Pretend to shred

[the_satanic_rabbit]

How do you pretend to be a shredder....
in other words, what can you do that just sounds really awesome and most people will think you're bad ass

For me it's

ascending diminished arpeggios (pretty easy)

long extended arpeggios (minor key easiest) (starting from the lower frets (1-5) ending at the 24th

two-hand tapping

alternate picking (descending runs only, I'm an economy up, alternate down person, very odd )


That stuff elicits comments from the lay person like "woah man, that's just like van halen!"

 

[Zax666]

Alternate picking and tapping in harmonic minor, for me!

Also more legato stuff from time to time.

My people say "Whoa man, that's just like Yngwie!", though!

 

[Yngvai X]

the typical EVH two hand stuff is by far the easiest thing to "bullshit" with and sound fast

 

[nataservant]

I just pull some Kerry King style mess shredding out of my ass add a little tapping and wide vibratos and bends and the person with no ear for music says "Wow you kick fucking ass" and I say, "Yeah I know"

 

[the_satanic_rabbit]

the typical EVH two hand stuff is by far the easiest thing to "bullshit" with and sound fast

I guess when I said two-hand tapping I really meant like the four-finger two-handed stuff, like Satriani's midnight. But yeah, play the intro to "Hot for Teacher" or "Eruption" and you'll win 90% of the crowd over!

 

[Mr. Shred-ididle]

a minor7b5 arrpeggio sound really baddass on a 7 string, with some tapping at the end of the sweep...easy, but baddass

 

[Zax666]

@ Everyone - Do you know a good place to learn some music theory from? Every time Shreddie starts talking about theory I feel like an idiot.

 

[the_satanic_rabbit]

I agree man. I don't know theory to save my life, but I can play anything that someone with theory knows. I just don't know the name of what I'm doing. Something like this perhaps?

-------------7-10-12t-10-12t---
-----------7---
---------7----
-------9-----
-----9------
---7-------
-7---------

 

[Mr. Shred-ididle]

haha! i know what that is! aren't i a little smart ass it looks like a Bm-add4!

 

[the_satanic_rabbit]

Oh yeah, well what about this?!!



-------------2-24h-12---------------
----------21-----------9--
--------4----------------18--------
-----13---------------------19--------
---8---------------------------6---------
-1-------------------------------13---------


Good luck!

 

[ElPredicador]

well, after 5 minutes I was able to pull off your lick, TSR. Throw in something difficult, man!!

 

[Mr. Shred-ididle]

well thats a Gmin-major 7 sus4 add 6 b5 b7 13?

lol

 

[the_satanic_rabbit]

well thats a Gmin-major 7 sus4 add 6 b5 b7 13?

lol

Well done!!!


If I could design my own guitar, I'd put a pickup between the nut and the 1st fret so I could pick the notes behind my fretting hand and play backwards. how would you tab that?!!

 

[Zax666]

If you put a piezo, you'll hear BOTH notes you played.

I don't know how could you put a mag, though...

 

[the_satanic_rabbit]

How does that Piezo work though....it can't be that great

 

[Serge...]

well thats a Gmin-major 7 sus4 add 6 b5 b7 13?

lol

You can't have a major 7 and a flat 7 at the same time, silly.

 

[Zax666]

Piezo crystals react to pressure applied to them. Once you press a piezo crystal, it provides an electrical signal, so piezos are PASSIVE pickups, but since the output is really low you use ACTIVE circuits to amplify them. They are used in the saddles on electro-acoustic guitars, since they sound closer to the resonance of the body than magnetics. A part for that is that they actually pick up AS much signal from the body AS they do from the strings. Sometimes a design of putting the piezos UNDER the saddles and top of guitar is used, for getting even more of the body resonance.

BTW if you put a giant piezo instead of a zero fret/nut, the neck should have ALOT of forward bow so you hear the notes.


Complicated idea, you're suggesting....

 

[Zax666]

@ Serge - (not that Shreddie said that, but)I think you can't have add9 and 7 at the same time either, right?

 

[Serge...]

@ Serge - (not that Shreddie said that, but)I think you can't have add9 and 7 at the same time either, right?

Well, a 7add9 chord is a 9 chord so that's just a stupid way of saying it.

 

[Mr. Shred-ididle]

it was a joke, silly

but you can have a "_add9", that is correct