Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to do a vocal coach reacts to
Pink Floyd and I chose "Comfortably Numb". Now David Gilmour the guitar player, has
been one of my all-time favorite guitar players. Now I know I say that a lot but
everyone has their unique thing right and this solo happens to be one of my
all-time favorite guitar solos so not just him being the guitar player but
guitar solos what a great song. Now Pink Floyd was one of those kind of really
ethereal, theatrical sort of you know groups. They always had gargantuan shows
I mean and the wall of sound in fact the album Pink Floyd The Wall, I think is
or was the longest running top 40 album of all time so that should tell
you about how much they've influenced people. Now I actually got to work with
the producer his name's Bob Ezrin who did Pink Floyd The Wall. Ironically it
was on a Kiss record but anyway and so I got a chance to see behind the scenes of
some of this stuff and how some of the stuff was done not this album but some
other subsequent stuff so let's just go ahead and do it. I haven't seen this yet
so I'm trusting.. wow it's nine minutes almost well the normal song I don't
remember being that long so I may have to cut some of the end of it if it gets
too monotonous but anyway let's just fire it up and here we go.
And they were known for their lasers and you know I forgot about that. Fact that
was around The Wall time. See what I mean by right out the gate Big Show.
Like a rock opera.
Now right away I get the feeling as I'm watching this that it's I don't know
what song number this was in the set but you know they're.. like I said they're
kind of like the original rock opera, the original goth guys from way back
when and they've sedated the audience to a
point where they're just like mesmerized by all the lights and just the, just the
wow factor of the song itself and just how you know kinda it's kind of creepy
tune actually that whole albums a little creepy but let's continue.
I love how it goes from major to minor key, really changes the emotion of a song.
There's my buddy David.
So do you see the emotion he invoked
throughout whole thing. At this they take you from this kind of ethereal, creepy
minor-key thing and then they lift you up into this major key thing but the
lyrics are still pretty dark and números like it the whole thing is go
through and read him and you'll see what I'm talking about the whole thing is
like a rock opera and you know they're a few bands like that. The Who did that
especially British bands but very interesting very again very mesmerizing.
Listen to this guitar solo it's not the part that I like but it's still great.
Okay one more side note for you guitar players out there so Bob Ezrin told me
that when they were doing this that what David would do is he would go into the
studio and he'd comp a bunch of tracks so he just played through it and played
through it and played through it and played throughout a bunch of times and
then he just kind of listened back and then he'd say you know I like that part
but I don't like this part but I like this part and he would go
through them and he'd make a comp track of all the guitar parts. Then he'd have them
make a tape of it or whatever, he'd take it home and learn his own
guitar solo I kid you not. So I thought that was kind of interesting because
most people just go in and they you know cut it here and cut it there whatever. He
wanted to really absorb the song and really be emotive with his playing so it
was about playing great fast licks or you know being super dexterous it was
about the emotion or the emotive guitar playing so I found that fascinating.
There's the creepy dark stuff.
The other thing I like about this is it's so melodic even though it's it's
got its you know dark kind of back and forth kind of stuff it's very very
memorable and very melodic and you know you're not looking at these amazing
singers or anything though David Gilmour's an incredible guitar player,. It..
how how it all works together is just staggering, just stunning to me.
Okay so have you noticed that unlike a lot of other bands where they're just really
hypey and they're selling their songs and this and that. This is like an experience
so when you go to see Pink Floyd, you don't go there to be hyped out or you
don't go there for you know all the craziness you go for there for this
like really ethereal experience and I think that's
pretty interesting because it's hard to hold people's attention that way.
Here's my favorite guitar solo.
I remember when I first learned this
Looks like a spaceship.
Again you're not hearing him go through anything super dexterous, he's playing
for the song right and it's just everything it's about everything it's
not just about one guy, it's really cool.
I'm waiting for my super favorite part to come up.
Alright he's.. he's taking his time to get there.
Cool lights.
Come on David, get that (sounds).
This must be it.
Not yet.
Those guys are getting their money's worth out of those lights man.
Okay now for those of you guys that know the record and you know for you guys that
you know are singers, or more entertained, want more of an
entertainment value that I'm speaking to guitar players here. What's fun is again
he's going off and he's got a lot of different licks then are what are on the
record and I really like the fact that he can hold his own and just keep
creating, keep creating, keep creating. That's awesome.
Favorite part.
Alright this goes on for another two minutes I'm not sure what happens at the
end but I'm assuming it's gonna stay instrumental because there's no more
verse or chorus left that I know. Anyway again Pink Floyd just ruled the world
you know dinosaurs that ruled the world and this was just phenomenal as far as going
to a show like this. I never got to see these guys alive it was a bummer I had a
couple opportunities to and the tickets were really expensive but anyway I
wanted to but man if you could just see how grandiose this whole thing is and
again his ability just to comp on guitar and whatnot is phenomenal. So thanks
again for joining me Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the
singing and until next time peace out.
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