Play Like Chuck Berry: Inspired Licks

Chuck Berry wrote and played some of the most iconic rock and roll guitar licks of all time. Today, we’re going to take a look at one of those Chuck Berry licks in detail so you can go to town with it!

This one comes out of the pentatonic minor 2 position scale; basically just the pentatonic minor scale with part of the adjacent pentatonic major scale tacked on. All riffs come out of a scale. You can kick, scream, and argue, but it will never change the cold hard facts. That’s why it is so important to learn your scales – it gives you a framework within which to quickly learn new riffs.

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Alright, grab your guitar, and let’s dive into the lesson. Colin Daniel goes into more detail on this type of stuff inside the Riff Ninja Academy.

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  1. You’re very good Colin , but play the riff first in real time to peak our interest so we care to watch more. lf you don’t play riff first , n go straight into the dink dink dink , level, it is harder to follow with as much interest as if riff played first.

  2. Great lesson Colin!  This Orange belt Ninja really enjoys following your methodology.  Keep these lessons coming!  How about a quick one on Tommy Bolin and Robin Trower?  I notice some similarities this lesson has with the much longer John Fogerty lesson within the Riff Ninja members site.  thanks!!!

  3. I seem to be unable to access the lessons from this screen. I’ve registered w/ the “Learn to Play Guitar by Email” to no avail. What do you suggest?

    1. Hi Richard, we’re trying to get this fixed – it seems to be a problem only when people are using an older version of Internet Explorer. Is that what you’re using? I’d recommend updating, or else using a different web browser, such as FireFox, Chrome, or Safari.

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