Back At The Chicken Shack
The main part of this is double
stops
• Double stops are playing 2 notes together,
usually on consecutive strings.
• Chuck Berry did mainly double stops.
• Called stops as when you press down on
a note it is referred to as stopping the
note.
• This can be lots of fun. You will find that
this tune is actually very easy and has lots
of repeated ideas.
Start with pickups
To do this barre the 3rd fret with the index
finger across the 1st 4 strings. Use your ring
finger on the 1st note, then hit the 2nd and 3rd
strings and immediately hammer on the 3rd
string 4th fret with the middle finger.
Then flatten your ring finger to ½ barre at the 5th
fret and play the 2nd & 3rd strings. Lastly switch to
5th position and using the 2nd and 3rd fingers play
the 2nd string 6th fret and 3rd string 7th fret
together
2nd group is just backwards from
first part
Notice that the next part is backwards of the 1st part. Here ½ barre the 5th fret
with the ring finger and play the 2nd and 3rd strings. Then ½ barre the 3 fret with
the index finger and play the same 2 strings, immediately hammer on the 4th fret
of the 3rd string with the middle finger then play the 4th string 5th fret with the ring
finger.
See how the next measure is the same as the beginning.
Now move everything up 5 frets to the 8th position. It is exactly the same but up
8 frets. It is now against a C7 chord.
Back down to G7 – same as first time!!
See how just one simple phrase is
used over and over again. This makes
learning this very easy. These ideas
can also be used for soloing.
Now one more easy line
This is an easy line to do also. Start in 4th position. Middle plays 5th fret 5th
string, then index plays 4th string 4th fret 2 times, then middle plays 5th fret, ring
plays 6th fret, and pinky plays 7th fret. Then a D9 chord. Next move the whole
idea down 2 frets for the C7 chord. D9 at the 4th fret and C9 at the 2nd fret.
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Last turn
This one last main idea is to play in 3rd position.
Very similar to beginning but not double stops.
Ring plays 5th fret 4th string, index 3rd string 2nd
fret, middle to 3rd string 4th fret, to index 2nd string
3rd fret and lastly the 5th fret 4th string again. The
only hard part is that the 3 notes in the middle
are triplets (3 notes in the time of 1 beat).
This measure before the repeat is like the rest of the song but has a D7 in
the middle. See below
D7
4th fret
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2
3
Now learn it and solo to it.
• As you can see there are only 3 parts to
this song.
• Memorize it. Good blues to play with
others. Try it in other keys.
• Soloing is just a blues. Use any of the
techniques talked about with the blues.