How to Play Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd on Guitar
How to Play Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd on Guitar
Learn how to play Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd in this free guitar lesson video. In 2004, the song was ranked #316 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. View video
How to Play Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd on Guitar
Learn to Play Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd on Guitar
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Wish You Were Here use the pattern: IV - V - II - I followed by: V - IV - II - I. The simple variation drives the tune forward and makes playing the song meditative. The opening licks Gilmour play use the minor pentatonic scale.

The 'Wish You Were Here' guitar part might be the most copied part for guitar ballads ever. The Stadium meets campfire trick have been attempted by so many rock bands since 'Wish You Were Here', it's actually difficult to think of one that doesn't sound a bit like "the original". As you saw in beginner lessons, most classic guitar ballads use the chords of G Am C and D.

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Even the hammer on's are classics, repeated many times since. It's hard to imagine an epic 'one acoustic guitar" kind of song before 'Wish You Were Here'. It is almost as if it is written to be played in a stadium. Copied by hundreds of other famous songs in progression, chord shapes and guitar style it is compulsory to learn a song like 'Wish You Were Here' note for note.

The video lesson is as close as guru could get it. No one can play it like Gilmour, but there's a great lesson in trying.

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Pink Floyd : "Comfortably numb" Bass tabs

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Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb Tab
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Song Title: Comfortably Numb
Artist: Pink Floyd
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one pink floyd's many masterpieces, laid back and with a hell-of-a-lot of soul



intro:

  Bm        Bm 
||-----------|----------||
||-----------|----------||
||2---2-2----|2----2----||
||-----------|----------||
           guitar slide


verse 1:

  Bm          A          G     Em    B
||-----------|----------|-----------|----------|
||-----------|----------|-----------|----------|   played 3x
||2---2-2----|0----0----|-----------|2----2----|
||-----------|----------|3---2-0----|----------|
 "hello..."


chorus 1:

  D           A          D          A          C          G          C         G
||-----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|---------|----------||
||-----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|---------|----------||  
||5-------5\-|0---------|5------5\-|0-------2-|3---------|--------2-|3--------|----------||
||-----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|3---------|---------|3---------||
  "there is no pain..."
                               
play the chorus 2x then bridge 1:

                             A           C    G     D           
                           ||-----------|----------|----------||
                           ||-----------|----------|----------||
                           ||0--0-0---2-|3---------|5----5----||
                           ||-----------|-----3----|----------||
                            "i...have become comfortably numb" 


guitar solo 1:

  D          A              D          A           C          G           C          G
||----------|--------------|----------|-----------|----------|-----------|----------|---------||
||----------|--------------|----------|-----------|----------|-----------|----------|---------||
||5----5--\-|0---0-0--2-3-4|5----5--\-|0---0-0--2-|3----3----|---------5-|3---3-3---|---------||
||---------\|--------------|---------\|-----------|----------|3---2-3----|----------|3--3-3---||


bridge 2: 

                            A           C      G     D
                          ||-----------|------------|----------||
                          ||-----------|------------|----------||
                          ||0----0---2-|3--3-5------|5---------||
                          ||-----------|-------3----|----------||
                           "i...have become comfortably numb"


verse 2:    same as verse 1 but only played 2X



chorus 2:     same as chorus 1 tabed above



bridge 3:     

              A             C     G     D            D   
            ||-------------|-----------|------------|-----------|| 
            ||---7--7------|-----------|------------|-----------||
            ||0--------0-2-|3---3------|5--5--5--5--|5--5--5\---||
            ||-------------|------3----|------------|--------\--||
             "i...have become comfortably numb"


guitar solo 2:  same as the verse riff and it continues on throughout the solo
                so just keep funking' it up untill the end



any comments, questions, or tabs email me at whisper@shadow.net       !PEACE!

 

Submitted by:  Whisper (whisper@shadow.net)

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