n the context of an electric guitar, "shredding" refers to a virtuosic, highly technical style of playing the instrument, as exemplified by the virtuosos of the eighties such as Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen or Michael Angelo Batio

Other guitarists include jason becker and marty friedman
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The technique consists of complex fast speed picking and sweeping, performing lightning fast riffs and solos

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It's popularity plummeted along with most other metal genres with the arrival of the very simple genre Grunge, which focused on talentless musicians who hadnt bothered to learn their instrument with the passion of shredders

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It has been said that shredding is a very boring experience which focuses more on showing off than showing emotion, which is a description used only by people who do not understand guitar...It is a master class in how much energy and focus you should put into learning your instrument and should be admired not ridiculed...

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Most recent shredders include dragonforce guitarist Herman Li and the very plain rusty cooley

1. The art of Technically and rhythmatically hammering out amazing and lightning-fast solos on a guitar.
2. To play so amazingly fast on guitar you almost destroy it's strings.

"Shredding" as it is known is limited to the "True" Musicians and as such is not known to shitty Bands/Musicians of lesser talent, IE. Nu-Metal does not, can not and will not ever have shredding present in it's down-tuned watered down style of crap called "music".

to abuse a skatepark in the good way
(skate on it till your board snaps)

A guitar playing style or technique that was abandoned in the late 1980's.

The board of directors at MTV decided that learning to "shred", as it were, took too much time, patience, and work to do correctly, and thus was banned in early 1992, in favor of more lucrative cookie cutter style bands, with a higher turnover rate.

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1. music: to play distorted electric lead guitar in a manner which is at once so extremely cogent and rapid that listener experiences the sensation that the production of the sound should be impossible or nearly impossible.

2. surfing: performing a series of cutbacks requiring seemingly impossible adeptness.

3. going every-which-way at once

to go completely fucking nuts while maintaining a complete disregard for the safety of yourself and those around you, facilitated greatly by the consumption of bourbon, and or other controlled substances.

see also: hair metal, stripper girl, underage girl, UTI, the sunset strip

alternate form: bloodshred

1. To 'slide' on a skateboard, often in a fashion which damages the surface used to slide.

2. To skate, snowboard, surf or BMX aggressively.

3. A form of longboard surfing which breaks the wave being 'shredded'

The act of playing fast on a guitar. It can be done with grace, anger, and ownageness