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 up8 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.

12 3 3 3

D9 at the 4th fret and C9 at the 2nd fret.

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

12 3

D7

4th fret

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.