Noel Gallagher On YouTube Guitar Videos

[@DavidOakesMusic]

He's no John Petrucci obviously - but when he wanted to solo - he could hold his own for sure. It's such a shame he quit playing lead.

[@eliopirela7704]

He's gonna play lead again during the Oasis world tour, hopefully

[@DavidOakesMusic]

@@eliopirela7704 It might be why he started playing the DLBIA solo again on his solo tour.

[@giorgipiorgi]

And I’d rather listen to Oasis than Dream theater anyday. Complexity doesnt make good music

[@ZakynthosDiamandis]

Noel lifted the DLBIA solo from Primal Scream - Damaged. He also used it on Don't Go Away, which he lifted the chorus from The Real People - Feel The Pain

[@kippsguitar6539]

Hold his own, good one

[@englishiowa]

My biggest complaint about most guitar youtubers is that yeah, the big ones are really talented -- but none of them write songs. I'd take Noel's "un-virtuosic" playing on his excellently crafted songs over some home studio dude's riff motif every time. KZbinrs mostly just write muzak because their videos are mainly just ad vehicles anyways.

[@kippsguitar6539]

There are 100s of guitarist songwriters

[@veikkajoensuu]

​@@kippsguitar6539Yes, but most of the insanely virtuosic ones only write mostly instrumental guitar based music. That music is not for the masses (and that is not a bad thing).

[@JonathonCarolan]

Love this! Yes there are many benefits to having the info we have now as guitarists but personally I find it extremely overwhelming at times to the point where it puts me off even picking up the guitar because the love of playing is lost in needing to sound as perfect as the many KZbin videos that are out there. We’ve lost authenticity in the search for perfection.

[@syx9986]

I agree with Noel. Many guitar channels are focused on those chasing virtuosity, or just the basics. Most of the songwriting lessons I've found were by pianists.

[@johnboyce1916]

At last some one who actually says it’s okay not to be a virtuoso like everyone seems obsessed by

[@JarOfMoMack]

Virtuosos do nothing for me; never have. It’s all about melody.

[@mathewkirk1748]

I picked up the guitar really easily in high school and spent the first few years learning Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and general virtuoso type songs, thinking I was awesome. However, it was the average guys who were playing four chord punk songs on a Friday night that got the girls and had the most fun. I changed my attitude pretty quickly after figuring that out…. Noel is spot on - nobody cares how many scales you know, but if you can strum G, D, Am, C, and D in order, you can get Live Forever…

[@channeljan8529]

This was my experience as well. Started playing almost 25 years ago learning virtuoso guitar from guys like Paul Gilbert and Buckethead. But despite how technically advanced I got I never got respect or admiration from other players or musicians except from guitar nerds who were in the same boat as I was. Now I'm almost 40 and have focused more on singing lyrics and arranging full songs with just a few chords and I've gotten more attention from other players and even women. I've also found that writing a deceivingly simple yet highly effective song on guitar is actually harder than putting together a technical masterpiece and I'm liking that challenge much more from a musical standpoint. I'm enjoying myself with the instrument a lot more now.

[@Jerid58]

When I started playing his songs were some of the first ones I learned because as we all know they ARE easy…..but that never made me appreciate them any less. That solo on Riverman, nothing virtuoso about it, but it just sounds amazing with that song and in the part of it.

[@csharp57]

Couldn’t agree with him more. I often wish we had these informative videos in the 80s and 90s. I’ve learned more in the last past 6 months than I did in 6 years teaching myself. But that was the journey. Going to music stores and buying sheet music, listening to a recording over and over trying to figure out one chord. Paying for music lesson with crappy teachers who had no idea how to teach. Or why were they teaching me rock power chords and I was playing R&B? Buying guitar magazines to look at the transcriptions of popular music. That being said, I wouldn’t trade my journey for anything.

[@cryptohalloffame]

nothing beats practicing, whether it's just doing scales or trying to write a song or learn a song, it's all in the practice and performing

[@markweaver8529]

Love watching the Chicago music exchange vids with Nathaniel Murphy, He’s great.

[@mattwyre]

He's right. Sometimes peoples limits have lead them to greatness. If he was a guitar shredder back then would he have bothered to write Live Forever ? nope. He'd have been busy shredding. Because it is an amazing skill to have but you're alot less likely to be working on those types of simple songs that mean the world to people

[@theinspirals]

He's right you know. There's the 1986 teen me with The Complete Beatles to learn chord patterns and a Yamaha Pacifica cheap thing that would never stay in tune. I don't even think I knew what a pedal was :)

[@J4R1O]

Slash inspired me to play melodic guitar solos (not the fast ones, though), Keith Richards inspired me to play rhythm stuff and Noel inspired me to focus on writing better songs.

[@zingleraster9124]

Bang on the money

[@steveparish9210]

Great fookin interview

[@Joelygill]

More wisdom from the chief. Be grateful for your limits!

[@NJR151]

Does he have a podcast?!?! Could listen to him ramble all day. Very entertaining.

[@liveforeverluckymanej-200]

The amount of beautiful songs this man has put into the world, is just amazing.

[@FlankinspanK]

master writer and always evolving

[@piggycity]

Totally agree with his logic

[@bryonkidder6199]

Ben Lacy is a guitar player every guitar player should check out...imo I'd luv to be able to hear music like Ben does!

[@michaelambrus3051]

I grew up with Oasis songs and learned to play most of them on the guitar. Even today those sound amazing. Recently I got into guitar again and now we have things such as Polyphia - Playing God which also sounds amazing, but it has a different soul. I still love the simplicity of picking up a guitar, play an Oasis song and singing to it

[@johnbradshaw5891]

Absolute f*cking legend as is his brother.

[@NiqScott]

Absolutely agree that Noel is a legend, but when it comes to Liam, you spelled "cunt" wrong.

[@mikeberg5003]

Both of them are absolute units. They crack me up. Legends for sure

[@electrocyde]

In classical orchestration, you learn 2 important factors, harmony and melody. A lot of great youtube guitarists are fantastic at melody lines and technicality, but they have no clue about harmony. Lots of melody with no great harmony, is like icing with no cake.

[@bm7760]

Couldn't agree more. Who gives a toss about widdly-widdly? I wasted half the 80s treating the guitar like athletics. Took me years to appreciate Pete Buck and John Fogerty etc; the beauty of simplicity. Still like Richard Thompson though. A quite different kind of technical prowess.

[@KevinSheedy10]

It is possible to be an excellent guitarist and also write great songs. Knopfler and Lyndsey Buckingham spring to mind.

[@jimid9240]

So much easier to learn the guitar these days. In my day I had to buy guitar magazines, play with better players and play along with records etc. You still have to seek out the good stuff to emulate but it seems to be all there on KZbin, that can only be a good thing. Lastly, strumming is easy, learning to fingerpick is where it’s at.

[@mickertyable]

Good point well made

[@aibluefox4309]

Spot on Noel. He was free ... eee to be whatever he ... uh, hang on, I'll start again. He was free to just be innovative because all those rules and "proper" techniques are just going to channel you down a well trodden path.

[@ardiris2715]

The only songs I learned all the way through were on Joan Jett's "I Love Rock N Roll". Then I jumped straight into songwriting. (:

[@Les537]

LOL. I got about 4 bars through learning stairway to heaven before I dropped it and started writing my own songs. Never did learn a cover all they way - 30 year later.

[@Dekoherence-ii8pw]

LEGEND!!!!

[@ToddTheJoker]

so awesome!

[@Tapper1969]

Composing great songs and playing in a great way are two different things. There are a millions of brilliant players out there but most play music from just a handful of composers whether its classical or jazz or rock. Gallagher isn’t a virtuoso on the guitar (relatively speaking) but he’s written songs which have spoken to millions of people across the globe.

[@DredgenX]

There's shows on KZbin, roight? ❤

[@davebertoletti]

I’m from his generation, and I can totally relate ❤

[@simonsuniverseofmusic8585]

Brilliant just love it

[@Bodyknowledge77]

People can say and/ or type this or that about Noel's music(etc), but can't type or /and say he's a boring personality. If one convey's he's boring, it because of something else.

[@michaelgroom7060]

Fine words. If it works for you that's good enough.

[@kingdozerr]

He’s totally right.

[@MarioOliveira-p5q]

The other day someone asked me what I’m thinking about while I play guitar. And I said “you should ask Noel gahlager what I’m thinking because I don’t know. And after all you’re my wonderall.

[@Polyphemus.]

It's great that kids have KZbin as a resource, but it can also be a bit of a double-edged sword. There's lots of misinformation and simple trends that get presented as facts or rules. I've seen woeful advice on guitar set-ups or impedance matching multiple cabinets in amps. Not everyone on KZbin knows what they're talking about.

[@daysleeper3910]

Truth.

[@incrediblegenki8416]

There is a video on youtube of to tomo fujita talking about teaching john mayer at berklee or something and anyway the point is he said something that stuck with me "you dont have to be #1 you just have to be the only one"

[@AndySkywalkerGuitar]

I find KZbin guitar videos sometimes misleading. So often they present onto us wrongs and maybe even lies. I hate that!

[@abhulineokonofua8677]

Noel Gallagher should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 😊😊😊

[@josepharmand6117]

I think a lot of 'guitar players' have lost their way these days. They play the guitar as if it's an athletic pursuit...about how many notes they can squeeze in a bar by whatever means necessary. It's barely related to the song...which is generally just a rubbish structure anyhow to enable them to display their histrionics. All of the musicality and feel is entirely absent.

[@mike.g.85]

Nobody is a bigger fan of Oasis then Oasis

[@sunnyday751]

Agree. Their level of fandom for that band is Beatlesque

When i first started playing guitar all i had was a book i found in some metallers squat with a bunch of photos showing you all the open chords. That and pausing music videos to see what Slash and Jimi Hendrix was doing. You wanna put someone off playing guitar? Show em Jimi Hendrix and ask them to work it out for themselves 😂

[@jaysworldofficial1]

They say simplicity is key, and it sure is.

[@DavidOakesMusic]

Ledge.

[@LeviClay]

It’s an astonishing position to take. No one told me what the knobs did so I didn’t know. Mate. You’re a songwriter. Surely you understand the concept of being curious and experimenting. 😂

[@ChrisJohnsonChannel]

lol because it all goes to 10..

[@h879xx]

Some of the virtuoso stuff is mind numbing though. Give me a proper songwriter any day. I have no idea about scales or anything and I’ve been playing guitar for 30 years. As soon as it becomes mathematics it’s boring. My guitar is tuned to open E and I’ve no idea what some of the chords I’m playing are called. If it sounds good it doesn’t matter.

[@dragan_estevest5477]

He sounds depressed

[@djizzah]

No brainiac

[@gpzfan5272]

So the moral of the story is good players get overlooked and average players who steal other people’s licks get rich and famous?

[@rockdanger]

I guess laziness and willful ignorance worked out well for him... but its not necessarily a panacea for all.

[@evetdelarue8003]

Oasis just copied stuff

[@maxspackman3776]

whats his point

[@damienholleman]

Ew oasis

[@Les537]

I watch gear videos and interviews, but guitar 'tips' and such make me vomit. Rock on, Noel.