Song · 1958
Sweet Little Sixteen
- Artist
- Chuck Berry
- Released
- 1958
- Guitar
- Chuck Berry
- Intro
- Rhythm part
What makes the part famous
The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.
Intro
The opening bars, played by the guitar alone or nearly: they announce the song.
Rhythm part
The accompaniment: the chords and strumming that carry the whole song.
Sweet Little Sixteen chords
What the studio found on the isolated guitar of the recording: the key and the chords, with fingerings that flow from one to the next.
- Key
- D♭ major
- Chords
- Db · Ab · Gb
Here the guitar mostly plays solos and riffs: these chords are the ones its lines outline, enough to back it or improvise over it.
The progressions that come back
- Db
- Ab
- Db
- Gb
- Db
- Ab
- Db
Analyze your own recording
Record yourself playing it, or upload a version you have the right to use: the studio isolates the guitar and finds the chords, tempo, strumming and fingerings, with a fretboard video and a PDF.
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