Chords for Hound Dog - Elvis Presley - Easy Upper Beginner Ukulele Tutorial - Rock'n'roll Blues Ukulele

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_ _ [E] Hey, what's up, Hound Dogs?
This is Tyler from 10 Thumbs.
We're doing Elvis Presley today, all right?
You know, he was the king of rock and roll.
[N] Well, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley.
We're not going to open that can of worms.
Instead, we're just going to teach you this 12-bar blues classic, Hound Dog by Elvis Presley.
[G] Really, really easy jam.
I'm going to teach you an easy way to break it [Am] down.
It's just an easy 12-bar blues with [E] three chords.
Then I'm going to show you how to spice it up and make it a little more Elvis Presley-like,
[Ab] all right?
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But if you came just for this song, you came just to rock and roll, let's [E] break it down,
okay?
All right, grab your ukulele, grab your brain, grab your attention span, follow me on into [Ab] the list.
You ain't nothing but a hound dog.
Elvis [A] Presley, a Memphis boy, all right?
So here we go.
You need three [Ab] chords.
You need [A] an A chord, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] you need a D chord, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ and [Em] you need an [Abm] E [E] chord, okay?
_ _ I play the E chord like this, but you can always play the E chord like this, _
[Em] all right?
So now, this [C] is based around a 12-bar blues.
[A] So it's going to be four bars of A. _
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, [D] four.
Two of D.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, [A] three, four.
One, two, three, four.
Two more A.
One, two, [E] three, four.
One of E.
One, two, three, [D] four.
One, two, three, [A] four.
Two of A.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, [E] three, four.
And then it starts over, [D] okay?
_ So that's the foundation of the song, and we can build up [A] with it.
So let's add a strum pattern.
We're going to do a down, down, up, up, down, up.
So on A, it _ _ goes_ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Now that's [Gb] enough for you to play the song.
You [A] ain't nothing but a hound dog, _ _ _ _ barking all the time.
_ _ You ain't nothing but [D] a hound dog, _ _ _ [A] barking all the time.
_ Well, you ain't [E] never caught no [D] rather than you ain't no [A] friend of mine. _ _ _
[Dm] Okay?
Now, _ we're going to [D] spice it up.
I like to get the groove going like [A] this. _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ So the strum pattern goes like this.
Down, up, you, up, up, you.
Down, up, you, up, up, you.
Down, up, you, up, [E] up, you.
And that happens [A] one time on each chord.
So down, up, you, up, up, [F] you is one [G] bar, okay?
So when you apply [Bb] that to the context of the song,
four bars of [A] A look like this. _ _ _ _ _
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_ Two of [D] E. _ _ _ _
_ _ Two of A.
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_ _ _ One of [E] E. _ _
_ [D] _ One of D.
_ [A] Two of A. _
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_ Okay, now let's look at how we [E] can spice it up that [A] turnaround.
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Okay, you look at the turnaround [E] from the E. _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ In the song on the A, there's a drum roll.
So you can even _ [E] play something _ _ like_
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One E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a one. _
_ And on that one, you let it [D] pause.
You ain't nothing [A] but a hound.
And on the hound, you come back [E] in.
So the turnaround can sound like this.
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_ And you go right back into the song. _ _
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Okay, [Em] so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna play through that 12-bar blues two [G] times for you, okay?
So I'm gonna take it from the top, play through that loop two times,
and it's just a 12-bar [F] blues loop that repeats itself over and over again.
So here [A] we go. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ You ain't nothing but a hound, though.
_ All right, Elvis Presley.
[E] 12-bar blues.
If you want to take [D] a solo, _ [Am] _ _
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[C] E minor pentatonic will work,
but you need to be careful of the major third.
Or you could do E, or I'm sorry, A minor pentatonic will work,
but you have to be careful of the major third or A major pentatonic, [Ab] all right? _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ All right, hound dogs.
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I told you it was gonna be fun.
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