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1: vi.

  * e.g.,  ... Garcia was SHREDING so hard in the middle of Shakedown, i thought my head would explode. 

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2:  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.

  * e.g.,  ... compare: ripping 

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3:  surfing: performing a series of cutbacks requiring seemingly impossible adeptness.

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4:  going every-which-way at once

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1: to abuse a skatepark in the good way

  * e.g.,  ... dude1 = yo check this park. 

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2: (skate on it till your board snaps)

  * e.g.,  ... dude2 = alrite lets shred 

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1: A guitar playing style or technique that was abandoned in the late 1980's.

  * e.g.,  ... MTV Exec 1: "Aw come on. Shred is cool." 

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2: 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.

  * e.g.,  ... 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!" 

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1:  The art of Technically and rhythmatically hammering out amazing and lightning-fast solos on a guitar.

  * e.g.,  ... Herman "SHRED" Li is one of the fastest guitar shreddars on the planet! \m/ 

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2:  To play so amazingly fast on guitar you almost destroy it's strings.

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3: "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".

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1:  inf verb: to extract the audio track from a video (usually featuring an overblown, over-rated rock guitarist) and replace it with perfectly synchronized, very well played rubbish. The joyful result of this painstaking process renders the featured musician looking even more totally fucking risible than they were already.

  * e.g.,  ... Video by StSanders: Yngwie Malmstrom Shreds. 

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2:  noun: A parody video clip likely to be removed from YouTube

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1: 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.

  * e.g.,  ... Lets pick up some Wild Turkey 101 at Rite Aid and then go fuckin' shred and see how many felonies we can rack up. 

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2: see also: hair metal, stripper girl, underage girl, UTI, the sunset strip

  * e.g.,  ... or just plain old: 

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3: alternate form: bloodshred

  * e.g.,  ... I don't even care, I'll take the fat one. Shred!!!!!!! 

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1: A style of music synonymous with the guitar, often using connection beats at a higher tempo than popularized through western music.

  * e.g.,  ... Shred IS in fact more technically demanding than nu-metal, and is also much more fun to play. BOOYAH 

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1: Herman Li of Dragonforce

  * e.g.,  ... Hey shred, you play guitar like nobody else!! 

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1: Shredding may be used in any context but it is usually referred to by "shredding the slopes" in which a snowboard carves up the ice.Skiers do not shred. You can also shred all over somebodys face.;

  * e.g.,  ... 1st Example 

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1: n the context of an electric guitar, "shredding" refers to a virtuosic, highly technical style of playing the instrument, as exemplified by the virtuosos of the eighties such as Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen or Michael Angelo Batio

  * e.g.,  ... Shred is not used in Nu Metal or other bland genres, which focus more on hip hop or electronic noises...shred is the music for people who have took time to master their skill on guitar 

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2: Other guitarists include jason becker and marty friedman

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3: ____________________

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4: The technique consists of complex fast speed picking and sweeping, performing lightning fast riffs and solos

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5: ____________________

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6: It's popularity plummeted along with most other metal genres with the arrival of the very simple genre Grunge, which focused on talentless musicians who hadnt bothered to learn their instrument with the passion of shredders

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7: ____________________

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8: It has been said that shredding is a very boring experience which focuses more on showing off than showing emotion, which is a description used only by people who do not understand guitar...It is a master class in how much energy and focus you should put into learning your instrument and should be admired not ridiculed...

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10: Most recent shredders include dragonforce guitarist Herman Li and the very plain rusty cooley