Ibanez RG Extreme Shredding Machine - 2011 Showcase Model

[gtrgrl]

Re: Ibanez RG Extreme Shredding Machine - 2011 Showcase Model

It looks pretty cool. I could see Steve Via doing something interesting with it. I have trouble enough with the 22 or 24 frets on my current guitar.

[fretburner]

Re: Ibanez RG Extreme Shredding Machine - 2011 Showcase Model

Uli Jon Roth.
Ron Thal.

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: Ibanez RG Extreme Shredding Machine - 2011 Showcase Model

I think its cool that shred is coming back !!

Wasn't aware that it ever left

[GuitarStv]

Re: Ibanez RG Extreme Shredding Machine - 2011 Showcase Model

I'm just saying that on a 24-25.5" scale instrument, anything more than 26 frets is cosmetic, especially without any effort made to improve ability to get adult human digits in there.

So yeah, harmonic or slide markers are about the closest thing to a real use I can find for frets 27-30, unless the T1000 picks up guitar.

[And in case people miss the joke again, slide is insane given the low action usually used on a shredder.]

I tend to agree with you, but I'm sure that one of the many virtuosos out there will make use of those extra frets somehow. Satriani does a lot of tapping with the edge of his pick . . . that would make the higher notes accessible (even if his fingers are too fat to play them).

[TheLivingDead]

Re: Ibanez RG Extreme Shredding Machine - 2011 Showcase Model

I tend to agree with you, but I'm sure that one of the many virtuosos out there will make use of those extra frets somehow. Satriani does a lot of tapping with the edge of his pick . . . that would make the higher notes accessible (even if his fingers are too fat to play them).

Shred... Will find a way.