Hit The Road Jack - Easy Ukulele Lesson - Ray Charles - Play-a-longs w/Tabs Ukulele Tutorial

Another great beginner song for your Ukulele, today we are teaching you Hit The Road Jack by the great Ray Charles. First we grab our Ukulele teach you the chords, and than the basic strum pattern and than the medium version and than the complicated version. The Hit The Road Jack Ukulele lesson contains tabulator for the song and changing graphics as well so you can make sure that you hit this song out of the park. Hit The Road Jack has a none diatonic chord as well, the E7 is supposed to be in Em chord in normal minor harmony so that E7 in this beginner song not only gives you a sophisticated sound on your Ukulele but the it has a driving groove that is fantastic as well. The groove of hit The Road Jack is a fundamental part of this beginner song as well.

A little bit of history about Hit the Road Jack. It was written by R&B legend Percy Mayfield and once recorded by Ray Charles the song hit number one on the the Billboard chart for two weeks. It also hit #1 on the R&B chart and stayed there for 5 weeks, making Hit The Road Jack Ray Charles' 8th song to do as much. Hit the Road Jack is #387 on Rolling Stones 500 greatest songs list.

Hit The Road Jack - Easy Ukulele Lesson - Ray Charles