How to Play Tim McGraw by Taylor Swift

Hey, what’s up everybody! It’s Aaron. I might do lesson for you with a song called Tim McGraw and it’s by Taylor Swift. I’ll play Travis Marcum from freeandeasyguitar.com. He is one of our moderators in the forum. He recently just bought a guitar that is other than the one that Taylor Swift plays in the music video for Tim McGraw the only guitar I’ve have seen like that myself personally. I’m sure there are lots but—I want to teach the song so Travis can play it and I’m sure lots of the other Taylor Swift fans will enjoy. So, I’m going to teach you two ways, all right. In the video when she plays it, she plays without a capo, so I’m going to teach you that way first. And then I’m going to teach you with a capo on the fifth fret which eliminates this F bar chord and I wanted to take. So first, I want to teach you the intro. So, we’re in standard tuning here, okay. The first—there’s a really four parts to it and it sounds a little like this. [Demonstration] Okay, anyway I hadn’t listen to that song a long time but that’s basically the tab—so, you can just use your pointer finger from the third fret, you’re going to play [Demonstration] play that once and slide it to the third. Sorry about that, I turned the TV off, so just to hear better. So, pointer finger third fret, your two-string and B string you play it once, slide up to the fifth fret and back. Or do the hammer on. If you want if what you would prefer, then you play the fifth fret of your G string, then you play this fifth fret back and it would as you go. Then you can use this pinkie to do the bend or you can just kind of use it or whatever. Second time through you play three. Five to three, then you play at five, on the G and then two on the second fret back to the G string. Then you play [Demonstration] again, and you play that three more times. Well, two more times and the third time, you could pull off and then you can either pick it again and just hammer it back on. So [Demonstration] your call. That’s the intro there. Take a look at that. The chord’s that I used with a no-capo version is C, to A minor, to F, to G, and that is the entire song except for the bridge. The bridge is F, to C, and F, to G. So they form the strum pattern I use. All right! So, the strumming pattern is C, to A minor, to F and to G. The strum pattern that I would use and suggest on this one and on the capo version is just. [Demonstration] Down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up. That’s it. For the intro, verse, the pre-chorus is just F. Same string pattern to C, F, G. Now, get back in the chorus when you think Tim McGraw’s—C, A minor, F, G. Okay. There we find the bridge for you really quick—I don’t see a bridge. Maybe the song didn’t have a bridge here. You can see the chords above the lettering in this in the tab that I gave you, over here from YouTube, if you’re on YouTube go to freeandeasyguitar.com and check out the lessons there. We’ve got about take a hundred and some lessons one over a hundreds—so take it for what else worth and you if want to use all this lessons to go forth. And then the second version—capo with fifth fret, all right! And the Intro once again will be all different obviously because your five frets. But I want you to do for it is you’re your G string. Down here we did the whole three, to five, to three. Up here, you’re going to be on G string and it’s going to go two, four, to two. And you can pull off for that last note. [Demonstration] That’s kind of the sound you want to hear. Okay? So the first come through two, slide the four to two, pull off and you can strum with G. You can play the second time through two, four, two, four, two, you have a D String and you turn that into a Dsus4. Then you can play [Demonstration]. And then up here, you can actually play it two bend release three what that really just means like two hammer on three at least two work, slide three. So you can go four, the same thing. All right! Then you strum a C chord, Cadd9 and you finish off with the two, four, two, open, hammer on two. On G String and you’re going to D chords. And the E minor chord finishes it like that. Now, for the verse for this the cooperation is a G, E minor, C, the D. That’s just down, down, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up. [Demonstration] Okay, that’s the verses to chorus. The whole way through—the only thing that you have there in the verse—yeah, I mean that’s really it. The tabs, the chords, letters are above the tab. The Outro is really just like three strums of the D chord [Demonstration] and on your D string which is here, you go up six from frets, so one, two, three, four, five, six which is actually 11th fret. And you play six, five, six, so [Demonstration] and you strum at G chord to end it. All the other chords are right above the lyrics and both tab’s I’ll give you. So check them out and remember to get to freeandeasyguitar.com. Take care.