let me just add that I was never a fast guitar player. Ever. Maybe average. I tried a lot of things but they all seemed to not work for me. Only after 15 years of playing did I decide to construct my own approach to playing that would create some speed...it just bugged me that I couldn't shred, it was the one thing that eluded me forever...anyway, I stopped doing what everybody told me was the 'one best way' and just started to apply reason to every move and in about one year I went from being average or below average to what you hear today. Yes, it takes bending the rules...and a lot of theory to know that you can bend the rules in a lot of ways that the average guy doesn't know.

I had a sound that was part Vernon Reid and part Buckethead plus something I had never heard guitarists do...stuff like the sax greats Coltrane and Dolphy, yeah, but not guitarists.

I took a tip from the jazz great Pat Martino that said the guitar was unlike most instruments in that it was a matrix and not a linear thing like a piano. Bingo. It all came together ... it sounds totally different but that was the point.

The point: the guitar's physical construction suggests a non-linear, matrix-like approach and NOT the approach dictated by western, piano-centric music.

The result: http://www.mp3.com/stun

hang on to your seat ;-)

But seriously, you may not like it. It is rather disturbing for a lot of folks.

http://shredlikehell.com

Peace