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Andy James, Truth In Shredding: A Plan For Us, After Midnight - Grandpa loses his sh*t....

Grandpa loses his sh*t....

Boss Katana Artist MkII Andy James A Plan For Us live NAMM 2020

Boss Katana Artist MkII Andy James After Midnight live NAMM 2020

Truth In Shredding: Video releases April 2023

Truth In Shredding Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxwp_BXtbZ0vFTsl6dphyZQ Dave Martone: tapping solo from clinic 29 Apr 2023
Tom Quayle: classic video from the guitar idol 2008 final 27 Apr 2023
Shawn Lane, Andy Timmons: Andy's amp woe is a show must go on moment for 25 Apr 2023
Rob Marcello: Old School Shred Snippet 23 Apr 2023
Paul Gilbert, Bruce Bouillet: Heart Of A Lion - Racer X - Jezebels 1987 21 Apr 2023
Greig Dunning: Frankfurt Musikmesse 2010 19 Apr 2023
Chris Impelliteri: Picking Demonstration 17 Apr 2023
Bruce Bouillet: smoking solo Racer X - Jezebels 1987 15 Apr 2023
Greg Howe, Jon Reshard: Tone Center - Jump Start Edit 13 Apr 2023
Allan Holdsworth: Soft Machine - Bundles 11 Apr 2023
John Huldt: Elmwood Amps Frankfurt Musikmesse 2010 9 Apr 2023
Joe Satriani: Flying in a blue dream - LIMS 2008 7 Apr 2023
George Bellas: Timeless Inspiration 5 Apr 2023
Rick Graham: legato licks 3 Apr 2023
Bob Katsionis, Marcel Coenen: jam session final 1 Apr 2023

Truth In Shredding: Shred This Too - 10th Anniversary

I thought I would go back and look at the videos submitted for the competition. There were some great sole, but only one has over 1.32 million views by Jacqueline Mannering.

Top 10 by view count after 10 years on YouTube

Jacqueline Mannering
Damjam Pejinoski
Slimer
Bryan Aspey
Andy James
Rick Graham
Katschrowski
Tom Quayle
Marques Junior
Tum Siamath

This was the Prize Order

Damjan Pejcinoski
Tum Siamrath
Bryan Aspey
Jack Gardiner
Joop Wolters

Truth In Shredding: Shred This Too - 10th Anniversary - by view count

Truth In Shredding: 12.5 million page views

Truth In Shredding: 12.5 million page views

Thanks for sticking with the Truth In Shredding blog all these years. I endeavour to cover the latest in guitar from around the globe. I appreciate all those who drop by, every page view counts.

I started this as an experiment back in late 2004 and now we are now at 63380 posts. I originally thought there would be 40 or 50 players, but it's clear over the years this is a global phenomenon, so it turns out there are thousand of players and new players every day. No doubt there are players around today who weren't around when I create this blog. No doubt there are players I missed or who are just arriving on the scene. Guitar news online really existed on web sites and forums back in 2004. So originally the blog was mostly news related. I since changed my approach preferring original or improvisation performances to soloing or promo videos (unless it's to sell merch).

Videos have also changed over the years from dodgy video cameras with just a few seconds of performance, to 4K videos over an hour long. I started on Google video and gravitated to YouTube. I share videos too on the Facebook channel. It might be an age thing, but I've not really got into instagram for watching videos. A certain amount of poetic licence has been around in videos, but lately I've not been able to cope with these speeded up videos. To those who think it's a good thing, I say I have seen so many players live now that there is no point in putting out pieces that can't be played in the live setting. Indeed, I did see one of the players at NAMM, who performed live at a more sedated pace (to be applauded) but not as clean as in the videos (which are cleaned up in the studio), but better to see live than sped up.

So what am I looking for? Well an unending search for new music played from the heart, original or improvisation. May be that's you?

Truth In Shredding: 12,000,000 views!

Truth In Shredding: 12,000,000 views!

62290 posts

https://www.truthinshredding.com

Truth In Shredding: we passed 9,000,000 page views... next stop 10!

Truth In Shredding:
54782+ posts
9,007,306 page views

Key social Links

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TruthInShredding/ 4404 likes
Twitter: https://twitter.com/truthinshreddin 3701 followers
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/lauriemonk 9,039 subscribers • 6,409,756 views
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/truthinshredding/ 1980 followers
Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+Truthinshr 1040 likes
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Truth In Shredding: passes 8.5 million page views!

The Stats

Truth In Shredding 8.5 million page views!

Featured 6200+ guitar players and musicians

Posts 52,871 average page views 160 per page.

The Top 30 players featured

The full list http://www.truthinshredding.com/p/a-to-z.html

The Top 10 posts of all time

Brian Carroll: buckethead unmasked, is this for real?

Steve Vai: Ibanez Design a JEM Contest winner announced

John Petrucci: Examining Fretboard Patterns

Karolina Sustova: new vocal track posted

Emanuele Perilli: another new CD track posted

Laura Cox: Paris Texas?

Steve Vai: jamming on new Gibson acoustic guitar

Juliette Valduriez: Gibson overwhelmed by response to video clip

Gary Moore: Dead at 58 RIP

Dhal if Ali: is this guy the most melodic guitar play on the planet r ight now?

For those we have lost

Some of those who lit the way will not follow us on our journey...

Gary Moore: Dead at 58 RIP

RIP Full list http://www.truthinshredding.com/search/label/rip

Truth In Shredding: passes 8,000,000 page views!

The Stats

8,000,000 reasons to be happy. Yes http://shred.rocks/
51117 posts Blogger http://www.truthinshredding.com/
8,695 subscribers and 6,134,723 views YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxwp_BXtbZ0vFTsl6dphyZQ
81K Tweets, 3,509 Followers Twitter https://twitter.com/truthinshreddin
3,236 Facebook likes https://www.facebook.com/TruthInShredding
1030 Google+ likes https://plus.google.com/+Truthinshredding1
1,102 Instagram followers https://www.instagram.com/truthinshredding/

Truth In Shredding: 7 million shredding page views!

Wow... I can't believe it... 10 years of blogging, 48078 posts at an average of 13 per day and now 7,000,000+ page views with an average of 14 views per page.

Most popular post ever?

Brian Carroll: buckethead unmasked, is this for real?

Truth In Shredding: Gets a new Album Page and Submission Form

Truth In Shredding Amazon powered Guitar Albums and More Shop

Also, I'm trying to improve the overall operation of getting new album details from those who want to promote their work. To that end I have added a new form specifically for albums that should enable me to assist you more easily.

Submit your album for inclusion

I have also changed the album page to a Google Sheets document to enable A to Z sorting of artists and easier management of the page.

New A to Z of Albums of Sale

Let me know what you think

Truth In Shredding: Top 10 picks for Guitar Idol 4

Looking at my top 20 videos, this was now the hardest aspect for me... to get down to 10 tracks suitable for the Guitar Idol 4 final. If you have listened to my top 20 there were lots of awesome tracks to pick from, but now it's just 10 tracks that can be selected this time. So now more dedicated listening. I leave the tracks to run in the background as I work.

TiS

Again I focused on the tune first, looking for a memorable melody. Having listened to the tracks for a great number of times, I already have a feeling about the tracks I would like to hear at the final. The quality of the top 20 is very high. The video quality is no longer an issue. Guitar skills are still highly rated... but now My my final selection is decided by "Would I buy a copy of this track"

Apologies if you didn't make it onto my top 10 list. Does not mean you are not great, just it didn't my stringent criteria.

10 videos, 47 minutes

Guitar Idol 4 - Top 10

So how did I compare to the selection of all the Guitar Idol judges? 2 out of 8, but no surprise to me and my experience of judging competitions. The selection is NOT as straight forward as you may think and often times the judges have different views. I'm looking forward to seeing the final!

Thanks to all the people who entered.

Truth In Shredding Top 8

Keven Eknes
Pritesh Walia
Leonardo Guzman
Jack Gardiner
Stephen Ross
Fidel De Jesus
Cameron Allen
Jason Spell

Guitar Idol Top 8

Jack Gardiner
Yiannis Papadopoulos II
Cameron Allen
Damir Puh
Morgan Reid
Mike Tillotson
Luca Mantovanelli
Andre Nieri official

Truth In Shredding: Top 20 picks for Guitar Idol 4

Looking at my top 50+ videos, there were lots of awesome tracks to pick from that might have been suitable for the Guitar Idol Final. I tried to get down to a top 20 this time.

TiS

Again I focused on the tune first, looking for a memorable melody. Having listened to the tracks a number of times, some begin to stand out. The tracks still need some guitar grunt and also the video quality.

Apologies if you didn't make it onto my top 20 list. Does not mean you are not great, just it didn't make my stringent criteria.

by Truth In Shredding 20 videos 1 hour, 32 minutes

Guitar Idol 4 - Top 20

Truth In Shredding: Top 50+ picks for Guitar Idol 4

Lots of great tracks to pick from for the Guitar Idol Final. I tried to get down to a top 50.

TiS

This time I focused really on the tune first, and adding the guitar grunt after, and also the video quality.

Apologies if you didn't make it onto my list. Does not mean you are not great, just it didn't make my stringent criteria.

Guitar Idol 4 - Top 50+

by Truth In Shredding 59 videos 4 hours

Guitar Idol 4 - Top 50+

Truth In Shredding: passes 6,000,000 page views!

6,000,000 page views!

Thank you to all the guitar players, all the guitar fans that made this happen.

6003400 pageviews - 45179 posts, last published on 15-Jun-2014.

Truth In Shredding: 200 posts... check out the last one.

http://instagram.com/truthinshredding

Instagram 200 posts and 200 followers:

The channel is a mix of art like photos and guitar orientated imagery from Truth In Shredding guitar expeditions.

The last one I posted looks interesting http://instagram.com/p/od0YLsSB_e/

Truth In Shredding: 8000 subscribers on YouTube

YouTube Channel

I seems like forever to get to 8000 subscribers https://www.youtube.com/user/lauriemonk. But I thanks each and everyone one of you because each of you, in your own way, is helping an unknown guitar player somewhere in the world. After all it is what Truth In Shredding is all about, helping the little guy (or gal), the underdog to get noticed. I think it's about great music too.

I've always grown the channel organically, relied on people to share the youtube channel, so thank you to those who have done that too.

Subscribers 8001
Views 5,322,924

8000+ subscribers

Truth In Shredding: The facebookisation of Twitter continues

https://twitter.com/lauriemonk/

Truth In Shredding: Twitter passes 3000+ followers, we look at G+ and Facebook in comparison

Twitter passes 3000

All done without the aid of investing in fake followers, but 60,000 tweets to get just 3000 followers works out at 20 Tweets for every follower. Follow https://twitter.com/lauriemonk

more followers on G+ than on Twitter and Facebook

In terms of G+, the growth is more significant because it took place over a lot shorter timescale and as you can see from the screen grab, super numbers of views. Follow https://plus.google.com/+LaurieMonk1/posts (this channel is tech based) Guitar channels

https://plus.google.com/b/110743665890542265089/+Truthinshredding1/posts

https://plus.google.com/b/117442573688838250734/+Shreddelicious/posts

Facebook still less than 3000

More interesting on the Facebook front. I had a look at the options for paid promotion on Facebook. This is what I found out.

With 2339 Likes, your Facebook budget to have 10 post(s) by your page seen by 100% of your current Likes is$116.95 per day.
Plan to spend $29939.20 for the remainder of 2014 on Facebook Promoted Posts at 10 per day if you want all of your current Likes to see your Promoted Posts. Yes this is for the free promotional page Truth In Shredding page. Guitar people, if you seriously need to re think your own self promotion strategy if you want to use Facebook as a platform for raising your profile. Add to that, the fact that Facebook is Walled garden... You might well be better off with your own web site on a thing called the Internet

You can like https://www.facebook.com/TruthInShredding

Truth In Shredding: 40,001th post!!

Truth In Shredding 40,001th post :)

England celebrates this momentous occasion in style!

Truth In Shredding: PRO Series - coming soon

Pro Series

I'm currently working on a number of articles with PRO Players and Music professionals in the field to provide insights into the music process. These are designed to help you focus and get you to the next level.

If you are interested in providing content please complete the form. Yes, count me in I have a lot of useful information to impart