I teach the strumming patterns I use when playing open chord rock and roll like this in my Tutorial #5: https://youtu.be/nbVEQ7gzQkU
You can learn some of the most commonly used riffs in rock and roll and rockabilly from my other guitar tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3k8ba924QgZ_-jUIMEvUcfn8iBdZBwuH
If you’d like to buy a copy of my new chord songbook ’50 from the Fifties’, which contains 50 classic rock ‘n’ roll and rockabilly songs that can be played with just 4 easy open chords, then search for ‘Jez Quayle’ and ‘Rock and Roll’ on Amazon. Unfortunately, I can’t provide a single Amazon link that will work all around the world.
If Amazon says ‘out of stock’, or you’d prefer not to use Amazon, you can also purchase the songbook from Lulu.com in paperback or as an eBook (pdf format). Here’s the Lulu.com link: https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&page=1&pageSize=10&q=50%20From%20the%20Fifties&sortBy=RELEVANCE
If you live in the UK follow this Amazon link:
If you live in the USA follow this Amazon link:
You can, of course, purchase from Amazon in any country (I think).
Here’s a contents list for the songbook:
Ain’t That a Shame – Fats Domino
All Shook Up – Elvis Presley
(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care – Elvis Presley / Buddy Holly
Be-Bop-a-Lula – Gene Vincent
Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Perkins / Elvis Presley
Breathless – Jerry Lee Lewis
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man – Chuck Berry / Buddy Holly
C’mon Everybody – Eddie Cochran
Cut Across Shorty – Eddie Cochran
Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby – Carl Perkins
Good Golly Miss Molly – Little Richard / Jerry Lee Lewis
Good Rockin’ Tonight – Elvis Presley
Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis
Hard Headed Woman – Elvis Presley / Wanda Jackson
Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis Presley
Hound Dog – Elvis Presley
I’m Walkin’ – Fats Domino
Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley / Jerry Lee Lewis
Johnny B Goode – Chuck Berry / Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Queenie – Chuck Berry / Jerry Lee Lewis
Long Tall Sally – Little Richard / Eddie Cochran
Matchbox – Carl Perkins
Maybellene – Chuck Berry
Mean Woman Blues – Jerry Lee Lewis
Memphis Tennessee – Chuck Berry
My Baby Left Me – Elvis Presley
Oh Boy! – Buddy Holly
(Let’s Have a) Party – Elvis Presley / Wanda Jackson
Rave On – Buddy Holly
Ready Teddy – Little Richard / Buddy Holly
Reelin’ and Rockin’ – Chuck Berry
Right Behind You Baby – Ray Smith / Charlie Rich
Rip It Up – Little Richard / Bill Haley
Rock and Roll Music – Chuck Berry
Rock Around the Clock – Bill Haley and His Comets
Rock ‘n’ Roll Ruby – Warren Smith / Jerry Lee Lewis
Roll Over Beethoven – Chuck Berry
Schooldays – Chuck Berry
See You Later Alligator – Bill Haley and His Comets
Shake, Rattle and Roll – Bill Haley and His Comets / Big Joe Turner
Skinny Jim – Eddie Cochran
Slippin’ and Slidin’ – Little Richard/Buddy Holly
Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran
That’ll Be the Day – Buddy Holly
That’s All Right – Elvis Presley
Too Much Monkey Business – Chuck Berry
Tutti Frutti – Little Richard / Elvis Presley
Twenty Flight Rock – Eddie Cochran
Ubangi Stomp – Warren Smith / Jerry Lee Lewis
White Lightnin’ – Big Bopper / George Jones
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On – Jerry Lee Lewis
