

It was aimed at Sir Jimmy Young, the then BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 DJ who the band supposedly disliked because of his tendency to babble. The threatening lyric, a rare vocal contribution by Nick Mason, was recorded through a ring modulator and slowed down to create an eerie effect.

For live versions, the 'fade in' part was played on a Farfisa organ. The distinctive keyboard accents on this track are composed of three components: A Hammond organ forms the 'fade in', followed by a "Stab" composed of a second Hammond organ with percussion stop, overdubbed with an acoustic piano fed through a Leslie speaker, as was also used on " Echoes". The piece is in B minor, occasionally alternating with an A major chord. This riff was first created by David Gilmour on guitar with effects, then Roger Waters had the idea of using bass instead of guitar, so they recorded the song on two different bass guitars. Pink Floyd would again use this technique on the bass line for " Sheep". The result of this setting is: if the player plays simple quarter notes, the added echoes will produce a pattern of quarter note – eighth note, quarter note – eighth note. The predominant element of the piece is that of a bass guitar played through a delay ( Binson Echorec) unit, set to produce repeats in quarter-note triplets. It's only a suggestion and it's also close to the original song but if youre having a hard time and you don't want to use it feel free to ignore this part.Fender 'Duo 1000' double-neck steel guitar (1962), purchased in Seattle in October 1970 by David Gilmour, and used on 'One of These Days' displayed at the Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains exhibition The said pattern is only applicable up to this ( ~~ ) sign in the chorus then you can continue with the patternD DU DU D 4x [Note: In this part the strumming pattern is split in to two parts for example: G chord is played with the pattern D DU DU D 3x only then switch to D chord played with the pattern D DU DU D 1x only. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image. Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines.

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