I lost the battle with this one a few times before on the first few bars.
Luckily I am stubborn, so I took that as a challenge and after two BLIMs (almost) my bending and vibrato improved enough.
Apart from the first few bars, I didn’t know the rest and transcribed it first. That helped tremendously in getting the melody and phrasing in my head. I got ~95% of the notes right, but probably only ~50% of the fingering. DG bends strings in very awkward ways here and I missed most of that. Great learning and I stole some licks.
great work on those bends! bends are a huge work in progress for me. my instructor got me started on them, but I think some of my questions/challenges challenged HIS teaching/troubleshooting skills. lol. I seem to be good at doing that.
and your tone sounds really close to the original song. most of what you “missed” sounds totally intentional for your own artistic reasons. way to own that solo!
Really well done overall! Love that song and solo.
But since you’re asking for feedback these are my suggestions for things to still work on:
Your bends were generally quite accurate (well done, very hard to do) but a few were still off pitch. So keep working on those This solo is great for that.
Vibrato: I noticed you have a very fast vibrato. It’s very difficult to do a slow and still controlled vibrato (especially without a whammy bar, which David Gilmour uses a lot) but this is IMO the key to playing with the feel and emotion that a solo like this needs. Try practice doing vibrato with intention. By that I mean that vibrato is not simply “wiggle the hand/finger to get some movement on the note”, but something you can do in time with the underlying music, Sometimes fast, sometimes slower. Sometimes (often) the most professional sound is to bend up to the target note, hold it there for a short while… and then start applying vibrato towards the tail end of the bend.
Technique wise I notice that your fast vibrato actually is a vibrato, but with very little note movement (ex 0:31 and 0:44). But when you go for a slow vibrato you end up shaking the entire guitar instead of actually moving the fretted note (ex. 0:41 and 0:51). I would suggest a focused practice on vibrato - start with non-bent notes, just working on different vibrato tempos… and only when you can do that, try it on bended notes (much harder).
Kasper, thank you so much for watching, analysing and providing a great feedback. I appreciate it a lot! Such great insights, especially points around vibrato. I have this now in my head and will definitely work to improve it further as you suggested.
That’s a real dreamer Boris. Bravo.
Wonderfully perceptive and detailed feedback from @Kasper so more to finesse not just this but your overall play - which has improved massively.
! There are some killer bends in it, so well done for tackling those!
This solo is great for that.