new to shredding

[moody_fa_loonie]

i want to learn how to shred now.....the lessons are great to follow.

but how often do u think is needed to practise these??

20 mins a day??

[Death55]

Depends how good you want to get and how quickly you pick it up. I have been playing for just over a year and have been learning to shred for about a year. I practice about 1 hour every day and 4-5 hours on a weekend and i'm getting pretty fast now.

[sambob]

Its a very difficult question to answer, it varies between people.

Try it out for yourself, whatever amount of practice time leaves you satisfied.. thats how long you should practice for.

[Leedogg]

what are some of the ABC's of shredding? Any particular scales/modes to use? Any particular techniques? I'd imagine sweep picking and legato playing are basic staples.

[DreamRyche2112]

I try to find a scale, and then i set the metronome at 40, slow but start off slow. Practice that scale 3 times at every metr. set. Then work up your bps number.
40 to 45, 45 to 50, 50 to 55, and so on. If you practice about an hour a day at this you will be shredding in no time.

[Jamiephofe]

To start off you probably won't need to make free time for shredding. Unless you want to get seriously fast you could just sit in front of the tv and practise a certain pattern clean and build the speed up over time. You don't even really need to worry about certain scales, just do any pattern you can think of, and when you have that up to speed, try another pattern, until you can do just about any pattern you like. Then practise with scales. I've never spent loads of time doing nothing but shredding, and im pretty decent. Then again that's just my opinion :)

- J

[The Ace]

I don't know how shredding really started for me. I had never listened to Yngwie, or any of the others for that matter.

I started out at the beginning of the summer one year (no school=non-stop guitar) where I wanted to be a fast player. It was what I thought would make me "good."

So I learned every solo off the album Blizzard of Ozz, and I gotta say it took all summer and a little bit more, but I got em. And I didn't realize it then, but I had started to become a "fast" player.

So that got may tapping and legato techniques pretty well, and I'm pretty good at linear things too.

The only thing it didn't teach me was playing flat picked (like strict alternate picking for fast patterns) and sweeps. I aint to good at sweeps.

So I'm working on my shredding now. But I love learning things that really bring out the music, so I mix that in too. Moody, what lessons are you talking about? (It could've been in a different thread, but I don't know).

[moody_fa_loonie]

it was a lesson i downloaded off of powertabs.net

under shredding exercises