Love Story Guitar Tutorial (No Capo) Taylor Swift

Love Story Guitar Tutorial

Welcome to my Love Story Guitar Tutorial 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!

Love Story Chords: D, G, A and a B* chord.

So, 3 basic chords on guitar, and… the B chord, which 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.

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

• 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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