Guitartricks How to Play I Ran (So Far Away) (A Flock of Seagulls) TUTORiAL

 

Links update: 13/12/2025

Got your big seagull-wave hairdo all sculpted? Okay then, it's time to learn the 80s new wave classic "I Ran", by Flock of Seagulls. We'll take you through the delay settings, the simple yet effective verse lick, the chords for the verse and choruses, the solos, and play it all through to a backing track.


In this song tutorial we're going to learn how to play the guitar parts heard in "I Ran", as made famous by A Flock of Seagulls. This new wave classic was a huge success for the band and truly brands the guitar style, and fashion sense, of the 80s. The guitar tone for this song is distorted and is covered in delay, reverb, and flange. In this tutorial I will cover all the guitar parts in the song along with how you can get your guitar to sound as 80s and new wave as possible!

Bonus Lesson; I am going to show how you can get a seagull like tone to play around with for this song and I also encourage you to explore other animals sounds with your guitar as well. You will hear this sound a lot if you watch live videos of the band, and it is featured on the album version of this song too!

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