Don't Look Back In Anger Guitar Lesson - Oasis

Released on Oasis' second studio album "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?", "Don't Look Back In Anger" quickly became a massive hit for Oasis with it's highly infectious chorus and cool guitar work. Guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher put his a skill at creating poppy rock songs that spoke to an entire generation to full use with this one.

In this Don't Look Back In Anger guitar lesson video, I will show you all the chords for this now classic Oasis song along with the catchy guitar solo as played by Noel Gallagher.

I think "Don't Look Back In Anger" is a great song to learn for those players who have learned their basic open position chords and perhaps a bar chord as well, but may have trouble playing from one to the other in a chord progression.

The great thing about "Don't Look Back In Anger" is that is uses many of these chords in a manner that requires you to switch from one to the other at a pretty quick tempo. That makes for a great chord workout. This is made easier because the strumming pattern is very simple which will allow you to focus on the chords and not the strumming hand.

As I demonstrate in the video lesson, we have a few different chord progressions to learn here. The verse and chorus are very similar and the pre-chorus makes liberal use of bar chords in addition to an unorthodox way of playing a E7/G# chord. Don't worry about that chord's name, it is very easy to play. :)

After all these cool chord progressions I will then breakdown Noel Gallagher's awesome guitar solo note-for-note.

The entire solo is pretty much pentatonic based and consists of a lot of nice musical phrases. Solos like this one are generally easier to learn since you can basically hum the entire thing to yourself. Being able to internalize the music like that makes it much easier to memorize the solo. I go through the entire solo phrase-by-phrase. It would be a good idea for you to learn it like that and then put those phrases together as you learn each new part until you have the entire solo under your fingers.

On a technical level, I would put the solo at around a lower intermediate level.

Hope you guys enjoy learning one of the greatest songs of the 90's!

Carl...

[AimingWanderously]

What I really like about your lessons is you don't act as if your audience just picked up their first guitar yesterday and make the lessons painfully slow. You have great lessons for the intermediate player. Many tutorials are so slow it's brutal. Thank you!

[harrysingh]

Carl Brown is easily one of the best guitar tutors I’ve seen on YouTube! Learned many solos/riffs from him.

[glenearl]

Yes let it be. chords and solo virtually.Good Lesson.

[SRT]

Awesome, more British bands please. Can I suggest Live Forever as your next lesson?

[TheBazookaBoy]

Great lesson! Can you do more Oasis songs, namely 'Live Forever', 'Champagne Supernova' and 'Supersonic'?

[orcbutter]

Picked up guitar again a few years ago and I just learnt my first guitar solo, this one, thanks to you! Excellent channel.

[oxrjbizzley]

great lesson of probably the best oasis song, i am not a big fan of them but this song is one of the best pop rock songs of all time. the melodies are beautiful! muchas gracias carl!

[KaraHinamori]

I just learned the solo to let it be and sooo much of it is similar. Great lesson!

[RawfflesMyWaffles]

Great lesson - been wanting to see a clear demonstration of the solo parts! I managed to figure out some of the fills from the music video for this song now i can really nail down the solo!

[gabrielfernandez]

Great Job Carl. Thanks. It´s interesting how they pick to use E instead of Em, being that the key is C. Also it´s interesting how they sneak the D7/G#. My ear told me there was something different and ti was this last chord. Thanks again!

[jasonq]

carl, great lesson! can u do "live forever"? specifically, the

thx, jason

[orag]

Where can I learn the little guitar bits throughout the songs pls make a video of that too

[Henri]

Great lesson! Can you do Breathe by Pink Floyd ?

[jawojnicki]

Hey Carl - I LOVE that effect that moving from a major to a minor chord of the SAME root (in this song Fmaj to Fmin in the prechorus) has to the overall sound of a passage. This happens a few times with C#maj to C#m in the song Buddy HOlly by Weezer. In my limited study of music theory (2 semesters of jazz improv in College), I know the chords which are supposed to fit into a certain key are always major OR minor of a given root note, but NEVER both. However, this still sounds so cool and not at all awkward. Is there a name for this use of shifting from a maj to min chord of the same root in succession with each other and what is it? Also, does it only sound good if played on a certain step of a song's key's scale (i.e. in this song, the F is the 4th since the song's in C major). Thanks so much if you can help. Great lesson too, but I would REALLY like you to teach all the guitar fills as well. I think there are actually 2 separate lead tracks playing different fills either back and forth or simultaneously at diff parts of the song.

[BlackNYellowBeats]

Hey man. I appreciate you making this video. I needed this.

[mda]

Don't Look Back from Boston would be a good song lesson idea.  Also, as they are nearing their final concert in a couple of days in LA...another Rush song would be appropriate maybe?

[jacktc]

Thanks very much ! . Have been wanting to learn this solo for so long.

[zoranpanjak]

Awesome! Your lessons are the best online. Would be useful to know the key of the pentatonic scale he cruises through in the solo! Thank you!

[chanceshoemaker]

Can you pretty please do sweating bullets by megadeth

[utkarsh_Shrivastava]

Have you heard the acoustic version of this song can you explain the tone gem uses during the solo.thanx n love from India