Song · 1979
ClassicComfortably Numb
- Artist
- Pink Floyd
- Released
- 1979
- Guitar
- David Gilmour
- Solo
- Bends & vibrato
What makes the part famous
The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.
Solo
The passage where the guitar steps forward and sings on its own, phrase after phrase.
Bends & vibrato
Pushing the string to raise the note, then making it waver: the guitar that sings.
Comfortably Numb chords
What the studio found on the isolated guitar of the recording: the key and the chords, with fingerings that flow from one to the next.
- Key
- B minor
- Chords
- Bm · A · D · G
Here the guitar mostly plays solos and riffs: these chords are the ones its lines outline, enough to back it or improvise over it.
The progressions that come back
- Bm
- A
- D
Analyze your own recording
Record yourself playing it, or upload a version you have the right to use: the studio isolates the guitar and finds the chords, tempo, strumming and fingerings, with a fretboard video and a PDF.
Same guitarist
Same techniques
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