I was listening to some Oasis over the weekend, and much like my previous experience with Radiohead's "High and Dry," I realized I'm playing "Wonderwall" completely wrong. Or at least I'm missing a couple of important bits. Who knew there was a break after the first chorus? Not me, that's for sure. Impromptu arrangements get entrenched rather quickly and severely in Diver, but I think we started down the path toward fixing it at Vaughan's last night.
A lot of people really underestimate this song. Well, people who know f'k all about drumming do. Lots of grace notes and a barely audible bass drum and thats not even touching the live versions I've heard. What way are you playing it?
Btw, how did you miss the breakdown after the first chorus? lol
Well, it was one of those things where the guys in the band were doing an acoustic version of it, and I was keying more off of that than the recording. So I had this vague notion of the form without the details of the arrangement.
I'm still probably not playing it correctly, in the technical sense, but it gets me by.
As for underrated, that's what I'm always saying about Phil Selway from Radiohead. He's never going to bowl anybody over with technique, but his parts are so utterly cool.
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