Tutorial #2 - Chuck Berry Rock 'n' Roll Riff - Jez Quayle

In this video I teach how to play and use one of the most popular riffs in rock 'n' roll. If you want to play rock 'n' roll in a band, or one-man-one-guitar rock 'n' roll as I often do on this channel, it's one of the 'go to' guitar riffs. You can hear versions of this boogie, rhythm riff on recordings from the 1950s through to the present day. It's really a movable version of the 'first position' riffs I introduced in Tutorial #1, and what I teach here builds on some of the ideas presented in that earlier video. Guitarists will often refer to this as the 'Chuck Berry riff', since it was used by Chuck on so many of his classic records, including: 'Johnny B Goode'; 'Carol'; 'Sweet Little Sixteen'; 'Let It Rock'; 'Little Queenie'; and 'School Days'. Eddie Cochran, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Status Quo, and many others, have used this riff, not only to play Chuck Berry songs, but on any songs needing a hard-driving, rockin' guitar sound. You'll hear it on The Beatles' recordings of 'Long Tall Sally' and 'R