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2010 Best In Shred Competition (0)

9/09/10 •

I just got an email from Mina at Sam Ash music: “We are holding our first Best in Shred Competition! We are holding competitions in our stores, and the winners will be sent to a Regional competition. IF they win that, they will win an all-expenses paid trip to Los Angeles to compete on the [...]

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Listen To A Free Preview of Paul Tauterouff’s New CD (0)

8/26/10 •

You may have already seen Paul’s excellent guitar lessons for Shredaholic on Pentamodal Shapes and Dropped D Rhythm Guitar Patterns, well what you may not know is that Paul has a brand new CD coming out! Titled ‘Audio Chocolate‘, it sounds really promising from the clips and should be an excellent addition to your 2010 [...]

Craft, Creativity, & Customization (0)

8/24/10 •

Creating music is a wonderfully satisfying experience that not only can be appreciated and performed by the Composer, but by the listener as well. In this article, I’m going to share with you 3 essential and very effective concepts for making music that I teach and help execute with my current students.

Retro Shred: ‘The Right Touch’ by Steve Lynch (instructional review) (0)

8/04/10 •

A first on the Shredaholic site, forum user ONEbpm reviews an instructional shred guitar product. This one’s an oldie, from as far back as 1982!

Soloing Strategies – The Ways of Harmonic Minor (0)

7/30/10 •

Over the course of your life as a guitar player you hear about all sorts of wild exotic scales that you are sure you will never use. Hungarian minor, altered hexatonic scales, dominant diminished, whole tone, major lydian pentatonic, each one more obscure than the last. But if you are a rock/metal guitarist you have no doubt been intrigued by harmonic minor. It’s all the rage with some of our most revered players like Yngwie, Vai, Satch, Paul Gilbert, and Rusty Cooley. What is all the fuss about? Read on.

Guitar Fretboard Secrets – How to rip up and down the neck effortlessly (0)

7/21/10 •

Please extend a warm welcome to our latest new lessons contributor, Greg X! Joining our website with style, Greg has sent us a HUGE lesson on how to navigate the fretboard in a more efficient way.

Guitar Speed Training – Beating The Limitations of Speed (0)

7/08/10 •

“When it comes to training for guitar speed, there seems to be a breaking point. When I say breaking point, I mean that it can literally make or break you…”

Fretboard Visualisation (0)

7/03/10 •

Again we continue onward in the series of practicing techniques that require no physical practice. In this Installment I will cover another technique that I myself still use to this day called Fretboard Visualization. The concept is not a new one but to tap into the power of this can be strenuous in the beginning. [...]

Cyril Lepizzera Group Arianrod – “Smile Has The Death” – Album Review (0)

6/24/10 •

“It is interesting to note that this album also includes vocals, done with good variety. Right from the first track, ‘’The castle of the white shadow’’, we can hear the dark brooding, menacing male vocals followed by female operatic vocals creating a dark sounding contrast…”

Mr.Fastfinger – “The Way of the Exploding Guitar” – Album Review (0)

6/23/10 •

“Mr. Fastfinger has such a quirky and innovative way of playing, and manages to use shred techniques to get a really wide range of interesting and cool sounds from the guitar. He has a very distinct sound that you would instantly recognise as being Mr.Fastfinger, which is something most guitarists strive to achieve yet fail to do…”