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Thumb piano is the good ol' rural southern name for kalimbas. None of that high class, national geographic-reading shit here.
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Shred is basically just really fast, technical lead guitar playing. By that definition Mick Barr of Orthrelm/Crom Tech is a shredder. In fact, shredding's all he really does! He shreds in a unique and inspired way, IMO. There are some easy ways to "fake the funk on a nasty dunk" and appear to shred while not really doing anything particularly technical and I think most of Kirk Hammett's flashy sounding solos consist of him doing just that.
SUBJECTIVE RANT
I want to point out my HATRED of the big solo in "One". I feel like that solo unintentionally changes the character of the song (as I perceive it) from something bleak into something parodistic. I also think it's entirely unnecessary and, as much as I love solos, the song would be better off without one.
He begins by playing music that I consider appropriate (but not at all necessary) for a song that's built up into something dark, sad, and morbid. Incidentally, what he plays here is a variant on a finger tapping cliche that is a particularly easy way to play a lot of notes. He continues by playing a few decent melodies and then, as he does all too often, falls into the trap of playing blues-y, cock rock guitar player cliche licks which ruin the whole character of the song for me.
Maybe licks like that would be appropriate for a hypothetical song called, "Playin' the Deaf, Dumb, Blind and Quadriplegic Blues" from a post black album Metallica release but it sounds just plain inappropriate in the song "One".
SUBJECTIVE RANT
I want to point out my HATRED of the big solo in "One". I feel like that solo unintentionally changes the character of the song (as I perceive it) from something bleak into something parodistic. I also think it's entirely unnecessary and, as much as I love solos, the song would be better off without one.
He begins by playing music that I consider appropriate (but not at all necessary) for a song that's built up into something dark, sad, and morbid. Incidentally, what he plays here is a variant on a finger tapping cliche that is a particularly easy way to play a lot of notes. He continues by playing a few decent melodies and then, as he does all too often, falls into the trap of playing blues-y, cock rock guitar player cliche licks which ruin the whole character of the song for me.
Maybe licks like that would be appropriate for a hypothetical song called, "Playin' the Deaf, Dumb, Blind and Quadriplegic Blues" from a post black album Metallica release but it sounds just plain inappropriate in the song "One".
In rebuttal to Avi:
Shredding is playing melodies, just really fast ones.
I have a lot of problems with what people typically play whilst shredding though. I've seen a lot of shredders showing off their most intimidating licks and they just sound like guitar parlour tricks to me. Those licks are melodies; they just aren't very strong ones 99% of the time. They also rarely sound good played at any speed other than as fast as humanly possible. That said, there are exceptional shredders who play good (fast) melodies.
Shredding is playing melodies, just really fast ones.
I have a lot of problems with what people typically play whilst shredding though. I've seen a lot of shredders showing off their most intimidating licks and they just sound like guitar parlour tricks to me. Those licks are melodies; they just aren't very strong ones 99% of the time. They also rarely sound good played at any speed other than as fast as humanly possible. That said, there are exceptional shredders who play good (fast) melodies.
i agree with you that the mood of the song does change when he starts throwing in those blues licks towards the end of the solo when the band "catches up" with him, but i don't think it changes in a way that really impedes that song, since it's essentially the ending.
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That song and that solo in particular were so important to my later developmental years. probably about as important as hormones.
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