Shredding!

[pr0n]

Alright guys, need some help for getting started on shredding. Got some questions for you guys.

1. Any particular exercises recommended for building speed and agility?
2. Which are the scales that are usually used, or can be used, for shred?
3. How should i go about learning and training shred?

 

[ShredCow]

1. Paul Gilbert has a good amount of shred exercises. For more depth and detail, try John Petrucci's Rock Discipline, very very good stuff if you can stick to it.

2. Well, any scale would do. A good starting scale with enough notes (> than pentatonics) and simple stucture would be the Ionian Mode or major scale.

3. Discipline. You have to sit down and work on accuracy, and fingering. Accuracy triaing is obvious, sloppy shred is bad shred. Fingering is tops too because you want speed you want minimal movement on the fretting hand. Keep your fingers close to the fretboard, practice slowly, increasing the speed bit by bit each day. Youll get there,

 

[dhalif]

Shred usually mean playing guitar passages really fast and basically involves picking techniques/methods.

1.What you should learn?
ALOT of picking exercises and methods ranging from how you angle the pick while picking to practicing runs across the whole board in less than 2 seconds. Modes, scales, patterns.. look out for that.Even simple things like ur right hand position when u really pick fast.. is your pinky hoooked? or let loose ..that kinda thing ya know. get some lessons off www.guitartricks.com or www.chopsfromhell.com .. it helps.

2. Which scales/modes?
ANYTHING! u can shred blues licks and make traditional blues people angry(like what i experienced ). i mean.. dya wanna limit yourself? i don't think so.. might as well try everything..

3. How you go about learning shred.
Listen. listen to as much of shreddy music as possible lol.. we have tracks coming out from our own soft.com.sg players here like kai_yakamashii.. he's an amazing shreddar. Greg Howe, John Petrucci, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Romeo, Ritchie Kotzen.. all these people.. make em your references..

it will be a very fun and exciting journey for you my friend.. enjoy it. enjoy playing. =)

dhalif.

 

[pr0n]

thanks a lot guys.

 

[ShredCow]

Check out Ron Thal and Mattias Elkund for out of this world shredding... and check out jazz players too, controlled shredding on clean!

Stuff like that will help you maintain a healthy amount of creativity and technics... shred often becomes a flood of notes that quickly turns stale...

 

[dhalif]

ron thal is everything man.. he's superb.

 

[Phil]

I think starting with something harder at the beginning helps a lot, although many people might think otherwise.
Instead of starting with one-string alternate picking exercises, why not jump straight in to two-stringed skipping exercises? Note, you still have to start slowly and get everything all down with crystal precision.
It helped, at least in my case.

 

[detroit_red]

I used to be obsessed about shredding, and i mean obssessed about practicing stuff like scales and modes all day ... And now i can play quite fast, but when it comes to songs i must learn to apply it in, and that's the real tough thing to do .. I can go up and down fast, but it's the small things like arpeggios and hammers and pull offs that matter alot too ...

 

[Phil]

Very true, all aspects are equally crucial.

 

[lousybassist]

Shred usually mean playing guitar passages really fast and basically involves picking techniques/methods..

dude. post a video?? the two second thingy? sounds damn amazing.

 

[strats]

practice practice practice.. and a metronome

 

[detroit_red]

Hey mr strats, you got the same guitar as me... Is yours black or blue?

 

[keiith]

start clean..dont rush..and more practise

 

[Cowripper]

1. Paul Gilbert has a good amount of shred exercises. For more depth and detail, try John Petrucci's Rock Discipline, very very good stuff if you can stick to it.

Any idea where i could get a copy of john petrucci's rock discipline?

 

[shredded]

mysongbook.com

 

[xspace]

Shred usually mean playing guitar passages really fast and basically involves picking techniques/methods..

dude. post a video?? the two second thingy? sounds damn amazing.

Yeah... I wanna see that too