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Welcome to my Thinking Out Loud Guitar Tutorial by Ed Sheeran, exactly the way he plays it. This famous fingerpicking song uses some easy chord shapes and the strum slap technique (just like in the song “Love Yourself”).
I transcribed the song from the album recording and from this studio session. When he plays it, he obviously doesn’t play it the exact same way every time, but I think I managed to extract the essence of what he’s doing in the live studio recording quite accurately so now you’ll be able to learn to play this song exactly like Ed!
“Thinking Out Loud” Sheet Music TAB no longer available due to copyright issues, but I have something even better!
Thinking Out Loud FULL PLAY-THROUGH (entire song, start to finish) available on my Patreon page
Click hereThe chords are pretty simple for the most part so it’s the strumming and fingerpicking that will probably require most of your attention. He combines a few methods (strumming in various ways, fingerpicking, string smacking) and uses them all quite fluidly so be sure to take your time and carefully learn the movements if you want this to sound its best! The one technique I’d recommend brushing up on (or learning) is string smacking – here’s a video where we go over that (and there are some play-along tracks you can try out as well)
Other Ed Sheeran guitar lessons you might be interested in:
- Thinking Out Loud Electric Guitar Solo Tutorial
- I See Fire Guitar Tutorial (Fingerstyle)
- Photograph Guitar Tutorial
- Happier Guitar Tutorial
- Shape of You Guitar Tutorial
- A-Team Guitar Tutorial (Fingerstyle)
- Castle on The Hill Guitar Tutorial
- Lego House Guitar Tutorial
- Everything Has Changed Guitar Tutorial (Feat. Taylor Swift)
- Give Me Love Guitar Tutorial
- Perfect BEGINNER Guitar Tutorial
- Perfect FINGERSTYLE Guitar Tutorial