How To Play Pink Floyd's "Breathe" on Slide Guitar
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Mark Peotter takes you step by step through the 3 Minute version of "Breathe In The Air" by Pink Floyd.
The Pink Floyd song features a Lap Steel Guitar. Mark adapts the Song to be played with a Bottle Neck (Brass) Slide on 4 Strings of a Gibson SG Guitar.
Tune your guitar to open G tuning for this Lesson. D, G, D, G, B, D
However, the bottom 2 strings will not be used.
Set your amplifier for a lot of gain, but without a distorted buzzing tone.
You will need a volume pedal. Every note swells up from a silent attack. Develop the skill of ramping up the volume while the notes decay, to achieve the illusion of compression and sustain.
Alternately, you can achieve a similar effect with a good compression effect that includes a slow attack setting.
You should also use a clean echo, or digital delay effect.
Mark shows the Intervals Perfect 5th, Perfect 4th, Major 3rd, and Minor 3rd, which are used in this song.
My tuning of the strings is different than what is found on other Web Sites regarding David Gilmore's Lap Steel Tunings. On other sites, they say to tune the strings with a high E, instead of my high D. The site claims that the tuning used by David Gilmore was D , G , D , G , B , E (G6 tuning).
Although that high E helps to make the first interval easier to locate on the neck, it also offers 2 important problems. These 2 problems are found in measures 9 through 12 of the first steel guitar section.
The first problem is the Perfect 5th Interval of B and F#, which is clearly heard in the 9th measure. With G6 tuning you could try to play the B and F# on the 5th and 4th strings, respectively, at the imaginary 28th Fret. But, the sound would be poor, due to the use of wound strings playing so high.
Using my open G Tuning, we fix that problem, playing the B and F# on the 3rd and 1st Strings, respectively, at the 16th fret.
The second problem is the Minor Third Interval used in measure 11. With G6 tuning, this interval cannot be played - unless you replace your 4th string D with a 10 gauge plain string, and tune it up one octave higher. The Minor Third Interval could then be played with the 4th and 2nd Strings.
Using my open G Tuning, we fix that problem, playing the Minor Third Intervals with the 1st and 2nd Strings.
Watching David Gilmore play the song live, he plays only the higher note in both of these intervals. I can only conclude that the Studio Version of the song was accomplished by performing an overdub for the harmony notes, or, the Lap Steel was re-tuned to perform these intervals, before the overdubs.
Knowing every note on your instrument is recommended, but not required to understand the lesson. The difficulty level of the slide guitar technique is Moderate. However, combining the Finger Picking, Volume Pedal Technique, and using Notes Higher than the 24th Fret, the difficulty level becomes Advanced.
"Breathe In The Air" (Waters, Gilmour, Wright) appears on the album Dark Side Of The Moon.
The delay makes it spacier. Note for note instruction. Got the swells. Didn't leave anything out. Can't say anything wrong about it. That was killer!
This is the best treatment of this song I’ve found for slide or lap steel. If you’re playing this in a smaller cover band context where you don’t have a lot of other players filling things out, this is the best! Thanks Mark!!
@BarefootBoy55 Thank you for the sub! I just watched one of your electric (?) bag pipe songs from 12 years ago. Wow, you had a great sense for music, even then! Do you have any recent videos?
Hi Mark. That’s one of my sons on the uilleann pipes and smalll pipes. He’s *so* much better a musician than me! He’s been singing in choruses and playing drums in recent years, but we still have his pipes of course!@@MarkPeotter
Perfect sound pleasse efects and setting
Please see previous comments and my replies to describe the settings and effects.
Love the intro music!
JC 3D, that first 10 seconds of music is my song "Just Take My Hand", from my album "Beach Boulevard". Thank you for mentioning that!
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Wow, fantastic....thanks!
Wow man thanks. You are the only one on You Tube to cover this the correct way. Very helpful as I just formed a PF cover band.
@douginny Thank you for the compliment, and good luck with the Pink Floyd cover band. I performed sax in a PF cover band many years ago. Then I saw another PF band in 2008 that was even better. Can't remember their name, but they were from UK.
@@MarkPeotter Brit Floyd. Just saw them 2 weeks ago. First time. They were amazing. Saw the real band minus RW in 87 twice and 94.
@@MarkPeotter I figured out One of These Days. Open Em!
Have you done any other PF slide lessons?
@@douginny Thanks for the suggestion! I have so many instruments to play. Yes, I should get to the slide again. I recently learned the slide solo to "Running On Empty"
This is gold. I Need to buy a bottleneck and study this lesson.
Amazing lesson thank you so much sir
@Padelis It was my pleasure, because I love this song!
this was really helpful, thanks a lot Mark!
So glad to help, Roy!
What a great lesson Mark. I love Mr Gilmour’s tasteful, elegant solos. Can you share your tone settings? Looked like a Boss multi-effects unit at the very end? Thanks!
Alexander Winston, your two words sum up Gilmore so well, tasteful and elegant! I used the BOSS ME-80 for an echo effect and its volume pedal. The SG Guitar has the bridge pickup only, tone and volume at full. The amplifier provided the gain / distortion, with it's tone knobs at Treble 7, Bass 4. The gain is hard to describe, because it is one of 16 presets on the amp, however, the output is high and the distortion is low. If I played 3 or more strings, you would hear the "breaking up" a bit, but with 2 strings (this song) it nearly sounds clean. The amp also has an echo, at a faster rate than the BOSS echo.
@@MarkPeotter thanks!
Great ! and about the settings of the echo ?
Thanks, Kian! The echo here comes from the Boss ME-80 multi effects pedal. I turned the delay knob to provide (slow) half note pulses.
Una abuelita que tca co una guitarra electrica un tema de pink floy
Is it your grandmother who is afraid of pink floyd?
Pleasse master parameters of delay and reverb
@clasesdeguitarra7367 In this song, I used 2 sources for the Delay/Reverb. The BOSS ME70 Delay is set to 8th notes, meaning that I just moved the time controls carefully until it sounds like one repeat every eight note. The control for the number of repeats I adjusted until I could hear 4 repeats, and, the repeats gradually get softer with each repeat as part of the Delay effect. The Guitar Amplifier, the Fender Super Champ XD, includes several choices of Reverb. I selected the Reverb that includes the slowest delay in that group. I tried to make the Delay/Reverb volume levels of both sources match each other. The blend of the dry signal is about 60%. But all of these adjustments are made by listening. There were no effects added in the recording process, which was a Shure SM58 Mic into a DBX Compressor into the Focusrite A/D Converter. No effects added during mixing and mastering.
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Thanks man thanks
can slide be made with creole guitar?
Hi L3on ! A creole guitar is an acoustic guitar, with steel strings, and may be amplified, yes? If so, YES, you can play with a slide. However the notes will fade out very quickly.
That is a big sounding slide. Delay makes it spacey with swells. The tone is killer. Can't say anything wrong with. Hits it all.