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 Jimmy Buffet
Guitar Tabs & Sheet Music
Jimmy Buffet Guitar Lesson
Born: 25 December 1946
Birthplace: Pascagoula, Mississippi
Best Known As: Singer of the pop hit "Margaritaville"
Buffett's Caribbean style single "Margaritaville" (1977)
established him as a prominent musical advocate for beaches,
bars and laid back Caribbean style living. Many of his top
hits consist of easy to play (strummed) guitar chords,
including : "Weather is Here", "Wish You Were Beautiful" and
"Cheeseburger in Paradise, and habe continued on steadily
as followed by his own personal fan club known as "Parrotheads",
who continue to remain devoted to Jimmy's laid back music style
and sing alone to his older classic hits to new releases that
include : "It's 5 O'clock Somewhere", "Trip around the Sun"
"Liscence To Chill" and many more.
Jimmy and his Coral Reefer band toured regularly throughout the
1980s and 1990s and has released more than two dozen albums,
including A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1973),
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (1977), Son of a Son
of a Sailor (1978) and Boats, Beaches, Bars and Ballads (1994).
He also has had success as a writer, that includes his literature
A Pirate Looks at Fifty (1998), the short story collection Tales
From Margaritaville (1989) and his popular novel Where Is Joe
Merchant? (1992). His duet with Alan Jackson, "It's Five O'Clock
Somewhere," hit #1 on the country music charts and won "Vocal Event
of the Year" at the 2003 Country Music Awards...
Much of Jimmy's laid back playing style relies on basic open
position guitar chords and easy guitar strumming patterns.
Part 1 teaches the basic chords that Jimmy uses in easy to learn
guitar tablature. Part 2 teaches some basic stumming exercises
that make good warm up exercise's to begin learning the basic's
outline of how this great songwriter/musician plays using his
laid back strumming style. Part 3 gives guitar chords and lyrics
samples to help provide a better understanding of the overall
picture.
Lesson Begins.......................
Alternate Strumming Exercises
Exercise #1 is a "beginner-level" introduction. It's best at first
to coordinate the strumming motions before attempting to switch
or change chords. This exercise demonstrates a basic alternate
strum using the chord C major.
Symbols used are: d=down u=up m=muted strings
Exercise #1
C major
Intro Then as follows........................
m m m m m
d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
Exercise #2 * Changing Chords F * G * C
F
m m
d u d u d u d u
G
m m
d u d u d u d u
C
m m m m
d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
Jimmy Buffet Guitar Songs
#1
Jimmy Buffett and Martina Mcbride
Trip around the Sun
Album: License to Chill
Capo on 2
Sample Of Verse's
G Bm
Here 'em singing happy birthday
A G
Better think about the wish I make
A Bm G D
This year gone by ain't been a piece of cake
Chorus
G
I'm just hanging on while this old world keeps
D
spinning
Bm A G
And it's good to know it's out of my control.
G
If there's one thing that I've learned from all this
D
living
Bm A G
Is that it wouldn't change a thing if I let go.
______________________________
#2
License To Chill
Intro: G * F * C
D
Work, work, work
C
Big pile of it, and the
G
boss is a jerk
D
I just wanna disappear
C G
Wishin' I was somewhere other than here
C G
Livin' for the weekend
C G
Jumpin' off the deep end
Am7 F
With just enough money to buy
F G
A license to chill
F C G
And I believe I will
Let the rat race run
Bb
Roll around in the sun, until
D Em
Trouble turns funny
C
Songs get sung
D Em
A little bit of money
C
The night's still young
D Em
Leave me alone
F
I got a license
G
A license to chill...
Guitar Chords For Guitar Solo:
G * G * D * Em * C * C * D * Em
C * C * D * Em * F
Jimmy Buffet
Changes In Latitudes Changes In Attitudes
Guitar Chords
G D A Bm F#m
e :-3----2-------2----2-----------------------------|
B :-0----3---2---3----2-----------------------------|
G :-0----2---2---4----2-----------------------------|
D :-0----0---2---4----4-----------------------------|
A :-2--------0--------------------------------------|
E :-3-----------------------------------------------|
Intro: G D A G D
D G
I took off for a weekend last month
A D
Just to try and recall the whole year
G
All of the faces and all of the places
A D
Wonderin' where they all disappeared
Bm F#m
I didn't ponder the question too long
G A
I was hungry and went out for a bite
G D
Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum
A D
and we wound up drinkin' all night
G D
It's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
A D
Nothing remains quite the same
G D
With all of our running and all of our cunning
A G D
if we couldn't laugh we would all go insane
Jimmy Buffet Alan Jackson
It's 5 O'clock Somewhere
G C D
The sun is hot, and that old clock is moving slow.
D
And so am I
G C D
The work day passes slower than molasses in winter-
time
D
But it’s July
C D
I’m getting paid by the hour and older by the minute
C D
The boss just pushed me over the limit
C D
I’d like to call him something
C D G
I think I’ll just call it a day
Chorus
G C
Pour me something tall and strong. Make it a hurricane
D
before I go insane
G C D
It’s only half past twelve But I don’t care
D G
It’s five o’clock somewhere
G C D
This lunch break is going to take all afternoon
D
And half the night
G C D
Tomorrow morning I know there’ll be hell to pay
D
Hey but that’s all right
C D
I haven’t had a day off now in over a year
C D
My Jamaican vacation starts right here
C
If the phones for me
D G
You can tell them I just sailed away
Chorus Repeat
C D C
I could pay up my tab. Pour myself in a cab and be
back
G
to work before two.
C D
At a moment like this, I can’t help but wonder
C G
What would Jimmy Buffet do. (I think he'd say....)
Chorus
Jimmy Buffet * Margaritaville
This song is hands down one of the most requested classic
rock songs that a guitarist could learn, consisiting of
3 easy guitar chords, C,F and G. Example #1 demonstrates
the easy to play chord version. Example #2 demonstrates
the barre chord version that you can play if you are the
only guitarist in a cover band, which will allow you to
obtain a much fuller overall sound.
Example #1 Example #2
e :-0--3--1---------|----3---1--------|-----------------|
B :-1--0--1---------|-5--3---1--------|-----------------|
G :-0--0--2---------|-5--4---2--------|-----------------|
D :-2--0--3---------|-5--5---3--------|-----------------|
A :-3--2------------|-3--5---3--------|-----------------|
E :----3------------|----3---1--------|-----------------|
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