wern101 I've never really played with bends

Same here. I mostly avoided it coz I couldn't make it sound good. But then I realised that the best guitar sounds come from great bends. Most of my favourite solos are coz of the tasty bends.

I'm pretty sure I still suck but I work at bends a lot more now and I'm having way more fun.

As for distortion and wah, not needed at all. Granted, bends with wah + distortion sound pretty great but it's a style-thing. You get bends in blues with very little distortion and no wah at all. And then, of course, there's bends on acoustic guitars and bass guitar. They still sound pretty great!

For the bending noobs like me, a little technique tutorial.

He takes FOREVER to get to the point but worthwhile to watch. The lesson starts at around 3 minutes.

NorioDS As for distortion and wah, not needed at all.

I beg to differ. Having watched Mr. Gilmore do his bends I believe that, for this compo, it's a must ?

Wifes comments on my bendy practice this morning:

"Sjoe, maar dit is 'n gesanik"
"Klink of jy 'n kat rasper"

So I guess I still have some work to do.

klaasvakie "Klink of jy 'n kat rasper"

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Ai shame! Sometimes the ones who loves us the most, show it the least ?

wern101 Ohhh, I was just meaning bending. Not specifically for the challenge.

Although I think Gilmour has one or two songs where it's mostly clean tone. Not sure though.

klaasvakie Hahahahaha. I laughed out loud in the office at this. ?

So far the only good thing about this challenge was watching this

I've been trying to work some tasty bends into my playing/riffing.
There's no ways I'm going for that 2 and a half step bend that the clip in the first post talks about...
1. I need my strings to last as long as possible currently.
2. My fingers. lol.

Hopefully I can manufacture some time this weekend to put together an entry!

I don't know about everyone else, but sheesh ...

I've got a bunch of pentatonic noodling with lots of bends in it, but it sounds nothing like David Gilmore. @NorioDS you think we can extend this to Sunday Night? No way am I going to get anything recorded before Thursday night.

Gonna call my entry "Uncomfortably Dumb ..."

Deadline extension is much appreciated!

the extension might work for me to enter something too guys

Great news @klaasvakie & @nick_D01. No pressure but we're depending on you now ?

I was very tempted to try. Been listening to this guy for, well, 40 years at least? And never realized his talent includes bending. So, as mentioned by another, my entry would have been uncomfortably dumb too. But, I have been trying to insert a small bend here and there, to see if it actually improves the general talent-less noodling approximating that song. It might, but one really has to be able to control it. As for 1/2 step, no. Full step? How? If I need a tone higher, use the next fret. Been working a few bends into "Sweet child of Mine" initial solos. As I said, control is the problem. Too much, yuck. Not enough, blah.

Looking forward to the entries!

Whew! I'm glad this is over. I never really managed to sound like Gilmore. I ended up with some pentatonic noodling with a couple of bends thrown in. The backing track came with my amp, and is called "Half Tempo in B" (The same key as Comfortably Numb).

Guitar was a split humbucker in the neck position with a "Comfortably Numb" preset from Line 6. May the force be with me.

Prefer to think of it as "Gilmore inspired?" ?

Congrats fellas ? Seems like this was a tough challenge so just showing up is an achievement in itself!

I'll open voting soon.