In episode 109 of the guitar music theory podcast, I have another installment of How does this song work featuring Wonderwall by Oasis? I'm going to Greetings guitar

guitar engineers and welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host

Desi Cerna and today I'm going to analyze another song for you. We're going to take a look at the

song Wonder Wall by Oasis.

There are some very interesting things happening

with the way that the chords are played

and with the strum pattern.

In fact, Wonder Wall is one of the most popular songs among guitar lovers,

but most players struggle to perform it correctly.

This is because the song features a lot of syncopation, which is just a fancy way of saying that the

chords change on irregular and unpredictable beats. I'm going to go over these details and more in today's episode and I also

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podcast show notes. Oh, oh, you're going to.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you know. All right, so we are ready to dive in. Today I'm playing my PRS S E Angeles acoustic electric guitar. I'm plugged into a Fishman or a spectrum

D.I and then I'm going into my Elisis mixer and I'm adding some

reverb at the mixer and then straight into Logic Pro on my Mac.

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