Heartbreak Hotel Technique

With such a large catalog and so many hits, it's difficult to declare one song Elvis Presley's calling card. Still, you could make the case that "Heartbreak Hotel" is that song."Heartbreak Hotel"...

"Heartbreak Hotel" follows a basic eight-bar blues progression, and Presley generally started it with an E chord. In the recording done in the RCA studio he was backed up by his usual trio (Scotty...