Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Shred guitar or shredding is a lead playing style for the electric guitar based on various fast soloing techniques. Critics have stated that shred guitar is associated with sweep-picked arpeggios diminished and harmonic minor scales finger-tapping and whammy-bar abuse while other guitar writers say that rather than being a musical definition it is a fairly subjective cultural term used by guitarists and enthusiasts of guitar music.