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Here's a different take on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SBf3zDmnxbA
and a completely different way.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&list=PL9071DABAA785A433&v=BVdvqm7Gaus
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For an interesting twist, look at the solo for Technical Difficulties by Paul Gilbert. Similar (or same?) progression and key, and despite the speed, actually has quite a similar feel to the tonality, but he focuses a great deal on sextuplets and full scale runs, including the second. Vaguely remember him dabbling into e minor, too, but that's the same key with a c natural so not a huge voice change.
E minor - Different key similar scale
Example put the Bm pentatonic scale over the Em pentatonic scale (7th fret) low-high
Bm
7-10
7-9
7-9
7-9
7-10
7-10
Em
7-10
7-10
7-9
7-9
8-10
7-10
So there's a lot of same notes being played in both.
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That's the extent of my scale knowledge.
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Incidentally. if you use an A sus2/A 5add9 in place of the A chord you'll emphasize the B minor tonality. I believe the acoustic guitar did use the Asus2 in it's part.
x02200 (A/E/A/B/E) as opposed to A x02220 (A/E/A/C#/E)
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Very respectfully, as you've clearly done a great job here, I'd take issue with the above comment re the song being about 'heroin addiction' per se ;-)
More so, I'd say the core of the song is about audience isolation, the bubble of stardom and fame, and others exploiting an artist by plying him with drugs to perform (viz Michael Jackson).
Small point, but a worthwhile one nonetheless.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I've only ever played Bm, but yes a Bsus2 would work as a chord substitution. More so if you've got another instrument playing a Bm.
I don't remember an electric playing sus chords, but they technically wouldn't be wrong.
And I believe Roger Waters himself said the song was about heroin addiction.
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For the solo's if you think Bm pentatonic with the non-pentatonic notes as "passing" notes you won't go too far wrong.
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You're welcome.
BTW Kirk didn't really start using modes (per se) until the Justice album....
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"Comfortably Numb" is a 1979 single by Pink Floyd. The song comes from their epic concept album "The Wall." Guitarist David Gilmour is responsible for the melody and music while bassist Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. "Comfortably Numb" is the very last song that Gilmour and Waters shared songwriting credits on as Waters left the band in 1986.
There are many urban legends as to what "Comfortably Numb" is about. Naturally, due to the music of Pink Floyd being popular within the drug culture, there are many fans that wholeheartedly believe that the song is about the use of mind-altering substances. Stories are widespread that Waters has admitted to writing the lyrics while using drugs. There is also the belief that the song is representative of a psychological breakdown similar to that experienced by original founding member Syd Barrett.
Pink Floyd's movie "The Wall" has also added to the perception that the song is about drug use or a mental breakdown. In the movie, Bob Geldof's character, a fictional rock star named Pink, is in an unproductive incoherent state due to his drug use and feeble mental health. He hallucinates upon being injected with a drug to prep him for show time.
On the album itself, the story of Pink is told track by track, and "Comfortably Numb" is the narrative of a conversation between Pink and his doctor. Gilmour acts as the voice of Pink and Waters acts as the voice of the doctor. Pink is given a shot that is meant to clear his weakened mental state so he can perform in concert. The lyrics depict an account of Pink's experience after his injection and the patient/doctor dialogue that occurred.
So, did Roger Waters really write the song while stoned? We really don't know. However, Waters himself has stated in interviews that "Comfortably Numb" is a recount of two life-altering (not mind-altering) experiences he endured. Waters often thinks back to an illness he had as a child where he ran an excessively high fever and was delirious. There is also an experience that he had in 1977 where he fell ill prior to a concert in Philadelphia. He was suffering from abdominal cramps, which may or may not have been brought on from undiagnosed hepatitis, and a doctor injected Waters with tranquilizers to ready him for the show. The experience left Waters "comfortably numb." It's easy to see how the pre-show injection administered to Pink's character on the album and in the movie could have been inspired by Waters' real-life experience when he became sick prior to a concert.
The song is highly regarded by critics and fans alike. Gilmour's second guitar solo is frequently hailed as the Best Guitar Solo ever in polls and Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Comfortably Numb" at number 314 in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. A dance-oriented version of the song by the Scissor Sisters became a Top 10 hit in the U.K. in 2004.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I'd heard the pre-gig anti-sick injection story before, but I thought that occurred around 1982, on the Wall tour (I could easily be wrong here).
Still, cracking song, and fantastic solo's.
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