Shredding The Dragonflies

Guitar shredding! This is a new hobby and adventure in music for me.  Shredding on the guitar is great fun.  Before I got this Jackson Dinky, famous for 80's rock, lead guitar playing and shredding, I had never played any kind of lead on guitar. It was always acoustic or rhythm.  The first time was only a few weeks ago and my fingers couldn't even coordinate between the pick and fretting.  I had to start out slow, but there came a point where I broke through.  That is, I just let loose and forgot about technical precision and started thrashing about.   I am still very rough just a few days later, but getting the hang of it.   Video "and audio" below.

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First I needed something to shred to.  I wanted to have my own style of playing, so I needed my own music. For shredding  electric lead, progressive rock music is perfect for me. I created a song using  bass guitar, which I duplicated the track to make rich harmony bass, and played rhythm guitar. I set these tracks to some drum loops that I spliced and arranged into a pattern suitable for this jamming, as I like to call it.  I call the basic tune with no lead guitar, Dragonflies and Night Skies.   Dragonflies and Night Skies audio below.

Above: Shredding Dragonflies - Rybird lead guitar video.

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