Name: Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
Uploaded: 2018-07-21T15:10:00.000Z
Duration: 18 min 52 s
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Hey there you, tuned in Cifra Club. I am Leo Eymard

And today I will teach you the song "Thinking out Loud" from Ed Sheeran

To make this lesson I used as a reference an acoustic version of the song sang by Ed Sheeran

Because for us to play it its better since it fits so nicely in voice and guitar only

And because in the studio version there is electric guitar and other instruments as well

I will teach it in the same tune as it is in the acoustic version

Therefore, it will be 1 tone under te original studio version

Before showing you the chords, let's take a look at the tuning

After lowering one tone in each string, we are ready to play the song

those who want to play with the studio version, the one from the videoclip and such

just learn it the way I will teach here, then tune back your guitar to the standard tuning

To play the 1st part, we are using the following chords

D major, which can be played without pressing the first string since we are not using it. Like this.

Remember, those are only "shapes" from the chords since the guitar is not tuned in standard

Let's go then, first part will be like this

I'm gonna play the fingering once then I show the details

Well, we are going to use the right hand thumb to hit the E, A, and D strings

and for the chord's trembles: the index and middle fingers

Notice that at the beginning the index finger is released

Then I play the 3 strings at the same time then hammer it in the 3rd string to form D major

hit it and then hammer on without playing again with the right hand

in the tabs it requires us to play 3 strings

but because we only use the index and the middle fingers, we just pull them up. Look.

Afterwards, there is G major. Played just once.

To finish off, in the A major, we start by playing with three fingers at the same time

To perform this 'stoke' we whip down using index and middle fingers. Like this.

Attention to this Hammer On that we play using the 3rd finger at the 4th fret, on G string.

we use the movement from the Hammer On to stroke the bass strings using the Thumb

To finish off, there is one more hit on the A sting.

Alright. After practicing each chord separately

we add them all together to form this fingering pattern

which will be repeated the whole Part One

I am playing it twice here but in the song it is played several times.

The pattern here is similar to the one I just taught. Look.

I am playing the whole fingering here, then I will show you part by part

To keep things organized, I will divide it in 4 parts

and we use these two fingers to hit the chord's trembles

At E minor from the beginning, we play like this

Well, here we just have to pay attention to the last but one hit

that's where we hit down the strings like this

thus, you will practice the E minor like this

At A7, we play just one time and then give it a little stroke

and at the last chord, the D major, we play like this

The 2nd part is equivalent to the 1st one. The difference

is that we keep pressing the A7 at the end, instead of switching to D. Look.

This part is just like the 1st one, the difference is that

instead of D major, we play B minor. Check it out.

Here we begin playing just like the other parts, at E minor, nothing changes. Look.

To finish off, we play down 5 times on A7.

Done. Now you practice each part separately, then add them all up to play the pre-Chorus.

At the Chorus, we go back to the fingering of Part 1

I am gonna play the Chorus once, then I'll show you what's different.

Well, as I told you, at the Chorus we will repeat the pattern used to play the 1st part of the song

By the way, it is what we play virtually all the time

Here at the Chorus it is played 4 times. I'll show you once, but while playing, notice that it repeats...

After playing this sequence 4 times, we'll play the last part like this

We play one time each chord, but this time

We'll use the index, middle and ring fingers to play the chords' trembles.

Only at D major we use back the pattern idea from the pre-Chorus

After the Chorus, we have nothing to learn anymore.

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