And you realized if you learnt to shred, you could melt peoples faces and have all the girls (or boys) in town queueing up at your doorstep in love with you.
So what are the actual steps that you need to take to get from where you are, to tearing up the fretboard like it’s that Big Mac you had for lunch?
Well, there are three main areas that you need to train up to start to shred on electric guitar like a pro:
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I’ll be tackling each area with you in this post, so you can tick all those boxes so many times, you couldn’t even tell that there was a box there in the first place.
My favourite way to start building up this kind of strength, is to practice trills (continuous hammer-on and pull-offs) between each of your different fingers.
They’re gonna start to burn like a well-timed insult in no time. Then once you can’t go any further, start trilling with your index and ring finger.
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The trick is to practice with every combination of fingers possible and make each trill sound just as strong between different fingers, all over the neck.
The best thing about this is that once you have some strong sounding trills, it’s really easy to practice and requires no concentration at all.
Get all those notes to sound clear and even, and make you’ve practised them on lower strings and frets as well as higher ones.
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Three note per string sextuplets are every shredders’ favourite thing, so it’s important you get nice and cosy with licks like that one.
Even just by practising it 10-15 minutes a day, by the end of the week you’re gonna be laughing back on your old, slow, feeble, weak former self.
Trust me, you’ll be able to pick longer, faster, harder. All the pros do it: Zakk Wylde, James Hetfield, Mick Thomson – it’s the done thing.
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This is probably new to you and feels weird as stale jelly, so slow down and make sure no tension creeps in.
If you like Metallica, then Spit Out the Bone, Damage Inc. or Fight Fire with Fire are all songs with fast but reachable picking speeds.
And if you don’t like Metallica, then you could always challenge yourself with All Out Life by Slipknot or practically any Slayer song – although they would take much longer to play.
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It doesn’t matter what you choose, as long as you are activating your picking speed which we can apply to electric guitar shred licks later.
Because as soon as you change string in a fast lick, you have to hop over the string you’ve just played to the one you want to play.
And string changing is an up and down movement – this contrast in direction prevents you from going as fast as you otherwise could do.
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But if you angle your pick to 45° downwards, you go side to side and up and down at the same time, so string changes stop being a problem.
And the reason this only works on an upstroke is that once you do an upstroke with your pick slanting downwards, your pick is then hovering free in the air.
But if you finish each string on a downstroke, you get stuck in the ditch between two strings – which you then have to spend time hopping out of.
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So one of the ways to make sure that you leave every string on an upstroke instead, is to ensure that you pick an even amount of notes on each string.
E.g. 2 notes per string – downstroke, upstroke. 4 notes – down, up, down, up. 6 notes – down, up, down, up, down, up.
I have completely nicked this idea from Troy Grady, who basically discovered this was a thing and is now hailed by every single shredder ever as God’s gift to this earth.
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All you need to remember is to tilt your pick downwards and leave each string on an upstroke. After that, you’ll be the fastest picker in town.
This lick got such a cool cascading effect to do it, and those little pull-offs allow you to hit much higher speeds.
And starting the lick on the major 2nd instead of the minor 3rd gives a much fresher feel than a full pentatonic lick.
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And that lick is so flexible. Try it descending, on different strings, in major, with suspended 2nd or 4ths, that lick can do it all.
I’ll give you one more epic Em9 arpeggio lick to pay around with, and then I’ll get into showing you how to write your own.
Kind of like an inverse of the pentatonic lick from earlier with an extra slide on top and a cool, jazzy sound.
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They are just a few licks that I’ve come up with, but what if you passionately despise all of my licks and want to write some of your own?
If you want to start writing your own killer licks, then fundamentally you need to know the minor scale shapes and/or arpeggio shapes.
Within these scales, we tend to use 3 note per string patterns in groups of 6 or 4, as you have seen in the licks above.
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So it’s as simple as creating a short 6 or 4 note pattern and then repeating this all the way down or up the scale legato, picking or both. Whichever you prefer.
But when that starts to become a bit boring, you can even begin to add extra slides or variations to the pattern to stop everything sounding quite so robotic.
So here’s an example of a legato + picking lick from earlier that I customized to sound a wee bit more interesting:
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This allows for some cool phrasing that if played with a pick would be too difficult to achieve. It’s just a nifty way to alter the pattern a bit.
Hybrid picking is basically fingerpicking notes with the other fingers on your picking hand whilst playing with a pick at the same time.
E.g. In the 3rd sextuplet group, I’ll play the 14th fret on the D string with my pick, and pluck the notes on the g string with my middle finger.
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Otherwise, it has the adverse affect and peoples’ faces will be melted so much that they just stop melting due to boredom.
P.S. If you want to learn how to sweep pick cleanly on guitar so that you can reach insane speeds, then click here to view my post on that.
Sam is a guitar teacher and educator, with his main goal being to give people advice that they can truly rely on. He strives to teach through modern and effective techniques that actually provide results. Getting good at guitar was always his dream, and this blog outlines the steps he took to achieve total guitar freedom from scratch.Regular practice usually involves us playing over the same concepts we already know, or maybe jamming to a song or two. Perhaps we crack open a few tabs and lift a couple lines of music.
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Any way you look at it, ‘shredding’ is a fast and precise form of guitar playing that takes patience, practice and skill in order to master.
It can be disorientating for guitarists to understand which scales work with which keys. With this in mind, we created a cheat-sheet; a key and scale-finder that you can use again and again.
As we repeat the process of playing a line of music over and over, our brain begins to better understand the inner workings of that line of music.
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These guitar shredding exercises are meant to be practiced repeatedly in order to help you build confidence and momentum in your guitar playing.
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We cannot stress enough that in order to master these guitar shredding exercises, you need to start slowly and build up speed.
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There are many practice methods that we can make use of in order to help develop our sense of accuracy, and we’ve got one of our favourites lined up below for you!
Pro Tip: A great practice regimen that we love is starting out with a metronome set to 80bpm. Play any line of music of your choosing at this speed, and focus on playing evenly.
If you find this speed is too fast for you, reduce it by 5BPM and start working your way into that tempo. Increase again by 10 when you’re comfortable, and dial back by 5 where needed.
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This exercise helps our brain develop its sense of focus, and helps us get comfortable with long practice runs of the same piece of music.
If you’ve been reading any of our other guitar exercise articles, you’ll know that we talk briefly about stretching in every one of them.
One of the most crucial things that we can do as we progress in our guitar journey is to combine the skills we develop.
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This first drill takes us through the A harmonic minor scale. The defining note of this scale is the G# at the 6th fret on the D string.
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