"Heartbreak Hotel" Solo

Elvis Presley

  • Lesson Type

    song

  • Instructor

    Jon MacLennan

  • Time to Finish

    6:20

In this lesson, we’ll be showing you how to play the solo from “Heartbreak Hotel.” It’s a fun one to play and uses a lot of lead techniques that will come in handy on so many blues solos.

You’ll be playing:

  • String muting
  • Eighth note triplet strum
  • Double stops
  • Slides
  • Bends
  • Single note down picking
  • Swing feel