Ok, here's one of the great songs. Quite easy to play actually, unless you're gonna solo like a madman of course. The solos are too difficult for me to tab so if anyone's interested in writing them up, please do!
Anyways here it is:Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Verse:
Bm A
Hello, is there anybody in there?
G Em Bm
Just nod if you can hear me, is there anyone at home?
Bm A
Come on now, I hear you're feeling down,
G Em Bm
Well, I can ease the pain, and get you on your feet again.
Bm A G Em
Relax, I need some information first, just the basic facts,
Bm
Can you show me where it hurts.
Chorus:
D A
There is no pain you are receding.
D A
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
C G
You are only coming through in waves,
C G
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying.
D A
When I was a child, I had a fever,
D A
My hans felt just like two balloons,
C G
Now I've got that feeling once again,
C
I can't explain, you wouldn't understand,
G
This is not how I am,
A C G D
I _____ have become comfortably numb.
Solo 1. Over these chords:
D A D A C G C G
A C G D
I _____ have become comfortably numb.
Verse:
Bm A G Em
Ok, just a little pin prick, there'll be no more [ahahaa],
Bm
But you may feel a little sick. Can you stand up?
Bm A G Em
I do believe its working, good. That'll keep you going through the show.
Bm
Common its time to go.
Chorus:
D A
There is no pain you are receding.
D A
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
C G
You are only coming through in waves,
C G
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying.
D A
When I was a child, I cought a fleeting glimpse,
D A
Out of the corner of my eye,
C G
I turned to look but it was gone,
C
I cannot put my finger on it now.
G
The child is grown, the dream is gone,
A C G D
And I _____ have become comfortably numb.
Solo 2
Thanks for posting this! I have been playing around with it and I think that an overdriven electric guitar seems to sound wonderful for those chords!
Rob
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Thanks yashimacat.
I just found a lesson by David Hodge on walking bass lines where he uses this song as an example.
https://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=609
Cool, thanks. I've been working on the solo's, got the first one down pretty good, still lots of work to do on the second one. I've been looking for a descent version of the rhythm.
Rock on!
:D wow this was actually an easy song ... how easy? Easy enough that I made a video in time for any of you aspiring life-of-the-party types lol to learn for the holidays ...
I am throwing in some basic barre (or at least as much as my stubby little fingers will let me) chords, mostly barre A for when my ear is telling me to go UP from D ... and also I do a little segue at the start with A minor barre to B minor barre (which I think is what it does on the recording :roll: ) before going into the first Bm of the verse. Solo needs work obviously :oops: but definitely feel like I'm challenging my acoustic limits 8)
What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's really all about?
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Heres a lot of backing tracks for Pink Floyd songs:
http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=64
I think the song Mother should be on this index too.
Hi I'm a newbie, can this song be played on an acoustic? and would sound alright? apart from the solo of course. :lol:
Thanks Daza.
Actually this song has a little D chord with the bass at F# ( F#/D is it ? ) in between G and Em but thats optional, sounds better with that though ^_^ and its a smooth transition
I wanna be that guy that you wish you were ! ( i wish I were that guy)
You gotta set your sights high to get high!
Everyone is a teacher when you are looking to learn.
( wise stuff man! )
Its Kirby....
Actually this song has a little D chord with the bass at F# ( F#/D is it ? ) in between G and Em but thats optional, sounds better with that though ^_^ and its a smooth transition
That's the way I always play it, too - 200232. It's a D chord - the F# note on the bottom E string, and the A note on the open 5th string, are essential notes in a D chord. D is the root, F# the third, and A the fifth notes in the scale of D major. Usually, when you see a D chord tabbed this way (200232) it's written D/F# to denote that the lowest note played (F#) isn't the root (D) of the chord - they're generally referred to as "slash chords."
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Yep but in normal D chords you do the F# at the high E string and the A somewhere else ( 3rd string ) as to leave the D as the bass note, but I think it sounds better with the added F# and A, and for that song that litle D/F# is like a little detail that just makes the song better, way better.
I wanna be that guy that you wish you were ! ( i wish I were that guy)
You gotta set your sights high to get high!
Everyone is a teacher when you are looking to learn.
( wise stuff man! )
Its Kirby....
Thanks, can't really seem to find a strumming pattern that works well with this song... my rhythm skills are still in the beginner stages :(
