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Great lesson Justin, thank you. I love Pink Floyd so I am proud being able to play this solo more or less after all!!!
Just one hint when struggling with the double stop part like I did: In the Live at Pompeii Version Mr Gilmour uses Flick offs rather than picking the open G string. I recommend watching with half speed. This helped me a lot.
By the way, Mr Gilmour also does not like to Bend the G String and slides it there…
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Hi working my through WYWH, got the chords and everything else down, working on this solo. Justin says to go to the bending lesson to learn that part, but the bending lesson I found said it’s only for electric guitar, not acoustic? Maybe I’m at the wrong bending lesson? It’s the last part I need to know! Thanks!
The bending technique on acoustic and electric are the same. Acoustic usually takes a bit more force to bend the string because acoustic strings are usually thicker than electric.
Can you link the “electric-only” bending video you are speaking of?
Hey Bill,
Yep, as stated, the mechanics are the same. Generally though, thicker strings on the acoustic though make bending a bit more challenging in certain areas…
With WYWH, the solo bends are down near the nut, so if you’ve got 12s on your acoustic, itcan be a bit of a challenge, but certainly doable. You’ll need to have your bending technique down pretty well, which may take some time.
Having said that, a great song to practice them on, once you get the basic mechanics down.
Cheers, Shane
Yes, but at what cost? In Justin’s tutorial (if I remember correctly), he mentions that he was too lazy to change to lighter gauge strings and after he does the bend, says something like, “ouch, I’m not going to do that again.” 
Actually, this song motivated me to try Ernie Ball Earthwood Rock and Blues strings, which have an unwound G string. That definitely makes the bends in this song accessible.
Yeah, definitely a poor choice of words from Justin when he says it’s an “electric-guitar technique”. Having watched it, it’s clear to me that he mainly wanted to make sure people realize that bending on an acoustic is more difficult and is better practiced on an electric, especially for newer players who are still building hand strength.
Heck, I’ve got a friend who strings all of his electrics with 12’s and he’s a bending machine! But, he’s been playing for 25 years!
Just to comfort the ones struggling with the G-string bending. I saw a part of a documentary with David Gilmour were he plays WYWH and particularly asks to the man that hands him the 6-string acoustic if the G-string was replaced. His usual stringset on the acoustic is Ernie Ball 2004 Acoustic Guitar Earthwood Light.
ive got this more or less down, at half speed. but the flick offs. not happening. is there a lesson for those somewhere? need to get some technique.
I’m new to bends (only just moving into grade 3 now) so am sliding the hard one. the others are ok, helped by the 24" scale on my accoustic. just need to avoid catching my nail when i bend up.
its very exciting to make the guitar do a tune like this, no matter the slowness and quirks/mistakes as i do it.
Grade 3, Module 18
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Thanks Eddie
Hey. Am I right in that the tab for the introduction solo is in a totally different position to what Justin is teaching in the video? Gather it doesn’t matter so much? Thanks all.
Hi Leigh, @Leigh24
do you really mean the solo (because I don’t see anything strange there) or the chords that go with the introduction? because in the latter case you have to press the “transpose” button a few times.
The tabs are still start in the wrong position by default, which can cause some confusion, but it is useful to know the transpose button because very occasionally you will also have to do this somewhere else,
I hope this was what you where asking and this helps ,
Greetings,Rogier