I thought it was worth having a look at Taylor Swifts guitar playing. Let me know which part of the video you enjoyed the most. Keep on Strummin'🎸 Aaron
One of my favorite solo performances on guitar by Taylor is “Death by a Thousand Cuts” from her NPR Tiny Desk session. She does a great job maintaining a pretty cool picking pattern through some challenging vocals. It's a great song with one of her very best bridges.
I think it's worth mentioning from the viewpoint of a vocalist, she is one of the most effortless performers at playing guitar and piano while singing at the same time. I played piano as a formal instrument all through to the end of high school. I have studied voice and sung in internationally competitive choirs for about 20 years at this point. I couldn't do even half the job Swift does at playing and singing complicated, often contrapunctal rhythms simultaneously.
And she’s capable of singing and play a full 10 minutes song without making any mistakes. Man I struggle to play All Too Well without getting tired with my hand 😂 People are like “those are just 4 chords no barre chords” But the thing is to be able to sing and play an instrument at the same time playing at the right timing
@@livinglifeenjoy and singing complex counterpoint rhythms to what you are playing. I'd also love to know who else these schmucks think can get a fan-fking-tastic song from "just 4 chords" 🥴🥴🥴
@@livinglifeenjoyexactly! And singing wordy songs can get tiring to one’s voice and breath too. And she’s doing all that for 3 freaking hours. People need to give credits where it’s due and lay low some of the hate. 🫶🏻
THIS! People simply do NOT realize....here I'll offer a "lay person" option: Pat your head and rub your tummy: For 3 hrs straight (because if she's not playing and singing, she's doing choreography and singing) Be sure not to make any mistakes either, because they'll be posted online and made fun of for months...because humanity is full of trolls. I said what I said.
Great video! Taylor has described her own songwriting as "complex simplicity" -- which I think is what you have captured here in your analysis. Here is a quote from Taylor that you may find interesting: "To me, Tom Petty represented a kind of songwriting I idolized: complex simplicity. It said so much in the lyrics, the concepts, the stories, the message, the nuances…but always brought you back to a hook that got stuck in everyone’s head. He motivated thousands of guitarists to learn to play just because they wanted to be able to play ‘Free Fallin’. Count me as one of them.”
Wow, that's weird, I just released a lesson for Free Fallin' a few days after this video was uploaded - I had no idea Taylor Swift idolized him in that way, but as you say 'complex simplicity' put's it quite nicely, thanks for your input!
I will not speak about Tom Petty since I think he has done better songs but the problem with her songs is I often hear them when they are not playing, they are like a virus.
she is a flawless rythmic guitar player. I realized this when I, already having a lets say intermediate guitar playing level, wanted to cover some of her songs on acoustic while singing too. The strumming patterns she uses, as well as the palm muting combined with the more ringing open chords when choruses arrive, make it no joke to try and play like her. I think she is a really smart player, may be not the hardest or brightest techniques, but sometimes making just the right moves to make an acoustic guitar suit your voice and match the songs’ needs is all you need, and she is the perfect example of it
She is a singer writer composer and she uses guitar or piano to accompany her singing and not the reverse. She doesn’t need to be a virtuoso still her skill level with the guitar and the piano is pretty good. Besides when she is singing and playing alone in a 90,000 thousand people stadium she’s doing fine what else could she need ? It’s amazing and not many people can do that.
yes, and she does those places 3 nights in a row, sold out every night with tons of people without tickets tailgating outside. but yes, she has also filled stadiums that held 90k as the commenter said but you're correct, many only hold up to 60k - 70k, just depends on the stadium. @@toriless
@@davidmueller9342she wrote her 3rd album entirely alone, 100% written only by her. And plenty of her songs over the years since then were written solo by just her. The rest are usually with only one or two other collaborators, usually the same person who helped produce it like Jack Antonoff and/or Aaron Dessner.
Great video! She plays a 12-string too -- there are some good live performances to check out if you continue doing these. She's mentioned how her longtime bandmate, Paul Sidoti, has given her tips and techniques while touring that have helped her immensely
@dr150 ...nope: on the Mean live performances, Taylor plays a six string guitar shaped like a banjo in her role as the country band member teased by the mean person.
@@dianawang9113 Nope again regarding banjo and clarinet. The few "banjo" videos all have the guitar shaped like a banjo (with six pegs, six strings, and she strums it like a guitar; doesn't roll or pick it like a banjo.) She does do a single strike on a large drum in one song, but I haven't found any actual performances of clarinet or a drum kit. Can you identify?
3 things worth noting: 1) She's been playing since she was something like 12 years old. 2) After she tried dropping off recordings in Nashville, and getting no response, she decided to play 4 hours and day and song-write. 3) Her current guitar teacher - Paul Sidoti - is the same guy that has played with her since 2007. You can tell how long they've known each other by how they play together on stage. Every once in a while, they exchange a "isn't this cool?" look, and it means more when you realize that they're real life friends, along with the guy that she brings with her on every tour for the past 17 years. That's a TON of trust. I think she's not only a completely under-rated musician, but (as others have noted) fantastic at playing and singing.
Cool, thanks for sharing. I think many musicians have a story that's similar to that. It normally starts with rejection followed by years of persistence that nobody really sees and eventually ends with success in varying degrees.
As a very novice guitar player, and a very big Taylor fan, I have to give YOU kudos points. I rarely comment on anything, but I felt the need to tell you that this was an amazing video and you were such a pleasure to watch. People often discredit her and it's refreshing to watch an expert give her kudos and remain respectful. Hats off to you. It's beyond impressive to me that you are able to pick up everything she is playing so quickly by barely listening for a few seconds. I wish you could be my guitar teacher. You have a new subscriber in me! Cheers x
I am a big fan of this woman. I don't think Taylor's strengths are in her instrument playing. She's no slouch but she doesn't have to be a virtuoso on piano or guitar. For her they are vehicles for her songwriting. Also after the songs are born and given to the masses she plays her guitar and sings to it with her band and her dancers as part of a huge performance. So even without playing really difficult music it's already a lot. I also like that she can play both acoustic and electric. She doesn't have to completely shred to prove herself.
Nice video! and Yes, she is. There are many guitarist on UA-cam who likes her. What I try to stay away though is the rock metal dudes whatever who knows how to play one song of nirvana and they think fender made a guitar for them too. It's the debate that goes around who minimize her skills, she's not classicaly trained on guitar, she learned to be able to craft songs, same for piano. She did it to be a better musician. What I don't like also is some say it's just x amount of chords blah blah, and? Would you expect her to play a flamenca guitar solo? I was just watching a video about a pianist and metalhead react to one of her songs, the pianist said TOM PETTY HAD A CAREER SPANNING YEARS WITH ONLY 3 CHORDS, and that particular song they reacted has 4, there's other who have more.
@@ivy23173 lol see? Mozart also inclined towards some chords progressions and keys. Why Taylor needs to bring 20 chords on one song AND make it catchy, artistic and commercial at the same time. Seems like they ask more to her than others.
@@FC-qb9wp at this point they are just so desperate to try and find something negative about her even if it is common with others : her chord progressions, multiple variants of vinyls (even tho I think she has the least ones), jet lag use and so on. She is not the only one who does this but because she does them, she is evil. Also she earned one billion dollars by using those simple chords. She could use more complicated ones I am sure but it is what the fans enjoy
I actually started learning guitar by copying taylor swift's live performances because she always uses those simple chords that are easy to play but always sound really nice 😊 love your video!
Everyone who says she can’t play the guitar well should watch the npr tiny desk concert. I was quite surprised that she showed up all on her own, no band mates, no backup singers, just her and the instruments and her voice. Not a lot of artists dare to do that in such an intimate setting! Props to her! She will always be one of the greatest artists in my book. ❤️
@@toriless Just did a quick browse of tiny desk account, and so far I only found 3 who were completely alone with just an instrument, doing the concert: Tyler Childrers, Dave Matthews, and Cat Stevens. Billie Eillish almost did it, but she had her brother on the guitar while she played piano. Absolutely nothing wrong with having other people playing instruments or as backup singers- doesn’t make one more or less of an artist. Am just pointing out, how surprised I was seeing Taylor did that for this event. But then again, after seeing eras tour and how she played the surprise songs night after night, this is very much in her blood 🙂 She’s perfectly comfortable doing this and it shows. Incredible artist indeed.
Taylor wrote "Better Man," but it was recorded by the band Little Big Town....and Taylor won a Grammy award for Best Country Song for it (an award that goes to the songwriter). One of her many Grammy awards (she has won more Album of the Year Grammy Awards than any artist in history). She has released 270 songs in her career, many of them can be found on UA-cam, played live. Check out: "Death By a Thousand Cuts" live in Paris, and also, there is a cell phone video on UA-cam of her playing in a child's hospital room. She's playing, "We Are Never Getting Back Together," but standing up and dancing and singing while playing guitar for a little boy.
@@torilessbecause he likes that song? Not really sure what's wrong with it? Besides, none of Her songs really are "appropriate" for little kids, except maybe the lullaby "Never Grow Up". But I doubt the parents of a little boy in hospital for a life threatening illness would appreciate that particular song at that particular moment. Smh
Thank you. After watching the Eras tour, a greater appreciation for Taylor not only playing guitar and singing, but also connecting with her audience and telling a story with her interaction as well - so in effect doing 3 things at once....that is, communicating on three levels simultaneously...
So glad this popped up on my fy because of Taylor. I play piano but wish I could play guitar. This was great. I wish you had done the full performances. Her bridges are awesome. Please do more Taylor. Great reaction. So interesting.
Thanks for this, it's very instructive. So much commentary - especially from men, unfortunately - is curiously hostile and dismissive of Taylor Swift as just a fizzy pop princess, based on knowing hardly any of her work. It's nice to see a professional guitarist give her a detailed, knowledgeable analysis.
Thanks! Yeah, that'd be interesting to hear actually, Rock is having something of a resurgence at the moment with new releases from Slash, Extreme, Mr. Big and Myles Kennedy amongst others.
you should watch the “i can see you” acoustic performance from the eras tour! her guitar skills were really brought out in that as well as her vocals! or any of the acoustic performances too to be honest! it’s on disney plus under extras when you click on the eras tour (taylor’s version) but you should be able to find it on youtube too!
Ahh I wish you would have kept on watching the third performance until the bridge cause it’s my favourite guitar part! Also, as other commenters mentioned, please react to one of the Death by a Thousand cuts acoustic performance! Tiny desk or live in Paris are both so great!
That was so cool to watch and learn about her guitar playing! Since she was twelve, she’s constantly either strumming a guitar or on the piano. She’s now thirty four and has mastered both beautifully!
She's got killer right-hand technique and she makes it look easy. I know a ton of folks who've picked up a guitar and can't check off either of those boxes.
Wow!🤩 I’m a huge fan of Taylor, especially her lyrics/storytelling.🎵 I love her live performances.❤ 🎤🎵 💃 Very interesting that you’re sharing the instrumental part!👍🏼 Thank you!🙏🏼 Her band is great! 🎸
She's not bad for what she does. People say she sucks because she strums basic open chords. Well just because it's not hard doesn't mean she sucks. It's pop music, that gets the job done. My question is does she have good rhythm, keep time and is she able to sing and play? The answer is yes, so she is an adequate guitar player. There isn't much going on besides basic major minor chords and pop chord progressions. Do people expect her to shred a solo or something 😂
Shredding is so overrated. As this video shows, and it is a pathetically small cross section of her playing lacking the diversity of her playing, she doesn’t “just play open chords”. She uses a variety of rhythm techniques and alters chord progression. If you want to see her play guitar, you have to go back to her country music. At 19, she composed, sang, played, and produced an entire album almost entirely on her own. But y’all are ignoring her accomplishments and skills and undervaluing rhythm/lead guitar. She can perform every song in her catalogue on her own.
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Thank you -- really enjoyed your analysis - have always wondered how good a guitarist she is.
Metal guitarplayer weighing in: As a metal guitarplayer who likes playing acoustic guitar I like Little Taylor's guitar strumming quite a bit. Better Man, 1 of the most moving songs from Little Taylor is a good example. Little Taylor had a fondness for em c g and d chords. That's ok, so do I.
I love her performance of Never Grow Up from The Eras Tour! Sadly I don’t think there’s a professional recording of it, but it’s such a complex song on so many levels I don’t even know how to explain it but maybe you could! And she makes it seem so effortless
It seems like she excels exactly at what she needs that guitar for, and that's to be able to write songs and perform the songs she wrote. She decided as a kid that she wanted to be a songwriter and she spent the rest of her life mastering just what she needs for that. I really admire that kind of dedication to one craft.
I have just has a whole first virgin guitar lesson watching this! I do not have time for another hobby, but you've inspired me to payt more attention to buy husband playing base. Thank you. A very good teacher, from a fellow teacher!!
She's great at playing guitar, I'm actually learning guitar because I want to be as good as her and being able to play all of her long and wonderful discography
Cool video. I would be interested to see your verdict on her acoustic performance from RED in Nashville of Never Getting Back Together. There is some serious muting going on in the chorus that is different from the verse.
That was a refreshing review, I liked this lady when i first saw her, but the words were not from anything in my background so I could not relate to her songs. But boy can she put on a show. And I hope give other young ladies the will to pick and instrument and play music. I have tried to play guitar for over 50 years it's impossible for me. I build my own Amp but I am tone deaf and uncoordinated. I am always impressed by musicians. She and you are impressive. Thanks for sharing, Dennis
Singing is her strong point. No one ever said she was a better than average guitar player. Three chords and truth. Note, the singing competitions where contestants use their guitar, often encouraged them to leave the instrument behind and just , sing.
Three chords and the truth works well for many artists, Green Day spring to mind. It's great when singers can leave their instrument for a bit and get out front to just sing, great way for them to interact with their audience.
don't know anything about guitar but the last performamnce of wildest dreams is so pleasing to the ears,#. Genuinely curious what song it was that you recognized that was similar
I never learn the hand mute technique but between playing guitar and music theory I get what he means, it is not at radical as Tori Amos or even Heart but often more beautiful.
Minute 1130 "you are going to write stuff that is similiar to other people" but then Taylor's team sued Olivia for writing stuff that was similar to hers
kind of says a lot about the general music community that there even needs to be a video to validate her musicianship. She's in her 30s and has been doing this since she was a kid, of course she can play well.
Not too sure, I know she mimes some parts, running around the stage while singing is pretty difficult, one has to sacrifice one for the other to some extent it would seem.
She’s a phenomenal singer, or on guitar she’s good at what she’s doing, or you can even say she’s one of the best guitarist among pop singer considering many of them fake guitar playing, but phenomenal guitarist?😂😂😂
Not the most complex rhythm arrangements, but she's perfectly respectable and capable as a guitar player. Her songwriting is better than most of her contemporaries. She seems to enjoy performing which is my least favorite part of making music.
I saw a vid where she talked about still having a guitar teacher (I guess though that was 10 years ago or something mad - time passes!!)...she also seems to have a team of song-writers or mates to write with...which is probably where that Gsus came from.
She doesn't have a "team" of songwriters. She either writes alone or with one more person, who's basically the co producer too. Her songs rarely have more than 2 co writers and for her last 5 albums she works with the same 2 people. She doesn't have a random team for each album. She works with friends she has good chemistry with.
she is also good playing the guitar in one of madonna's live performance ghost town . just playing the guotar and did not sing. maybe good to comment too.. cause it was not just stand still but movement .
Considering that most of her songs she writes are started by on the guitar or piano it shouldn’t be a surprise. Could go even further if they did their research and said that she can play a 12 string and a banjo on top of acoustic and electric guitars. People tend to think that to be a good guitarist you have to play almost exclusively lead guitar stuff (EVH, Hendrix), and whereas that is impressive, personally, I think rhythm players are just as amazing. Malcom Young is considered one of the best guitarist and he plays rhythm. Taylor Swift is a rhythm player, and she’s incredible at it. Also the fact that she started playing couple years younger than so many guitar-heroes just blows my mind haha. I’d check out newer clips of her playing instruments
Rhythm guitar skills are certainly important, especially if you sing too. There's arguably less use in being able to only play lead guitar but not rhythm.
Taylor swift is lovely looking and great personality. The future will show how good she really is. She does not stand out as a guitarist. Good luck to her successful lady. Like her but not her music. Just an opinion.
She can sing, she can write, she can accompany herself on guitar, granted. Everyone is trying to bestow upon her the mantle of awesome guitarist and I'm not seeing it. If you want to see a young woman who is truly an awesome guitarist, look up some videos of Grace Bowers. That young lady can play!
Grace Bowers as certainly got the blues, already making waves and at such a young age! Taylor wouldn't be the first person that comes to mind if I was asked to name 'awesome' guitarists but I'm glad she plays and gets the guitar in front of (mostly) younger women.
I thought it was worth having a look at Taylor Swifts guitar playing. Let me know which part of the video you enjoyed the most.
Keep on Strummin'🎸
Aaron
One of my favorite solo performances on guitar by Taylor is “Death by a Thousand Cuts” from her NPR Tiny Desk session. She does a great job maintaining a pretty cool picking pattern through some challenging vocals. It's a great song with one of her very best bridges.
Yes!!! Was my number one bridge until tsmwel but still right there!
Death by a thousand cuts showcases that she can do more complex and advanced things on guitar.
Yes! This song is legit in the guitar
YES yes yes just yes
Yeah she really slayed that performance! 👏
I think it's worth mentioning from the viewpoint of a vocalist, she is one of the most effortless performers at playing guitar and piano while singing at the same time.
I played piano as a formal instrument all through to the end of high school. I have studied voice and sung in internationally competitive choirs for about 20 years at this point.
I couldn't do even half the job Swift does at playing and singing complicated, often contrapunctal rhythms simultaneously.
She certainly deserves credit for all the things you mention.
And she’s capable of singing and play a full 10 minutes song without making any mistakes. Man I struggle to play All Too Well without getting tired with my hand 😂
People are like “those are just 4 chords no barre chords”
But the thing is to be able to sing and play an instrument at the same time playing at the right timing
@@livinglifeenjoy and singing complex counterpoint rhythms to what you are playing. I'd also love to know who else these schmucks think can get a fan-fking-tastic song from "just 4 chords" 🥴🥴🥴
@@livinglifeenjoyexactly! And singing wordy songs can get tiring to one’s voice and breath too. And she’s doing all that for 3 freaking hours. People need to give credits where it’s due and lay low some of the hate. 🫶🏻
THIS! People simply do NOT realize....here I'll offer a "lay person" option:
Pat your head and rub your tummy: For 3 hrs straight (because if she's not playing and singing, she's doing choreography and singing)
Be sure not to make any mistakes either, because they'll be posted online and made fun of for months...because humanity is full of trolls.
I said what I said.
Great video! Taylor has described her own songwriting as "complex simplicity" -- which I think is what you have captured here in your analysis. Here is a quote from Taylor that you may find interesting: "To me, Tom Petty represented a kind of songwriting I idolized: complex simplicity. It said so much in the lyrics, the concepts, the stories, the message, the nuances…but always brought you back to a hook that got stuck in everyone’s head. He motivated thousands of guitarists to learn to play just because they wanted to be able to play ‘Free Fallin’. Count me as one of them.”
Wow, that's weird, I just released a lesson for Free Fallin' a few days after this video was uploaded - I had no idea Taylor Swift idolized him in that way, but as you say 'complex simplicity' put's it quite nicely, thanks for your input!
@@CarringtonGuitarAcademy I was preparing a comment to classify her as "bard-sy" ( 😂 ) , but "comex simplicity" says it better, I be borrowing that 😅
That’s so cool! I love Tom Petty and Taylor Swift so if you (or anyone) has a link to that video/article I’d love it! 🫶
I will not speak about Tom Petty since I think he has done better songs but the problem with her songs is I often hear them when they are not playing, they are like a virus.
she is a flawless rythmic guitar player. I realized this when I, already having a lets say intermediate guitar playing level, wanted to cover some of her songs on acoustic while singing too. The strumming patterns she uses, as well as the palm muting combined with the more ringing open chords when choruses arrive, make it no joke to try and play like her. I think she is a really smart player, may be not the hardest or brightest techniques, but sometimes making just the right moves to make an acoustic guitar suit your voice and match the songs’ needs is all you need, and she is the perfect example of it
I think you should react to cornelia street live from paris as well she also plays guitar live there
Yes!! Unbelievable performance
Crazy good performance there. Still gives me chills!
I was hoping that performance would be in here!
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i’d say i’m a beginner guitar player and i can mostly play that through, i just struggle with switching chords for some of it
She is a singer writer composer and she uses guitar or piano to accompany her singing and not the reverse. She doesn’t need to be a virtuoso still her skill level with the guitar and the piano is pretty good. Besides when she is singing and playing alone in a 90,000 thousand people stadium she’s doing fine what else could she need ? It’s amazing and not many people can do that.
Yep that’s all true !
Many only hold 60K
And incredible song writers around her.
yes, and she does those places 3 nights in a row, sold out every night with tons of people without tickets tailgating outside. but yes, she has also filled stadiums that held 90k as the commenter said but you're correct, many only hold up to 60k - 70k, just depends on the stadium. @@toriless
@@davidmueller9342she wrote her 3rd album entirely alone, 100% written only by her. And plenty of her songs over the years since then were written solo by just her. The rest are usually with only one or two other collaborators, usually the same person who helped produce it like Jack Antonoff and/or Aaron Dessner.
Great video! She plays a 12-string too -- there are some good live performances to check out if you continue doing these. She's mentioned how her longtime bandmate, Paul Sidoti, has given her tips and techniques while touring that have helped her immensely
Awesome! Will give those a look.
And banjo! 😊
@dr150 ...nope: on the Mean live performances, Taylor plays a six string guitar shaped like a banjo in her role as the country band member teased by the mean person.
@@Allen2 actually she does play banjo, and a lot of other instruments as well. (guitar, piano, ukelele, banjo, drums, clarinet)
@@dianawang9113 Nope again regarding banjo and clarinet. The few "banjo" videos all have the guitar shaped like a banjo (with six pegs, six strings, and she strums it like a guitar; doesn't roll or pick it like a banjo.) She does do a single strike on a large drum in one song, but I haven't found any actual performances of clarinet or a drum kit. Can you identify?
She's making more money with her guitar than I am with mine. I'd say that makes her pretty much- good enough.
Amen to that.
You didn't sell your soul. I think you win.
Kind of a dumb thing to say, sir.
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3 things worth noting:
1) She's been playing since she was something like 12 years old.
2) After she tried dropping off recordings in Nashville, and getting no response, she decided to play 4 hours and day and song-write.
3) Her current guitar teacher - Paul Sidoti - is the same guy that has played with her since 2007. You can tell how long they've known each other by how they play together on stage. Every once in a while, they exchange a "isn't this cool?" look, and it means more when you realize that they're real life friends, along with the guy that she brings with her on every tour for the past 17 years. That's a TON of trust.
I think she's not only a completely under-rated musician, but (as others have noted) fantastic at playing and singing.
Cool, thanks for sharing. I think many musicians have a story that's similar to that. It normally starts with rejection followed by years of persistence that nobody really sees and eventually ends with success in varying degrees.
I haven't finished watching yet but while I think of it, the thing that says she has guitar chops to me is how little she looks at her hands.
Ah yes, she may have practiced with a blindfold, that something artists sometimes do to achieve that level of effortlessness.
As a very novice guitar player, and a very big Taylor fan, I have to give YOU kudos points. I rarely comment on anything, but I felt the need to tell you that this was an amazing video and you were such a pleasure to watch. People often discredit her and it's refreshing to watch an expert give her kudos and remain respectful. Hats off to you. It's beyond impressive to me that you are able to pick up everything she is playing so quickly by barely listening for a few seconds. I wish you could be my guitar teacher. You have a new subscriber in me! Cheers x
That's a very kind comment, thank you!
Most people rarely comment. 4 million views but 2000 comments is typical for a successful video.
I am a big fan of this woman. I don't think Taylor's strengths are in her instrument playing. She's no slouch but she doesn't have to be a virtuoso on piano or guitar. For her they are vehicles for her songwriting. Also after the songs are born and given to the masses she plays her guitar and sings to it with her band and her dancers as part of a huge performance.
So even without playing really difficult music it's already a lot.
I also like that she can play both acoustic and electric. She doesn't have to completely shred to prove herself.
Nice video! and Yes, she is. There are many guitarist on UA-cam who likes her. What I try to stay away though is the rock metal dudes whatever who knows how to play one song of nirvana and they think fender made a guitar for them too. It's the debate that goes around who minimize her skills, she's not classicaly trained on guitar, she learned to be able to craft songs, same for piano. She did it to be a better musician. What I don't like also is some say it's just x amount of chords blah blah, and? Would you expect her to play a flamenca guitar solo? I was just watching a video about a pianist and metalhead react to one of her songs, the pianist said TOM PETTY HAD A CAREER SPANNING YEARS WITH ONLY 3 CHORDS, and that particular song they reacted has 4, there's other who have more.
Ac dc ruled with only a few chords as well
@@ivy23173 lol see? Mozart also inclined towards some chords progressions and keys. Why Taylor needs to bring 20 chords on one song AND make it catchy, artistic and commercial at the same time. Seems like they ask more to her than others.
@@FC-qb9wp at this point they are just so desperate to try and find something negative about her even if it is common with others : her chord progressions, multiple variants of vinyls (even tho I think she has the least ones), jet lag use and so on. She is not the only one who does this but because she does them, she is evil. Also she earned one billion dollars by using those simple chords. She could use more complicated ones I am sure but it is what the fans enjoy
I actually started learning guitar by copying taylor swift's live performances because she always uses those simple chords that are easy to play but always sound really nice 😊 love your video!
That's awesome, keep on strummin!
Everyone who says she can’t play the guitar well should watch the npr tiny desk concert. I was quite surprised that she showed up all on her own, no band mates, no backup singers, just her and the instruments and her voice. Not a lot of artists dare to do that in such an intimate setting! Props to her! She will always be one of the greatest artists in my book. ❤️
I know a few.
People forget or don’t know that she can play all of her songs on her own. She doesn’t need a band, ever.
@@toriless Just did a quick browse of tiny desk account, and so far I only found 3 who were completely alone with just an instrument, doing the concert: Tyler Childrers, Dave Matthews, and Cat Stevens. Billie Eillish almost did it, but she had her brother on the guitar while she played piano.
Absolutely nothing wrong with having other people playing instruments or as backup singers- doesn’t make one more or less of an artist. Am just pointing out, how surprised I was seeing Taylor did that for this event. But then again, after seeing eras tour and how she played the surprise songs night after night, this is very much in her blood 🙂 She’s perfectly comfortable doing this and it shows. Incredible artist indeed.
Taylor wrote "Better Man," but it was recorded by the band Little Big Town....and Taylor won a Grammy award for Best Country Song for it (an award that goes to the songwriter). One of her many Grammy awards (she has won more Album of the Year Grammy Awards than any artist in history). She has released 270 songs in her career, many of them can be found on UA-cam, played live.
Check out: "Death By a Thousand Cuts" live in Paris, and also, there is a cell phone video on UA-cam of her playing in a child's hospital room. She's playing, "We Are Never Getting Back Together," but standing up and dancing and singing while playing guitar for a little boy.
No idea why that song is appropriate to play for a little boy, it seems odd.
@@torilessbecause he likes that song? Not really sure what's wrong with it? Besides, none of Her songs really are "appropriate" for little kids, except maybe the lullaby "Never Grow Up". But I doubt the parents of a little boy in hospital for a life threatening illness would appreciate that particular song at that particular moment. Smh
Thank you. After watching the Eras tour, a greater appreciation for Taylor not only playing guitar and singing, but also connecting with her audience and telling a story with her interaction as well - so in effect doing 3 things at once....that is, communicating on three levels simultaneously...
She certainly knows how to connect with her audience, that's likely the 'secret' to her success.
So glad this popped up on my fy because of Taylor. I play piano but wish I could play guitar. This was great. I wish you had done the full performances. Her bridges are awesome. Please do more Taylor. Great reaction. So interesting.
Death by a Thousand Cuts live in Paris is one of her best guitar performances in my opinion.
Loved this video!
@@deathby1000cats That would be a great one to react to! Cornelia Street from the same concert was amazing too!
Thanks for this, it's very instructive. So much commentary - especially from men, unfortunately - is curiously hostile and dismissive of Taylor Swift as just a fizzy pop princess, based on knowing hardly any of her work. It's nice to see a professional guitarist give her a detailed, knowledgeable analysis.
Great video with a kind, balanced walk through the guitar styling for TS! Fire topic and I hope this video does super well!
The continuous note is a cool signature sound that we see on the piano too!
Love that dreamy kind of sound!
5:40 I love that you used this performance! It’s one of my FAVORITES 😍😎🎶 her voice in this rock version is amazing, I want her to do a rock album 🤩🫶🏼
Thanks! Yeah, that'd be interesting to hear actually, Rock is having something of a resurgence at the moment with new releases from Slash, Extreme, Mr. Big and Myles Kennedy amongst others.
Definitely check out the videos of her on the 12 string guitar - that’s how she insisted on learning guitar when she was young
Will do, thanks!
Without been a swiftie, i must say: Great video, my friend.
Keep rocking !
Thanks Angello!
She's not SRV but she's not trying to be.
She plays Taylor Swift songs just fine.
you should watch the “i can see you” acoustic performance from the eras tour! her guitar skills were really brought out in that as well as her vocals! or any of the acoustic performances too to be honest! it’s on disney plus under extras when you click on the eras tour (taylor’s version) but you should be able to find it on youtube too!
A nice video! Would love a part 2 🙌 I learned a few things!
Ahh I wish you would have kept on watching the third performance until the bridge cause it’s my favourite guitar part!
Also, as other commenters mentioned, please react to one of the Death by a Thousand cuts acoustic performance! Tiny desk or live in Paris are both so great!
I think the we are never getting back together video is a remastered one by EAS, the live audio in the crowd was a little different.
From what I see she does not play single note lines or riffs on guitar but her strumming and rhythm are flawless.
Would have to agree!
Check out her playing Death by a Thousand Cuts at her Tiny Desk concert! That one has a good riff that she keeps up through the verses.
She is probably very capable of playing riffs and melody but doesn't really need to very often with her band backing her up.
Yep, she is not a soloist like you get in rock songs.
She composes the riffs her band plays.
She can play lead guitar and the banjo! The question of her guitar skills is asked and answered!
That was so cool to watch and learn about her guitar playing! Since she was twelve, she’s constantly either strumming a guitar or on the piano. She’s now thirty four and has mastered both beautifully!
She's got killer right-hand technique and she makes it look easy. I know a ton of folks who've picked up a guitar and can't check off either of those boxes.
Wow!🤩 I’m a huge fan of Taylor, especially her lyrics/storytelling.🎵 I love her live performances.❤ 🎤🎵 💃
Very interesting that you’re sharing the instrumental part!👍🏼
Thank you!🙏🏼
Her band is great! 🎸
She's not bad for what she does. People say she sucks because she strums basic open chords. Well just because it's not hard doesn't mean she sucks. It's pop music, that gets the job done. My question is does she have good rhythm, keep time and is she able to sing and play? The answer is yes, so she is an adequate guitar player. There isn't much going on besides basic major minor chords and pop chord progressions. Do people expect her to shred a solo or something 😂
I agree, she's good at what she does and get's the job done. Defo not a shredder!
Shredding is so overrated.
As this video shows, and it is a pathetically small cross section of her playing lacking the diversity of her playing, she doesn’t “just play open chords”. She uses a variety of rhythm techniques and alters chord progression.
If you want to see her play guitar, you have to go back to her country music. At 19, she composed, sang, played, and produced an entire album almost entirely on her own.
But y’all are ignoring her accomplishments and skills and undervaluing rhythm/lead guitar.
She can perform every song in her catalogue on her own.
Thank you -- really enjoyed your analysis - have always wondered how good a guitarist she is.
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Thanks for weighing in!
I love her performance of Never Grow Up from The Eras Tour! Sadly I don’t think there’s a professional recording of it, but it’s such a complex song on so many levels I don’t even know how to explain it but maybe you could! And she makes it seem so effortless
I think it's amazing that Ms. Swift learned to play guitar on a 12 string, she definitely very talented!!
Taylor makes everything look effortless. She is absolutely amazing
It seems like she excels exactly at what she needs that guitar for, and that's to be able to write songs and perform the songs she wrote. She decided as a kid that she wanted to be a songwriter and she spent the rest of her life mastering just what she needs for that. I really admire that kind of dedication to one craft.
I have just has a whole first virgin guitar lesson watching this! I do not have time for another hobby, but you've inspired me to payt more attention to buy husband playing base. Thank you. A very good teacher, from a fellow teacher!!
Thanks fellow teacher 😀 I'm sure he'll be super happy about that!
Oooh nice catch on The Verve and Wildest Dreams, love both those songs so 👌
She's great at playing guitar, I'm actually learning guitar because I want to be as good as her and being able to play all of her long and wonderful discography
That's awesome, you're going to have a wonderful journey with music!
Her guitarist name is Paul Sidoti ❤😊
Thanks!
I admire your knowledge. Thanks for this video
My pleasure
Whatever she does, it is perfect for her songs and performance, what a package.
Cool video. I would be interested to see your verdict on her acoustic performance from RED in Nashville of Never Getting Back Together. There is some serious muting going on in the chorus that is different from the verse.
That was a refreshing review, I liked this lady when i first saw her, but the words were not from anything in my background so I could not relate to her songs. But boy can she put on a show. And I hope give other young ladies the will to pick and instrument and play music. I have tried to play guitar for over 50 years it's impossible for me. I build my own Amp but I am tone deaf and uncoordinated. I am always impressed by musicians. She and you are impressive. Thanks for sharing, Dennis
Thanks Dennis!
Great Video man!!!
Glad you liked it!
Singing is her strong point. No one ever said she was a better than average guitar player. Three chords and truth. Note, the singing competitions where contestants use their guitar, often encouraged them to leave the instrument behind and just , sing.
Three chords and the truth works well for many artists, Green Day spring to mind. It's great when singers can leave their instrument for a bit and get out front to just sing, great way for them to interact with their audience.
While learning guitar she would practice playing until her fingers bleed…That’s dedication!
Cornelia street on city of lover was so good
Kudos point for the nice vid ;)
Thanks!
loved this video!
don't know anything about guitar but the last performamnce of wildest dreams is so pleasing to the ears,#. Genuinely curious what song it was that you recognized that was similar
It's Lucky Man by The Verve, if you skip right to 0:53 just before the vocal kicks in.
@@CarringtonGuitarAcademy thank you so much
you should do a video on adrianne lenker
Thank you for doing this ❤
You're so welcome!
She also plays a 12 string guitar
Great video!
The song you were looking for was by the feeling not the verve it is called “sewn”. Great song. Sad it wasn’t more popular
I haven't heard Sewn in years!
Sewn is a great song!
I never learn the hand mute technique but between playing guitar and music theory I get what he means, it is not at radical as Tori Amos or even Heart but often more beautiful.
Taylor plays rhythm guitar very well.She doesn't have to be Jeff Beck, she's Taylor Swift.🤷💛
Ahh I would’ve never made the connection between Wildest Dreams and Lucky Man, but definitely hear it.
Yeah, it's a nice little melody for sure.
I just adore her
Cool video idea
Thanks!
Swifties know too well that she's not a strong vocalist or a devoted pro guitarist but why some trolls here think we revere her as a god
Her Grammy songwriting showcase is pretty sweet imo. Just her and the guitar.
A couple of strummed chords is at best intermediate level although her voice is better than I expected.
Appreciating the fact this is 13 mins long
Thanks!
Kudos point for that!
Hello! Have you listened to Taylor's song Betty? She's playing a 12 string guitar live at one of the Grammy's shows. Give it a listen :)
Minute 1130 "you are going to write stuff that is similiar to other people" but then Taylor's team sued Olivia for writing stuff that was similar to hers
Well as a guitarist I know she has made more money than I could ever dream of.
I knew this was gonna be some hard-hitting commentary when he opened up by kudosing her for strumming a C chord. 😅
Just trying to offer her the same support I would to any of my in person students.
kind of says a lot about the general music community that there even needs to be a video to validate her musicianship. She's in her 30s and has been doing this since she was a kid, of course she can play well.
That's songwriter Craig Wiseman with her in the first video
Aha, thanks!
Can you do Phoebe Bridgers next!
I have no idea what you're talking about because I know nothing about guitars but I loved watching you nonetheless.
Thanks dude!
Fabulous subscribed 🎵🙏🏽👍
Thanks!
You should check out noah kahan and his quitar work next👍🏻
Every Taylor swift song I play guitar (which is the only kind of songs I play) she has palm muting 😂 I love it
I wonder how much of the current show she mimes?
Not too sure, I know she mimes some parts, running around the stage while singing is pretty difficult, one has to sacrifice one for the other to some extent it would seem.
Well this was fun!!!
Thank you!
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She’s a phenomenal guitarist that doesn’t get enough credit at all.
She’s a phenomenal singer, or on guitar she’s good at what she’s doing, or you can even say she’s one of the best guitarist among pop singer considering many of them fake guitar playing, but phenomenal guitarist?😂😂😂
Not the most complex rhythm arrangements, but she's perfectly respectable and capable as a guitar player. Her songwriting is better than most of her contemporaries. She seems to enjoy performing which is my least favorite part of making music.
I saw a vid where she talked about still having a guitar teacher (I guess though that was 10 years ago or something mad - time passes!!)...she also seems to have a team of song-writers or mates to write with...which is probably where that Gsus came from.
She doesn't have a "team" of songwriters. She either writes alone or with one more person, who's basically the co producer too. Her songs rarely have more than 2 co writers and for her last 5 albums she works with the same 2 people. She doesn't have a random team for each album. She works with friends she has good chemistry with.
I'll nvr understand why ppl judge talent in a vacuum.
Yes, she does also play a 12 string and a banjo. Along with the piano.
she is also good playing the guitar in one of madonna's live performance ghost town . just playing the guotar and did not sing. maybe good to comment too.. cause it was not just stand still but movement .
Why is so one talking about his perfect pitch 😮😮
Considering that most of her songs she writes are started by on the guitar or piano it shouldn’t be a surprise. Could go even further if they did their research and said that she can play a 12 string and a banjo on top of acoustic and electric guitars. People tend to think that to be a good guitarist you have to play almost exclusively lead guitar stuff (EVH, Hendrix), and whereas that is impressive, personally, I think rhythm players are just as amazing. Malcom Young is considered one of the best guitarist and he plays rhythm. Taylor Swift is a rhythm player, and she’s incredible at it. Also the fact that she started playing couple years younger than so many guitar-heroes just blows my mind haha. I’d check out newer clips of her playing instruments
Rhythm guitar skills are certainly important, especially if you sing too. There's arguably less use in being able to only play lead guitar but not rhythm.
Yes. She's not Mark Knopfler, John Meyer or Lindsey Buckingham, but she's pretty good.
You’re right, she’s not them, she’s Taylor Swift.
she also plays the banjo
Apparently she's good enough!
Kudos point for playing a Johnny Marr jag surely
Hadn't even spotted that, kudos point to you!
Taylor swift is lovely looking and great personality. The future will show how good she really is. She does not stand out as a guitarist. Good luck to her successful lady. Like her but not her music. Just an opinion.
I keep hearing cute ass point instead of kudos point😂
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She can sing, she can write, she can accompany herself on guitar, granted. Everyone is trying to bestow upon her the mantle of awesome guitarist and I'm not seeing it. If you want to see a young woman who is truly an awesome guitarist, look up some videos of Grace Bowers. That young lady can play!
Grace Bowers as certainly got the blues, already making waves and at such a young age! Taylor wouldn't be the first person that comes to mind if I was asked to name 'awesome' guitarists but I'm glad she plays and gets the guitar in front of (mostly) younger women.