Chords for It's Five O'Clock Somewhere - Guitar Lesson - Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett

_ _ It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere is a big number one hit for Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett.
It was written by Jim Brown and Don Rollins.
_ If you watch videos of Alan Jackson playing it live, he capos up to the second fret and will use nice
cowboy chords in the key of C.
So that's how we'll teach the acoustic part and on the electric guitar
we'll learn all the parts, the prominent parts that we hear on that original recording, and then we'll add in a couple of those pedal
steel solos that we hear in the bridge and the outro sections.
The
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ sun is high, [A] and that old clock [D] is moving slow, _ [A] so am [D] I.
_ Lookin' past the [A] _
_ cyclops, it's [Bm] the wintertime, [A] but it's [D] July.
Gettin' paid for the [G] sun, crawlin' strong, [A] we need a hurricane, and boy [D] I don't see no
It's only half past [G] twelve, I [A] don't care, _ _ _ _ it's 5 [D] o'clock somewhere.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] Warmest on the tall and strong, make me [A] the hurricane _ [D] before I go insane.
It's only half [G] past twelve, I [A] don't care, you don't care, _ I don't care, _ _ _ [D] it's 5 o'clock.
This tutorial is going to cover the acoustic guitar part for It's 5 O'clock Somewhere.
So let's put the capo on the second fret and learn some key of C chords.
We'll learn four to start,
and then we'll learn one more when we get to the bridge.
We've got a standard C chord, which is
going to be the third fret of A above [F#] the capo, second fret of D, [D] open G, first fret of B, open [B] high E.
Then [G] we need to play an F chord, so if you really wanted to play this kind of bar chord you could, but
I'm going to play kind of a standard F chord here, which is third fret of [B] D, second fret of G, and
then I'll bar the first [G] fret of B and high E.
_ _ [A] I'm going to play this kind of a G chord,
_ nice open sounding G, which is the third fret of low E.
Mute the A string, we're going to [E] go [A] open D,
open G, open B, third fret of high E, _ and the other chord we'll need to know for when we get
to the verse [F#] is [D] three and four and C to _ a [A] G to _ _ a C, _ _ _ now a G _ [D] to a C. _
_ _ And you'll notice on the final
upstroke of each chord that we're on, I'm kind of transitioning, so you're kind of, _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ if you're going
to [F#] pause there it would sound funny because there's a lot of open [Bm] strings that you're hitting, but
it's okay.
[A] We'd rather have that kind of, [D] _ keep that feel going on our right hand and just let
some open strings ring out for just half a second while we transition chords on those final upstrokes.
Okay, so one more time from the top of the verse, one and two and three and four C.
_ _ _ _ Intros, _
one two three go. _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ All right, and here's verses, one two three go.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ In this tutorial we're going to go
over all of the electric guitar work, including the pedal steel work we're going to mimic on the
electric throughout the whole song.
We're not going to break them up into different tutorials
for the solos because this is one of those songs where we're going to be building on what we learn
throughout the whole thing.
So for example, what we learned in the intro here to start, we're going to
learn or use again, excuse me, later on in the tutorial for the solos, and there's a number of
things like that as we go through the song.
So for tone, we want a nice trebly country tone here.
_ On this Tele I've got a coil tap, so I'm going to have it on my bridge pickup.
This is a little
humbucker.
If I roll this up, _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ I get a nice [Em] beefy humbucker sound.
I'm going to roll that back
though.
I'm going to use the coil tap and just have that be a single coil [D] so I can
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [D] _ _ get that [E] nice trebly country tone.
I've got a little compression, just a little bit of delay,
and a little bit of reverb.
So let's go over the after solo.
I'll play it nice and slow.
You'll
see a lot of repetition, and then there's a couple new really cool kind of pedal steel riffs that
we're going to learn here too because we're kind of trading back and forth with the pedal steel on
recording.
Here's how it looks.
We'll think of this as four different passes through the chord
progression, okay?
Here's the first pass.
We don't even need to teach it.
I'll play it because this
is the exact same as the intro.
So one.
[F#] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
But then we go immediately into the second pass, which is
actually a steel guitar part.
It's pretty close.
Obviously we can't get it exact, but it's pretty
close to what they do, and it [C#m] looks like this.
_ [D] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [F#] All right, so we're just going to be starting here,
leading into it.
_ That's the ninth fret of the G string to 11, _ _ then 10th fret [D] of B,
then roll that down and get 10 of B and E.
_ We've got a couple [A] bends on 9 and 10.
One, two, three. _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [A] Love you, dude. _
Only you should ask.
I [D] say, _ _