OASIS: How To Play Lead Guitar Like Noel Gallagher In The 1990's 

Thanks so much, very kind of you 👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸

One of the best...online. PERIOD. Especially if you’re an Oasis nut like me!

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Hey James, any chance you’d look at some of Weller’s work?

Yep. Superb channel this

@@danrl9710 or Steve Craddock with Weller, that would be amazing...

I very much agree. There's a beauty in simplicity. Have you ever heard a crowd sing along to a Van Halen guitar line? No, me neither. Oasis? Many times

I'm not sure just looks like dross on tab super sonic solo on two frets hasnt any substance at all ping ping ping you have to pick any tune in it so bad I'm shocked love oasis but my good lord its unplayable imo I can pick up a matt Bellamy riff play it ya and it sounds like tune even if picking isnt in time you hear it nows is ping ping ping ping and unless you pick tune there is 0 to the riff there's absolutely nothing it's as impressive as me playing a piano solo on one key on a piano by just tapping out melody it reads as garbage 16b 16b 14 16 16 14 16 14 16 17 14 16 14 16 hows that any tune ever sorry love oasis looked to start playing it and it's not looking good please tell me how and why I'm wrong cos every noel solo ever is looking the same and unplayable just reading off tab absolute loose stool water what I'm playing an I know I'm playing what's there sounds like piiing ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pong and if it's my musical ability how come I never have same issue with artic monkeys muse rolling stones or anything not by oasis some of Noel's hfb stuff is sort of playable but super sonic is arse or noel lied on tab which not cool imo

Yeah his phrasing really is next level. The technical side isn't all that special aside from a stellar technique. But it's really a master class in stellar phrasing.

@@TheVeteranFiles ye think as I learn more of him and realise hes actually left handed but plays right handed cos its cooler is next level and think the simplicity could be why it caught off like nirvana you see some guys on the word rocking and think man I could do that (famous last words) but helped spawn a million bedroom bands which if not the most gifted musician hes certainly one of most influential for sure and maybe my last comment based on one song where as he has showed great talent and fact hes actually a lefty playing right handed makes it quite impressive if not technically amazing definitely impressive

Yeah, I think Noel (and in a large amount of guitar music these days I hear a very distinct lack of) puts every effort into everything sounding as catchy and melodic as possible, his vocal melodies as well as you say, his lead riffs. I try to do the same with my songs and I have some great melodies vocally but still learning lead but I think Noel has a gift in both these areas.

Yeah they're mega effective

Excellent, hope this helps!

Cheers Joe! Thanks for your kind words man

Cheers Steve! Very kind of you 👍👍

Thanks so much Conor! Happy jamming 🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍

Cheers Joe, glad to help!

Cheers Jacob - I hope so! Thanks bud

Thanks for that!

My pleasure, thanks for your kind comments! 🎸🎸👍👍

Thanks Dan, happy jamming 👍👍🎸🎸

Cheers Rich - yeah me too. You don't have to play a million notes per second to be a brilliant guitarist! I love Noel's stuff. Melodic.

Glad you think so!

Cheers John! happy jamming :)

Thanks so much! There will definitely be more videos on soloing coming up, although I'm going to do a few bits and pieces on more intermediate and advanced techniques - alot of the recent stuff has focused on entry-level beginner stuff, so I'm planning on a few more difficult tutorials. Watch this space!

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar cool i wont miss it, also do you give private classes? With the pandemic my music school closed doors and i've been looking for a new teacher. With this tutorial i got really amazed by your teaching skills so if you do have some kind of online tutoring i'd be really interested

@@cyjp0 yes, I do teach one-to-one classes via zoom or Skype (you can find out more about these via my website www.jamesHargreavesguitar.com) but I will also be making a beginners guitar course in the next year or so which will consist of just videos that people can go through systematically to learn what they want to learn

Great, glad to help! I know it's annoying to hear but there's nothing like practice hahaha just keep soloing to backing tracks and to your own songs day in, day out, and it'll come! Happy jamming

Thanks Gavin! happy jamming

Cheers Richard! Thanks mate, onwards and upwards!

Thanks 👍👍🎸🎸

Thanks Simon, more than welcome

Cheers streetdaniel2010 - happy jamming :)

Cheers caltravali36! happy jamming 👍👍🎸🎸

Excellent! Glad to hear it, happy jamming 👍👍🎸🎸

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar been learning times like these by the goo fighters at first it looked really hard but it’s similar to what you’re doing in this video I’m not familiar with all the names of the pentatonics etc

more than welcome

More to come!

Cheers! Happy jamming

Couldn’t agree more, lead guitar should put melody before pyrotechnics

Thanks Wayne! Have fun jamming!

Thanks Jason, happy jamming!

Yeah I very much agree. John F is awesome. And I'm a guitarist who can play all that widdly van halen stuff... but with the possible exception of John Squire, Eric Clapton and one or two others, I just prefer the more melodic side. It just SOUNDS better

Thanks for that - a John Squire solo technique video is coming up! Watch this space

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Awesome! looking forward

haha that’s praise indeed! lol

Yeah WTSMG can be a beast to learn to solo over because of all the damn varispeed on almost every track (meaning if you're a bit mental about tuning like me, you have to retune the guitar literally every song! bloody Owen Morris hahaha) Don't know if you've seen it, but I've done this one giving the correct details for jamming over every track on Morning Glory - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1OXCG3S-s7E.html

Excellent! Glad to help. I remember doing my music gcse hahahahaha.... fun times

You know what I just got into ska Punk, bruh I can't choose

Lol always helpful in those live situations

Welcome 👍👍

Thanks! Enjoy...

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Yeah he uses it all over the place

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar It's the switching between minor and major that I get stuck on mostly (even after playing for years). Like in this video at 5.23... he's gone from playing in the minor position on the 5th and 12th frets... to now playing from fret 14 --- my guitar teacher used to tell me to treat the major and minor as totally separate things, i.e Am actually has more in common with C than it has with A. (video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S4IA46O2oKE.html&ab_channel=%EB%8C%80%EC%B6%A9%EA%B8%B0%ED%83%80)

very welcome

Huh that's very interesting. Yeah in the Definitely Maybe era he really put some heart & soul into crafting his solos, and I didn't know about the 18 months thing, but it really shows. It's his best solo by a mile!

Yeah he sure did like. I remember it now. It came up during the making of Oasis debut album. When Live Forever was getting produced they took the guitar solo off. Then Noel said like heck, you know that took me 18 months to write that guitar solo. Back in the 90s I used to read a lot on bands especially Oasis and The Beatles. In London in Denmark Street one of the streets filled with just music or guitar shops. Right up in the top right corner they had a bookshop called The Helter Skelter. They used to sell new and old books about music bands and their albums. So I used to learn a lot how music was back then as in writing, recording and their tour stories too. Them books were pretty cheap too. So it was well worth the read back then.

Yeah definitely, Noel mixes these up all the time and does all kinds of different versions of all of them. Mixing and matching different licks and ideas is one of the best ways to make some of these licks your own 👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸

Yeah it's a beaut

hahahahaha

Hi Donjeur - its total bollocks, there's video elsewhere of him in the 90s talking about not getting along with his guitar teacher at school and slagging him off now that he's a famous rockstar! Noel is an amazing musician, but one of the most unreliable interviewees ever! He just lies constantly. He also claims he wrote 'Wonderwall' in 5 minutes in one place, and then talks about various changes and refinements he made over weeks in other places. He did not emerge fully formed, he learned the same as anyone!

I agree. that’s why it always bugged me. Was hoping the proof would be in analysing his lead over time. I seem to remember around the Be Here Now tour thinking his playing had jumped up a notch, and also a vague memory of him saying Weller had taught him some stuff around morning glory era. Do you listen to Matt Morgan’s podcast? He’s on quite a lot, very funny.

I've not listened to that one, no, but I may check it out 👍👍

Glad you enjoyed!

Yeah, true - but I do believe there is a place for both. I love Guthrie Govan, for example, who I will never be able to touch ability-wise in a million years. But I also love Noel's lead lines, for their simplicity and melody. You can't hum along to van halen (at least not without having drunk 27 cups of coffee) but everyone can hum along to Noel. Sure, they're both two different ends of the spectrum, but hey I think they're both great

The fact its not soloing in trad rock way is what makes Noel so good!

Why does it have to be traditional in order to be good, or fit the music?