12/8/2023 0 Comments Blues shreddingFore a lot of people, being noticed is most important on their agenda. But what really matters as a musician is whether or not you respect yourself, and if you ask me, there are a lot of musicians today who don't necessarily respect themselves because they are still unpracticed, and searching for meaning, (which shows in their music, and lack of new ideas.) But for a lot of reasons they choose to not let this bother them, because once you reach a high level of success, you tend to cast away your original intentions, and your overall love for music in an attempt to gain recognition. For everyone, it takes time to find their sweet spot, and what type of music best represents their overall personallity, but there are a lot of musicians who get tired of searching and would rather just take the fast road to whatever sounds seem to garner them respect by legions of fans. We are all motivated for different reasons when it comes to excelling on the guitar. Page, Hendrix, SRV, Vai, Van Halen, Malmsteen and the rest.Well, it all depends on the musician, and whether or not he plays to impress himself or to impress others. In the end it really doesnt matter if its blues or shred, whats important is to produce quality guitar music, make it sound good and improve our guitar playing like the guitar masters did. Same as if your a shredder, you can learn the phrasing, bends and different scale patterns which sound good if you mix it with speed. The best way is to learn whats important in each style and incorporate them to what type of music you want.įor example if your a blues man learn shred techniques like the basic sweeps, alternate picking, tapping, etc to polish the techniques that youve already acquired and learned in blues. But you cant ignore the knowledge behind each style. I think it just depend on your personal taste and priorities whether your inclined to be a blues man or a shredder. ![]() IF you really want to be a complete and a versatile guitarist, you must have a knowledge of their components and the theory behind z the mixture of both is needed to produce excellent and catchy guitar sound. Its hard to defend just one side, Because both style and technique is important and essential to learn. There is a lot of skill involved and with the right mind behind the fingers it can be every bit as emotive as blues. I hate when people say shred is for ignorant people and speed is stupid, that's ridiculous. TO my ear, the vaste amount of blues players just fiddle around a boring pentatonic which ends up sounding the same all the time BUT I do admit, there are the "Beckers" of the blues world too who can make their music shine. By learning, I obviously mean be learning to play intelligently. That's why he is such an inspiration to all of the great players that followed. Allthough plenty of guys have copied him, few have been able to add the soul to their skills the way he did. That's why I mentioned Jason Becker as an example. If you learn shred properly and can think outside of the box you won't be just playing scales up and down, that's what good shred is all about. ![]() Learning to phrase and play soulfully takes a lot more practice (years, likely). Just remember, shredding will come naturally as you'll get more experience (usually after a month or two). See, you get to play about 100 notes a second, but which notes? You'll end up going up & down scales which is pointless to do & boring to hear. Shredding with no knowledge of phrasing will get you nowhere. Once you get better with the blues, the skill to shred will come naturally as you'll get more and more accurate with your fingering. ![]() Originally Posted by: kevinadiIMO, learn blues first so you know all the phrasing and stuff.
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