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Here’s a fun little 1/4/5 tune I use sometimes to introduce guitar students to the 12 bar blues. We can call it “1/4/5” because it uses the first, fourth and fifth chords in a key. In this case, we are in the key of E, so E is 1, A is 4 and B is 5.
That only makes sense of course if you can see how the E major scale is spelled. Following the pattern of whole and half steps in a major scale (W/W/H/W/W/W/H) from E we get: E | F#| G#| A | B | C# | D# | E . E is one, F# is two, and so on. 1,4 and 5 in E are E, A and B and so those are the chords that fit our 1/4/5 pattern in E.
The cool thing is, if you know what numbers you are playing you can easily move them to a different key! This 1/4/5 pattern in the key of C, for instance is C, F and G, or 1/4/5. C major scale is spelled C | D | E | F | G | A | B | C . C is one, D is two and so on; 1/4/5 in C will be C, F and G.
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Interested in learning how to play margaritaville? This video may help. “Margaritaville” is a 1977 song by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett from the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. This song was written about a drink Buffett discovered at Lung’s Cocina del Sur restaurant (where High 5 is located today) at 2700 W. Anderson Lane in Austin, Texas, and the first huge surge of tourists who descended on Key West, Florida, around that time. He wrote most of the song one night at a friend’s house in Austin, and finished it while spending time in Key West. In the United States “Margaritaville” reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart, also peaking at No. 13 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Billboard ranked it number 14 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. It remains Buffett’s highest charting solo single.
