Herman Li from Dragon Force
Say what you like about shredding, the guys who can pull this kind of technical guitar playing are incredibly talented, not to mention dedicated (imagine just how many hours it takes to refine your playing to this level). However in terms of musicality many of these players leave a lot to be desired. To illustrate this point and show you some examples of good and bad shredding I thought I would post a few videos below.
Good Shredding
Lets start off with some good shredding examples…
Victor de Andres: sultans of shred
Dragon Force with the awesome Through the Fire and Flames. Now this is quality shredding! Melodic and technically superb.
George Lynch with one of my favourite shred instrumentals from the eighties
Bad Shredding
Examples of pointless shredding.
Yngwie Malmsteen doing his thing. Quite good but it just all sounds the same too me.
Glenn Proudfoot from Prazsky Vyber. Just ridiculous! Apparently this guy lists Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan as big influences. Huh?
Vinnie Vincent demonstrating guitar shredding. This is enough to put you off shredding for life. My ears hurt already!
I cant believe that you would have that malmsteen video under bad shredding but you have dragonforce under good shredding and the best part of it all is that you said it was pointless. this website is a joke
Look Yngwie Malmsteen is technically very talented, no one disputes that. He has also created some of the most exciting guitar instrumentals on record. I just think at times he doesn’t really have much to say ( guitarwise that is
). Joe Satriani to me is the perfect example of someone who has an incredible ear for melody but also has the technical chops to compliment it.
for a bad exaple of shredding, U cud hv picked up any novice who is trying to pick up shredding, U cant pick a single famous guitar player in this world, for any kinda BAD example, plz have the gratitude !!!
clearly you have no idea what youre talking about,
you cant judge someones playing when theyre just doing excercises, thats a very ignorant thing to do,
listen to any of glenn’s solos, theyre melodic and he plays about half the speed that hes playing in that video, he understands that shredding is about the music, that video is just a bit of fun to get his name out there, its a purely technical demonstration. and yngwie malmsteens “shredding” is perfect, it’s just his style that yo have a problem with. style is a matter of taste. You should respect that. this article is a waste of time.
I can’t believe any website would promote this! Gary is obviously not a good guitarist himself, he’s got it backwords! Dragonforce is a good band, but musicaly Through The Fire And Flames is a boring song. It is three chords, with lots of minor scales and arpeggios played very fast. Pick any of Malmsteen’s songs, and there are more complex modulations and implied tonalities. Also, how are Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vahn bad influences!? Both of them could have played circles around the first guy listed, Victor de Andres. Gary, I think you picked good examples, you just had them under the wrong catagories!