lead accomplishments. Thanks Alan B
Cheers mate. The backing tracks are all my own work 👍
Hate to say it Jon,,,,, but it looked scary too me ! Hahaha..!!!! TY Mate ! If it was easy, it wouldn't be fun !!!!
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p.s. I discovered, somewhat to my horror and somewhat smugly superior P.O.V. (learning the riff note for note) that most guitar players on record did not play the riff like Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix, btw, did learn the riff note for note and he played it really really fast in his shows. Most guitar players were faking it! Hot shots in bands! Big hair in mansions! Faking it. Not John. Oh, no, not Johnny Bloody-Not-for-Note Robson, guitar player.
Dave Edmunds...Did you see the guitar heroes..or legends i think it was called way back around 91/2..ish..?
T'was on the telebox...
They had Bo Diddley..B.B. .. Satriani etc etc etc....many of the greats..
Anyway Dave opened with Sabre Dance...Awesome...Problem was no one was gonna follow that now..were they...
Anyone who hasn't seen him play Sabre Dance..you ain't lived...
It's very interesting how you rationalise ideas and run them through the musical theory grinder. Us 'ear'players are not inhibited or constrained by such things and revel in blissful ignorance. As long as we can hear it in our head we can play it. I would be the first to admit it is a double edged sword and Achilles heel rolled into one. There are times when that promising little tune can falter and we are left groping in the dark and wondering, 'what happened there' or 'what comes next' but that is the fascination and challenge. A bit like completing a jigsaw puzzle. In your case, you simply reference the theory logic box, follow the rules and meet somewhere in the middle, the difference being that you actually know what you are playing and why rather than trusting in trial and error and hoping the muse is in the neighbourhood!
MartinJG100 Thanks mate. I think the "theory grinder" thing comes from my fascination with knowing how stuff works & wanting to make sense of it. As a child I would take my new bike to pieces to figure out how the gears worked, or try wiring the TV speaker into the "radiogram" to see if I could record audio from TOTP without having to hold the mic up to the speaker. I guess it's why I ended up working in a lab (briefly) before music took over as a profession... I just like to figure stuff out 😀
Thanks for watching & I hope you get something from the videos 👍
Wow
I was just going to watch this quickly....
Ended up pausing it, writing and rewriting notes and fret diagrams
[Bins need to go out for the boys from Durham....]
Then I'm going to watch this again
I'm back again
This time armed with more knowledge
Still not 100% in my mind, but getting there
I'm determined to get this song, not just play it by rote, but the understanding of it
As an (getting on for) wrinkly beginner, I'm finding the theory quite difficult to follow and think, rightly or wrongly, I need to be learning the fretboard before embarking on scales? Therefore, looking forward to the tutorial on how your learned the notes? I do like your presentation though
Seems to me that the hybrid Major/Minor pentatonic scale is very important to know.
Now I would like to see how the same scale works in different positions...and can you mix say position 1 of the A minor pentatonic with position 3 of the A major pentatonic?
I dont think that would work at all, but Im curious.
Great video!
Thanks
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