Oasis - Don't look back in anger

- Written in 1995

- Britpop

• Guitar based band
• Verse - chorus structure
• Regular phrasing
• Basic harmony

- 4/4

- Slower tempo in coda

- Backbeat

- Frequent anacrusis in vocal phrases

• Note/group of notes before the first strong beat of a bar
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- Syncopation

- Cross-rhythmic groupings in guitar part (bar 37)

- Sextuplets in drum fills

- Syllabic

• Except for melisma at phrase endings
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- C major pentatonic with blues notes

- Chromatic G#

- Range of a 9th (G to A)

- Octave leap in chorus on the words "And so"

- Guitar instrumental spans 3 octaves & has ornamentation

- Built on root position chords

- 2 main progressions are foundations for the song

• The 1st is similar to Pachelbel's Canon in D
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- Occasional substitution chords e.g. F minor7

- C major throughout

• Occasional chromatic notes
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- Introduction

- Verse, Pre-chorus and chorus

- Instrumental built on pre-chorus

- Coda

- Melody-dominated homophony

- Broken-chord piano intro relates to John Lennon's "Imagine"

- Strummed guitars - also provide licks

- Lively bass line

- Strings in octaves as well as chords

- Drums

- Lead guitar solo in instrumental section