NOEL'S E-BOW: Lost Composition Buried In Don't Look Back In Anger (+Tab) 

At this point I’m pretty sure this guy has a doctorate in Don’t Look Back In Anger

This is really interesting. You can hear that All the Young Dude's melody really clearly with the E-Bow.

“All the young dudes” clearly an inspiration for the second half of that chorus part. I’ve seen Noel reference borrowing from that song for Don’t Look Back in Anger but not heard the direct ‘influence’ quite so clearly before.

This is how Be here now should have been recorded: filled with beautiful layers without being overproduced.

Finally, somebody has acknowledged the Ebow parts on this song! Even Rick Beato missed it on his breakdown of the song a few months ago. It's a proper "hidden gem", I love the interplay with the second harmony part that comes in at around 4:20 on the recording. There's some layered Ebow parts on Champagne Supernova too but they're a little less intricate. Cheers

Lol for a second i thought the title said, NOEL'S EYE-BROW.

Youve just earned my subscription - your mystery chord vid popped up in my feed earlier - some interesting and well researched content - very useful

I like how duplicating just the left channel allowed Noel's singing near the end to sit further back in the mix and sound more like a football chant.

This songs compositions and record is a rabit hole full of secrets and mystery.

Thanks James, I had no clue Noel played an ebow on this song or any oasis track for that matter. I know Noel doesn’t get enough credit for his guitar abilities but I’m always amazed by him.

You should do this on every Oasis album. I think The Shock of the Lightning has a backwards sample of What's the Story Morning Glory or maybe it's Champagne Supernova?

I love that C D E G part in the chorus, feels like another catchy song buried in the main one. Thank you for bringing it to light

It sounds beautiful. Definitely plays a huge part in the success of the song!

Thanks a lot for taking the time to do this.

I’ve always been able to hear ‘all the young dudes’ in the chorus, now I know why! (That and Pachelbel’s Canon)

To me, the Varispeed thing is the most interesting thing about this. I used to tune in 444 with my band to recreate that. Still, the composition is really something!!

what a cool part, would be interesting to hear a newly mixed version with that part more prevalent.

Amazing! I had actually always noticed towards the end of the song some barely audible ascending notes at the same time as and sort of mirroring the descending vocal of “knows it’s too late” and this is what those were!

thanks james, for that time of glory

I just subscribed, this channel is a gold that everyone must dig.

This is great content. You’re a real scholar of Oasis tunes, my friend!

Love these vids dude

By a happy coincidence I’ve been learning Don’t Look Back in Anger over the Christmas New Year’s holiday. I’ve always loved it and set my stall out to play it over the holidays. I’ve probably watched every lesson on you tube on it over that time. Your mini series on this track was perfect timing for me. Your secret chord video was especially useful and I now just have to get myself an E Bow. Many people have commented on the All The Young Dudes influence which I do see. Before learning Don’t Look Back in Anger, I learn’t Let It Be including the solo which has always been my favourite Beatles track. I see a huge influence from Let It Be in this track both with the chords and the solo. I love both songs. I think your videos are great and have subscribed. I’ll look forward to the next songs from the requests you asked for. It’s nice to see Layla in the top ten. That’s always been one of my favourite songs.

Wow I always though it was an organ in the background. Cool!

I think he also played this on Champagne Supernova. At the very end, you can hear it. Awesome video!

Thanks for this, always thought I'd heard it but it's really nice to actually be able to hear it so explicitly

You deserve all our subscription for this diamond finds ! Thank you !

Bravo sir! I’ve only caught two vids, the other being Noels secret chord, great content mate gimme more

excellent, fantastic great great job

Big Country used E-Bows a huge amount on their songs, created a real signature sound for them

Fantastic and fascinating. Thanks mate.

I could always hear it. Love it

As an Oasis fan of 25 years; I never really knew anything about this until I saw your video 😯 But this is fascinating stuff! You can clearly hear All The Young Dudes in this! Thank you very much 😁

The difference is amazing, great work mate and as a mega Oasis fan, thank you for introducing this into my life. Subbed

Great job you've done!

Absolutely magical

Amazing videos, mate. Greetings from Chile

Wonderful

Great video I never knew an e bow with on the track

Thanks! Didn’t even know e-bows existed before your video. Turns out I’ve been listening to one since 95. 😂

thats been fucking with my head for years!nice one!

Great video. Good work!

That’s absolutely amazing I’ve never realised this Tab sounds spot on aswell

It the bridge part i love, the second part.

This is great and that E Bow melody is really nice. Great work, just subscribed.

So that's what I am hearing all this time... amazing!

noel gallagher also included an e-bow part in champagne supernova - you can hear it clearly cut off in the end

I love the All the Young Dudes quote

Dude, you just have my subscription spot on🤜🤛 the E-bow part is just so haunting and amazing. I say its a hidden gem👍 its very educational too! Keep the vids coming👍

Very beautifull lost e-bow part✌️

rick beato also pointed this bit out in one of his 'what makes this song great' clips, glad to see a more in depth view of it here on your channel, James

This is great! I have to wonder how much more were missing in the Oasis songs with the compressed mix.

I think it was probably burried in the mix because the countermelody near the end of the choruses (phrases 2 and 4) clashes with the main vocal melody. The rest works really well!

Okay, I get it, I will subscribe :) First, a video about E7/G # got out in my recommendations, and now this one. I always heard something very interesting on the record, but I never wondered. Thank you! RU-vid is very generous and promotes quality content. I look forward to even more interesting videos) Hello from Russia!

Mate this is epic,not another word to describe just EPIC

Now it makes perfect sense, this is where Gem Archer gets the notes from... the solo that he does when Noel plays it acoustically with the capo on 4th fret.... wonderful! Cheers mate cool stuff

thats my favorite part of the song. heard it first in rock band actually hahaha. i hum it along in the actual recording.

What a haunting but beautiful sound

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I’ve never heard of an e-now but I have noticed the sound and thought it was a bow instrument. Cool!

In the album version once you know what you're listening for it's easy to hear in the bridge sections, but still borderline impossible to hear in the choruses except the last one. I'd guess it got pretty much removed for its similarities to All The Young Dudes, but really helps deliver that powerful sound for the last chorus. Thank you for sharing this, great job.

I was aware of the All the young dudes chorus melody. I did't know it was an ebow. Great job, thanks!

good job man

Wow That Beautiful Ngl Feels Like Im Going To The Guitar Store Purchase Electric Guitar And E Bow

Absolutely magical, thank you for sharing 👍

Brilliant !!!

Wow, excellent work I’ve learned something today.

Great video! I didn't know that he used an ebow. Keep it up!

Really cool you've done this...

Like how it's all played on one string - so much easier when using ebow! Those rock band stems were a god-send back in the day so much unheard content from many bands

Cracking video, well done !

I swear if you could do a degree in Oasis, your videos would be the lectures

Legend.

I don't even listen to Oasis but I still really enjoy these videos

Thats really interesting I never knew this part existed. If you listen very carefully you can just about hear it, especially in the bridge sections but I would never have spotted it without this

Kudos to you for closely matching the offset overall pitch so you could play along as well James! 😛

James, this sounds so good, can u please make this an actual song , without the rock noise, just this in the video but properly mixed please?

Great work enjoyed watching this very interesting

So fascinating. And I thought the missing chord video was the most interesting. This is even more 😉 Listening for the first time to the real version of a song.

You're fookin' AWESOME mate. It would be cool if you made a video about Slide Away. Great video.

So that's how Big Country got its sound. Good stuff.

Cool man. You got a lot to tell us about oasis. Im in

Steve Rothery from Marilliom use this stuff a lot of times. Greetings from Italy!

Love your presentation and content. From one Oasis fan to other, thank you! :)

I am so glad I subbed to you, this was great!

Great job. Automatically subbed

Hi James! I am one of your subscribers and have been watching this video for months, and I really love what you did! Since you are the only one on the internet that gives the tutorial of the e-bow part of this song (as far as I found), I would like to share this video on another website so that more people can see your creation. I will attach the link of this video and highlight that you are the original creator of this video if I re-upload this. Do you think it's appropriate?

The complexity - combined with the catchiness - is the genius of this song. Thank you for highlighting this fact. For highlighting this point, you should have been knighted by Her Majesty the Queen. Oh well, next year!

Very interesting, thanks.

Superb that mate 👌👍

keep up the good work mate

I love oasis and I’m more obsessed with this song now than ever before. I love these kinds of videos. I’m not a musician but I really enjoy hearing the different parts of songs isolated. Rick Beato demonstrated this “All the Young Dudes” line without using the e-bow. Can any guitar part be played with or without an e-bow?

Brilliant ! Congrats and thanks you for revealing this secret 😉

I always thought it was a normal cello or something, great device, I bet you could get some nice pedal sliding sounds using that

It's competing with the organ .there seems to be a sonic clash...so I understand how it's been reduced or removed in the mix...it has an almost bagpipe vibe cos of the drone it produces

great vid

Ebow all the way thru champagne eupernova aswell playing little hammer ons & used in the outro aswell

Really interesting video mate, never realised there was one on there, just thought it was strings

Try your e-bow on an acoustic (steel string obviously) its pretty sweet

There's two E-Bow parts in Champagne Supernova. Its used on Wonderwall too I've read but not sure if that's correct. REM also have a song E-Bow the letter

I saw someone mention "All the young dudes" and just for a fun fact im pretty sure Noel/Liam sings the chorus in some version of the song during the outro of Don't look back in Anger. so I thought it was pretty cool to know it was in the background of the original recording all along.