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Rodman · February 23

-= Rodmans Shred Course =-

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Shred guitar is a virtuosic style of electric guitar performance. Categorized by its use of advanced techniques, shredding is a complex art form. Shred guitar includes fast alternate picking, sweep-picking, diminished and harmonic minor scales, tapping, and whammy bar use.^[1] Often incorporated in heavy metal, guitarists employ a guitar amplifier and a range of effects such as distortion. This creates a sustained guitar tone and may facilitate guitar feedback.

Basically GET FREAKING FAST AND ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOUR FINGERS ARE DOING

Background:
I´ve also been thinking about my performance in the CS. Last year was packed with rl stuff - i got a new boss at work and i was named deputy chief of my department, which comes with (as always) a lot lot more work than you´d expect .... but i got that all covered by now and i´ll not go without one hour of guitar a day 2025. Goals? Now - i am in direct contest with our vip players/orgas @ Mikson in and with @ cacahuate51
And i am in the lucky situation that they both are a tad better than me. Always. Everytime. ;). So i went through my weaknesses - and besides arpeggios the real pain is the solosections coming up - really suck at those quick notes - so

Learn to shred and learn the fretboard!!!!
So at beginning of january i did some research - changed my pick, changed my picking technique and changed my fretting technique (oh boy what a pain after more than 10 years of doing everything ... other ways) started to do shredding exercises, free ones found on yt, i am doing 10 to 60 mins a day and and progress comes quite quickly. The ones i´ve been sticking to are mainly BERNTHs free lessons – he is not only Austrian like me, but best shredder i´ve seen so far and he cares to explain technical stuff also and he mentions in his videos that the licks can be used in stuff like the one here.
As there was feedback on the CS I decided to on my way share the exercises as full RS Shred course.

So here is what we have so far (updated with all excercises i am using on my journey)

-= Shred Excercise 1 - 80 to 160Bpm =-

-= e-min / G-maj, alternate picking =-

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 80Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	02/14/2025	179	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 90Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	02/14/2025	133	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 100Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	02/14/2025	133	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 110Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	02/14/2025	113	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 120Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	02/14/2025	126	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 130Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	02/14/2025	110	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 140Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	02/14/2025	114	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 160Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	02/14/2025	121	LRB


-= Shred Excercise 2 - 80 to 160Bpm =- -= e-min / G-maj, alternate picking =-

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 2 - 80Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	5	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 2 - 90Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	3	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 2 - 100Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	2	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 2 - 110Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	3	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 2 - 120Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	3	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 2 - 130Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	2	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 2 - 150Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	2	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 2 - 150Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	2	LRB

-= Shred Excercise 3 - 80 to 160Bpm =-

-= e-min / G-maj, alternate picking =-

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 3 - 80Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	3	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 3 - 90Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	1	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 3 - 100Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	1	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 3 - 110Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	2	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 3 - 120Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	1	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 3 - 130Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	1	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 3 - 140Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	1	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 3 - 150Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/23/2025	02/23/2025	2	LRB

-= Speed Building Excercise 1 – 30 to 120Bpm =-

-= single string, chromatic, alternate picking =-

Very easy pattern, single string going up and down one handposition chromatically
Speed accelerating from 30-120bpm so diff from easy (3) – hard (7)

-= Speed Building Excercise 2 – 30 to 80Bpm =-

-= 2 string, one hand position, alternate or economic picking =-

2 strings, one handposition, speed bursts (double speed!!)
Speed from 30-80bpm, diff from easy (3) – very hard (8)

-= Shred Lick 1 – 80 to 150 Bpm =-

-= c min, alternate picking scale progression=-

Intermediate pattern, going up and down the c-min (D#maj) scale (C D Eb F G Ab Bb (C))
Speeds increasing from 80-150bpm in one file so diff from easy (4) beginning – very hard (8)

-= Shred Lick 2 – mixing triplets and eights - 80 to 150 Bpm =-

-= alternate picking =-

Beginner pattern, that is about exact timing, mixing triplets and eights
Speeds increasing from 80-150bpm in one file so diff from easy (3) beginning – hard (7)

-= Shred Lick 3 – e-min Stretchpentatonic - 30 to 120 Bpm =-

-= alternate picking =-

Adv pattern, that is about exact timing, stretching and string skiping
Speeds increasing from 30-120bpm in one file so diff from easy (3) beginning – hard (8)

-= Chunk Lick 1 – b-min pentatonic - 200 Bpm =-

-= alternate picking =-

Chunking = dividing something into small pieces.
We use that to learn the lick at full speed by starting wit 2 notes and gong up to the full 7 note lick

Int pattern, that is absolutely about speed gaining (and about exact timing, and string skiping and a bend)
Speed 200bpm eights so from int (3) at the 2-note beginning – hard (8)

My training plan (beginning Jan,1 25)

Month1,2 (10-60mins a day)
Shred Exercise 1 – up to 150bpm
Shred Exercise 2 – up to 150bpm
Shred Exercise 3 – up to 130bpm
Speed Building 1 – all the way to 120 (sometimes , a bit sloppy still)
Speed Building 2 – up to 80bpm

Month3 (10-60mins a day)
Shred Exercise 1 – up to 150bpm
Shred Exercise 2 – up to 150bpm
Shred Exercise 3 – up to 130bpm
Speed Building 1 – all the way to 120
Speed Building 2 – up to 80bpm
Speed Licks
Chunck Lick

starting a few mins in the comfort zone (80-90), then a few mins of push on the edge, then bursts and licks

Rodman · February 23

Progress Update #1

....Learn to shred and learn the fretboard!!!!....
So at beginning of january i did some research - changed my pick, changed my picking technique and changed my fretting technique (oh boy what a pain after more than 10 years of doing everything ... other ways) started to do shredding exercises...

that was beginning of jan
i am doing 10 to 60 mins a day and

and that´s freaking 160bpm on tripplets. Yes - sloppy, but precision is gonna kick in over time.

extremely happy with that. While practicing those i am learning the fretboard to be able to see all the scales realtime... i hope that will be very benificial for the solo stuff.....

Rodman · February 23

Post your progress!

Rock, Rod.

jasmith85 · February 23

Hi Rod,

Once again these tracks are great, I'm wondering if it's possible put in the lyrics when the BPM jumps up on the 30bpm - 120bpm song?

My 30bpm - 120bpm was not clean needs work

Daz40 · February 24

couple more

Shroud · February 24

Great initiative!

Unfortunately I have no time for guitar other than picking it up casually once or twice a month, as I am more or less a full-time bassist at the moment (and I am not interested in shredding on bass), but I had my share of technique heavy lifting in my youth and part of me still misses that

jasmith85 · February 28

Hey Ron, are you planning to do more, loving these so far? I'm no where near getting up to speed 120bpm is my limit on average on these, but I like these simple exercises

Rodman · March 2

On 2/28/2025 at 11:17 PM, jasmith85 said:

Hey Ron, are you planning to do more, loving these so far? I'm no where near getting up to speed 120bpm is my limit on average on these, but I like these simple exercises

Seldomly i am called Ron, but hey - why not!

Yeah, i am learning to shred - and what i am using to learn it is gonna land here. Absolutely!

Rodman · March 2

On 2/23/2025 at 7:56 PM, jasmith85 said:

Hi Rod,

Once again these tracks are great, I'm wondering if it's possible put in the lyrics when the BPM jumps up on the 30bpm - 120bpm song?

My 30bpm - 120bpm was not clean needs work

Yeah... doing that in my new tracks for sure and will update all... also better metronome hearability!

Rodman · March 2

2 New ones up there

Lick 1 and 2

jasmith85 · March 3

14 hours ago, Rodman said:

2 New ones up there

Lick 1 and 2

Hi Ron,

thank you for these, Daz40 too with his. Ron I can't convert these to the Mac version it says the title is too long?

Rodman · Thursday at 11:36 AM

The new ones all come as PC and Mac version

I can finally do nice Phrases now for RR

All older ones will be updated and MACed also - i´ll be telling you as ready

Shred Lick 3 - a crazy stretch pentatonic

and

Chunck Lick 1 - learning licks at full speed dividing into pieces

added

13.03.25

Rodman · Friday at 11:43 AM

Shred Lick 2 redone... now with nice phrases etc.

Speeds increasing from 80-150bpm in one file so diff from easy (3) beginning – hard (7)

Rodman · Friday at 02:23 PM

Ok .... The Speed building Excercises, Chunk Lick, and Licks all are updated

Rodman · Saturday at 02:09 PM

ok 10more hours of work ... all Shred Excercises 1 , Speed Building Ex and Licks updated with proper phrases for RR, better hearability for the metronome, nicer bg tone and tone and Mac versions. Plus all new Chunk lick 1.
Enjoy

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 160Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	173	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 150Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	158	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 140Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	158	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 130Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	158	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 120Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	178	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 110Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	163	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 100Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	187	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 90Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	187	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Excercise 1 - 80Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/14/2025	03/15/2025	255	LRB

	Rodman	Speed Building Excercise 2 - 30 to 80Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/21/2025	03/14/2025	156	LRB

	Rodman	Speed Building Excercise 1 - 30 to 120Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	02/21/2025	03/14/2025	176	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Lick 1 - 80 to 150Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	03/02/2025	03/14/2025	93	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Lick 2 - mixing triplets and eights - 80 to 150 Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	03/14/2025	03/14/2025	38	LRB

	Rodman	Shred Lick 3 - e-min stretchpentatonic - 30 to 120Bpm	Rodmans Shred Course	2025		E Standard	Rodman	03/13/2025	03/13/2025	45	LRB

Rodman · Sunday at 05:17 PM

Ok ALL exercises Updated with working phrases and focus on metronome.

All have mac versions, too - what a weekend

Goan Peng · Monday at 11:53 AM

This is it, i think i should pratice more， slower than this BPM， maybe 60 BPM

Still have issue in this pratice, is that my PC problems?

Goan Peng · Monday at 12:19 PM

Great Course Rod！

Goan Peng · Monday at 12:50 PM

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