|  | 
03-30-2005, 07:48 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sweden | | | How fast do you have to play to be considered shred?
Sign in to disble this ad
|
03-30-2005, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | It's a good question. For a while I was practicing sight reading and arpeggios and the like, but realized that I wasn't timing my shredding. Don't get me wrong, theory is fine and all that, (although it's starting to limit my creativity), but I haven't really started to excel as much since I started timing my shredding.
Like, I can play 32nd notes at 220bpm for a period of 8 minutes, solid. That's pretty good. I have friends who say that I'm "shred-a-rific!" I think that's cool. But, I want to get better and better, you know? |
03-30-2005, 01:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arkansas | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by jazzbo Like, I can play 32nd notes at 220bpm for a period of 8 minutes, solid. That's pretty good. I have friends who say that I'm "shred-a-rific!" I think that's cool. But, I want to get better and better, you know? | Don't guess you've got a clip of that? That's hitting the string right at 30hz.
P. |
03-30-2005, 01:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | Um, I was being facetious. |
03-30-2005, 01:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Arkansas | | Sorry... it's been a slow day around here. 
p. |
03-30-2005, 04:22 PM
| | | | Geez...all this for $20 per year.
When you can play a chromatic scale so it sounds like a glissando...you are a shredder.
__________________
No Leo Fender & I'm a drummer...
"2 through 10" Learn it-Know it-Live it
|
03-31-2005, 08:58 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by jazzbo Um, I was being facetious. | If you do that on the street, you can get a ticket. |
03-31-2005, 09:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Marietta, Ga, US | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by SuperDuck If you do that on the street, you can get a ticket. | HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....
wow that was funny.
I don't think there is an actually measure of shred-ablity, and you can't really tell when to consider yourself shred. I guess you have to determine if your shred by yourself and others who listne to you.
__________________
Gas List:
Power Conditioner
Phaser
|
03-31-2005, 10:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Louisville, KY | | | I dunno, all my guitar player friends seem to think separate 16th's at 150-160 is pretty shred-a-fied. |
04-01-2005, 07:25 AM
|  | Chemo sucks! Moderator Emeritus | | Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Manchester NH | | Well, this is not really adding anything to GI, it'd be better suited in Misc.
Let's go there..............
Chris A.  
__________________
Trying is the first step to failure. So just don't try! |
04-01-2005, 08:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Oxford, UK | | How fast? The answer that comes to mind is "too fast" 
Wulf |
04-01-2005, 08:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | I can shred like a Gene Simmons bass solo where he's dripping the blood out of his mouth.
Mad Skillz.
__________________
*Recipient of the 2006 Time Magazine "Man Of The Year" Award*
|
04-01-2005, 09:03 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | May I refer you to the "don't try this at home" thread in the Recordings forum?
That fast. 
But to be a shredder, you have to do this all with an awful facial contortion. |
04-01-2005, 10:26 AM
|  | Registered User
Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by The Golden Boy I can shred like a Gene Simmons bass solo where he's dripping the blood out of his mouth.
Mad Skillz. | Anyone who can top what Golden Boy does is a shredder. |
04-01-2005, 10:41 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd stone from the sun | | | I can only shred when my entire bass is below my waist.
__________________
FOR SALE - Musicman Stingray 5 BURNT APPLE -http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f126/musicman-stingray-5-burnt-apple-882195/
|
04-01-2005, 10:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | On a serious note (Which I seem to never make): I consider shred a dirty word. Shred to me means all speed, no tonal clarity, bad/basic note choice (I'm not associating bad with basic, but it's usually minor penatonic shred)... basically Yngwie... or on the bass end of things, Billy Sheehan.
__________________
Mediocre Bassist Club Member #4
|
04-01-2005, 10:46 AM
|  | - that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Moderator | | | | | the only shredding I can do involves cheddar. |
04-01-2005, 11:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: London, UK | | this breakfast cereal helps-  |
04-01-2005, 02:52 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sweden | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by The Mock Turtle Regulator this breakfast cereal helps- | Okay, i'll try them.
Thanks for the tip. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
