All right guys, we got another Taylor Swift joint on the way. This is “Our Song” by Taylor Swift. Tuning is standard. Do not mind my capo on the first fret. That is because my guitar is half set down. So, to get it in a standard tuning, just put a capo on the 1st fret. Just keep your guitar to standard tuning. If your guitar is half-set down, you can put a capo on the 1st fret.
All right, there are four chords to this song in the way I am going to teach you. There is the D and there is an Em. Let me just walk you here real quick. On the tab, you will see a picture, it says D, Em, G and A and it has much numbers down it vertically. All those are is actually to the left, you can see E, A, D, G, B, E. So, it is pretty much just a picture of your guitar like this. So if the top one says 2, it means you should have something here up on the 2nd fret, next number down says 3, this string is 3rd fret, and 2-open-open-open, that is what that means.
All right, so the chords are D, that is the middle finger here, ring finger here, and pointer finger here. All right, so a D, you have Em, pointer finger here, 2nd string, middle finger here. Then a G, middle finger here, pointer finger here, ring here, pinky here, G and an A. Whichever way you want to do it, you can play it like this, play like this or like this. Just want to make sure you have the 2nd fret covered on D, G, and B strings. So any way you want to play it.
All right, the chord progression in the chorus is “I was riding shotgun with my hair undone in the front seat of his car,” it goes D to Em and G to A. That is the strum pattern I use in the whole song. Let me see if I can slow it down. So down, down, down, down, down, and then switch to Em catch with it with an up, so down-down-down-down-up-down-down-down-down-down-down-down-up, I switch to the A so same as before, down-down-down-down, switch to up, down-down-down-down-down-down-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down. So, down-down-down-down, switch up, up-down, up-down, up-down, up, switch to G, down-down-down-down, switch to A, up, up-down, up-down, up-down, up. All right, that is pretty much the whole way I play the intro. So it goes the D, to Em, to G, to A, D, to Em, to G, to A. We do it four times so it goes D, Em, G, A, four times, twice the intro, four, once the first verse starts.
The chorus is “Our Song is the slamming screen door, sneakin’ out late, tappin on your window. When we are on the phone and you talk real slow, it’s late and your mama don’t know.” All right, that is D, Em, A. Actually, all right it is awesome, the chorus is D, Em G, A three times. And then when it says, “When I get home before I said Amen,” that is Em. “And when I got home,” A, “before I say Amen,” Bm, “asking God,” is D. And I just play twice down for D and if he could play it again is G. Then it goes back in to the verse again and into the chorus again, then D, Em, G, A.
The bridge, “I’ve heard every album, listened to the radio, waited for something to come along that was as good as our song,” that is Em, “I’ve’ heard every album, listened to the radio and then waited for something,” that is D, “for something”, A, “to come along,”
“that was as good as our song” is D. So, it is “heard every album,” Em, “listen to the radio,” G, “waited” I always do like three down strum there, A for something to come along, Em, “let it ring ,” that was as good as our song and goes back into the chorus again.
At the very end, “I was riding shot gun’ is D, “with my hair undone,” Em, “in the front seat of his car,” G to A, D, ‘grabbed a pen and an old napkin,” Em, and “I wrote down our song”, so the last one is you play “and I play it once and let it ring , and then, wrote down our song” and that is it or you can strum the D, Em, G, A again if you want. So good luck with this one guys. See you.
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