Wonderwall Chords & Guitar Lesson
Welcome to my Wonderwall chord chart by Oasis. This is the song in college that made me realize that I sucked at guitar.
Honestly.
I heard a friend playing it while in the Resident Assistant office. He shows me how to play the intro to this song. I was pretty much obsessed with my new found guitar song skill.
This song was the second single from the band’s breakthrough album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, which served to propel the group from an indie act to a worldwide phenomenon.
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Wonderwall Guitar Chords:
Wonderwall Strumming Patterns:
It’s a doozy in terms of strumming but super super fun. If I teach this song to my students, they finally feel like they are a ‘real’ guitar player due to the intensive strumming.
That’s what makes this such a great intermediate level song.
Like many songs on the album, Wonderwall is characterized by an increased emphasis on balladry and soaring choruses compared to their earlier work. The majority of the song is in 4/4 time, with the notable exception of a single measure of 2/4 time in the postchorus, which absolute drives me bonkers.
Let’s take a look at the strumming for this song.
Strumming Pattern (Verse):
|Em7 G Dsus4 | Dsus4 A7sus4 |
1 + 2 + a3 e + 4 + a 1 e + 2 + a 3 e+ a 4e +a
DD D UDU D D U DU D D DU U UDUDU
Strumming Pattern (Prechorus):
|Cadd9 Dsus4| Em7
1 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 2 + 3 + 4 +
D D U UD U D DU U DU
Strumming Pattern (Chorus):
|Cadd9 Em7 G | |G Em |
1 + 2 + a 3 e + 4 + a 1 e + 2 + a 3 e + a 4e +a
DD D U DU D D U DUD D DU U U DUDU
Strumming Pattern (Postchorus, note first measure is in 2/4):
2/4 time: |G |
1 e + 2 + a
DUD D DU
Return to 4/4 time: A7 sus
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 e + a 4 e + a
D U DU D U DU
Want to improve your strumming and dynamics to sound like a great guitar player? Check out Lauren’s Intermediate Strumming Guitar Course.
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Wonderwall Chord Chart:
Intro:
|Em7 G| |Dsus4 A7sus4|
|Em7 G| |Dsus4 A7sus4|
|Em7 G| |Dsus4 A7sus4|
|Em7 G| |Dsus4 A7sus4|
Verse:
|Em7 G | |Dsus4 A7sus4|
Today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you
|Em7 G | |Dsus4 A7sus4|
By now you should’ve somehow realized what you ‘gotta do
|Em7 G | |Dsus4 A7sus4 |
I don’t believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now
|Em7 G | |Dsus4 A7sus4|
Backbeat the word was on the street that the fire in your heart was out
|Em7 G | |Dsus4 A7sus4|
I’m sure you’ve heard it all before but you never really had a doubt
|Em7 G ||Dsus4 A7sus4|
I don’t believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now
Prechorus:
Cadd9 Dsus4 Em7 Em7
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
Cadd9 Dsus4 Em7 Em7
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
Cadd9 Dsus4 |G F#/G Em7 Dsus4 | A7sus4
There are so may things that I would like to say to you but I don’t know how
A7sus4 A7sus4 A7sus4
because
Chorus:
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
maybe you’re gonna be the one that
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
saves me. And after
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
All you’re my wonderwall
Postchorus:
|Cadd9 Em7| (2/4 time) G
(return to 4/4 time)|blank measure| A7sus4|
|Em7 G | |Dsus4 A7sus4|
Today was gonna be the day but they’ll never throw it back to you
|Em7 G | |Dsus4 A7sus4|
By now you should’ve somehow realized what you’re not to do
|Em7 G | |Dsus4 A7sus4 |
I don’t believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now
Prechorus:
Cadd9 Dsus4 Em7 Em7
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
Cadd9 Dsus4 Em7 Em7
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
Cadd9 Dsus4 |G F#/G Em7 Dsus4 | A7sus4
There are so may things that I would like to say to you but I don’t know how
A7sus4 A7sus4 A7sus4
because
Chorus:
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
maybe you’re gonna be the one that
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
saves me. And after
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
All you’re my wonderwall
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
I said
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
maybe you’re gonna be the one that
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
saves me. And after
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
All you’re my wonderwall
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
I said
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
maybe you’re gonna be the one that
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em |
saves me. You’re gonna be the one that
|Cadd9 Em7||G Em|
saves me.
Outro: |Cadd9 Em7||G Em| 😐 4 times
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