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While what he's playing seems impressive, I can promise it's not really that big of a deal. Shred players spend a lot of time practicing repeated patterns alone in a room with a drum track, and that's all fine and well, everyone who is a serious instrumentalist has to do that. However I know from experience working as a teacher with people with Shred chops that they lack a lot of fundamental knowledge of what it is even that they are playing and if asked to do anything else with it they are pretty much hopeless.
The Speed is not impressive, the only thing I find impressive about Shred is the right hand technique which ussually is pretty crazy, this guy is sloppy. However he's young and did pretty much nail what he wanted except for the harmonized lines with the pre-recorded tracks you can hear he was not locking up with his over dub. This is a classic thing for Shred cats, they just can't hang playing with other people.
As for speed, it's easy to get speed. I can play faster then this guy and I don't shred, and I don't use distortion to smooth everything out. Then again, I'm a jazz musician where speed is even more sought after then in Shred Rock I would say.
I have several friends who are seriously crazy shredders (who put this guy to shame) and they admit that what they're playing is self indulgant stunt guitar. It is impressive even to a lot of serious musicians when it is really pulled off *ie DragonForce* but the tenacity it takes to truly master the technique is something most people cannot focus on long enough to become the next Satch or whomever in terms of pure chops.
Feeling with Shred Chops, Eric Johnson really is the guy imo
What do you call a drummer who's girlfriend just dumped him?
homeless
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