Hi! The band aid thing at the beginning was just a joke. Playing these bends properly, with the right technique, shouldn't be painful. It's okay if it becomes painful for the fingertips, especially if you're new to this, but your finger itself should not feel pain of any kinds. In the end my finger did hurt a little, yes. Doing A LOT of 2/2.5 step bends whilst preparing for this video is not something you regularly do :)

my fingertips are uncomfortably numb

"When I was a child I practiced bending... / My fingers swelled just like two balloons..."

Learned a lot from this. My guitar makes pretty good firewood.

When I do a really big Gilmour bend I look away and close my eyes.

His style was so slow and psychedelic that people who don't play guitar don't realize he was a string murderer. One of the most recognizable styles of all time.

30 years of playing guitar and for some absolutely crazy reason I've only just started learning gilmour songs. It feels like day 1 hour zero. He's a guitar master

This is part of why I love Gilmour. He says a lot with few "words."

The four notes (isn’t that weird that you probably know which ones I’m talking about?) in Shine on you crazy diamond is probably one of the most beautiful and powerful licks ever

"On the Turning Away" has one of my favorite solos ever.

"We are going one step further, a 2 1/2 tone bend......" FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

I think the bending on "Dogs" licks and solos are from another planet, peak David Gilmour

I learnt a new word.. "Gilmourish"

Thousands of strings broken after this video.

David Gilmour is one of my favorite guitarists of all time, his sound is so clean.

The Hotel California solo is pretty good bend-practice as well

Hate it when people say "Gilmour's great" but then feel the need to add "but not very flashy" as though that takes away something from him. To me David is the most tasteful player ever, take his solo on Another Brick in the Wall, to me his choice of notes is flawless, it's personally my favourite solo by any guitarist ever. Good video 👍

That Another Brick in the Wall bend broke my B string many, many times...

What I sense is why people appreciate Gilmor's "Sound" is because it emulates right to the soul of our heart yearning for an inexpressible feeling of want for understanding our personal experience of the essence of life. "That sound" is an unfulfillable hunger reaching to attain that which we can not describe.

Playing anything Gilmour on 10s is how you turn your calluses to concrete

I really enjoy your analysis of Gilmore's technique, especially because of your admirable diction and vocabulary. It's great to hear someone speak who KNOWS how to speak. I hope to find more of your vids. Thanx!

If you find you’re breaking strings or hearing “tings” on bends, adding lubrication to the strings’ contact points to the guitar will solve this. (Bridge saddles, nut and string trees)

Gilmour's so genius in the control of the bends like the legendary EDV with the Taping.

For my money, David Gilmour played some of the best crafted solos ever recorded. His guitar was such a clean wailing sound that had so much soul in the delivery. The solos were melodic and built up from simple to more complex. They had swells and cool down moments. The solos were just as expressive as the singing.

Shit, I LOVE David Gilmour!!!! Get chills every time I hear his guitar work, even all these years later.

7:56 tu di du weee yuuu

Gilmour is THE example of superseding tons of flashy notes with one, gigantic soulful bend/note(s)/vibrato.

What gets me with these bigger bends is in some older songs he seems to start the notes pre-bent, but in tune, which is hard to nail

Man, I've been playing guitar for 20 years. I consider myself to be pretty good. Not great by any means. But I just wanted to say that I've learned so much from you over the last few months (that's when I decided to actually learn theory and started looking online) I had already been doing most of this, just not knowing exactly what I was doing. It opened a whole new world actually knowing what I'm doing now. Anyway, thanks for all you do. I can't get enough.

10:37 guitar didnt seem happy

Gilmour style bends are some of the most amazing sounds I've ever heard :) so simple. so beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

the sound of his fixed bridge saying "I can't take this anymore, I give up" is the best. Springs screaming for help.

I love how much control you have Paul you make it look effortless*-*

I’ve been hoping for a Gilmour video from you for a long time and it certainly did not disappoint! Thanks Paul!

I know this an old video but just wanted to say that I’m amazed at how you never seem to run out of great ideas for each new video. Hope 2020 is your best year ever 🤘🏼

Fabulous tutorial! Excellent teaching, from one excellent performing musician by an excellent teaching musician, thanks so much for this, great sounds and very well explained.

when he said “2 whole step” bend I was amazed. I didn’t know someone could go that far. But when he mentioned the “5 half step bend” I nearly lost it. Gilmour is a true legend

It hurt much more when I tried it on hardtail LP Standard, but when I got Stratocaster 5-semitone bends became much easier. Of course it will take several months to make them accurate and clear, but well... Now I see why David plays mostly Strats.

I've been playing for 15 years, and I still find your videos interesting, you're very, very good, thank you for your passion, man.

Watched a ton of your videos. What i really appreciate about your skill set is that you play EVERYTHING! I’ve learned a ton of acoustic ballads from your channel and now this. So cool. Thanks and Happy New Years from flyover country 🇺🇸!

Why am I watching this? I don't know even know how to play guitar

I am completely happy when I can play a David Gilmour riff, COMPLETELY HAPPY! Great video!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its the tone that he gets from his effects, and knowing exactly how tightly to bend the string that makes his playing so good if you ask me. Its so delicate, but so sharp sounding at the same time.

In a word, i would say bending adds a "haunting" sound to the piece. outstanding video!

One of my favourite guitar players, not the fastest player but he has a unique sound, lovely tone and phrasing

The band-aids in the opening sequence cracked me up. How can there be 477 thumbs down on this video? I dont understand people.

There are so many magical moments that have emerged from Dave's guitar, but to me the one that still brings a tear to my eye is that opening guitar solo for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" you started with. It's so incredibly emotional, especially when you know the full story of the man about whom the entire song was written.

Love this guy. Such high quality and useful vids. Great explanations.

Gilmour used to do this thing in some of his live shows that I always thought was interesting. I think he was bending a string, and then doing a hammer on up the string with his pinky while the string was still bent. I could never recreate the sound, but he does it during the live version of On the Turning Away.

This was like watching a documentary - i feel so intrigued about the electric guitar now awesome vid

Wow Paul! You really focus on the details of guitar playing! This is great! It'll help with so many guitarists out there!

You are such a great mentor! Your videos keep showing me why I'm practicing!

That intro to shine on is so recognizable that you can play those few notes without the rest of the track, with different tone, and you'd still instantly know what is it. It's crazy.

To all y'all complaining about bending pain: focus on your acoustic for a year or so and see what happens! You'll be a bending boss!

One of the best explanations and demonstrations of bending that I've ever seen. Freeze at 10.56 and see one of the dangers when starting to learn to bend. Paul avoids hurting himself, but if a string rides over your lead finger, it can hurt like hell if it slips and cuts into the hyponychium beneath the edge of a nail or the lunula where the nail joins the skin. When Peter Green returned and started playing again with the Splinter Group, I attended one of his first performances. He tried Green Manalishi but wasn't yet in full control and that happened to him.

Fantastic musician who played one of the best solo’s of all time (Comfortably Numb, second solo). His bending is phenomenal. Just improvised to a backing track of this song. I cannot stand in his shadow but it’s very much fun to do. Greetings from Holland

Yes! My favourite youtube tutor covering my favourite guitar player! Love it. Goed bezig gast!

Thank you, great tutorial. My all-time favorite lead of Gilmour is Time. Iconic lead! Allot of people miss the starting gun :)

Love your tutorials! One of the best online guitar channels on KZfaq by far.

that shine on intro solo makes me think of somebody talking while crying, weeping or sthg. idk, i just get that feeling every time.

5:05 "It's lovely."

When I first started playing and taking lessons, I was already a Pink Floyd fan. Then my guitar teacher pointed out just how precise and clean his playing is and I had a whole new appreciation for him. Learning his songs was really fun.

What I love about this channel is that I've been playing 20+ and it really helps me with tiny little techniques that I immediately realize I'm not very good at. Gilmour is my favorite guitarist of all time because of his ability to take two notes, bends and harmonics to create a rediculous amount of color. This bending seems simple, but it not only takes some strength and a great deal of precision.

Good Instructions Paul ...Detailed enough and not over Talked and Layman's Terms .. Keep it up 👍

Been playing along with your video for a while now and I'm already onto my third G-string of the day! She said it makes me look more feminine though, which is always good.

Been playing guitar for 10 years now and listening Floyd for 11, never knew this secret of bending. Thanks Paul, you’re always enlightening.

Watching such a great guitar player like Paul struggle with this gave me a whole new respect for Gilmour.

Always a wonderful demonstration, Paul....

Only time I had bloody fingers was when I started learning SRV and insisted on using his setup and strings as I was told. Brutal.

I just found that video, 2 years after you loaded it, but I thought I might still give a small contribution. One of Gilmour's secrets for his well known bending, in my humble opinion, is also in the strings he use. He has a personal gauge (made by GHS, but it can be done with every brand buying single strings) that is based on 010, but with smaller B and G strings (012 and 016) to allow a more confortable bending, and scaled up to 048 to give to the strat a bit more low end. I tried once and adopted since then, for me they are a very clever set on a strat. I hope this info can be useful, keep on doing your videos, they're always very interesting and, in this rough world, eventually "elegant".

Love your work - entertainment & education at its best! Thanks very much!

great lesson with some badass playing for kicks. Shine on brother and thanks for posting!

Hye Paul, i like the sound of your strat !! Great

i could listen to those 3 tone floyd bends all day

I just discovered you man you’re definitely a good guitar KZfaqr just based on the 3 videos I’ve seen, subscribed

Very nice! That Strat is on point . Thanks for the video!

I'm a simple man, I see David Gilmour, I give a thumb up

Out of all the great guitar gods - Hendrix, SRV, Clapton, you name it - nobody used bends as satisfyingly and as musically as David Gilmour. He really set the bar for bending strings. I would say that really nailing bends is one of the things that almost every guitarist should be practicing way more than they actually are. It’s such a massively impactful sound when it’s executed well and it can turn a bland lick into something amazing.

This is AWESOME! You, sir, are an EXCELLENT explainer of the art - a teacher extraordinaire! I would even venture to say that you are as masterful an instructor as Gilmour is a guitarist!

Great video, new subscriber and really digging your channel. David is the man.

About four years ago, David told me he uses GHS Boomers 8.5 - long time endorser of GHS, he said these strings bend with minimal effort on his arthritic fingers.

Me: *Tries to do 2 whole step bends on the high E string Also Me: *Googles, "How to remove a guitar string from finger"

Your vids are great, been playing for a while and lost my musical mojo...but you are making me love guitar again.

You have a very good voice at explaining things . Thankyou

7:44 That moment when your finger nail gets polished by the third string. I've been there my brother!

I play the "another brick" bend differently. I bend up a whole step from c to d on the b string and then I slide up 2 frets while bending up another whole step simultanously. Then I add the last halfstep bend. Sounds dead on like the original. If I try it the way you demonstrated the note frets out because of the 7,25" radius of my strat.

Thanks a lot Paul for this wonderful and priceless bending demonstration...🤘🙏😎

Truly awesome... thank you for doing this 👍🏻

I’ve listened to his technique for years THE ONLY QUESTION . WHAT IS HIS PROCESS ? Just amazing simple slow notes that say so much a magician of notes .

David Gilmour is 💖

The track In Any Tongue from Rattle That Lock has the most incredible string bend and tone at the start of the solo, it makes my hair stand on end, when he hits the note.

Wow. Really good instructional video. Soloing like this is the reason started learning. Gilmour tone and style is my no1 goal.

Insane bends. I think I'll need a bodybuilder's fingertips for this.

True story: I'm just getting into bending strings at the age of 61. Why? Well I was self taught starting at age 13. At @age 21 I started taking lessons from a well known jazz guitarist. To get things started I had him play a basic am7/d9 progression while I soloed over it. As soon as I bent a string on my Les Paul, he stopped and started laughing and said "I knew you were going to do that!". Heavy sigh... I went from thinking he would be impressed to, well, humble. In reality, he probably in that lesson proved I wouldn't cut it professionally. You have to have thick skin, especially on gigs where people are ignoring you while they're just trying to get laid on a Friday night while you're playing your ass off. I did realize while I would say I could play well, I also knew there was a huge step to great. It's one thing to be able to copy someone like David Gilmour for example, it's another thing to BE a player of that caliber. I've also come to realize that you don't necessarily have to be able to keep up with a SRV (great if you can!), but there are a lot of guitarists who sound great without displaying virtuosity every time they pick up a guitar. The right notes, chords or progressions or as my guitar teacher would say when he heard something he liked, "choice".

Excellent Video, Brilliant Playing 👍👍👍. Thank you. Take care. Melbourne, Australia.

Sound of backings are incredible. Thx for lesson

"Sounds pretty friggin awesome", should be all it says in your 'About' section.

I can honestly feel my B string snap just by imagining it.

David Gilmour and Brian May are my two favorite benders in the industry. Just the right vibrato speed and depth. So good!

Gilmour is my favorite of all time hands down. Smartest player and by far has the best tone in my opinion. Awesome video!