{"id":23633,"date":"2025-01-27T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/?p=23633"},"modified":"2025-01-27T17:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:10:41","slug":"before-studying-his-playing-i-was-doing-a-lot-of-look-how-fast-i-can-play-there-wasnt-that-much-feel-behind-my-music-sophie-lloyd-names-the-guitarist-who-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/2025\/01\/27\/before-studying-his-playing-i-was-doing-a-lot-of-look-how-fast-i-can-play-there-wasnt-that-much-feel-behind-my-music-sophie-lloyd-names-the-guitarist-who-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"“Before studying his playing, I was doing a lot of ‘Look how fast I can play!’ There wasn’t that much feel behind my music”: Sophie Lloyd names the guitarist who overhauled her perspective on what makes a good solo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sophie Lloyd may not be the first person you think of when naming David Gilmour-influenced contemporary guitarists.<\/p>\n

However, the shredder has recently revealed that the celebrated Pink Floyd guitarist, known for his feel-driven style, has played an important role in shifting her perspective on what makes an exceptional guitarist \u2013 and, with that, timeless solos.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was never really that into Pink Floyd growing up,” she tells Guitar World<\/em> in a new interview<\/a>. \u201cI knew Another Brick in the Wall <\/em>and stuff, but I never really delved into them until I decided I wanted to do a shred version of Comfortably Numb <\/em>on my YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

“Before studying his playing, I was doing a lot of like, \u2018Look at all the notes I can play, look how fast I can play!\u2019 and there wasn’t that much feel behind my music, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Delving deep into Gilmour’s guitar parts for her shred cover served as a revelation for Lloyd. \u201cThat was a really pivotal point in my playing where I kind of switched from wanting to play all the notes and show everyone what I can do to like, \u2018No, I want to serve the song,\u2019\u201d she admits.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to create an emotion and a feeling and a story. That really came from him. Now I try to allow breathing space like he does, and create a sense of emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Rick Beato<\/a>, Gilmour did in fact dissect his lauded \u2018feel\u2019 playing technique, revealing that it all stemmed from the fact he \u201cwasn\u2019t gifted with enormous speed on the guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As for Lloyd, she\u2019s gearing up for her debut US show on January 16 at LA’s iconic Whisky A Go Go<\/a> \u2013 setting her up for a busy year that includes a highly coveted slot at the UK’s Download Festival.<\/p>\n

Head to TicketWeb<\/a> for tickets for her LA show, and to Sophie Lloyd<\/a> for special VIP packages.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sophie Lloyd may not be the first person you think of when naming David Gilmour-influenced contemporary guitarists. However, the shredder has recently revealed that the celebrated Pink Floyd guitarist, known for his feel-driven style, has played an important role in shifting her perspective on what makes an exceptional guitarist \u2013 and, with that, timeless solos. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23635,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions\/23635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}