Gilmour isn’t up there to cram as many techniques and notes into a song as he can. He simply makes his guitar sing, and he always does so in a tasteful manner that gives absolute maximum emotional feel to the song. He is a master.

Hey Rick, I've gotta leave you some honest feedback here. This is the second 30-minute video where the title was something interesting and then you never talked about it. I put the video on 2x speed and waited for you to talk about The Gilmour Effect or the Shredders are Boring argument. You mentioned it for like 2-3 minutes and then the entire rest of the video was nothing but you reading off a list of virtuosos. I'm at 24 minutes and I'm just going to close the video now. I love your What Makes This Song great videos, but if your other videos are just going to have clickbait titles with zero actual content then I'm just not going to watch them. I might give another one a shot in a few weeks but ... I doubt you'll see this, drowned in a sea of comments.

I've always thought Gilmour can make you feel more with 3 notes than some shredders can with 300

Dave Mustaine said: 'David Gilmour could do more with one note than today's shredders can do with a dozen'

I'd have to throw in Mark Knopfler as a virtuoso. He never plays anything twice the same, invents himself with every album release. Mike Oldfield is another, like Gilmour, has every note in every song that belongs there. Both Gilmour and Oldfield never wasted a note and both opened and filled spaces in their songs with precision and feeling.

I’ll take ten seconds of Gilmour over ten minutes of the best shredder any day. 💀🔥

David Gilmour is simply one of the greatest guitarists ever! shredders bore me to tears.

How to talk about David Gilmour without talking about David Gilmour😅

I’ve said this for years: David Gilmour never played a note that didn’t belong where he played it. 🎸 That is all🤙🏽

Some shredders are boring, some shredders are Dimebag

Gilmour plays like a poet writes. It is really loquacious in ability because it is from the soul as an inspiration that a poet is inspired to write about. He is also a very humble person.

I think it was B. B. King who once said: "It's not about the notes you play, it's all about the notes you don't play". I have kind of a split relationship to virtuosoes. It's OK if somebody can play technically perfect, but lots of those musicians forget the emotions, they forget, that music shall move people. Playing fast goes for posers. If you want to make music, emotion is everything. Gilmour is one of the best in creating solos, that move people. Just look at reaction-videos ("first time hearing...") to "Comfortably Numb", people are crying, when hearing those solos for the first time. That's, in my humble opinion, is what music is about. ;)

““Music is the space between the notes.”

David's guitar is like an extension of his soul. Romantic and sincere.

Am the only one getting the irony of rick asking why there's a slight echoe at the beginning of a video called "the Gilmour effect"?

David Gilmour comes from another planet....

This is an example. The most amazing guitar playing I ever saw was at the Ryman a few years ago when Vai, Satriani, Wylde, Malmsteen, and Bettencourt played a show together. I was in awe. That said, by the time the last act got on stage I was EXHAUSTED. My brain was on the fritz from processing all the sounds for a couple hours. After that show I didn’t want to listen to any music for a day or two. They’re great but it’s hard to “soak in” shredders like that. It’s like loving a good hot dog but participating in a hot dog eating contest. Too much at once diminishes the enjoyment.

Allan Holdsworth on guitar lesson: "You can't let your fingers dictate what you play. It's your brain that must command your fingers."

What I love about Gilmour's style is that he doesn't overload every single song with overwhelming solos. His style is enjoyable, my ears love it, my body feels it and it's never too much. It's all well balanced. That's why I always go back for more.

Regarding David, what to say... he is unique and unrepeatable, his bending technique, his tremolo, his vibrato, his few effects, his way of playing the pentatonic in an unusual way, his phrasing that flows with love and sweetness, his outstanding voice, his art of composing, his skill in various instruments such as steel guitar, bass, drums, saxophone etc etc and his immense charisma as a person, a great person that I have the privilege of having as a friend along with his wife Polly. Humble and generous man, with huge donations and a life free of luxuries. David is simply David, his guitar speaks directly from his heart and that is why he is capable of making me tear up, as a professional composer this says a lot about him.