Work sent me to France last minute last week so I haven’t had any time to practice new songs. However, I did record this song during my practice session last weekend so I thought I’d keep my one cover a week output going by cheating it a bit
Let me know what you think if you get chance to listen. It’s surprising what you can do with four chords…
@Dave911 thanks for listening, much appreciated. Yeah I think there has to be a few changes in the strumming pattern or it would just plod too much. Glad you liked it
@DarrellW thanks for listening, Darrell! There’s a lot of songs but Noel’s whole catalogue is pretty simple I love his music though, doesn’t always have to be incredibly technical to sound cool and have reach.
Beautifully played and sung, Iain. Good strumming, good change of energy and dynamics in certain sections. Well done.
@DavidP - Iain’s video is a good example of using those “pivot tones” in the chord harmony, as we discussed in the other thread. This song’s progression maintains the high D and G notes throughout almost all of the song.
@J.W.C thanks for listening and your comments are too kind!
Folk can tell that you’re far more technical and knowledgeable than me… I don’t know what pivot tones are
They sound like a good thing when done correctly so I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Don’t feel bad for never hearing the term, I made it up. Perhaps you’ve heard of “pedal tones” where there’s a constant bass note and the chords/harmony change above that. I used the “pivot tone” phrase to describe something similar, where your chords/harmony maintain a consistent upper register tone or tones throughout the harmonic movement. When you play such a progression on guitar you can leave your top string finger(s) down, and kind of “pivot” the harmony around those tones.
Just a fancy way of saying the chords in the progression share the same top note or notes (most of the time).
@J.W.C truly fascinating stuff, Jason. It sounds like a lot of Oasis songs would use “pivot tones” then like Talk Tonight, Wonderwall, Where Did It All ago Wrong, etc.
@KevinKevan thanks for listening mate. It’s my favourite of his solo songs for sure. It is ridiculous to think he just recorded it during a sound check in Ireland… some people are born to do it!
@sairfingers i totally agree, thoroughly interesting analysis… made me think about harmonies a lot more than I ever have previously.
Iain, are you sure you’re not a Gallagher? I’m a big Oasis fan and watched them live many times including in NYC and your performances take me back to that special place. Keep it up mate, let me know when you start taking requests
Yeah, I think it’s a pretty common thing. I tend to think of it more from the compositional side of things. So if you have a progression that moves C → D → Em → G you could change it or vary it with Cadd9 → Dsus2 → Em7 → G6, carrying those high D and E notes throughout the changes.
Loving it Iain
I love everything that Noel does and I’m sure he’d of been proud of this acoustic version himself! You nailed the rythm perfectly and sweet vocals.
Really professional
Well done