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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:32:02 +1000
From: M&M 
Subject: j/johnson_jack/wasting_time.tab

Song: Wasting time (version from jackjohnsonmusic.com)
Artist: Jack Johnson
Album: On and On (slightly different to this version)
Date : Monday 8th December 2003
 
This is the version of Wasting Time on Jack's website
(jackjohnsonmusic.com) which is slightly different (and much better)
to the one on his album "On and On". In this version the guitar is
played through most of the verse, not just the bass guitar. I got some
of the chords and the intro from another tab availble at guitartabs.com,
but the solo (which is completely different to the On and On version)
is all my own work.
 
Enjoy!
 
Chords used:
D (10 12 12 11 x x)
A (5 7 7 6 5 5)
Em (x 7 9 9 8 7)
G (3 5 5 6 3 3)
G# (4 6 6 5 4 4)
 

Intro:
 
This is the intro from a tab by Reed Gallogly which is available
from www.guitartabs.com . The intro is also used throughout the song.
 
E----------------------5-------------------------------5--
B----------------------5--------7-h8---7-h8-7-7--------5--
G--7----7----7-7-------6--------7-h9---7-h9-7-7--------6--
D--7-h9-7-h9-7-7-------7--------7-h9---7-h9-7-7-7------7--
A----------------7-5---7---------------------------7-5-7--
E-------------------5--5-------------------------------5--
 

Verse:
D A Em A
And I'm just a waste.....
 
Sometimes Em is played as
 
E---7-------
B---7-h8----
G---7-h9----
D---7-h9----
A---7-------
E-----------
 
Chorus:
G# G A G# G A
 But everybody thinks.....
 

Solo:
 
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
B | ---------------7-----------------------7--8p7--8p7--8p7------
G | ---9--7-----------9--7--------9--7-----------------------9--7
D | ---------9--7-----------9--7--------9------------------------
A | -------------------------------------------------------------
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
 
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
B | ---------------7-----------------------7--8p7--8p7--8p7------
G | ---9--7-----------9--7--------9--7-----------------------9--7
D | ---------9--7-----------9--7--------9------------------------
A | -------------------------------------------------------------
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
 
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
B | ------------------------------------------8p7--8p7--8p7------
G | ---9p7--9p7--9p7-----------------------------------------9--7
D | ------------------9--7--9p7--9p7--9p7------------------------
A | ---------------------------------------9---------------------
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
 
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
B | -------------------------------------------------------------
G | ---9p7--9p7--9p7-----7--9p7--9p7--9p7------------------------
D | ------------------9--------------------9--7--9p7--9p7--9p7---
A | ------------------------------------------------------------9
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
 
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
B | -----8p7--8p7--8p7-------------------------------------------
G | --------------------9--7--9p7--9p7--9p7----------------------
D | -----------------------------------------9\7-----------------
A | --7----------------------------------------------------------
E | -------------------------------------------------------------
 

This is the order of the parts of this song:
 
Intro x 2
Verse x 5
Intro x 2
Verse x 5
Chorus x 1
Intro x 2
Solo x 1
Verse x 5 (silent for the first 2 times)
Intro x 4
 

I've been playing the guitar for three years now (since I was 10) and
this is my first tab. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have
enjoyed writing it.
 
You can download this song from jackjohnsonmusic.com . Just go to the
bonus audio and video section, view the Wasting Time video clip, and
use a music recording program such as sound recorder (which comes with
windows) or Nero Wave Editor to record it. Sound recorder may stop
recording after 60 seconds, but if you just record (or just copy and
paste)
about four minutes of nothing at all, you might be able to record the
whole
lot. If you save it as a wave file it will be about 40 megabytes, so I
recommend you convert it to an mp3.
 

Thanks to Reed Gallogly who wrote the tab available from guitartabs.com
 

If you have any comments, suggestions, questions etc., feel free to
send me an e-mail to dwill209@eq.edu.au