Blue Jean tab by David Bowie

Tabs

The Chords are pretty Easy, I'm gonna mostly concentrate on the lead.

Starts with chords:

 CCC  G+GG
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The Verse Riff: (make an open D MajorD chord and use your
pinky for the '3' on the first string when needed)

e|---3-2--|-3-2-0-2|---3-2--|----3-2-|-3-2-0-2||:----3-2-:||
BB|--3-----|--------|--3-----|--3-----|--------||:--3-----:||
G+G|-2------|--------|-2------|-2------|--------||:-2------:|| (6x)
D MajorD|0-------|--------|0-------|0-------|--------||:0-------:||
A augmentedA|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------||:--------:||
E MajorE|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------||:--------:||
1.Blue Jean, I just met a girl named blue jean...
2. One day, I'm gonna write a poem and a letter...

          CCC        CCC  G+GG
e|---3-2--|-3-2-0-2|--------|---3-2--|--------|
BB|--3-----|--------|--------|--3-----|--------|
G+G|-2------|--------|--------|-2------|--------|
D MajorD|0-------|--------|--------|0-------|--------|
A augmentedA|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
E MajorE|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|

First Saxophone fill (in case you're in one of those lame-o
bands without a Saxophone ;))

1st Sax fill:
e|-12-------|
BB|---12b--10|
G+G|----------|
D MajorD|----------|
A augmentedA|----------|
E MajorE|----------|


2nd Sax fill:
(slide up to the last note
and hold it as long as you can...
squeeze tight for sustain!)
e|-12-------|----/17---|
BB|---12b--10|----------|
G+G|----------|----------|
D MajorD|----------|----------|
A augmentedA|----------|----------|
E MajorE|----------|----------|

Chorus:

(no leads here on the original version,
 but I put some in as the song is kind of
 boring with out them (and if you
 don't have a sax in your band)

So I make my F# minorF#m and A augmentedA like this:

F# minorF#m  A augmentedA
-2-  -X-
-2-  -2-
-2-  -2-
-4-  -2-
-4-  -0-
-2-  -X-

Use your first finger to make the A augmentedA chord,
and you're right in position for some fills
using your A augmentedA pentanoic MAJOR scale

 F# minorF#m        A augmentedA
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||:--------|--------|--------|--------:||
||:--------|--------|--------|--------:|| (x4)
||:--------|--------|--------|--------:||
||:--------|--------|--------|--------:||
Sometime I feel like...

 CCC  G+GG
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OK, now just repeat the Verse and Intro from above again,
but before the chorus use the second sax fill...


Now the bridge:
||:--------|-3------:||
||:---3-6-3|---3-6-3:||
||:--------|--------:||
||:-5------|--------:|| (x2)
||:--------|--------:||
||:--------|--------:||

And back to the chorus..., and your done. Almost.

End on:


 CCC  G+GG CCC  G+GG E MajorE
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