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Dear Guitar Noise,
Hi.ÂÂ I am a freshman in college. I was lollygagging online searching for guitar lessons and I came across your website. I’m primarily self taught where most of my knowledge comes from guitar tabs of songs I like to learn and play, and occasionally from my other friend who is a really good acoustic player (his rendition of Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead is my favorite, he includes a harmonica and everything).But that’s not really the point. On your website, your Pink Floyd page caught my eye and I delved into your Wish You Were Here interpretation, a song which I’ve already learned and consider myself “mastered”, by that I primarily mean I can play through the entire song without any harsh mistakes.After finishing your solo page, I noticed that you do not have the second solo as a lesson, and this bugs me not because of you particularly, but mostly because I cannot find it TABed or written out anywhere. I cannot figure out the whole thing just by ear, so I was hoping if you could help me out.ÂThank you for your time and keep doing what you do!
Hi!
Thanks for writing. We actually do have an arrangement of the second solo of Wish You Were Here at Guitar Noise, but it’s part of the “Guitar Columns” section and not a song lesson, per se. This is because the object was to find a way to be able to play both the first and second solos with one guitar, no mean feat when you consider the first solo is in regular tuning and the second one is done on a Dobro in open G tuning.
Be that as it may, you’ll find that lesson, called Applied Science, here.
As far you not being able to find the second solo anywhere, and heaven help me I know I’m going to sound like a dinosaur for writing this, but it is actually written out in numerous books that contain Pink Floyd music. In fact, they are one band that have a huge amount of their catalogue available in guitar tablature.
Being in college, there’s a good chance that your school’s library may actually have copies of them that you can use at your leisure.
I hope that this helps you out.Â
Peace
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:01 pm
Just a quick comment about Wish You Were Here. If you can make some of it out by ear and can manage to decipher faulty tab a bit you can find the second solo many places. My personal favorite guitar tab site (and this site has all of Wish You Were Here. That’s where I learned it) is Ultimate Guitar Tabs. They have over 30,000 tabs.
Hope this helps
February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:41 pm
Hi Brent
And thanks for the advice. There are certainly many tablature sites out there and between them and the books available (funny how they are, overall, the best choice for any serious guitar student but are usually not even on any guitarist’s radar) you have a lot of resources.
Working out as much as one can by ear, which was by and large how all of our guitar heroes learned to play, is still one’s best option, but most people nowadays think about that even less than books, if that’s possible! That’s a joke, by the way.
Using one’s ear does involve practice and there’s no time like now to get started on it. Eventually you’re going to want to play something that doesn’t have either tablature or music notation anywhere for it, so it can’t hurt to get in practice ahead of time.
Peace