He starts basically every lead part with a full-tone bend. Or, a single held note then a full tone bend. Now I've noticed it, it's driving me mad. Just going through his epic solos in my head...
Echoes - Full tone bend on the intro and the big fuzz solo
Breathe - Slide part - E minor triad then a full tone slide
Time - F# then a FULL TONE BEND
Shine on - starts with a FTB
Have a Cigar - Solo starts with a FTB
Dogs - Harmony solo - FTB. Middle solo - E then FTB
Comfortably Numb - FTB. There's a note before it, but it's ducked down so the solo doesn't come to the front of the mix until the FULL TONE BEND.
Another Brick in the Wall - This has six notes before the first FTB, but DG plays them as quickly as he can then does an epic double full tone bend with an extra stretch three semi-tones up, almost as if he can't believe his oversight.
What Do You Want from Me - Starts with an epic FTB.
Marooned - Great instrumental. Starts with the trademark single note/ FTB.
Wearing the Inside Out - Single note/FTB
Coming Back to Life - Single note/FTB on all the lead breaks.
Keep Talking - FTB
I don't have an axe to grind, I fucking love the man's playing. I wonder if he ever noticed, I suspect he'd laugh it off.
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I doubt it's deliberate, probably something he does by "practised habit", or he's played so many in practise, when he comes to record it just happens.
Another exampe is every solo I try to play I mess right up.......
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He is the master of 'note choice'. I wish I had a fraction of his melodic invention. Apart from Mark Knopfler, I cannot think of any player who is so expressive from such a limited harmonic palatte.
An all time hero of mine.
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"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I don't like Pink Floyd ( I get that Gilmour is a tasteful guitarist, I really don't like the other stuff before and after the solos though, but we've been down that avenue before...) but adding vibrato to a bend is a common technique issue so I guess it was an ah, perhaps I don't have to bother after all moment and then someone posted a clip of him clearly using finger vibrato on a bend.
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The others will all be under 17..........
keep your hands where we can see them at all times.....
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein