Chord Clinic: How To Play Chords Like Pink Floyd Part 1
(WorldNews Music)

Pink Floyd made use of lengthy chord sequences and surprising key changes. In the first of this two-part Chord Clinic, we go back to the beginning, borrowing ideas from quirky and original songs from the Syd Barrett era, before moving onto the more complex sequences that allowed them to compose tracks of epic durations. Figure 1 Some light palm muting and chugging downstrokes will help make sense of these five chords, which work their way down the guitar. A feature of much of early Floyd is its lack of symmetry; play three bars of A5 and a bar of G5 to make the first four bars. Then play a bar each of F#5 and F5, ending with two bars of E5. This may be a simple eight-bar sequence but...