Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Learn to sound like famous guitarist David Gilmour of Pink Floyd with this Pink Floyd Style guitar backing track in A minor with lesson and tips about playing style of David Gilmour, scales, arpeggios and licks. Excellent for improvising with the A minor scale and plain shredding over this Pink Floyd jam track. This Q JAM TRACKS *JAM & LEARN* jam track provides a visual representation of the chords and scales in diagrams as they appear in this backingtrack. Extra theoretical information is shown in the video. It is a backing track and tutorial (or lesson) at the same time.
Learn:
- 0:45 Am pentatonic scale
- 1:25 Extending the pentatonic scale
- 1:56 The natural minor scale
- 2:28 Borrowing scales from the 5th degree
- 3:16 The whole-and-a-half step bend
- 3:35 More natural minor scale patterns
- 4:01 Three arpeggios with just one shape!
- 4:38 A minor pentatonic scale patterns
- 5:02 Three David Gilmour trademark licks
- 5:32 Combining the pentatonic scale with the natural minor scale
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It's also a play along video for learning exiting chords.
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Photo David Gilmour:
By deep_schismic @ flickr - flickr.com/photos/7520964@N06/3279080264 - flickr.com/photos/7520964@N06/3279080264/, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1496855
Learn to sound like famous guitarist David Gilmour of Pink Floyd with this Pink Floyd Style guitar backing track in A minor with lesson and tips about playing style of David Gilmour, scales, arpeggios and licks. Excellent for improvising with the A minor scale and plain shredding over this Pink Floyd jam track. This Q JAM TRACKS *JAM & LEARN* jam track provides a visual representation of the chords and scales in diagrams as they appear in this backingtrack. Extra theoretical information is shown in the video. It is a backing track and tutorial (or lesson) at the same time.
Learn:
- 0:45 Am pentatonic scale
- 1:25 Extending the pentatonic scale
- 1:56 The natural minor scale
- 2:28 Borrowing scales from the 5th degree
- 3:16 The whole-and-a-half step bend
- 3:35 More natural minor scale patterns
- 4:01 Three arpeggios with just one shape!
- 4:38 A minor pentatonic scale patterns
- 5:02 Three David Gilmour trademark licks
- 5:32 Combining the pentatonic scale with the natural minor scale
-
It's also a play along video for learning exiting chords.
facebook.com/qjamtracks
twitter.com/qjamtracks
instagram.com/qjamtracks
Photo David Gilmour:
By deep_schismic @ flickr - flickr.com/photos/7520964@N06/3279080264 - flickr.com/photos/7520964@N06/3279080264/, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1496855





![STEVE VAI Trademark licks using WIDE intervals
Learn all about the typical Steve Vai licks that are build around wide intervals like fifths, sixths, sevenths and octave. In this enhanced visual guitar tutorial I explain everything you need to know about these Trademark licks and arpeggios and arpeggios of master guitarist Steve Vai, so you can incorporate it in your improvisation the easy way.
Copyright attribution:
Child with guitar: Pixabay.com / Pexels.com (CCO license)
Monkey: Pixabay.com / Pexels.com (CCO license)
Steve Vai with Frank Zappa: By Eddie Berman - Frank Zappa, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4612527
Steve Vai in Milano: Vento di Grecale [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]
Steve Vai and band: By Vento di Grecale - originally posted to Flickr as [1], CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4052542
Steve Vai with Triple Neck Ibanez Guitar: AlbertoCarrasco [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]
All audio recorded and played by me (Rob van Hal)
Chapters:
0:00 About Steve Vai
0:40 Major 13th lick in Fifths
2:31 Double Octave Lick
4:01 6th interval lick
I use:
Ibanez JEM 7v (www.Ibanez.com)
Ibanez SD GR Bass (www.Ibanez.com)
Takamine GD930 (www.takamine.com)
Castilla Classical Guitars
Rode Microphone
Axe FX II (www.fractalaudio.com)
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