David Gilmore playing Breathe on an old Martin

[Bronzeback]

Originally Posted by paulzoom

Found a good tutorial five minutes ago and I'm already half way through learning this. Either this is an easy song to play or I'm getting better. Probably the former.

Bam! I got it. 90% there on the lyrics since I've heard the song 10,000 times. One more for the repertoire. And yes I just had to Google how to spell repertoire.

[bagpipe]

Amother thing I like to do on that tune (which sounds especially good if you play it on eletric guitar with a phaser and delay etc) is to play the Em chord as:

0
0
0
4
2
0

ie raise the E note on 4th string to F#. Sounds good if you drag the pick back across the strings (ie from thinnest E to thickest E) as part of your strumming.

[Guitar1083]

David Gilmour plays a D-35 in that video is it a 1965/6/7/8/9 so on.... who knows, but i bet we can find out.

[stringjunky]

Originally Posted by Bronzeback

Bam! I got it. 90% there on the lyrics since I've heard the song 10,000 times. One more for the repertoire. And yes I just had to Google how to spell repertoire.

Did you have to learn that word because you know two songs now? A 'repertoire' being plural.

[slewis]

Originally Posted by RustNeverSleeps

The verse bit seems right IMO, E minor to a7, but at 3.20 the guy in this vid shows the transition chord for (what I suppose you would call) the chorus of the song. He says it's a C chord with the b string left open, so 0 3 2 0 0 0. I have always played it 3 3 2 0 0 0. I think from watching the original video, Dave plays it this way too. Hope this is useful to someone.

Wholeheartedly agree -- that's how I play it too and I think it's much better. And I go with an A instead of A7.

[ghale]

Originally Posted by paulzoom

Found a good tutorial five minutes ago and I'm already half way through learning this. Either this is an easy song to play or I'm getting better. Probably the former.

That's awesome thank you! I'm actually surprised at how good this sounds.

[steelvibe]

Thank you so much for sharing. Gilmour is a tone giant, especially on electric guitar. What really grabbed me in this acoustic performance is that his vocal is so sweet and a real pleasure to hear. We all know Pink Floyd's music to be very effect-laden (a cool thing since they are so good at tasteful use of them) and it was nice to hear his voice with that gorgeous Martin.

On a side-note, I think Comfortably Numb is one of the greatest songs ever written. IMHO.

[billder99]

Thanks for sharing, really nice to see such a simple, stripped down version. After watching Gilmore, I also watched Roger Waters doing Dark Side of the Moon, pure simple straight up acoustic... very nice. The boys from Pink Floyd were a uniquely gifted group of songwriters.

[Captaincranky]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

It's spelt 'Gilmour' not 'Gilmore'.

And here I thought it was spelt, "spelled".

[Captaincranky]

Originally Posted by RustNeverSleeps

I've been playing this tune for years, pretty accurately in my own opinion

I haven't watched all of the above tutorial video, and I don't know the names of all the chords, but I do have a suggestion for anyone learning this song.

The verse bit seems right IMO, E minor to a7, but at 3.20 the guy in this vid shows the transition chord for (what I suppose you would call) the chorus of the song.

He says it's a C chord with the b string left open, so 0 3 2 0 0 0.

I have always played it 3 3 2 0 0 0.

I think from watching the original video, Dave plays it this way too. Hope this is useful to someone.

I'm here to boor you with a bit of theory. The "C chord" in question, is Cmaj7. (That's that darn old open B string giving you the major 7th). When you play 3 3 3 0 0 0, It's a G in the bass, (obviously), but it can be notated Cmaj7/G, a "slash chord", or analyzed as Cmaj7 2nd inversion. I like to make noise with all six strings, so I'd play the G in the bass as well.

Moving on to the "A7" chord, the 7th isn't as annoying or prominent when played 0 0 2 0 2 0, as when you place the 7th on top as 0 0 2 2 2 3. (Or as we find out later in the thread from another contributor, you can just play A major).

[stringjunky]

Originally Posted by Captaincranky

And here I thought it was spelt, "spelled".

If you're following US writing conventions, use spelled.
If you're following UK writing conventions, use spelt.

http://www.grammar-monster.com/easil...lled_spelt.htm

[Captaincranky]

Originally Posted by stringjunky

If you're following US writing conventions, use spelled.
If you're following UK writing conventions, use spelt.

http://www.grammar-monster.com/easil...lled_spelt.htm

I know, I know, the dictionary tells me that, "learnt", is good also.

I like to use British spellings sometimes as an homage. You know, "behaviour", colour", "centre", it drives my spell checker bonkers.

I did honestly think that, "learnt', and, "spelt" were pure rural Americana. Oh, well, you learn something new everyday.

You have to look a bit harder for spelt, cause to us, it's a type of wheat.

[stringjunky]

Originally Posted by Captaincranky

I know, I know, the dictionary tells me that, "learnt", is good also.

I like to use British spellings sometimes as an homage. You know, "behaviour", colour", "centre", it drives my spell checker bonkers.

I did honestly think that, "learnt', and, "spelt" were pure rural Americana. Oh, well, you learn something new everyday.

You have to look a bit harder for spelt, cause to us, it's a type of wheat.

Some American words are actually Old English that we English don't use any more. I say 'router' the American way (Row-ter) and not Rooter which is the English way ...much to the annoyance of my fellow Brits.

[angel13]

This is the Reprise version and seems to be taken from thr same session. I love playing this for the mellow chord sequence.

[AndrewG]

Originally Posted by Captaincranky

And here I thought it was spelt, "spelled".

Depends if you're employing American English or English, erm, English spelling...