Thank you Dan from South Alabama, Anyone who takes their time to share with us is AWESOME!!
Boy I love UA-cam and guys like you that are willing to help someone like me get a better sound out of my guitar. Many thanks mate.
Thanks for the free-lesson dude... David Gilmour is the King of smooth-melodic playing--my hero !!!
Brilliant lesson, mate. Very efficient, no wasted time, clearly presented, good camera angles, sharp video, good tabs. Thanks.
WOW, Thanks for a truly incredible rendition. Watching how your fingers so easily flow over the strings is inspirational. I could watch you solo all day, some guitar players can stand alone and just thrill the listener. Something far more than just notes come through, a kind of raw, polished emotion. David had that in spades, and I think he would be impressed listening to the sounds of your guitar playing his tunes.
Nice of you to share your energy and time over the internet with a cool DG lick
I thought this was only 5 minutes. Now I'm fucking late for work!...Thanks.
You're the man! TY for such a great job on a DG style lesson :) Awesome and subbed!
I'd say just listen to the music, play along using your ear and come up with your own licks, it's the most natural way to learn in my opinion.
Deathshuck Except when you feel like playing someone else's licks, in which case you should, well, learn someone else's licks.
Great lesson thank you, the greatest music of all time , just to be able to play a little bit of it, makes me feel just wonderful!!!!
Good job bro., you have captured the feel and style of his playing more than other dudes.
love ur videos. . makes so much sense wven when im stoned
Nice lesson,nice playing!
Good stuff thanx for the licks.
Very nice lesson.
great video man
Brilliant lesson. None of us can be Gilmour, but we can pretend all we want!
I Love your tone!
Great lesson. Instead of just teaching by rote, you explain why the notes work together. This is very helpful.
Great job man..
Excellent!
Thanks for good job my friend
Great video and information. Thank you!
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nice riff good soud thanx!!!
Folks, just remember, it's a STARTING POINT!!
One last thing, yes the strat is his main axe but he also favors p-90 les pauls. He has used them on many solos from ABITW to Poles Apart to Hey You and The Final Cut solo.
Thanks! Great video for learning how to re-string a guitar!
nicely done. helped me to connect the different chord shapes to the scale shapes. Going to take more than 5 minutes to make me sound like Gilmour but good work!
Muy buen tutorial, thanks
I think you did a great job of covering some key gilmour trademarks. You covered and touched on what I would have done. He only had 5 minutes. The rake, 1.5 step bend/release to a whole step then pull off and then that legato lick at the end he does near the beginning of his outro solo on comfortably numb. Gilmour, Leslie West, Jerry Cantrell, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, Billy Gibbons, Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, Tony Iommi and John Frusciante were huge influences on me esp. Gilmour.
it's great! thanks! :)
Really liked this video! All the best!!
Riffstation It's brilliant! Well done! Feel free to watch my videos as well. Thanks a lot! :) All the best!
brilliant
Main thing is setting your amp up for a clean thick tone first then running all pedals to the front end. He uses Hiwatts, Fender Twins, Bassmans, Alessandro and Magnatone with Hiwatts mainly.
Sick
You can't access the worksheet from that link - it just takes you to the Riff Station site to buy their products. :-P
mas DE DAVID porfavor
A key to creating an effective melody, for a solo at least on a guitar I believe, is to learn your scales of course.. your 'keys', which are scales,.. major and minor, learn some modes as well, and learn how the notes of each scale relate - you mentioned in this video a relative minor, D major and B minor. Likewise C major and A minor. Anyway, the key I was getting to is to work out a sequence of notes, whether monophonic or polyphonic, which alternates between predictability and unpredictability. Open cadences and closed cadences, for example.. though not quite what I mean in totality. An open cadence leaves you feeling the melody should resolve a certain way, a closed cadence feels resolved basically. So, it's good to just alternate between predictable scale-running and arpeggios of chords which fit, and then go and add notes within the scale such as the 2 the 4 and the 6 of the chords (even flatting the 2 or sharping it , same with the others) , switching into a relative key which works, annnnd of course play with the appropriate feeling, per what you feel of course :)
Let's see.. more rants. Oh, just to reiterate part of what I said above: Do *not* be afraid to learn music theory and be a complete geek about it. Most of these great musicians we know who are self-taught largely/mostly what have you, know a LOT about music theory, but choose to not discuss it much in interviews and so on because it does tend to spoil the 'magick' of the music. It's basically like being the magician who can't really enjoy a magic trick because you know how they all work. So that leads to my final tip:
Realize that your own technical skill's advancements will sometimes have you 'overplaying' with the false pretense that you must satisfy your audience because *they* are analyzing the technicality of your playing. Remember most people who listen to you play in a setting with an audience of any kind likely, are going to be hearing the music and the song in its totality, the way many of us heard music before we began dissecting it and isolating parts of it by default. So, avoid if you can, playing with an overinflated notion of what's going on with your guitar or instrument.
I'm just a lawyer and don't play much 6 string anymore, only bass.. but these are some ideas and tips I've come up with based on much I've heard and experienced over the years. Enjoy.
If you have smaller hands I wouldn't recommend playing anything much wider, neck-wise, than a tele or strat type of guitar.. , forgot to add.
Очень подробно. Спасибо!
How do you maintain that steady tone on the bend for such a long period of time??
Ehx big muffs from animals to present day. Before animals he used dallas-arbiter germ. And silicon fuzz faces, silicon from meddle to darkside and the colorsound powerboost, mxr phase90 and mxr delay and binson echorec on WYWH.
@rick303 go to gilmourish.com for a complete guide on gillys gear. Primarily fuzz/big muff, phaser, flanger, delay and also a compressor and he boosts his fuzz/muffs with an overdrive after it.
We want to know how did you get that great sound?
Very helpful and well presented..Maybe you could have made a bigger video... Also that tiny riff at 7:08 reminded me of another Floyd song..??
What fx do you use for the tone you achieved on this track
Ofcourse then he used BK Butler Tube Drivers for overdrive and boosting his big muffs. I use ehx lil big muff, double muff and hot tubes overdrive and small stone phaser and mxr carbon copy delay. Gilmourish will answer any question its a 1968-present guide on his gear.
nice tone what are you using
можливо тут щось і неточно зиграно, але я все зрозумів принципово! Дуже дякую!
Bends, lots of bends. Lots of broken strings. Lots of pain.
Broken strings? Either your strings are garbage, old or you're too stupid to bend right.
legosheet ...
And DG uses reasonably heavy strings.
Breaking strings can also be caused by bad nuts.
Make sure your nuts are smooth, some even lubricate their nuts with graphite.
;~)
What gear are you using and settings to get your sound??
broke a string with these nice bends, god bless gilmour
Good stuff. I've been playing for too long with 0 musical knowledge, I've stepped up recently and am trying to teach myself some theory. It would be nice to know how all the time signature stuff, but really what I want to know is how scales relate to each other, the theory behind it and the ability to be able to put it to practice with any note I want to. Step one is transferring all the major and minor scales I learned from piano to guitar. I know the major scale pattern, but the minor scales I still only know from root to octave, natural and harmonic. Still gotta memorize the melodic shit. I know the ascension and descension are different but don't remember what the differences are. I know my blues scales, minor pentatonic. I might know a major pentatonic but if I do I don't know the difference between the major and minor. I know the difference between blues and minor pentatonic scales. On top of wanting to know relative scales and keys I need to know the different...I don't know how to explain it, spots? zones? positions? Playing A minor pentatonic in the normal position, them being able to go above or below that using the same notes but in different positions related to the root notes. And have it drilled in my head so I can just play them without thinking. Instantaneous, knowing each note as I play them, instead of just recognizing patterns.
David Gilmour in 5 minutes? Are you part of the lose 30 pounds in 3 days franchise?
in which portion here david gilmour sound i can't hear it..........david gilmour sound its not only the way how he bend half followed by full bend usually how he is doing that made his sound cool and fine but the way he mixe the note as well,..
no one can play like dave
mark if you listend he said in the style of gilmour none taken ! i hope ciao
First step is to show up with a strat.
What is this track?
Five minutes ? Sorry. You have to wait 50 years :) Thanks for the upload anyway.
What song was this lick taken from
Jacob Lipton It's a shitty mash of the 2 solos in Comfortably Numb, the first solo is in D the second is Bm.
Guinness book of world records for. Most freckles on the arms of someone without red hair?
Comfortably numb, no strat.ua-cam.com/video/IwJxLAN88Og/v-deo.html I think at this concert where he is playing the Gretsch, he wanted a
less driven guitar sound and a more subtle effect, different from the
screaming hard sound of a very large concert. Non the less it's still DG!
learn gilmour in 5 minutes and the video is 7.47.
you can't learn gilmour in a lifetime let alone 7.47
What? This is the start?
That tone and a half bend is pretty difficult, I'm trying out 13 gauge strings :o)
if you wanna have nice bends without pain, take 09 gauge ... the extreme opposit is my 28" RGIB6 with 13-59 and bends r almost impossible, until something happens you need a high amount of energy :D
Dind't know Seinfeld plays the guitar.
Though the technical points might be right, the playing sounds nothing like David. Aside from that, this is a good example why nobody will ever come close to DG with 5 min exercises. This is nothing but an ad for riffstation that uses the name and the music of DG to draw attention and generate clicks.
There's a fair number of "How to sound like David Gilmour" videos on UA-cam. This is one of the best IMO. Good explanation, well played. Of course, no one can teach the exact Gilmour feel, just as no one can teach the exact Hendrix feel, Clapton feel, etc. etc.
Nonsense Hendrik. He is doing this without all the wonderful backing that DG also has, as a lesson. Of course it wont sound exact because he is talking about his style and technique etc. Why do you have to make such a ridiculous comment., just to be heard???
What, no goodbye?🤣Excellent vid tho 👍😁
I'm not very good learning guitar scales theory. I just piss around with scales and make sounds, how I learned.
Nigel Thornberry
things I have learned from Gilmour....1. no one conveys emotion on the guitar as expertly as Gilmour 2. never get in a hurry to play a solo 3. string bending is key 4. milk every note for feeling 5. don't hesitate to revisit the phrase you just played and employ a variation of it 6. toughen up those calluses, because if you don't have a bar it will shred your fingers. When it comes to playing guitar, no one I'd rather listen to than Gilmour and Rhoads, and for different reasons.
kinda close to it
Gilmour with 335 ???? use a strat to do it
this guys face tho
Great lesson but after watching others some of this is the same and some different.
" Gilmour Guitar Technique in 5 minutes ? " LOL
start with burning your guitar and buy a stratocaster
true but wrong , C.numb played on goldtop p90 single coil les paul of Gilmour, the distinctive sound comes from that and big muff, but later he %90 played all comfortably numbs on his strats , u cant get that sound from humbuckers like in the video that part @Echoes31 is right.
All you gotta do is slide/rake and bend whole steps into halfs and back down. Easy peasy, I did it in 4:30 🤥
That was not Comfortably Numb...
Technique might be close, but the sound is all wrong. Humbuckers sound nothing like a Strat single coil. While I prefer the Humbuckers for hard rock, the single coil is much more versatile for other styles.
pick up a strat please!!!
BADDDDDDD
wt is this ?
Lick - Comfortably Numb i think
I know right... It sounded like a badly remixed with a different guy technique. Personaly i dont see how this is "david's technique"
Hate to add to the fire I see in the comments section - but I had to stop at 3:30 due to how out of tune the G had gotten, and stayed uncorrected. It started grating on my ear and never got better. The G String is flat. Please tune between takes, and lighten up on that muddy reverb (which, in the context of an out of tune string, makes it worse as then the out of tune note has a longer life through resonance).
To be fair, the G string might have an intonation problem. Either way, correctable.
First, pick a stratocaster and crank the amp. Watch 5 mins to learn; play 20 years to master.
lol...
Or just learn the Comfortably Numb solos. Same licks but better
You can´t play DG or PF with nothing else than a Stratocaster ...
Gilmour used Gibsons all the time. This solo in the video is from The Wall. He used a Les Paul Gold Top for some of his solos on that album (although you are correct that this one was his black Strat). He also used a 1959 custom Telecaster a lot on Dark Side of the Moon and Animals.
He also used a Bill Lewis custom built Les Paul style guitar from the 70's forward, very similar to the one Jimmy Page had built. You can see him playing it in Live From Pompeii.
He did use the Telecaster for a lot of the recording in the late 70s. Majority of Animals was played on the Telecaster, and it was also used a fair amount on the Wall. The Gibson really isn't used much until the Division Bell, but it makes a good amount of appearances on On An Island.
You can't play DG or PF with nothing else than a Stratocaster......
Really, Mmmm, let me see, Dg also plays Pedal Steel, Telecaster, Les Paul, Steel Strung Acoustic, and Nylon Strung Acoustic, yet his style is instantly recognisable whichever guitar he's playing . I agree that Dave Gilmour is more associated with Strats, however, his Stratocaster is hardly an off the shelf guitar, it has no standard pick ups and circuitry so you could also argue that you can't play DG or PF without a DG Signature Stratocaster and then there's the right pedals and amps. So, all you arm chair experts, if you think you can do better then post your own vids to prove it, what we have here is an aproximation of a typical DG lick, learn it and add your own feel.
Albert Johnson Duh, watch Dave Gilmour and Pink Floyd concert footage, you will find he plays all the guitars I mentioned above at some point, yes mainly a Strat, however it isn't an ordinary off the shelf Strat so saying you cant play DG or PF on anything but a Strat is complete bollox, you could argue that you can't play Gilmour on a standard Strat, as I mentioned, Dave Gilmours playing is pretty much instantly recognisable regardless of which guitar he is playing, that's because a large part of DGs style is feel.
Here is the initial comment:
"You can´t play DG or PF with nothing else than a Stratocaster ..."
We are talking about Gilmour playing in Pink Floyd. So you, sir, are the one being a dumb ass. Pull your head out of your butt and breathe, breathe in the air....
Oh, hey, he plays a pedal steel on that track....
*Most Important Tip*: Suck *IN* Those Cheeks Whilst Playing!!
ok... let's erase it and start it again with a STRAT!!
Buy a strat and a tube amp. Drop acid and smoke pot.
+cor LOL then he (david) lied. He had a pretty aggressive coke habit in the 80s when dealing with the pressure of fronting the world's biggest arena band. I also speculate he killed rachel fury because she wouldn't indulge him in his scat fetish.
I would love to see you learn to use google like a big boy. It's not my job to look things up for you.
well he got it wrong right away not playing a strat
. . . . yea that's not how he actually plays it.
Think hes playing that incorrectly
Gilmour was and still is just one of the tastiest, melodical and such a unique phraser. Division Bell is my favorite floyd album with poles apart being a incredible solo and song and high hopes.