Jim Croce – Time In a Bottle

Learn how to play Jim Croce – Time In a Bottle note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate leaning towards advanced. A few big stretches.
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Standard
This preview video contains the introduction taken from the complete lesson for the song Time In a Bottle.
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 lesson videos for each section of the song, a performance play thru video, full tabs and chords and lyrics sheet. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 225 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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You’ll receive at least two videos per song, one lesson and one performance-standard play-through. You’ll receive the chords/lyrics and guitar tabs as PDF files.
The videos are mp4 format and should play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
They will download as Zip files. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file.
If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.
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Ronnie Sparrow says
Jerry what kind of strings do you use on your acoustic guitar
Jerry says
Right now, Elixir .13 – .53 but I’m thinking of experimenting with a lighter gauge.
Mark Brannigan says
How much for all Jim Croce and Neil Young downloads Jerry ?
kind regards
Mark B
Jerry says
Hi Mark
You can get them all in collections at a discounted price Mark. Check out the Artist Collections page.
Noel Maher says
Do you have your lessons available for the iPad.
Mike Cee says
Great Jerry, many thanks for this ‘Great’ song lesson. For those interested in the background / life of Jim Croce, there is an excellent doco on youtube ‘Jim Croce Behind the Music’, really allows you to understand the ‘heart’ and ‘energy’ of this great musician who along with his guitar partner Maury, was taken too early in a plane crash at the height of his career.