Lesson Description

This lesson has 10 chapters. The Performance shows you right away that we’re going to be demanding quite a bit of you here. That boogie-woogie pattern is an essential part of playing rock ‘n roll. In the Overview you get the song history, and you hear about the different versions that the Beatles recorded. In the Intro section Peter takes a lot of time to demonstrate and explain the boogie opening to the song.  In the Verse he drills you more on this “shuffle” technique and shows you how it applies as accompaniment to the singing. The next chapter, Verse Section 2, introduces the “Charleston Rhythm” pattern that the Beatles use on the second part of the verse. This is a percussive pattern that requires you to develop considerable right hand control. The next chapter is Verse Section 3. It is a complex rhythmic pattern that we decided not to chart it out because it looked too scary. Instead we’ve got Peter playing it for you and then repeating it over and over so that you get to learn by doing. Next comes the Slow Practice where you put it all together in a relaxed jam with Peter. Finally we have two Bonus Chapters for you. In Bonus Chapter 1 we show you George’s very cool guitar riff that comes at the end of the verse.  In Bonus Chapter 2 you learn the opening lead riff that the Beatles probably got from Chuck Berry.