Shred!: The Ultimate Guide to Warp-Speed Guitar Sheet music – May 1, 2006

Upon glancing at the synopsis, this book initially sounds pretty interesting. Beyond the expected sections on alternate and sweep picking, the book offers sections on "blues shredding" and "speed riffing", which both sounded pretty cool and unusual.However, as other reviewers have stressed, this volume simply does not deliver. It is very long on "guitar hero lore" and general descriptions of how they like to play, but very short on actual examples and licks that will help you become a better player, which I thought was the whole point.We live in a world of limited time and resouces. If you want material that will cut to the chase and get you started improving your technique immediately, I have plenty of recommendations. Any book/DVD on this list will help you improve you technique significantly:1. Speed Mechanics For Lead Guitar (Troy Stetina)2. Terrifying Guitar Technique (Carl Culpepper)3. Ultimate Guitar Technique: The Complete Guide (Bill LaFleur)4. The "Speed Kills" Series (Michael Angelo Batio, metalmethod.com)5. Shred Guitar Manifesto (Rusty Cooley, chopsfromhell.com)The one from Rusty is pretty intense, so I might suggest starting with one of the others. I like the ones from Troy and Michael best, because they go into some detail about how to perform various techniques. The ones from Carl and Bill are more like "Here's a jillion exercises. Now play!" Which is useful too, because it can show you what general areas to concentrate on, but they don't go into much detail about what to focus on while practicing specific techniques.I hope you find something of value here, and I wish you luck in becoming blazingly fast.

This guitar 'instructional' book is bad. The contents of the book are just as comical as the cover and the persons that authored it wrote it in a very sloppy and unprofessional manner. Something that bothered me was all the unnecessary background information of famous guitarists...I bought this for instruction...not biographies. Not to mention their constant use of vulgar street slang.. IE: .."screw them" .. calling the wammy bar your "substitute weenie". If you want to buy a book with the absolute minimal instruction then I'd suggest this book for you. Each chapter is very short and slack on actual exercises and various examples of techniques and is mostly filled with banter and ramblings in dimwitted, dumbed down, post 80's dude slang. If you want a book that teaches you to idolize other guitarists (well, that's the impression I got anyway, seeing as at the beginning of every chapter is a photograph of some guitarist or another) then this book is for you too. It seems as if this book was targeted at impressionable teenagers rather than an aspiring serious musician.

This book is what is says: a guide to warp-speed guitar. It includes tips for increasing speed as well as a list of some of the greatest guitarists to grace the scene. The musical examples are fast, very fast. If you are not ready for shred, you may enjoy listening to the cd, but frustrated trying to play the examples because of their warp speed. The examples are played fast, then slow. The only problem is the slow examples sound like they are electronically slowed down versions of the fast examples, not actually played. They sound a little hokey.

Look, I'd be lying if I said there are no exercises in this that can help improve guitar technique. I've picked out a few of them, incorporated them into my practice regimen, and have seen improvements (particularly with the alternate picking exercises). A big part of the beast that is learning to shred is just picking an exercise and gradually increasing the speed at which you play it.However, this book is pretty disappointing. The bulk of it consists of words of worship for the guitar gods of the last 50 years. Some the examples are unsubstantiated as far as guidance goes and the included CD doesn't help. It's also LITTERED WITH GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. On page 21, the first two sentences are printed twice and the last sentence reads "As always, start slowly, using a microphone." Microphone? You mean metronome, right? Yeesh.While I appreciate the few exercises I've picked from this book to practice, there are better ways to learn shred guitar than through this book. You're better off finding practice material online and practicing from slow to faster speeds with your "microphone." Wouldn't recommend.

I'm 24 years old and I remember buying this book a very very long time ago maybe 12 years ago. Anyways what i want to say about this book is this; don't let the negative reviews persuade you to not get this book! this book is meant for someone that has no idea about anything shred wise. I had no idea how to do any of this stuff and I picked this book up at a young age and what this book did was open the door to shred knowledge! Yes there are not allot of examples BUT it gives you enough to start your journey into hyper speed shred. This wouldn't be a good book to buy after you bought a super in depth shred guide. This book was intended for the budding guitarist who wants to get away from the basic pentatonic scale and to take the beginning steps to know who the big shredders are and how to play like them.In all honesty this book is what started my hunger for shred!

As I have developed as a guitar player, I've found the various guitar instruction guides less and less useful, since they usually (and rightly) cater for the beginner and intermediate guitarist. However, there isn't a lot for the experienced guitarist to take things up another level. This book changes that. From a solid basis of exercises to build precision and speed into your technique this manual can bring your skills up from a good leader to a guitar god. Highly recommended.

Ich rate dringend von diesem Buch ab. Für mich als mittelmäßigen Gitarristen ist es schon ungeeignet. Man sollte schon die perfekte Technik besitzen um es mit diesem Buch aufzunehmen, den diese wird hier an keiner Stelle angerissen. Stattdessen werden viele Gitarristen und Beispiele genannt, die man sich mal anhören sollte... Die Tonbeispiele auf der CD wirken lieblos zusammengeschustert und klingen teilweise auch sehr unsauber gespielt. Ich würde vermuten, dass ein fast ausgebildeter Gitarrist mit diesem Buch nicht besser, sondern eher unsauberer werden würde, würde er sich eins zu eins an diesem Buch orientieren.