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Shred guitar or shredding is a virtuoso lead guitar solo playing style for the electric guitar, based on various fast playing techniques. Music critics have stated that shred guitar is associated with "sweep-picked arpeggios, diminished and harmonic minor scales, finger-tapping and whammy-bar abuse", while others contend that it is a fairly subjective cultural term used by guitarists and enthusiasts of guitar music. It is commonly used with reference to heavy metal guitar playing, where it is associated with rapid tapping solos and special effects such as whammy bar "dive bombs". The term is sometimes used with reference to playing outside this idiom, particularly jazz fusion and blues.〔Lewis, Luke, "The Story of Shred", ''Total Guitar'', March 2004, p38-41〕〔Govan, Guthrie, "Play Faster Now", Guitar Techniques, November 2007 p16-26〕 ==History== In 1969, Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin composed 'Heartbreaker'; his solo introduced many techniques mixed together (very fast note playing with hammer-ons and pull-offs), including pieces of classical music when playing live. Steve Vai commented about it in a September 1998 Guitar World interview: "This one 'Heartbreaker' had the biggest impact on me as a youth. It was defiant, bold, and edgier than hell. It really is the definitive rock guitar solo." Ritchie Blackmore, best known as the guitarist of Deep Purple and Rainbow was an early shredder. He combined elements of blues, jazz and classical into his really fast rock guitar playing. Songs like 'Highway Star' from Deep Purple and 'Gates of Babylon' from Rainbow are great examples of early shred. Blackmore separated himself from the pack quite a bit with his use of arpeggios and the Harmonic Minor scales at the time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ritchie Blackmore an Early Shredder )〕 In 1974, the German band Scorpions used their new guitarist Ulrich Roth for their album ''Fly to the Rainbow'', for which the title track features Roth performing "... one of the most menacing and powerful whammy-bar dive bombs ever recorded".〔 A year later, Roth's solo guitar playing for the album ''In Trance'' "... would become the prototype for shred guitar. Everything associated with the genre can be found on this brilliant collection of songs—sweep-picked arpeggios, harmonic minor scales, finger-tapping and ... jaw-dropping whammy-bar abuse".〔 In 1979, Roth left Scorpions to begin his own power trio, named "Electric Sun". His debut album ''Earthquake'' contained "... heaps of spellbinding fret gymnastics ... and nimble-fingered classical workouts."〔 In 1978, a "heretofore unknown guitarist named Eddie Van Halen" from Los Angeles released "'Eruption', a blistering aural assault of solo electric guitar" which featured rapid "tapping", which "had rarely been heard in a rock context before". Chris Yancik argues that it is this "record, above any other, that spawned the genre of Shred." ''Guitar Players article "Blast Into Hyperspace With The Otherworldly Power Of Shred" reviews the book ''Shred!'' and states that the pioneers were "Eddie Van Halen, Al Di Meola and Ritchie Blackmore". This fast playing style combined with melody and technique and a heavily distorted tone of heavy metal music resulted in a new nickname "shred". Randy Rhoads and Yngwie Malmsteen advanced this style further with the infusion of Neo-classical elements. Progressive rock, heavy metal, hard rock, and jazz fusion have all made use of and adapted the style successfully over the years. In general, the phrase "shred guitar" has been traditionally associated with instrumental rock and heavy metal guitarists. This association has become less common now that modern forms of metal have adopted shredding as well. In the 1990s, its mainstream appeal diminished with the rise of grunge and nu metal, both of which eschewed flashy lead guitar solos. Underground acts like Shawn Lane and Buckethead continued to develop the genre further. genre redefined as Industrial Shred by guitarist Irron R. Collins IV with the mixture of Neo-classical Shred and Industrial Metal.〔 In an interview in March 2011, Steve Vai described 'shred' as: "The terminology used for someone who can play an instrument, and has such a tremendous amount of technique that what they do just seems completely effortless and absurd. It's like this burst of energy that just comes out in extremely fast tearing kind of playing where the notes actually connect. Shred has to have a particular kind of 'tide' to it, I think, that actually gives you that 'blow away' factor that makes it impressive, to a certain degree." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shred guitar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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