Hey that means a lot man, thanks so much!

+Wallace Nock Thanks Wallace, hope you find it helpful!

+Eva Trappolin That means a lot! I'm glad you find my videos useful. That's what they're there for :)

Very nice of you to say. I've been extremely busy recently, hence the lack of uploads, but I'll be back soon!

Lee Townsend, since I didn't say it before: awesome voice and guitar skills! Just got my RC-30 yesterday, since I want to implement it in my solo-show and your tutorials have helped me a great deal already. Thank you for that!

+Raffaella Rella I could potentially make a tutorial but not my own version as my rap skills are feeble at best!

Glad you found it helpful! Thanks

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it :)

Thanks Thomas, much appreciated!

+Tyler Morgan Thanks man, much appreciated!

+Rybus Studio Back on the grind really soon. Will look into that one for sure!

Thanks, that's very kind of you :)

+thomas simpkins Thanks, glad you liked it. Yeah that first loop is a tricky bugger, I've had to restart it a couple of times when playing love but getting the hang of it now. Yeah, the board includes power cables for all of the pedals so you just need one single Boss adapter and it powers the whole thing! Saves a lot of money on batteries :)

I use a Taylor 618e from 2014. Thanks for your comment. I recommend getting a looper. It'll change your life!

Haven't heard that one before I don't think. I will have a listen later today.

Hey thanks for your comment. Yeah, there will definitely be more loop tutorials of Ed Sheeran songs coming. I want to try to mix it up a little too as some people want to play other songs with the loop station. Ed is just so popular at the moment so he's the obvious one to go for. Make sure you've subscribed so you get notifications when I upload new videos :)

Thanks so much for your comment. When I play live, I plug straight into my PA system. On these videos, I go out of my pedal board into a Line 6 Toneport UX8 interface which plugs into my PC. My DAW is Cakewalk Sonar X3 which is where I add a touch of compression and eq to everything and some reverb to my vocals. That's about it!

+Brodo Dondera Thanks for your comment, glad to hear you liked the video :)

FB Memes thank you for this! Couldn’t find anywhere how Ed plays it I New it was 10th fret or near abouts

I just figured this out myself, came down here to post it and found this

@@MrBigStuff May have just broken my hand trying that haha, any tips for reaching it?

Chelsemyer well, make sure you’re using your ring finger on the low E string, don’t worry about muting the high E as it should happen naturally, pinky finger on the B string and index on the G, if you struggle with that then just mute the Low E and A string, and just play the three strings as you don’t need to play the tenth fret on the Low E since you’re playing the open D string

Chelsemyer also if you just play strings D, G and B it’s easier to get the speed up on the strumming, it looks like this is how Ed plays it anyway

Nice, I've been tempted by the RC-300 a few times but I'm put off by its size. How are you finding it?

Lee Townsend i think for me its easier then the rc 30 because you can start and stop all Tracks or just One Track I dont have any Experience with the 30 But for now i must learn how to find the Right Tempo of playing

Hey Olly, how do you mean by muffled? As in the notes not fretted properly of like a problem with a cable? Let me know and I'll do my best to help out :)

Cheers for replying , I mean how when you play the intro you don't get the muffled notes like they aren't as clear to hear as your playing the chord , all notes sound nice but when I play it my fingers that are trying to mute the other strings get a bad vibrated noise , Sorry! my explaining was bad

Lee Townsend I think what I need to do is just some more practise on it , Cheers again Lee

+Olly Barclay Ok, I understand what you mean now. I think perseverance is the main thing but depending on how good your reach is, you could try 1st finger A string 5th fret, 3rd finger G string 7th fret, 4th finger B string 10th fret. If all else fails, miss the high note out for now.

Thanks so much !

Hey thanks for the comment. I will try to get round to either of those eventually. As you said, the singing is tricky and my rap skills are... let's say "feeble". I have 2 or 3 more loop covers in the pipeline for next week as I have a busy weekend but after that, I'll be back on the Ed Sheeran stuff. Subscribe for notifications :)

Hahaha, thanks 😎

+Bryson Cook I've been asked for that one a lot. I'll look into it :)

Lee Townsend Thank you so much your amazing!

You're welcome man, enjoy!

Hey Jorge, I have touched upon this a couple of times. There's a video about my setup which should help a bit but I do want to do another, more in-depth video on this. Cheers

Totally understand where you're coming from with it and it's a very clever idea. The only problem is the timing. The part where Ed sings "and I can't wait to go home" is only a single bar long which puts the loop out of sync. If you used the tuner, when you switch it back off again to bring the loops in, they'd start on the G chord, not the D. So in short... Great idea but no, it isn't possible to do it that way I'm afraid. Thanks so much for your comment and sorry I couldn't give you a "yes" answer!

If you double tap the stop button it will stop both tracks.so you can be on track 1 ready to start then stop both then start

Hey, thanks for your comment. Once you stop both, only channel A is armed so you have to arm both again before pressing the left pedal.

Lee Townsend yes thats true. I forgot to tell after the double clicking the right then hold the right pedal until it swaps to the new track and hold again the right until both tracks are selects and both channels are light up red

Hey, thanks for your comment. For this song you really need the other pedal. I get what you're suggesting about laying the bass drum track in both channels but it won't work because of the timing. The phrase "And I can't wait to go home" is only half the length of the loop so when you start the other track, the bass riff is out of sync with where you are in the song. Does that make sense? You have to stop both tracks so that the bass line starts from the beginning again.

No problem, hope it helps!

Lee Townsend mate can you explain how this second pick up thing works? is it something we can add at guitar center. I have a Martin lx1e and it comes installed with fishman pickup.. do you think it's a good idea to add a second pick up? and if so can you enlighten me to it how it's done☺

With the RC-30, if you have both tracks stopped, you can arm track 1, track 2 or both tracks together. Unfortunately, it's not possible to arm both together if either of them is still playing. That make sense?

Thanks 😊

Pretty much, the built-in pickup which comes installed in the guitar is not good enough on it's own for what I do but I wanted to keep it for certain tones. I installed the magnetic pickup in the sound hole myself so that I can still use both, giving me the ability to get a blend of the 2. To get the most natural sound of an acoustic guitar, I think you need to use a pickup which captures the tone of the body, which a bridge pickup (or piezo, as they're more commonly known) just doesn't do. Bridge pickups directly capture the sound of the strings, making even the best acoustic guitars sound like a £200 starter guitar when plugged in. My soundhole pickup is an LR Baggs M1 Active but another notable mention is the Fishman Rare Earth, which is also widely used. You can check out my video of how to install a second pickup at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbqGnNqn1KzYaaM.html Hope this helps :)

Lee Townsend thanks for the info mate...this is definitely gonna help

Sure, I was thinking about that the other day. I don't want to only do Ed Sheehan covers but they're just so damn popular at the moment. I'll throw in some other stuff really soon, do you have any suggestions?

Erm something like stand by me or superstition would be good

+HC Guitar On it! Watch this space :)

Adam Yidiaris hi i know this is an older comment but could u please explain this more because im having trouble with the first chord

I never had lessons and you're not the first person to ask about that. The problem is, I don't know how to teach singing as I just kind of do it. The only advice I would have really is to just do it. When I started playing live, my voice was much worse than it is now so I think repetition is key. Thanks for your kind words, glad you like what I do :)

With the RC-30, you can start simultaneously by holding "stop" for 2 seconds until both the channel lights are lit up and then pressing "play". The problem with this song is that there isn't enough time between stopping the second track and starting both tracks to switch over and arm both tracks. I bought that additional switch just for this song, it's the only song in my live set which I can't play without it. Luckily, it's not an expensive pedal. I recommend buying one as it does make other songs easier too. The RC-300 has a "start/stop all" button so you wouldn't need the additional switch with that.

+Wallace Nock Practice makes perfect! Remember that the loop will trigger when you lift your foot from the rec/play button, not when you press down on it! That is if you're using an RC-30 :)

D - D U D - D U D - D U The timing on the looper is just as important if not more. Also, my version is way faster than it needs to be 😉

I do! Don't do it as quickly as I do in my video 😂 Seriously though, I have slowed this song so much in my live set since covering it on KZfaq and it sounds so much better.

Hey! The octave helps but even Ed doesn’t use that. The EQ is just because my guitar doesn’t have one, the reverb isn’t 100% necessary... You would need the RC-30 and the FS-5U though as without the FS-5U, it’s not possible to arm both the tracks fast enough to play them after the pause. Does that make sense?

+Kevin Lee Thanks so much for your comment. My Taylor is a 618e from 2014 as found at www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/acoustic/618e-2014 With regards to the loop station, I fully recommend the Boss RC-30 as it pretty much does everything I need it to. I think it cost me €300 or something like that but they have come down a bit. I reckon you'd get one for €250. I bought mine from Thomann in Germany, look them up at thomann.de they're great.

Hey, thanks man! I'm not sure what you mean by looping backing vocals. Could you explain?

Lee Townsend how Ed Sheeran does and it’s with an other mic

You can change the channel on the looper itself but it's done with a "press and hold for 2 seconds" thing which isn't fast enough for my arrangement of this song. It can be done with an RC-500 as that now has a dedicated channel select switch.

@@leetownsend okay thanks for your reply 😊

+Robert Bevan I've never written tabs in my life. Is there a program I can use to do it as I do get asked a lot? I will look into it mate.

There is a program called Guitar Pro, which allows you to create guitar scores and tabs, but not sure of the learning curve to use it, i believe you can download a trial to check it out first though.

+Robert Bevan Cheers man, I'll check it out!

I play down down up down down up for the intro section. It's tricky coz it's so fast but also bear in mind that I play it way too fast in this video. I've slowed it down a lot recently and I think the whole song sounds better

@@leetownsend you are the best Lee, thank you for your answer

Hey! It's the M1 Active by LR Baggs

Hey Lee, gave you a shout out in my latest Q&A video today. Check it out at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y999g8abxuDNZXU.html :)

+Tomas Fuentes Yeah man. Sorry, I should've said that in the video :)

If you're cool with the physical size of it and the price, yes. You can definitely do more with it. I need it to fit in my pedalboard to make life easier when I'm gigging so I prefer the compact size of the RC-30 😎

I think a few people struggle with that one. I'm not even sure if that's the chord Ed plays, I just got as close as I could. The great thing is you never have to fret that chord for the rest of the song so if you can take your time, better. If not, 1st finger 5th Fret on A and 3rd finger 7th Fret on G?

Many thanks for the reply.

Not 2 loop pedals but if you use an RC-30, you'll need the FS-5U for this song. You can do it with an RC-300 without the extra footswitch. I use the FS-5U all the time for other songs even though I don't necessarily need to. I do recommend it as it makes switching channels much faster.

Cheers Sammie, yeah it is standard

Lee Townsend okay thank you so much!