{"id":3315,"date":"2019-01-10T23:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vancouverguitarlessons.net\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2019-01-10T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:52:25","slug":"david-gilmours-guitar-style-lesson-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptempomusiclessons.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/10\/david-gilmours-guitar-style-lesson-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gilmour’s Guitar Style Lesson – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Gilmour\u2019s Guitar Style Lesson \u2013 Part 1<\/h2>\n

Hi everyone, this week we are looking at David Gilmour\u2019s Guitar Style\u00a0in depth<\/span>\u00a0in this 2 part video series.<\/span><\/p>\n

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David Gilmour\u00a0has taken\u00a0listeners on his melodic, bluesy journey with his band Pink Floyd for over 45 years.\u00a0 In that time he has created a catalog of solos so memorable that once you hear his solos once you cannot stop but having them pop into your head at random times.\u00a0 I\u00a0 listened to the bulk of his output and have chosen the licks\/techniques\/effects that best represent what makes David Gilmour sound like nobody else in\u00a0trying to\u00a0help readers understand how styles\u00a0can be<\/span>\u00a0defined from a harmonic and technique\u00a0perspective.\u00a0 I broke this down into 8 categories.\u00a0 In this lesson we go over the first 3.\u00a0 Video is below written explanations.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Effects<\/h3>\n

David Gilmour plays a Fender\u00a0Stratocaster<\/span>\u00a0with a floating tremolo bar through\u00a0HiWatt<\/span>\u00a0amps to\u00a0attain<\/span>\u00a0his signature lead tone.\u00a0 If you have an amp with a\u00a0preamp<\/span>, crank it up to get it singing. \u00a0 If you only have a master volume amp an\u00a0attenuator<\/span>\u00a0would be ideal if it is over 15 watts.\u00a0 I am just using a Marshall MV with\u00a0attenuator<\/span>\u00a0and a\u00a0Tubedriver<\/span>\u00a0pedal which David was known to dabble with at certain points in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For his clean tone, David Gilmour dials back volume and flips his pickup selector to an out of phase\u00a0position<\/span>\u00a0(position<\/span>\u00a02 or 4 on a\u00a0Stratocaster<\/span>\u00a05 way pickup switch).\u00a0 To mimic his clean tone I just plugged into a Fender Twin with a compressor.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Another Brick In The Wall pt.1 Gilmour is using 3 effects; compressor,\u00a0flanger<\/span>, and delay. I go through how to set up that sound in the video so watch closely.\u00a0 Gilmour uses this\u00a0type of\u00a0delay setting on several songs in the Pink Floyd catalog, most famously in \u201cRun Like Hell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the tab for Another Brick In The Wall pt. 1<\/p>\n

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2. Scales<\/h3>\n

David Gilmour is a big proponent of the minor and major pentatonic scales.\u00a0 These are 5 note scales, pretty much the simplest scale a guitarist could use.\u00a0 He rarely augments this scale with a blues note and sometimes the 2nd and 6th from Dorian mode.\u00a0\u00a0 I recommend learning all scales he uses in 5 positions on the neck and then practicing traversing between them and building up to 3 octave scales like Gilmour does.<\/p>\n

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3. Chords<\/h3>\n

David Gilmour’s use of chords is very sparse in manner.\u00a0 He loves to use triad chords on the treble strings.\u00a0 A great exercise to get good at seeing these voicings is to harmonize a scale like I did in root, 1st inversion and 2nd inversion in the examples on all 3 string groups.<\/p>\n

Check back for part 2 of the lesson!<\/p>\n

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