Topic: someone help me please

my email is  blinddog48@yahoo.com 
I see  on Johnny Rivers  Memphis Tennessee G///2///3///  wth does this mean
i want to learn the riff  can anyone help...email me i can even call you
Thx in advance

Re: someone help me please

I explained this to this member after he emailed me that is was only a G chord and the ////(slashes) were beats to a bar and the numbers 2 and 3 were the 2nd and 3rd bars so its a song in 4/4 time smile

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3 (edited by Russell_Harding 2010-08-19 03:34:31)

Re: someone help me please

Blinddog the tabs on this song in the index are not quite right I have played this song for many years both Chuck Berry's version as well as Johnny Rivers and Lonnie mack's(instrumental version) Johnny Rivers version is to the best of my memory in the Key of E major there are only two chords in the song E and B the intro is played by placing your finger on the b string 5th fret and playing both the b and e strings together for the first beat on the 2nd beat you slide your finger down to the 3 fret (D) then play the B string open after that you play note on the 3 string 2nd fret (A) then open G followed by an E on the 4th string 2nd fret to complete the riff the progression is E to B its not easy to describe but after the riff there are 4 bars of E and the singing starts on the last beat of the 4th bar (Long) to B (distance information etc... but there's an extra bar of E "cause my uncle took the" B message and etc....just watch a video of Johnny Rivers and you will get the idea where the chords change smile

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Re: someone help me please

I saw a video and he plays the song in G not E so slap a capo on the 3rd fret if you feel like singing it higher otherwise play it in E as discribed above the fingering is the same with a capo on this is the easiest way not the best but at least it will sound close

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