The Great Gig in the Sky Guitar Chords - Pink Floyd

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In this video guitar lesson, I will show you all of the chords originally performed on the piano in this Pink Floyd classic, arranged for the guitar.

This haunting chord progression actually works quite well on the guitar and isn't too difficult to play. We can't really get all of the individual melody lines played on the piano in addition to the chords, but these parts only happen a couple of times.

This is a great chord exercise that when you get it under your fingers, can have almost a meditative quality about it. It is a wonderful study on how you can be very creative yet still very musical if you choose to experiment a little bit with your chord progressions.

I teach this lesson on a standard tuned acoustic guitar, but it can sound great on an electric guitar as well. One thing you could do if playing this on electric guitar is to add some cool effects to the sound to help the ethereal vibe of the original piano come out.

Keyboardist Richard Wright really had one of his best moments with "The Great Gig In The Sky". The gorgeous chord progression created a great backdrop for the improvised vocal track made by Clare Torry. In fact, if you are jamming with another guitarist, it would probably be really cool to have one of you play this progression while the other improvises over it in the same style as the original vocals. Just a thought.

In any case, I hope you guys enjoy playing this standout track from Pink Floyd's incomparable The Dark Side Of The Moon.

Carl...

[JJ]

For those struggling with the second chord, the second chord is much easier to play if you play at the 8th fret on the A string 9th fret D string 10th fret G string and 10th fret B string.

[quinkerbags]

What a superb run through, humble, informative and to the point ...and musically pleasing. What's amazing about this video is that Carl is so comfortable in his musical world that he has no problem showing us some really sloppy guitar fingerings. At first glance my guitar ego reared up and said ...'Geez, he's playing so sloppy, maybe he's just ;earming guitar!' Yea right. Then I realised that the point of the video was to show us the chord fingerings of this song, not to show us what an unbelievable guitarist Carl is. It's such a pleasure running through this with him because of his attitude. A look at his other vids reveals a supreme virtuoso who can basically do anything on a guitar. Nice one dude.

[TheJanvicgwaps]

Ooohh woaooahhh oohhh oohhh waoooaaaahh hahaha

[charlescaldwell]

You're generally my first port of call for guitar problems. Not only do they sound accurate but you seem to have great taste in your choices of tracks.
A great service . Thanks.

[WaisNoah]

For any of you having trouble playing the second chord (like me), you can try A8-D9-G10-B10

[nieze]

Love the Zep and Floyd lessons my man. Keep them coming

[JSGH-JOE]

Awesome! Perfect fit for my level..(very challenging but accesible), .

Perfect format!! Excellent teacher/lesson.
Ive got a month to learn it. THANK YOU!!!

[СергейБолотов-шз]

Can you make Echoes please? It's one of the most awesome Pink Floyds songs

[petergordon]

hes a great teacher slow and easy and always calm and always repeats love it I learned alot Pink Floyd from you

[djmixnmarcg]

Great video Carl I can't say enough. I've always wanted to play this song and you made it easy as hell once again. Thanks

[captainsun]

Great idea to do a guitar lesson on this lovely chord progression by Richard Wright. Thanks.

[marcbudicin]

Hey Carl, I don't know whats been going on lately but we just lost Glenn Frey. Please do some Eagles lessons in tribute of him.

[Mattchoids]

Your knowledge of Floyd music is incredible. Thanks for the lessons

[Drons-xemy]

You are the best maestro at showing guitar thank you for the time you put on doing these amazing tab videos appreciate thanks 🙏

[alessandromariani]

Thanks Carl, very interesting chords.

[firstlag]

What smooth chords they are.
Great lesson Carl. Thanks mate.

[keiferreefer]

yeah, nice tune, I watched the piano tutorial and tried to match that, don't always have a piano around, but always a guitar, this song is serious soul food

[darrenjones]

If you wanna learn the Floyd and properly, Carl is your man. How about a 5am tutorial Carl. Lovely Gilmour solo that

[Freemich]

For anyone who trying to play this song on guitar i'd recommend try to play under(? my engl isn't perfect) live versions of this song. Particularly good 1972-09-22 gig. Just superb! Thank you for lesson. I'll go and Jam the hell out of this tune!

[dimitrisgakis]

amazing composition, Rick Wright immortalized