Welcome to another one of my easy to play lessons. Today I am going to teach you another great popular song that was done by Elvis Presley and it was called Teddy Bear.
It is a song that has a definite beat to it. What I am going to show you here is how to play the notes to get you enough that you can actually play it. Then once you get a little bit better in playing then, you can start adding up a beat with your left hand or instead of any chords, you may alter one at the time. I am sure everybody knows how the songs goes, so once you have learned the song, then all you need to do is try to get the beat to it okay. I will practice for you, I will go through the first part and show you what we are going to learn.
Very simple actually, chord wise, we are going to use a C, so find your C, here is your Brad spread, every second note that is going to give you a C chord. Then you are going to use an F in there and there is a G in there but we are going to use this as a G7, so instead of playing the note here this D, play the D down here, okay. So leave the other two fingers the way they are, so you got this D, G and B here.
You are going to play the G that way but we are going to make it into a seventh, you can see it is making it sound better, but we are going to add this after note right here to it. So, you have this note. Okay so those four—that is a G7. Add just a little bit of a nice sound to it, so starting off here with our right hand.
Okay let us just do that part first, we will move with a chord this time. We are staring actually on the E down here and a C chord. We are going to an F chord back to the C and the next part goes, then down here right down to the bottom G here. Let us go through that again, we will do that with the chord. G7, and then took everything off, come right down here with your right hand and do it again. G7, take everything off. Then from your C chord again you could do it that way. Let us just go through that whole first section again. Okay, nice and slow, we are staring off C chord and we are starting off with the E here. G7 here, down here, that is the first part.
The next section, the first it was very repetitive actually, so you will learn that faster, okay let us go through it once for you here. I hope you got that down already. So let us go into that, we are going to use an F chord and we are going to go up starting from the G here, move up to a G, F chord, G, okay, it is four times.
Okay I am moving on to the second part of the song and it goes, okay. This is where your repetitive, this part so you will learn it fast. Okay I will show the ending after that, okay to start that off we are going to use an F chord, we are going to go up to a G back to an F. Make sure you go back and forth between those two chords okay. So we are going to use an F here, right down again, back down again right down to your C. I bet you did not know it was that simple to play did you, let us do it one more time now.
G, back to your F, G, four times back to your C chord there okay. And then you would go back and play the first part of the song again and then you go through the chorus, anything different the second time around is the ending. And when you are doing this part right the end you go and then you are going to go. So, I will do that one more time to your C chord, got that and then if you want to finish something at the end of the song just to make it sound good. Just take your C chord and that set of note to it, you can fit all four fingers in there, you do the same thing with your right hand. So you got eight fingers going there, probably the most I have you worked yet okay. So you got here, here, okay so it would end up sound like this.
Just a nice finishing to the song, have some fun with that. Practice a little bit and like I said—when you learn the chords, just try to put a little bit of beat into the left hand of your song. Have some fun with it.
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