BLUETONES: Slight Return & Tab. The Band Who Dethroned Oasis For A Week

[@kneonknight6269]

Brilliant video. Adam Devlin is a seriously underrated guitarist. Well played.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Agreed, and thanks 👍👍🎸🎸

[@jedthehumanoid9953]

The Bluetones are a great band. Always a joy to watch live. Also, great job with the transcription, looked note perfect to me! Adam Devlin is a vastly overlooked and under appreciated guitar player in my opinion.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers Jed, I agree

[@jonnno243]

I still play Expecting To Fly to this day. Great album, And I love playing Slight Return on my £60 Squire Strat :)

[@RealReado]

Brilliant cover James and 100 times more accurate that the official LTF tab book I bought back in the day. Must’ve seen them 20 times live, including their farewell gig in London and about ten times since!

[@DarClaude]

Such a fantastic lesson/demo this is. I keep coming back to it as my band are hoping to get it polished to play live, not easy to remember all the parts but i'm getting there and its thanks to this video. Really appreciate you posting this pal, top marks seriously!

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Glad it was helpful!

[@williammartyn]

That was amazing! Thanks so much James! You nailed it. And thanks so much for the shout out! All the best, Will. I’ll be spending most of this weekend following your tab! 😀 🎸

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

no worries dude, enjoy 👍👍👍

[@MountcastleL]

This is brilliant, a bit harder than I expected it to be though. Have to keep cracking on with the practice. Thanks for uploading this and taking the time to work all these parts out.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers Luke, best approach to cracking a difficult piece is the '20 times method', which is genuinely as simple as it sounds. Any difficult section, play through 20 times, keeping a tally with pencil and paper. Then take a break, and try it again. Keep repeating sets of 20 until you've got it. That's how I learned this song, and it's how I learn every song. Oh... and give yourself multiple practice sessions to crack it, over a 1-2 week period. Best of luck! JH

[@MountcastleL]

Been practising, actually picking it up pretty quickly. This tab is such a good aid. Thanks again 👍

[@justinsmith385]

Thanks mate. Amazing . This song takes me back and so melodic. Always touched me this song.thank you for the free tabs.starting to pick my way through it. Struggling a bit with length of the notes and rythm. But I will get there. Just wanted to thank you

[@angrynorway]

I remember chancing upon this song by chance on The Chart Show as a 13 year old. Great tune! As someone else said, any Supergrass would be great.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

It is a great tune! Any specific Supergrass song?

[@angrynorway]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar ooh! Late In The Day or Moving would be good - both have unusual chords and production techniques. Also, the whole band write so a lot of their songs have interesting structures.

[@sandman20011]

Brilliant great job. Thanks.

[@markstone2153]

Phenomenal work, I've been playing it wrong for years!!

[@RichWordsMusic]

Just discovered your channel James, and loving it so far! One of the highlights of my first ever festival (Reading 2000) was watching The Bluetones try to follow on from Limp Bizkit on the main stage! And Oasis headlined that night. Great times, and I still love Expecting To Fly. Cheers :)

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers, thanks for that and welcome

[@AdamH75]

Thanks so much for this - been waiting for a decent tab of this amazing song for a long time. Subscribed.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Thanks Adam and welcome!

[@captainblimp4133]

I remember this tune.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

A classic!

[@martinjones6173]

Brilliant video! You’re content is great, making me feel very nostalgic and inspired!

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers Martin! Glad to hear it

[@stevem-h3562]

Bravo. Very cleanly played. Excellent transscription.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Thank you very much!

[@anthonyfuller6740]

Awesome, my old band toured with the Bluetones and last gig we did was with mr Morriss at the joiners in Southampton

[@keviniverson]

This is a superb lesson and you have nailed those parts. Really love your channel.

[@jonh514]

Just discovered your channel the other day and am really enjoying your videos. Thanks!

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Awesome, thanks Jon!

[@LintRiggs_]

Amazing. Completely forgot about this tune. Cheers mate.

[@mcburnski]

One of my favourite albums of all time. Amazing stuff

[@NickH81]

I did this with the track If, the book sounds nearly right but you watch live and Devlin doesn’t play it the way the book transcribes it. Frustrating but like you I enjoy finding out for myself. This Charming Man is another one. Much better to be able to find out yourself as your learn more in the process. Just subscribed 😀

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Great thanks for the sub 👍👍🎸🎸

[@smitcher]

F*ck me man... I subscribed after that Noel Gallagher secret chord video but didn't expect you to be such a shit hot guitarist. That was absolutely fantastic. Love the Bluetones and especially that song and guessed it was multitracked so never expected anyone to play it like that. 11/10

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers bud, yeah it's fun consolidating songs like that down into one line.

[@ednaplate]

Perfect. I sought this out after watching Mark Morriss perform it acoustically last night.

[@kyuseok98]

Spot-on transcription! Their whole album was a pure pot of gold :)

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Thanks! Yeah that album was excellent 👍👍🎸🎸

[@tallowmangaa7884]

Great stuff could you do one for road by ocean colour scene

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

I will be doing some OCS at some point in the not too distant future... probably Riverboat Song tho

[@MaquiladoraIII]

Pretty damn good work, James. I'd never noticed the pretty big Byrds influence on the Bluetones guitar sound until I heard your cover!

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

thanks for listening :-) Interesting, I’ve never actually listened to the Byrds, I’ll have to check them out

[@MaquiladoraIII]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Their distinctive arpeggio guitar style was a big influence on Johnny Marr and REM, amongst others.

[@jimbartlett2512]

great lesson could you ever do a lesson on blur magic america

[@markstone2153]

Outstanding, great channel

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

cheers Mark!

[@Paulie1974]

Great video I loved them back in the day I remember wanting a guitar just like Adam had still do lol

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

yes, me too, learning this song has actually been something of a lifelong ambition... i’m very glad I did it

[@RobM1606]

Top top transcription and playing

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Much appreciated 👍👍

[@richfromtheligerz4922]

Love this song great video great job

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

thanks 👍👍

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

I remember "Slight Return" coming out. Great tune. I remember it on TOTP (which is another thing that died along with great music). Another good band from the 90's in my top 5 would be Cast.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cast were absolutely epic - especially their first album. Check out my 'best guitar solos of the 90s' video if you want to hear a bit of Cast fingertapping stuff 👍👍🎸🎸

[@darrenstopper1806]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar just watched it and will b learning history.Really enjoying your stuff 👍

[@Westerdd]

That's some top technical guitar playing. Proper job.

[@BuffaloDoctor]

Key to getting a great accurate tone to play this song is a Rickenbacker played thru a 1990's Marshall Valvestate Stereo-Chorus combo (8240 aka S80)... One of the first amps I ever owned and still in my collection. KILLER clean tones and you can dial in some amazing drive & high-gain tones too. Sounds better than a lot of all-valve Marshall's I've used

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Nice! Yeah I'm sure he double-tracked it too

[@cooko22]

My first album.absolutely love it

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

It's a classic!

[@cooko22]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar also more importantly your cover is absolutely amazing 👍

[@craigsmith9843]

So much went into making the best tunes of the nineties.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Yeah they had depth, complexity and many levels. I miss that.

[@jules153]

Legend!! Thanks so much for this 😎😎

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

My pleasure 👍👍

[@undisputed1291]

Great job!... sounds great

[@lewismacdonald1516]

Really enjoying your videos! Great attention to detail : )

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Awesome, thank you!

[@The_Macaroon]

Don't think anyone is playing and touring today sadly. Really well played 👏

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

yeah sadly due to the coronavirus... but hopefully the tour is only postponed

[@jonathansteadman7935]

Slight Return, perfect 👍

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers Jonathan. Was fun to learn this one.

[@lisawarwick8429]

Thank you, great song, great tutorial

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

My pleasure, thanks for watching 👍👍

[@michaelsnow7252]

when I hear this it's 1996 again.... the blue tones were flipping good band, they only had one album really, but expecting to fly i still think is great and have some brilliant guitar parts

[@Bathguitarschool]

Nice one! Classic Britpop track - love it!

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

cheers 👍👍

[@nicolagenga3922]

Great. Thanks a lot.

[@alejandrohualdez5550]

I'd given up on a decent lesson on this song. Thought I'd give it one more go. Best by a country mile. God bless ya!!!! Subscribed.

[@blugroo]

Actually getting a bit addicted to your videos now mate- thats unreal. Also do you follow Devlin on twitter? Well worth a look 🤣🤣

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

thanks so much blugroo, I appreciate you 👍👍 unfortunately I don’t really do Twitter… every time I’ve dipped my toe in the twitter paddling pool I’ve just seen lots and lots of people trolling each other and losing their minds having arguments over really stupid things… And pretty quickly decided it wasn’t for me every time but hey, less time on Twitter means more time on KZbin 🎸🎸

[@iandavies7991]

Very Johnny Marr

[@chrisst8922]

The Bluetones are my favourite 90's group. I saw them just once at the Oxford Zodiac. A few years ago I was able to get nearly all their vinyl. Love that D - D natural .

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Awesome band

[@tabeecorr6611]

I much preferred the track Bluetonic as the top track from that album. Really thought they were going to be the next Stone Roses at that moment of time.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Bluetones were fascinating because they sounded so northern, but were from Greater London area. They were ace

[@tabeecorr6611]

There 2nd album never did it for me. So just stayed on the Oasis supersonic flight a tad wee longer. The Slight Return video very northern feel to it. Like The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony video but that video was made in East London I think.

[@kjd9634]

Slight Return is one of the best albums of all time IMO, whilst What's the Story had better single for me Slight Return is a better album, it just resonates with me and I love Oasis. You smashed it BTW mate!

[@orbitalape7412]

Was this song originally played/ recorded on a 12 string Rickenbacker?

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Sort of - it was doubletracked, one 6 string, one 12 string

[@andrealders5053]

Still playing the song (thanks to MTV), didn't do anything in The Netherlands, a shame!

[@stevethompson3153]

🥰🥰🥰🎸

[@EJleon96]

Smell some stone roses on it

[@GT380man]

John Squire’s influence reaches deeply into British guitar sounds. Rightly.

[@mfhpamela1444]

anj keren bgt😭

[@Goodstuff8565]

Jeff Buckley I shall be released would be a great one break down

[@GT380man]

Buckley’s music is fantastic.

[@neil222222]

Great. Celebrate Adam Devlin, another great (yet underrated) British guitarist

[@TheVinylBeatles]

The Beatles... tones

[@itsalondonthing9562]

Hate Oasis!!, How they got the mainstream limelight is beyond me?. Yeah the bluetones are good, But to me the two best indie bands of the 90s were neds atomic dustbin and new fast automatic daffodils

[@Stimpy084]

Expecting to fly is an amzing album. The Bluetones.. massively underrated