One particular spot has always been one of my favorite parts in any song ever, going back into the final chorus of “Feelin’”, he does this descending bar dive like 3x, each time on a lower note than the previous and when I heard that when I was a kid I just thought it was the coolest fuckin’ thing. Still do.
Obviously, there’s tons of killer solos and riffs, but that one part just took that last chorus to a new level for me.
Spent the whole weekend working on a Balance-era preset in my AxeFX and literally just played “7th Seal” over and over again while getting tanked in my studio. As much as I love Ed and VH, I never really learned any of his parts or songs. Not since I was young, anyway. I know I learned “Ain’t Talkin’ About Love” for a band I was in back in high school, but outside of that and maybe a lick or two here and there, I had more fun just listening.
Some stuff I don’t want to ruin the magic with. I learned early on, learning Floyd tunes, that sometimes a song lost some of the wonder/magic when I’d learn it. I remember learning the middle section of Floyd’s “High Hopes” a few months after I started playing and I went right from being so stoked that I was playing what Gilmour did, to being kind of bummed because Gilmour didn’t seem like the superhuman god I always thought him to be. I think I automatically decided not to learn a lot of Ed’s stuff just for that.
