Wonderwall Guitar Lesson – Oasis

About this lesson

With our guitar tutorial on Wonderwall, you will learn these guitar skills: Accented strumming, Capo, Open chords, Strumming patterns.

Wonderwall is a really sweet strumming song that you’ll love playing in your free time. It requires a capo, as you’ll need to offset your pitch by 2 semitones, so if you don’t have one yet, you’ll need to buy a capo and start learning this song after it’s arrived.

You’ll start out by learning how to use your capo correctly and take an in-depth look at its usefulness. Afterward, you’ll start learning the chords you’ll need to know for this song. There will be several new chords, so take your time in learning them and getting used to changing in between them, since this really is the basis of this song. It’s not difficult, just takes a bit of practice to get used to the chord progression. Have your tabs handy when you practice, so you don’t have to memorize the sequence of chords.

Learning how to play Wonderwall on the guitar is a great choice since it’ll really improve your strumming and chord-changing skills. This video guitar lesson is adequate for both beginner and intermediate guitarists, and will really improve your strumming technique. Check out some more of our beginner guitar lessons when you're done.

Wonderwall song details

Wonderwall was written by Noel Gallagher, the guitarist of the English band Oasis, and was released on the album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? in 1995. Noel Gallagher wrote this song for his girlfriend at the time. An interesting fact is that the guitarist of U2, The Edge, said that Wonderwall is one of the songs he most wished he had written.

It was an immediate success and their entry ticket onto the American market and was nominated for several Grammy awards.

Wonderwall awards and chart rankings

• UK Singles Charts: #2
• U.S. Hot 100: #8
• US Modern Rock Tracks: #1 (for 10 weeks!)

Skills you'll learn