How to Play Fifteen by Taylor Swift

Hey, everybody it’s Aaron Gallagher, Freeandeasyguitar.com This lesson here is going to be on a song called Fifteen by Taylor Swift. I want to dedicate this to RSR18 big JC. I'm sorry for a wrong, but it seems that you signed your message Ron SR I doubt it senior, but maybe that’s to Ron I have to say that it was for you. This song Fifteen by Taylor Swift, it’s got standard tuning all right. Some of the chords you’ll going to need is a G chord, a Cadd9, an Em7, a D, and a D/F#. Now throughout any of those chords, there’s a link over here an info box just like when everyone my videos it has a link through a tab, and those chords are explained in that tab, and also you can and got to freeandeasyguitar.com to get chord explanations and tips and tricks on these ways in the chords. So, what I'm going to do is go to the chords, verse, bridge, blah, blah, blah. Show you the chords and then I'm going to try and sing long with it, and I'm going to give you a strum pattern and stuff just like that. So I have listened to this song more than three, four times. Some of the parts I may sing it wrong or I may not pause when she pauses, but the chords are still going to be the same. You have an equal number of metrics so if you do the same one strum pattern for G it’s four beats you’re going to be on C for four beats and Em7 for four beats and back to C in her pitch right. So the verse I want you to do is G chord to a Cadd9, second chord third quarter Em7, the Cadd9. Cool thing about this is if she’s going to play a four finger G which I always play for the most part it’s great because you don’t see at the G chords to the Cadd 9 to the Em7 to Cadd9. These two fingers never move, and that’s easy for beginner I give you guys like a good place holder. I'm kind of like anchor, so you know where you’re at all right. So that is the played back G to Cadd9 , Em7, Cadd9 play that four times through the first verse. It’s a double first verse which means it’s actually two verses before I get into before I end lesson I end up actually playing the chords and sing along. There something I want to show you guys. When you listen to her song you can hear a mandolin playing the background all right. And there’s some I would mess around with the things that are pretty cool for your eyes. You can actually kind of mimic that all right. So the first four chords have it as G, the Cadd9, between Em7, to the Cadd9. Okay, you play that or you can mix in this pinky moving from the third fret to the fifth fret, and this fifth fret that I noticed one of the main in the mandolin place, so bear with me I'm going to show. This is my idea of playing. [Demonstration] Get back so you sing it better. [Demonstration] Okay and what I'm doing there is I'm playing the strum pattern. [Demonstration] Down, up down, up, and I'm doing this pink appear set and try I'm playing. Down, down, and then set one fifth fret down, down, lift the pink you up the heights is open, and then back on for the fourth one, just of like down, up down, sing down, up down, up five, five, open three okay. On the high is five, five, open, three fifth fret Cadd9. Five, five, open, three Em7, five, five, open three Cadd 9, five, five, open three. [Demonstration] Just makes it’s sound there’s almost like two guitars. Before I like mandolin, everybody, all right So I did the first I. tell you the verse like I did it a couple days ago and I'm finished in lesson now. The guitar earlier was in standard tuning okay. Right now it’s an half step down, so my capo is on the first fret, so whatever you do don’t put the capo while in our guitar just tune it to standard and then play the same chords I'm playing ignore this capo okay. Because with the capo on one my guitar now in standard tuning because without it it’s an half step down to mean is to tune lower. So it’s an standard tuning pretend like you don’t ever see this capo, all right. So for the chords because when you’re Fifteen somebody tells you I love you. You kind of like believe them, okay. The first four chords you’re going to play is G, Em7, D, Cadd9 okay the strum pattern I play is— [Demonstration] I just played— [Demonstration] Switch and repeat. So you get the four chords that strum pattern G, Em7, D, Cadd9 second time to you’re going to go G, to a D/F# which means a D chord with some of the second fret and below E okay, so second fret above the, it will be second fret for you to standard tune the capo. So you can wrap your thumb around, that’s what I do or you can move your pointer finger up here and your middle finger replaces your pointer finger on the second fret of your G string, okay. That’s also on the D/F# okay. So it goes on the G, when you’re Fifteen feeling like there’s nothing Em7, left to figure out Cadd9, okay so those four chords. [Demonstration] Same pattern in the song. Then we’ll count to 10 take it in this is a light before you know there you’re going to be at fifteen that’s the end of the chords it’s. [Demonstration] D— [Demonstration] To G— [Demonstration] And then D/F#. [Demonstration] And then B and then you finish D at fifteen. So all together I will put the chords through. [Demonstration] And repeat what we taught earlier. The bridge is really short, really simple. When all you wanted was to be just to be wanted, wish you could go back and tell your self what you know now, okay, Cadd9 to an Em7, so Cadd9 when all you wanted so Cm7, it’s like in wanted you switch to D up to G to the D/F3 to Cadd9 so— [Demonstration] Then back down and swears you’re going to marry him someday but I realize some bigger dreams of mine Cadd9 that’s just G, Cadd9, Em7, Cadd9. okay just basically the same pattern and everything is verses and you repeat chords, so I broke this being in so many parts and what’s going to happen next. Got member for the Freeguitar.com and check out the rest ones.