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SHREDDING - WHAT IS IT?


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I keep seeing this term but I'm not sure what it really is. Would someone enlighten me? Not that I'll be able to do it, but at least I'll have one more term down that I know I can't do. Thank you.

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Shredding is I believe a surfer term that is used to describe tearing up the wave - more intense than hot dogging I think. It was later adapted by I believe those very same surfers to mean playing one note as fast as possible.

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I looked for synonyms for 'shredding' in my thesaurus and the first one was 'wanking'.

When I looked for antonyms for 'shredding' in my thesaurus, the first one was 'soul'.

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I looked for synonyms for 'shredding' in my thesaurus and the first one was 'wanking'.


When I looked for antonyms for 'shredding' in my thesaurus, the first one was 'soul'.

 

 

Ouch! :poke:

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Shred sucks, spend time learning to play music instead. You'll land more gigs and be able to fit into jazz, blues, rock ,metal ,classical, rockabilly, country etc. My previous bands have let go of many shredders, they we fast and technical very good, but have them play melodies over a simple 2-5-1 or 1-6-2-5 progression and it turns into:freak:

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I appreciated the speed of the fingers but I feel this is more noise than music.

 

 

The example I posted is probably the worst end of it. It also depends how you define shredding, once being a shredder simply meant you were a fast, technically acomplished player, but due to the worse exesses of some of the 80's glam rock bands (e.g. Nitro) it has come to mean awful, noisey, non-musical ego-wanking to most people.

 

The definition itself is shakey - some people will tell you a technical, but ultimately musical player like Steve Vai, Brett Garsed or Eric Johnson is a shredder. Other people will apply the term to neo-classical guitar playing only (e.g. Malmsteen et al) and others will only apply it to guitar playing in which speed is a more important consideration than rythmn, dynamics, note choice etc.

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