So I'm turning into a bit of a Taylor Swift fanboy after teaching a few of her songs to some of my students. Besides having an appealingly goofy public persona and being particularly easy on the eye, some of her songs are actually pretty cool if fairly formulmatic.
Currently teaching "Style", which a little harder than "Shake it off" (Am, C, G anyone?), and I really dig the feel of the verses (Bm to G).
So, my question is - what's going on with the clean guitar in the intro/verses? What effects are going on there - I'm thinking a chorus (maybe an autowah?)and a *very* short delay.. Opinions?
I'd say definitely an autowah, most likely compression also.
My wife listens to Pop stuff all the time and Taylor Swift is one of the few "artists" I can actually stand. But then I'm old and I like catchy melodies vs. autotuning and bad Rap :)
Taylor is pretty decent all around. It's not the music I listen to on purpose, but I don't hate it when it comes on the radio.