If you look through guitar forums, facebook and blogs… you would sometimes see guitarists knocking shred guitar. Some would make claims that shred guitar is boring. They don’t like hearing fast notes all the time and they think that it all sounds the same. They make claims that you can’t make anything sound musical when you’re playing like 100 notes or over. You see, I disagree. It’s unfair that people bash shred music.

In shred guitar, you can make fast notes sound musical. Go listen to Al Di Meola and Joe Satriani then you would see what I mean. Those guys can make fast notes as if someone is singing a song. Both of these guys are my heroes and I love their music so much. It is possible that you can make fast notes sound musical, don’t listen to the nay sayers. I think people knock shred music ’cause they’re a little jealous that they can’t play like that and they want to.

I’ve always been into shred guitar. I’m not much of a fan of Steve Vai although I do respect the hell out of him too, I just never bought his albums that much. The only album I own by Steve Vai is “Passion and Warfare”. I should get into more Steve Vai though. I just started getting into Eric Johnson. I also listen to Animals as Leaders and that is shred music. I don’t listen to Yngwie Malmsteen at all but I should get into him too.

Shred music can be a lot of fun to listen to and I admit, I would like to get into that style of guitar playing myself. I wanna play like that and that’s what I’m aiming for. In fact, that’s the whole reason I picked up the guitar to begin with ’cause I was hoping to play like that someday and become great.

Shred music takes a lot of skill and talent to get there so that’s another reason you shouldn’t knock shred guitar. I listen to this kind of music a lot ’cause I just love good guitar playing. This kind of music says something to you. I’ve been getting into more instrumental music lately than music with vocals, ya know? I’ve always thought about making instrumental music on my own. Shredders don’t noodle around at all even though they’ve been accused of that. They take what they do seriously.

I love shred guitar music and I’ve getting into it more and more.

Kev