Riff and solo in the style of David Gilmour

...a soft Bluesy-Rock solo which featured some bends being excruciatingly tortured :). The backing track chords are Amin and D9. It defintely has a bit of a Pink Floyd going on, and loops endlessly well I find. Floyd's guitarist David b is a very blues based player, and perhaps the solo sound is a little heavier than he might dial in, but the basic feel is very Floydian...

Brilliant solo full of with beautiful melodies, bends and slides

Learn a legendary solo by David Gilmour

Put your heart in your playing with this short but intense study of dynamics, whammy bar and chordal control.

Finger control / stretch etude to work on your chord position repertoire and picking control.

This lesson is suitable for beginners who want to start using what they learned in a solo context. The following track is in A minor. We will be using A minor pentatonic scales with additional blue notes (diminished 5th).

In this lesson, we'll study some of David Gilmour's characteristics. He uses mostly minor pentatonics. The following licks should give you some simple ideas to develop your own leads.

We'll take a look at David Gilmour's use of the Dorian scale over a backing track in the style of Another brick in the wall. I changed the lead, but built it around licks that Gilmour would play.