Jack here jbf music and guitar lessons, what I’ve got for you here are these 3 iconic
David Gilmour licks from this epic, soaring Pink Floyd solos with tabs, which are up on
Patreon.com/jbfmusic. So where can you even begin to try and get in the Gilmour ballpark?
Let’s try and find out by taking a look at: Comfortably numb, The Wall Part Two and
Wearing The Inside Out.
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Another brick in the The Wall Part Two’s guitar solo starts off with pretty straight
up blues or rock ‘n roll lick: Pull of, pick these, tone bend, pick these, tone bend,
hold it an bring in some vibrato. Adding vibrato to bends is a whole topic by itself, so feel
free to dive in to the tutorial on how to get them sounding good with that little i.
Here I’m barring the 10 fret with my 1st finger and pretty much just aiming of the
G and B strings, letting the direction of the strum take care of the ghost notes in
brackets. Down, up, muted down; I think this is here, play at your own discretion; up
So that in isolation
Some string noise, tone bend, mute that bend; probably some pick muting; a lesson on how
to do tha in 60 seconds with the little I; then because we’ve kept that string bend,
we just hit it again; pre bent by a tone and push it up by another tone to get one of those
monster 2 tone bends! Releasing it fairly slowly, sustain that with vibrato. Hit this
note a bit harder, pull off, then staccato. Tone bend. Ok, so watching him live this is
where he plays the lick- you might want to re-finger it up here. Either way, rake in
to this note, pull off, pick these, slide, playing this 8th fret, 7th then position shift
for this double stop- barring it with your 1st finger. And that part of the lick
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But aright, here we’ve got a super tasty lick from Wearing The Inside Out;
Tone bend, mute it, return to pitch play it much more softly add vibrato, quick grace
note slides, with that 18th fret in between. That by itself
Some string noise, then what might be more of a rake, but I think Gilmour is sort of
sweeping, albeit very loosely across that 15th fret, just rolling you 1st finger and
hitting each string with a down stroke. Hitting that 17th fret up and up and bending it by
a semi tone. A very subtle, controlled vibrato, which sounds almost like 3 mini bends. Return
to pitch, mute the string, pick these, tone bend, mute it while still bent. Pick this,
bend and play these- those last 3 notes are triplets and will feel a bit more rushed of
bluesy in terms of the timing. Then a great tone pre-bend and vibrato to wrap it up. So
that 2nd half of the lick
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Ok, let’s break this lick from the Comfortably numb solo down- note, by note and try to capture
some of that Gilmour magic! Grace note slide, bouncing between these notes, then a bit of
vibrato. Hit this note twice then a tone and a half bend; more on tackling big bend with
the tutorial up there; release that bend and pull off pick these notes and add a subtle
blues bend here and cut the note’s duration short, I’ve added the string noise in- up
to you if you want to do that or not.
Here’s that phrase slow and in isolation
Picking these, play behind the beat a tiny bit and keep the notes stactto, then slightly
rush the next bit: semitone bend, release, pull off, vibrato. Getting in to some Stevie
Ray Vaungh territory here; more on his muting and trademark Texas Shuffle technique with
the little I up there.
You probably want your thumb over the of the neck to mute the low strings and keep your
other fingers just flat enough against the string to mute them out
Rake down in to this note, maybe even hit a semi harmonic? Rake up in to the next note,
raking down, up and down one more time, you can add a tiny quart tone ben here for more
authenticity and then pull off to this note. Ending here with some vibrato.
And that part of the lick
If that rake and muting stuff is sounding a bit sloppy, it might be worth giving the
10 muting tips video tutorial up there a quick look?
Ok, so those are how to play the licks, but we’ve not really uncovered much of how or
why they sound the way they do. You know just what about them, make them pop and stick out?
I’ll be taking a deeper look at that in that video there
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