So I guess we're all shredding like madmen just to impress other dudes...

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Bro, I can solo at 295 bpm!!! I’m talking arpeggios, sweep picking, economy picking, alternate picking, hybrid picking, and even only downstrokes!! I am approaching John petrucci world domination mode. Even though I point out the fact that I am a very, very powerful player, as often as I can, wherever I can, I only play for myself. I don’t schralp as hard as I do for anyone but me bro!
 
MadAsAHatter said:
https://www.loudersound.com/news/ne...tal-bands-do-it-to-impress-other-straight-men
Found this to be an amusing little article. And could the title scream click bait any louder?
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of course they do! chicks might care if they look good doing it, but no female is like "wow, he really knows his way around a fret board". i thought we all knew this. full disclosure. i can't shred at all. i can play pretty fast, but i never practiced anything structured coming up... i just noodled a lot. so i can play some improved leads that sound nice, but they're not going to impress anyone on a technical level.
 
“Shredding“ is just one element in an entire package. It by itself is not attractive or unattractive.

Some dirtbag sweeppicking nonstop for a minute and a half over death metal chugging is not going to get any woman’s attention. However, tearing up a guitar in the style of something closer to John Mayer or whatever, over music you can move your ass to, can take an average to decent looking guy who knows how to present himself, like for example he knows not to wear jorts with socks and sandals on stage, over the edge into being very attractive to women. Although I suppose whether that counts as shredding is up to the listener.

It’s advantageous to be able to do both. Both are rewarding in their own ways.
 
TheGreatGreen said:
“Shredding“ is just one element in an entire package. It by itself is not attractive or unattractive.

Some dirtbag sweeppicking nonstop for a minute and a half over death metal chugging is not going to get any woman’s attention. However, tearing up a guitar in the style of something closer to John Mayer or whatever, over music you can move your ass to, can take an average to decent looking guy who knows how to present himself, like for example he knows not to wear jorts with socks and sandals on stage, over the edge into being very attractive to women. Although I suppose whether that counts as shredding is up to the listener.

It’s advantageous to be able to do both. Both are rewarding in their own ways.
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I prefer to call them sheans myself…lol
 
Crock of shit.....I'm seriously digging all the ladies tearing up the fretboard these days.
 
Purpleibby said:
Crock of shit.....I'm seriously digging all the ladies tearing up the fretboard these days.
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Yeah, there are actually more young women and, really, young people in general into extreme metal and stuff like that today than there was in the 90’s/aughts when I was in my teens and twenties. You haven’t seen a sausage fest like a turn of the millennium death metal show. You haven’t smelt one either ?

That said, I feel safe saying most of us here are way past the age where these issues are a concern. :lol: I’m glad I’m not single in my 40’s.

The CDC just put out the new info on average health measurements of Americans, and the average woman is now like 5’ 3”, 170lbs with almost a 39” waist. Good luck out there fellas!
 
I remember back in the day all the gals in the local scene used to swoon over Nuno Bettencourt. While I wanted to believe it was because of his playing, I think it was because of his ‘Iggy Pop’ bodyfat levels and the fact that he didn’t own shirts. In the ‘let’s get laid’ column, Shredded abs beats shredding licks.
 
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