'Run Like Hell' DELAY TIME TUTORIAL Pink Floyd David Gilmour

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David Gilmour's 'Run Like Hell' intro is played with a delay set to dotted 8th notes.

The main challenge- aside from keeping the time- is defining the delay time as dotted 8th notes. Or in other words: finding the tempo of your quarter notes when you want the delay to echo after a dotted 8th note. And that's what this tutorial is all about. Even if you can set your delay to dotted eighth notes via 'tap tempo' you need to be able to do this if you don't want to lose track of your repeats!

First of all, set the repeats back to one, then dial in a medium delay time around 600-800ms for a start.

You want the delayed signal to echo after a dotted eight note, which is as long as three sixteenth notes. So listen to the original and the repeated note and think of them as the first and the fourth of four 16th notes. (Or a dotted eighth note plus a 16th note).
When you've found your tempo, you can start playing all the down beats (quarter notes). It helps if you play them palm muted and very short. I like it best to play downstrokes only.

Then bring up the repeats again and play steady 8th or 16th notes, and there you have it!

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[flobahr]

Sorry it is only about dialing in the delay time... there must be plenty of tutorials on youtube of the actual song.

Best regards, flo

[NIckname59069]

One question.. what is the song you play at 4:52 ?? Is it also Run like Hell ?? It sounds very nice ;)

[flobahr]

@NIckname59069 Thank you- it is something I came up with while I was trying to figure out this dotted 8th delay thing. Regards,

flo

[FloydGGG]

I am somehow hungry for spagetti after watching this, or maybe linguini... :-)

nice job, thanks for the lesson!

[stanculler]

Wow, this was extraordinarily helpful! Thank you!

[palmettoryan]

Great video.  Thanks.

[brendanvandyke]

now thats a shag carpet

[doctorgone]

This is way too complex. This is why people like tap tempo.

[ucilman2]

@NIckname59069

Hello , I can't tell you exactly what is this song (maybe just a demo rif) but it seems like a mix between: SIRIUS and DAYS ARE NUMBERS (for me this song inspired TEARS FOR FEARS for Woman in Chains), by The Alan Parsons Project . If you like sounds with delay listen this group. Some of their tiltles are so good.

I hope you found an answer in these lines. Good play.

Ucilman2

[1Lestat69]

Thanks! This helped me out a lot.

[1982telecaster]

yes but... where is "run like hell" ??

[SaberBE]

nice demo, thanks a lot.

Is that your dog underneath the pedal?