SHRED WARS: Jared Dines vs. Sarah Longfield

In case you are unaware, Jared Dines has a running series called Shred Wars in which he challenges other guitarists to a shred duel in which they go back and forth ripping guitar lines over a backing track.

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In this episode, GG favorite and The Fine Constant guitarist Sarah Longfield goes head to head with Jared in a 3+ minute long battle of tasty noodles Sarah on her Strandberg vs. Jared on an Ormsby GTR.

Who do you think won?

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  • He has more feel (vibrato, phrasing) and much better tone, she has a slight edge on speed, though.

    • His vibrato is weak and panicked, and he’s pulling keys and scales out of his ass. How hard can it be to try to stay in the the key of the backing track?

      • I hear some modal passages in his playing, not really out of key. Perhaps you are referring to some of the chromatic ascending lines?

        That being said, I couldn’t and wouldn’t listen to either of them more than what I’ve already heard.

      • This X1000. There are guys who play outside of the progression and then come back to resolve because they know what they are doing, Jared is not one of them.

        • Neither is she.

    • His phrasing and vocabulary is old and tired. Hers is way more fresh

      • If by “way more fresh” you mean repetitive flurries of triplets and 16th notes with little to no variation, then yes, I guess I’d be forced to agree with you.

        • music isn’t just how notes are grouped together bud. Jazz guys have been playing straight 8ths for a long long time and still sound fresh. Harmony+rhythm+melody. not the way it looks on paper.

          • Preaching to the choir, here. Even in the presence of relatively simple rhythm, the jazz guys have the advantage of phrasing through note choice and melody contour that is infinitely more sophisticated and advanced than what she’s doing. Her playing sounds monotonous to me, she’s just speaking in a run-on sentence. And jazz 8ths aren’t particularly “straight,” if you ask me. Anyway, like I said in another post, I don’t actually think either of them are worth a second listen. It’s all relative.

  • Who won ?? is a tie :p

  • She makes me feel like I’m fighting the final boss in a video game and he makes me feel like I’m watching the end credits.

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