What I Learned from David Gilmour guitar solos with Pink Floyd
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2023
- Having grown up listening to the guitar solos in classic Pink Floyd albums, David Gilmour is one of my favourite guitar players. There are so many things that we can learn by studying this guitar style and habits, including phenomenal style, bends, touch and feel, finesse, that there is more to rock than just minor pentatonic...
But most especially, that sus4 arpeggios on the guitar give us an easy way to create incredibly beautiful and melodic guitar solos and break out of the pentatonic box once in a while.
Guitar lessons Vancouver teacher Blue Morris teaches how to find and play these arpeggios and how to place them in your own solos and improvising.
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This is kind of mind blowing. It is so obvious once you see it. Usually when I understand what a musician is doing, the mystique and magic goes away. For once, I have a greater appreciation for the music. Nobody that I have seen mentions the arppegios and sus4! For that,it is really THE lesson to make Gilmour inspiried music. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Jason for watching and the great feedback
My thoughts exactly
Geez...you've taken all the magic out of Gilmore's beautiful solos, but...made them accessible to amateur guitar players, like me. Thanks!
Haha thanks 😄
How do you not have a million + subscribers? Another superb lesson. Your teaching method is so clear.
Wow, thank you! Maybe one day
I was around mid 30is when I came across Pink Floyd WOW what a Band and Gilmor is the greatest well one of the greatest I like Santana a lot to maybe some lessons on him one day ahead Ha?
A similar video for Satana is a great idea. I'll see how this one does first and if it does well, I'll do more like it.
As someone stuck in pentatonic land, this is just the kind of video I need - Practical guide to break out from the shapes. Plus, using one of my favourite guitarists - awesaome !
Thanks again for your support Bb!!
This is one of THE best lessons I have seen online. It has opened so many doors for me that just this lesson alone is going to change the way I see the notes and the way I play the notes. I have never really understood arpeggio's in as much as how best to apply them, but a big BINGO light is flashing in my head just now. I'm a huge David Gilmour fan, but I see this technique as super useful in many, many situations. Thank you for the huge lightbulb moment and for the clarity in your explanation. First class lesson....THANK YOU!
Thanks realjumper!!! Really appreciate the feedback. Lots more videos coming.
You are the best teacher I've come across in 25 years including the ones I've met face-to-face. I think you should make a tutorial on teaching.
Thank you Onur! That's great to hear!!!
I started guitar back in 1980 and my teachers back then were a total waste of money and time. They never showed things like this?
it was like they were afraid you would get better than them?
@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Man! I taught myself. But wanted to get better so about 6 years into playing, I decided to take lessons. My teacher would take me in the little room, and would tell me to plug in and he'd be right back. I'd sit and play stuff while waiting on him. He'd come back and hear what I was playing and say, "how'd you play that." I'd end up paying him to teach him! I took 2 "lessons" and quit lol
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Always get something useful from your lessons. Helps me glue together and expand upon concepts I have a partial understanding of .
Great to hear! Thank you! Lots more coming.
I'm a slow learner and not a good guitar player, but I've always been fascinated by David Gilmour. Learning the melodic content of his solos is not particularly difficult. But it's the subtle nuances in his playing - the way he shapes every note and every phrase like an air sculpture - that is what makes it _very_ difficult to truly approach his style. I'll probably be learning something from Gilmour for the rest of my life.
Well said, we all learn so much from his playing.
Thank you! While I didn't learn anything new concerning music theory or playing techniques, it was very helpful to get made aware of that this is what David is doing. Really will help me approaching own solos.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Lots more on the channel :)
Great lesson!!!!!! Little concepts that create great things!!!!! Thanks !!!!!!
This was a fantastic lesson. Thank you for making this information so accessible!
Thank you! Glad it helped!
Absolutely fabulous bloody top notch
Nice to hear the sweet tones of DG. Thanks for that. SUS 4 day for me. Stay Well Groovy One.
Thanks Noah!
So that's where that sound comes from! Great lesson, thanks very much
Thanks Brian!
Keep these great lessons coming!
Thanks Carl!!
great lesson!!! thank you
Thanks for watching 👍
Thanx, I learn something new from everyone of your lessons. Can't wait till the next one.
Awesome thanks!
Super helpful, thanks.
Thanks for watching 👍
Excellent video lesson and great teaching style. Thank you!
Thanks for watching 🎸 lots more on the channel
Fantastic lesson , thank you
Thanks for watching Paul!
great lesson -thanks
Thanks for watching George
Excellent lesson! Thank you
Thanks for watching. Lots more on the channel.
Brilliant video, helpful, clear, and inspiring, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Blue! Your lessons are the best!
Thank you! Glad to hear it 👍
So glad I found your channel. This is a great lesson. One of many. I’ve learned a ton from your teaching.
Thanks a lot 760Piper!!
Blue as always an Outstanding lesson!!!! Kudos, Keep 'em coming!
Thanks again for for watching and commenting!
Thanks Blue...very enlightening. Cheers!
Thanks again for watching RB!
Thank a lot!It is a very talented explanation!
Thanks Maxim!
Absolutely fabulous bloody❤ top notch
Thank you!!
Thank you dude, you give me a light❤
Thanks for watching 👍
Brilliant!! great lesson!! Gracias Profe!
Gracias José!!
this truly is a great lesson!
Thanks Tino!
It's been great watching the number of subscribers for your channel grow. Well deserved!
Thanks! More coming soon. Hoping to have a membership or Patreon program started soon so there will be lots more content coming.
This is a brillian lesson. Amazing!
Thank you! Lots more on the channel 👍
That is an awesome lesson.I agree with scenareo 123. Thank you Blue.
Thanks Dave!
Blue .. Once again a stellar , clear, consise lesson. You have a real knack for explaining things without getting bogged down in detail. Bravo
Thanks Dennis! Really appreciate the comment!
I had to stop midway through the video to subscribe. You're a fantastic teacher and this really helps me break out of the pentatonic notes and add some flavor from other intervals
Awesome glad it helped! Lots more lesson videos like it on the channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
you have a great way of teaching, simplicity is genius. best lesson ive seen on how to use arpeggios in a progression. also love pink floyd ty.🤟😎🎸
Awesome, thank you!
Great lesson easy to understand
That’s my afternoon filled
Great! Thanks Phil!
Amazing. You've totally opened my mind and playing to a whole new level. Thank you for this...really appreciate it!
Glad to hear it! Lots more lessons on the channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Great job🎉
Thank you! 😁
I can learn more from your video.this will me in soloing .I appreciate you.many thanks please keep uploading more videos
Great 👍 thanks for watching
Really enjoy these types of videos…..embellishing a basic concept…..please keep up the great work
Awesome thanks T-Rocket!
Super lesson as always. I have been playing with the D shape and the solo connection is great. Thanks
Glad it helped, thanks Joe!
Amazing lesson. Gilmour is my favorite guitarist of all time and this opens so many possibilities for me now. Thanks!
Glad to hear it, thanks for commenting Rob!
That was easy eye-opening and well-explained thank you so much for all those scales and confusion that was the simple explanation no one ever mentioned
Glad it was helpful!
You are one terrific teacher.
Thanks, much appreciated
Wow Blue, this is good stuff buddy. I’ve never seen this taught before, using the sus4 👍🏻 sounds amazing. Cheers for what you do 👍🏻🏴🎸
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for commenting Dave!
This is awesome! And enlightening..! Brilliant in its simplicity, as everything the Genius of Gilmour could made! Ty!
Thanks!! Glad it helped.
Wow! Mind blown! You are an outstanding teacher who never leaves me thinking (Huh?) after i watch your videos… I really, really appreciate you help
Wonderful thank you!!
Great content. This was easy to understand, and I can use it immediately. Keep the explanations of how the concepts work coming. I like that much better than just learning lick and not getting the context on why it works.
Thanks Neil, I agree it's always better to understand how the licks, chords work. That way we can use it, change it, make it our own.
Great lesson! As soon as I tried this I immediately heard the opening lick to Jessica by the Allman Brothers. The exact same notes from the extended lick in the key of A.
Yeah good example. Similar arpeggio, and great song.
and the bulb glows slightly brighter again this week. thanks man!
Glad to hear it! Thanks John!
Great lesson !!
Thanks! 😃
Very useful lesson!! :D
Good to hear, thanks!
Excellent lesson! Turns out my guitar instructor just a few weeks ago got into showing me arpeggios, and he also happens to like Gilmour's style of soloing. I have been working on learning to improvise, and putting all this stuff together, and your lesson here just nails it! Thank you for the lesson! I've subscribed as you have a very good teaching style.
Glad to hear it, thanks Jeff!!
Uhh…one of the best RUclips tutorials ever! Thank you so much! How Gilmour does it makes so much sense now. ❤
Thank you! Much appreciated! This other video of mine has lots of David Gilmour in it as well: ruclips.net/video/FTmcD568uxY/видео.html
This is the third video of yours that I've seen, and you've made good observations in each of the videos. Enjoy another Sub, brother.
Thanks CryptoSkywalker!!! Glad to have ya here.
Excellent lesson!!! I kept hearing the next Gilmour line when you were playing the short arpeggios. I have always thought Gilmour was a great teacher on how to use bends, they are always so well thought out and executed brilliantly.
Thanks for watching Steve!
This is the 1st time I've seen this channel...dude is great & logical guitar teacher! I've done these licks many times prior & having seen this video, now have a better understanding of how to pursue them.
Welcome aboard! Thanks F.F. Lots more to come!
That was amazing!
Thanks for watching
Blue, you are my favorite guitar teacher I've found on RUclips. I've been drumming in bands for nearly 20 years, so I understand music from the perspective of feeling, rhythm, dynamics, etc. But I've never been much of a guitar player, aside from being able to pick up an acoustic and strum some "cowboy chords." I made it a personal goal in 2023 to start properly learning how to play guitar, and the little tricks and licks you teach, as well as relating them to some of my personal favorite guitar players (like Gilmour and Keith Richards, for instance) helps me string together the missing pieces in my guitar vocabulary. Also, learning these fun and easy tricks on the guitar further grows my confidence -- making me want to practice more. Thank you!!!
Awesome! Glad to hear it! Lots more coming to this channel and our Patreon group if you haven't already checked that out: www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Your intermediate students are lucky to have a teacher like you. Not too much theory and real world examples in bite size pieces that make sense. Well done. Subscribe people!
Thanks Bill!!
The Gilmour arpeggio with its relaxed tempo is quite hypnotic. I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night.....(Roy Orbison "In Dreams")
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Just watched this again. Getting easier. I also discovered where the 4th is when playing major pentatonic scale in position 1 and 2. The sus 4 or 4th note sounds great when soloing. Thanks again Blue !
Thanks! Yeah you can add the 4th into major pentatonic. Very Allman Brothers sound.
So cool, thanks. Lots of Dean Wareham there too. (Nice to see a room/studio with real books too!) Subscribed.
Thanks for subscribing! Yeah we even read the real books here too 😄
great lesson thank you...
Thanks Guy! 🎸
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver ur welcome.
The David Gilmour lick sounds similar to the song All The Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople back in the 70s.
Cool! I'll have a listen to it. I dont know that one. 😎
Just discover your channel, I'm working David Gilmour study course currently I've I seen David live in Toronto 2016 when I was back home for a visit after seeing Gilmour live it was like been taken to another dimension great lesson glad I found your channel, the hard part I find is getting the timing right,
Cool! Thanks for commenting, Gilmour had great time for sure
You mah boy BLUE!
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I realized I started doing this after learning comfortably numb and I didn’t even realize what I was doing. Just noticed it sounded nice as a compliment to pentatonic playing. You sir just leveled up my playing with this one video thank you so much
Glad to hear it thanks! Lots more lessons like it on the channel :)
Thanks bro. You're a freak for sure, and God bless you for that. Please keep all of these lessons coming, I've learned more from you than... all of guitar youtube? That could be accurate. Please keep it up.
Thanks! Lots more coming to this channel and our Patreon
Wow didn't know Gilmour used Arpeggios so much.. A revelation
Thanks! Arpeggios are a great way to break out of Pentatonic
For those who like the D shaped Riff/Lick, there’s a nice song by Slash‘s Band „Velvet Revolver“ called „Fall To Pieces“. Listen to that. Awesome tones with open D chord and a Chrorus Riff with Dsus4 an oktave higher.
Nice example thanks! I'll check it out.
Amazing bloody Amazing! I know trg=he theory of appegios ,scaled and caged and could no make the connection of my all favourite David GILMOUR. Thank you
Cool thanks. Lots more lessons on this channel 👍
Game Changer. Looks like the Honey Do list will sadly be put on hold for another day.
Cool thanks Ken!
lmao just found this channel i agree..Did you get that list done yet?
Superb would be great if you could keep unwrapping David’s style in some more lessons.
Good idea, I'll wait and see how this one does first, but yeah good idea
Great video!
Thanks for watching 👍
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver No problem! I found you because analytics said people found my video in suggested when they watched this one. So I popped in to check it out and was like, “This is great, I’m watching this!”
Genius!
He sure was 😀
Thanks
Thanks for watching 👍
I’m currently learning the caged system (well trying to absorb it all) and I’m in the D shape area , and at times I would hit that sus4 note and say to myself “man that sounds good” and long behold I stumble upon this video explaining why is sounds good. Thanks for the video. This video is chalked full of liquid guitar gold knowledge and I haven’t even finished watching it yet!!! (Okay back to the video)
Also, do you have a video on making the backing track. I purchased a looper pedal (it’s the only pedal I own) and would love to make some chords such as you did but are you just strumming D a few times and then A a few times. It sounds like there is a lot more going on with the backing track. To learn rhythm and timing I think it’s important to have that backing track, just not sure how to go about it rhythmically
Thanks!!! That's a great coincidence!
...as for the jam track, I'm using a Digitec Trio+ which is also a drum machine and bass. It's very handy especially for us teachers as it creates the drum and bass for you.
What don't you know you're just plain amazing...
Thank you!
Love the way you enjoy it as i do
Thanks :)
Awesome and inspiring…. Would you please consider linking to the backing tracks in your lessons. Got your solo book and really enjoying that too.
Thanks! The track there is just from a loop pedal -- the Digitec Trio+ so it's not something I can easily post, sorry. I'll see if I can figure that out for future.
Sound familiar you ask ...... DUH ..... chords behind the Comfortably Numb solo ..... lol. Brilliant video !!!!! Will have to check out the solo for the arpeggios on the other strings in the solos. Maybe you have done that already.
Thanks! I don't think I have a video on that specific arpeggio but it's worth looking at the solo for it for sure. Thanks for watching 🎸
00:01 Key learnings from David Gilmour's guitar solos
02:14 Adding sus4 in arpeggios for solos
04:06 David Gilmour incorporated descending arpeggios in his guitar solos
06:00 Arpeggios highlight chord tones
07:57 David Gilmour uses different arpeggio shapes for different chords.
10:09 Understanding sus4 chords and arpeggios
12:18 Extending arpeggios and adding pre-bends for guitar solos
14:46 Practicing arpeggios on different chords
You just gave me a light bulb moment, cheers mate
Glad to hear it! Lots more lessons on the channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver
Danke!
Thanks for watching
... and thanks for the "super" I appreciate the extra support
Great lesson. First time through last month was slow. Second time today is much easier. Watch out David, here I come😅
Haha nice work! You can do 👍
6. His HUGE bends
Thanks true!
Great tutorial. Can you make one with minor triads now?
Hi @Crete23 I have made one video on minor triads so far, it's here: ruclips.net/video/0PJm-HbVctE/видео.html Have you seen that one yet? Or perhaps you mean something more specific? I do plan to make more on the topic in time.
you're the first guitar teacher that i can tell is a real teacher in real life and not some dude who decided to make some videos about scales for money
Thank you! Been teaching guitar for 15 years now 👍
Cool. Gilmore also uses sus 2 arpeggios.
I should do a video on those too. Gilmour sus2
Strawberry Fields is also in there.
Interesting example thanks. I'll have a listen for that.
Fantastic ! - can I get a similar tone as you have by using my Epiphone ES 355 and a Line 6 Catalyst 60…it’s a modeling amp I think ( I’m a 60 year old beginner that’s been noodling around for a few months) that has some presets..but I can use the manual settings on the amp…any help would be appreciated
Probably. I dont know that amp but if it has a Fender Deluxe Reverb patch that's what use. Plus some overdrive, touch of Spring reverb, and very quiet slapback delay is my usual tone.
Excellent tutorial, thank you sir!
I have a question: the way that sus4 sounds great on a major arpeggio, what extra note would work as well on a minor arpeggio? I tried sus4 but it doesn't sound as good when it drops to the minor 3rd...
Try a Minor 9 arpeggio ending on the 9, like this video but as an arpeggio: ruclips.net/video/DBaWwznXxnw/видео.html
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Thanks, that works nicely! Based on your suggestion, it seems a half note interval is needed somewhere in there? Even ending on the 5th through the minor 6th sounds good. Again, great video, it helped me to start using arpeggios better!
Lessons like these show that being "stuck" in pentatonics is more of a psychological state than anything else. An arpeggio, in a sense, is just a "trail" through a pentatonic scale with a few intentional detours in an effort to speak to the specific chords of a progression. If you know your pentatonics cold, then you likely have just about all the foundation you need to be come a good musical soloist.
Minor pentatonic scale= 5 notes (minus the the 2nd and the 6th)
Major pentatonic scale = 5 notes (minus the 4th and the 7th)
Typical Arpeggio = 4 notes, commonly containing 1/3/5/7
Well said! Pentatonic (major and minor) is probably what we play 95% of the time. The rest fit on top of those shapes .... for rock and etc.
Cant download the content you say to download Told cant locate this I have the 2 books you suggested we buy on Amazon
Hi Leslie, the tabs for this video are here: www.bluemorris.com/post/david-gilmour-guitar-solo-arpeggios Thanks for buyin the books too! If you are looking for the downloads for the books, there is a page at the beginning of each book with a link to the downloads for the books. Thanks!