The Famous David Gilmour BEND

Hi! The band aid thing at the beginning was just a joke. Playing these bends properly, with the right technique, shouldn't be painful. It's okay if it becomes painful for the fingertips, especially if you're new to this, but your finger itself should not feel pain of any kinds.
In the end my finger did hurt a little, yes. Doing A LOT of 2/2.5 step bends whilst preparing for this video is not something you regularly do :)

his guitar strings are unbreakable 💀

A great lesson, as David Gilmour is the guitar player I strive to emulate.

This video has inspired me to not try shine on you crazy diamond at home.

Who else came to this video cause they had trouble with lesrning comfortably numb

Very informative. Can you also please do a video of R. Blackmore’s bending and vibrato, too?

Nice tone.

I never did find out what Dave had against his strings. 🤣 I was never brave enough to do much of these bends back as a student after the first couple of twang-pow-snaps! 😁😂

2 and a half steps bend: Straight from the "I didn't know we could do that on the guitar" series, lol

You... smooth play... I mean, talker ;) Cheers man !!!

i broke my string on the 2 tones bend. Is that normal?

I can’t do two tone bends on my Strat because the floating bridge keeps lowering the tone. I can do it ok on my mate’s Les Paul.

How aren’t his strings broken yet

When you said at the end 'have an extra set of strings lying around' I thought you were going to say 'have an extra set fingers'. 😁

Hi guy , what diameter of string

Good show, lovely Strat.

im glad i was obsessed with pink floyd as a teenager and absorbed gilmour-style bending. ive never been a shredder but one thing i can do is intonate bends nicely. its nice to be praised by dudes who can play circles around you for something you didnt even learn on purpose lol

You said your strings are tens - surely not all of them? Did you mean 1st E is 10?

I’ve been learning the time and money solos the last 2 weeks. My finger tips are hard as a rock now lol

Thanks for making this video ☮️ Would you consider making a video dividing the songs David Gilmour plays with a hard tail without a Vibrato/Tremelo vs playing with a whammy bar? 😎🎸🎶

Every time I do this my guitar goes straight out of tune lol I do need a better guitar Epiphone studio the g string is just unreal one big bend goes out every time

The acoustic guitar bends on Wish You Were Here are my favorite bends.

Wow. Really good instructional video. Soloing like this is the reason started learning. Gilmour tone and style is my no1 goal.

Paul, in your descriptions you often use spicy, juicy. What would salty sound like 😂😂😂

A famous guitarist (I believe it was Dave Mustaine of Megadeath) once said, “Dave Gilmour can wring more sound and soul from a single touch of the guitar than most guitarists can using the whole fretboard.”

Dave Mustaine was right.

This is AWESOME!
You, sir, are an EXCELLENT explainer of the art — a teacher extraordinaire! I would even venture to say that you are as masterful an instructor as Gilmour is a guitarist!

how the upper strings don't clang when you bend...do you mute with your picking hand?

Sound of backings are incredible. Thx for lesson

I had enough broken strings to build a small cattle pen when I started learning Gilmour's style. Ummm it is a wee bit easier to bend on a Les Paul and look into what he used for that wall solo 😎

The bends are so precise in Gilmours playing that for years I thought it was some pedal he had, like a wah. And then I started playing and understood, no, he’s just that good.

Learning guitar? Wait! Don’t touch that skip button, this is going to change everything!
*slapping that skip button killing a couple of pixels

Only time I had bloody fingers was when I started learning SRV and insisted on using his setup and strings as I was told. Brutal.

Another thing is gilmour is a MASTER at pinch harmonics on a strat. And his feel and tone is just out this world

Correct me if I'm wrong (not a player, but an avid listener and a huge Gilmour fan!), but it just struck me that this is very similar to Zappa's bending style and sound; I'd not noticed this before, but slowed down and explained intricately, the similarity seems very apparent. Thoughts? 🤗

You should do the arpeggios from Echoes. That riff is one of my all time favorites and I never seem to find anyone able to play it quite right.

Paul, you are a genius, how can you do this???

how to create a supernova in the guitar

5 step bends should be banned...thats bang out of order that shit.gilmore is the finger tip enemy..hand strength required to pull this off comfortably .is making my brain numb

I wonder weather there is some super bendy strings thst only people like Gilmore get..cos those big bends are cutting to the bone...kinda.. haha..he makes it look to easy

Great video, Paul. Oldie but a goodie. 2.5 step bends are nuts and I use 9s and I can't get there?! Time to try out some 8s😂

great video. But I wonder what specifically he means by more technique than power?

David Gilmore is the direct reason why I have reoccurring purchases on for strings 😂

I’m trying my first David Gilmour piece and what I’ve learned is that slow is waaaay more difficult than fast. If you’re firing off five notes a second you can fudge a few and get away with it… when you’re hanging every single note out there on full display it sounds like absolute garbage when you mess up.

I😂 love the bandages!!

SOmeone brought me strings I don't normaly use and it just will not bend to that note on the first bend lol Never seen this before with a string but I think it's cause its a 9 and I play heavey strings like SRV.

no way that intro! I want the tab!!!

Extra set of strings? I need an extra set of fingers.