[bk1000]

“You can’t shred on an acoustic”

Ever listen to much Flamenco? Shredders only wish...

[Federal46]

I would say listen to some early Django Reinhardt.

[pepsi_junkie]

Yeah. I got into the neo-classical stuff that was going on with the shredders of the time and taught myself to play some Bach and Beethoven (not well, mind you) and stuff like that on the acoustic and listened to Segovia and master like him. BUT ... I mean, it was the '80s man! Van Halen and Yngwie and Rhodes and Satriani were not shredding flamenco style! My buddies weren't trying to form a gypsy quartet, we all wanted to be the next Dokken or Metallica.

Ironically, my poorly played classical stuff is probably the best I ever got. I grip the guitar like I'm trying to crush the neck to powder because my acoustic that I learned on had super high action and played very stiff and it is just burned into me to play that way on electrics too. To this day I can't really play very fast because of that death grip.