News: YouTube auto generated guitar pages - the end of the world as we know it?

Truth In Shredding TV  http://www.youtube.com/user/lauriemonk  all hand picked and hand posted by a a pink blob of cerebral mass dedicated to bringing you guitar... surely the best guitar picking device in the world or has Laurie Monk got some competition? Those boffins behind YouTube have automated video groups with their artificial intelligent google brain behind them... may be the Mayans were right... this is the end of Truth In Shredding as we know it!

YouTube - Guitar picking
Guitar picking is a collection of techniques for setting a string into motion to produce an audible note; that is, plucking or strumming the strings on a guitar.2,171 videos

YouTube - Tapping
Tapping is a guitar playing technique, where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being frette21,146 videos

YouTube - Shred guitar
Shred guitar or shredding is a lead electric guitar playing style, based on fast guitar solos. Critics have stated that shred guitar is associated with "sweep-picked arpeggios, diminished and harmonic36,209 videos

YouTube - Rusty Cooley
Rusty Cooley is a guitarist from Houston, Texas known for his highly refined guitar technique.905 videos

YouTube - Alternate picking
Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique that employs strictly alternating downward and upward picking strokes in a continuous run, and is the most common method of plectrum playing.1,767 videos

YouTube - Yngwie Malmsteen
Yngwie Malmsteen is arguably the most technically accomplished hard rock guitarist to emerge during the '80s. Combining a dazzling technique honed over years of obsessive practice with a love for such21,999 videos

YouTube - Frank Gambale
Frank Gambale is best-known for his fiery work with Chick Corea's Elektric Band. He was a student at the Guitar Institute of Technology while in his early twenties, wrote instructional books, and duri1,559 videos

YouTube - Neo-classical metal
Neo-classical metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is heavily influenced by classical music. It refers to very technical playing, consisting of elements borrowed from both classical and heavy metal2,593 videos

YouTube - Legato
In musical notation the Italian word legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no intervening silence.2,323 videos


YouTube - Chicken picking
Chicken picking is a lead guitar picking style or technique used in country, rock, and metal music where the plucked strings are pulled outward by the fingers of the right hand and the note played ...563 videos

YouTube - Alternate picking
Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique that employs strictly alternating downward and upward picking strokes in a continuous run, and is the most common method of plectrum playing.1,767 videos

YouTube - Economy picking
Economy picking is a guitar-playing technique for a guitarist who uses a pick. A hybrid of sweep picking and alternate picking, economy picking involves using alternate picking except when changing st191 videos

YouTube - Hybrid picking
Hybrid picking is a guitar-playing technique that involves picking with a pick and one or more fingers alternately or simultaneously.481 videos

YouTube - Tremolo picking
Tremolo picking, also known as alternate picking or double picking, describes the musical technique of picking on a guitar or other string instrument in which a single note is played repeatedly in qui241 videos

YouTube - Sweep-picking
Sweep picking is a guitar playing technique in which a 'sweeping' motion of the pick is combined with a matching fret hand technique in order to produce a specific series of notes which are fast and f5,876 videos

YouTube - Guitar pick
A guitar pick is a plectrum used for guitars. A pick is generally made of one uniform material; examples include plastic, nylon, rubber, felt, tortoiseshell, wood, metal, glass, and stone.9,629 videos

YouTube - Lick
In popular music genres such as rock or jazz music, a lick is "a stock pattern or phrase" consisting of a short series of notes that is used in solos and melodic lines and accompaniment.25,471 videos

YouTube - Shred guitar
Shred guitar or shredding is a lead electric guitar playing style, based on fast guitar solos. Critics have stated that shred guitar is associated with "sweep-picked arpeggios, diminished and harmonic36,209 videos

YouTube - Brent Mason
Brent Mason is a session guitarist that was in demand through much of the '90s, playing on albums by Alan Jackson, David Gates, Brooks & Dunn, George Strait, Neil Diamond and Shania Twain, among many703 videos