David Gilmour knows he’s not a guitar “gymnast”.

David Gilmour spoke about how he deals with his lack of speed, echoing what the Oasis guitarist recently expressed Noel Gallagherthat lightning speed isn’t necessarily the pinnacle of talent.

The guitarist of Pink Floyd he released his latest solo record, “Luck and Strange,” earlier this year, deeming it his best work. According to Gilmour the record is full of the slow, focused solos on which he built his reputation and revealed that his playing style was influenced by his limitations on the electric guitar.

“I didn’t have huge speed on the guitar,” he says in a new interview with American Youtuber Rick Beato. “There were years when I was younger when I thought I could get better and faster if I practiced enough. But that never actually happened.”

Accepting that he would never be a top-flight keyboard gymnast, he looked to other influential guitarists, such as Hank Marvinlover of the Stratocaster of the Shadowsto get inspiration. “In the ’60s, Hank only played one tune, and I guess I came from there,” he says. “I just want to play a beautiful melody!”.

His response comes at the prompting of the interviewer who spoke about a phenomenon he saw on his YouTube channel and which he classified as the “Gilmour Effect”.

Every time he has a shredding superstar as a guest on his channel (the style that involves phrases with a high technical content and speed with a high level of difficulty) he receives a series of comments from fans who say they prefer the more “lyrical” approach of Gilmour on guitar, compared to incendiary speed.