Your favorite shredder?

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Shawn Lane. That said, Im not much into shred guitar.
I prefer guys that play with feel and expression.
 
Nobody's mentioned Jack Gardiner yet.

Dude shreds real-tasty. :rock:







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I don't even know where to start with Jeff Kollman but here's a good one. Probably one of the greatest guitarist you've never heard of. Enjoy.

 
Kraku said:
I hate shredding :( IMO It's not musical nor pleasing to listen to, and I usually quickly skip to the next song / Youtube video whenever anyone starts shredding.

The only shredder (I've heard so far) that ever actually sounded anywhere near musical in some way is Yngwie Malmsteen. I've only heard him shredding once or twice (as I'm not keen to listening to 80s heavy metal), but he seemed to have an actual musical goal in mind with his shreadding, kind of like arpeggios played by Johan Sebastian Bach back in the day. In that regard almost every single "shredder god" known to mankind seems to be missing the whole point of making actual good music with shredding, instead of trying to appeal to the tiny guitar technique wanking community.

That being said, in my not-so-humble opinion: shredders are not musicians. They don't understand what makes music good. They've deluded themselves with the idea that "superior technique makes superior music, which makes me superior in everyones eyes, hence everyone worships me and wants to come to my gigs". When it's the exact opposite. Those guitarists try to appeal to the guitarist audience, instead of doing the right thing and writing actual good music for the actual regular people who should be the real consumers of the music.

The world needs more Jimi Hendrix and less Tim Henson.
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What are you talking about "doing the right thing"? What a narrow-minded thing to say imo.

There's no "right or wrong" in the music you like to make - if it sounds good to you then it is good and if that attracts a certain audience then you're doing something that's connecting whether it's a casual audience or an instrument-specific audience.

I love to hear someone blaze on guitar as much as I do hearing a slow, sparse solo. Everything has its place and you only have to look how popular bands like Polyphia are at the moment to see how it's all good!
 
geetarmikey said:
What are you talking about "doing the right thing"? What a narrow-minded thing to say imo.

There's no "right or wrong" in the music you like to make - if it sounds good to you then it is good and if that attracts a certain audience then you're doing something that's connecting whether it's a casual audience or an instrument-specific audience.

I love to hear someone blaze on guitar as much as I do hearing a slow, sparse solo. Everything has its place and you only have to look how popular bands like Polyphia are at the moment to see how it's all good!
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Polyphia is actually one of the main modern bands which I always use as a great example of how focusing on technical circus tricks spoils every single song in the bands catalogue, as they can't write songs.
 
Kraku said:
Polyphia is actually one of the main modern bands which I always use as a great example of how focusing on technical circus tricks spoils every single song in the bands catalogue, as they can't write songs.
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1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone suggests they can.
 
Marty Friedman
Chris Poland
Dimebag (even though he was much more than just a shredder)
 
I like some lesser known guys..

Christopher Amott is way up there on my list. Shredder, but also so tasteful.
Fredrik Åkesson - Maybe not so under the radar, but definitely underrated.
Charlie Griffiths of Haken - He's just plain sick.
Brandon Ellis has become a favorite as well.
 
Steve Morse
Guthrie Govan
Matteo Mancuso
Shawn Lane
Allan Holdsworth

Mancuso in particular is the only player I saw live that is as impressive as Guthrie. I only saw Morse with Deep purple, but I don't believe that's his most impressive music- and the other two are kinda hard to see now that they are dead lmao
 
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Next to the Michael Romeo clip I posted, this clip from Petrucci is the best of both worlds for me in terms of shred and melodic sensibility. Love it!

 
Paul Gilbert is my favorite overall. Close second is IA Eklundh. Michael Romeo is up there.
 
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