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[Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, what's up, you guys? Marty Schwarz here with Marty Music. Going to break down "Johnny B. Goode" for you right now. I did this lesson like 10 years ago. Just thought I'd revisit it again. Maybe show you some new aspects. It'll be in higher definition, etc.
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All right, one of the most famous guitar uh riffs of all time. Might as well do it in higher definition. Maybe I'm a better guitar teacher now, years later, 10 years later. Um, we're blues in B flat. So, you've got what's called the one chord, which would be the sixth fret E string root, power chord with the Then you've got the four chord, which is next door. Sixth fret A root. back to the one. Then the five chord, which is the eighth fret A root. So, I'll go over that some more uh a little bit later. We want to get right to the good stuff.
[Music] So that combines the blues scale or minor [Music] pentatonic and then also the Mixolydian scale, but it doesn't use the whole thing. It kind of hybrids both of those together. And a big part of that sound too is the when you're in that spot, hammering from the and sliding the minor third to the major [Music] third. And so that's um just hammering from six to the seven on the G string there. So those are just little tips. Let's get into it.
First thing I'm going to do is slide up to the seventh fret G string with my middle finger. You can slide from however far back. You could do a half step. I think a half step would be implied, but you can do a whole step. You can slide all the way from the first fret. You know, that kind of thing. So, we're just sliding though with our middle finger up to the seventh fret G string. And then we're going six to eight on the B string, which that comes from, you could call that the major pentatonic or uh it's the same notes that are in B flat Mixolydian. Then we're going to grab this little cluster of the B and the high E. And I'm going to slide from the fifth fret up a half step. And you're sliding up. You're not hearing it slide back down. So five to six half [Music] step. Then it goes down that Mixolydian scale but with that hammer on. right there. So, let's uh recap what we have so [Music] far.
Now, this goes uh 9, 8, 6 on the B string, which is from that B flat Mixolydian. And then I need to get my index finger to roll over to the sixth fret G so I can hammer up to the seven with my middle [Music] finger and then a little da da on the root B flat note, which is the eighth fret D [Music] string. Now we have another little piece. could consider it once again B flat major pentatonic or B flat Mixolydian. The notes are in both of those scales. Next, it's mostly I mean, I don't know if he's originally was going to hold the whole bar chord, but you're hearing that little piece of it. So that is the eighth fret A and D and then a little piece of that major again. So da da da da da. Then we're doing that same slide as the very first note of the song, but we're going to be grabbing that sixth fret B with our index finger. Middle finger is on the seventh fret G. Um, and you're going to slide it. Slide it. You could you could hold the cluster, but you're really hearing that G string alone first. And then you hear this little double stop together. And on the B string, it's doing 6, 8 [Music] 6.
All [Music] right. For the top. [Music] So, what we're going to do is we're going to switch our middle finger is on the seventh fret G, but we're going to switch it to the third finger so we can slide it into this what I consider the B flat major pentatonic um position with the right [Music] fingers. Third finger so we can get that index finger be on that third fret G behind it. So then I'm switching right there to the seventh fret G. And I pick that G string and slide it to the fifth fret. And then I get third fret and then fifth fret D. [Music] Then I'm going to go right back into this classic more blues scale minor pentatonic [Music] zone like that. Um, and so that is holding that little cluster that we did earlier. You know, it's classic blues rock, Chuck Berry classic guitar technique. And so it's really more the B string, but you can hold that cluster down. And third finger is going to be on the eighth fret G string. And I use my middle finger glued with my third finger together. And so I'm bending that G string [Music] [Music] up and then one final bend on that G string. So let's see. [Music] to that little run right there starts on that root and I'm doing it's the sixth fret high E, 9, 8, 6 on the E. Then I'm going to the eighth fret high E, which this is once again, you call that the ninth, the nine. And it's still from B flat Mixolydian. [Music] So once I'm on that eighth fret high E, I go down that same set of notes, which would be 8, 6, 9, 8, 6, 8 on the G and then six hammered to [Music] [Music] seven. And when you're hammering that, you can subtly also hit the sixth fret B high E or just alone. But it's [Music] that, you know, it's a little root chord triad, B flat major triad. It's all, you know, chord tones, I guess you could say. So this little part. Let's do it from the top of that. Let's see. [Music] So that last little You kind of kind of rake across the strings, but I'm really just covering that um sixth fret B high E. The rest is kind of [Music] muted. So, it's a little combination of stuff that we've already done in this intro. You drag that across and then right back to the 9, 8, 6 on the B string. Then from earlier of that it does that two of [Music] those. So, I'm bending that uh eighth fret G string up, grabbing that sixth fret B, back down to the uh eighth fret natural G, and then hammering from the six to the seven on the G there. [Music] So, there's a couple cool little tips. I recommend a looper pedal. I'll talk about the rhythm, then I'll talk about the loop that you can do that's really fun. And I've done it a million times on my Saturday live streams at 1:00 Pacific time. Um, B flat power chord or a B flat 5. So that's sixth fret E, eighth fret A, and then your pinky goes up a whole [Music] step. Then you just go right next [Music] door back to the first [Music] one. Then up a whole step. And that's the eighth fret A root power chord. Same exact thing. Stays there. [Music] [Music] Now, with a looper pedal, you can do a recording of that progression, but what I recommend you do is you actually start it on the four chord. You still play the the whole progression through, but you start it on that four chord, the sixth fret A root. And that way when you turn the loop off and then turn it back on, it hits the part for the intro because the intro starts with no [Music] music. Boom. And it's on this chord. D. So you can even just kind of sing it out or play it in your mind. I'll do it out loud with my uh voice here. And I won't go super fast. D. Then the four chord. One chord. Five chord. Back to the one. Going to keep going till I get to that four chord. Then get stop the loop here. There it is. Tempo's okay. But so then I stop the loop and you if I click it on, you'll hear it's the that chord, not that chord. Right? So now when I play it and I click the looper on, it's going to be just like my little backing band for that intro. [Music] Right. So, one more time. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. All [Music] right, I hope you guys dug the lesson. Thank you again for your continued support. Really appreciate it so much. Don't forget to to get that free uh ultimate guitar guide, which has all the chords, scales, arpeggios, triads, everything for your foundation of guitar, all for free in that PDF book. So get that in the link below. Thank you for supporting Marty Music. Feel free to request stuff you'd like to see in the comments below. I'll be checking that out. And uh hope to see you again. See you later. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]