not really, it's a funny but not very helpful or nice answer especially for fans that are starting out with the guitar. he could just have gotten into vibrato and why it sounds good vs what sounds not so good. you know, just a demonstration from an artist to his fans
I heard him say something to the tune of giving every note a little personality of its own, ever since then I can’t unhear how unique his bending technique is.
You have to remember that 50+ years ago, when Pink Floyd were starting out, it was a taboo thing for any guitarist to go on primetime TV to talk about being a bender or to discuss how tight your G-string was
@Adler Anton fair point. As much as I like The Wall, it’s not perfect. My biggest complaint is the filler space between Hey You and Comfortably Numb (with the only song that I like being Nobody Home). I do feel like DSOTM has better flow and a specific sound than The Wall, but part of me feels like that’s intentional to what The Wall is about. Just curious what’s your favorite song off of DSOTM and The Wall?
@@koehnmailand6821 I listen to dark side on vinyl and the albums flow is unmatched. The wall is my personal fave PF record because i really like the themes and recurring bits. Both are masterpieces
I read an article on him in guitar world years ago where he started that he would sing the ideas he had for solos into a tape recorder, (The idea is : That way your not limited to your knowledge of scales, runs, or licks you’ve memorized..) Then he would pick out his favorite parts and figure them out on the guitar later.. VERY useful tip
@@przybyla420 Steve Vai did too, it seems it's something rather normal at that level, i think it's to make the solos more nice to the ear thanks to that similarity of creting them just by singing and then translating them to the guitar
I agree. I play guitar too and Gilmour is in a league of his own. Look up a video of him playing drums, he is pretty good, and he is a great singer too. My best guess as to why Gilmour sounds better than 99.9% of other guitar players is that he just has an incredibly fine tuned sense of pitch and timing. Like an artist drawing a picture with the highest attention to detail. That is why lots of players can learn Pink Floyd songs, and it sounds good enough, but, it is missing that magic that he has. I wish I had his level of talent.
His bending style is unique and fits their music so well. He just goes with the flow like a master. That sets him apart. And his tones are so clear and brilliant. Saw Floyd twice and Gilmour in 2015 and i gotta admit that in concert, he's 100 times more amazing
@@foxthooot5090 ikr... Go listen to the greats: Eric Johnson, George Benson, Mark Whitfield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Django, Joscho Stephan, Tosin Abasi, Bonamassa, Eric Gales. I could keep going forever. And I would never go out of names to say. None of those names would be this fkin Gilmour.
I hear Michael Schumacher once ran into David, in the early 90's. He told him he was a karts racer who wanted to succeed. David counseled him, "well, try getting to the finish line before any of the other drivers". Schumacher went on to retire in 2012 with the world record for most first places and pole positions in F1 history.
That reminds me of the time David met a young Elon Musk during the paypal days. Musk had asked his advice on becoming a billionaire, to which he replied "try making a lot of money, once you have enough, you will be a billionaire". Musk then went on to become the richest man alive.
I appreciate the honesty and candid response. Everyone wants to duplicate the guy before him. Just pick up your instrument and let your own playing do the talking. It took me a long time to get away from “I want to sound like xxx” to just be me and play like me. That’s what these legends did to, they played the way they wanted to instead of wanting to be a copy.
Perfect response imo lol, no need to over-complicate things. He could’ve easily given a long-winded and pretentious answer but he didn’t. The genius of his playing lies within its simplicity (which doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s easy to play). The man just simply plays what he feels and doesn’t think anything more to it than that… it just so happens that what he feels sounds AMAZING.
It is funny how we look at David Gilmour, like he's unlocked the secret to bending that only he can master....but as simply as he put it, is as simple as you could learn it, just takes practice like anything else. But either-way I still love this video very well done
like Bob Ross trying to show people how to paint... "you just.... simply... Brush in a pretty... little... _riverside mountain scape."_ **paints in an entire scene with a few strokes** "there we go... See? Not so hard. You're painting."
Dave Gilmour sometimes manages to fret single notes with no bend, and sometimes does slides/glissando. How do you do that David? Dave: "just put finger there and pluck string, and slide the finger up a bit if I want". MIND BLOWN!!
Isn’t it amazing how such a very simple guitar technique , you can tell who’s playing it because it carries their signature sound …. When David Gilmore bends a note , you know who’s playing with your eyes closed !
Yes Dave. I'm pushing, and the wire does get tighter. However, you're pushing 2 - 2.5 steps in a lot of your solos, so that does add an element of skill and refined technique to the process. Also, you have to be able to discern by ear when to stop pushing, so you get the targeted pitch. So modest...
Imo bending is about having a good feel of what is excess and what isn't enough, kind of like turning while driving, keeping the speed of the vehicle right, the angle of the turn not so tight that you're constantly re adjusting, and not too emphasized that you're turning off the road. A smooth controlled curve
Sometimes guitarists overplay the instrument. Great guitarists can hit 4 notes while another hits 40 notes, but the 4 notes are better. For instance. The 4 note moody arpeggio that Gilmour does in the intro to 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'. It’s a thing of beauty! Yet so simple.
@@michael1 you missed the point I was making, yes , you can teach string bending if course you can, but vibrato, that's all in the touch of the player, as I said it comes from your soul.
@@rickykent4543 You can teach vibrato too. You can teach any and all aspects of playing the guitar. I get you think your arty-farty "soul" BS sounds cool but it's just BS
@@rickykent4543 Don't be a butthurt twat all your life Ricky. Like many other aspects of playing, everyone's vibrato is unique to them. Nevertheless the techique doesn't originate in the "soul" - the only soles people have are on their feet. No one said anything about "levels" or being as good or not as anyone else. Just that you can both learn and teach music, just like you can learn and teach pretty much anything and everything else. To imagine otherwise is the gibberings of the clueless fanboys and idiots. Imagine if some kid wanted to learn guitar and he read some fanciful, drug-addled BS that you can't learn guitar because it comes from your soul - what a waste of oxygen that sentiment would be.
He really jumps around playing lines at different performances. One time it'll be all bend, another he'll pull up on the tremolo arm, sometimes a little of both. It takes practice using the arm, it's just too easy to do it too quickly and it ends up stabbing the bend. I did it that way for years until I replaced the neck on a Strat years ago. I repaired guitars for a decade and a half, but prior to that I just figured a necks a neck. I had an American Deluxe with a maple board but wanted rosewood. I ended up swapping with a friend who bought one after I got mine. I discovered the rosewood had softer pick attack than the maple, so I ended up decking the tremolo to get more punch and have kept it there ever since. I'm actually getting another that I'm going to drop more modern voiced pickups and going up float it again.
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Everyone was expecting a super specific explanation like: use this kind of force and these finger muscles, this pinching technique. But not. That's what makes a musician special. Something that they can do naturally and unconsciously and that others cannot easily replicate.
To practice bends, force yourself to only bend in one direction, whichever is less natural for you (likely bending down). The same type of practice can be applied to picking. Only pick upstrokes for a week straight.
Sometimes bending down will set you up better to reach different notes afterwards than if you bend up.. So practicing them improves that skill, obviously. And the up strokes will make alternate picking a lot more natural if you normalize them. It's like when Rocky's coach made him chase chickens =p it's a simple, extremely common concept. Your egregious use of ellipses is entirely unnecessary. But don't take my word for it... I mean, it's only a tip I picked up from a Paul freaking Gilbert video.
His bends influence me even today! You can feel emotion in those bends. More emotion than you’ll feel from your daddy in a lifetime! Whatever that’s supposed to mean*
Like the great Syrian McKellen said on Ricky Gervais' Extras sitcom: "How do I act so well? ... What I do, is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play"
"Just push...the wire gets tighter...pitch goes up." So much wisdom in these eloquent little fragments :)
Lmao
For noobs
Hahahahdhha
its one in the bank
not really, it's a funny but not very helpful or nice answer especially for fans that are starting out with the guitar. he could just have gotten into vibrato and why it sounds good vs what sounds not so good. you know, just a demonstration from an artist to his fans
"How do you get that tone you have, david?"
"it comes out...of the speaker...when I play"
Thanks for all the likes 😊
😂😂
No way !!
😂
🤣🤣
is true
The greater thing here is his vibrato though, such clean technique.
True, it's not easy doing vibrato while bending
@@GrimmMusic especially while bending 2 tones like gilmour
Or how he'll bend up to a note in a way that he just kisses it and backs off. 🤓
@Dimi K that's part of it too ! He has complete control over every note
id sell my soul for that technique
I heard him say something to the tune of giving every note a little personality of its own, ever since then I can’t unhear how unique his bending technique is.
So a little sharper or flatter than normal
Different speeds of each bend too.
stop speaking in amine
@@fintankilroy4761?
He bends with his ears
Wow he uses his fingers! That's revolutionary
You have to remember that 50+ years ago, when Pink Floyd were starting out, it was a taboo thing for any guitarist to go on primetime TV to talk about being a bender or to discuss how tight your G-string was
@@michael1 best comment of 2021.
That's what she said.
@@Levienci Dude, it's fucking 2022.
@@ChronicMetamorphosis best comment of 2019
It's not just the pitch he bends, it's the fabric of time and space.
Yes, Mick Taylor did it back in 1969 and 1972 with The Stones. The only two able to have such sonic magic.
Trippyyy bro
Exactly it feels like he warps space and bends time 😁
He also bends time-signatures as a whole.
True
ive been learning the comfortably numb solo and getting better and better everyday. it has to be one of the greatest songs of all time
@Adler Anton no disrespect to DSOTM but I don’t think any of the solos on that album best Comfortable Numb. Time is the closest in my opinion.
Gilmour is the greatest of all time.
@@koehnmailand6821 true
@Adler Anton fair point. As much as I like The Wall, it’s not perfect. My biggest complaint is the filler space between Hey You and Comfortably Numb (with the only song that I like being Nobody Home). I do feel like DSOTM has better flow and a specific sound than The Wall, but part of me feels like that’s intentional to what The Wall is about. Just curious what’s your favorite song off of DSOTM and The Wall?
@@koehnmailand6821 I listen to dark side on vinyl and the albums flow is unmatched. The wall is my personal fave PF record because i really like the themes and recurring bits. Both are masterpieces
I read an article on him in guitar world years ago where he started that he would sing the ideas he had for solos into a tape recorder, (The idea is : That way your not limited to your knowledge of scales, runs, or licks you’ve memorized..) Then he would pick out his favorite parts and figure them out on the guitar later.. VERY useful tip
Ah no way I always thought he did something like that, you can kind of hear it in some of his solos, is like the guitar is speaking, like an argument
Paul Gilbert does this but with a kazoo 😂
Very interesting!
Brian May from Queen said the same thing in some interview I watched. He said that way you’re not influenced by your muscle memory.
@@przybyla420 Steve Vai did too, it seems it's something rather normal at that level, i think it's to make the solos more nice to the ear thanks to that similarity of creting them just by singing and then translating them to the guitar
Wow. The greatest guitarist of all time calling a guitar string, a “wire”
I didn't see slash in this video?
@@molly_daly4066 neither slash nor David Gilmour are in even the top 50 greatest guitarists of all time lmao
@@piffe OK slash was a joke but gilmour is 100% on that list, and hey, slash is not a bad player either
@@piffe Who decides the best guitarists, it’s completely subjective as music is, it’s a matter of opinion
@@rhysarthur3378 boomer take. “Greatest” implies technical prowess which is measurable. Slash and Gilmour don’t measure up in that.
“Just push”
Simplify, simplify, simplify. The man is just the master of it.
Less is more. No question about it!
Bruh
I know it's just a bend, but the way he does it is absolutely magical.
I agree. I play guitar too and Gilmour is in a league of his own. Look up a video of him playing drums, he is pretty good, and he is a great singer too. My best guess as to why Gilmour sounds better than 99.9% of other guitar players is that he just has an incredibly fine tuned sense of pitch and timing. Like an artist drawing a picture with the highest attention to detail. That is why lots of players can learn Pink Floyd songs, and it sounds good enough, but, it is missing that magic that he has. I wish I had his level of talent.
His bending style is unique and fits their music so well. He just goes with the flow like a master. That sets him apart. And his tones are so clear and brilliant. Saw Floyd twice and Gilmour in 2015 and i gotta admit that in concert, he's 100 times more amazing
@@dougburr4192 bro you dont know many guitarists for sure xD
Hes an acceptable guitarist at best
@@tiago2336 gilmour is overhyped and very overrated. he’s good but not one of the best like these guys say
@@foxthooot5090 ikr... Go listen to the greats: Eric Johnson, George Benson, Mark Whitfield, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Django, Joscho Stephan, Tosin Abasi, Bonamassa, Eric Gales. I could keep going forever. And I would never go out of names to say. None of those names would be this fkin Gilmour.
I hear Michael Schumacher once ran into David, in the early 90's. He told him he was a karts racer who wanted to succeed. David counseled him, "well, try getting to the finish line before any of the other drivers". Schumacher went on to retire in 2012 with the world record for most first places and pole positions in F1 history.
That reminds me of the time David met a young Elon Musk during the paypal days. Musk had asked his advice on becoming a billionaire, to which he replied "try making a lot of money, once you have enough, you will be a billionaire". Musk then went on to become the richest man alive.
Thank you so much for the tutorial. I couldn't figure that part out
I have played guitar 157 years and never once knew this. Mind blown
apparently you're supposed to put strings on them. who knew.
*David Gilmour...the king of bend!*
That ending with whatever works i just loved
David Gilmour is rock royalty.
His vibrato is stunning and it's his overbends that makes him the very best. He just puts the right things in the right place. Legend
I appreciate the honesty and candid response. Everyone wants to duplicate the guy before him. Just pick up your instrument and let your own playing do the talking. It took me a long time to get away from “I want to sound like xxx” to just be me and play like me. That’s what these legends did to, they played the way they wanted to instead of wanting to be a copy.
It's not just about the bend itself, it's about the whole phrase.
Meaning, what is played before the bend and after and the type of bend.
Both my favorite Davids in one video. Larry and Gilmour.
In the football community, it's said bend it like Beckham, in the world of guitar we can say bend it like Gilmore. They both are David.
"how do you get that distortion sound?"
"Foot go on pedal, pedal go click"
I didnt even know you could do that! Ive been playing guitar for 30 years.
this is a joke... right?
@@Sticknub no it was a typo. He means 30 days.
I've been playing for 30 seconds and even I heard about it
And you never realized until now ? Either you're trolling or you haven't learned anything in 30 years lol !! You might as well sell your gear !
don't worry Moreno, people haven't heard of satire
-"So how do you play so well?"
-"I use my fingers"
Finally, Mr Gilmour has revealed his biggest secret.
Perfect response imo lol, no need to over-complicate things. He could’ve easily given a long-winded and pretentious answer but he didn’t. The genius of his playing lies within its simplicity (which doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s easy to play). The man just simply plays what he feels and doesn’t think anything more to it than that… it just so happens that what he feels sounds AMAZING.
It is funny how we look at David Gilmour, like he's unlocked the secret to bending that only he can master....but as simply as he put it, is as simple as you could learn it, just takes practice like anything else. But either-way I still love this video very well done
You don´t go to Dali and ask: "So, how do you paint?"
This will revolutionize my bending! Thanks Dave!
like Bob Ross trying to show people how to paint... "you just.... simply... Brush in a pretty... little... _riverside mountain scape."_ **paints in an entire scene with a few strokes** "there we go... See? Not so hard. You're painting."
Dave Gilmour sometimes manages to fret single notes with no bend, and sometimes does slides/glissando. How do you do that David?
Dave: "just put finger there and pluck string, and slide the finger up a bit if I want". MIND BLOWN!!
Hahaha the "wire"! Haaa!
Haha ! I have to admire his patient responses to the simplest of questions !
Interviewer: so how do you live
Dave: i breathe
I clicked on the video thinking the interviewer was Larry David. What a rollercoaster.
Reporter: “How do you bend”
David: “you just do”
Bending and doing vibrato at the same time is killer. You can do so many great things with that.
Yes, but how many newtons of force are used to bend that string on that fret to that note. C'mon interviewer, do your job.
lol
There's also some level of calculus in there like the acceleration or the changes of speed of a moving "wire".
Isn’t it amazing how such a very simple guitar technique , you can tell who’s playing it because it carries their signature sound …. When David Gilmore bends a note , you know who’s playing with your eyes closed !
I think this is true for me too. For David and also Carlos Santana, they both add their individual something to the sound..
“Picasso, how do you paint like that?”
“I apply paint to the canvas. It makes shapes, which represent things.”
His speciality in bending is his vibrato
Wow. In my 26 years of playing I've never been able to bend. So glad I stumbled on this tutorial.
Seems so simple - but duplicating the way he makes it sound is a daunting task!!
he's so fucking clean and expressive.
Oh that ending is bloody marvelous
Aang: Air Bender
David:
Reminds me of when I was a kid and asked my uncle to teach me how to swim, he said "just move your arms and legs in water"
Now this is a masterclass
Its the ultra subtle timing of his bend that's distinctive
For me it's about the tone and how amazing your backing track/rhythm is . Combine those 2 and you'll be heading to heaven.
There's bending and then there is Dave Gilmour bending.
Yes Dave. I'm pushing, and the wire does get tighter. However, you're pushing 2 - 2.5 steps in a lot of your solos, so that does add an element of skill and refined technique to the process. Also, you have to be able to discern by ear when to stop pushing, so you get the targeted pitch. So modest...
david gilmour is a famous bender.
Brilliantly edited snippet haha
He should have taught how to bend with vibrato, sounds simple but its definitely harder than most techniques
Larry David washing his hands.. David Gilmour playing Comfortably Numb.. True Enlightenment!!
This was awesome. Great video, bro.
Imo bending is about having a good feel of what is excess and what isn't enough, kind of like turning while driving, keeping the speed of the vehicle right, the angle of the turn not so tight that you're constantly re adjusting, and not too emphasized that you're turning off the road. A smooth controlled curve
nah man you just... move the wheel and the car turns.
@@sawcrab2249 too simplified, there's nuance in the turn
@@Jaikanatar The joke was that Gilmour oversimplified the bend so I'm oversimplifying the turn.
This is fantastic! 🤣
That transition tho 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️
*He bends with his heart*
Sometimes guitarists overplay the instrument.
Great guitarists can hit 4 notes while another hits 40 notes, but the 4 notes are better.
For instance.
The 4 note moody arpeggio that Gilmour does in the intro to 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'.
It’s a thing of beauty!
Yet so simple.
Gary Moore was also a bend master and his vibrato was sublime, you can't teach it, it comes from your soul.
You can teach it - there are literally people called 'guitar teachers' that teach these things.
@@michael1 you missed the point I was making, yes , you can teach string bending if course you can, but vibrato, that's all in the touch of the player, as I said it comes from your soul.
@@rickykent4543 You can teach vibrato too. You can teach any and all aspects of playing the guitar. I get you think your arty-farty "soul" BS sounds cool but it's just BS
@@michael1 OK bud, no worries, glad your vibrato is on the same level as Gilmour.
@@rickykent4543 Don't be a butthurt twat all your life Ricky. Like many other aspects of playing, everyone's vibrato is unique to them. Nevertheless the techique doesn't originate in the "soul" - the only soles people have are on their feet. No one said anything about "levels" or being as good or not as anyone else. Just that you can both learn and teach music, just like you can learn and teach pretty much anything and everything else. To imagine otherwise is the gibberings of the clueless fanboys and idiots. Imagine if some kid wanted to learn guitar and he read some fanciful, drug-addled BS that you can't learn guitar because it comes from your soul - what a waste of oxygen that sentiment would be.
I want to watch whatever movie contains the scene at the end… Help me achieve this?
Wow. Such great insight
When you become a legend and don't know why, because all you are doing is just... ....pushing wire...
Tbf this is him explaining what bending actually is for a lay audience, not him actually explaining his bending technique for a guitar audience
He really jumps around playing lines at different performances. One time it'll be all bend, another he'll pull up on the tremolo arm, sometimes a little of both. It takes practice using the arm, it's just too easy to do it too quickly and it ends up stabbing the bend. I did it that way for years until I replaced the neck on a Strat years ago.
I repaired guitars for a decade and a half, but prior to that I just figured a necks a neck. I had an American Deluxe with a maple board but wanted rosewood. I ended up swapping with a friend who bought one after I got mine. I discovered the rosewood had softer pick attack than the maple, so I ended up decking the tremolo to get more punch and have kept it there ever since.
I'm actually getting another that I'm going to drop more modern voiced pickups and going up float it again.
How do you play?
The string rings, the pickups convert the magnetic field created by the strings and create a signal, signal goes to the amp which converts it into sound.
Subscribe for more guitar tutorials!
Everyone was expecting a super specific explanation like: use this kind of force and these finger muscles, this pinching technique. But not. That's what makes a musician special. Something that they can do naturally and unconsciously and that others cannot easily replicate.
like Yoda using the force.
I've seen this entire interview. Much recommended if you haven't.
To practice bends, force yourself to only bend in one direction, whichever is less natural for you (likely bending down). The same type of practice can be applied to picking. Only pick upstrokes for a week straight.
...why...?
Sometimes bending down will set you up better to reach different notes afterwards than if you bend up.. So practicing them improves that skill, obviously. And the up strokes will make alternate picking a lot more natural if you normalize them. It's like when Rocky's coach made him chase chickens =p it's a simple, extremely common concept. Your egregious use of ellipses is entirely unnecessary. But don't take my word for it... I mean, it's only a tip I picked up from a Paul freaking Gilbert video.
I've never heard a guitarist call a string a "wire" till now..
Save the earth , its only the place where David Gilmour lives.
I was lost until this! Now I am a bending fool!
What a question such an answer.
i feel like you could genuinly ask some interesting questions about just his bends if you know what youre talking about
I use an app called pitch lab that let's me see the pitches bend over time to practice getting my bends in tune.
Magician never reveals his secrets!
Very simple but yet so difficult: you have to feel the bend. That’s what separates
Yes great stuff. I would love to say I play that well... I'm still picking glass out of my arm.
His bends influence me even today! You can feel emotion in those bends. More emotion than you’ll feel from your daddy in a lifetime! Whatever that’s supposed to mean*
what movie is the window jump scene from
Commenting because I also want to know.
When an individual is held sacred, their normal output seems abnormal.
i’ll be catching myself idolizing normal playing from celebs, but shrugging off phenomenal playing from ordinary people
I love when he bends two notes on the same fret
Very well and lucratively...
It can’t be that easy.
It is that easy
"Boomer bend" - Tim Henson
Great wrk guys thank you
It's like Sir Ian McKellen explaining how he acts 😂
# Remember when you were young you shone like the sun
Hahahahaha, thats makes my day better, thanks)
Great brains say less words
Zakk Wylde must have accessed this video and now watches it religiously
i just unfollowed Wylde from spotify lmao
I heard sprite was lemon and lime but I tried making it at home, and there's definitely more to it than that
What show or movie is that in the end?????
Curb Your Enthusiasm. Very very funny show
Like the great Syrian McKellen said on Ricky Gervais' Extras sitcom:
"How do I act so well? ... What I do, is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play"
His vibrato is the real deal tho
It's what gives him that signature style
Nice Soundgarden profile pic
Legend 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎💯💯💯👑👑👑👑King of the stratocaster
The ending was me learning the money solo's, last solo in particular 😎