July you're feeling free wherever you are so what I'd like to do with this
video is share one of my favorite rock and roll riffs of all time this is going
introduction it's available on my website for a low price so go check that
out and then come back here to this video and I'll take you through it in
some detail now one of the things about this riff is that it's not only a great
thing to learn to play but it's going to build upon some of the rock and roll
style strumming that I shared in some other lessons
another nice side effect of learning this riff is that in order to play it
you're going to need to develop some skills of string embellishments some
slides to simulate string bending this is going to force your hand to play in a
more relaxed way and I think you're going to find it beneficial for all your
plane so what I'm going to do is play the solo for you sing a little bit have
any further ado Chuck Berry's ukulele version I'm Johnny be good - 1 2 3
let's took all of the money on the southern Trust and put a little bar pan
a Greyhound bus leave Lizzy and a fool the Golden West the tears streaming down
from a happiness grows a little baby boy named Johnny be good was set to make big
bullshit pictures I'm Johnny
well she carried his guitar in a gunny sack he'd sit beneath the trees by the
railroad track and the engine you see him sitting in the Sheikh strumming with
the rhythms and the drivers make the people passing by they'd stop and say my
how that little country ball can play go go johny johny be here's the breakdown
for the solo just making stuff up one more time
Czar's little too much coffee my blood right now well his mother told him
Sunday you will be a man you will be the leader of a big old baby the people
gonna come see you miles around now here you play your guitar while the
Sun Goes Down baby someday your name will be in lights go go go go
that's a different lesson Jimi Hendrix hey thanks for watching I'm just having
a great time playing for you and it comes out a little bit different every
time just doing my thing how it comes out in this moment and I hope that
you'll treat learning this tune and every tune the same way it's not about
trying to be perfect it's not about copying exactly what's on the page when
we learn what's on the page but ultimately we want to do it our own way
in fact that's the way it's going to happen anyway so it's a real nice thing
to honor the moment that you're in and honor where you're at so do your thing
so that said I want to show you some details of the strumming part and the
lead part now things that I think you'll find really helpful for other areas of
your playing so first let's talk about the strum part now up here there's a
link to another video I made about adding boogie woogie notes it's right
there adding boogie woogie notes to a 12 bar
blues progression now this rhythm part is different than
what's in the video in a couple of ways three ways actually first of all the
rhythm I'm playing is not a shuffle I'm not going I'm playing it with a driving
even eighth note feel the difference number two is that I am alternating just
notes with them fingering and the open strings and I'm going to show you the
pattern that I used in just a moment and the third way that this is different is
the g7 chord in the video that you clicked on up there what I'm showing you
is a simplified version of this where you're alternating the g7 in a g9 chord
so I'm taking that third finger off to open up the first string adding that a
note creates a g9 chord now for this I'm upping the ante a little bit
and I'm asking you to stretch the pinkie a little bit if you don't want to do
this if this is not possible for your hand for whatever reason just smile the
smile and play the g7 chord or use the g9 variation it's totally cool if you do
want to practice stretching the pinky what you want to do is you still the
court then you add the pinkie to the fourth fret then you stretch it to the
fifth fret and you move it back to the fourth fret then you lift it off all
right what's going to make this easier is if you soften up the hand especially
the thumb and you want to angle the hand instead of angling it that way you want
to angle it a little bit this way towards the soundhole
when you do that you make the pinkie closer to the fifth fret little make the
stretch a little bit easier soft hand angles now the pattern goes like this
notice how I'm playing the notes if I just played the notes on the fourth
string here it is with the strum
so the strum never stops moving down and up now I do it for the F chord
and on the g7 chord is okay so now some details about the lead part if you
haven't already done it please click on the link in the description below it'll
take you to my website store where you can buy a very modestly priced copy of
this tablature your support is so appreciated and lets me continue to do
what I do and help serve you now in this tablature sheet you're going to notice a
couple of things there are some lines below the numbers in the tab those are
lines telling you to slide in to a note so the very first note it says 4 on the
3rd fret and then there's a line below it that means you start below the note
in this case I'm blink B I'm sliding from 2 frets down you can slide from one
fret to even 3 or just an undetermined place sliding forces the hand to be
relaxed don't grip the ukulele neck tightly ooh that's a big mosquito don't
grip the ukulele neck tightly keep it loose this forces you to be loose so
before you try to play every mode in the solo hang out with the very first one
because you're going to learn so much about making a hand soft now the way you
think about this is forget about where you're sliding from just look at where
you're sliding to and yes three notes later you slide up two notes now you're
really gonna learn how to make a mini bar small bar just to two strings
covered and you're sliding notice also how my thumb stays relaxed and it
doesn't move I'm not going to it stays in place and I pivot around it finally I
up the ante for the thumb by making the downbeat of measure one two and three a
strum of all the strings so when you're sliding into that bar every string is
played and then you just go back to those two strings up top that mini bar
by the way is achieved by hinging the finger if your knuckle is not that
flexible yet just be patient with it don't force it you will develop some
flexibility in time so what we're going to do is you put the first finger on the
third fret of the second string and this is in measure six of your tablature then
you're going to put your third finger on the fifth fret and before you play angle
the hand just a little bit that way see then what you're going to do is you
going to pluck the note on the fifth fret of the third string first and slide
up to the 7th fret right away look what that's making you have to do you have to
open up the hand and slide relax it keep it soft now look where my thumb is it's
resting on the string and then I pluck
sounds like a pen okay and finally one other little detail because the note
you're bending to is a G sliding into is a G same pitch as your high g string if
you're playing a high g string ukulele you can just play all three strings or
any combination thereof right so it's a big wall of sound it makes your ukulele
sound huge because now you're not just playing one note you're not just playing
two notes you're playing three notes and they're all the same pitch because
they're always going to be a little bit out of tune free from each other you're
going to have this wonderful chorus effect rest of the tablature is pretty
straightforward hope you check it out all right so
that's my time thanks again for watching to the very end my name is Stuart Fuchs
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