Learn to Play "The A Team" by Ed Sheeran (Guitar Lesson)

[@judahjohnson]

You are a really patient and instructive teacher. Thank you for taking the time to teach people for free and sharing music with others.

[@jrschannel7]

Wow, this is the best teaching guitar video I have ever seen! It's very easy to understand and I can play it competently within 1 hour :D Very good job, keep making video like this :D Thanks!

[@GuitarSongsChannel]

+Trường Đặng Trọng Thank you!

[@sachseo.5530]

Couldnt agree more. "Karate chop" :)

[@joekelvaneenknoepert1302]

Jack Spoter same, if did it within the vid AMAZING job man

[@jeremydankiw5178]

Steve is definitely one of my favorite teachers. You know right away when you find a winner. He simply causes you to relax and not worry about it too much. I believe that’s his strongpoint because it allows you to feel the music and not force it. Very important. Also being taught the right chords and theory is key.

[@micalious9967]

this is the easiest tutorial I found but you don't talk about the strumming patterns much and being a beginner I found this quite confusing. Would it be possible for you to put the strumming pattern in your future videos? if so I would find that very helpful.

[@gideonshutman4073]

by far my favorite tutorial of "The A Team" by ed sheeran

[@BimoTriWahono95]

you did the tutorial so detail ! i love it.. thanks for sharing .

[@BimoTriWahono95]

subscribed !

[@grooveman213]

love this tutorial. I like how it's broken down piece by piece, I learned this in literally a couple hours thanks

[@MrSister127]

It's a great tutorial, but I've found it really helpful if the very first thing you do is play through the song a little, and then break it down, this is what martysongs does and I find him to be the best youtube teacher around

[@JYLEDH]

Well different things work best for different people

[@nicholask9251]

Nice explanation and very easy to follow. Thank you.

[@jean-jacquestheron9561]

You really have a great way of teaching you're tutorials is awesome

[@GuitarSongsChannel]

Thank you! Guitarzoom

[@123mikellevi]

Best instructional video I have seen. Thanks!!

[@Skoogles]

Best guitar lesson video I've ever seen. So comprehensive and thorough, a complete beginner on guitar only got it last week and can already play this almost flawlessly. Thank you, liked and a well deserved subscription

[@dhairyagala3509]

amazing vedio....love the detail that you depict....easy to understand...thank u very much....very helpful.....

[@domonkeykaka]

Thanks Steve. Great lesson and perfect timing. Having practiced this song all week with my daughter, I got to hear Ed play it live at the AFL Grand Final yesterday (Sep 27 2014)!

[@amypaul6429]

Your videos really helped me, you take it step by step unlike others. Thank you

[@johnathandouglas495]

By far one of the most well explained tutorials I've watched, thank you for you hard work and determination/dedication to help people play better

[@stephcalvert1765]

Thanks!! You really take the time to go through every step of the song, very helpful!!

[@barapple2660]

thank you steve! you're an amazing teacher and what you said about music supposed to be a fun thing is amazing. thank you very much!! :)

[@MadLifeTurtle123]

Thanks for the tutorial it was frustrating at first but the it became clear to me.

[@konnorross7916]

Love this so much, so easy to play, one of my favourite guitar tutorial channels on youtube for sure.

[@91Mufasa]

wspaniałe!! thank you sooo much from Poland :) Beautiful chords ;)

[@TopCatOadby]

Cool lesson, this is one of the best for this song.....thanks!!!!!

[@crime-in-sight]

You're a great teacher! I totally agree with what you said about Ultimate Guitar as I found I was just staring at the chords and not thinking. Also, thanks for explaining the palm mute technique as I know that Sheeran uses it a lot but had no idea how to play it and couldn't find any videos that explained it effectively. So thanks!

[@aiyanacierra]

i love the way you taught this! thanks so much. definitely subscribing. :D

[@quintoncoldwater35]

really great video, best guitar lesson i have ever had! thank you so much this really helped!

[@danobrien883]

I really like the way you broke down everything to make it east to understand...I'm a beginner and I'm a huge fan of ed and I hope you do more videos on eds songs because if you did i think id be able to play his songs much easier because of how you explain the steps. I learned the a team in one day because of how you explained it. Great video. Hope to see more songs by ed posted by you soon.

[@jasminerose2608]

this is brilliant! I've just begun playing the guitar again but managed to pick this up easily thanks to your tutorial! Thank you :)

[@GrayFoxUnitDelta]

This was extremely helpful !! Thank you so much, fantastic teacher!!

[@andrewjcg]

Great video! I learnt more than just a song by watching it so thank you.

[@benwills7786]

hi brilliant tutorial really helpful looking forward to getting it all put together

[@emmyh217]

this has been really useful and just awesome! thanks a lot! I will sit down now and not just learn the whole thing, but understand it! and work on it! :)

[@NadineWegmann]

Very very good teaching video! Thank you a lot! =)

[@Nick-jx7py]

Best guitar tutorial i ever seen, thanks man

[@lpfcrttc]

thanks a lot for this! makes it so much easier to learn the song :) great video!

[@rumpelmusic847]

Thank you so much. This was amazing. Perfect guitar lesson

[@abbiyadon3228]

SOOOO helpfull. Thank you so much. i might do this for a choir final and i didn't know how to play. you taught me how. thankyou

[@aguy4605]

You explain better than anyone mate ;) Thanks :D

[@jay-rtolentino8691]

Thank you for this tutorial! I believe I am pretty late in learning how to play the guitar (as I am 22 years old, was never able to play a full song properly) but for a beginner like me, you were able to explain the process and how to just enjoy playing. I am very greatful for this, and this helped me learn my first guitar song! (I haven't mastered it yet but I think I sound good for a beginner because of this tutorial) Thank you! Please continue making tutorials like this!

[@Tn089-b6g]

it's never too late to learn. You got this dude

[@cuntneagerdeer]

Maan you explained everything so clearly and your daughter is very lucky ))thanks so much

[@joshsousa2788]

This is the first video ive watched by you. Ive recently just started playing guitar and I love it! I found this video very helpful! You are very great at breaking it down and explaining everything! This is awesome! Thanks!!!!! So motivating! Im definitely going to keep watching your vids! Thanks again!, Josh

[@MathiasSther]

Great tutorial man, keep it up!

[@sharonkeough8588]

You are a really good teacher. Thanks

[@GuitarSongsChannel]

Thank you Sharon!

[@kpidwc7]

Really appreciate how when youre explaining chords like the c add 9 how you say that its basically a g moved down and things like that, its much easier i think to think that way!

[@GuitarSongsChannel]

+kpidwc7 Thank you!

[@molliesoulsby1003]

This was really helpful I can now play it perfectly! Thank you :)

[@Christian-fu9yb]

This lesson was amazing. Thanks a lot, it really helped. :)

[@Alex-dx8oe]

I'm going to try to learn this before next November and I think I can with this video. Thanks so much

[@ConnorPatrickRyan]

Tyra Wilson did you end up learning it??

[@Wigler40]

Best lesson! Thank you!

[@xdethharmonicx]

Yeah this was like getting a one on one lesson from you. I really enjoyed this video. I'm 28 and i started playing guitar at 15 but i played metal like Metallica, pantera, and slayer in my youth. Death metal after that. Thinking once ive mastered those i could play anything!!! lol but i didn't know any chords! It was all tab. So once i got older and decided i wanted to be the front man and had to sing! I had to learn chords and new songs. Its a lot harder than i thought. You where very informative and described the learning process very well. Thanks and keep it up bro! Appreciate it.

[@elliesmallman917]

omg!!! thank you so much now i can do this for my cover versions project in music this was so helpful xxx

[@ethanash1000]

Great tutorial. Thank you!

[@albertoassassins34]

Great video! In my case (I'm an amateur) the most difficult part former is the strumming pattern and how to make that guitar noise, not the chords, and you've explained very nicely. Well done

[@GuitarSongsChannel]

Thank you! Steve

[@googull271]

Thanks alot! Very good lesson.

[@allisonhenault6089]

thanks A LOT ! for your video ! i wanted to play that song and thanks to you, i will ! you're a good teacher. Thank to your daughter to ask you that ! Allison From Paris :)

[@gn5146]

Amazing. It's so simple to to play even though I knew the chords all along! It depends the way u strum and the melody.

[@91Mufasa]

and you are right, its better to learn when you have to listen and write down everything :) Now I remember all the chords :) thaanks again and keep going :)

[@fardanauliar3821]

this video is very helping , thanks

[@joelpetersson3317]

Probably the best guitar tutorial I've ever seen!!! I'm about to start a channel where I will upload covers and my own songs, and I'm planning to upload a cover of this song.

[@Sammywhammy773]

really good video man.

[@jaimsnuyda2862]

i love this. thanks you for posting. I'm sure your daughter will be so happy

[@MangoPersona]

im pretty young and I want to start to learn how to play this song, I really do and thanks! I'll try my best on this tutorial, this is the easiest one

[@greatgrandpabob8717]

nice

[@GuitarSongsChannel]

+Teddylirious Good luck! Let me know if you have any questions!

[@elcharlyramirez]

hola!!

[@isaacsanchez5887]

Teddylirious have you got it yet?

[@sofiamunozdiaz6889]

Thank you very much!! You helped me a lot!! :)

[@Magnusoestargaard]

Thank you very much, great tutorial

[@joshuawilliams4974]

Thanks dude you were very helpful

[@liliandobson5428]

I loved this so much very helpful thank you!!

[@fuzzywuzzyblue4449]

the strumming pattern in the beginning is done by hitting the sixth string pluck down strum and then a full strum down, full strum up, sixth string pluck down, full strum up, full strum down, full strum up. so ddududu.

[@somedudeness772]

Could you do a video on the "background guitar" if you will for this song also?

[@speedytheweedy]

hi man i like your vides lerning ed of you your realy helpfull keep it uppp lol

[@a1102531]

I rarely comment~~very nice teacher!

[@lorileibrandi8534]

wow thanks! this helped a whole lot. wish you were my dad... im the only one in my family who plays any instruments ((guitar,piano, and flute))

[@jacksonpearson124]

You cant go saying you wish that he was your dad, you have no respect for your dad

[@lorileibrandi8534]

nope i dont

[@10subham]

Lorilei Brandi Insane -_-

[@Kubaaano]

Jack Pearson Might be a reason for that, try to be more considerate

[@matthewmcquistion8639]

Lorilei Brandi I could be your brother and we could play together 😜😆😂

[@Mariana-kw3tv]

To what part of the lyrics you call the pre-chorus? I get lost trying to make it fit in the pre-chorus and chorus. Thanks for the tutorial!!

[@ntonyproduction]

It helped me a lot, thank you sir!

[@queenb2621]

I just subscribed to your channel. Thank you so much for this tutorial Sir! It was really really helpful! I really love this song:) Keep it up!

[@GuitarSongsChannel]

+Erika Del Rey Thank you and welcome!

[@kaylastanislawski5433]

definately subscribing!

[@smolankosays]

Thank you, this was really helpful to me, my favourite tutorial for this beautiful song ((:

[@robingraciam]

Very good video. Thanks.

[@giuliamontesi1611]

Very well done. thanks

[@ProGamingTvG]

really good tutorial, thank you

[@AdityaShrestha]

this was very very helpful.. thanks..

[@ameliaboles5805]

Omg thank you but do you need that clip that holds it

[@nikkixyoung]

Thank you so much for this :)

[@jdevathasan1]

awesome video. thanks!

[@tomka13tv85]

The strumming pattern for those of you who don't know is annoying at first but can easily be done. It is in 4/4 time. He starts with a root strum for the first beat, a strum on beat two that is tied to the third. The end of the measure ends with - up down up- for the and of three, four and the and of four (+ 4 +). It looks like this if you are familiar with it- Root 2-3 + 4 + (The root is beat 1). Try reading this while listening/watching him^ play. The only difference is that Steve plays it with a strum on the two AND the and of two. It sounds good how he plays it but i believe that it is played the way I said above. Do whatever sounds good to you. :) Also note that the root strum is on the low E string (the 6th string).

[@Krazorr]

cant you just say Down Up Down up etc

[@markg8125]

***** He's batman

[@tomka13tv85]

Ok, Root down up down up. The thing is the timing though. That's part of what I was explaining above.

[@Big_Fern]

+Batt Mann thanks for this :) made the strumming a lot easier to understand

[@alyssakeup3406]

I know that you can use any strumming pattern, But what was the pattern used in the tutorial he kept doing?

[@taraclancy9475]

your tutorial was really good and helpful but i was just struggling with the strumming pattern and wondering what pattern you used.

[@henkgrui]

Very nice lesson, can you also make a lesson for castle on the hill?

[@fatmooselips3110]

You're really helpful

[@cholocatson9464]

wow finally someone who knows what hes doing, haha or rather plays the song right XD i hate it when people make the easier version that's simpler to understand

[@HuTrzy]

Thx for tutorial - #1 for sure

[@rahd77]

Sorry for my ignorance and correct me if im wrong but is it posible to play this song as a melody and not playing it with chords? (Just wondering)

[@Sannejoan]

You're amazing, thank you so much!

[@sleonhart]

Well great tutorial damn thank you!

[@berecca5184]

This is a great tutorial 😊

[@autumnleaves7611]

Good teacher!

[@rayanh3209]

Hi Steve ! Thanks a lot for this lesson, it helped me improving a song that I already could play :) I have one question : when you play what you're calling a D with a F# bass, i see the F# bass but with your other fingers, you're not "really" playing a D do you ? Is it the good way to play it ? Thanks a lot for your help ! :D

[@kolja7865]

It actually is a Dsus4 I believe

[@Wiplash12345]

Thanks so much it helped so much

[@SOMEONEatYOURback]

This tutorial is so perfect.

[@TehMakah]

i dont understand the strum sequence you say do G for 3 times then go to D for the 4th, but is it like down and up count as 1 go?

[@CosmosPunchAndBro]

Omg that so cute "resuested by my dauther" you are a cool dad !! and ty for teaching me this song !! keep going sir

[@meliiora]

Thank you so much, it really helped me! But isn't it {Am Am C C G G DF# DF#}the 3th time you play the Pre-Chorus or isn't the DF# DF# included?

[@meliiora]

3rd

[@joelpetersson3317]

I just wonder if I should put a link in the description, leading to your channel because I learned to play the song with the help of your vid

[@jaredwii123]

what do you mean?to check hsi channel just and sub :) just click on his channel (i'm not trolling)

[@leilacataraja2408]

I need help: Well I'm going to buy an electric guitar and I wanna get started and learn some lessons and/or songs but I just want to ask if this tutorials or guitar tutorials will work on electric guitars? (Sorry if I sounded dumb I'm just getting started xD)

[@mcrubio3501]

I have an electric guitar and ive tried playing songs with the acuostic guitars and it siund way different and kinda scratchy well for me😗

[@jaredwii123]

it kind of works but this style is more for acoustic guitars so i will suggest learning other songs or buying an acoustic,but you do you :) and maybe buy acoustic strings for your electric if you want the soudn to be cleaner

[@silver0magic]

leila cataraja bruh i'm using a 12 string XD