VIDEO LESSON

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This Waters-penned bass riff boils down to just eight notes, all from the B minor pentatonic scale (B D E F# A) and doubled by Gilmour’s Strat bridge pickup running through a Colorsound Power Boost. Watch the video to pick up the sequence of notes (the whole thing stays between the 2nd and 5th frets) and take care to keep a steady seven-count to outline the 7/4 rhythm.

Appears at: 0:12-0:40

Tempo: 125 bpm

Key/scale: B minor pentatonic

Main techniques: Pentatonic phrasing, quarter-tone bends, odd time signature

TG TIP The riff is seven beats long, so remember to keep your internal metronome counting from one to seven.