What is Shred?
1.
1. The art of Technically and rhythmatically hammering out amazing and lightning-fast solos on a guitar.
2. To play so amazingly fast on guitar you almost destroy it's strings.
"Shredding" as it is known is limited to the "True" Musicians and as such is not known to shitty Bands/Musicians of lesser talent, IE. Nu-Metal does not, can not and will not ever have shredding present in it's down-tuned watered down style of crap called "music".
Herman "SHRED" Li is one of the fastest guitar shreddars on the planet! m/
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2.
A guitar playing style or technique that was abandoned in the late 1980's.
The board of directors at MTV decided that learning to "shred", as it were, took too much time, patience, and work to do correctly, and thus was banned in early 1992, in favor of more lucrative cookie cutter style bands, with a higher turnover rate.
MTV Exec 1: "Aw come on. Shred is cool."
MTV Exec 2: "Yes, but look here. In the time it takes to teach one guy how to shred well, we can raise and kill off four three-chord bands, OR seventeen boy-bands!"
MTV Exec 1: "Well holy shit on rye, Steve! Who needs shred anyways?"
3.
to abuse a skatepark in the good way
(skate on it till your board snaps)
dude1 = yo check this park.
dude2 = alrite lets shred
4.
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1. music: to play distorted electric lead guitar in a manner which is at once so extremely cogent and rapid that listener experiences the sensation that the production of the sound should be impossible or nearly impossible.
2. surfing: performing a series of cutbacks requiring seemingly impossible adeptness.
3. going every-which-way at once
Garcia was SHREDING so hard in the middle of Shakedown, i thought my head would explode.
compare: ripping
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5.
to go completely fucking nuts while maintaining a complete disregard for the safety of yourself and those around you, facilitated greatly by the consumption of bourbon, and or other controlled substances.
see also: hair metal, stripper girl, underage girl, UTI, the sunset strip
alternate form: bloodshred
Lets pick up some Wild Turkey 101 at Rite Aid and then go fuckin' shred and see how many felonies we can rack up.
or just plain old:
I don't even care, I'll take the fat one. Shred!!!!!!!
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6.
The act of playing fast on a guitar. It can be done with grace, anger, and ownageness
Steve Vai shreds like a madman
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7.
1. To 'slide' on a skateboard, often in a fashion which damages the surface used to slide.
2. To skate, snowboard, surf or BMX aggressively.
3. A form of longboard surfing which breaks the wave being 'shredded'
Where shall we shred? Tim totally shredded that last run. "SHRED IT!" - vocalised as an encouragement.
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