Those who aren’t guitarists should skip this.
Those who don’t believe that "Animals" is the last true Pink Floyd album should pass this by.
Those who find this lesson boring just don’t want to understand.
Yes, because here it’s not about who’s better or worse (at a Jeff Beck concert – the greatest after Jimi – Gilmour said to Jimmy Page: I don’t even see this guy) but about understanding what you can do with a pentatonic scale.
Which is a scale of disarming simplicity: even you, if I gave you a couple of lessons, would be able to play it.
But no.
It’s fucking five notes, that’s why it’s called "pentatonic."
The other two missing, however, make the Blues.
They are the minor seventh and the fourth, which in Jazz becomes the thirteenth.
Little David is super clean, almost didactic: a perfectionist of "bending," that is, pulling a string upwards while playing it only once, but that’s not what makes him great; it’s the "flavor" he gives to his strings.
It’s called "synesthesia," a rhetorical figure meaning the mixing of different senses.
Like "a warm color," for you illiterates. L'Assolo più difficile di David Gilmour detto: disarmante: didascalico: