I've read the autobiography of Duff from Guns N'Roses. He took his family to a Taylor Swift concert. The next day his wife and two daughters started to learn how to play the guitar.
That’s the great thing about women like Taylor swift, girls and women usually can’t even imagine themselves playing guitar because they see only men playing it, then they see someone like Taylor (or Katy Perry at beginning of her career) playing and they think “ehy, I could learn too”
Taylor herself identifies as a songwriter first, and then a singer and guitar/piano player. She's not intending to be Carlos Santana or anything. lol The fact is she wouldn't be 15 years straight in the business with solid success if she wasn't talented.
That in addition to being super involved as a producer, I love that she always goes above and beyond to credit people she works with and that she's so hands on an passionate about the process of producing her music.
oh yeah, believe me, all of us Swifties are waiting for the rock album! What people who only hear TS on the radio need to understand is that she's a songwriter first and a pop star last. She makes albums with the lyrics in mind, writes songs on the Piano or Guitar and then decides what production she'll use. Most of her greatest songs are not on the radio or streaming charts.
@@markfrost2707 What the heck are you saying? He literally just worked on two out of her 10 albums, you clearly don't know what you're talking about and just wants a reason to hate on her
@@markfrost2707 if u see her songwriting process videos,you'll notice that she constructs the main melody all by herself and there are only few lyric changes by her co writers
@@markfrost2707ikr. Swifts such a shitty, max martin's name should've been on speak now (Taylors version). And max worked his ass off during pandemic for folklore and evermore and are his best work.. and yet she excluded his name. Fork you swift.
I’m new to Taylor during pandemic and I didn’t think I liked her music. Then realized her best music was not what I was hearing on the radio. I’m now full on fan! She used to play more than she does now. Now she has a whole production with dancers and singers with her band. But I like just Taylor and one instrument, or just a few background instruments accompanying her. A lot of people want her to do a rock album next, you are not alone. Wondering if you have listened to her latest albums folklore and evermore. She isn’t playing guitar much on them but I think it’s a good sound for her. I think her lower register is outstanding. If you haven’t listened to them, highly lyrical, on another level. She doesn’t really do rock but I do like her “rock” version of “ we are never ever getting back together “ live in 4K. It’s a combination of pop and rock. I actually think her album Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is country-rock. Hmmm. Have you listened to the rock band Haim? Taylor was featured on one of their songs this spring called Gasoline. She has that rock voice you mentioned you liked on her verse (verse 2). Another live few performances of her playing acoustic are Death By A Thousand Cuts live in Paris, Betty live from the ACM awards 2020, and two of my favorites Delicate live in Chicago and the fan favorite Call It What You Want live on SNL.
Something that I have learned as growing up is that you only got to know a music artist when you hear their albums. Radio really pays dust to many great musicians, especially because is something more commercial, and it's mostly choices made from the Record Label that they are signed...
She will list herself in the credits if she plays; but on Folklore, she got most of the music from Aaron Dessner, and his engineers mixed it. His twin did some orchestration from Paris. Dessner did a lot of the instrumentals himself, but there were print interviews from a drummer, and a violinist who were for some tracks blind--they found out what the record was, and who it was for, a couple hours before the release. I have found the radio songs were bouncy; but all the most personal, touching songs are on the albums. Also, if no one has mentioned it, track 5 is always the most emotional. Someone asked her about that in an interview, and she looked surprised, then laughed, bc she actually hadn't realized she was doing it. if you don't have the physical albums, the credits are in the track listings for her discography on Wikipedia. It is remarkably up to date--- I would guess her publicist adds new albums/credits. She has a page, each album (and each tour) has a page, the singles have their own pages sometimes. .. . .awards, concept, influences, critical reception, sales.
She got a guitar as a gift when she was about 9 or 10 years old. She didn't mind playing it cause according to her, her fingers were too small. Then a guy that her family hired to fix her computer saw the guitar on the corner and taught her few chords. The next day, she couldn't stop playing it and eventually wrote her very first song called "Lucky You". From then on, she couldn't stop playing guitar till her fingers were bleeding. 👌
for me she's an amazing guitar player, people always say "she only uses the basic chords", yes and so what? guitar playing is not only about playing barre chords it is so much more than that. She can write her own songs and bring out the emotions using her guitar, and if simplifying the chords makes it easier then what's the harm of doing it?
She can play barre chords tho, she barely does it tho for whatever reason. If you look up the love story acoustic performances from the Fearless Era, she plays B minor in thr aksy chorus.
@@lexi-op5vk in the beginning of the vid czcams.com/video/b5oQ2q1Jjb8/video.html I think on stage she has to focus on other stuff too. So like why complicate when you can just put a capo on
Nobody with 3 AOTY grammy’s is at the beginning of their career lol, BUT I definitely thinks she’s at a point where she’s solidified herself as an artist and has a lot more freedom to explore genres/sounds. Would love to see her lean into the rock sound a bit more!
Thank you for pointing out the truth about why people say she's not a 'real' guitarist-because she's a woman. You speak the truth sir, thank you! And yes, she's self taught. Got her first guitar at 8 & never looked back. She's also taught herself to play mandolin, piano, electric & bass guitars, & can do a bit on a fiddle/violin. If a man taught himself all that, wrote all his own songs as well as some for other artists, sang & performed to sold out stadiums like she does, they'd be called a prodegy, but Taylor's called overrated. It's sickening. You don't have to like her music to admit she's got talent! Thanks for that!
she has performed kinda the rock version of her song "we are never ever getting back together" with guitar on her 1989 world tour its really cool you should check that out(make sure to watch the 4k cause the other ones has a bad quality)
Her Grammy Museum performance of Wildest Dreams and her NPR Tiny Desk performance of Death by A Thousand Cuts are some of her best guitar moments in my opinion.
I love watching guitarists react to Taylor playing guitar. It’s my absolute favorite thing about Taylor (besides her lyrics ofc). I starting learning guitar because of Taylor and I now know how to play most if not all her songs on guitar. Cornelia street, death by a thousand cuts, and Betty are some of my favorites to play.
You are so chill and laid back and obviously a great guitarist. I remember how every girl and few boys in my class picked up guitars right after Taylor's love story dropped. She did more good to the guitar community than what the critics who keep undermining her ever did.
She boosted instrument sales of all the instruments she played; I ran across some business articles giving her credit for huge jumps in both guitar and ukulele sales, as well as boosting buys of CD's & vinyl records, and attracting new listeners abroad to country musicians here. A general music industry impact that was unexpected, but visible to analysts.
"she's just at the beginning of her career" 10 albums, 5 world tours and multiple genre changes in 15 years: AM I A JOKE TO YOU? 💀 just playing man... yeah i hope her next album is rock. she's already done country, country-rock, all sorts of pop, alternative, etc.. so a lot of us are hoping for a rock album next because she can.
I’m dying for a rock album too. It’s always funny to see people who don’t know anything about her react to her live performances. When he said at the beginning of her career, I just laughed out loud 🤣 People have really no idea what she can do and how good she is live.
and bass. and ukulele. and dulcimer. the 6-string banjo (what she usually plays) is sometimes called a ganjo; she uses a guitar pick. she had a musician in her band that was awesome on the 5-string (finger picked) banjo, mandolin and guitar. A lot of her band could play multiple instruments.
@@markfrost2707 well she plays piano, bass, ukulele, dulcimer, and guitar. She’s a songwriter and vocalist so do you really expect her to be the greatest guitarist off all time💀
She plays 12 string guitar as well as the various 6 strings, the uke and piano (probably a whole lot more, but that’s all I’m aware of). I think she got her first guitar when she was quite young, single digits, she’s just turned 32 so she’s been playing for at least two decades.
I really like hearing your thoughts, with genuine musicality and thought behind them. And I love an experienced singer song writer seeing/hearing/noticing Taylor as a singer song writer. She's said, when explaining her excitement that Bon Iver and the National wanted to work with her, something along the lines of one of her greatest fears being that musicians she respects wouldn't like her or her music. She's always made it clear that she wants to be recognised primarily for her writing(she even wrote her 3rd album entirely alone at 19 just to prove to her critics that she could), but I LOVE your mentioning the feeling of the song and her singing, I find it underrated how *emotive* her performances are, without being overdone,(even in her albums in my opinion)! It's just nice too hear you in particular, a "music snob" lol, noticing these things :)
She said in an interview that another reason she didn't do co-writers on the album is because they were NOT on the tour bus/plane with her when the ideas were coming. . . .almost all of it was written during the Fearless tour. It was sold out everywhere, so she extended it and added overseas concerts in the UK and Australia. She ended up touring from April 2009 to July 2010, more than a full year. And, going right into the studio when she got home, cuz Mine was released just a few weeks later.
Thank you all for watching! I hear your suggestions and there are more Taylor Swift videos coming soon! Sorry the Time-Stamps not showing up, hopefully CZcams will fix this soon.
Taylor actually plays multiple instruments. she plays acoustic guitar, electric, banjo, piano.. her NPR Tiny Desk show is pretty good. the full thing (around 30 min.) is on youtube. here's the youtube link to her NPR Tiny Desk: czcams.com/video/FvVnP8G6ITs/video.html&t A really great switch she did to two of of her pop songs and played it acoustically is Blank Space and Wildest Dreams at the Grammy Museum. one song on acoustic guitar and the other song on electric guitar. they are really great performances you should definitely check out: Blank Space acoustic: czcams.com/video/p1Zt47V3pPw/video.html Wildest Dreams: czcams.com/video/OGDkg3QiJmk/video.html She has a movie called: "folklore The Long Pond Studio Sessions" it's a movie where Taylor explains each song on her album 'folklore' and she perform each song acoustically live. she gives a really good insight into how she is as an artist. the movie is on Disney+. here are a couple of performances from the movie so you'll understand what's the movie vibe like: The 1 Live: czcams.com/video/eBJF2v23IAE/video.html Seven Live: czcams.com/video/dGrqJwJSD58/video.html illicit affairs live: czcams.com/video/hpiKM8OlVeA/video.html this is me trying live: czcams.com/video/s2EvrDYRHvk/video.html
nah, she does Taylor; she doesn't really believe in genre. Pop, country, punk, rap, folk, jazz, dubstep, EDM----she doesn't care, It is like those latte's she likes. Get a long spoon and stir.... Thing about her "pop" artist thing, is a lot of people didn't hear anything before 1989 if they didn't listen to country radio.
@@BradisWriting no, it isn't what you said. Although, it is a fine difference, and is probably what you meant. The difference is that she is not making a song of each type, and mixing it up on the album. She mixes several genres up together in one song. Otherwise, I didn't disagree.
I would loooove to hear a rock album from Taylor. In fact, her fandom had been begging for it for years. She had some rock-ish songs in the past but a full rock era from Taylor would be amazing. Thank you for such a lovely and professional reaction :)
Swifties are intense about her cause we grew up with her and we feel close to the lyrics (it's helped us through tough times and she's good at communicating and compartmentalizing how we're feeling). So whatever she's going through, we're going through. Plus she's just as loyal to her fans as we are to her and she really does reach out to her fans.
Tbf... I think she has packaged herself in a way. She's created an image. I mean even in her own song she says "I've never been a natural all I do is try, try, try". She's talked about being a people pleaser etc. You can see she's got less polished and pristine throughout the folklore/evermore era. But she has been known to match her aesthetic to her current sound and create a brand. It's not a bad thing... But it's definitely happened.
@@hanzib31 I am not talking about what she did, what the media and her old idiot label did. Frame her as not authentic God given genius but a hoar who has multiple boyfriends. She is not!
I appreciate your honest reaction. Deserves a sub for sure. I agree. She truly can play pretty good. I'm already used to people looking down on her guitar skill. As long as she rules the music world, she'll always get the hate.
she also performed a rock version of her song 'we are never ever getting back together' on her 1989 world tour, it has a vid here on yt the 4k remastered one.
I've been playing guitar for more than 30 years and I use a capo all the time. I'm perfectly capable of playing all manner of chords all over the fretboard but choosing to finger more complex chords just because they're more complex is just obnoxious to me. Plus, a capo'd acoustic just rings so much nicer, and it's clear that in this song, Taylor wanted those common higher notes to drone throughout the song and the capo allows her to hold them the entire time. People who criticise other guitarists for not constantly doing the most technical sh*t, just for the sake of it, are the reason I hate talking to other guitarists!
Wanna laugh? a lot of people used to say she couldn't have written her songs (first album she was 14-16); then they said she couldn't sing without auto-tune because when she is on, it's too perfect, and if she's off, has a tech failure, or is sick, it can be blatantly bad. Like, that just proves it's live. Her grandmother was a coloratura soprano. Her range is similar, I think, and she's had vocal coaches since she was around 12. Which is also when she started playing guitar, and writing songs (before that though, she was winning karaoke contests, sang the national anthem at a 76'ers game, and sang a song on stage at a Charlie Daniels concert). But ask the haters. She can't sing. She can't play guitar. She can't chew gum, She can't dress herself. Her parents buy all the albums so her songs chart on the BB100. They'll say anything instead of just admitting that she's talented and works hard at what she does. fwiw, RCA/Sony signed her when she was 14, but told her she wasn't ready to record. At 15, she told them to pound sand and went to Borchetta's Big Machine (she was his first signed artist). At 16, her debut album charted. She just turned 19 when her second effort was the first AOTY for her. Last year, she had her third AOTY. Of course, it is all given to her; her parents are millionaires, so she couldn't be actually talented.🙄🙄
I love this, it's so interesting to hear your thoughts! And I love when you commented on just the feeling of the song, and just Taylor with a guitar as a singer songwriter which is my favourite aspect of her as an artist. I think Taylor's discography would surprise a lot of people, seeing as it surprised me haha. My favourite thing to do since becoming a fan of Taylor has been to show people, especially if they aren't fans, her live acoustic performances. I understand her not being everyone's taste (though as I said, I still think most would be surprised listening to something other than her hit singles), but I actually became a fan when she went pop because I don't love pop, but her music stood out. I fell for her lyricism, and I feel that Taylor has a way of uniquely matching the feeling of her music/production with her lyrics, her music vs. lyrics independent elicit the same emotions, and together they bring a story to life. And I realised that I love the feeling of her music because no matter her genre experimentation I can always hear how it started with just her writing lyrics with a guitar or piano. SO when people don't listen to her, or don't like/get her music, I feel her acoustic performances actually show Taylor, her music, and why she's a successful artist. And... thanks for coming to my Ted Talk haha.
No one has to defend Taylor Swift. Her music speaks for itself. What in the world is she doing and how is she doing it? What are the keys that continue against all odds to establish these 15 years of commercial success? She keeps raising the bar and taking it to the very highest elite status. She delivers relentlessly from the center of the heart. Somehow there is a selflessness to it. She's not afraid to tear it all down and restart from scratch. I really don't know why. Maybe because she has an overwhelming desire to heal and connect with others? Maybe it's just because she's really good at it or a little of both.
I would say you might wanna check out her albums folklore and evermore, great lyrical content, very chill production, it's very alternative/indie, i'm saying this bc taylor is not doing pop recently, she's done country, pop and lately she got into indie/alternative so you might wanna check those out since you said you don't really like pop music
Most real artists use capos, mainly acoustic; there is nothing wrong with it. Taylor could probably play without a capo, anyway, but that is not the point. It is about finding the simplicity and conciseness in the music and not about proving yourself more intelligent than anyone else. It happens in other arts as well--like in creative writing. If someone starts using too much vocabulary just to prove themselves intelligent, but they lose the message to the reader, then I'd say they failed to get the message across. The point is to get the message and impact across using straightforward and concise language. Same with guitar playing; however, Taylor utilizes the skills quite well.
You should also take a look at her performance of "The Man" in the same concert. Her dynamics when playing both guitar and piano are brilliant and I honestly feel like they not given enough credit
Absolutely love your knowledge and guitar playing. Making me want to learn guitar😭💓. Love everything about taylor. Songwriting, singing, guitar and piano playing. Just found your videos. Can’t wait to watch more and I hope you will continue to do more Taylor. ❤️❤️
Spoiler alert: the questions about her being a real guitar player are because men can't handle the fact that a woman is as successful as she is. Looking at you Jared Leto
HA we're all waiting for some rock leaning Taylor, she goes there with some live performances... but she went country -> pop ..... and then ended up at folk, (you should check out the longpond studio session of folklore on disneyplus, just Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner acoustic live). BUT maybe eventually after rerecording to own her music she'll get there ha.
She actually plays a lot of instruments, just like the suggestions in the comments I also want to suggest watch her tiny desk concert on CZcams. She did the whole show alone with her instruments.
The closest she ever got to rock was her album Speak Now which she is releasing the re-record of on July 7th!!! Especially Haunted!!! There’s a lot more variation in vocals as well across the album.
As a musician, I appreciate that that's your approach to these reactions. It always seems to me more a musician critique (in the art school respect where you are view and offering interpretation, impressions, and feedback), rather than being critical. A nuanced differentiation, maybe, but one I respect. Here's where being a woodwind player does me no service, though: You mentioned that it seems from the chord shapes she's using that she's mostly self-taught. This is true, from Swiftie lore, but as a person who can play a whopping two chords on a guitar and can't read tab to save my life, I'm wondering what about her style gives you that impression. Is it that the shapes are simpler or more textbook? Are there alternatives she could be using that are less obvious if you're not more traditionally or classically trained?
HEY @DREWBERG! I'm so excited I found your channel. I need your help, sir! I am an over-eager, 43 yr old in a mid-life crisis. 😂jk but I play trumpet, some piano, but my biggest dream as a kid was to play any 🎸 🎸 🎸 proficiently. I had an acoustic guitar in my 30s and gave it away to a buddy's son. So, now I'm trying to ingest all tutorials possible. I really dig you man. Just looking for any advice to pick this up for dummys. I know this is a reaction video, and I didn't come here to ask anything. Just wanted to thank you for thoroughly explaining it. Great content, my friend. With this world turning upside down, playing music is all I care about, it captivates everyone's ears and hearts. Later. 🤙🤘
you should def react to her (sort of "rock version") performance of "we are never getting back together" at the 1989 tour. I'll leave you the link to the 4k version: czcams.com/video/eZRus0sMrqI/video.html she uses her growl more!
Loved your take on this ridiculous criticism of her. But what keeps going through my mind is how few female pop singers play instruments live, much less write prolifically on piano and guitar. My first music idols were in the 70s, and they were all singer/songwriters like Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Carole King, etc... So I admire musicians, like yourself, who write and sing. Some of the most popular artists today sing beautifully, but you rarely, if ever, see them play an instrument. Taylor's talent is undeniable.
She has a rock version of we are never ever getting back together that she performed at the 1989 tour. And she also plays the guitar in that performance. You should check it out
taylor played guitar for madonna in a performance at the iheart radio awards years ago, so if madonna thinks taylor is a professional guitarist, so do I
How bizarre....so many musicians use a capo! haha. Taylor has been playing since forever of course she is a real guitar player and I totally agree with you that she needs to be smart playing chords because there is so much to concentrate on when singing. I do however prefer the sound of barre chords sometimes...and I do prefer Ed Sheeran as a guitar player because he chooses some interesting chords but Taylor is good at what she knows no doubt. In their duet 'Everything has changed' I think I read somewhere that they disagreed on some chords because Ed Sheeran sometimes liked to combine ones Taylor wasn't use to so that song is pretty interesting :)
Singer, songwriter, guitar, ukulele, banjo, and piano player Writes all her songs about her life and now creating more and more songs about fictional stories. I really don't know why people just want to criticize Taylor just for being a hater cause its actually what they are.
She writes, produces, sings, plays guitar and piano. Come on now, trying to take away from her by saying sht like "but she doesnt do this, that and that, therefore isnt a real ..."
I've read the autobiography of Duff from Guns N'Roses. He took his family to a Taylor Swift concert. The next day his wife and two daughters started to learn how to play the guitar.
That’s the great thing about women like Taylor swift, girls and women usually can’t even imagine themselves playing guitar because they see only men playing it, then they see someone like Taylor (or Katy Perry at beginning of her career) playing and they think “ehy, I could learn too”
I love this anecdote. Thanks for sharing it.
Yeah. She’s a songwriter, a poet. That never goes away. That’s why she doesn’t write “bad” songs.
Nice breakdown
Taylor herself identifies as a songwriter first, and then a singer and guitar/piano player. She's not intending to be Carlos Santana or anything. lol The fact is she wouldn't be 15 years straight in the business with solid success if she wasn't talented.
That in addition to being super involved as a producer, I love that she always goes above and beyond to credit people she works with and that she's so hands on an passionate about the process of producing her music.
Exactly
Rightfully said. Also her charisma is infectious.
oh yeah, believe me, all of us Swifties are waiting for the rock album! What people who only hear TS on the radio need to understand is that she's a songwriter first and a pop star last. She makes albums with the lyrics in mind, writes songs on the Piano or Guitar and then decides what production she'll use. Most of her greatest songs are not on the radio or streaming charts.
songwriter....lol. Google her REAL song writer, Max martin--whom she tries to hide.
@@markfrost2707 What the heck are you saying? He literally just worked on two out of her 10 albums, you clearly don't know what you're talking about and just wants a reason to hate on her
@@markfrost2707 20/220 he co-wrote 😂 almost all of Taylor’s stuff she is the main song-writer. With a few co-wrote with others
@@markfrost2707 if u see her songwriting process videos,you'll notice that she constructs the main melody all by herself and there are only few lyric changes by her co writers
@@markfrost2707ikr. Swifts such a shitty, max martin's name should've been on speak now (Taylors version). And max worked his ass off during pandemic for folklore and evermore and are his best work.. and yet she excluded his name. Fork you swift.
I’m new to Taylor during pandemic and I didn’t think I liked her music. Then realized her best music was not what I was hearing on the radio. I’m now full on fan! She used to play more than she does now. Now she has a whole production with dancers and singers with her band. But I like just Taylor and one instrument, or just a few background instruments accompanying her. A lot of people want
her to do a rock album next, you are not alone. Wondering if you have listened to her latest albums folklore and evermore. She isn’t playing guitar much on them but I think it’s a good sound for her. I think her lower register is outstanding. If you haven’t listened to them, highly lyrical, on another level.
She doesn’t really do rock but I do like her “rock” version of “ we are never ever getting back together “ live in 4K. It’s a combination of pop and rock. I actually think her album Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is country-rock. Hmmm. Have you listened to the rock band Haim? Taylor was featured on one of their songs this spring called Gasoline. She has that rock voice you mentioned you liked on her verse (verse 2).
Another live few performances of her playing acoustic are Death By A Thousand Cuts live in Paris, Betty live from the ACM awards 2020, and two of my favorites Delicate live in Chicago and the fan favorite Call It What You Want live on SNL.
Something that I have learned as growing up is that you only got to know a music artist when you hear their albums. Radio really pays dust to many great musicians, especially because is something more commercial, and it's mostly choices made from the Record Label that they are signed...
She will list herself in the credits if she plays; but on Folklore, she got most of the music from Aaron Dessner, and his engineers mixed it. His twin did some orchestration from Paris. Dessner did a lot of the instrumentals himself, but there were print interviews from a drummer, and a violinist who were for some tracks blind--they found out what the record was, and who it was for, a couple hours before the release.
I have found the radio songs were bouncy; but all the most personal, touching songs are on the albums. Also, if no one has mentioned it, track 5 is always the most emotional. Someone asked her about that in an interview, and she looked surprised, then laughed, bc she actually hadn't realized she was doing it.
if you don't have the physical albums, the credits are in the track listings for her discography on Wikipedia. It is remarkably up to date--- I would guess her publicist adds new albums/credits. She has a page, each album (and each tour) has a page, the singles have their own pages sometimes. .. . .awards, concept, influences, critical reception, sales.
You should listen to her album Speak Now, if you haven't. It mostly consists of country rock songs
@@minpyaesone9570 yep I’m a huge enchanted fan!
please also check out her Grammy Museum performances of "blank space" and "wildest dreams"
Yes!!! Would love to see it
Yes, please 🙏🙏🙏
I was about to say that
YES PLEASE!
Ummmmm … Out of the Woods
Come on …
She got a guitar as a gift when she was about 9 or 10 years old. She didn't mind playing it cause according to her, her fingers were too small. Then a guy that her family hired to fix her computer saw the guitar on the corner and taught her few chords. The next day, she couldn't stop playing it and eventually wrote her very first song called "Lucky You". From then on, she couldn't stop playing guitar till her fingers were bleeding. 👌
for me she's an amazing guitar player, people always say "she only uses the basic chords", yes and so what? guitar playing is not only about playing barre chords it is so much more than that. She can write her own songs and bring out the emotions using her guitar, and if simplifying the chords makes it easier then what's the harm of doing it?
So true
She can play barre chords tho, she barely does it tho for whatever reason. If you look up the love story acoustic performances from the Fearless Era, she plays B minor in thr aksy chorus.
@@blogistuff4383 never saw her playing love story (just singing and performing), could you link?
@@lexi-op5vk czcams.com/video/wrWaSIB25K0/video.html
This is one from the Red era
@@lexi-op5vk in the beginning of the vid czcams.com/video/b5oQ2q1Jjb8/video.html I think on stage she has to focus on other stuff too. So like why complicate when you can just put a capo on
Watch her npr tiny desk on your own if you wanna see her playing skills .
Nobody with 3 AOTY grammy’s is at the beginning of their career lol, BUT I definitely thinks she’s at a point where she’s solidified herself as an artist and has a lot more freedom to explore genres/sounds. Would love to see her lean into the rock sound a bit more!
Thank you for pointing out the truth about why people say she's not a 'real' guitarist-because she's a woman. You speak the truth sir, thank you! And yes, she's self taught. Got her first guitar at 8 & never looked back. She's also taught herself to play mandolin, piano, electric & bass guitars, & can do a bit on a fiddle/violin. If a man taught himself all that, wrote all his own songs as well as some for other artists, sang & performed to sold out stadiums like she does, they'd be called a prodegy, but Taylor's called overrated. It's sickening. You don't have to like her music to admit she's got talent! Thanks for that!
Totally agree on every front
@@swiftie4life09 😁💖
she has performed kinda the rock version of her song "we are never ever getting back together" with guitar on her 1989 world tour its really cool you should check that out(make sure to watch the 4k cause the other ones has a bad quality)
It's not really a rock version though...
YES
Now that you reacted to a Taylor song, the swifties won't disappear from here 😂 Great video, great channel!
Her performance of “Betty”- I believe at acms, is great her last two albums, both from 2020 fall into that seems simple but not
One of my favorite acoustic performances. I play Betty all the time on guitar. I just love the chord progressions and the key change at the end
The way she plays the guitar is so engaging. It's dynamic and changes the audience's energy.
Her Grammy Museum performance of Wildest Dreams and her NPR Tiny Desk performance of Death by A Thousand Cuts are some of her best guitar moments in my opinion.
I love watching guitarists react to Taylor playing guitar. It’s my absolute favorite thing about Taylor (besides her lyrics ofc). I starting learning guitar because of Taylor and I now know how to play most if not all her songs on guitar. Cornelia street, death by a thousand cuts, and Betty are some of my favorites to play.
Do you have any channel recommendations?
She has been around for 15 years! Since she was teen. Reputation has more rock and electro pop.
Retro pop
I recommend her grammy museum acoustic performances, they're so good and raw.
You are so chill and laid back and obviously a great guitarist. I remember how every girl and few boys in my class picked up guitars right after Taylor's love story dropped. She did more good to the guitar community than what the critics who keep undermining her ever did.
She boosted instrument sales of all the instruments she played; I ran across some business articles giving her credit for huge jumps in both guitar and ukulele sales, as well as boosting buys of CD's & vinyl records, and attracting new listeners abroad to country musicians here. A general music industry impact that was unexpected, but visible to analysts.
"she's just at the beginning of her career"
10 albums, 5 world tours and multiple genre changes in 15 years: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?
💀 just playing man... yeah i hope her next album is rock. she's already done country, country-rock, all sorts of pop, alternative, etc.. so a lot of us are hoping for a rock album next because she can.
but also i remember that she's only 31 and honestly she has sooo much more to do in her career
I’d love a rock album from Taylor ♥️
I’m dying for a rock album too.
It’s always funny to see people who don’t know anything about her react to her live performances.
When he said at the beginning of her career, I just laughed out loud 🤣
People have really no idea what she can do and how good she is live.
Whoever says that she is not a real guitar player are idiots. She plays piano and electric guitar banjo. They never listened or watched her!
and bass. and ukulele. and dulcimer. the 6-string banjo (what she usually plays) is sometimes called a ganjo; she uses a guitar pick. she had a musician in her band that was awesome on the 5-string (finger picked) banjo, mandolin and guitar. A lot of her band could play multiple instruments.
she's HORRIBLE for 17 years of playing
@@markfrost2707 go away hater
@@markfrost2707 of course, she didn't have to prioritized being a guitarist, she's a song writer too
@@markfrost2707 well she plays piano, bass, ukulele, dulcimer, and guitar. She’s a songwriter and vocalist so do you really expect her to be the greatest guitarist off all time💀
She plays 12 string guitar as well as the various 6 strings, the uke and piano (probably a whole lot more, but that’s all I’m aware of). I think she got her first guitar when she was quite young, single digits, she’s just turned 32 so she’s been playing for at least two decades.
I really like hearing your thoughts, with genuine musicality and thought behind them. And I love an experienced singer song writer seeing/hearing/noticing Taylor as a singer song writer. She's said, when explaining her excitement that Bon Iver and the National wanted to work with her, something along the lines of one of her greatest fears being that musicians she respects wouldn't like her or her music. She's always made it clear that she wants to be recognised primarily for her writing(she even wrote her 3rd album entirely alone at 19 just to prove to her critics that she could), but I LOVE your mentioning the feeling of the song and her singing, I find it underrated how *emotive* her performances are, without being overdone,(even in her albums in my opinion)! It's just nice too hear you in particular, a "music snob" lol, noticing these things :)
She said in an interview that another reason she didn't do co-writers on the album is because they were NOT on the tour bus/plane with her when the ideas were coming. . . .almost all of it was written during the Fearless tour. It was sold out everywhere, so she extended it and added overseas concerts in the UK and Australia. She ended up touring from April 2009 to July 2010, more than a full year. And, going right into the studio when she got home, cuz Mine was released just a few weeks later.
Thank you all for watching! I hear your suggestions and there are more Taylor Swift videos coming soon! Sorry the Time-Stamps not showing up, hopefully CZcams will fix this soon.
Decided to watch your Taylor Swift journey all over again. So I'm back here on #1. So fun to revisit!
She's an unicorn in music.
Yes we need more Taylor content on this channel..Taylor has done Country/Pop/folk..Maybe Rock is next..
No she must explore Flamenco. Lol
Rock, Flamenco, Classical. If Clapton is “God” Then Taylor is Goddess. Ha ha ha ha
Taylor actually plays multiple instruments. she plays acoustic guitar, electric, banjo, piano.. her NPR Tiny Desk show is pretty good. the full thing (around 30 min.) is on youtube.
here's the youtube link to her NPR Tiny Desk: czcams.com/video/FvVnP8G6ITs/video.html&t
A really great switch she did to two of of her pop songs and played it acoustically is Blank Space and Wildest Dreams at the Grammy Museum. one song on acoustic guitar and the other song on electric guitar. they are really great performances you should definitely check out:
Blank Space acoustic: czcams.com/video/p1Zt47V3pPw/video.html
Wildest Dreams: czcams.com/video/OGDkg3QiJmk/video.html
She has a movie called: "folklore The Long Pond Studio Sessions" it's a movie where Taylor explains each song on her album 'folklore' and she perform each song acoustically live. she gives a really good insight into how she is as an artist. the movie is on Disney+. here are a couple of performances from the movie so you'll understand what's the movie vibe like:
The 1 Live: czcams.com/video/eBJF2v23IAE/video.html
Seven Live: czcams.com/video/dGrqJwJSD58/video.html
illicit affairs live: czcams.com/video/hpiKM8OlVeA/video.html
this is me trying live: czcams.com/video/s2EvrDYRHvk/video.html
first 10 seconds and i already love your channel!
Yay! Thank you!
I like ur noodling. It enhances the sound. This is such a beautiful song.
She is a better guitarist than many popular artists nowadays .
Rewatch gang! Haha I’m a Patreon member and still rewatch. Definitely one of comfort creators.
It would be so cool to see you react to Death By A Thousand Cuts! She takes the whole remembering/multitasking thing to a new level in my opinion
wow thanks for checking this out, you should definitely watch her tiny desk concert next, especially the death by a thousand cuts performance
but taylor is not just a pop artist, she's just marketed that way. she's done country, pop and alternative now
nah, she does Taylor; she doesn't really believe in genre. Pop, country, punk, rap, folk, jazz, dubstep, EDM----she doesn't care, It is like those latte's she likes. Get a long spoon and stir.... Thing about her "pop" artist thing, is a lot of people didn't hear anything before 1989 if they didn't listen to country radio.
@@robertthompson7242 that's..... exactly what i said. can you read?
@@BradisWriting no, it isn't what you said. Although, it is a fine difference, and is probably what you meant.
The difference is that she is not making a song of each type, and mixing it up on the album. She mixes several genres up together in one song. Otherwise, I didn't disagree.
I would loooove to hear a rock album from Taylor. In fact, her fandom had been begging for it for years. She had some rock-ish songs in the past but a full rock era from Taylor would be amazing. Thank you for such a lovely and professional reaction :)
Swifties are intense about her cause we grew up with her and we feel close to the lyrics (it's helped us through tough times and she's good at communicating and compartmentalizing how we're feeling). So whatever she's going through, we're going through. Plus she's just as loyal to her fans as we are to her and she really does reach out to her fans.
She is not packaged. She is her own self!
Tbf... I think she has packaged herself in a way. She's created an image. I mean even in her own song she says "I've never been a natural all I do is try, try, try". She's talked about being a people pleaser etc. You can see she's got less polished and pristine throughout the folklore/evermore era. But she has been known to match her aesthetic to her current sound and create a brand. It's not a bad thing... But it's definitely happened.
@@hanzib31 I am not talking about what she did, what the media and her old idiot label did. Frame her as not authentic God given genius but a hoar who has multiple boyfriends. She is not!
@@richardh776 woah. Nobody said that here. And how does that relate to your comment?! 😂
i love Nickelback, i love Linkin Park, i love Eminem, i love Taylor Swift, i love Ariana Grande
I want to learn how to hammer on a guitar like what you’re doing. It’s so cool
It’s actually pretty simple. I love putting hammer ons in songs to make it sound intricate
I appreciate your honest reaction. Deserves a sub for sure. I agree. She truly can play pretty good. I'm already used to people looking down on her guitar skill. As long as she rules the music world, she'll always get the hate.
she also performed a rock version of her song 'we are never ever getting back together' on her 1989 world tour, it has a vid here on yt the 4k remastered one.
sometime simple is more beautiful 😊
I've been playing guitar for more than 30 years and I use a capo all the time. I'm perfectly capable of playing all manner of chords all over the fretboard but choosing to finger more complex chords just because they're more complex is just obnoxious to me.
Plus, a capo'd acoustic just rings so much nicer, and it's clear that in this song, Taylor wanted those common higher notes to drone throughout the song and the capo allows her to hold them the entire time.
People who criticise other guitarists for not constantly doing the most technical sh*t, just for the sake of it, are the reason I hate talking to other guitarists!
I like this guy
Wanna laugh? a lot of people used to say she couldn't have written her songs (first album she was 14-16); then they said she couldn't sing without auto-tune because when she is on, it's too perfect, and if she's off, has a tech failure, or is sick, it can be blatantly bad. Like, that just proves it's live. Her grandmother was a coloratura soprano. Her range is similar, I think, and she's had vocal coaches since she was around 12. Which is also when she started playing guitar, and writing songs (before that though, she was winning karaoke contests, sang the national anthem at a 76'ers game, and sang a song on stage at a Charlie Daniels concert). But ask the haters. She can't sing. She can't play guitar. She can't chew gum, She can't dress herself. Her parents buy all the albums so her songs chart on the BB100. They'll say anything instead of just admitting that she's talented and works hard at what she does.
fwiw, RCA/Sony signed her when she was 14, but told her she wasn't ready to record. At 15, she told them to pound sand and went to Borchetta's Big Machine (she was his first signed artist). At 16, her debut album charted. She just turned 19 when her second effort was the first AOTY for her. Last year, she had her third AOTY. Of course, it is all given to her; her parents are millionaires, so she couldn't be actually talented.🙄🙄
I would love to hear you do an arrangement of this song, what you played was so so good!
I love this, it's so interesting to hear your thoughts! And I love when you commented on just the feeling of the song, and just Taylor with a guitar as a singer songwriter which is my favourite aspect of her as an artist. I think Taylor's discography would surprise a lot of people, seeing as it surprised me haha.
My favourite thing to do since becoming a fan of Taylor has been to show people, especially if they aren't fans, her live acoustic performances. I understand her not being everyone's taste (though as I said, I still think most would be surprised listening to something other than her hit singles), but I actually became a fan when she went pop because I don't love pop, but her music stood out. I fell for her lyricism, and I feel that Taylor has a way of uniquely matching the feeling of her music/production with her lyrics, her music vs. lyrics independent elicit the same emotions, and together they bring a story to life.
And I realised that I love the feeling of her music because no matter her genre experimentation I can always hear how it started with just her writing lyrics with a guitar or piano. SO when people don't listen to her, or don't like/get her music, I feel her acoustic performances actually show Taylor, her music, and why she's a successful artist.
And... thanks for coming to my Ted Talk haha.
No one has to defend Taylor Swift. Her music speaks for itself. What in the world is she doing and how is she doing it? What are the keys that continue against all odds to establish these 15 years of commercial success? She keeps raising the bar and taking it to the very highest elite status. She delivers relentlessly from the center of the heart. Somehow there is a selflessness to it. She's not afraid to tear it all down and restart from scratch. I really don't know why. Maybe because she has an overwhelming desire to heal and connect with others? Maybe it's just because she's really good at it or a little of both.
Love your Taylor videos so much! Great insight!
Check out her Grammy performance of Mean, she actually plays banjo.
I think you could get into Folklore as an album. It’s so far from pop, and lyrically driven with excellent use of instruments.
Great reaction, I hope you're gonna do another, she played guitar and piano in a lot of her scenes!
I would say you might wanna check out her albums folklore and evermore, great lyrical content, very chill production, it's very alternative/indie, i'm saying this bc taylor is not doing pop recently, she's done country, pop and lately she got into indie/alternative so you might wanna check those out since you said you don't really like pop music
She had a tv special with def leppard, you'd probably enjoy that :)
she really is a pro
Damn that intro was so good I subscribed immediately after 😅
This video is awesome :) Love the elaboration on the guitar playing
You should react to her tiny desk concert!
Most real artists use capos, mainly acoustic; there is nothing wrong with it. Taylor could probably play without a capo, anyway, but that is not the point. It is about finding the simplicity and conciseness in the music and not about proving yourself more intelligent than anyone else. It happens in other arts as well--like in creative writing. If someone starts using too much vocabulary just to prove themselves intelligent, but they lose the message to the reader, then I'd say they failed to get the message across. The point is to get the message and impact across using straightforward and concise language. Same with guitar playing; however, Taylor utilizes the skills quite well.
Haha: little Swiftie Insider: Swifties want her next album (Her tenth album=TS10) to be a Rock album 😂
PLEASE WATCH HER TINY DEST CONCERT , SHE PLAYED THE GUITAR AND PIANO 🎹🎹
She played alone ❤️
You should also take a look at her performance of "The Man" in the same concert. Her dynamics when playing both guitar and piano are brilliant and I honestly feel like they not given enough credit
Absolutely love your knowledge and guitar playing. Making me want to learn guitar😭💓. Love everything about taylor. Songwriting, singing, guitar and piano playing. Just found your videos. Can’t wait to watch more and I hope you will continue to do more Taylor. ❤️❤️
If you want to hear those deep notes, they can be found on folklore/evermore album. 😊
Spoiler alert: the questions about her being a real guitar player are because men can't handle the fact that a woman is as successful as she is. Looking at you Jared Leto
I asked for a guitar for Christmas when I was 14 bc I wanted to be like Taylor. It didn’t last. But I still love Taylor!
HA we're all waiting for some rock leaning Taylor, she goes there with some live performances... but she went country -> pop ..... and then ended up at folk, (you should check out the longpond studio session of folklore on disneyplus, just Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner acoustic live). BUT maybe eventually after rerecording to own her music she'll get there ha.
And haters are still gonna hate!!team Taylor always!!!!
She actually plays a lot of instruments, just like the suggestions in the comments I also want to suggest watch her tiny desk concert on CZcams. She did the whole show alone with her instruments.
Please react to her performance of Death By A Thousand Cuts
When you sing! My heart! melts~
Thank you :)
The closest she ever got to rock was her album Speak Now which she is releasing the re-record of on July 7th!!! Especially Haunted!!! There’s a lot more variation in vocals as well across the album.
As a musician, I appreciate that that's your approach to these reactions. It always seems to me more a musician critique (in the art school respect where you are view and offering interpretation, impressions, and feedback), rather than being critical. A nuanced differentiation, maybe, but one I respect.
Here's where being a woodwind player does me no service, though: You mentioned that it seems from the chord shapes she's using that she's mostly self-taught. This is true, from Swiftie lore, but as a person who can play a whopping two chords on a guitar and can't read tab to save my life, I'm wondering what about her style gives you that impression. Is it that the shapes are simpler or more textbook? Are there alternatives she could be using that are less obvious if you're not more traditionally or classically trained?
HEY @DREWBERG! I'm so excited I found your channel. I need your help, sir! I am an over-eager, 43 yr old in a mid-life crisis. 😂jk but I play trumpet, some piano, but my biggest dream as a kid was to play any 🎸 🎸 🎸 proficiently. I had an acoustic guitar in my 30s and gave it away to a buddy's son. So, now I'm trying to ingest all tutorials possible. I really dig you man. Just looking for any advice to pick this up for dummys. I know this is a reaction video, and I didn't come here to ask anything. Just wanted to thank you for thoroughly explaining it. Great content, my friend. With this world turning upside down, playing music is all I care about, it captivates everyone's ears and hearts. Later. 🤙🤘
you want rock from her you say ?..... pls do react to we are never ever getting back together 1989 world tour
React to Eyes open, Better than revenge, Story of us, and Haunted by Taylor it has some pop/rock/ alternative rock elements to it
At the final part of the video, all I could think of was "I knew you were trouble" and "We are never ever getting back together" 1989 tour version
your playing along is so cool sir
There are some videos of her playing a 12-string guitar I think you would like!
you should def react to her (sort of "rock version") performance of "we are never getting back together" at the 1989 tour. I'll leave you the link to the 4k version: czcams.com/video/eZRus0sMrqI/video.html she uses her growl more!
Loved your take on this ridiculous criticism of her. But what keeps going through my mind is how few female pop singers play instruments live, much less write prolifically on piano and guitar. My first music idols were in the 70s, and they were all singer/songwriters like Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Carole King, etc... So I admire musicians, like yourself, who write and sing. Some of the most popular artists today sing beautifully, but you rarely, if ever, see them play an instrument. Taylor's talent is undeniable.
Loved this video and I think Taylor would really appreciate your comments on her being a "real guitarist". So cool and totally agree
We need a Taylor Swift rock album.
She has a rock version of we are never ever getting back together that she performed at the 1989 tour. And she also plays the guitar in that performance. You should check it out
taylor played guitar for madonna in a performance at the iheart radio awards years ago, so if madonna thinks taylor is a professional guitarist, so do I
You should react to the Long Pond Sessions with Taylor and the Grammy Museum performance! If you like hearing the artist with an instrument.
She learned in her own as a kid.
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How bizarre....so many musicians use a capo! haha. Taylor has been playing since forever of course she is a real guitar player and I totally agree with you that she needs to be smart playing chords because there is so much to concentrate on when singing. I do however prefer the sound of barre chords sometimes...and I do prefer Ed Sheeran as a guitar player because he chooses some interesting chords but Taylor is good at what she knows no doubt. In their duet 'Everything has changed' I think I read somewhere that they disagreed on some chords because Ed Sheeran sometimes liked to combine ones Taylor wasn't use to so that song is pretty interesting :)
Thank you!! Loved watching you review Taylor! :)
You should watch her tiny desk performance, Death by a thousand cuts
Just Subscribed.. Hoping to see more T Swift content... Great video 😍
Singer, songwriter, guitar, ukulele, banjo, and piano player
Writes all her songs about her life and now creating more and more songs about fictional stories. I really don't know why people just want to criticize Taylor just for being a hater cause its actually what they are.
She has played guitar live like thousands of time and sing at same time ...and for 15 years ...ok she is one of the best performers
She writes, produces, sings, plays guitar and piano. Come on now, trying to take away from her by saying sht like "but she doesnt do this, that and that, therefore isnt a real ..."
She can play the 12 strings guitar of course she's a real guitar player
If you want her to see singing rock song react to her we are never wver getting back together 1989 live
love. love. love.
Please check out her Grammy Museum performances. To me, acoustic is where she's at her best. Blank Space at the Grammy Museum is super good.