Slough | Learn Guitar With David Brent

One of the major facets of Brent as a character is that he does have talent. If every song really was purely comedic it would be harder to empathise with Brent as a character. Gervais subtly draws out many loveable characteristics of Brent, i.e. his longing to be liked, his awkward understanding of political correctness and his persistence even when excessively mocked. Songs such as this just further highlight the depth of Brent.

Definitely my favorite Brent tune! Not only is it funny, catchy and a genuinely good song, but its also quite lovely. It makes me think about someone who lives somewhere mundane but loves it anyway because its there home.

I actually like this song. Gervais is a genius.

"It's equidistant between London and reading" - what a great line!

This song is beautiful. The chorus gives me chills. It doesn't really matter if it's supposed to be funny; clearly it's full of love.

David Brent really shines on this one. Echoes of Bowie and Dylan abound. His voice is much underrated, much like Grohl, Astley and Barlow.

Brent starts this off but you can definitely see Ricky get lost in it towards the end and let the song take over him. Beautiful

I can't stop watching this, his expressions are amazing and he plays nicely aswell

Giddy Up! David, your guitar lessons are a tremendous help and inspiration for all of us guitar players. Please keep the lessons and performances coming. Thanks so much.

Another classic example of perfectly poised and well balanced humour and talent!

love that Am minor and soft vocal change in the chorus!... That's a really beautiful tune

I love the chord changes, what a chorus!

David Brent seems to cover just about all the guitar techniques in his videos -his teaching videos are enormous in number and great in quality

I could watch this with no sound and Brents expressions alone would keep me in belly laughs alone - brilliant.

He's basically a chilled out entertainer

Amazing song and beautifully sung!

Just so brilliant. Could watch a hundred times.

Excellent episode, this series just gets better and better! I was very skeptical of Ricky returning to the role of Brent after all those years but he's proving he's still got it.

I cannot get enough of your voice! Love you Ricky (^_^)

4:54 :
"Don't listen to what the critics say"
That is Brent and Gervais-esque/philosophy.
Love it.

I want to thank David so much for these guitar tutorials my guitar playing has improved a lot.

actually a great song, good lyrics, good playing, good singing

He needs to put these songs onto an album, they're hilarious yet insanely catchy!

Another great lesson , always brings a smile to my face :) great stuff. Thank you

Literally stuck in my head whenever I pass junction 6 on the M4... it's driving me crazy, great song haha!

all kidding and funny stuff aside...this man has really got it going on!

You can hear the Bowie influence...lovely song!

Love Ricky Gervais humour and love the songs - I cant help but feel there’s a lot of Brent in Ricky and Ricky in Brent! I don’t know if Gervais would admit that ..also Ricky has raw talent and although I love the funny aspect I would also love to hear a genuine album by him without hiding behind the humour! The feel of the guitar playing and the way he uses his voice is actually just as listenable as cat Stevens or David Bowie 😀😀😀

Yet another excellent edition to the series. Looking forward to the next one (",)

Wonderful song writing David. Love your videos. :)

i am playing Ricky's songs to Thai people, luckily they dont understand the lyrics but they love the tunes.

Loving this series! We need a Brent Album!

Finally the recognition it deserves. Thank you Brent, beautiful.

I really love those lyrics. Thank you for doing these videos. They are awesome. I love them.

So great to revisit Mr. Brent. He keeps on giving. Many thanks to Ricky for these.

Great series! You really inspire me to play guitar! I think you are awesome and an amazing gitarist. Keep em coming lad ;)

Gervais is an amazing actor, you can tell he spent those years in that office just watching people. His line about "Mammogram" and "sexual assault" is so perfect. He feels angry that Mammogram has let the band down by sexually assaulting someone. (18 months is a pretty serious offence too, the nickname tells us it's groping someone's tits). Brent doesn't care about the victim, just about the band. You can tell he has thought about letting Mammogram back in, but he knows it's not good publicity, but he's not sure exactly why. It's like racism. He knows it's bad but he doesn't know why. He lives in his tiny bubble in Slough.
Gervais's line about the dad with the kids isn't funny, because Gervais doesn't have any kids and doesn't understand that no father thinks like that. No father would ever think "kill me now" no matter how much his kids are annoying him.
But when Gervais is talking about something he knows, he is always spot on.

'oh Slough, my kinda town.
I don't know how anyone could put you down'
Great lyrics!

Ever since I saw The office, Slough has become one of my goals whenever I go to England. I've never been there so there's a lot to see -_-

You know you love this channel when you never skip the intro!

Wow Ricky, I love your voice and guitar playing :)

Well, thank you Mr Brent for the free lessons, I've learned a lot today :)

Genuinely such a great song!

This is amazing as is everything ricky dose!! :) brilliant song with classic Brent and its dead sweet how he looks dead serious but not to much so. Would have ended up making me cry if there had been a tear like I cried when David cried about being made redundant :'(

Thank you David, for the opportunity and continued support in the music-related arena, but I've done that, I wanna better myself, I wanna move on. Can you make that dream come true, to, AKA, for me?

Loving the tune ya twonk, keep the good stuff coming!

Thank you Ricky what a beautiful song ! This guy has talent double threat

Loving the series, keep it up Ricky!

This was actually beautiful

I was really surprised by how good his singing voice is, he's a pretty good singer and I love all of his podcasts and his radio shows

Great song Ricky, this time no sarcasm, shock or awe, just a sincere love for your Slough and man.....You can sing....!!!!! Thank You for making my life a little more bearable !!!!!

Genius, multi-talented, entertaining mastermind. Never give up Ricky!!!

This is my favourite yet! Thanks David.

Hahaha the best one yet! The emotion in his eyes is priceless!

Absolutely brilliant! The best song so far.

I love how engaged he is in the song when he's playing it hahaha

This is definitely my favourite song so far!

It was a bit slougher paced than his other songs

This song is truly beautiful ! The office is the funniest show ever btw ;)

The actual melody and chord structure is really beautiful.

This song is fucking brilliant. The other ones are more humouristic but this has a great mood to it.

This song is so well written, he is very talented. He sounds like he is influenced by David Bowie in this song. Love it.

this one has been my favorite so far!

Ricky's a pretty good song writer I'd love to see him right a really serious one. The chorus in this one is great for example.

Love it Ricky. Great song!

I almost forgot it was fiction and got psyched when he said hes looking for band mates. Im too old for that to keep happening

That Martin is a beautiful instrument... I'd love to jam with David Brent

Beautiful song ! listen to it everyday.. thx mr. Brent ;)

Apparently David Bowie loved this song..

I keep coming back just to listen to the song, it's really quite beautiful

Ok, this man is a genius. And a great musician!

Best one so far, thanks David!

Absolutely Flabulous!

It's just the way he holds the guitar in the still photo.. gets me every time.

These are great, release an album!

I'd like to see this one released as a single. I can see David in the video, walking around the street(s?) Of Slough in the cold grey morning, greeting it's people like the celebrity he is. Make it so David!

I'm in Slough right now, on the Bath Road! Holy cow...
Loving it!

Love these you need you to release an album haha

Very touching. I love it towards the end, starts to remind me of the best bits of James Blunt, One Direction and a 1960s folk group with hairy pits.

My favourite of this series David. It really needs a video.

It's pretty clear he's a legitimately talented musician also.

YEPP!! We NEED a Brent album for sure!!

I actually like this song....alot.

Genius so clever the lyrics are amazing

this is so great. I like this series alot.

Brilliant! You've got Hillingdon the other way! I'd jam with you any day.

That was surprisingly moving lol...he's awesome

Seldom is the word "equidistant " used in a song. I've been trying to work the words "Boolean logic" and "polynomial" into songs for months.

The intro really cracks me up where he knows when the cameras are switching and his head slowly turns. That slow head turn with the cameras makes me literally laugh out loud every time.

If you're looking for a backing band my group would love to help you out! Loving your work Mr. Gervais

love you ricky! so funny.... one of the best parodies ;)

Please release these songs on a David brent album!

Brett Anderson would be proud of this song. Great tune!

Great sounding tune Brent!!

The chorus actually has such a good melody!

It's really an excellent song..well done Ricky

This is my favorite song so far!

You defiantly need to do a tour with this music! Brill stuff.

Love you Ricky, you are a comedy hero!

GENIUS AT WORK.