Lauren Bateman teaches the three chords for Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville": D major, A major, and G major, with an optional D7. She walks through a specific strumming pattern and plays the intro and first verse so you can hear how it all fits together.
Hey guitar enthusiasts, I'm going to show you quickly how to play Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett. All right, we got some simple chords. We have a D major chord, we have an A major chord, and we have a G major chord. There is a D7 chord that comes in sometimes. If you don't know the D7 chord, you can just stick on the D major chord. The strumming pattern we're going to use for most of the song is going to be a down, down, up, up, down, down, down, up, up, down. Okay, the only time we're going to change that is when we get to the part where it goes to blame. Okay, so we're just gonna do downstrums over the lyrics. Woman to blame. Okay, so here we go, we're gonna take it from the top. Ready? 2, here we go. Nibbling on sponge cake, watching the sun bake, all of those tourists covered with oil.
