This song was a big hit from the Oasis album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? album. According to the songwriter Noel Gallagher, the song describes “an imaginary friend who’s gonna come and save you from yourself”. To learn how to playWonderwall
on guitar, all you need to know are five easy chords.
- Listen to the song in the video above so that you are familiar with it.
- Get the guitar chords and lyrics for the easy version of
Wonderwall
. The music indicates to use a capo at the 2nd fret to put it in the key of F#m like the original. The fingerings you use are still easy though, and are the standard open Em or Em7, G, Dsus4 and A7sus4 chords with a Cadd9 used in the Bridge (as seen below). Remember that the capo is optional, too. Note that the G chord below is different than in the sheet music, to make playing transitions from D to G easier.
- Watch the video below to see how to play the chords and chord progression. It is good to use a metronome (as found in the eMedia Guitar Toolkit) to help you keep a steady tempo.
Watch this video from eMedia Interactive Rock Guitar, which uses the eMedia Animated Fretboard to make it even easier for you to see how to change between the D and G chords.
eMedia Interactive Rock Guitar also helps you master common guitar techniques like palm muting and barre chords, which are used in the middle section of Free Fallin’ and in many other rock, pop and country songs. It also includes Jam tracks to help you learn lead guitar and other great guitar songs like Tired of Waiting for You
and You Really Got Me
(Kinks), All Right Now
(Free) and others.
Intermediate Version
If you would like to learn how to play Free Fallin’ on guitar with the same chord voicings as Tom Petty, then you will need to use slightly more difficult chord fingerings. His version has the guitar with a capo at the first fret and uses the E, Aadd9, and Bsus4 chords. as seen in the video below.