Some easy shred song

[danglybanger]

spit it out.

But it has to be a song, and it can't be too hard :laugh2: I just need something to practice to build up technique that sounds decent.

Problem is, I'm not really a shred fan... I'm more or less doing this just to say I can do it, yes I love being superficial

But little exercises from books don't cut it for me or keep me interested... Something with a few interesting licks. Don't care how "against" my style of music it is heh. Just has to be fast.

 

[Pierre]

Re: Some easy shred song

See I'm about in the same bag... I can do some sweeps, I'm alright at it but my picking is puny.
Thing is...shred is shred. Sure there is hard shred but when you start I don't think there s much easier than the rest.

What I'd advise you to do is get a bunch of metal backing tracks and practice your picking over that. Sweeping, cross skipping, any of the fast techniques, just practice the hell out of it. But like everything, putting it into a song context will take aaaages .

If you don't mind exercises...I think they're the best way to get your hands used to fast picking and increase your accuracy.

 

[danglybanger]

Re: Some easy shred song

yeah... I've been doing the backing track stuff heh I can appreciate the fact that it is difficult to come up with something genuinely creative or original when you're playing that quickly (then again it would be a grave overestimation to say that I could do that while playing slowly )

...you're right, I guess I'm going to have to sound meedly meedly for a while

 

[Pierre]

Re: Some easy shred song

Exactly. Anyone/everyone can play fast enough. But to sound melodic... that's the hard bit. Don't become Kirk Hammet

To me the best 'shred' scale is the Aeolian mode (ok fine the minor scale). 3 notes per string and a lot of melodies into it. A lot of people like the Phrygiant Dominant mode but I never learnt any of the Harmonic Minor scales/modes so I have no idea how it sounds.
Remember when you practice a mode to always strum its chord before hand. Or else your mind will bring it back to the corresponding major scale.

Anyway...I usually practice this scale with economy picking. I don't go too fast because I play blues now but well...with economy picking you can speed it up well. Alternate with economy/alternate, use a metronome and go faster and faster I guess.

It sounds boring but I'd wager that's how shredders got there.

Sweeping is way easier and less boring though On another hand it's harder to find the right sweeps to play. I know a bunch that fit over the Pentaminor so I'm set but if I wanted to try other stuff I'd be screwed.

 

[bigheadood]

Re: Some easy shred song

Wheedle, wheedle up and down the scales until you just don't give a crap what you are playing---Presto! Instant Kerry King.

-Just listen to alot of different players, shred or not, and learn as many techniques and thematic ideas as you can.

 

[CGord]

Re: Some easy shred song

Wheedle, wheedle up and down the scales until you just don't give a crap what you are playing---Presto! Instant CGord.

 

[JohnnyGuitar]

Re: Some easy shred song

I have a few:
There's Eruption by EVH, naturaly . It's an instrumental but it has some great techniques in it, and monster tone, plues great melodical ideas. Lasts for 1:42.
And two albums (of bands I bet you hate):
New Jersey by Bon Jovi.
Lean into it by Mr. Big.
Both albums features solos that composed from tricks... if you'll learn the openning to Voodoo Kiss by Mr. Big you would be able to show everyone that you can (and it's a pretty easy intro that still turn heads and drops jaws).

Peace,
Yoni