Jim Croce – You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
Learn how to play Jim Croce – You Don’t Mess Around With Jim note-for-note.
Difficulty level: Intermediate. It has stretches.
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Strummed in a 2-string boogie pattern.
Tuning: Standard
This preview video contains the introduction taken from the complete lesson for the song You Don’t Mess Around With Jim.
The lesson teaches the guitar part played by Jim Croce on the original recording. It doesn’t cover the second (lead) guitar part.
The complete song lesson contains a lesson video, a performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of approximately 165 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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Mark says
I almost exclusively fingerpick, so am challenged by having to use an *actual* pick.
What thickness of pick do you recommend for this song? I’m experimenting, and–weirdly– find I prefer a heavy pick for the verse and a thin pick for the chorus.
Mark in Brooklyn
Jerry says
I wouldn’t recommend changing pick during the song :)
One rule of thumb is ‘the more strumming there is, the softer the pick, the more picking there is, the harder the pick.’
This one is in the middle somewhere. I’d suggest trying a .73.
robert culp says
great lesson