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How to play guitar like David Gilmour: Bluesy diads, slides, quarter-tone blues curls and more

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"David's smooth and perfectly-intonated bends are present in almost every solo"

At the heart of David Gilmour's playing is some very soulful blues vocabulary with precise string bending, awareness of space and rests, lyrical vibrato and excellent intonation. His famous two-step two-tone bend can be heard on anything from Shine On You Crazy Diamond to Another Brick In The Wall (Part II).

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