Shine on.. "the four notes"

Duncan wrote: Isn't this a reference to the 4-note-long guitar theme that first appears at about 4:00? Dum dum dum duuumm, etc

Of course! No particular 'significance' to those notes other then Gilmour liked them, they have become totemic and Pink Floyd being great structuralists in their composition, those notes do reappear in different guises throughout the whole oiece. However don't expect any great mathematical extrapolations a la Bartok, Beethoven or Wagnerian Leitmotifs. Just four great notes!!!

Duncan wrote: Isn't this a reference to the 4-note-long guitar theme that first appears at about 4:00? Dum dum dum duuumm, etc

Those are simply the first notes the guitar plays in the song. Just wait until you hear a guitar, should be simple enough even for untrained musicians.

Edit: Forgot the noodling (first guitar solo) ... It's the first four notes of importance, after the noodling subsides.

Cool storie behind the notes,

Floyd was trying to think of new album material and had nothing, so David was jamming in the studio just randomly playing stuff, and the rest of the band liked it so they decided to keep it and each of them added stuff to Dave's "jam". Once Shine on was made and had its structure,lyrics, and all the rest of the song was made they were rehearsing, and, just like all good things in life they came across the "4 notes" accidentally.

Dave was playing as usuall with everyone else and the part with the "4 notes" was supposed to be a 4 note guitar chord. He messed it up and it accidentally played 4 sepperate notes instead of 1 chord and everyone liked it so they kept it and put it in the song and gave its own movement and named it "Syd's Theme". This was one of the movements to the song Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

Deffinettly one of those things in life that was "meant to happen" because who hasn't heard those 4 notes in their life and said to themself's "Wow, that is really cool, I like that, the Floyd sure know how to follow up a masterpiece album like Darkside."?

I know I said that after I heard it, actually for some reason I thought it was "The best way to describe life." Those 4 notes really made me think how good life was and how important it was, guess it's just that moving.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Those are simply the first notes the guitar plays in the song. Just wait until you hear a guitar, should be simple enough even for untrained musicians.

The first four notes... apart from the whole of the first guitar solo!