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Ok, I'm honestly not trying to throw this guy under the bus - but seriously, would you even want to learn to play this way? I'm always amazed at the amount of "shred" guitar players that are still around. I still remember the front cover of Guitar Player magazine back in the early 1990s that had a photo of Joe Satriani laying in a coffin with his arms folded and a caption that read, "Shred is Dead"... that was almost 20 years ago and yet some of these guys can't seem to let it go. The only people that appreciate shredders are other shredders themselves, the average Joe couldn't care less about hearing someone play that way. Ok, enough ranting - am I right or am I right?
Not easy to do. But a little far out for me, at 69 years old.
Yeah I think he has been thrown under a bus a few times already Brian LOL.I like how it has this psuedo rap tarck in the background too !
Basically when you boil it down all he was doing was playing the same lick pattern in different area’s on the guitar adding some tapping here & there & lots of hammers/pull offs which is the staple diet for shredders.None of these shredders even come close to tthe brilliant playing of the ” so called ” heavy meatl guitarists of the 70’s.
Players like Ritchie Blackmore,Jimmy Page & Ted Nugent even Uli Jon Roth ( Scorpions ) was playing super fast guitar in the 70’s long before it was called shredding but he did have a bit of style & taste about his playing.Not one dimensional as most shredders are.
And if you take away all their effects pedals thet are left useless.
LP
Good shred guitarist will always find a market with people who like it and people who like guitar based music. Really good ones don’t play every note the can all the time. My favorite guitarist right now is Paul Gilbert, some of his new stuff is simply amazing, but I like a lot of the older stuff also.
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