Chords for Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock - Guitar Tutorial (OLDIE GUITAR LESSONS)

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_ _ _ [Bm] This is the guitar lesson for the King Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock from Guitar Made
Easy dot com.
For this one guys, I hate to [Ab] break it to you, but you've got to tune your guitar a half
step down, at least [B] to play along with the original recording.
[Gb] So let's begin.
The song is very simple.
[Bb] There's basically two parts to this [Ab] song.
You have the very easy power chord part, [Eb] _ _ _ which all I'm doing is I'm on the, [G] _ what is this,
the sixth and the eighth fret, and I just slide up to the [B] seventh and ninth.
So I go, [D] _ _ [Eb] _ _
I actually don't slide, I pluck it [D] twice.
So I go pluck once on the sixth and eighth, and then I move it to an [G] E chord, which is
on the seventh and ninth, an E power [Ebm] chord.
_ Do that four times.
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Eb] _ _
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Doesn't get much easier than that, does it?
_ _ [Abm] The next part of the song goes like this. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ It's just the 12 bar blues.
[Abm] This is actually the 12 bar blues in the key of E, [Eb] so it's your standard.
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ This picking part is a little bit more complicated.
How it starts off is on the fifth fret with the E string, and we just go down, up, [Ab] down,
up, down, up, down, up.
_ So I have my pinky on the fifth fret on the E string, and I go down, up, and then ring
finger on the fourth fret on the [C] A string, _ pointer finger on [Eb] the second fret on the D
string, and then we take our [D] ring finger and we [Fm] go, on the downstroke, we put it on the
fourth fret on the D string, and then [Eb] we take it off.
[Ab] So it should sound _ [Eb] like_
_ _ [Eb] _ And this part is [G] very heavily palm muted, so make sure to keep your palm [Ab] on the strings. _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ The next part is down here.
It's going to go open on the E string, ring finger [A] _ on the [Eb] fourth fret E string, [Gb] _ [Bb] and then
pointer finger on the second fret on the A string, _ _ and then [C] ring finger _ [Bb] _ _
on the fourth
[B] fret on the A string on [Bb] the downstroke, and then on the upstroke, take [Eb] it off.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
And now remember that picking pattern and fingering pattern we just used a [Ab] second ago,
[Db] starting on the fifth fret on the E string?
We're going to slide that same shape and everything up to the seventh fret and do the same thing again.
So _ [Fm] _ [Ab] do that once, [G] then back to the fifth fret, _ [Eb] _ then we [F] finish on the open E. _
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[Bb] _ _ [B] _ [C] Once again,
that whole thing [G] very slowly, it should sound like this.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] Back into [B] the verse of the song. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] Now for the guitar solo, it's very simple.
All it is is up here around the _ twelfth fret, and it first goes off like this.
You make an [Bb] E triad, which is you bar the [D] twelfth fret with your pointer finger on the
E string and the B string, take your middle finger and put that on the thirteenth fret
on the G string, and you [Eb] go. _ _
_ _ _ So once again, _ _
_ _ _ [N] the next lick is a unison bend.
Your pointer finger stays on the twelfth fret, and your [Eb] ring finger bends up a full step.
On an [Ab] acoustic guitar, it's a little bit more complicated.
It's a lot easier on an electric guitar.
But you bend this [F] up a full step right [B] there. _ _
_ It goes. _ _ _
Hear that? _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] So, pointer finger on the twelfth fret B string, [Ab] ring finger on the fourteenth fret G string.
You bend [B] your ring finger up _ _ [F] to the sixteenth fret [Bb] while you keep [B] your pointer finger on
that twelfth fret.
So you strum both strings at the [Ebm] same time, _ and you bend it up like that and you go.
[B] _ _ _ _ And then you go to [Bb] a B power chord on the seventh and ninth fret. _ _ _
[Bm] Then slide that down to the fifth and [Ab] seventh.
Do it again. _ _
Then you make [Eb] an E major shape and you go. _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] So what I did there was I took my pinky and I put that onto the G string.
I go, right now it's off, and I'm focusing on strumming just the D [Eb] and the G string.
Hear that right there?
Then I take my pinky and I put [Abm] it on the [G] G string [Eb] at the second fret.
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[G] Okay, so all together it sounds like this.
[Eb] _ _ _ _
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_ _ After the guitar solo you [E] go back into the verse [Ab] again and the song actually finishes on.
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_ _ [Bm] I hope you guys [N] have liked it.
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