"Love Story" Easy Guitar Tutorial (No Capo) | Taylor Swift

Hey everyone!

In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to play "Love Story" by Taylor Swift. We're going to learn how to play it without a capo, and usually that means we'd need some barre chords, but I'm going to show you a neat chord shape that Taylor uses to allow us to play this song without any barre shapes.

"Love Story" Sheet Music/TAB no longer available due to copyright issues, but I have something even better!
► FULL PLAY-THROUGH (entire song, start to finish) available on my Patreon page:
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If you're just getting started you might need some extra help. I have 2 resources for that:

Interested in MASTERING THE BASICS?

You'll want to check out the GoodGuitarist Beginner Guitar Course! More information here: goodguitarist.com/beginner-guitar-course/

And there's my eBook (which is free for all subscribers!) - You can use it to help you build a solid foundation: chords, switching, progressions, riffs, techniques... everything it takes to be a "good guitarist." You can find it here: goodguitarist.com/learn-rhythm-guitar/
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The lesson begins with some basic shapes: D, G, A and a B* chord. The B chord is supposed to be a Bm barre chord, but we're going to pull it off in a much easier way.

Once we go over some switching tips, we practice strumming the chords in order. After that it's time to learn the strumming pattern!

This song uses 2 strumming patterns, but they're both SUPER simple. We practice them both before putting them together with the chords and playing through the verse. Here's a link to the "most common pattern ever" if you need extra help with it: youtu.be/y36X-j3EqME

After that, it's just a matter of learning each section: Pre-chorus, Chorus and Bridge. They all use the same 4 chords, but in a different order, so it's pretty simple.

At the very end of the song, you might notice a "lift" in the overall sound... this is due to a "key change." To play the key change, we need 4 new chord shapes: E, Asus2, B* and C#*. I show you a trick that makes 3 of those chords REALLY easy.

That's it! I hope you enjoy the lesson!
-James

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0:00 - INTRO
2:40 - CHORDS & SWITCHING TIPS
6:08 - CHORD SWITCHING PRACTICE
7:20 - STRUMMING PATTERN (FOR INTRO/VERSE)
8:28 - STRUMMING PATTERN 2 (FOR THE REST OF THE SONG)
10:45 - VERSE PLAY-ALONG
11:43 - THE PRE-CHORUS
12:42 - PRE-CHORUS PLAY-ALONG
13:20 - CHORUS PLAY-ALONG
14:22 - BRIDGE PLAY-ALONG
14:56 - THE KEY-CHANGE AT THE END!
17:13 - FAREWELL!

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