How to play Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill Loop Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2017
- [MY VERSION OF THE SONG] • Castle On The Hill - E...
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As requested, here's my video on how to play Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran. It's a loop tutorial as I play the song on my Boss RC-30 Loop Station so I hope you like it. How to play Ed Sheeran songs seems to be a popular subject at the moment so keep those requests coming and I'll see what I can do.
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These are some of the best tutorials on RUclips for loop pedals, thanks
Hey that means a lot man, thanks so much!
An easy alternative for the first chord is (XX07X5) The thumb mutes the E and A strings and your other two fingers naturally will mute the B string.
Please keep up the loop lessons, just bought an rc 30 after 9 months of playing, your videos are easily the best on RUclips for learning!
Amazing work dude. Really clear, well presented, and really broken down without sounding condescending. You deserve a ton more subs and I'll be recommending your channel to my beginner friends. Keep up the amazing work.
I've heard your Afterglow cover, and since then I'm your fan. Thank you so much for this tutorial. Lots of Love and Respect from India. ❤
Very clear. Nice guitar and voice sound!
Wish I would have found your channel a while ago! New looper here and learning every day. Please do his new song "Perfect"!! Super geeked to learn off your tutorials now. Already have the looping down for Shape of You. Thanks so much and keep it up!!!
Thank you so much for doing this video. Really really impressed by your explanation.
you are really good! thank you so much, I love your loop tutorials, I understand everything in an easy way, wish you could do more loop tutorials!
+Eva Trappolin That means a lot! I'm glad you find my videos useful. That's what they're there for :)
Thank you Lee absolute great tutorial. Now tonight I can finally do castle on the hill 😁
+Wallace Nock Thanks Wallace, hope you find it helpful!
Great tutorial and superbly sung!!
Dude you've got mad skills, nailed it 👍✌
Man. Let me just wish you more popularity so you get the motivation or even money from RUclips, cuz your vids are awesome, bro. So much work behind this as well.
About the vid: you mentioned that you have a piezo pickup installed as well as a magnetic one. How do you connect them into one input?
Fantastic ...so clearly explained.
Tq u so much for the quick reply!!
Im just a beginner
So I ll go with RC30
Ill just make simple version of the song
And.. can I use headphone amplifier instead of amp or something
As output device for practice??
Thank you so much
Love your tutorials 💙💙❤❤
Thank you, mate, highly appreciate your great content! Looking forward to your future endeavours!!
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!
Hey Lee long time no chat. I am now living in London and playing six days a week. Rather hectic. Trust you keeping well man. This is a great tutorial i have always struggled with that initial chord and strumming pattern in the beginning. Bit see you keep it a lot shorter i ws using too larger strokes and need a mechanical hand. Stay in touch
You're pure gold, man. Thank you so much 😎👍
Excellent!!! Could you do Robin Trower, Lady Love ?
Really good lesson, I just need to learn how to sing now!
Hey Lee nice tutorial! I have the same loop station as you do, but I can't manage to record the bass line over the strumming part. Every time I try to, It overdubs it with it's very first notes.. Why's that?
Very impressive, Crazy skills!
Wonderful tutorial brother! Really appreciate it! Later...
Hey Lee what setting do you have your reverb pedal on thanks
Hi mate , does the looper sync itself on time ?
Actually for the first loop, i think Ed Sheeran plays it as (10 0 0 7 10 X).
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
Awesome tutorial !!! Cheers mate :)
I am using a RC 300 and what i did i googled the tempo of the song and allowed the hihat to click in the background, but i felt with the fast strumming of the first chord i kind of got lost so i went off timing a tad, and then when i landed up putting the kick drum in it was worse ha ha so i quickly turned off the hihat. What a mess but they still clapped ha ha
im trying to do this but i only have a looper that i can only play one track at once and can't find a decent two at once track looper so this is gonna be impossible for me but i want it so badly :(
thank you for this video, I'm proud of you bro :)
Can i use jamman stereo digitech?
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Thank you for the Tutorial i‘m new in the World of looping i have the rc 300 i think my Main Problem is to find the Right Time but learning by doing i do my Best
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
nice video man really high quality :D
Thanks so much! Glad you liked it :)
Thanks for your video, me ayudó mucho
awsome tutorial. ive never been able to get a good loop built for that song. and does the pedal board electricity.
+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 :)
great,can u do 'you need me,i don t need you'?
Amazing tutorial
+Raffaella Rella I could potentially make a tutorial but not my own version as my rap skills are feeble at best!
Good work I hope to see you on stage very shortly
Does anyone know an easier way to play the chord for the first loop?
How is it possible, that normally with the press of the FS-6/5 you just change the tracks but in the "tricky" part you can choose both tracks so you can start playing them both at the same time?
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?
Great tutorial bro, can you do a cover/tutorial of streetlights by bernhoft?
Haven't heard that one before I don't think. I will have a listen later today.
What's the strumming pattern of that first chord...
this tutorial is soooo awesome thank you so much!! The hardest part is getting the intro to sound not muffled , any advice? thanks !
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 !
yes plz do make a tutorial on you need me from Ed
Class Lee ✌️
Nice tutorial, subscribed:)
Thanks Thomas, much appreciated!
Hello, dude! I'm really thankful to u about this vid. I mean u're doing great! Keep going!
If u still like Ed Sheeran's stuff, I'd like to request u some more loop tutorials on his songs! Cos it's really useful, and it helps me so much as well. He got cool songs to loop, such as for example: New Man, Barcelona, What do i know, Nancy mulligan.
And If u won't be bothered, i love his song "Save myself", but i don't have any synthesizer or piano to play it so, as it sound very nice. I'm playing the way by easy chords as only stringing. I mean, if find a kind of awesome way to play that song on guitar, to make it sound really nice. Thanks in advance, dude! I hope i'll see ur new vids soon! :)
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 :)
anybody know the strumming pattern for the first chord and the intro, I cant quite figure it out so I can practice it slowly and speed it up
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 😉
ok, so my question is the stopping everything and playing it all together bit. Lets say, i only have a RC-30, a TU-3 boss chromatic tuner, and i dont have the FS-6/5u pedal. Is it possible that i can some how stop the "bass drum," just by hitting on the tuner pedal, muting everything, and have everything playing behind the turned on tuner, and just hitting the tuner pedal again at the right moment to have everything come in? hope you understand what im trying to get at
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
Does anyone have any tips on how to get the strumming right on the first loop
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 RUclips and it sounds so much better.
what kind of guitar do you use for this it sounds amazing! thanks for the video. didn't know about loop pedals until now thanks for teaching me about them :)
I use a Taylor 618e from 2014. Thanks for your comment. I recommend getting a looper. It'll change your life!
Hi Lee, what hardware use to record the sound from this video?, have you ever transferred your loop to a computer? When i move my loop to competer they are really low volume, it’s going to be very useful any advise you can give me, what cables use or perhaps you have a tutorial of this topic? I mean tutorial of how to save your loops to a computer, thank you very much in advance
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
Hi mate, what is the magnetic pickup you use here
Hey! It's the M1 Active by LR Baggs
I just got an Rc-30 the other day.
Question: How do you start both tracks at the same time?
Also, couldn't a possible solution to the start/stop thing before the chorus (if you don't have an extra pedal, which I'm planning on getting) be to just make sure you have track 1 selected (but muted) as you approach it and then double tap the stop button to stop all? Then when you hit the start button track 1 should be the one to start, right?
And if you (like me) have a problem with/can't figure out how to start both tracks you could potentially solve it by laying down the "bass drum" part on both tracks so you don't have to start track 2 at all in the chorus.
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.
Outstanding! Thanks. I now get how to use the 2 tracks live. All it needs now is practice time!!
Love your tutorials !!! Please make You need me i dont need you from Ed.
+Rybus Studio Back on the grind really soon. Will look into that one for sure!
Great one - and can tell you have a great voice M8
Thanks, that's very kind of you :)
And you've sold me on the FS-6 being essential.
You're amazing bro!
+Tyler Morgan Thanks man, much appreciated!
Hell yeah. Great lesson
Glad you found it helpful! Thanks
Hi Lee! Geez this is awesome! You have talent. Hey, I was wondering if you could do a loop tutorial for either "Don't" or "You Need Me, I Don't Need You" I definitely don't expect you to sing them because both are quite fast and trick to sing. But maybe you could do a tutorial on the guitar parts?? Sorry If I am putting to much pressure on you. If you don't want to that's fine! Just anything Ed Sheeran!! 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 :)
I want to play this song..!! is it necessary to buy those all equipments..? or just boss rc 30?
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?
Great tutorial again! What amp do you use and How do you record all of it? the sound quality is awesome man!
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!
what taylor guitar is it? and I want to buy a loop pedal and i don't know which one to buy... i only want to buy one. can u give me a suggestion and how much would it be?
+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.
Hi, I have a question. Why do you use the food switch (B) at 14:10 minutes? Can you not use de looper to change the channels?
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 😊
Could anyone give me a little insight into the first chord strumming pattern? I am trying but I can´t really make it sound like Lee/Ed sounds...it´s not just a simple down up down up etc. right?
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
Would it be a boss fs5u or 5l i would need?
Hey Lee, gave you a shout out in my latest Q&A video today. Check it out at ruclips.net/video/-yMPcjazi5A/видео.html :)
what affination you use in this video the normal????
+Tomas Fuentes Yeah man. Sorry, I should've said that in the video :)
Can u plzzzz tell me how to start both the tracks simultaneously???
Plzzzz
Without additional switches
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.
Thanks tons of help! Can you do I see fire loop next?
+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 my friend are a genius.
Hahaha, thanks 😎
So is it easier to just buy the rc 300?
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 😎
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☺
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 ruclips.net/video/_TViwvoFt9o/видео.html
Hope this helps :)
Lee Townsend thanks for the info mate...this is definitely gonna help
What about a tutorial of I See Fire
Wow excellent!! U are a nice Guy, i Like you Dude :) Please please so a Version of i See fire *-*
amazing thank you.
Hey. An other methode you can stop B and play both Tracks without the extra pedal is clicking the right pedal twice to stop“both“ tracks and then press left pedal to play both... Hope it is helpful🌝
by the way very nice video🙏🏼
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
You earned a sub :)
very very very helpful !!
+Brodo Dondera Thanks for your comment, glad to hear you liked the video :)
hi pal, great tutorial
how does he loop backing vocals?
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
Thanks for your videooooo
Any alternative to the first fast stummed chord, I cannot get my finger to stretch to fret 7 : - (
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.
Odd shape chord you got going at the beginning...it works...but a lot easier to play what is going on for that part in the song which is a standard D octave on the G and B string
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
Hi Lee, do you have a tab for your version, great job by the way.
+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!
Cool!!
i like ur singing. are u talented or did u learn to sing. if so pls do a tutorial on it.
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 :)
So I need two loop padels?
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.
Great lesson, could you do some loop tutorials other than ed sheeran please?
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 :)
can you make a taylor swift loop tutorial??
I am keen to learn how to loop well but my pedal doesn’t seem to pick up my ‘bass’ noise too well... do I need a pick-up? Any tips? Thanks 😊
Hi Tom, what guitar are you using and what pickup does it already have? Thanks for commenting!
Lee Townsend I am using a Ed Sheeran special edition divide guitar. So it’s a Martin essentially
Lee Townsend also not sure if it has a pickup already, sorry 😩
Ok, I assume it has an output socket so you can plug it in?
Lee Townsend yes yes it’s an electro acoustic
Had a go at it tonight and got the strumming rhythm all messed 😂😂
+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 :)
thnk u so much
cannae even buy an rc-30 anymore :(
cool dude, thx!!!
You're welcome man, enjoy!
Is this standard tuning? Thank you so much btw!
Cheers Sammie, yeah it is standard
Lee Townsend okay thank you so much!
Can you please use subtitle
You actually have a nice voice
Thanks 😊
like u promised thanks bro
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☺
What's the model of this guitar?
It's a Taylor 618e from 2014